Shane Morris

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  Jul 20, 2019

  Family is written in our bodies and brains

  While the loudest voices in our culture continue to insist that men and women are interchangeable, science is offering more evidence than ever that the two sexes are anything but interchangeable.

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  Jul 15, 2019

  'The Matrix' as secular religion

  The scene is movie legend: Morpheus sits with Neo beside a fireplace while a storm rages outside, and tells him that the world he calls reality—what he sees when he looks out the window or turns on the television, when he goes to work—it’s all an illusion.

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  Jul 13, 2019

  Early feminist critique becomes pro-death talking point

  Most people don’t know this, but early feminists—including suffragette Susan B. Anthony—were deeply opposed to abortion.

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  Jul 12, 2019

  GLAAD not happy about declining acceptance of LGBT

  For the past five years, the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, or GLAAD, has conducted a survey of U.S. adults measuring what it calls the “accelerating acceptance” of LGBT people.

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  Jul 9, 2019

  Science Uprising: New video series unmasks materialism

  Imagine you’re a college student, and your professor claims that science has disproved the idea of God, of the soul, of ultimate meaning, and of truth. What do you say to that professor?

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  Jul 1, 2019

  Eugenics is still with us

  Eugenics is a bad idea, a bad idea that, like all bad ideas, has victims.

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  Jun 26, 2019

  Gender politics devours science

  In accordance with a Twitter announcement back in 2016, signs around the T. rex skeleton now inform museum visitors that Sue prefers to be referred to as “they/them/their,” rather than “he” or “she.”

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  Jun 21, 2019

  Democrats' abortion extremism

  Last week probably marked a milestone in American political extremism. For more than forty years, former Vice-President Joe Biden held what he called a “middle-of-the-road position on abortion.”

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  Jun 19, 2019

  Michelle Obama spoke about her miscarriage, didn't acknowledge she lost her child

  If it weren’t so jarring and tragic, the contradictory laws and language tolerated in our country about abortion would be laughable.

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  Jun 18, 2019

  Victims of words: Reality isn't whatever we want it to be

  In one of Marvel’s recent blockbuster superhero movies, a genocidal alien-arch-bad-guy named Thanos acquires an “Infinity Stone,” which allows him to change the world around him at will. With this stone, he says, “Reality can be whatever I want.”