26 APR 2024 · Today, we look at a video from the channel "Christian Parenting" where they talk about how they explain homosexuality to their kids. And they have some really good advice if you stop listening about a third of the way through their video...where it takes a sudden turn into the dark side. Recovering from Religion: https://www.recoveringfromreligion.org/ Cards: Trans Related Research:  https://linktr.ee/rhinostransresearch Just Look Up! How Being Observant Debunks the Flat Earth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6iJNW4sJ14 Original Video: https://tinyurl.com/2dluczkm Sources: “Therefore a Man Leaves His Father and His Mother and Clings to His Wife”: Marriage and Intermarriage in Genesis 2:24: https://tinyurl.com/26kw44gm Mental health effects of same‐sex marriage legalization: https://tinyurl.com/yqgh8za2 Family Rejection as a Predictor of Negative Health Outcomes in White and Latino Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Young Adults: https://tinyurl.com/ycveb92v Prejudice, social stress, and mental health in lesbian, gay, and bisexual populations: Conceptual issues and research evidence: https://tinyurl.com/2kx5tkhn Suicide risk in trans populations: An application of minority stress theory: https://tinyurl.com/24llp36o Gender Minority Stress: A Critical Review: https://tinyurl.com/2a8yxjx2 Toxic Positivity in Adolescents: An Attitude of Always Being Positive in Every Situation: https://tinyurl.com/24j8bhzr Composure at Any Cost? The Cognitive Consequences of Emotion Suppression: https://tinyurl.com/2482w5qr Analyzing the concept of toxic positivity for nursing: A dimensional analysis approach: https://tinyurl.com/28hqehj3 These Christian Moms Are Complaining About Gay Duck Dads in DuckTales: https://tinyurl.com/268s2k35 The contact hypothesis re-evaluated: https://tinyurl.com/29ebaome School Outcomes of Children Raised by Same-Sex Parents: Evidence from Administrative Panel Data: https://tinyurl.com/2crpqa5t Statement on conversion therapy: https://tinyurl.com/239etxuj Unwanted intrusive and worrisome thoughts in adults with Attention Deficit\Hyperactivity Disorder: https://tinyurl.com/24orwujx The neural representation of intrusive thoughts: https://tinyurl.com/2yx48nhj ADHD Intrusive Thoughts: How To Spot And Manage Them: https://tinyurl.com/2aa7qunu

19 APR 2024 · Today, I look at a video from Questioning Christianity which looks at the question of whether or not the story of Jesus was a legend that developed over time. Cards: Giant Jesus Can't Be Legendary!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGkHCi7SgY8 Jesus Didn't Know Where He Was Going!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQPjEL1S7tU I'm Skeptical of Armoured Skeptic's Skepticism 🤔: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6CUdrDP0bM Original Video: https://tinyurl.com/28r99r8g Sources: Jesus as the Adopted Son of God: https://tinyurl.com/2cpabua6 The Identity of Jesus in the Gospel of Mark: Past and Present Proposals: https://tinyurl.com/26v8evdy Moses and Jesus: the birth of the Savior: https://tinyurl.com/2a42zh5g The Christology of Early Christian Practice: https://tinyurl.com/2acszykf The Oxford Handbook of the Reception History of the Bible: https://tinyurl.com/22s28lzp The Ending of Mark: https://tinyurl.com/2dpr5slh Why Date the Gospels after 70 CE?: https://tinyurl.com/2dqtjjge Burial Practices in First Century Palestine: https://tinyurl.com/2a2us6ff Ancient Jewish Tombs and Burial Customs (to 70 C.E.): https://tinyurl.com/2czk4mth The Historical Jesus: Five Views: https://tinyurl.com/2dzflww5 Pontius Pilate in History and Interpretation: https://tinyurl.com/2xoun8ul Eve, E. (2014). Behind the Gospels: Understanding the Oral Tradition (Fortress Press) All my various links can be found here: http://links.vicedrhino.com

