Poor old Darwin. So misunderstood by his followers. He was actually a nice old chap with fairly tame ideas, but his extremist disciples took his…
Is the mainstream media (MSM) biased? Well, I suppose it all depends on who you ask. If you are secular, leftwing, and into the various…
It was rather odd to see so many female Senators voting for human cloning the other week. This in spite of the fact that many…
When radical social experiments are undertaken, it takes a while for the dust to settle and for clear assessments to be made as to how…
Up until around 175 years ago, most people were educated at home, or by the church. As such, public education is a relatively new phenomenon.…
Federal Education Minister Julie Bishop caused quite a stir last week when she made a two-part suggestion about our education system. One, she proposed a…
Capitalism is not perfect. But it has produced a wide range of benefits. No other economic system has been able to come up with the…
Why is it that on a daily basis we seem to hear of outlandish crimes, and equally outlandish sentences handed out by our courts? Why…
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…
Agnostic and religion-basher Pamela Bone makes many claims in her opinion piece (Australian, 15 August 2006), a few of them right, most of them wrong…
This may be the first time in history that we have forced a generation of kids to be separated from their own parents. The results…
A lot of thought has gone into human mortality, and how we can prolong life. Less thought has gone into the question of why nations…
I suppose it is something that we should have expected. It had to come sooner or later. Now our day care centres are being used…
The issues of cloning in general and stem cell research in particular have swamped the media during the past several years. As in earlier debates…
Harper, 2005. This is a very important book. That is because this is a very important subject tackled by an important author. Indeed, Guinness is…
Regnery Publishing, 2004. It is not often that Australia leads America and the world on certain issues, but this was the case last year. In…
Spence Publishing, 2003. This is a revision and expansion of his earlier work of 1999. In it he brings up to date recent developments in…
Hollywood is at it again: seeking to defend the indefensible. The release of Kinsey: Let’s Talk About Sex, is another indication of just how out…
Lifeline Press, 2002. Epidemic may not be too strong of a word to describe the crisis in teen sexuality we face in the Western world.…
With renewed cries for same-sex adoption rights, some clear thinking is in order. These quick facts will help to separate fact from fiction, and bring…