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Category Archives: debate
The Catholic Church as Silicon Valley
Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry (HT Tyler Cowen) ruminates on the past and present of Catholicism and how it stacks up to the influence of Silicon Valley. In short he claims that it’s, well, falling short in the modern age: A simple glance at the … Continue reading
Oprah: The Queen of Unreason
The Oprah moment may have faded for now, but I have little doubt that it will return, in which case this Slate piece by Kurt Andersen (and, no, I don’t agree with his jibe about Reagan) will be one that … Continue reading
Posted in culture, politics, Science & Faith
Tagged New Age, Oprah Winfrey, superstition
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Clearing a Path for Christ (on Mars)?
Over at Foreign Policy, James Poulos frets that, in the event that Elon Musk’s Mars mission ever gets off the ground, Musk (who admittedly has some strange beliefs: he appears to think that we are all living in some type … Continue reading
‘3-Parent’ Babies: A Controversy That Shouldn’t Be
The New York Times: A few months ago, after a fertility procedure at a Mexican clinic, a healthy baby boy was born in New York to a couple from Jordan. It was the first live birth of a child who … Continue reading
Posted in Religion, Science & Faith
Tagged 'Three Parent' Babies, Bio-ethics, genetics, Roman Catholicism
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Demons On The Couch
Writing in the Washington Post, a psychiatrist (Richard Gallagher) essentially gives up on the ability of his profession to understand the complexity of the human mind. Some cases of ‘demonic possession’ are, he has come to believe, real. For the … Continue reading
“Three Parent” Babies? No, More Like 2.001 (If That)…
Bioethicists are, for the most part, a pretty presumptuous bunch: who on earth do they think they are? In this case, however, highlighted by the Washington Post, they have got things right: An elite panel of scientists and bioethicists offered … Continue reading
Posted in law, Science & Faith
Tagged 'Three Parent' Babies, Bio-ethics, genetics
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Mosquito as “Enforcer” of Social Solidarity
America Magazine is, in its own way, an entertaining corner of the religious left published by Jesuits. It’s a reliable source of by-the-numbers leftism supplemented by pious distortions, holy evasions, extra helpings of sanctimony and regular hosannas for the Dear … Continue reading
Posted in politics, Religion, Science & Faith
Tagged Climate Change, Jesuits, Religious Left
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“Another Emergency”
The Economist, at it again: THE political masters of the world are gathering in a Paris traumatised by terror to consider another sort of emergency, climate change. Trivialize much? Exaggerate much? The magazine’s ‘Erasmus’ goes on to note: The unusual … Continue reading
Must-Read Interview with Sam Harris
The New Atheist’s interview with Salon – a publication largely hostile to the Bertrand Russell-style liberalism of Harris and his ilk – is better read at Harris’s own website, in its unedited form. (A portion of the interview that badmouths … Continue reading
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Tagged Islam, new atheism, salon, Sam Harris
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Perhaps a Bad Day to be Secular and Right
Oregon shooter Chris Mercer disliked organized religion and considered himself “conservative, republican.” This according to the Daily Beast. But then, an attempt to paint Mercer as a righty runs into problems. He also expressed sympathy for the race-card-playing black Roanoke … Continue reading