12 APR 2024 · Today, we finish the Mike Winger series with him explaining how NOT having an explanation for the problem of evil is actually the BEST explanation for the problem of evil, so much so that not even other religions have a non-explanation, which means they're obviously false! Cards: The Problem of Evil Hits Really Close to Home…: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNAL9jIwZ-4 Ethics are Utilitarian and God is the Utility Monster?!?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfPEIMwnuNA Mike Winger ATTACKS His Own Questioner?!? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUmijqYSZFE Original Video: http://tinyurl.com/2av64c89 Sources: Epicurus (341—271 B.C.E.): https://tinyurl.com/2jmba8v9 Epicurean paradox: https://tinyurl.com/2cogan4f ‘Then why call him God?’— Epicurus never said what everyone thinks he did: https://tinyurl.com/26t99gs7 Stress and cardiovascular disease: https://tinyurl.com/2xzycqql Psychological Stress and the Risk of Diabetes-Related Autoimmunity: A Review Article: https://tinyurl.com/2bd3xyyb Effects of stress throughout the lifespan on the brain, behaviour and cognition: https://tinyurl.com/25sgjnuf Inductive Logic and the Probability that God Exists: Farewell to Sceptical Theism: https://tinyurl.com/297fwtwc Calum Miller's attempted refutation of Michael Tooley's evidential argument from evil: https://tinyurl.com/2djky9uc The nomological argument for the existence of God: https://tinyurl.com/2damgakd What's wrong with Tooley's argument from evil?: https://tinyurl.com/2yxz6sor Problem of evil: https://tinyurl.com/nzfgs99 Religious responses to the problem of evil: https://tinyurl.com/2yocgqts The Problem of Evil: https://tinyurl.com/yhkyt37f America Needs ‘Y’all’: https://tinyurl.com/ydhsstz2 All my various links can be found here: http://links.vicedrhino.com

5 APR 2024 · Today, we watch Greg Koukl and Amy Hall of Stand to Reason pretend that he's answering a listener question. They give a rather dismissive answer before shifting the topic completely. Cards: Is Slavery the Best Social Safety Net? (Spoiler: NO!):  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pj-x-tmF9EY Proof of Not God? An Atheist Claims to Falsify God:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LszC4yJa1X0 Should Atheists Indoctrinate their Kids?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zyxm1JB-55k 10 Things that Make No Sense about Christianity...#4 will BLOW YOUR MIND! (sorry I couldn't resist): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkI1wxzPUis Original Video: https://tinyurl.com/245nw5u5 Sources: Gender Identity Nondiscrimination Laws in Public Accommodations: a Review of Evidence Regarding Safety and Privacy in Public Restrooms, Locker Rooms, and Changing Rooms: https://tinyurl.com/ycjlgymg School Restroom and Locker Room Restrictions and Sexual Assault Risk Among Transgender Youth: https://tinyurl.com/29n5h3vg Introduction: How the Bible Came to Speak about Homosexuality: https://tinyurl.com/263dl7z4 Mental health effects of same-sex marriage legalization: https://tinyurl.com/256gcmpz School Outcomes of Children Raised by Same-Sex Parents: Evidence from Administrative Panel Data: http://tinyurl.com/2crpqa5t Behavioral Outcomes of Children with Same-Sex Parents in The Netherlands: http://tinyurl.com/28aty6ga Adoptive Gay Father Families: A Longitudinal Study of Children’s Adjustment at Early Adolescence: http://tinyurl.com/27qj9ml8 Prejudice, social stress, and mental health in lesbian, gay, and bisexual populations: http://tinyurl.com/2kx5tkhn Child Sex Abusers in Protestant Christian Churches: An Offender Typology: https://tinyurl.com/242latnf A New Wave in the Modern History of the Abuse Crisis in the Catholic Church: Literature Overview, 2018–2020: https://tinyurl.com/258tawd7 How Buddhism Is Being Used to Justify Violence in Myanmar: https://tinyurl.com/ycd9r66u