When did it become unpopular for a baby to have a gender? Being a new father, my attention has been drawn to the many instances of parents’ seeming to downplay or even hide the gender of their children. The supreme example came to light a few months ago when a Canadian couple gained publicity for …
According to a team of British scientists and ethicists, experiments to “humanize” apes should be carefully regulated and certain experiments banned. In its report, Animals Containing Human Material, the working group begins with the obvious claim that “animals are not humans.” They then worry about three types of animal-human research. The first would be the …
Since I’m now stationed at SBTS-Nashville and am something of a NASCAR fan (my enthusiasm dating back to my grad school days, when I would watch Richard Petty, David Pearson, and Bobby Allison at Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway and yet others such as Bobby Isaacs, Elmo Langley, and Darrell Waltrip at the Talladega tri-oval), I thought …
Grant proposals are due next week for a federal program that, at first glance, seems to support traditional marriage. But a closer look reveals that the program actually includes a blatant slap at biblical sexual morality. The Department of Health and Human Services announced $75 million to be awarded to worthy applicants under the “Community-Centered …
The “princess atheists” are at it again, attacking affronts to their sensitivities. (You remember the fairy tale of the princess and the pea. They knew she was the real, delicate thing when a tiny garden pea placed under a stack of mattresses still gave her a backache in the morning.) These are the people who …
The deliberate extermination of the female of our species is not the stuff of some dystopian novel or epic film, it’s a fact. Imagine if 160 million women were wiped out in the United States. You can’t imagine it, because that’s more than the entire female population of the country. Yet in Asia alone, the …