Thursday, August 13, 2015

Is Atheism Dead? And The Prager Project


One of the more fascinating op-eds appearing in the Wall Street Journal (12/25/2014) argued that science offers virtually ironclad proof that God exists. Here is that article, written by Eric Metaxas, and his companion You Tube video making the same points.

The video is part of an ongoing series of educational efforts produced by Dennis Prager. He calls his project Prager University and it features distinguished thinkers presenting their viewpoints on contentious topics. I've listed some of the more interesting of these below.

Greenpeace founder Patrick Moore discusses the pernicious effects of attacks on the genetically modified food industry -  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSten18rI9A
and the silliness of "climate change" hysterics - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkdbSxyXftc

Was Truman right to go nuclear against Japan? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmIBbcxseXM

How the Democrats lost the Vietnam War - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hqYGHZCJwk

Bret Stephens warns of the grave consequences of an American retreat from its role as the world's policeman - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=176KRhEAgUs

The crypto-racism of the left - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VBAEJlR4pk

Christina Hoff Sommers debunks the fable of the gender wage disparity - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oqyrflOQFc

The destructiveness of the minimum wage - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4j01L69eXdI

The (not so) Dark Ages - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cqzq01i2O3U

Why is Modern Art so bad? -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNI07egoefc

Amity Schlaes on one of the most successful presidents of the 20th century, Calvin Coolidge - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=661TPEvCCTU

Speaking of Coolidge - Long before anyone had ever heard of Arthur Laffer, Coolidge's Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon understood that lower tax rates could actually result in higher revenues. The Coolidge administration put this theory into practice and proved it to be true. Here is an explanation of how The Laffer Curve works - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqLjyA0hL1s

The truth about Hoover and the Great Depression -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfeHWnaK7rY

George Gilder on Why Capitalism Works - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6adVQrSUAc
and What Creates Wealth - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=661TPEvCCTU and he asks Do You Pass The Israel Test? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfN2IvnIA4M

Alan Dershowitz on Israel's right to exist - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12KJa4a0d64 and on the effect of Jewish West Bank settlements on peace efforts - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhbCtAz_BQc

Jonah Goldberg dissects and dismembers the concept of "Social Justice" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtBvQj2k6xo

Regarding taxes - how much is a "fair share"? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnEe4oaSC88

The Progressive Income Tax (A real life tale) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6HEH23W_bM

Arthur Brooks dispels myths of capitalism - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_7Jv2oh9s4

Prager explains the Sixth Commandment - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RENPaY043o

Prager has also made a video denouncing the Iran nuclear deal - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4FkNbtkgps.
It's good considering its brevity, but there are better, more detailed denunciations available, for example -
This and this from Charles Krauthammer. This from Andrew McCarthy. And this from Victor Davis Hanson.

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