The Changing Global Religious Landscape: https://tinyurl.com/2xpp28cm Why Children's Hospitals Are Unique and So Essential: https://tinyurl.com/y4hehon5 List of children's hospitals: https://tinyurl.com/2zt7oep9 The Bible Never Promises Immediate Physical Healing in the Atonement: https://tinyurl.com/259pa977 The Real Murderers: Atheism or Christianity?: https://tinyurl.com/2a58keon Neural correlates of religious experience: https://tinyurl.com/27bn9sl5 Reward, salience, and attentional networks are activated by religious experience in devout Mormons: https://tinyurl.com/2y4y97xz Human anterior and frontal midline theta and lower alpha reflect emotionally positive state and internalized attention: high-resolution EEG investigation of meditation: https://tinyurl.com/2bhnolx8 All my various links can be found here: http://links.vicedrhino.com

29 MAR 2024 · Today, we watch as Mike Winger dismisses a Nietzsche quote as baseless mockery...but when you examine the text of the quote, it ends up being basically a paraphrase of something Jesus said. Cards:  Mike Winger Responding to a Bad Article...Badly 😬: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLbOEx_k9dkfv3f8OEjF_BpLp4DQ24Qhq William Lane Craig Defends the Canaanite Slaughter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjsSHd23e0Q Where Do Atheists Get Their Morals? 🤔:  https://youtu.be/wekaY7FboTI Original Video: https://tinyurl.com/2av64c89 Sources: The birth of tragedy, or, Hellenism and pessimism: https://tinyurl.com/ylerhn6t The Birth of Tragedy: https://tinyurl.com/yozjcwt3 The Sickness Unto Life: Nietzsche's Diagnosis of the Christian Condition (PDF): https://tinyurl.com/kcvy33sp The Mystery Of Consciousness: https://tinyurl.com/ypk38y97 Pew Research Center, June 13, 2018, “The Age Gap in Religion Around the World”: https://tinyurl.com/2crstnrm Believers' estimates of God's beliefs are more egocentric than estimates of other people's beliefs: https://tinyurl.com/25x8fer3 Forty-five years of split-brain research and still going strong: https://tinyurl.com/23cg278o All my various links can be found here: http://links.vicedrhino.com

22 MAR 2024 · It bothers me more than it should that Stephen's last name ruins my alliteration. Off the Kirb Ministries or something. Cards: How Many Contradictions Can We Find?:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bROLT98ZcBY Why Do Rivers Have Deltas?:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A47ythEcz74 Bottom Rung Apologist Misses the Point...HARD:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2v0D4ECDYM Original Video: https://tinyurl.com/yko72vlw Sources: Geologic Formations: Arches National Park: https://tinyurl.com/25642gzl The Sphinx: Dramatising Data … and Dating: https://tinyurl.com/26rerhdx Origin and Evolution of the Great Lakes: https://tinyurl.com/25955zzc Speciation is not evolution - Rapid speciation is part of the creation model: https://tinyurl.com/25fj3tbm Speciation of Bears, Birds, and Bacteria is not Evolution: https://tinyurl.com/2bsctot3 Speciation Is Not Evolution: https://tinyurl.com/244vlr6b Vital statistics, absolute abundance and preservation rate of Tyrannosaurus rex: https://tinyurl.com/2978o5or Homo erectus, our ancient ancestor: https://tinyurl.com/syhsxso Introduction to Human Evolution: https://tinyurl.com/yyszzfn9 Homo - Wikipedia: https://tinyurl.com/gqfpq6r The panda's thumb : more reflections in natural history: https://tinyurl.com/26facgwd List of human evolution fossils: https://tinyurl.com/gpmwojp Archaic Homo sapiens are Middle Pleistocene hominins that morphologically and behaviorally fall somewhere in between H. erectus and modern H. sapiens: https://tinyurl.com/2am7u8bg Baboon bone found in famous Lucy skeleton: https://tinyurl.com/yaznxhj4 Lucy's back: Reassessment of fossils associated with the A.L. 288-1 vertebral column: