“Just Like Heaven,” a romantic comedy starring Reese Witherspoon and Mark Ruffalo, did not get the attention that I think it should have received, last year. The movie is out on DVD (for more information, see Amazon.com and Netflix) Warning: the following may contain “spoilers,” and give away the surprises in the movie. Talk about … Continue reading
>”Just Like Heaven,” a romantic comedy starring Reese Witherspoon and Mark Ruffalo, did not get the attention that I think it should have received, last year. The movie is out on DVD (for more information, see Amazon.com and Netflix) Warning: the following may contain “spoilers,” and give away the surprises in the movie. Talk about … Continue reading
This month’s New Oxford Review contains a book review on From Darwin to Hitler: Evolutionary Ethics, Eugenics and Racism in Germany, which addresses the philosophical and religious changes that led to the eugenic crimes of doctors in Nazi Germany. From the review: Even so, Weikart concedes that these intellectuals who “built their worldview on science” … Continue reading
>This month’s New Oxford Review contains a book review on From Darwin to Hitler: Evolutionary Ethics, Eugenics and Racism in Germany, which addresses the philosophical and religious changes that led to the eugenic crimes of doctors in Nazi Germany. From the review: Even so, Weikart concedes that these intellectuals who “built their worldview on science” … Continue reading
Whatever we can think of, someone, somewhere has done it – or is doing it. Christianity Today reports that Germany has legalized prostitution and is setting up “sex huts” around stadiums during its World Cup (soccer or football) series. Supposedly the sports fans cannot control themselves for a period of time, so the German government … Continue reading
>Whatever we can think of, someone, somewhere has done it – or is doing it. Christianity Today reports that Germany has legalized prostitution and is setting up “sex huts” around stadiums during its World Cup (soccer or football) series. Supposedly the sports fans cannot control themselves for a period of time, so the German government … Continue reading
I pointed out the irony of using this term for destructive embryonic stem cell research in my last post. And I was reminded again, in Nat Henthoff’s latest column, “The Devaluing of Life,” in which he quotes Jesse Jackson: The boy’s spontaneous insistence on the primacy of life also reminded me of a powerful pro-life … Continue reading
>I pointed out the irony of using this term for destructive embryonic stem cell research in my last post. And I was reminded again, in Nat Henthoff’s latest column, “The Devaluing of Life,” in which he quotes Jesse Jackson: The boy’s spontaneous insistence on the primacy of life also reminded me of a powerful pro-life … Continue reading
Several medical centers, including Harvard,the University of California at Irvine, and the University of Texas at Houston are bragging in the press that they are not stymied at all by the Bush Administration policy on funding embryonic stem cell research. Why there’s even an “underground railroad” for stem cell research funded by two moms in … Continue reading
>Several medical centers, including Harvard,the University of California at Irvine, and the University of Texas at Houston are bragging in the press that they are not stymied at all by the Bush Administration policy on funding embryonic stem cell research. Why there’s even an “underground railroad” for stem cell research funded by two moms in … Continue reading