Male and female He created them...

Ran across an interesting article in the New York Times. Apparently sociologists are starting to catch on to what we already knew--men and women are actually different. We have different attitudes and approaches to life. Crazy, huh? Of course, this is upsetting for liberals, because they want to believe that men and women are exactly the same, and that any differences between the genders are evidence of some sort of societal sexism, of discrimination that must be addressed through government action. But it just reinforces what Christians believe--that the genders are created differently, for complementary purposes, not identical:

When men and women take personality tests, some of the old Mars-Venus stereotypes keep reappearing. On average, women are more cooperative, nurturing, cautious and emotionally responsive. Men tend to be more competitive, assertive, reckless and emotionally flat. Clear differences appear in early childhood and never disappear.

What’s not clear is the origin of these differences. Evolutionary psychologists contend that these are innate traits inherited from ancient hunters and gatherers. Another school of psychologists asserts that both sexes’ personalities have been shaped by traditional social roles, and that personality differences will shrink as women spend less time nurturing children and more time in jobs outside the home.

To test these hypotheses, a series of research teams have repeatedly analyzed personality tests taken by men and women in more than 60 countries around the world. For evolutionary psychologists, the bad news is that the size of the gender gap in personality varies among cultures. For social-role psychologists, the bad news is that the variation is going in the wrong direction. It looks as if personality differences between men and women are smaller in traditional cultures like India’s or Zimbabwe’s than in the Netherlands or the United States. A husband and a stay-at-home wife in a patriarchal Botswanan clan seem to be more alike than a working couple in Denmark or France. The more Venus and Mars have equal rights and similar jobs, the more their personalities seem to diverge.

Good News about Stem Cell Research

I'm far from a scientific expert, but everything I read about stem cell research convinces me that the crowd pushing embryonic stem cells is way off base. It seems like research with adult stem cells--you know, the ones that don't involve killing a baby--is way more promising:

Stem cells drawn from the blood system of adult humans or the umbilical cord blood of newborns, injected into mice, formed viable vessels that may one day deliver oxygen-rich blood to damaged organs, researchers said.

This is just one recent example, but I've read a lot of similar stories in the past couple of years. If you're at all concerned about this issue, you really ought to read up on it so you have facts at hand to explain why it's not necessary to use embryonic stem cells.

Weather Channel Founder Doesn’t Buy the Hype

Dobson Recommends The Movie, Expelled

Listen to this Focus on the Family broadcast where they expose the truth in the debate over the origins of life.

New Movie On Intelligent Design: Expelled

Ben Stein (that teacher in Ferris Bueller's Day Off…“Bueller?…Bueller?") is coming out this month with a controversial new film about intelligent design. It's called, Expelled - No Intelligence Allowed. Here's a couple trailers:

Teaser (1:19)



Super Trailer (7:41)

The Stem Cell Debate is Over!

The recent announcement that scientists have successfully discovered an embryo-free way to produce genetically matched stem cells will be considered, as Charles Krauthammer writes in the Washington Post, “one of the great scientific breakthroughs since the discovery of DNA.” History will also regard this watershed event as a total vindication of President Bush for his strong opposition to ESCR (Embryonic Stem Cell Research) despite intense pressure from the cloning industry, the media, and political foes brought about by a highly funded campaign of suppression and deception.

To learn more, go to: stemcellresearch.org.