https://tinyurl.com/2xm9kapz Kin of famous Lucy had feet like modern humans: https://tinyurl.com/2486t4qr Lucy Walked Tall, a Foot Bone Suggests: https://tinyurl.com/265ezkub A 3.2-Million-Year-Old Mystery: Did Lucy Fall From a Tree?: https://tinyurl.com/23c3jpmk Perimortem fractures in Lucy suggest mortality from fall out of tall tree: https://tinyurl.com/28kervv5 Limb Bone Structural Proportions and Locomotor Behavior in A.L. 288-1 ("Lucy"): https://tinyurl.com/2ccsq3j4 Evidence that humans evolved from a knuckle-walking ancestor: https://tinyurl.com/2yak3lwh Piltdown Man (Wikipedia): https://tinyurl.com/hb67a8w Nebraska Man (Wikipedia): https://tinyurl.com/23d8fxzf All my various links can be found here: http://links.vicedrhino.com

15 MAR 2024 · Today, Mike Winger dismisses an "atheist" argument that actually originated with a bunch of religious leaders, calling it a "bottom rung" argument. Cards: Mike Winger ATTACKS His Own Questioner?!?:  https://youtu.be/vUmijqYSZFE Free Will Raises More Questions Than It Answers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxKc3s7jwQI Winger vs Anderson - When Good Christians Oppose Bad Christians for Dangerous Reasons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3aPHS_6Gro Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence (William Lane Craig response): https://youtu.be/kvRExSxpe_c Proof of Not God? An Atheist Claims to Falsify God: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LszC4yJa1X0 Creation Myth: "If ENCODE is right then evolution is wrong": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W8RrDTg0Aw Original Video: https://tinyurl.com/2av64c89 Sources: Three Famous Atheists and Their Best Arguments: http://tinyurl.com/22fapasm Maturation of the adolescent brain: https://tinyurl.com/y2fu2lqp Philosophers on Philosophy: The PhilPapers 2020 Survey: https://tinyurl.com/ymbajjrt Risk and Resilience Factors for Mental Health among Transgender and Gender Nonconforming (TGNC) Youth: A Systematic Review: https://tinyurl.com/2cxnd7uj Prejudice, social stress, and mental health in lesbian, gay, and bisexual populations: Conceptual issues and research evidence: https://tinyurl.com/2kx5tkhn Sexual differentiation of the human brain in relation to gender identity and sexual orientation: https://tinyurl.com/25gjn96q The biological basis of human sexual orientation: is there a role for epigenetics?: https://tinyurl.com/2b5nad9y Transsexuality Among Twins: Identity Concordance, Transition, Rearing, and Orientation: https://tinyurl.com/ydc2pufv Molecular basis of Gender Dysphoria: androgen and estrogen receptor interaction: https://tinyurl.com/2945v3mu Association Between Recalled Exposure to Gender Identity Conversion Efforts and Psychological Distress and Suicide Attempts Among Transgender Adults: https://tinyurl.com/2fxmmecl Lifetime Exposure to Conversion Therapy and Psychosocial Health Among Midlife and Older Adult Men Who Have Sex With Men: https://tinyurl.com/2y2c4rm4 Sexual orientation change efforts among current or former LDS church members: https://tinyurl.com/28blhmst ‘Conversion Therapy’ As Degrading Treatment: https://tinyurl.com/26abtng9 It's Torture Not Therapy. A Global Overview of Conversion Therapy: Practices, Perpetrators, and the Role of States: https://tinyurl.com/2dpakmrj Nietzsche’s Ecce homo, Notebooks and Letter: 1888-1889: https://tinyurl.com/bdfnpdcd Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence: https://tinyurl.com/2bxflect When Perceiving the Supernatural Changes the Natural: Religion and Agency Detection: https://tinyurl.com/29mjfq67 Creating False Memories: https://tinyurl.com/2258jvbs Biases in Visual, Auditory, and Audiovisual Perception of Space: https://tinyurl.com/24q7422r What is a ‘Gospel’? Recent Studies in the Gospel Genre: https://tinyurl.com/2dgnwl2t Recent and Previous Research on the Pericope Adulterae (John 7.53—8.11): https://tinyurl.com/29pm9d7j Mutational Load and the Functional Fraction of the Human Genome: https://tinyurl.com/2yfk2t6v All my various links can be found here: http://links.vicedrhino.com

