The implications are obvious: Every mother knows that newborns are social creatures just hours after birth. They prefer to look at faces over objects, and they even imitate facial expressions. Now a study sug gests that the propensity for social interactions exists in the womb. Twins begin . . . . Continue Reading »
I thank Joe Carter for noticing an essay of mine on Two Bases of Morality in Catholic Theology originally published in Dappled Things , and I thank both Joe and the various others for taking the time to comment on that essay. Before I respond to those comments, let me provide a little background. . . . . Continue Reading »
When an entire country evicts God, what do they do with his houses? What else, the new gods move in : Making your home a temple is gaining new meaning in the Netherlands, where churches are being repurposed as living spaces. Since 1970 more than a thousand churches have been closed in the country, . . . . Continue Reading »
With 600,000 words, 3 million quotations, and over 1,000 years of English, the Oxford English Dictionary is widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language. Now, for the next two weeks, you can access the online edition for free. Simply login using “trynewoed” as both . . . . Continue Reading »
C & C pretends to “only” want assisted suicide to be legally available for mentally competent, terminally ill adults, generally defined as 6 months to live. But now, it has shown more of its true colors, broadly hinting that dementia patients should have the option of assisted . . . . Continue Reading »
Good grief. I have always thought this was a dumb idea, but not being a scientist, what did I know? Well, it turns out that the world’s largest carbon capture zone—where carbon is inserted underground to keep it out of the atmosphere—may be leaking. From the story:A . . . . Continue Reading »
I won’t rehash the Amendment 2 political fight in Missouri, but to recall that the proponents’ language led to the state refusing to appropriate money for a life science trust fund because the money could be spent on ESCR or human cloning. Here’s the history: A 2 created a state . . . . Continue Reading »
Gayle talks with Thomas Fowler about The Evolution Controversy, a book surveying the competing theories surrounding evolution. Fowler (ScD, George Washington University) is Senior Principal Engineer at the Center for Information Technology and Telecommunications at Noblis, formerly known . . . . Continue Reading »
I’ve been snowbound since Sunday evening, stuck at home with kids who resent the fact that there are no snow days in homeschool, a wife who wonders why I don’t have a job in south Florida (but only on cold winter days), and two animals (a neurotic dog who keeps asking to go out and then . . . . Continue Reading »
Thanks to the spread of suicide tourism, the UK is going through another in a series of pushes to legalize assisted suicide. As with the last time, when a bill was introduced in the House of Lords, a commission is studying the issue. And advocates are pretending that their goal is what . . . . Continue Reading »
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