If pro-abortionists want to commit intellectual suicide and deny scientific facts, that's their problem. But there's no reason a civilized society should fund their anti-scientific outlook - or accept its inhumane consequences.

All of science is largely formalized common sense.

Indigenous people have discovered that Christianity is not inherently Western but universal - 'translatable' into any cultural idiom.

To be intellectual does not require one to be alienated and oppositional.

In every historical period, the religious groups that grow most rapidly are those that set believers at odds with the surrounding culture.

The whole point of building theoretical systems is to explain what humans know by pre-theoretical experience. That is the starting point for any philosophy. That is the data it seeks to explain. If it fails to explain the data of experience, then it has failed the test. It has been falsified.

To use biblical language, those who exchange the glory of God for something in creation will also exchange the image of God for something in creation - and because it is something less than God, it always leads to a lower view of humanity.