by Sam Mitchell | Jan 23, 2023 | Science and Religion
I think all who call themselves Christians would assent to certain foundational beliefs: There is a single consciousness – spirit or logos – that has created from nothing all reality: spacetime, energy, a world of unimaginable beauty and complexity, us. We call this...
by Sam Mitchell | Dec 9, 2022 | Science and Religion
Ever since I first read the story of Job decades ago, it has bothered me. The oldest story in the Bible, it addresses head-on the question that plagues anyone who takes God seriously: How can a loving God stand by while a good person suffers? The story begins with a...
by Sam Mitchell | Dec 4, 2022 | Government, Markets, and You
Warren Buffett, as usual, was right: gold is not an investment. It yields nothing and never grows. Gold, instead, is money: something people use to (1) exchange what they have for what they want, (2) store their purchasing power, and (3) know precisely how much they...
by Sam Mitchell | Nov 20, 2022 | Climate Change
Joe Biden, the permanent bureaucracy, the Democratic Party, their cheerleaders in the mainstream media, and the global elites – the types who each year flock to Davos for a meeting of the World Economic Forum – tell us that climate change is an existential threat to...
by Sam Mitchell | Jul 30, 2021 | Climate Change
1. Climate change activists want you to believe that the rise in atmospheric CO2 from fossil fuel burning is causing a dangerous warming of the Earth’s surface. 2. The idea is not supported by the evidence. 3. Since 1850, before humans began to burn fossil fuels for...
