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Open Thread: Effect Of Pope’s Visit?
Now the real excuse for this post is that yesterday, it being a sort of holiday, I made rather merry and neglected to cause a post to be written. Since…
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Summary Against Modern Thought: God Wills His Being But Not Necessarily You
See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. All posts are under the category SAMT. Previous post. A milestone…
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Stream: UN’s Vision for Lifting Up the World’s Poor Differs Sharply from the Pope’s
Today's post is at the Stream: "UN's Vision for Lifting Up the World's Poor Differs Sharply from the Pope's". And dangerously. Pope Francis, in his speech to the UN, expressed…
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The Pope’s Bargain. Accept It—If You Dare
Pope Francis told Congress we need to care for the environment. And in people's minds, and in his encyclical Laudato Si', this means at least acknowledging the threat of man-caused…
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Scientists Pretend They Can Answer Why Some Are More Religious
One thing that nearly always accompanies scientism is historical cluelessness. When somebody adopts the Way Of Science, they fall spell to the idea that only that which is most recent…
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Some Like It Hot: The Hottest Year Ever Inside A Global Warming “Pause”? The Stream. Updates
I rarely ask this, but I'd like you all to go The Stream and pass my article on to as many as you can. (Don't link here, but link at…
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Stay tuned…post coming soon at The Stream
A big one. Update Due to my causing the editors extra work (it's a longish piece), it appears it might not go up until late this evening or early tomorrow.…
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The Theology of Water—Is Design Intelligent? Guest Post by Bob Kurland
Physicist Bob Kurland gives us a twist on the anthropic principle. "The water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of living water, welling up into…