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Asian temple dragon
Heather Zeiger
April 5, 2020
Foreign Policy, Natural and Artificial Intelligence
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The Dragon’s Deception

Heather Zeiger
April 5, 2020
Foreign Policy, Natural and Artificial Intelligence
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U.S. Intelligence reports that China has misrepresented the extent of the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan. Social media was part of the strategy. An investigation by ProPublica and the UN shows that China has used thousands of Twitterbots, as well as hacked accounts, to applaud the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) as the heroes who stopped the coronavirus in China. Read More ›
Washington DC - US Capitol building
Scott S. Powell
April 4, 2020
Religion and Civic Life
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America Needs a New Declaration of Equal Justice Under the Law

Scott S. Powell
April 4, 2020
Religion and Civic Life
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In prior times of war, crisis, suffering, and loss of life from causes outside the U.S., Americans of both parties would pull together and focus on what can be done to quickly help, alleviate, and solve the problem. No longer. The COVID-19 crisis provides us a window into our national social and spiritual health, and what we see from much of America’s Left as expressed in the media and Democrat Party reveals a degree and strain of moral impoverishment we haven’t seen before. The COVID-19 crisis in America will pass as all such virus epidemics do, but an overriding issue and question that will remain for the American future is: Do we have sufficient courage and determination to successfully deal with the internal threats and contradictions that jeopardize the future viability of the United States and its Constitution? Read More ›
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Abstract variation on the theme of life originated in water 3.8 billion years ago
Image Credit: max5128 - Adobe Stock
Stephen C. Meyer
April 3, 2020
Intelligent Design
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Evidence of Intelligent Design in the Origin of Life

Stephen C. Meyer
April 3, 2020
Intelligent Design
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Origin-of-life researchers want to explain the origin of the first and presumably simplest — or, at least, minimally complex — living cell. As a result, developments in fields that explicate the nature of unicellular life have historically defined the questions that origin-of-life scenarios must answer. Read More ›
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Michael Egnor
April 3, 2020
Intelligent Design
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The Myth of “Darwinian Medicine”

Michael Egnor
April 3, 2020
Intelligent Design
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Whether or not Darwinian hypotheses can be teased out of some medical advances, it is simply a fact that doctors and medical researchers pay no attention to Darwinian speculations in their work, and their work has been astonishingly successful. Would heart transplants work better if cardiac surgeons speculated about the Darwinian origin of the four-chamber heart? Read More ›
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Science and Culture
April 2, 2020
Intelligent Design
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Viruses: An Intelligent Design Perspective

Science and Culture
April 2, 2020
Intelligent Design
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The COVID-19 virus is on a rampage in the world, killing thousands in the U.S. so far, shutting down whole countries’ economies, and possibly altering aspects of modern life for the future, after the virus has waned. What the complete impact will be is of course unknowable. In the meantime, though, questions arise about this and other, related sub-microscopic entities. Viruses seem so evil. What is their place in life? And like other aspects of nature, do they give evidence of intelligent design? Read More ›
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Physician in medical face mask holding syringe while senior lady keeping arm on cushion stock photo
Wesley J. Smith
April 2, 2020
Human Exceptionalism
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Coronavirus: Triage if Necessary, Health-Care Rationing, Never

Wesley J. Smith
April 2, 2020
Human Exceptionalism
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With the raging coronavirus pandemic threatening millions with infection, people are rightly worried that we could face the awful circumstance in which there are insufficient life-saving medical resources available for all catastrophically ill patients needing care. If that dark day comes, decisions will literally have to be made as to who among the seriously ill will be given an optimal chance to fight for life under intensive medical care, and who may have to face a likely death, albeit under palliative care. Read More ›
Macro Abstract blue color marble texture background. Acrylic color in water and oil.
Macro mystical Abstract blue color marble texture background. Acrylic color in water and oil.
Christopher Rufo
April 1, 2020
Economics
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A Rorschach Epidemic

Christopher Rufo
April 1, 2020
Economics
4
The coronavirus has swallowed up everything. Its microscopic image — a grey mothball with small red crowns emanating from its core — is found in every newspaper, website, and television program around the world. Though the virus remains mysterious, it has revealed much about us. In a matter of weeks, it has become a global Rorschach test, exposing an infinite range of human preoccupations. The virus itself is a simple machine, neither dead nor alive, but it has inspired an endless stream of broadcasts, editorials, tweets, and multitrillion-dollar policy responses. Read More ›
Rural road with dramatic clouds in southern Minnesota at sundown
Rural Minnesota road with dramatic clouds at sundown
Bailey Takacs
April 1, 2020
Education
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Online School and the Possible Rural Fallout

Bailey Takacs
April 1, 2020
Education
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As the coronavirus pandemic continues to spread across the country, schools are heading online to stay productive. But rural communities with meager broadband Internet access are stuck in digital wastelands with no clear path out. Read More ›