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Knight and Rose Show #67: Terrell Clemmons: Scopes Monkey Trial

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Welcome to episode 67 of the Knight and Rose podcast! In this episode, Wintery Knight and Desert Rose discuss the legacy of the famous Scopes “Monkey” Trial, now 100 years old. If you like this episode, please subscribe to the podcast, and subscribe to our YouTube channel. We would appreciate it if you left us a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.

Podcast description:

Christian apologists Wintery Knight and Desert Rose discuss apologetics, policy, culture, relationships, and more. Each episode equips you with evidence you can use to boldly engage anyone, anywhere. We train our listeners to become Christian secret agents. Action and adventure guaranteed. 30-45 minutes per episode. New episode every week.

Episode summary:

Wintery Knight and Desert Rose welcome Terrell Clemmons to discuss the 100th anniversary of the Scopes Monkey Trial. We discuss Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution, its impact on morality, and its ties to racism and eugenics. Clemmons challenges the popular “religion-versus-science” framing of the debate over origins, and offers practical guidance for Christians to challenge materialist narratives with scientific evidence.

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Episode 67:

Speaker biographies

Terrell Clemmons earned a BS in Computer Science from Clemson University and worked in software development until she hopped off the career track to be a full-time mom. Raised in a church-going home, she lived complacently toward the faith until she became a parent. Newly motivated at that point to find truth about the bigger issues of life, she researched the worldview claims of Christianity and became convinced that they were actually true. She began writing on Christian living and apologetics in 2004 and joined Salvo in 2007. She has also worked with Ratio Christi and Anchorsaway apologetics ministries for youth. With her kids now grown and her husband deceased, she lives in Indianapolis, Indiana, with her dog, the only family member still at home, and writes on apologetics and matters of faith.

Wintery Knight is a black legal immigrant. He is a senior software engineer by day, and an amateur Christian apologist by night. He has been blogging at winteryknight.com since January of 2009, covering news, policy and Christian worldview issues.

Desert Rose did her undergraduate degree in public policy, and then worked for a conservative Washington lobbyist organization. She also has a graduate degree from a prestigious evangelical seminary. She is active in Christian apologetics as a speaker, author, and teacher.

Further reading:

If you want to know more about this topic, I encourage you to check out Issue #73 of Salvo magazine, which is edited by Terrell Clemmons. One of the easiest ways to get conversations started in your home or workplace is to have something eye-catching that will provoke discussions. One of our podcast helpers (Bonnie) already subscribes to Salvo, and another of our podcast helpers (Vitoria) subscribed to it after looking at the issue online.

The graphics for Salvo magazine are done by Jerry Janquart and the print version works well as a conversation starter. The trouble you might have is that you will need two copies. One for you, and one to lend out. If you subscribe, they give you the PDF immediately, so you can read that one on your tablet, while you wait for the lending out copy to arrive. It looks great on a tablet or a coffee table. You can have a lot of adventures with a print copy of Salvo.

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New study: the majority (69%) of divorces are initiated by women

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This new report from Live Science gives us some numbers about who initiates divorces most frequently.

It says:

Women are more likely than men to initiate divorce in the United States, but they are no more likely than men to initiate breakups in a dating relationship, a new study finds.

“The breakups of nonmarital heterosexual relationships in the U.S. are quite gender-neutral and fairly egalitarian,” study author Michael Rosenfeld, an associate professor of sociology at Stanford University, said in a statement. “This was a surprise because the only prior research that had been done on who wanted the breakup was research on marital divorces.”

Previous research had found that women are more likely to initiate divorce, at least in the United States, Europe and Australia. In the new study, Rosenfeld compared divorces to nonmarital breakups, in an effort to understand the driving forces behind each type of breakup.

To investigate, he looked at data from the 2009 to 2015 waves of How Couples Meet and Stay Together, a nationally representative survey spearheaded by Rosenfeld and his colleagues. The new study includes 2,262 adults, ages 19 to 64, who reported having opposite-sex partners in 2009. By 2015, 371 of the participants had broken up or gotten divorced.

Women initiated 69 percent of the 92 divorces, Rosenfeld found. But there was no statistically significant difference between women and men when it came to nonmarital breakups, regardless of whether they were living together, he said.

The Ruth Institute reports on a few studies:

Female unions seem to have the highest divorce rates, followed by male unions, followed by opposite sex unions.

“For Sweden, the divorce risk for partnerships of men is 50% higher than the risk for heterosexual marriages, and that the divorce risk for female partnerships is nearly double that for men.”

“For Norway, divorce risks are 77% higher in lesbian partnerships than in those of gay men.”  (The Norwegian data did not include a comparison with opposite sex couples.)

