Faith and Funding: What Is the Root of the Stem Cell Controversy?
September 2001 -- The current debate over federal funding of embryonic stem cell research raises two basic questions: "Is it morally and
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September 2001 -- The current debate over federal funding of embryonic stem cell research raises two basic questions: "Is it morally and
January 2002 -- Reprinted by permission of the publisher. From The Role of Religion in History, by George Walsh (New Brunswick, New Jersey:
Objectivists mean by "spiritual values" those values that fulfill the needs of human consciousness. The word "spirit" indeed refers
March 2002 -- BOOK REVIEW: The Decline of the East What Went Wrong? Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response. By Bernard Lewis.
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One year after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the FBI arrested six Yemeni immigrants in Lackawanna, New York, for aiding terrorists; the arrest
November 2003 -- This is how the story was told: In 1761, a young French Protestant of Toulouse, Marc Antoine Calas, finding his life a
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I’m never impressed by those studies that come out every so often showing that some large percentage of the American citizenry “does not
We are surrounded by examples, from the sublime to the murderous, that illustrate the importance in human life of the systems of belief we
Most major religions have believed in the existence of a supernatural realm, a realm beyond the natural world of physical objects and bodies
Magic and illusion are actions that aim to produce effects that appear to be paranormal or impossible by the laws of logic and nature that
June 24, 2004 -- "Sing, oh Goddess, the wrath of Peleus' son Achilles, which brought pains a thousand-fold upon the Achaians." So opens the
March 3, 2004 -- The controversy surrounding Mel Gibson's film The Passion of the Christ reflects a deep divide concerning the moral
Jett Travolta, the sixteen-year-old son of actors John Travolta and Kelly Preston, died recently of what the autopsy found to be a seizure..
March 28, 2003 -- American Muslims must be feeling despair over the news that Asam Akbar, a sergeant serving in Kuwait and an American
After each new suicide attack, as innocent blood flows in the streets of Baghdad, London, Madrid, or Tel Aviv, there is a surge of
CNN’s Lou Dobbs has come in for criticism for saying something sensible and insightful. It is too vague and too politically correct to call
Why do they hate us? How could they have done this? What were they trying to achieve?
Objectivism holds that in order to obtain knowledge, man must use an objective process of thought. The essence of objective thought is....
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