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Entries from November 2009

Never hope to be employed in the state educational system

November 30th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Thus the social market, as practiced in Europe, requires the state to step in and provide for those without work and to provide for the mothers of children who have no resident father. These are inevitable results of transferring the responsibility for charity from the community to the state, which is itself an inevitable result [...]

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Tags: Public square

The only serious philosophical question

November 12th, 2009 · 1 Comment

A five step neo-Darwinian refutation of neo-Darwinism:
1. A person is, in Richard Dawkins’ beautiful phrase, “a gene’s way of making another gene”. So forget religion, forget values, forget ideals, its all about reproduction; handing on our genes to the next generation.
2. Europe today is the most secular region in the world.
3. Europe today is the only region in [...]

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Tags: Marriage, Family & Life

The White Swan Formula

November 4th, 2009 · No Comments

James Featherby is calling for Christian responses to the Credit Crunch
The structure of the banking and financial markets are complex, and the transactions within it equally so. This often calls for nuanced judgement calls to be made between a variety of issues and the balancing of one set of competing duties against another. It is [...]

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Tags: Economics