In California, the data is collected a little differently. The study looks at couples who describe themselves as partners, whether same sex or opposite sex. The study asks the question, how likely is it that these couples live in the same household five years later. Male couples were only 30% as likely, while female couples were less that 25% as likely, as heterosexual married couples, to be residing in the same household for five years.

It really seems as if there is something about women in particular that causes them to be unable to keep to commitments in their actions, despite what they might say with their words.

So I am seeing a couple of problems in young, unmarried women that might explain this.

Feminism is bad

First, there is the feminism. Feminism was the driving force behind no-fault divorce. Today, young unmarried women are being taught to view marriage as stifling to their freedom. So if they do get married, they are often resolved that marriage should not affect their freedom in any way. That is just not the way marriage works, though – both spouses need to be equally ready to have their freedom infringed upon by things that HAVE TO GET DONE. Lots of things that have to get done will not be fun, thrilling or amusing – and that’s why it’s good to be prepared to do them before you marry.

My friend Dina says that she only knows one happily married couple from among her friends. The most frequent case she sees is wife is working in order to pay for big house, two cars, etc. and wife is denying husband sex, which makes him disengage from the marriage. A working wife tends to not be as responsive to the needs of husband and kids as a non-working wife, probably in part due to work stress. There is an epidemic of sex-withholding by women, and it causes men to disengage from marriage because they feel unloved. Although women tend to rebel against the idea that the man’s bad behavior is their fault, and that there is a “contractual” nature to marriage, that is how marriage works. You cannot stay married, women, by just doing whatever you feel like, and NOT doing whatever you DON’T feel like. Men will disengage when their needs are not supplied, and that’s no fault of theirs. It’s your fault. Denying relationship obligations causes men to underperform.

Feminism is often linked closely to “independence”. There is a lot of confusion over what the word independence means among young, unmarried women. A man uses that word to mean “lack of financial dependence on parents, the state, etc. because of good decisions in education, career and finances”. But a woman means “not having to care about the needs of a man and the leadership of a man, or the needs of children while still getting what I want from men and children”. That attitude is not compatible with life-long married love.

Emotions are bad

Second, emotions. In my experience, young, unmarried women are less likely to have reasoned out their own life plan in a practical step-by-step manner. Instead, they tend to do whatever makes them feel good moment-by-moment without any realistic plan. One Christian woman was recently telling me how attracted she was to an atheist moral relativist who had been promiscuous from the age of 15. She explained that her emotions were kindled by his GQ looks, 6-pack abs, mysterious European accent, seductive manner and witty conversations. Although she is apparently a Christian, she doesn’t take Christianity seriously in her decisions about relationships and marriage.

Peer-approval and culture play a large part in determining what women think is attractive in a man, as well as their life goals, and women are driven by these cultural standards more than men who focus on honoring their commitments regardless of their emotions. In my experience, women struggle to make their day-to-day actions match their socially-acceptable goal of getting married “some day”. Marriage is for “some day” for today’s busy women, but fun and thrills is for today. “Live in the moment”, they often tell me. If you try to talk to them about roles and responsibilities in a marriage, they will withdraw and rebel. But marriage is about each spouse doing his or her job, and feeling content about what the couple is building together. You can’t make life-long married love from emotional craziness and pursuing fun and thrills with seductive promiscuous moral relativist atheists.

How to pick a woman who won’t divorce you

Young men, I advise you to choose wives who have had to do things that they did not feel like doing. That can involve things like getting a STEM degree, getting a job in STEM, moving out of her parents’ house, getting a “boring” job that helps her pay off her debts, keeping commitments when she doesn’t feel like it, and caring for other people and even animals.

Basically, the more the woman has ground down any narcissism and hedonism she may have, by having to do nasty calculus and horrid lab work, the better. The more accustomed she is to constraints, responsibilities, expectations and obligations, the less likely it is that she’ll divorce you for unhappiness. And all of this goes for men, as well. STEM degree, STEM job, save money, serve others, give to charity.

Marriage is not the time for people to be carried away by their emotions. It’s an enterprise, and it works when both people are rational, practical, hard-working and self-controlled.

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In the secular leftist UK, police persecute taxpayers, not criminals

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I’m monitoring what is happening in countries that have elected secular left fascists, such as Canada, Australia and the UK. In these countries, the leaders are focused on governing from their emotions. They feel a desperate need to signal their virtue to others. This typically results in throwing open the borders to unskilled refugees and illegal immigrants. And taxpayers get the bill for it.

