EVIEMAGAZINE.COM -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: In honour of International Men's Day 2019.] ARTICLE: If it's wrong to like strong, manly, powerful men, I don't want to be right! Men operate in a completely different way than women do, and that's a good thing. Men don't need to become more like women in order to have successful relationships. In fact, regardless of what modern feminists say, we wouldn't want them to. We want men to be men: protective, loyal, quick to take action, and willing to lead. We want them to be our rock, the shoulder we cry on, the mountain we stand behind that takes the brunt of the storm. And if we want those things -- which we do -- we have to understand that manliness comes with ...

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DISCOVERY.ORG -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Very highly recommended book.] ARTICLE: "Heretic: One Scientist's Journey from Darwin to Design" has two authors. One is Finish bio-engineer Matti Leisola. Former Dean at Helsinki University of Technology with 140 peer reviewed science articles to his name. His new book, Heretic, is about how the scientific evidence led him from Darwinism to Intelligent Design. From the Introduction: "As a young student, I used to laugh at those who placed God in the gaps of our scientific knowledge. To my way of thinking, such people lacked the patience and level-headedness that I possessed so I didn't listen to their arguments. But eventually I came to realize that this criticism cuts both ways, since a functional atheist also can reach for pat explanations ...

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EVOLUTIONNEWS.ORG -- Phillip E. Johnson, Berkeley law professor and author of "Darwin on Trial" (described as "brilliant and devastating") died on November 2 this year. I first met Phillip Johnson at a small Greek restaurant in Cambridge, UK, in the fall of 1987. However, only later did I learn of Johnson's intellectual pedigree: Harvard B.A.; top of class University of Chicago law grad; law clerk for Chief Justice Earl Warren; leading constitutional scholar; occupant of a distinguished chair at the University of California, Berkeley. A man of supple and prodigious intellect who seemed to have found the pulse of the origins issue. Johnson told me that his doubts about Darwinism had started with a visit to the British Natural History Museum where ...

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IFSTUDIES.ORG -- When a young person mentions cohabiting, you might suggest they consider questions Bradford Wilcox asked: "Is fidelity important to you? Having someone who always tells the truth? Has your back? Communicates well? If these are important to you, marriage looks best." Wilcox was responding to a new [Nov, 2019] Pew Research Center report on cohabitation and marriage which shows Americans, especially younger generations, embrace myths about cohabitation not reflected in reality or research. The results are telling. "By double digits," as the report puts it. Another 2017 study revealed that in the United States and 16 European countries, about 50% of cohabiting parents break up by a child's 12th birthday, compared to about 25% of married couples. Marriage also ...

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IFSTUDIES.ORG -- "Majority of Americans Now Believe in Cohabitation." That's the headline from a 2016 Barna Group survey. They found 84% of those who approve of cohabiting before marriage said that it was valuable for testing compatibility. However, a 2013 study showed testing is not the most common reason cohabitors give for *actually moving in together*. In fact, it was second-to-last at just 7%. Findings suggest that cohabiting to test a relationship is associated with many kinds of negatives. In fact, many thinking about cohabiting, to test their relationship, already know, on some level, what the grade of that test may be but are hoping that the answer looks better over time. There are many better ways to ...

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