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Would A Secret Society Lie? The Freemasons Part III — Guest Post by Ianto Watt
Read Part II What are we to make of this? Who's the idiot here, my friend? Is it Coningsby? Or is it the reader of the novel who fails to…
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Can A Scientist Believe In Miracles? — Guest Post by Bob Kurland
Visit Kurland's site for more. "Miracles always relate to the faith. That is why a belief in miracles is not a vacation from reason, a little holiday from the tedious…
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People’s Fundamental Objection to the Catholic Faith
Damian Thompson asks "Can anything stop Catholic infighting?" in the Catholic Herald. A call to both sides to wake up and smell the incense. Says things like, "First, liberal Catholics…
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DDP: Quack Cures For What Doesn’t Ail Us, Part II
I'm at the Doctors for Disaster Preparedness meeting in No-History City, Louisiana. Here's Part II of (an earlier draft of) the speech I gave Saturday. Consider donating $1 for every…
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On The Demon Possessed Doll & Little Girl
You might have seen the video of the little girl playing near a doll, a doll which twitches its head without visible promoting. The video switches views and sees the…
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Fatima, Russia & You, Part I– Guest Post by Ianto Watt
The 100th Anniversary of the miraculous and prophetic Fatima is upon us. Of all the articles Ianto Watt has written for us, this is the best. It is not short.…
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Sean Carroll’s “The Big Picture” Reviewed: Why “Poetic Naturalism” is an Oxymoron — Guest Post by Bob Kurland
Another version of this article first appeared at Kurland's site. Scientism, the belief that science can explain everything about the world and ourselves, is a religion, although not formally expressed…
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Headline: We Used Terrible Science to Justify Smoking Bans. Amen: We Did
When they used to tell me I would shorten my life ten years by smoking, they little knew the devotee they were wasting their puerile word upon---they little knew how…
