Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Information Enigma — How Information, not Physical and Chemical Processes, Explain the Development of Life [VIDEO]
Information drives the development of life. But what is the source of that information? Could it have been produced by an unguided Darwinian process? Or did it require intelligent design? The Information Enigma is a fascinating 21-minute documentary that probes the mystery of biological information, the challenge it poses to orthodox Darwinian theory, and the…
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Russia Fights for Christianity in Syria, the US Fights Against It
The everyday signs in America show a growing contempt for Christianity. The exact opposite trend is happening for Russia and its leaders—a return to Christian roots.
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Why Our Medical Elite Support Planned Parenthood
Source: Ancient Faith Radio By Wesley J. Smith It’s not only fetuses and babies that are viewed broadly in bioethics as “killable” and perhaps even “harvestable.” There is increasing advocacy, although it is important to emphasize that this is not yet happening, for killing those with profound cognitive impairments for their organs. I could adduce…
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George Weigel’s Leaps of Faith, Propaganda de Fide and the Overly Broad Brush (2012)
This essay critiques Roman Catholic writer George Weigel for his tendency to interpret any American conflict with Russia through a neo-con, cold war lens and characterize it as a religious conflict between the Roman Catholic West and Orthodox East. It is published for the first time here.
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The Cross of Christ is Foolishness to the World: A Swedish Lutheran Bishop Wars Against the Christian Faith
The proposal to remove the cross from a Christian church, while ostensibly a gesture of accommodation to faiths other than her own, is nothing less than the collapse of Christianity within the institutional structures of that church.
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