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Our pick of the films of 2009

Michael Cook | 31 December 2009 |
tags: best of, film reviews, lists
It’s that time of year again: open season on editors, when indignant readers take pot shots at us for our taste in films. But we’re thick-skinned and, in any case, you can make comments!


The new revelation

Denyse O'Leary | 31 December 2009 |
tags: evolution, religion
Have aeons of natural selection hardwired human beings to be religious?



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Bureacratic bullies get pushback

Sheila Liaugminas | 30 December 2009 |
tags: European Union, Fundamental Rights Agency, human rights
First, get power. Then, consolidate it. Next, break promises to the people who helped you get power that you would…


A witness who paid the price

Francis Phillips | 29 December 2009 |
tags: biography, Bonhoeffer, Christianity, Nazi
The German pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer was charismatic, courageous and controversial


The shock and awe of creation

Leslie Tomory | 29 December 2009 |
tags: atheism, evolution
Are God and evolution really incompatible? Not if you examine the question carefully.


Avatar: visually stunning, morally vapid

Michael Coren | 28 December 2009 |
tags: environmentalism, science fiction
James Cameron's sci-fi epic Avatar offers hand-me down paganism and crass environmentalist politics. But, hey, visually, it's pretty cool.


Darwin’s disciples today

Carson Holloway | 27 December 2009 |
tags: Darwin, evolution, Peter Singer
Political theorists of all hues claim that Darwin gives scientific credibility to their own theories. One of these is Peter Singer.


Lithuania defies EU to promote family values

Bryan P. Bradley | 27 December 2009 |
tags: family values, homosexuality, Lithuania, Russia
Sidestepping critics, Baltic nation strengthens family-friendly law on public information.


The origins of Darwinian political thought

Carson Holloway | 26 December 2009 |
tags: Darwin, evolution
A number of writers about politics and morality have drawn inspiration from Darwin's theory of evolution. How successful were they? First of a two-part series. 


Africa: Altered States, Ordinary Miracles

Martyn Drakard | 25 December 2009 |
tags: Africa
There is hope for Africa, writes a British journalist, perhaps more hope than for more developed countries.



What the Dickens are population controllers up to?

Michael Cook | 24 December 2009 |
tags: Christmas, miserabilists, population control
The flint-hearted, prune-faced, carbon-obsessed bean-counters who want fewer people, especially fewer poor people, should reread A Christmas Carol.


Merry Christmas, sweetheart!

Gianfranco Amato | 24 December 2009 |
tags: Christmas, divorce
A special Christmas gift for the guy (or girl) who has everything: a divorce voucher.


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Not etched in stone

Sheila Liaugminas | 23 December 2009 |
tags:
There are many reasons for pushback on the Senate health care legislative ‘compromise’. Abortion funding is chief among them.


Invictus

William Park | 23 December 2009 |
tags: Nelson Mandela, reconciliation, South Africa
Morgan Freeman deserves an Oscar for this uplifting film about forgiveness and reconciliation in South Africa.


Climate change: a real problem, but what will work?

James Franklin | 22 December 2009 |
tags: climate change, Copenhagen, global warming
There is cause for alarm over global warming, but emissions deals are not the solution.


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