The Toxic War on Masculinity | with Nancy Pearcey – Part 1

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Podcast: Play in new window Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Android | iHeartRadio | Email | TuneIn | RSS Is masculinity a bad thing? In popular culture, it seems that it has become socially acceptable to attack men simply for being men! The media has even gone as far as categorizing all forms of male headship and authority in the home as oppressive, tyrannical, and patriarchal. Has the Church contributed to the demonization of all things masculine? And if so, what can we do to stop it? In this week’s podcast, Christian apologist, scholar, and author, Nancy Pearcey joins Frank to discuss her upcoming and unexpectedly controversial book, The Toxic War on Masculinity: How Christianity Reconciles the Sexes, which focuses largely on the origin of “toxic masculinity” as a concept. Frank and Nancy…
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Fossil Friday: To Be or Not to Be Homo

African apes, Australopithecines, bone fragments, bones, butchering sites, Darwinian, evolutionists, Fossil Friday, fossil record, handy man, hominin fossils, Homo ergaster, Homo habilis, human oirgins, Human Origins, humans, Louis Leakey, Lucy, missing link, nomadic tribes, Olduvai Gorge, paleoanthropologists, paleontology, rock circles, stone tools, Tanzania, wastebasket taxon
The fossil hominin Homo habilis was described 1964 by Louis Leakey and his colleagues from the 1.9 million year old Olduvai Gorge locality in Tanzania. Source
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Blood Viscosity and Freezing Temperatures — A Titanic Problem

Antarctic icefish, antifreeze protein, BIO-Complexity, biology, blood, blood viscosity, capillaries, Channichthydiae, fish, freezing, glycoprotein, Gregory Sloop, heart, hemoglobin, hemoglobinless blood, human blood, icefish, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, marine biology, Montana, oxygen, physicians, Southern Ocean, temperatures, Titanic, vasculature
Blood viscosity is the technical reason why Jack froze in less than 23 minutes, but icefish can survive for 15 years in water of a freezing temperature. Source
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What Does It Really Mean to Be WOKE? | with Seth Dillon of The Babylon Bee

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Podcast: Play in new window Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Android | iHeartRadio | Email | TuneIn | RSS What does it mean to be “woke”? This word is being used almost everywhere in our culture today by every side of the political and cultural debate.  But have you ever stopped to define what it really means? In this midweek podcast episode, Seth Dillon, CEO of The Babylon Bee, returns to discuss this sinister and destructive ideology and how the movement has personally impacted the popular Christian satirical platform. Seth also shares how Elon Musk is trying to turn the tide with Twitter when it comes to the current trend of heightened censorship on social media, and explains that when it comes to making jokes, sometimes the truth is stranger than…
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Researchers: Neanderthals Invented Process to Produce Birch Tar

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The tar can be used for glue, bug repellent, and killing germs. This finding tracks growing recognition of Neanderthals as intelligent. Source
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What Do We Know about the Origin of Rhinos?

African elephant, African savanna, biology, Ceratotherium simum, DNA, Donald R. Prothero, Evolution, fossil record, Intelligent Design, Microevolution, mutations, Niles Eldredge, rhinoceroses, Rhinocerotidae, rhinocerotids, Rhinocerotoidea, Stephen Jay Gould, superfamily, Teletaceras, Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
Although they are not the handsomest or most graceful creatures in the animal kingdom, the Rhinocerotoidea (superfamily) are a fascinating group for research. Source
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