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		<title>Watch out, Satan&#8217;s coming</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How much do you think Rick Santorum&#8217;s comments about Satan will hurt his candidacy? Somewhere around 62 percent of Americans believe in the devil, according to this article. (It&#8217;s an old article. The numbers may not be exactly right any more, but it&#8217;s probably close.) But I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s the big issue. I think [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nothing from nothing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Various versions of (and confusions about) the cosmological argument have come up here and there recently, so I thought I would opine on the topic for a bit. Very broadly, there are two versions of the &#8220;first cause&#8221; argument. The more common argument we hear today is the &#8220;who knocked over the first domino&#8221; version. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://crowhill.net/blog/2012/02/nothing-from-nothing/</link>
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		<title>Two good political articles &#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; and two good articles on climate change. I enjoyed both of these. Sex, Lies and Rick Santorum &#8212; The politics of the double standard on social issues Goldberg: Mr. Right eludes the GOP Then there&#8217;s these, which are also very good. No Need to Panic About Global Warming And the follow-up &#8230; Concerned Scientists [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://crowhill.net/blog/2012/02/two-good-political-articles/</link>
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		<title>A Santorum bumper sticker</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I thought of this today as I was listening to some political commentary on the Republican primaries. Santorum: All the right people hate him I&#8217;m not endorsing Santorum or anything, I just think that would be an appropriate slogan for his campaign.]]></description>
		<link>http://crowhill.net/blog/2012/02/a-santorum-bumper-sticker/</link>
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		<title>Those rock and roll guys aren&#8217;t so stupid after all</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s been this rumor going around that the contract Van Halen used for all the venues where they were going to play required that they be provided a bowl of M and Ms &#8212; with all the brown ones removed. Of course that sounds like what we expect from prissy, demanding, spoiled stars. They just [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://crowhill.net/blog/2012/02/those-rock-and-roll-guys-arent-so-stupid-after-all/</link>
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		<title>Neutered and on a leash</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I got to Pep Boys just as they were opening the door. Several people had been standing outside waiting for them to open, and they took their places in the service line. I think I was 4th. The guy in front of me got a call from his wife. She grilled him for several minutes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://crowhill.net/blog/2012/02/neutered-and-on-a-leash/</link>
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		<title>The contraception conspiracy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some people are wondering &#8230; does George Stephanopoulos have a crystal ball? A friend sent me this. (The following conversation is edited slightly.) The country has had an economic crisis, growth problems, debt, the deficit, &#8230; two wars, terrorism, a belligerent and soon to be nuclear Iran, huge oil and gas discoveries in the USA [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://crowhill.net/blog/2012/02/the-contraception-conspiracy/</link>
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		<title>The real &#8220;Climategate.&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[But I don&#8217;t suppose you&#8217;ll hear about this one on Fox, huh?]]></description>
		<link>http://crowhill.net/blog/2012/02/the-real-climategate/</link>
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		<title>Maybe random mutation isn&#8217;t the sole engine of evolution after all</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you listen to the rhetoric on the so-called &#8220;science blogs,&#8221; you&#8217;re a heretic, a creationist and a moron if you so much as question the idea that random mutation provides sufficient material for natural selection to bring about the kind of evolutionary changes we see in the fossil record. (At least that&#8217;s how it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://crowhill.net/blog/2012/02/maybe-random-mutation-isnt-the-engine-of-evolution-after-all/</link>
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		<title>I doubt in order to understand?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the debate between Christopher Hitchens and William Lane Craig on the existence of God, Hitchens said doubt is the fuel behind all inquiry. Is that really true? St. Anselm of Canterbury would disagree. He said &#8230; For I do not seek to understand that I may believe, but I believe in order to understand. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://crowhill.net/blog/2012/02/i-doubt-in-order-to-understand/</link>
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		<title>Midichlorians rule after all</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By cell count, you&#8217;re only 1/10th human. At best. Humans Carry More Bacterial Cells than Human Ones: You are more bacteria than you are you, according to the latest body census (Don&#8217;t worry too much. By volume you&#8217;re mostly human.) Furthermore, these bacteria may drive evolution. These studies are part of a growing consensus among [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://crowhill.net/blog/2012/02/midichlorians-rule-after-all/</link>
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		<title>The upper middle brow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s what a former colleague used to call people who were intelligent, but not as intelligent as they thought they were. I thought of that when I read this today. The difference between the mid-wit and the genuinely intelligent is usually fairly easy to identify. The mid-witted individual tends to compare himself to those below [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://crowhill.net/blog/2012/02/the-upper-middle-brow/</link>
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		<title>I am so sick of the intolerant left</title>
		<description><![CDATA[But I think Buchanan is wrong to protest his ouster from MSNBC. It&#8217;s hard to imagine where he could go that wouldn&#8217;t be a step up.]]></description>
		<link>http://crowhill.net/blog/2012/02/i-am-so-sick-of-the-intolerant-left/</link>
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		<title>Accusing yourself</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have often thought of writing a book on the theme &#8220;why you should believe in God even if he doesn&#8217;t exist.&#8221; I&#8217;m convinced there are lots of benefits to religious belief that go beyond better marriages and sex lives, longer life expectancy, and the sorts of things the sociologists measure. One of them is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://crowhill.net/blog/2012/02/accusing-yourself/</link>
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		<title>Is secularism even possible?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s an article that goes with a theme I&#8217;ve mentioned here a few times &#8212; that religion is inevitable and true secularism can never and will never work. The Separation of Church and State is Impossible A simple summary of the point of the article might be that you can&#8217;t draw a bright line between [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://crowhill.net/blog/2012/02/is-secularism-even-possible/</link>
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