Saturday, October 31, 2015

Intelligent Design Theory Is a Sophistical Argument from Ignorance and Equivocation

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In Chapter 7 of Darwinian Conservatism and in various posts on this blog, I have claimed that the argument for intelligent design theory (as...
Thursday, October 29, 2015

Did Abraham Lincoln's Speech in Charleston Show that He Was a White Supremacist?

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Lerone Bennett, Jr., is an African American historian and journalist. who has been a senior editor of Ebony magazine for many years.  He att...
Monday, October 26, 2015

Animal Homosexuality: Response from Aldo Poiani

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In response to my previous post, Aldo Poiani (a biologist at Monash University, Victoria) has sent me the following email message, and he ha...
Saturday, October 24, 2015

The Thomistic Natural Law of Animal Homosexuality

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In explaining natural law as rooted in biological nature, Thomas Aquinas often quoted the words of the Roman jurist Ulpian at the beginning ...
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Sunday, October 18, 2015

The Natural Law of Marriage and the Obergefell Decision: Four Possibilities

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For those of us who believe there is a natural law of marriage, there are four possible ways to respond to the decision in Obergefell v. Hod...
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Friday, October 16, 2015

The Political Philosophy of the Declaration of Independence in the Constitution

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Was Abraham Lincoln right in arguing that the political philosophy of the Declaration of Independence is implicit in the Constitution, and t...
Monday, October 05, 2015

Ryan Anderson's Self-Contradictory and Unconstitutional Argument Against Same-Sex Marriage

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"The government should not be in the business of affirming our love lives but should leave consenting adults free to live and love as t...
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Friday, September 25, 2015

Incest Laws in the United States

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Towards the end of his speech before a Joint Session of Congress, Pope Francis said this: "I will end my visit to your country in Phi...
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