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Movie Monday: Underworld Awakens Box Office

The setup of the Underworld franchise sounds like something that a couple of 12-year-old boys would plot during a lazy Saturday afternoon.   “So what if, like, vampires and werewolves hated each other?” one might say.   “Yeah, and they, like, had a secret war! And used grenades made of silver and stuff!” His friend [...]

Coyne’s Critique of Kuhn: Full of Fury, but Insignificant

I recently blogged about the peer-reviewed article “Dissecting Darwinism” by distinguished surgeon Joseph Kuhn.  Kuhn’s article caught the attention of evolutionary biologist Jerry Coyne , author of Why Evolution is True and

More on Alexander Vilenkin: Hawking’s Birthday Basher

Yesterday’s blog on Hawking’s birthday bash might peak one’s curiosity about the cosmologist Alexander Vilenkin who gave the paper in honor of Hawking entitled “Did the universe have a beginning?” (in which he answers

Is it a Sin to Watch a Movie That Takes God’s Name in Vain?

At the start of the weekend it seems appropriate to broach the subject of movies. Our Plugged In team receives thousands of emails each year, asking a variety of entertainment-related questions. I’d like to share one which we received recently:

The (Bleeped) Things Kids Say These Days

You’ve heard about it. We’ve talked about it. Some folks begged ABC never to air it.   But air it did. On Wednesday, Modern Family presented to the world “Little Bo Bleep,” an episode in which a cute little girl utters the infamous f-word.   The girl in question is Lily, the travel-size adopted daughter [...]

Happy Birthday Stephen Hawking: “Why Physicists Can’t Avoid a Creation Event”

In the January 11th issue of New Scientist Lisa Grossman published an article with a jolting title for a secular magazine: “ Why physicists can’t avoid a creation event .” Even more surprising is the event she is reporting: Famed physicist

Dude, Where’s the Talking?

At some point in our lives, most of us have probably found ourselves sitting in a theater watching a film that wasn’t what we expected. (Though, admittedly, this should never happen to Plugged In’s savvy readers, right?) But a story out of England yesterday takes this common experience in a pretty comical direction.   The [...]

The Commercial That Led Them to Christ

I want to share an exciting postscript to Monday’s piece, Some Numbers Are More Important Than a Score .   In the process of providing some background and detail on our commercial featuring the Bible verse John 3:16, I noted that we had

Belief in Naturalism Explains Why a Darwin-Only Organization Expanded its Work to Global Warming Education

The politically correct viewpoint of catastrophic anthropogenic global warming ( CAGW ) received a boost Monday when the National Center for Science Education (NSCE), known for its Darwin-only educational advocacy, announced “the launch of its

A Deathbed Blessing

Many of us have sat by the side of a dying loved one, trying to bring comfort, trying to help prepare them for their final journey home. But it’s especially powerful and telling, isn’t it, when the person who is suffering is the one who brings the