How our sun and atmosphere show evidence of being Intelligently-designed (3 minutes)
A different take on pro-abortion bully Jordan Hunter
When Jordan Hunter kicked pro-life protester Marie-Claire Bissonnette on a street in Toronto, video of his attack went viral. That viral video led to Hunter losing his job, and to the police pressing charges. Both results were unusual – though violence and destruction of property are regularly committed against pro-lifers, it’s probably more common that pro-lifers are arrested by the police than the police arrest someone for attacking pro-lifers. It felt good to be on the winning side for once. But one commentator questioned whether the pro-life camp came out looking good.
On a related note, even as this was all about the unborn – Hunter kicked Bissonnette for speaking up for the unborn and the unborn were the reason Bissonnette was out there protesting – what got lost in the news coverage was the unborn themselves. The press presented this as being about the principles of freedom of speech, and peaceful protest. Jordan Hunter was certainly attacking those principles, but those principles don’t need defending like the unborn do. So, when attention comes our way, how can pro-lifers direct the media spotlight towards the unborn? Most importantly, we have to stick to our own talking points, about the humanity of the unborn, no matter where a reporter might want to take us. The media wants to do something on freedom of speech? We talk about how important it is that we be free to tell the country about the humanity of the unborn. They want to talk about peaceful protest? We talk about how it isn’t our own peace we most want to ensure, but peace for the unborn. Of course, sticking to our message is no guarantee that the unborn’s humanity will make it to the nightly news – we can’t control reporters – but by ensuring all our answers are about the unborn (even as the media tries to take us in other directions) we can make it more likely the media will pass along at least some Truth about the unborn.
A warning for parents: Instagram is full of porn
Reformed commentator Jonathan Van Maren shares a secular magazine’s warning about Instagram, and then shares a helpful resource – Social Media and Teens: The Ultimate Guide to Keeping Kids Safe Online – that parents may appreciate.
The deadly Canadian M.A.I.D
Three Canadians doctors are promoting the idea of euthanasia for children without their parents’ permission. That’s where you end up when life is no longer understood as intrinsically valuable.
Man wins women’s cycling race
A man who says he is a woman just won a women’s cycling race. How is that fair? The transgender winner argued that because he’s lost to the women he was competing against more times than he’s beat them, that makes it fair. That might make it competitive in much the same way that if a 40-something-year-old on foot raced his 8-year-old daughter on her bike, it might be close for the first 50 meters or so. But that doesn’t make it any less a matter of apples competing against oranges.
What was the sin of Sodom and Gomorrah?
Some are arguing it wasn’t homosexuality but was really about inhospitality or rape. Koukl shows how an honest look at the text says otherwise. (5 minutes)
