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Your Inner Fish – Neil Shubin

A Journey into the 3.5 Billion History of the Human Body My post of Jan.14, 2008 is an excerpt from the final chapter and it was this passage that whetted my appetite to read the entire book. ...

A Visit from the Vatican

Like most bloggers I have a program that tracks visits to the View and, like most bloggers, I like to see where the hits come from. Usually, I do a fast run-down once a day looking for anything of...

Sharia Banking – Again

As a follow-up to one of the most popular posts ever on The View, here is an op/ed item from today's Globe and Mail. Banks are helping sharia make a back-door entrance TAREK FATAH Special to...

Dutch Cabinet Decides Against General Burqa Ban

The Dutch cabinet has decided against a general ban on burqas, clothing that covers the whole face except for the eyes. The cabinet argues that a general ban would violate the constitutionally...

A Crisis in the Netherlands

The government of the Netherlands is worried. Leader of the right-wing Freedom Party, Geert Wilders says he will release a ten minute anti-Qur’an film at the end of this month. Mr. Wilders...

Getting In Touch with Your Inner Fish

This lengthy article, which I shamelessly lifted from the University of Chicago Magazine, presents the best refutation of Intelligent Design that I have seen. Adapted from Your Inner Fish by Neil...

The Call to Prayer in Britain

The Anglican Bishop of Rochester (UK), Rt. Rev. Michael Nazir-Ali has created considerable notoriety claiming that there are areas across Britain where it is too dangerous for non-Muslims to enter....

Possessed by demons? Satan got ya? Who ya gonna call?

Well, you might start with your local Catholic church. The Vatican has recently ordered bishops to form teams of priests in each diocese trained to fight demonic possession. However, it has not...

Possessed by demons? Satan got ya? Who ya gonna call?

Well, you might start with your local Catholic church. The Vatican has recently ordered bishops to form teams of priests in each diocese trained to fight demonic possession. However, it has not...

The Islamist War on Muslim Women

While I normally much prefer to post original material to The View from Here, I feel strongly that the following op/ed piece from The Boston Globe deserves a much wider audience than it may be...

On Trial – Freedom of Speech in Canada

Canadian Muslims are using Canada’s democratic principles to further their own non-democratic agenda. Responding to complaints by the Canadian Islamic Congress (CIC), the Canadian Human Rights...

Karma and Other Nonsense

The inevitability of death, as well as the possibility that there is no afterlife, are difficult pills for most of us to swallow. As a result, we look for evidence, no matter how unsubstantiated,...

Karma and Other Nonsense

The inevitability of death, as well as the possibility that there is no afterlife, are difficult pills for most of us to swallow. As a result, we look for evidence, no matter how unsubstantiated,...

The Deadly Face of Muslim Extremism

Two courageous Muslims who have it right. Let's hope this serves as a wake-up call to the danger in our midst. Tarek Fatah and Farzana Hassan, National Post Wednesday, December 12, 2007 The tragic...

The New Atheists

If you’re a reader of books, and likely even if you’re not, the term “New Atheists” immediately brings to mind four names, that of Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Dan Dennett and Christopher Hitchens....