The Cause of Declining Violence—Enlightenment? Or Incarceration?
Today, you are 2.5 times more likely to be the victim of violence than in 1960. Are we really more enlightened, Dr. Pinker?
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Good Reasons Not to Be an Optimist
A small group of people is trying to persuade the world that, “Everything is awesome!” Time Magazine devoted a recent issue to these apostles of optimism. They include Bill Gates, who acted as guest editor for Time’s optimistic edition. And the Pied Piper of this merry band of optimists is the author of Bill Gates’s […]
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Answering Your Questions
The comments section has been pretty active for the past several days, and the subject that is on everybody’s mind is St. Andrew’s and Fr. Long. ( In case you didn’t know, if you are following some of these discussions, there is a section on the left sidebar that displays the latest comments. Clicking on […]
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A Well Designed Eclipse for a Well Designed Mind
Today we behold one of the most spectacular celestial events to grace our planet: for just a few brief moments, night will intrude upon daylight. Jay Richards, from the Catholic University of America, describes just how unlikely it is that we should ever experience one these amazing eclipses: But the story doesn’t end there. A […]
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Are Conservatives Finally Waking Up to the Mental Health Crisis in America?
America’s youth are crumbling from a long running epidemic of mental illness, says Mona Charen over at National Review Online. I’ve been shouting this message from the rooftops for close to two years now—and most recently, from the rooftops of Duke Medical School. It is encouraging to see this frightening tragedy finally get the attention it […]
Read More…Duke Powerpoint: “Does Religion Really Poison Everything? A Critical Review of New Atheist Perspectives on Religion and Science”
Here are the slides that went with my lecture at Duke Medical School. I believe all sources are adequately cited. I think I noticed a couple of slides where attributions were inadvertently/inexplicably cut off. I may make changes to some slides since I will certainly make use of this resource in the future. The slides […]
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The Science of Sinning Less—From Christianity Today
Practicing Christians have more self-control than lax Christians and secular people according to a study that is featured in the latest issue of Christianity Today. [Bold emphasis is mine.] Because Christianity requires self-control, it logically follows that it also builds it, and thus we can expect active Christians to have relatively high levels of self-control. And […]
Read More…I Believe in Miracles—If You Don’t—You’re Not a Christian!
One of the important tasks of my apostolate is to communicate the unvarnished truths of Christianity—however unpalatable or intellectually contemptible these may seem to our many cultured despisers. And one of these truths is that miracles happen. The supernatural is real even if it is difficult to prove or demonstrate by reason alone. Although our […]
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Advertisement for My Duke Lecture—Happening 4-26-17
Just thought I would share this with you. It’s the advertisement for my Duke lecture that is going out to seminar participants. Title: “Does Religion Really Poison Everything? A Critical Review of New Atheist Perspectives on Religion and Science” In his 1999 book Rocks of Ages, the late Harvard biologist Stephen Jay Gould coined […]
Read More…The Mental Health Catch-22 for Churches
Do churches belong in the business of mental health care or not? Here is one point of view from an article by Mary Rezac at the Catholic News Agency. Bold emphasis is mine: Maria had been struggling with some depressive and anxious thoughts for a while, although at the time, she didn’t recognize them as […]
Read More…From the Federalist—Psychiatry Professor: ‘Transgenderism’ Is Mass Hysteria Similar To 1980s-Era Junk Science
I post this link without commentary. All I will say is that this is a must-read: The movement’s philosophy qualifies it as a popular delusion similar to the multiple-personality craze, and the ‘satanic ritual abuse’ and ‘recovered memory’ hysterias of the 1980s and 90s. Source: Psychiatry Professor: ‘Transgenderism’ Is Mass Hysteria Similar To 1980s-Era Junk […]
Read More…Announcement: Speaking to St. Andrew’s Men’s Society, Apex, NC
I will be speaking to the St. Andrew’s Men’s Society on Wednesday, October 19th, at 7:30 p.m. The title of the talk is “Neuroscience and the New Evangelization: How New Research Vindicates the Biblical View of Human Nature,” and it all happens in the Care Center at St. Andrew’s Catholic Church in Apex. Copies of my […]
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