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Saturday Selections – October 17, 2020

What color is the balloon? (2 min)

“The funny things about truth is, it’s true…whether you believe it or not.”

Teens did surprisingly well in the COVID lockdown (10-minute read)

Many adults have struggled during the COVID lockdown, whether because of job loss, or fears of death. Surprisingly teens’s mental health has seen improvement over this same period. But why?

“More sleep and family time – and less social media – may have made the difference.”

Life on Venus? Why “settled science” is so often hot air.

It’s in the interests of the media, and scientists, to hype up their findings.

Car seats as contraceptives?

By one estimate, US child safety seats save 60 children a year. Some economists are arguing they may also lead to 8,000 fewer births a year.

How so? Only two of these seats fit in a car, so for parents to have a third child they’ll need a new, bigger vehicle, raising the cost of that third child considerably. That might force some families to delay growing their family, and those delays can lead to smaller families over all. As the article author writes:

“The point of this is not to launch a campaign to do away with child safety. It is to remind us that laws made with the best of intentions have unexpected consequences. Legislators need to bear this in mind when they impose restrictions which are simply ‘common sense.’ This has an obvious application to the Covid-19 lockdowns.”

A psalm for every day

When Lindsey Tollesfson was 8 weeks pregnant, the doctor gave her a devastating diagnosis for her unborn son.

“A verse kept ringing through my head: ‘Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds’ (James 1:2). How could I count it joy that my doctor told me my son would soon die? James wasn’t just saying ‘rejoice despite your trial’; he was saying ‘rejoice because of your trial.’ Where could I turn to help me obey this command from the heart? I turned to the Psalms for comfort and wisdom, and I invite all who are walking through difficult circumstances to do the same…”

Good news you probably haven’t heard (5 min)

It might not seem like it, but even this year there are positive global trends making life better in dramatic ways. While the video below is a secular presentation that credits the Englightenment for the progress being made, these improvements are a fruit of biblical principles like property rights and the free market, freedom of speech, stewardship, recognition of the Imago Dei, and doing to others as we would want done to us.

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3.5 billion miles of DNA in just little ol' you (6 min) We each have enough linear length of DNA in us to stretch to the sun and back again more than 18 times. Wow! Evolution examples are just examples of world's brokeness... Christians sometimes think that because evolutionists believe in natural selection, we shouldn't. The truth is, creationists also hold to natural selection, but what we don't hold to is the idea that mutation + natural selection = the path up from molecules to man. In the examples examined here we see instance after instance of a mutation that, while helping the creature in some fashion, is actually a loss of function. This might start a road from man down to molecules but could never explain the upward trend. How to love the co-worker you just can't stand C.S. Lewis has some helpful advice... Social isolation is damaging a generation of children Titles are often overwrought and that is the case here too, but were we to rephrase this as a question it would be well worth considering, is social isolation damaging a generation of children? Dutch euthanasia doctor warns the British against...euthanasia Dutch doctor Bert Keizer was euthanizing patients 20 years before it was legal. Now he's warning Britain about the slippery slope that comes with legalized euthanasia. Tim Challies on the problem with "love languages" (3 min) ...


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