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3059) The Wood Wide Web

     You are able to read these words because you are connected to the World Wide Web.  Three-fourths of the world’s people are.  Therefore, you have the capability to contact any of these six billion people, anywhere in the world, in seconds, and communicate with them.  That is, of course, only one of the […]

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3013) A Detective Examines the Evidence for God

By John Stonestreet, August 31,2015 Blog at:  www.breakpoint.org      Standing on the porch of a locked house, rookie homicide investigator J. Warner Wallace peered into the living room.  He could see a man on the floor in a pool of blood, gun by his side.  Now the question he had to answer:  Was this

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3010) Behold, The Spider

      My wife does not like spiders.  In fact, she is so against spiders, that she does not even allow them in our house.  Whenever she sees a cobweb, she whisks it away with her extendable ceiling duster.  But what she does not realize is that every time she removes a spider’s web,

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2999) “The Voice of Thy Thunder”

Psalm 77:18 (King James Version) —  The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook. ******************************** In that wonderful hymn “How Great Thou Art” we sing “I  hear the rolling thunder, Thy power throughout the universe displayed.”  While most of us want to be in

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2837) Marveling

     Georgia preacher Fred Craddock describes how his ancestors used to go out walking, usually on a Sunday afternoon back when the stores were closed that day; and they called it “going marveling.”  Marveling.  They would look for unusual rocks, pretty little wild flowers, shells, four-leafed clovers, brightly colored bird feathers, maybe even a

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2800) Pond Scum, etc.

The Nikon Small World in Motion competition brings together talented microscopists from all over the world. What they have been able to capture will likely astound you, even though sometimes what you’re seeing is pond scum.  This video is from the Scientific American website (watch 0:00 – 2:30).  ————————————– ————————————- When the Psalmist wanted to express

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2757) Switching Sides

     Allan Rex Sandage (1926-2010), the greatest observational cosmologist in the world (see Wikipedia for list of accomplishments)—who deciphered the secrets of the stars, plumbed the mysteries of quasars, revealed the age of globular clusters, pinpointed the distances of remote galaxies, and quantified the universe’s expansion through his work at the Mount Wilson and

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2705) The Burden of Proof

     Many people have the mistaken notion that all the facts point to ‘no God,’ and only by mustering up all sorts of blind faith can we believe in a God who we do not see and whose existence we cannot prove.  But it would be no less logical to ask the question of God’s existence in an entirely

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2650) Irreconcilable Differences? (c)

 Earth seen rising above the moon on December 24, 1968.  As Apollo 8 orbited the moon that day, in their broadcast back to earth, the astronauts took turns reading from the first chapter of Genesis. ****************************************      (…continued)  Now, it must be said that in order for the scientists to do much of their

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2649) Irreconcilable Differences? (b)

     (…continued)  When in John chapter 10 Jesus says to his disciples, “I am the gate,” Peter doesn’t jump up and say, ‘Don’t try to fool us, Jesus, we don’t see any hinges or latches on you.”  No, they knew, and we know, Jesus was using a gate as an image of the way to

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