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Naturalism of the Gaps: Why Unproven Materialism is Often Mistaken for Science
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- By Charles Creager, Jr.
We’ve all heard of the 'God of the Gaps,' but there is a far more pervasive silent player in modern academia. Here, we dissect how unproven materialism masquerades as objective science to bridge massive voids in empirical data. It is time to look behind the curtain at the philosophical commitments that treat gaps in our knowledge as evidence for a physicalist reality.
Think science is always based on hard evidence? What if some of our most 'scientific' theories are actually powered by blind faith? Today, we are exposing the 'Naturalism of the Gaps' logical sleight of hand that replaces missing data with materialist assumptions. Is your worldview built on facts, or just a secular mirror of the very dogmas it claims to reject?
The Ukrainian Drone Attacks on Wildberries
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- By Mike Scruggs
The Magyar Bird Strategy to Weaken Russian E-Commerce
Wildberries is the largest Russian online retailer, comparable in business strategy and operations to Amazon.com. Estimated revenues in 2025 were at least $15 billion, accounting for more than 40% of Russian online retail sales. Wildberries fills 7 million orders per day. Its founder and CEO is Tatyana Kim, mother of 7 children, whose net worth is now estimated at 8.1billion.
Kim was born in 1975 in Grozny, Chechnya, USSR. She is of Korean descent. She met and married Vladislav Bakalchuk around 2001. She conceptualized and tested the idea of Wildberries, starting with selling used clothes, while she was on pregnancy leave as an English teacher. Following the birth of their first child in 2004, she launched Wildberries without any capital. Bakalchuk, however, a talented engineer and entrepreneur, sold his internet service company, Utech for $7.5 million. By 2006, increasing success and expanded sales lines, inventory, and logistical advantages resulted in moving Wildberries’ headquarters to Moscow. By 2022, Wildberries was the largest E-store in Russia, also doing considerable international business. In 2026, the company uses all the advanced AI, robotic, automation, and safety equipment available to it. The company is under U.S. sanctions. This has not stopped Wolfberries’ phenomenal growth. Wildberries’s revenue increased 98% in 2025 and is forecast to grow 35-40% in 2026 and 2027.
Turkish Naval Force Deploys in Eastern Mediterranean
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- By Mike Scruggs
Alarming Indication of Possible Cross-Purposes with NATO
Outside of U.S. forces, Türkiye has the largest and most powerful armed forces in Europe and West Asia. By approximately July 17, the Turkish Navy had deployed 14 capital ships between Cyprus and three major Turkish Navy bases on its Aegean and Mediterranean coasts, probably Aksaz, Foca-Izmir, and Iskenderun. This might be only a training exercise, but it could also be a strong statement of changing Turkish alignments.
Moreover, Cyprus has been the scene of ongoing ethnic conflicts and tensions between Greek and Turkish Cypriots and Greece and Türkiye since 1955. Cyprus gained its independence from the United Kingdom in August 1960. The island of Cyprus is about 75% Greek Christian and 25% Turkish Muslim. In 1974, reacting to a Greek Cypriot nationalist and Greek military coup that would have made Cyprus part of Greece, a Turkish invasion effectively divided Cyprus into an autonomous northern Turkish government and the southern Republic of Cyprus. About 200,000 people were displaced. The population of the southern Republic is currently about 923,000. The northern Turkish state has a population of 383,000 The northern Federated State of Cyprus declared its independence in 1983. This is recognized only by Türkiye, although it should be acknowledged that the Northern Turkish Muslims would be terribly unhappy to be a minority in a predominantly Greek Christian republic.
Are All Mutations Truly Random?
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- By Charles Creager, Jr.
One of the most powerful arguments against universal common descent evolution is the randomness of mutations. The counter argument is that mutations are not truly random because in some cases natural selection keeps them from being truly random. However, this presupposes that Natural Selection is powerful enough to overcome the randomness of mutations. There is no question that there is a tendency for mutations to be random to some degree. The primary question before us is; are all mutations truly random?
Defining "Random": Statistical vs. Biological Meanings
Before diving into biology, it is crucial to establish what science means by "random." While mutations may be unpredictable regarding where and when they will occur and the exact nature of the mutation, they are not mathematically or physically uniform in distribution across the genome. There are factors that prevent them from being random in the sense of being evenly distributed, but they are still clearly random in how, where and when one will occur. They are just unevenly distributed throughout the genome.
The Republic of Türkiye and the Iran War
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- By Mike Scruggs
West Asia’s and Europe’s Most Formidable Military Power
In 2022, at the request of the Turkish government, the United Nations changed the English spelling of Turkey to Türkiye. This was to reflect the actual native pronunciation and avoid any inappropriate association with the large American bird. English does not have an umlauted ü as German does, so perhaps English speakers can be excused for spelling it Turkiye.
The vast majority of Turkiye’s territory, approximately 97%, lies in West Asia. The West Asian part or eastern part of Turkiye is historically known as Anatolia, which includes 85% of the population. The smaller 3% of western Turkiye lies in Europe in a region called East Thrace, bordering Greece and Bulgaria. The European portion of Turkiye includes part of Turkiye’s largest city, Istanbul, and thus a disproportionate part of the Turkish population at 15%. The Dardanelles Strait (also known as the Gallipoli Strait) leading from the Mediterranean Sea and the Aegean Sea to the Sea of Marmara, and the Bosporus Strait leading to the Black Sea are the border between Europe and Asia. A part of Istanbul lies across the Bosporus in Europe.
The Common Evolutionist Attack that Creationists Are Just Saying “God Did It.”
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- By Charles Creager, Jr.
A common attack by evolutionists against creationists is that they are just saying “God did it.” This is a straw man, simply because creationists are saying a lot more of than that God did it. If you bothered to read not just creationists material but the Bible itself, you would see actual processes describe and not just the broad statement that “God did it.” Now ultimately; God did indeed do the creating but claiming that Creationists are just saying “God did it” is at best an oversimplification. It would be like saying that evolutionists are just saying “natural processes did it.” Neither of these is an accurate representation of the position.
American Independence and the Battle of Cowpens
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- By Mike Scruggs
Also Reviewing the Battles of Kings Mountain and Guilford Courthouse
I am writing this on July 4, 2026, the Birthday of the Declaration of American Independence. I have always been a strong supporter of the tremendously important principles of the Declaration of Independence and an admirer of Thomas Jefferson and his other writings, political ideas, immense intellect, and character. One of my great-great grandfathers on my mother’s side was named Thomas Jefferson Bradsher. Folks back then frequently revealed their own principles and sometimes politics by the names they gave their children. At least two of my ancestors on my father’s side are recorded as having served the American cause at the Battle of Cowpens in South Carolina on January 17, 1781.
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