Darwin, Kinsey, and Stockholm Syndrome Christianity

Alfred Kinsey, Bible, Charles Darwin, Culture, Culture & Ethics, deviants, ethics, Faith & Science, Floyd Martinson, Harvard University, junk science, males, mammals, morality, pimps, prisoners, prostitutes, psychopaths, secularists, sex, sex offenders, sexual abuse, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, Stockholm Syndrome Christian, The Descent of Man, United States, Victorian England, zoologists
Perhaps the figure most responsible for the breakdown of traditional sexual ethics in Western culture was a Harvard-trained evolutionary zoologist. Source
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How Stockholm Syndrome Christianity Hinders Scientific Progress

Bible, BioLogos Foundation, Charles Darwin, debate, disagreement, Evangelical Christians, Evolution, Faith & Science, faith and science, Francis Collins, free speech, ID The Future, ideology, John West, Podcast, scientific enterprise, scientific materialism, Stockholm Syndrome Christianity, The Language of God, theistic evolution, theology, United States
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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At What Point In Its Development Can a Human Being Feel Pain?

abortion, abortion pill, Albert Olszewski, Alberto Giubilini, Ana Rosa Rodriguez, Animal Liberation, aversive action, babies, birth canal, blood samples, brain, Culture & Ethics, curette, developmental biology, dilatation and curettage, dilatation and evacuation, distress, fetal age, feticide, fetuses, Food and Drug Administration, Francesca Minervage, gestational age, Guttmacher Institute, Indiana, injury, Jenny Eckmifepristone, Medicine, Montana, New York City, newborns, Nik Hoot, pain, Peter Singer, petri dish, phenylalanine, phenylketonuria, Planned Parenthood, pregnancy, prosthetic legs, Roman Catholicism, Russia, Should the Baby Live?, Sopher clamp, station, tissue, United States, Washington Post
Logic isn’t a sufficient answer to the question I raised, however. For a scientific answer, we need evidence. Source
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Weikart: The Dark History of Medicalized Killing

California State University Stanislaus, Canada, Center on Human Exceptionalism, Culture & Ethics, culture of death, Darwinism, eugenics, euthanasia, From Darwin to Hitler, history, Hitler’s Ethic, Hitler’s Religion, Medicine, Netherlands, Richard Weikart, Stony Brook University, Switzerland, The Death of Humanity, United States, Unnatural Death, Wesley J. Smith
"Richard Weikart’s superb new book is a vitally important reply to the organized disposal of unwanted people." Source
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Darwin Devotion Detector: Take the Test Now

adaptation, atheists, Charles Darwin, chimpanzee, common descent, Darwin Day, Darwin Devotion Detector, eugenics, Evolution, free will, genes, Germany, humanzee, Intelligent Design, J.B.S. Haldane, Jane Austen, Judge John E. Jones, Kitzmiller v. Dover, Kolkata, Love, Meaning, meme theory, natural selection, population growth, purpose, rape, Richard Dawkins, secular saint, United States, value
A tongue-in-cheek questionnaire that nonetheless provides real insight into the extent to which Darwinian ideas have captured our thinking. Source
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Data Can Appear in Science Journals — Out of Thin Air

Almas Heshmati, autofill, Culture & Ethics, data, econometricians, Economics, Elsevier, Excel, Gary Smith, imputation, Jönköping University, Journal of Clean Energy, Journal of Cleaner Production, Mike Tsionas, Netherlands, New Zealand, Physics, Earth & Space, Retraction Watch, science journals, statistical peculiarities, Søren Johansen, United Kingdom, United States, University of Copenhagen, Zoom
While many researchers decried the results, University of Copenhagen econometrician Søren Johansen said something worth pondering. Source
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On Ronald Reagan’s Birthday, Let’s Appreciate His Debt — and Ours — to Intelligent Design

An American Life, atheists, butterflies, Christians, Communism, cook, Dana Rohrabacher, Faith & Science, faith and science, Galesburg, gourmet meal, Greeks, Illinois, Intelligent Design, Jews, Jimmy Carter, John West, Mikhail Gorbachev, Moscow Summit, National Prayer Breakfast, order, Paul Johnson, purposefulness, Return of the God Hypothesis, Romans, Ronald Reagan, sculptor, sculpture, Soviet Union, Stephen Meyer, United States, Whittaker Chambers, Witness (book)
President Reagan wrung a startling spiritual concession from his Communist counterpart — with an argument for intelligent design. Source
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Design in the Grand Human Story

Abraham Lincoln, Alfred Tennyson, Benjamin Wiker, biochemistry, birth, Canceled Science, Charles Darwin, Children, Christmas Eve, Christmastime, Emancipation Proclamation, Evolution, faith, Faith & Science, Felix Mendelssohn, future, Gettysburg Address, history, Intelligent Design, Kentucky, materialism, Napoleon, newborn, pregnancy, Prime Minister, providence, United States, William Gladstone
Two famous individuals who share the birthdate of February 12, 1809, are Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln. Source
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Slavery and the Image of God

abolitionists, Arabs, Charles Finney, China, Christianity, Civil War, Culture & Ethics, Enlightenment, Evangelical Christians, Faith & Science, For the Glory of God, Gregory of Nyssa, image of God, Native Americans, Oberlin College, religious revivals, Rodney Stark, safe houses, Second Great Awakening, slaveholders, slavery, Underground Railroad, United States
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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