This time, we’ll turn to the UK. The most important thing to understand about the UK is that they don’t like Christianity or conservatism. In order to cancel out the votes of Christians and conservatives, the secular left political parties that have been running the UK for decades opened their borders to unskilled migrants from Middle Eastern countries, like Pakistan and Afghanistan. The story is told in Douglas Murray’s book “The Strange Death of Europe”. Basically, Labour Minister Barbara Roche crafted permissive immigration policies in order to make Britain “truly multicultural” and to “rub the Right’s nose in diversity.” Here is an article from the UK Telegraph about it.

As a result of these policies, massive child sex-trafficking rings were started up in many, many major British cities. When the British taxpayers complained that their daughters were being raped, the British police refused to investigate, because they didn’t want to appear “racist”. Today in the UK, much like in Nazi Germany, there is one permissive legal system for allies of the secular leftist fascists, and one tyrannical legal system for enemies of the secular leftist fascists. Now let’s see how it’s working out for them.

Consider this article from Free Speech Union:

Local officials have raised concerns about a lack of transparency after it emerged that Warwickshire Police advised councillors not to disclose the immigration status of two men remanded in custody over the alleged rape of a 12-year-old girl in Nuneaton, citing fears of inflaming community tensions.

The guidance, reportedly issued to avoid inflaming community tensions, has prompted renewed warnings about the impact on democratic accountability when the full range of consequences of immigration policy are obscured from public view.

Ahmad Mulakhil, 23, was arrested on Saturday 26 July and charged the following day with two counts of rape. He appeared before Coventry Magistrates’ Court on Monday 28 July and was remanded into custody.

Four days later, Mohammad Kabir, also 23, was arrested in Nuneaton and charged with kidnap, strangulation, and aiding and abetting the rape of a girl under 13. He appeared before magistrates on Saturday 2 August and was also remanded into custody. Both men are due to appear at Warwick Crown Court on 26 August.

Just to be clear, the article states that the police advised city councillors not to reveal to the public the suspects’ asylum background because “it might inflame community tensions”. So, in case you thought that the police had learned their lesson from the child sex-trafficking scandals, you would be wrong. It continues on, because the need for secular leftists to virtue signal continues on. You can deduce what secular leftists believe about protecting women and girls from these actions. They’re misogynists.

First, note the effects of bad policing: crime has skyrocketed in the UK:

Crime rates are soaring in the UK. In the year to March 2025, shoplifting hit its highest level since records began, up 20 per cent to more than 530,000 offences. And theft from a person rose 15 per cent to over 151,000 cases.

The UK Telegraph explains how police advise law-abiding taxpayers about crime:

Dame Diana Johnson, the policing minister, said products such as bottles of alcohol should not be displayed at the front of stores because people will steal them.

It comes amid growing pressure on the police to tackle a shoplifting epidemic, with a record high of nearly three thefts carried out every minute in the year to March. …

Speaking on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme, Dame Diana said: “I think we need to have that neighbourhood police presence. I think stores need to play their part in making sure that items that are high value are not at the front of the store because that is an issue in some stores, that they put bottles of alcohol at the front of the store which obviously people will nick.

“If they are going to steal to resell they will nick items like that. So I think it is not just one thing here, it has to be an approach with the retailers, with the Government and with the police to work together.” …

Dame Diana also warned against members of the public stepping in to confront and tackle shop thieves as she said it was not “appropriate”. …

Yes, in the UK, you cannot purchase and carry a firearm to defend yourself, like you can in the United States. And that’s why the violent crime rates have skyrocketed in the UK. Only the criminals have weapons. The law-abiding victims of criminals don’t. We would never put up with this in the United States, but in the UK, they actually elect secular left fascists to make their laws.

But my post today is about the UK police themselves. What do they do about crime?

The issue of shoplifting has risen to prominence in recent days after the Telegraph disclosed that Rob Davies, a North Wales shopkeeper, after repeated thefts had put up a handwritten note in his store that read: “Due to scumbags shoplifting, please ask for assistance to open cabinets.”

But officers from North Wales Police attended his retro shop in Wrexham and told him to consider changing the wording because it was offensive.

It has also emerged that the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has advised retailers that putting up images of thieves in a local area “may not be appropriate” because it could violate suspects’ data rights. …

This is the priority of the UK police – how to make the world more comfortable for criminals. They spend your money, and they risk your life, because they have such a strong need to virtue signal.

So, let this be a lesson to us as Americans. We don’t want to elect people who govern with their feelings. That would be a mistake. Instead, you should move yourself and your family to the most conservative parts of the country. Conservative states, like Florida, Tennessee, Oklahoma, etc. The police are laser-focused on protecting you. The conservative states have the best police forces. Taxpayers get good value for their money there. As for the UK, it’s a third world country run by idiots. Never travel there.