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MADS, the Condition Ravaging America

IntellectualTakeout.org, 7/11/22, “MADS, the Condition Ravaging America” [Excerpts]: Since 9/11, which now seems light years away, the American body politic has taken hooks to the ribs and uppercuts to the chin that would have knocked any champion pugilist down for the count.

Commentators point to many possible causes for such turmoil, but after some thought and observation, I believe they have overlooked one. We are suffering, I’m sorry to say, from a horrible epidemic of MADS (Mature Adult Deficiency Syndrome).

Not so long ago, most Americans recognized that...for them authentic adults were those who accepted responsibility for their actions and who knew they must earn their living “by the sweat of your brow.” Adults honored and practiced such traits as honesty, bravery, common sense, and self-reliance. They helped their neighbors, treated those on the opposite side of the political aisle with respect, and understood the value of the Ten Commandments whether or not they attended church.

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Galápagos with David Attenborough: Adaptation

Creation.com, 8/8/22, “Galápagos with David Attenborough: Adaptation” [Excerpts]: Galápagos with David Attenborough is the title of a 2013 three-part Sky 3D TV series that was shown in Australia with the revised title David Attenborough’s Galápagos. He labels various islands as “old,” “middle-aged,” and “young,” but the millions of years claimed by evolutionists for all this to have happened are not needed in the creationist model.

Attenborough shows viewers the crescent-shaped island of Tortuga, which he says is the last fragment of an extinct volcano, and he goes on to say that each island: “Is born on the bottom of the sea and rises up through the waters to emerge as a volcano.…after a million years of eruptions, volcanic activity ceases. Two million years [later] the island is approaching middle age, has a moist climate, and is covered by forest. It begins to sink under its own weight of ash and lava. Battered by erosion…, after four million years, it’s near the end of its existence. Low lying and arid, with little rainfall, it’s surrounded by beaches of soft sand. The waves and rain [sic] continue to take their toll, until all that is left is a craggy outcrop of rock.…”

In our response to his first program in this series, we showed how the recently formed volcanic island Surtsey (near Iceland) mimics most of the features of the Galápagos islands, but all within a few years after Surtsey rose from the sea in 1963. Note that Surtsey stopped erupting in 1967. There is no way [to] show that any island has experienced “a million years of eruptions”, as Attenborough claims above!

In the last 50 years, there have formed on Surtsey wide sandy beaches, gravel banks, impressive cliffs, soft undulating land, fault scarps, gullies and channels, and “boulders worn by the surf, some of which were almost round, on an abrasion platform cut into the cliff.” Millions of years were not necessary for these features to form, either on Surtsey or on Galápagos.

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Training Doctors to Use Critical Race Theory

TheCollegeFix.com, 7/12/22, “UCSD med school trains doctors to use critical race theory in health care: report” [Excerpts]: The University of California San Diego’s top-rated medical school integrates progressive social justice and racial politics into its curriculum in an effort to “expand medicine’s role as a mechanism of social engineering,” argues a new report written by critics of critical race theory.

The 14-page report, released June 21 and titled “The Woke Invasion of Racial Politics into UCSD Medical Education,” was published by Do No Harm and details guest lectures, curricula, protests, events and academic programming that appear to prioritize politics over science.

Do No Harm describes itself as “a diverse group of physicians, healthcare professionals, medical students, patients, and policymakers united by a moral mission: Protect healthcare from a radical, divisive, and discriminatory ideology.”

“At least 23 of America’s top 25 medical schools have made anti-racism a core part of their curriculum, while other institutions are creating anti-racist curricula to be implemented at schools nationwide,” the nonprofit states on its website. “This divisive campaign will only lead to discrimination in healthcare, which is bad for patients.”

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