Part I here. After this post, we’ll gather on Wednesday’s and Saturdays for new posts in this series. Charles Darwin never knew about DNA, or genes, or genetics. DNA and protein, as well as the debate about which was the genetic material came after Darwin. The definitive experiment showing DNA as the genetic material was [...]
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Was Darwin an Architect of the Culture of Death? (Part II): Young Darwin
Posted in Darwin, Pro-Life Academy on February 29, 2012 | 3 Comments »
Was Darwin an Architect of the Culture of Death? (Part I): Introduction
Posted in Darwin, Pro-Life Academy on February 18, 2012 | 48 Comments »
It’s time that this blog tackle the issue of Charles Darwin, evolution, and the Culture of Death as they relate to one another. I’ll probably succeed in pleasing nobody on any side of this debate, but it’s a discussion that needs to be had by pro-lifers. The issue of Darwinian evolution evokes rather strong sentiments, [...]
World Health Organization Data on Birth Control Pill and Estrogen Replacement Carcinogenicity
Posted in Birth Control, Breast Cancer, Pro-Life Academy, tagged WHO Group 1 Carcinogens on February 15, 2012 | 10 Comments »
There has been confusion of late concerning the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) listing for their Group 1 Carcinogens, including several forms of oral contraceptives and estrogen replacement therapy. The confusion has arisen because the original link by WHO has been changed. After some sleuthing, here is a treasure trove [...]
Fetus: What’s In a Name?
Posted in Dignity, Pro-Life Academy, tagged Fetus, Latin, Nomenclature on February 10, 2011 | 10 Comments »
Over at Jill Stanek’s blog a debate between a pro-abort troll and the pro-lifers has developed, a debate over what the name “Fetus” means and what sort of rights issue forth from that name’s definition. This is a massive blunder that pro-lifers get sucked into about 3,000 times a day. The dignity of the person [...]
Stunning Video From the Womb
Posted in Development, Pro-Life Academy on December 18, 2010 | 2 Comments »
As we prepare for the best of all birthdays, a peek into the beauty of the womb, courtesy of the Endowment for Human Development. There are three separate videos. Just hit play for each below and enjoy. Be sure to have your volume turned up for the narration. 1. Play Movie 2. Play Movie 3. [...]
Pro-Life Academy: Embryo (Chapter 3)
Posted in Pro-Life Academy on April 27, 2010 | 7 Comments »
As the relative quiescence of the blog in recent weeks will attest, there has been a great deal going on that has kept me from posting, and I am truly sorry for the interruption of our ongoing discussion of EMBRYO. To Chapter 3, Dualism. We need a little primer with some of the language that [...]
Pro-Life Academy: Embryo (Chapter 2)
Posted in Pro-Life Academy on March 23, 2010 | 21 Comments »
Note: As we progress though this book, I shall close the comments on the previous week’s post once the current post goes up. By all means continue any ongoing conversations. This will streamline our conversations by restricting them to one thread. So, Last week’s comments are closed. We’re open for business on this week’s post. [...]
Pro-Life Academy: The Dignity of Motherhood
Posted in Pro-Life Academy, tagged Motherhood, Mulieris Dignitatem, Pope John Paul II on March 19, 2010 | 2 Comments »
APOSTOLIC LETTER MULIERIS DIGNITATEM OF THE SUPREME PONTIFF JOHN PAUL II ON THE DIGNITY AND VOCATION OF WOMEN ON THE OCCASION OF THE MARIAN YEAR “This mutual gift of the person in marriage opens to the gift of a new life, a new human being, who is also a person in the likeness of his [...]
Pro-Life Academy. Embryogenesis
Posted in Pro-Life Academy, tagged Embryo on March 9, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Quite a few people have asked if we could use the book EMBRYO: A Defense of Human Life, by Robert P. George and Christopher Tollefsen, for our Pro-Life Academy. Beginning March 16, (NEXT TUESDAY!!) we’ll discuss a chapter per week from this extraordinary book. Written in plain language, it gives an excellent biological description of [...]
Pro-Life Academy. Embryogenesis
Posted in Pro-Life Academy on March 2, 2010 | 11 Comments »
Pro-Life Academy every Tuesday and Thursday. Two weeks from today we are going to turn our focus on the embryo toward the book EMBRYO: A Defense of Human Life, by Robert P. George and Christopher Tollefsen. Check it out at Amazon. Order soon! In the interim, I direct your attention to the Endowment for Human [...]
Pro-Life Academy. The Dignity of Women (II)
Posted in Pro-Life Academy, tagged John Paul II, Mulieris Dignitatem on March 2, 2010 | 7 Comments »
In the great struggle between the Culture of Death and the Culture of Life, a propaganda war against the Church and her view of women has been waged with great success in many quarters. Several lies have become the food of feminists, a grotesque bread of life for their disciples to feed upon. This is [...]
By Popular Demand
Posted in Pro-Life Academy, tagged Embryo, Pro-Life Academy on February 27, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Quite a few people have asked if we could use the book EMBRYO: A Defense of Human Life, by Robert P. George and Christopher Tollefsen, for our Pro-Life Academy. Beginning March 16, we’ll discuss a chapter per week from this extraordinary book. Written in plain language, it gives an excellent biological description of development, as [...]
Pro-Life Academy. Breast Cancer/Abortion/Oral Contraceptive Link (II)
Posted in Pro-Life Academy, tagged Abortion, Breast Cancer, Delay Childbirth, Oral Contraceptives on February 25, 2010 | 13 Comments »
If you missed Part I last week, read it here. In the past lesson we saw that the hormones estrogen and progesterone are responsible for normal breast development in an adolescent girl’s menstrual cycles. Birth control pills have extremely high levels of these hormones which mimic the elevated levels of the hormones during pregnancy. In [...]
Pro-Life Academy. The Dignity of Women (I)
Posted in Pro-Life Academy, tagged Dignity of Women, Mulieris Dignitatem, Pope John Paul II on February 25, 2010 | 15 Comments »
In the great struggle between the Culture of Death and the Culture of Life, a propaganda war against the Church and her view of women has been waged with great success in many quarters. Several lies have become the food of feminists, a grotesque bread of life for their disciples to feed upon. Chief among [...]
Pro-Life Academy. Breast Cancer/Abortion/Oral Contraceptive Link (I)
Posted in Breast Cancer, Pro-Life Academy, tagged Abortion, Breast Cancer, Oral Contraceptives on February 18, 2010 | 7 Comments »
Pro-Life Academy every Tuesday and Thursday. Today we begin a new track. Breast Cancer will be dealt with on Thursdays, while our ongoing embryology lessons will continue on Tuesdays. There exists in the peer-reviewed scientific literature a significant body of literature dating to the 1950′s, which shows a clear and consistent link between abortion and [...]
