Phenomenally weird religious things intrigue some phenomenally weird religious people.Now I don’t trust anybody without a sense of wonder and a great many things that appear bizarre on first glance turn out to be true. Ripley made a living out of helping us to believe what seemed highly . . . . Continue Reading »
Apparently NASA’s James Hansen has been as secretive over at NASA as the UK climate warming scientists caught up on Climategate were, refusing to release data by which NASA had made its calculations puruant to a Freedom of Information Act request. A lawsuit is being filed. From the . . . . Continue Reading »
If the core data of a model is proven to be false, is it still a valid model? Worse yet, what if the very model itself becomes meaningless? What are we to do with a “science” where that “science” lacks either soundness or substance? The situation we know as . . . . Continue Reading »
Aghast by the church’s historical “moral sausage-making” when it comes to the political outworking of the gospel in the area of U.S. nuclear weapons policy, Tyler Wigg-Stevenson—a Baptist minister and a nuclear policy expert—responded by launching the Two Futures Project . . . . Continue Reading »
A radical in one area generally thinks radically in every other area. Witness utilitarian bioethicist Peter—let’s permit infanticide—Singer, who has now weighed in on global warming. Predictably, it is an extreme view. From the story:We asked Australia’s best-known . . . . Continue Reading »
In the current wars over global warming we are seeing an example of scientists behaving badly. I am not referring just to the hacked e-mails that everyone is talking about. Far more disturbing to me is the recent tactic of labeling any scientist who expresses skepticism about the extent of . . . . Continue Reading »
If French politician Valérie Boyer has her way , advertisements that feature air-brushed photographs of models may soon come with the same sort of disclaimers regularly seen in food ads—enlarged (or reduced, as the case may be) to create unrealistic expectations: Valérie Boyer is 47, . . . . Continue Reading »
I couldn’t make this MSNBC headline up: “Earth Could Plunge into Sudden Ice Age.” And the cause? Why, that old bogeyman, global warming. From the story:In the film, “The Day After Tomorrow,” the world gets gripped in ice within the span of just a few weeks. Now . . . . Continue Reading »
I cannot express my disappointment in Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in sufficiently strong terms. I voted for him despite knowing he was not my cup of tea in some areas because I believed he would get tough on California’s potentially terminal budget problems. Now, it is years later, . . . . Continue Reading »
Frank Capra and Ayn Rand aren’t often mentioned together. Yet the cheery director of Capra-corn and the dour novelist who created Objectivism have much in common. Both were immigrants who made their names in Hollywood. Both were screenwriters and employees of the film studio RKO. And during . . . . Continue Reading »
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