Monthly Archives: November 2010

The Liberal Gene(ocide) Fantasy

John Horgan reports at the Scientific American website, Yes, the inevitable has happened. Just before Election Day—surely not a coincidence—scientists report an association between liberal political views and DRD4, a gene that produces a receptor for the neurotransmitter dopamine. He reports, and then critiques. Single genes associated with single characteristics have rarely if ever held …

November 2, 2010 – 10:25 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Origins and Science | Comments (9)

“We Must Not Despair”

Charles Colson asks, Secularists berate Christians for the culture wars, claiming that we are trying to impose our bigoted agenda on them. Often intimidated, Christians fear raising controversial questions. But someone should ask: Who started the divisive culture wars in the first place? [From We Must Not Despair | Christianity Today | A Magazine of …

November 1, 2010 – 1:42 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Deep Social Change | Comments Off

“Gallup: Very religious Americans have higher levels of well-being”

The most religious Americans show the highest levels of well-being as measured by factors ranging from physical and emotional health to self-evaluations of life to perceptions of work environment, according to a Gallup report released Thursday…. “It’s not like some people score zero and others score 100,” Newport told CNN. “So when we find a …

November 1, 2010 – 12:56 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in The Faith | Comments (2)