I would argue that pornography is a public health issue & the 1st Amendment does not protect it. And if the government wanted to censor pornography, it could.
A former FedEx driver was sentenced to death for the 2022 murder of a 7-year-old girl he kidnapped and strangled after delivering a Christmas gift to her Texas home.
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Why did God create Adam and Eve knowing they would sin? Well, we could ask that same question about us. Why do we as parents have kids knowing they will sin? Because we know that, despite the fact that our kids are going to do evil, they can still do good.
Neil argues that as science advances and knowledge increases, there's less use for God as an explanation of anything — so theism loses ground over time. But the opposite is true. Scientific advances have resulted in discoveries like the beginning of the universe, the fine-tuning of the universe, biological information that functions like software, irreducibly complex biochemical machines, and so on. It's the naturalistic explanations that have become more implausible over time, not theism.
When Stephen Meyer, for example, argues that the origin of biological information is best explained by intelligence, he's not arguing from ignorance. He's arguing from knowledge — we know of a cause that's capable of producing the observed effect. So he's drawing an inference to the best explanation, not punting to God for something we don't know how to explain.
@SoConJohn22@JayBilas You’re right. If these schools navigate away from the NCAA, they won’t be required to have certain numbers of sports and they’ll cut them.
Whatever you currently believe about Jesus of Nazareth, you owe it to yourself to investigate Him thoroughly. It makes little sense to ignore the one solitary life that continues to impact you in eternity if His claims are true.
Does this sound like Genesis?
The Australian Aboriginal people (like other cultures around the world) had legends passed down from their ancestors. And many of these legends sound like one is reading Genesis 1–11.
They have legends about a global flood, three sons on a raft, a rainbow at the end of the flood, and many other elements similar to the Genesis flood account. They also have legends about a forbidden tree and that the first woman tasted some honey from the tree and death came into the world.
Sounds familiar, doesn’t it?
There are flood legends in cultures all over the world. We have an exhibit on such flood legends on the third deck of the Ark at the @ArkEncounter attraction.
When I went to university, I had a professor who said that the Jews had stories about a flood like the Babylonians. He claimed that it’s obvious the Jews borrowed their stories from the Babylonians. Many seminary professors sadly also teach this secular view of history.
But this doesn’t make logical sense, and it certainly doesn’t make biblical sense!
If one reads the Babylonian stories, they sound fanciful and not real. But when one reads the Genesis account, it reads as real history with a ship with dimensions that make sense! I would say the Babylonian account is a perversion of the original account which is preserved in Scripture.
As people increased on the earth after the flood, they went through an event called the tower of Babel. God judged by giving different languages because of their rebellion, so people then dispersed over the earth. They took the account of the flood and other events about creation and the fall and, over the years, changed them to become the fanciful legends that abound in people groups over the earth.
This is so powerful.
Atheist Astronaut Reid Wiseman reveals he broke down crying after returning to Earth and seeing a Cross
"I'm not really a religious person, but there was just no other avenue for me to explain anything..."
Jesus is the answer. ✝️
The transfer portal and immediate eligibility has created a situation where the 99% of athletes that aren’t stars who will go pro potentially put themselves in danger of not being able to eventually graduate, or at least having delayed graduation after they’re done playing sports
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