A high school history teaches asks New York state to Fix the Regents’ Exams . ”The correlation between increased passing rates and the increasingly content-free nature of the exams is,” he argues, “hard to miss.” An English government study says that . . . . Continue Reading »
Based on the quotations below, Augustine would say creationists and ID proponents are “reckless and incompetent expounders of Scripture” because they turn the Bible into primitive science.From Peter Enns, Senior Fellow in Biblical Studies at the BioLogos Foundation:You cannot expect the . . . . Continue Reading »
I received a surprise package in the mail a few weeks ago. My friend Lisa K. Gigliotti has written a book: Coraggio! Lessons for Living From an Italian Grandmother. Lisa has rheumatoid arthritis and knows vividly what it is like to live a life in disabling pain and ill . . . . Continue Reading »
It’s boring! It’s like a long (really long) video game. It’s fairly complicated, like a good game/puzzle, but you’d have to get more involved than any reasonable viewer could to follow all the clever stuff. It has very annoying background music, a lame attempt to make . . . . Continue Reading »
Eating meat is as natural to human beings as walking upright. Evolutionary theory has found a good reason why: It made our brains bigger allowing us to become, to quote myself, exceptional. From the story:Our earliest ancestors ate their food raw — fruit, leaves, maybe some nuts. . . . . Continue Reading »
The USA has abdicated good ethics by allowing IVF to go virtually unregulated. The consequences are profound and growing. Rather than being a medical treatment for otherwise infertile married couples, IVF has become a lifestyle enhancer permitting parents to shop for the child they want like . . . . Continue Reading »
My friend Gregory Laughlin sends a thought on the controversy over the Islamic community center being built near the 9/11 site: While all American cherish our rights of free speech and free exercise of religion as guaranteed in the First Amendment, there are some things which just shouldn’t be . . . . Continue Reading »
The USA has abdicated good ethics by allowing IVF to go virtually unregulated. The consequences are profound and growing. Rather than being a medical treatment for otherwise infertile married couples, IVF has become a lifestyle enhancer permitting parents to shop for the child they want like a . . . . Continue Reading »
Former Vermont Governor Howard Dean, the very liberal former presidential candidate and head of the Democratic National Committee, says the individual mandatory health insurance purchase mandate is “not essential” to good health care reform and will be repealed or ruled unconstitutional. . . . . Continue Reading »
1. How many books are there in the world? 129,864,880 °°°°°° 2. How a Bach Canon Works °°°°°° 3. John Coltrane’s “Giant Steps” Animated °°°°°° 4. Beethoven’s 5th: The Animated Score Click here to get a PDF . . . . Continue Reading »
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