Archive for June, 2013

Peter Foster wrote a column challenging an Ecuadorean plan to give rights to nature. David Boyd responded in defense of that.  Now letter writers are having a go. Here is… read more →

Written By:Alan McHughen,  Special to National Post | Jan 25, 2013 GMOs (genetically modified organism) are products of technologies developed during the 1970s and 1980s that allow researchers to take DNA… read more →

By:  Robert D. Brinsmead Even the work of hard-nosed scientists is not disconnected from their worldviews, from peer pressure, group-think and their sources of funding.  As Herman puts it (from… read more →

Posted on March 31, 2012 by Skarphedin Jesus said “You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighborh and hate your enemy.’ But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for… read more →

Written by:  Peter Martin  Economics correspondent  View more articles from Peter Martin Have you heard about the trick they use in fruit shops?  If they want to make money from a large… read more →

Paul Driessen, Special to Financial Post | Jan 1, 2013 Climate change is a scapegoat for our failures “Superstorm” Sandy killed more than 100 people, destroyed thousands of homes and businesses,… read more →

The Australian  January 02, 2013 LIFE in 2013 will have its challenges, some of them immense. But on many measures of human progress it will be the world’s best year yet.… read more →

This story appears in the October 8, 2012 issue of Forbes. COMMERCE AND philanthropy are considered to be polar opposites. They’re not; they are two sides of the same coin. Both… read more →

Extract from ‘The Self Illusion’ By Bruce Hood Psychologist Dan McAdams proposes that when it comes to making sense of our lives, we create narrative or personal myths to explain… read more →

Written By: Robert Higgs Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government Foreword by: Arthur A. Ekirch, Jr. Highlights/Synopsis How did a federal government that was originally conceived to be one of… read more →

Written BY:  WALTER RUSSELL MEAD:  October 8, 2012 Happy Columbus Day! In American history, the fight to make a holiday on Columbus Day actually had almost nothing to do with… read more →

Rwandan woman chooses forgiveness over anger after living through genocide Written By:  Joe O’Connor | Sep 27, 2012 10:30 AM ET Damascene Ilibagiza was more like a best friend than an… read more →

Written by: Pascal Bruckner, National Post · May 22, 2012  As an asteroid hurtles toward Earth, terrified citizens pour into the streets of Brussels to stare at the mammoth object growing… read more →

Belief in hell, according to international data, is associated with reduced crime BTW  June 19, 2012 (Phys.org) — Religions are thought to serve as bulwarks against unethical behaviors. However, when it… read more →

Book Review – From Amazon This is a book of bold ambitions ably fulfilled. Mr. Goldin and his co-authors offer a history of migration, from man’s earliest wanderings in Africa… read more →

Thursday, 26 April 2012 09:58 Matt Ridley John Sulston’s committee argues that the more people there are and the richer they are, the more resources they consume. True. But it does… read more →

United States: At about the year 1990, Christianity started to lose market share in the U.S. The percentage of American adults who identify themselves as Christians dropped from 87% in 1990 to… read more →

From:  http://www.sbl-site.org/publications/article.aspx?articleId=333  The flurry and the furor of historical Jesus studies that marked the 1990s is over.  The Jesus Seminar has gone on to study Paul and creeds.  N. T. Wright… read more →

It takes disparate topics and unites them in one powerful worldview.  Topics range from physics and philosophy to voting systems and alphabets to optimism and objective aesthetics to evolution and… read more →

The following extracts are from individuals trying to understand why people have believed, and continue to believe in the apocalyptic myth Bernard McGinn – Chicago Divinity School Apocalypses are deeply… read more →