19Aug 2025 by Post

What Happened to Our Respect for Authority? with Brett & Erin Kunkle

authority, Brett & Erin Kunkle, Christian Apologetics, Christianity, Dr. Frank Turek, MAVEN, morality, obedience, Parents, philosophy, Podcast, religion, theology
 There is a crisis of authority in our culture. Across the board there is more distrust in our once authoritative positions: parents, politicians, media, teachers, law enforcement, and even God Himself. But have you ever stopped to ask: what is authority? Why do we need it? And what has to be missing or go wrong with an authority figure to make us distrustful? In this episode, Brett and Erin Kunkle from MAVEN unpack the nature of authority, how this applies to the authority of Scripture, and how to explain authority to your kids. Together with Frank, they answer questions like: What’s driving the modern rejection of authority? Why is obedience seen as a “bad” word? What are the two essential ingredients for understanding proper authority? How do you respond…
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18Aug 2025 by Post

Materialism Is Sounding Super Tired Lately

"survival of the fittest", cattle, coyote, Evolution, existential problems, fairy tale, food, human life, human mind, Imperfection (book), irrationality, logic, luck, materialism, Nautilus, pop psychology, rationality, reproduction, scientific reasoning, Serendipity (book), Telmo Pievani, Templeton Foundation, threats, __featured3
This sort of cross between a fairy tale and pop psychology helps pop science readers pass the time while listening to the latest announcement of a flight delay. Source
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18Aug 2025 by Post

What’s Left of ‘My Body, My Right’?

abortion, AbortionHistoryMuseum.com, bodily autonomy, Constitution, John Ferrer, Legislating Morality, Culture & Politics, my body my right, pro-choice, pro-life, right to privacy, Women’s Rights
[Editor’s Note: This blog was originally posted in 2014. While the general argument is still as relevant as ever, a lot has changed in the cultural landscape since then, most notably the 2022 Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade. Plus, time-sensitive statistics are relative to 2014.] The right to privacy just might be the most widely touted justification for abortion today. Implied within the right to life and to liberty, the concept of “privacy” demarcates the sacred domain of self-possession (my body), autonomy (my choice), and liberty (my freedom). Without at least some form of the right to privacy, one cannot defend against forced marriage, coercive medical procedures, physical abuse, slavery, forced labor or any other forms of coercion. And of course, abortion isn’t a “right” unless a mother can do…
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16Aug 2025 by Post

The Horrors of Canadian Euthanasia

Andrew Coyne, Auld Lang Syne, Be Ceremonial, bioethics, Canada, Catholic priests, Children, Culture, death, Disrupting Death, doctors, Elaina Plott Calabro, euthanasia, faith, Faith & Science, funeral home, garden, homicides, life, Medicine, Ontario, pajama party, patients, suicide, suicide prevention, suicides, The Atlantic
As journalist Andrew Coyne said, “A society that believes in nothing can offer no argument even against death.” Source
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15Aug 2025 by Post

Why Dogmatic Materialism Is Bad for Science

Arshak Alexanian, dauer-modifications, DNA, DNA sequence, dogma, epigenetic change, epigenetics, Evolution, genetics, Green Fluorescent Protein, heredity, Intelligent Design, Kamal Nahas, Lamarckism, materialism, methyl groups, mRNA transcripts, noncoding RNA, offspring, Richard C. Lewontin, The New York Review of Books
Richard Lewontin addressed a controversy in evolution: Can life forms acquire characteristics during their lifespan that they pass on to their offspring? Source
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15Aug 2025 by Post

A TRUE Story That Will Change Your Life Forever with Greg Koukl

Bible, Christian Apologetics, Christianity, Dr. Frank Turek, Greg Koukl, morality, philosophy, Podcast, religion, Stand to Reason, The Story of Reality, theology, Worldview
Why is the world the way it is? Why are we here and how does the whole story of history—from the very beginning to the very end—fit together in a way that makes sense? Frank sits down with Greg Koukl, CIA 2025 Instructor and president of Stand to Reason, to talk about his classic and bestselling book, ‘The Story of Reality: How the World Began, How It Ends, and Everything Important That Happens in Between‘. Think of it as a beginner-friendly guide to both systematic theology and apologetics, showing readers how God’s story of creation, fall, redemption, and restoration explains everything we see in the world today. Tune in as Frank and Greg answer questions like: What is it that some Christians don’t fully understand about their worldview? What are…
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14Aug 2025 by Post

Is Intelligent Design Gaining the Upper Hand?

abiogenesis, biocomplexity, biologists, Case Western Reserve University, credibility, Eva Jablonka, Evolution, Evolution “On Purpose”, Freudian slip, grammar, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, Jan Spitzer, Journal of Molecular Evolution, methodological naturalism, MIT Press, Nita Sahai, origin of life, Peter Corning, scientific establishment, Scientific Trustworthiness, Simona Ginsburg, teleological, teleology, teleonomic
The underlying dynamic here is one of fear — fear of being associated with a movement one cannot easily dispel through evidence and argument. Source
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13Aug 2025 by Post

Let’s Help Harvard Understand Intelligent Design

2. Does God Exist?, 3. Are Miracles Possible?, Apologetics, Christianity, design argument, Evolution, Gospel, Harvard, Intelligent Design, Jonathan McLatchie, JonathanMclatchie.com, naturalism, scientific apologetics
Last week, my wife and I spent an afternoon at the Harvard Museum of Natural History, in Cambridge, MA, near where we live. We both were generally impressed by the exhibitions, particularly the dinosaur section, and would recommend the museum to anyone visiting Boston. I was, however, quite disappointed to see this notice at the entrance to the display on evolution: It was disappointing to see the inaccurate representation of intelligent design (ID), along with the poor scientific epistemology. A “Super-Natural Explanation”? First, proponents of ID have long stressed that ID, in its purest sense, does not necessarily postulate a supernatural cause but is consistent with a natural or supernatural intelligence. Furthermore, I would contend that the natural / supernatural distinction is problematic. What precisely is meant when a phenomenon…
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13Aug 2025 by Post

Taking the Side of Science — But Which Side?

Carl Sagan, common sense, consciousness, demons, Divine Foot, eliminative materialism, Faith & Science, immaterial reality, Intelligent Design, material world, materialism, Michael Egnor, mind, Philosophy of Science, Richard C. Lewontin, split-brain patients, superstition, The Demon-Haunted World, The Immortal Mind, The New York Review of Books, universe
In writing that science’s materialism is absolute, Richard Lewontin wrote as one who did not grasp the fatal flaw in his absolutism. Source
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