Science journalist John Horgan created a minor stir a decade ago with his book, The End of Science, arguing that the major science discoveries are all behind us. Now that was hardly a popular thesis. As he recently recalled, “One of my most memorable moments as a journalist occurred in December 1996, when I...

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Suzanne Fields, Washington Times columnist, reflects on how the legacy of Ann Frank, the doomed girl whose diary illuminated the lives of Holocaust victims, is becoming politicized: We’re asked to vote “yes” or “no” on a series of complicated issues such as defining permissible degrees of censorship, rights of privacy and religious freedom, all framed...

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Well, it’s Christmas again. And there seems to be a stirring in the air. I don’t know whether you have noticed it, but I certainly have. Many people are less afraid than they used to be to say “Merry Christmas.” But some people are still really challenged, according to Kristen Fyfe. For example, did...

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Why did the world’s most important atheist scholar, Antony Flew decide in his eighties that there is a God after all? The New York Times was quick to suggest senility, but reading his book with Roy Varghese, I don’t think that will wash. Their slender hardcover, There IS a God (Harper One 2007) introduces...

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Recently, a friend who lives in California wrote me a heartbreaking note. His daughter had gone on a mission trip to a poor district in Mexico and discovered, among many needy people, a child who appeared to be abandoned and starving. The child became very attached to his daughter and called her “Mother.” He...

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In case you think nothing is changing in society, here’s a quick overview of two changes that are likely to make a difference in the long run: Who actually has kids and what do the kids think? Who actually has kids? That is a highly political issue. Some – for example, Pennsylvania State’s Philip...

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If you live in a jurisdiction that enforces political correctness, consult your human rights advisor about whether you are permitted to read any of the following items of information: Robert Knight asks the questions many won’t ask about AIDS: One would think a 10 percent failure rate against a 100 percent fatal disease would...

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In a recent post at TCS Daily (Technology. Commerce. Society), John Luik takes on the food fascists. About time, too. In “Fat and Happy: The Weight Story No One Wants to Talk About”, he observes, It’s been a tough time the last little while for the fatties among us – which is supposedly most...

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Like many Christians, I have been suspicious of psychology, principally for the same reason that philosopher of science Karl Popper was: In its twentieth century incarnations, it was typically not falsifiable. For example, if you doubted that some Freudian theory was true, you were “defensive” about it, and therefore the theory must be true....

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A recent Decima poll shows that Canadians are pretty evenly split on whether God created us, and if so, when. Twenty-six percent of Canadians believe that “God created human beings pretty much in their present form at one time within the last 10,000 years or so.” A dramatically larger percentage of Americans (46%) believes...

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Recently, while working on The Spiritual Brain, I had a chance to study “altruism,” a technical term for the quality that causes people to prefer others’ welfare to their own, even if the others are unknown strangers. Much social science literature on altruism is not worth reading because it proceeds from a fundamentally wrong...

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Why the recent spate of popular “anti-God” books? Books like Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon (Daniel Dennett), The God Delusion (Richard Dawkins), God: The Failed Hypothesis (Victor J. Stenger), God Is Not Great (Christopher Hitchens) and The End of Faith (Sam Harris) dominate the charts, with some help from conferences such...

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Montreal neuroscientist Mario Beauregard and I will be on American radio host and columnist Dennis Prager’s show today, at 1:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, to discuss the findings from our recently published book The Spiritual Brain (Harper One 2007). You can listen online using the button here. I hope I will be asked about...

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Mike Lasalle recruited me, and I hope he never regrets it. I am a Toronto-based journalist, author, and blogger – and Irish Catholic granny. This site provides help for fractured families, right?  Fractured? I’ve been there. I was once put under pressure to accuse a man of something he never did (by people who KNEW...

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