Acts 17:26 “And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;” There seems little doubt in my mind that Charles Darwin was a r...
Continue ReadingGenesis 43:11 “And their father Israel said unto them, If it must be so now, do this; take of the best fruits in the land in your vessels, and carry down the man a present, a little balm, and a little honey, spices, and myrrh, nuts, and almonds:” New ...
Continue ReadingEcclesiastes 12:12 “And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.” People often forget that the theory of evolution is really an entire mythological system. It is impo...
Continue ReadingEphesians 5:15-16 “See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil.” Growing up in England in the 1970s, I remember the BBC launching a children’s TV show during Summer vacation mornings ...
Continue ReadingGenesis 11:8-9 “So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all th...
Continue ReadingPsalm 119:160 “Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever.” I always find it a little depressing when I read about Christians who claim that they started by believing the truth of the Bible and th...
Continue ReadingEcclesiastes 4:4 “Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit..” In 1637 Rene Descartes published a ground-breaking treatise on optics. His breakthro...
Continue Reading1 Timothy 4:12 “Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.” Teenagers were invented in the 1950s, so they say. Strangely enough, there is a lot of truth ...
Continue ReadingActs 17:2 “And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three sabbath days reasoned with them out of the scriptures,” The late Stephen J. Gould once commented that “biological arguments for racism may have been common before 1850, but they in...
Continue Reading2 Timothy 4:2 “Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.” The message “Read, Mark, Learn, and Inwardly Digest” was cast in iron above the door of the public library in Stalyb...
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