Congratulations to Jay Bhattacharya, Replacing Francis Collins at NIH!

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How can our country get more Bhattacharyas and fewer Collinses? That is one way of phrasing the question that Dr. West sets out to answer. Source
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Francis Collins Stands Up for DEI, High Overhead, and Unethical Research?

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At least Collins has made it harder to ignore his real agenda by appearing at this partisan political rally. Source
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How Stockholm Syndrome Christianity Hinders Scientific Progress

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In a nutshell, theistic evolution is the attempt to reconcile belief in God with the standard evolutionary account of life’s origins. Source
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The Slippery Slope of Theistic Darwinism: The Sad Cases of Howard Van Till and Karl Giberson

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After retiring from Calvin, Howard Van Till evolved well beyond Christianity. Indeed, he eventually evolved beyond theism. Source
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Slavery and the Image of God

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America is the only country on Earth to sacrifice hundreds of thousands of its own citizens in a war to end slavery. Source
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On Human Origins, New Peer-Reviewed Paper Reviews Models for Reconciling Science and Religion 

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In the final section of the paper, I proposed a scoring system to rate the models. Source
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Before the Third Reich: America’s Darwinist Eugenics Crusade

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One of the most famous instances was Carrie Buck, sterilized as “feeble minded” despite going on to live a normal productive life. Source
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Lessons from the Evangelical Debate About Adam and Eve

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The standard evolutionary account of human origins holds that our population has always been in the thousands and humanity did not descend from an initial pair. Source
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