“It’s not merely about safeguarding life in the womb; we must consider the treatment of early-stage life as well.” — Allie Beth Stuckey, Blaze TV host and Christian apologist Donald Trump has been promoting in vitro fertilization (IVF) since his last campaign, and last year he began implementing what he thought was very pro-life policy […]
Back in April/May, you may remember that I posted a couple vignettes from Part 4 of Greg Koukl’s “Rapid Fire” series — in which he gives relatively brief yet well-reasoned responses to challenges heard in Christian apologetics — in STR’s “Solid Ground” newsletter. Those two posts were on consciousness and abortion, respectively. Now I have […]
“This was a surprise for me — I was not looking for this.” — Marcelo de Oliveira Souza, cosmologist at State University of Northern Rio de Janeiro There are many factors that slow our “on-site” study of other planets, moons, etc. Incredible distances, for example, mean very long flight times. Then you have to factor […]
A couple weeks ago, I wrote a bit about the “Rapid Fire” series Greg Koukl was doing lately in STR’s “Solid Ground” newsletter. I then reproduced one of the vignettes (from Part 4) in which Koukl examined the atheist-materialist claim that “Consciousness is an illusion.” I promised another vignette for you to cogitate on, so […]
Greg Koukl and his team at Stand to Reason (STR) put out a bimonthly newsletter titled “Solid Ground”, in which Koukl (or possibly a guest-writer) addresses some biblical, theological, philosophical, and/or socio-cultural issue. Lately, he has been doing a series called “Rapid Fire”, in which he gives brief responses to multiple such questions in each […]
“If unguided evolution really can do its magic, this should not be too difficult. However, if the challenge cannot be met, Darwinists must be asked to explain why.” — Günter Bechly, paleo-entomologist (CSC) As I was scrolling through some notes the other day, I found that I had been holding onto the URL for an […]
“AI mirrors its creator — Grok 4, with its curated data, reflects xAI’s biases, not an objective truth. Its reasoning, while advanced, remains bounded by human design and data, incapable of grasping the totality of existence.” — Grok 3.0 Not sure if I have addressed this in print before, but I have many concerns about […]
Although I am spending more time reading fiction these days, I did manage to read several non-fiction books in 2025, all of which I enjoyed and benefited from to varying degrees. Those described below are sort of a “Top 5” — the ones I consider standouts and would recommend to anyone interested in the relevant […]
Although I already put out a Christmas post a couple weeks ago, I came up with something else my readers might find interesting, and I didn’t feel like waiting until next year to share it. Earlier this year, I posted “4 Easter-Related Archaeological Finds”, for which I borrowed material from Dr. Titus Kennedy’s book Unearthing […]
“U.S. President Donald Trump is the most obvious avatar for the geopolitical shifts confronting the [climate negotiation] talks.” — Politico‘s write-up on the U.N.’s recent Conference of the Parties The following excerpt comes from Dispatch Energy, one of the mildly-to-moderately anti-Trump newsletters under The Dispatch umbrella. Article author Philip Rossetti pointed out the real “elephant […]
