Physics professor Stephen M. Barr explains how quantum physics makes the world view of materialism–the assumption of most of today’s atheists–scientifically impossible. Materialism is an atheistic philosophy that says that all of reality is reducible to matter and its interactions. It has gained ground because
Masaaki Suzuki is a distinguished harpsichordist, organist, Yale music professor, and conductor who founded and directs the Bach Collegium Japan. He is also a devout Christian. Many thanks to Paul McCain and the various people he credits for unearthing this quotation from the liner notes
Ruth Marcus observes how our political discourse–or at least the media coverage of that discourse–has become little more than a tallying of gaffes and faux-gaffes: The 2012 presidential campaign has become a festival of gaffe-hopping. The candidates skitter along on the surface of politics, issuing
To illustrate the point of the “gaffe” post, what did you learn from media coverage of Mitt Romney’s trip to England, Poland, and Israel? That he made people mad at him by questioning England’s Olympic preparedness and Palestinian culture? Anything else? Did you know he
When Gabby Douglas won the gold medal for individual women’s gymnastics, the first thing she did was shift the glory: “Let all that I am praise the LORD; may I never forget the good things he does for me.” These are the first words 16-year-old
On Thursday, Arizona’s law forbidding abortion after 20 weeks went into effect. It prohibits abortions performed after the point at which science shows that the fetus can feel pain. The Arizona law was upheld by a court, and similar “fetal pain” bills are in the
The blogging maestro Anthony Sacramone, who used to be Luther at the Movies, is back, after one of his intermittent long blog vacations. Read his notes on the new Batman movie. Read them all, but here is a random sampling: Ah! Some real action. Finally.
An overwhelming number of chicken sandwiches were served on Wednesday as vast numbers of Americans from all over the country turned out to support Chick-fil-A, under fire for its CEO taking the highly controversial and shocking position that people of the same sex can’t marry
In the course of a column on Tea Party candidate Ted Cruz’s victory in Texas for the Republican senate nomination, George Will recounts a time one hundred years ago this Sunday when Republicans purposefully lost an election to preserve the Constitution. I did not know
Badminton players from China, South Korea, and Indonesia, were expelled from the Olympics for intentionally losing–they just hit the birdie into the net over and over–so that they would draw easier opponents and avoid competing against another national team in the tournament: Eight badminton players
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