Author: Barry Arrington

Otherwise, they would have to give up their materialism. Recently I posted about a woman who was charged with attempted murder when she put a newborn baby in a garbage bag and tossed him in a dumpster to die. Here is an exchange I had with Seversky regarding that post: Barry: Is it objectively evil Read More…

That is the question they are asking over at Science Friday. Now, scientists are questioning whether that’s actually true—or if mutation is more likely to occur in some parts of the genome than others. New research published in the journal Nature this week looks at just that question, in a common weed called Arabidopsis thaliana. After following 24 generations of plants Read More…

WARNING! The video linked here is extremely disturbing. Four days ago Alexis Avila, a woman in New Mexico, had a baby. She put the baby in a garbage bag and threw him in a dumpster. She is being charged with attempted murder. The good news is that a passerby found the baby (umbilical cord still Read More…

December 19, 1971 was a Sunday, the last one before Christmas.  I was ten.  My sister was eleven.  We went with our family to the evening service at Trinity Baptist Church in Boyd, Texas.  After services my parents left us with a group that was going Christmas caroling.  We never made it to the first Read More…

A professor sums up a lecture on the evolutionary explanation for why religion has been ubiquitous in every human culture: Professor:  So, in summary, every human culture going back thousands of years has been religious because religion is either itself an adaptive behavior or it is a spandrel, a byproduct of the evolution of some Read More…

It is time for my annual plea for support of our work. Everyone has heard of a “shoestring budget.”  But did you know that UD gets by on an “aglet budget”?  What is an aglet? you ask.  An aglet is that little plastic sheath at the end of a shoestring.  That’s right.  Our budget is Read More…

We are deeply divided. On the one hand, there are those of us who believe Lincoln was right when he said this nation was conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. We insist that the fundamental character of this nation – grounded as it is in the transformative Read More…

We now have the highest inflation in 30 years. This was entirely predictable. In fact, I predicted it. See my post from April 20, 2020. Hang on. We are just getting started. The new “infrastructure” bill that just passed is the monetary equivalent of pouring gasoline in a dumpster that is already on fire. You Read More…

From the Wall Street Journal: Medieval thinkers pretending to infallibility often claimed to have received a direct revelation from God. Since the 19th century, secular thinkers have invoked science. As Anthony Fauci said in June, “a lot of what you’re seeing as attacks on me, quite frankly are attacks on science.” … Science operates by Read More…

Neitzsche’s conclusions are sound, some would argue inexorable, if one grants his fundamental premise, that God is dead. The “good” beyond good and evil is the strong man, the superior man (ubermensch), imposing his will on the weak. In a world without God, there is only power, and those who have it and those who Read More…

As I explained in a previous post, “Critical Race Theory,” with its denial of objective morality and neutral principles of justice, is essentially metaphysical materialism applied to race relations.  While CRT has received a lot of media attention in recent days, “critical studies” of various stripes have been around for a long time.  I was Read More…

The story about Rolling Stone’s “update” (which should have been called a retraction) is here.

KF’s comment to a prior post deserves its own OP. If only people understood the simple, yet profound, point KF is making. KF writes: Proof is a term too often used more for rhetorical impact than for humble acknowledgement of the achievements and limitations of human reasoning and deduction especially. As such, we must bear Read More…

Put this one in the “the more things change, the more they stay the same” category.  Though he was speaking to an English audience nearly 90 years ago, Churchill could have very well been addressing the American people yesterday afternoon. The worst difficulties from which we suffer do not come from without.  They come from Read More…

Anthony Fauci is a liar. No reasonable person doubts that. Yet he remains an icon of progressives, who continue to hang on his every utterance. This is mystifying. Or it would be if we did not know that for progressives the “narrative” is for more important than the truth. Here is a convenient summary of Read More…