Archive for March, 2021
“A guide to building an America where freedom, opportunity, prosperity, and civil society flourish.” — summary statement from Heritage document What exactly does it mean to be truly politically conservative in America these days? Have you ever wondered that? I mean, are there just a couple essential beliefs one must have, and everything else is […]
Here is another fascinating citation from Cynical Theories by Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay (see last week’s post). The symptoms and situations will sound familiar, and the authors provide helpful explanations of the SJ reasoning behind it all. (I hesitate to use the term “reasoning”, because part of the problem is the postmodernist skepticism about […]
Have you ever wondered why those with a Social Justice / “woke” mindset believe what they believe and do what they do? The new book by Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay, Cynical Theories, does a great job of explaining the movement’s postmodernist roots and examines the development and thinking behind the different types of activist […]
The following excerpt follows closely after my “Creating Life in the Lab” post, as it comes from the epilogue to Fuz Rana’s Creating Life in the Lab book. This time, Dr. Rana examines what it means to “play God” and whether or not Christians should worry about scientists’ research in synthetic biology and origin-of-life scenarios […]