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BET YOU DIDN’T KNOW: Grokipedia is the New Alternative to Wikipedia
(THREE MNUTE READ) — Over at Science & Culture, Denyse O’Leary compares how Wikipedia and its new Elon Musk-backed rival, Grokipedia, handle the issue of fine-tuning aka Intelligent Design (ID), and her conclusion is the latter does a far better job of describing ID. By Denyse O’Leary All encyclopedias have their biases but Wikipedia, consulted…
Read MoreSCIENCE AND FAITH: Why Cosmic Background Radiation Demonstrates the Universe had a Beginning
By J. Warner Wallace (FOUR-MINUTE READ) — In 1964, two American physicists and radio astronomers, Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson, made an important discovery. They were unable to eliminate the radio signal “noise” from their large antenna at the Bell Telephone Laboratories in New Jersey, regardless of where in the universe they tried to point…
Read MoreSCIENCE AND FAITH: God and Scientific Evidence
By Christopher Reece (10-MINUTE READ) — In the modern West, “scientific proof” is thought to be the gold standard for separating truth from falsehood. The popular belief is that if you don’t have scientific proof of something, it doesn’t exist or is just a matter of subjective opinion. This is a viewpoint known as scientism, which…
Read MoreCONSIDER THIS: Last Words of Famous Atheists
Can you guess which famous atheist figure in the history of Western civilization said these words on his deathbed: “I have swallowed nothing but smoke. I have intoxicated myself with the incense that turned my head. I am abandoned by God and man.” Those have been claimed as the words of the 17th-18th Century French…
Read MoreEXPLAIN THIS: Darwin’s Racism of the Gaps
By Jonathan Witt In the wake of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species (1859), thought leaders in Europe and the United States used his theory of evolution by natural selection to justify violent and dehumanizing treatment of non-whites around the globe. This much is well known. Less widely recognized is that Darwin’s case for ape-to-man evolution…
Read More*Not So Meek and Mild
He shocked the mannered when He raised cups with townies and let a long-haired lady weep across His feet. He angered the rich when He said camels could pass through needles easier than they into Heaven. He cracked a whip and cash registers flew. He crashed the market when eighty pork bellies dove over a…
Read MoreWhy Is There A Camel Walking Around Capitol Hill? And Sheep? And A Donkey?
Photo courtesy of Faith & Liberty. Come December 7, you may find yourself asking that question as you walk from one of the House office buildings across Independence Avenue to the Capitol and spot a camel strolling along. It will be accompanied by sheep and a donkey, too. Oh, and there will be three really…
Read MoreEight Days Till The Live Nativity On Capitol Hill
Special to HillFaith Only eight days before the Live Nativity, and we are following the star straight to Capitol Hill! Matthew 2 tells the story of the arrival of the Wise Men: “Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the…
Read MoreThey’re Coming! Baby Jesus, Mary, Joseph, Samson the Camel, Sheep and Donkeys
Make way for the Messiah! Police will be doing just that as Mary, Joseph, the baby Jesus, Wise Men, townspeople, and shepherds donned in first-century attire, along with camels, donkeys and sheep, head to the U.S. Supreme Court. The world-changing story of that first Christmas night will be read from the Scriptures. Live music will…
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