If modernism and secularisation have convinced pagans of God’s nonexistence, they have convinced many Christians of God’s manageability. That is, God has become less of…
A core feature of the Enlightenment project was the twin concepts of optimism and progress. Modernism’s infatuation with science led to the idea that human…
Modernism can be described in many ways, but central to the modernist project have been several related emphases: man by reason alone can come to…
The march of science and the outworking of Enlightenment thinking has been a mixed bag. There has been both progress and regress during the past…
The danger always exists that if science can do something, it will do it. But simply because something can be done does not mean that…
Of the making of public insanities there is no end, it seems. Each passing day brings more examples of idiocy from our intellectualoids, elites and…
Several years ago R. Albert Mohler, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, made a profound observation: “Christians are sleeping through history as new medical…
In a recent poll it was found that over half of all Australians had no idea what carbon trading is. The poll discovered that 17…
It had to come to this. Add one part political correctness, two parts social engineering, and three parts biotechnology, and what do you get? The…
In some circles being a bit selective with the evidence can be risky business. But when it happens in certain social and political arenas, it…
I have argued elsewhere that Christianity was instrumental in the rise of the West. Progress in law, economics, science and society have largely been based…
The Australian House of Representatives has just voted to allow the passage of a clone and kill bill. The Patterson Bill was passed by a…
Despite the number of credible scientists who argued against human cloning, the Australian Senate nonetheless went ahead and voted for it to occur here. Not…
The cultural revolution of the 60s unleashed a lot of madness and mischief on to the world. I should know, because I was a part…
I wrote yesterday that there is little unanimity concerning global warming and man’s role in it. Given that Al Gore’s new film, An Inconvenient Truth…
Last week all the world’s media was abuzz with reports of a new stem cell extraction method which purportedly leaves the embryo alive. I penned…
With a title like this, one would imagine this to be a book about the conflict between evolution and creation, or something similar. In fact…
Writing in the Spring 2006 issue of The New Atlantis, Eric Cohen has an interesting article entitled “Biotechnology and the Spirit of Capitalism”. In it…
Encounter Books, 2003. Rapid developments in technology, especially in medicine, genetics and biochemistry, are easily outstripping careful analysis and social and moral reflection on these…
InterVarsity Press, 2004. The title of this collection of essays is both a good summary of the book and an important warning as to where…