[H/T MOHIB EBRAHIM] -- YOUTUBE.COM -- CSLEWISDOODLE -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: C.S. Lews' points about miracles are correct and why Ismaili Ignition produced "Ismaili Imamat's Authenticity: The First Objective Evaluation, 'A Signature in History'." See here: http://isma.li/signature] ARTICLE: Whether miracles occur can never be answered by experience. Every potential miracle is, in the last resort, something our senses experience. And our senses are not infallible so we can always say it was an illusion. If our worldview, a priori, excludes the supernatural, "illusion" is what we always say. So what we learn from experience first depends on the philosophy we bring to experience. It is, therefore, useless to appeal to experience before we have settled the philosophical question. If experience cannot prove or disprove miracles, still less can history because, again, the philosophical question must come first. Here is an example of what happens if we skip the preliminary philosophical task and rush on to the historical. In a popular commentary ...

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NEWSBUSTERS.ORG -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Hazar Imam, 1976: "What was once wrong is now simply unconventional, and for the sake of individual freedom must be tolerated. What is tolerated soon becomes accepted. Contrarily, what was once right is now viewed as outdated, old fashioned and is often the target of ridicule."] ARTICLE: Netflix's CEO went on CNN for a ten-minute interview where the host, Poppy Harlow, clearly doing damage control for Netflix, didn't even ask ONE question about the child pornography controversy and boycott his company is facing over Cuties, "entertainment" that glamorizes and condons pedophilia and child pornography. And it's not just CNN that's covering for Netflix. Look at media headlines on the Cuties controversy. They're almost exclusively news and entertainment outlets praising the film and bashing conservative critics for daring to be upset at child pornography. You also won't see anyone asking Netflix board member Susan Rice or the Obamas, with a reported $50m Netflix deal, about this seriously disturbing problem. The media repeatedly tells us it is their job ...

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THEFEDERALIST.COM -- Teens whose mothers worked part-time or not outside the home were significantly more likely to be admitted to a highly selective university than teens whose mothers worked full time, a study from the Institute for Family Studies finds. The study examined longitudinal federal data for more than 17,000 American ninth graders. "The additional time, energy and attention these mothers were able to devote to their children's studies seem to have paid off in academic success," study author Nicholas Zill said. Although families with both parents working full time earned the most money, parental attention outperformed money at securing children's education prospects. Children whose mothers did not work outside the home achieved at an elite level even though their median family income was 25% less ...

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THEFEDERALIST.COM -- Gallup new poll on K-12 education found that the percentage of K-12 parents homeschooling this year has doubled over last year. One in every 10 families with school-age children is now home-schooling. Critically, the poll was careful to distinguish remote public-school instruction with true home-schooling. Given the poll measured families, not children, the actual percentage of the total student population now being home-schooled could be even higher. Samantha Spitzer, a certified teacher and home-schooling parent, believes this to be the case. "I talked to someone at my county school board office who said that over the August 7 weekend she received 175 notices of intent to home-school -- all from brand-new families." Based on enrollment numbers, Spitzer estimates that in one county, as many as one-quarter of K-12 children ...

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YOUTUBE.COM -- PRAGERU -- Belief in God, according to atheists, is irrational, illogical, and dumb. Belief that the universe created itself is, they say, intelligent, rational, and based in science. This is simply false. Nothing can create itself. Everything has a cause -- including the universe. That cause, argues Peter Kreeft, professor of philosophy at Boston College, is God, the "unmoved mover." Belief in God, as Kreeft shows, is more rational than belief in nothing. Logic, science, and reason, support God. Atheism, as you'll see, is far more steeped in blind faith than is belief. ...

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YOUTUBE.COM -- PRAGERU -- Isn't human suffering proof that a just, all-powerful God must not exist? On the contrary, says Boston College Professor of Philosophy Peter Kreeft. How can "suffering" exist without an objective standard against which to judge it? Absent a standard, there is no justice. If there is no justice, there is no injustice. And if there is no injustice, there is no suffering. On the other hand, if justice exists, God exists. In five minutes, learn more. ...

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YOUTUBE.COM -- PRAGERU -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Hazar Imam, 1965: "Left-wing attitudes tend not only to destroy the faith of a man towards his religion but also the respect of one individual towards another. When the faith is broken down everything goes with it: the family, society, the individual, the intelligence."] ARTICLE: Dave Rubin of The Rubin Report used to be a big progressive. He even had a show with The Young Turks! But now he's not a progressive. He has left the left. Why? Dave Rubin shares his story. ...

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