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Another Round of Inflation on Deck

When we wrote this in 2022, it took about $1800 to buy an ounce of gold. Today, it is more like $2900. That implies an $1800/$2900=0.621 or a 38% decline in dollar value over that period. Prices will eventually adjust, over a period of years, to the new, lower value of the currency, with some prices moving faster and some moving slower. “All things being equal” (they never are but it is a good principle), we should expect a $2900/$1800 or 61% rise in prices of goods and services going forward, compared even to the inflation-boosted prices that we have had to get used to in 2022-2024. Read More ›
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Cruise Ship Billionaires

The Debate over Evolution and Intelligent Design Heats Up (w_ Doug Axe)

The Debate over Evolution and Intelligent Design Heats Up (w/ Doug Axe)

What is the state of Intelligent Design? How has the conversation on the origin of life changed and been updated in today’s world? In this video, Sean McDowell talk to Doug Axe who has written on this topic. He hopes to answer questions between Darwinism and Christianity and other big questions surrounding this issue.

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Stand Up for (Ideological) Science 2025 Day!

Yesterday was “Stand Up for Science 2025” day, which featured rallies around the country to “defend science as a public good and pillar of social, political, and economic progress.” But that isn’t what it was really all about. Former NIH head Francis Collins spoke (and sang) at the D.C. rally, and he was the champion censor of heterodox views during Covid... Read More ›
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Intelligent design and unintelligent use of power

Rational people differ on Who God is or what gods are, but should we all believe that the world is the product of intelligent design? That’s what a smart New York columnist, a smart Roman essayist who died in 43 BC, and the smart Discovery Institute researchers who follow science, all contend. The new book, by New York Times columnist Read More ›