Merry Christmas! No. 8 Story of 2024: Reagan’s Personal Argument for Intelligent Design

An American Life, arms control, atheists, birds’ eggs, birthday, butterflies, Capitalism, Christianity, Douglas Brinkley, evil empire, Faith & Science, faith and science, Galesburg, General Secretary, Greeks, Illinois, Intelligent Design, Jews, Jimmy Carter, Kremlin, Lessons My Father Taught Me, Mars, Michael Reagan, Mikhail Gorbachev, Moscow, Moslems, National Prayer Breakfast, notetaker, Otangelo Grasso, Paul Kengor, political freedom, Protestants, Reagan Presidential Library and Museum, Red Square, Romans, Ron Reagan, Ronald Reagan, Russian Orthodox Church, Soviet Union, St. Catherine’s Hall, The Notes, The Reagan Diaries, U.S. Constitution, Ukrainian Catholics, Whittaker Chambers, Witness
An untold story from the final year of Reagan’s Presidency about science, faith, and intelligent design. Source
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Top U.S. Science Journal Calls for Dismantling Capitalism

Big Pharma, California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Capitalism, collectivism, colonialism, COVID-19, Culture & Ethics, Fogarty International Center, intellectual property, international agencies, Medicine, pandemic, public policy, Research, Science (journal), science journals, technocracy, US Agency for International Development, Vaccines, Wellcome Trust, woke ideology
Establishing a quasi-socialistic technocratic approach — focused on equity instead of excellence — would stifle innovation. Source
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Myth-Making and Malthus

"survival of the fittest", An Essay on the Principle of Population, biology, Capitalism, cosmogenic myth, Economics, Evolution, Kathryn Hughes, laissez-faire, Life Sciences, magpie, Michael Denton, mythopoeisis, Natural Selection: Discovery or Invention? (series), The Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe, William Willis
After reading Malthus out of personal interest, it dawned on Darwin how he might usefully appropriate the Malthusian analogy. Source
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When Ignorance Becomes Weaponized

Apologetics, Artificial Intelligence, Capitalism, Hank Hanegraaff, Jay Richards
There’s just no limit to bad ideas these days. And apparently, most folks are too busy or too distracted to realize just how bad they really are. As Jay Richards notes in his new book The Human Advantage, “Every day brings a new story of delicate snowflakes who mark off ‘safe spaces,’ denounce ever tinier ‘microaggressions,’ announce trigger warnings, and issue surreal demands for faculty to submit to seminars that resemble Maoist ‘struggle sessions’ in the Red China of old.” (See my letter this month to CRI partners.) That’s craziness on steroids. But it’s not enough to merely recognize the madness. It must be countered by those still in command of their senses if we’re to avoid the deadly fruits of this insanity run amok. To receive a copy of The…
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