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Saturday Selections – July 15, 2023

Dr. Van Dam talking creation with ICR (41 min)

Reformed Perspective contributor, author, and professor Dr. Cornelis Van Dam recently did a guest appearance on the Institute for Creation Research’s In the Beginning podcast.

Wildfires got you worried about a coming climate apocalypse? (10-min read)

Then the first graph in this article will be encouraging!

MrBeast video shows the self-serving nature of democracy when it is unrestrained by Christianity

George W. Bush tried to export democracy to the Middle East, seemingly seeing it as a good all in itself. But Christians need to understand that democracy only worked as well as it has because it’s been tried in countries that were largely Christian. A godless mob will elect godless rule.

Comparing COVID-era deaths across countries

While I’ve forgotten a lot of the “Science” presented during COVID, one thing that’s stuck was the many predictions of how terribly Sweden would do, since it wasn’t locking down like the rest of the world.

Now the BBC is reporting on “average death rates from March 2020 to February 2023 compared with the five years before.” The table below doesn’t count deaths attributed specifically to COVID, but instead compares all the deaths in a year to the rate at which death was happening the five years before. And by that measure Sweden did spectacularly, and better than all but one of the ten countries considered. It is, of course, an apples to oranges comparison as no two countries have the same demographics, living arrangements, and lifestyles. But it is still the very opposite of what was predicted.

WWII German pro-euthanasia film was banned then; might have won an Oscar today

“Those who advance euthanasia and doctor-assisted suicide laws… should have to demonstrate just how their arguments differ from Nazi propaganda. If they cannot or will not, it is more evidence that this movement, expanding rapidly around the world, should be stopped.”

Roe vs. Wade: one year later

Great satiric video showing what pro-choicers are really saying, if only we remove the varnish.

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Saturday Selections – July 8, 2023

Prove it

David Crowder, a little more up-tempo than usual… and now with monster trucks!

What were the “waters above”?

Four creationist possibilities are on offer here.

Dutch king’s slavery apology falls short

The King of the Netherlands recently offered an apology for his country’s role in the slave trade. But “for an apology to be any good, it must be accompanied by sincere efforts at restitution, as well as the resolve to not offend again.” The former is practically impossible, but the latter is quite do-able. However the Dutch continue victimizing Africans by funding the murder of their unborn citizens.

An open secret: social contagion is driving the astronomic rise in teen gender dysphoria (10-min read)

The explosion of gender confusion shows it this is a social contagion – it can be caught. But that’s an inconvenient fact to those busy spreading the contagion

Organ donations and “presumed consent”

“In a spiraling culture of death, Canadian jurisdictions disregard bodily autonomy by opting in residents by default.”

These beetles are da bomb!

A former evolutionary professor Dr. Jobe Martin, explores a bug that makes chemicals that explode! How did it evolve this ability when an error could blow itself up?