8 MAR 2024 · Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/viced-rhino-the-podcast--4623273/support. Today, Creation Ministries International Canada (CMI Canada) tries to explain why DNA proves creation...and they seem to have gotten in over their heads. Cards: Critiquing Deflate's Critique of a Religious Critique!: https://youtu.be/cTCYOX4RnIc Original Video: http://tinyurl.com/25cc8hqw Sources: DNA is life's blueprint? No, there's far more to it than that: http://tinyurl.com/29sytd7p RNA Polymerase and Transcription Mechanisms: The Forefront of Physicochemical Studies of Chemical Reactions: http://tinyurl.com/2824bayc Life as a manifestation of the second law of thermodynamics: http://tinyurl.com/2876sudu The Origin of Life: A case is made for the descent of electrons: http://tinyurl.com/y4qa5esa Pew Research Center's 2014 Survey of AAAS Members: http://tinyurl.com/24zzsyud On the Origin of Species: http://tinyurl.com/2a95jcwp Inventing the dynamo machine: the evolution of the F-type and V-type ATPases: http://tinyurl.com/23lk6px5 The Ancestral Shape of the Access Proton Path of Mitochondrial ATP Synthases Revealed by a Split Subunit-a: http://tinyurl.com/297h7od3 ATP synthases from archaea: The beauty of a molecular motor: http://tinyurl.com/299cxoce The evolution of A-, F-, and V-type ATP synthases and ATPases: reversals in function and changes in the H+/ATP coupling ratio: http://tinyurl.com/299cxoce ATP synthase: Evolution, energetics, and membrane interactions: http://tinyurl.com/2dhkofl2 ATP synthases: structure, function and evolution of unique energy converters: http://tinyurl.com/23ujjohx The progenitor of ATP synthases was closely related to the current vacuolar H+-ATPase: http://tinyurl.com/2cd4ptgd Stepwise formation of the bacterial flagellar system: http://tinyurl.com/26j7wyej A reducibly complex mousetrap: http://tinyurl.com/2b8oz478 Mitochondrial ATP synthase: architecture, function and pathology: http://tinyurl.com/2d3729ug Droplets: Unconventional Protocell Model with Life-Like Dynamics and Room to Grow: http://tinyurl.com/24f4tmoe Reading and writing single-atom magnets: http://tinyurl.com/24tk7qce Spontaneous formation and base pairing of plausible prebiotic nucleotides in water: http://tinyurl.com/2c2n655r Identifying the wide diversity of extraterrestrial purine and pyrimidine nucleobases in carbonaceous meteorites: http://tinyurl.com/yyqbrajw Nucleobase synthesis in interstellar ices: http://tinyurl.com/25pththm Synthetic Life with Alternative Nucleic Acids as Genetic Materials: http://tinyurl.com/27lj75h4 Origin and evolution of the genetic code: the universal enigma: http://tinyurl.com/y2e3e25x A Production of Amino Acids Under Possible Primitive Earth Conditions: http://tinyurl.com/28lz85c8 A search for tryptophan in the gas of the IC 348 star cluster of the Perseus molecular cloud: http://tinyurl.com/2xmg67ys Amino acids in meteorites: http://tinyurl.com/2bvbjppm Miller–Urey experiment (Wikipedia): http://tinyurl.com/7hngnyb Asymmetric autocatalysis. Chiral symmetry breaking and the origins of homochirality of organic molecules: http://tinyurl.com/2ypr22my Intelligent Design Is Not Creationism: http://tinyurl.com/28rwc67k The Cost Of Natural Selection: https://tinyurl.com/2xr7pgy4 Evolutionary Rate at the Molecular Level: https://tinyurl.com/2caxvtty An Upper Limit on the Functional Fraction of the Human Genome: https://tinyurl.com/2cp73d77 Low Fertility in Evolutionary Perspective: https://tinyurl.com/2c32ox8v Why do humans have an Appendix?: https://tinyurl.com/2gcyaxhq Conceptual and Empirical Challenges of Ascribing Functions to Transposable Elements: https://tinyurl.com/2cbvs8f7 On the Immortality of Television Sets: "Function" in the Human Genome According to the Evolution-Free Gospel of ENCODE: https://tinyurl.com/y7wvwdvp Comparing genomes to computer operating systems in terms of the topology and evolution of their regulatory control networks: https://tinyurl.com/27fpj2ok All my various links can be found here: http://links.vicedrhino.com

