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Scientists are beginning to debate the necessity of giving robots rights. Denying the existence of a God in whose image man is made requires scientists to admit that consciousness is a result of completely material processes. Therefore, just as humans have rights because they are conscious beings, so…

Jerry Coyne, author of Why Evolution Is True, made a startling admission in a 2006 review of several evolution-promoting books. He acknowledged that belief in evolution “hasn’t yielded many practical or commercial benefits.” Janie B. Cheaney cites that admission and then states, “Nobody ever explains…

A small study conducted by Johns Hopkins Medicine suggests that waking up several times during the night may be worse for your mood the next day than sleeping less than usual. Researchers found that the group whose sleep was interrupted had a 31 percent reduction in positive mood the following day, when…

A study published in the journal, Computers in Human Behavior says watching videos of cats on the Internet has a positive effect on people. The researchers studied 7,000 people via social media about viewing the videos and how it affects their mood. 36% of participants described themselves as a “cat…

Toxic workers may be tolerated by their managers if they are high-performers, but they tend to make life difficult for everyone. One study showed that they create larger than normal turnover when their fellow employees leave, which generates increased training costs for the company. --Jim L. Wilson and…

Audrey Hepburn said, “You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.” We should work to continually hold one another in honor. -- Jim L. Wilson and Rodger Russell http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturepicturegalleries/11580796/Audrey-Hepburn-19-of-her-most-inspirational-quotes.html?frame=3290425…

In 2014, the National Human Trafficking Resource Center hotline received reports of 5,042 potential human trafficking cases. Almost one-third of the cases involved minors. The department of justice believes about 300,000 children in the United States are trafficking victims. Shannon Forsythe is the founder…

It just looked like a mutt wandering the streets. Further research found that it was a rare South African Mastiff stolen from his yard in Beaverdam, Virginia. What looked like a lonely mutt was actually a pure bred dog worth over $10,000. His owner was ecstatic to get him back. —Jim L. Wilson and Rodger…

An 81-year-old Michigan man recently discovered a son he didn’t know he had. In 1959 Tony Trapani’s ex-lover sent him a letter to inform him he had a son in Pennsylvania, but he never received the letter. His wife intercepted the letter and hid it from him for more than 50 years. When she died in 2014,…

Published November 06, 2013 FoxNews.com The human knee has more components than previously thought. Two Belgian knee surgeons have discovered a previously unknown ligament located in the muscles and tendons of the human knee – a part they have named the anterolateral ligament (ALL). According to the…

Author G. K. Chesterson wrote, “All theology has two simple principles: that we matter and that everyone else matters.” That restates the Apostle Paul’s instruction that we are to regard others as more important than ourselves. In this day of Black Lives Matter, white lives matter, or all lives matter,…

Researcher published a report suggesting that a person’s “likes” on Facebook may provide an accurate glimpse at someone’s personality. Researchers from the University of Cambridge’s Psychometrics Center administered an online survey and used a computer to analyze a person’s “likes.” The results were…

“Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating.” Ben Stein, quoted in FoxBusiness.com While Mr. Stein may be correct about it being a part of our animal nature, the Word of God calls us to rise above the animal nature to the image of God in which we…

One of the greatest trusts in the world is the gift of Children. God entrusts mothers and Fathers both with innocent human life. It is more than tragic when we fail to keep that trust. Megan Huntsman faces six counts of murder after admitting to strangling or suffocating at least that many of her own…

In speaking of the need for salvation, award winning author Steven James makes an interesting statement. “If I believe our world is a pretty good place and we are pretty good people, then we just need a Savior to get us over the hump. But we believe and confess that we are desperately fallen people in…

In the movie The Help, Aibileen was one of “the help” herself. She says she raised 17 children amidst the racial injustices of the early 1960s and absentee moms of the day. She was those children’s caregiver--she changed their diapers, nursed their hurts and taught them important life lessons. In a few…

According to Janie B. Cheaney, writing in World Magazine, atheism is more than rejecting God, it usually means despising people. The late Christopher Hitchens for example said, “My own view is that this planet is used as a penal colony, lunatic asylum and dumping ground by a superior civilization, to…

In The Divine Commodity: Discovering a Faith Beyond Consumer Christianity, Skye Jethani writes, “But the idea of community always appears more beautiful than the reality. Real people are difficult, and real arguments erupt. This is the dilemma of community — we desire it, we need it, but we seem ill…

Published July 05, 2011 | Popular Science Call it a twist on the study of gut bacteria. Scientists sampling DNA strains from the navels of volunteer donors have found 662 microbes that are apparently new to science, showing that the human navel is apparently a ripe environment for bacteria. The Belly…

By Dr. Keith Ablow Published March 22, 2011 | FoxNews.com The newly-released movie “Limitless” starring Bradley Cooper, Robert De Niro and Abbie Cornish revolves around a struggling writer who is offered a newly-minted medication called NZT that allows him to access 100 percent of his brain’s potential,…

In Margin: Restoring Emotional, Physical, Financial, and Time Reserves to Overloaded Lives, Richard Swenson writes: “We need to develop a new depreciation of things and a new appreciation of people. Things are to be used, and people are to be served.” --Margin, Kindle Loc. 1394 Illustration by Jim L.…

In Margin: Restoring Emotional, Physical, Financial, and Time Reserves to Overloaded Lives, Richard Swenson writes: “Boundaries are about establishing a perimeter around the personal and private spaces of our lives and not letting the world come crashing in uninvited. This is not an issue of selfishness…

Bureaucrats have discovered the underlying question about the value of human life is politically and emotionally charged. For years, the government has used the term, “value of a statistical life.” The so-called price tag became a political hot potato in 2002 when the government reduced the value of…

HUMANITY In a recent Reader’s Digest Article, J. Alex Tarquinio writes, “Behind lab doors, scientists are working to end aging, disease, and pain. But are we changing what it means to be human?” —Reader’s Digest, Nov 2002, p. 100 Illustration by Jim L. Wilson What does it mean to be human? Some would…

POTENTIAL In "Star Trek: Nemesis", Captain Jean-Luc Picard is speaking with the holographic image of Praetor Shinzon of Remus, his own clone. Captain Picard is literally to face to face with himself. Picard urges Shinzon to turn away from his plans to destroy all life on Earth. Despite the years of abuse…