1 MAR 2024 · Today, Mike Winger tells us what he thinks of the "Christians are just atheist towards one less god than atheists" quip. Cards: William Lane Craig and Sean Carroll | “God and Cosmology”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0qKZqPy9T8 10 Things that Make No Sense about Christianity...#4 will BLOW YOUR MIND! (sorry I couldn't resist): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkI1wxzPUis Dating Daniel: Prophecy or History?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7T8wtRi5kM Great Cost of the Kalam: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qm_6eB5bcos Is Matt Powell Lying?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AVzU0_PiRs Original Video: http://tinyurl.com/2av64c89 Three Famous Atheists and Their Best Arguments: http://tinyurl.com/22fapasm More Short Answers to Real Questions About Hinduism: http://tinyurl.com/yabd8ltz What do philosophers believe?: http://tinyurl.com/ms7c7qp Why I'm No Longer Religious: http://tinyurl.com/28v2oyth Norse Creation: http://tinyurl.com/2b93upjf The Heart of Hinduism: Creation: http://tinyurl.com/24jcb3dz Vestigial auriculomotor activity indicates the direction of auditory attention in humans: http://tinyurl.com/2nuubay9 Believers' estimates of God's beliefs are more egocentric than estimates of other people's beliefs: http://tinyurl.com/26ucor2b Siege of Tyre (586–573 BC): http://tinyurl.com/22nbqfjg Dating Daniel: Prophecy or History?: http://tinyurl.com/2dg2r4c6 The Seed of the Woman: http://tinyurl.com/28heqrso What Buddhists Believe - The Origin of the World: http://tinyurl.com/y72bcera On Vaccination & Chiropractic: when ideology, history, perception, politics and jurisprudence collide: http://tinyurl.com/2d5f9ogu A Comparison of Physical Therapy, Chiropractic Manipulation, and Provision of an Educational Booklet for the Treatment of Patients with Low Back Pain: http://tinyurl.com/2a8qy5zc Chiropractic: a critical evaluation: http://tinyurl.com/2xp3s9rk Chiropractic (Science Based Medicine): http://tinyurl.com/y9vl2aty

23 FEB 2024 · Today, Lucas of the channel Deflate explains why he thinks a former pastor's reasons for leaving Christianity are bad. Cards: 10 Things that Make No Sense about Christiantiy...#4 will BLOW YOUR MIND! (sorry I couldn't resist): (2:36) https://youtu.be/zkI1wxzPUis Is Hell Real?: (3:47) https://youtu.be/vSMbeEMCVdg Christian Claims that Hell Doesn't Exist? 🤯: (16:49) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Npz1fI60bsY Moderate Christians Eat People (Sooper Dooper not Clickbait!): (23:48) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfvy2y-FQRs Matthew Copied Mark's Gospel...and BROKE it!!!: (32:26) https://youtu.be/_m4NOVN0L-s Original Video: http://tinyurl.com/247bjnuz Sources: The Clergy Project: http://tinyurl.com/tsk2ujm 50000 Errors in Bible? by Sheikh Ahmed Deedat: http://tinyurl.com/2cqm34pk Epistle to the Philippians: http://tinyurl.com/25gr5u7m What Does It Even Mean to Have an “Original” of An Ancient Writing?: http://tinyurl.com/y5p2xqeg Why Finding an “Original” Text is So Unexpectedly Complicated: http://tinyurl.com/27dh26cn Paul Dictated His Letters: How Does *That* Complicate Finding an Original?: http://tinyurl.com/yqbwlhmx Center for the Study of Global Christianity: http://tinyurl.com/2j7p57no What Jews Believe: Jeremiah 31: http://tinyurl.com/2ycpxebh Tacitus: https://tinyurl.com/2mbnznpk All my various links can be found here: http://links.vicedrhino.com