@jason_howerton@GodsFavRtard Because 30 million years ago would seem to contradict much of Scripture's foundation - God speaking and it was so, genealogies, death before sin, etc. It leads to people prioritizing what man says about the origin of the universe and life instead of what God's Word says.
@jason_howerton Yes and no. Wrt an eternal, salvific sense, it matters not. But as John MacArthur argued, denying the simple reading of Genesis 1 can (and does) lead to denying other parts of Scripture. I am glad that all of Jesus' miracles were creationary, which supports a YEC worldview.
"I believe that we have reason to believe that, in God's saving purpose through the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, those who die in infancy are included within the work of atonement and salvation."
From the Ask Anything Tour at Two Cities Church. Link: https://t.co/bJq1m6zQF7
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@JomboyMedia Neither camera angle showed down the line. Any part of the ball hanging over the chalk means it's fair. And both umps had the right angle to make the call.
@nypost She wasn't thrown down the steps. She tried to hit the Rangers fan, and he pushed her back. She lost her balance and fell. Never hit a woman, but woman shouldn't be starting stuff she can't handle.
@Ecnerwal23 The entire ball has to be outside the outer edge of the chalk line. If any part is hanging over the chalk, it's still fair. It's impossible to tell from that camera angle, but the umpire clearly has the right angle to make the call.
A MIT professor gave a 1-hour lecture in 2019 that has 18 million views.
He died 5 months after recording it.
It was his final gift to the world.
Patrick Winston taught at MIT for 50 years.
The smartest engineers on earth sat in his classroom.
And he spent his last lecture teaching them the one skill their degrees never covered.
How to speak.
15 lessons that will change how you communicate forever:
Never open with a joke. Your audience is not ready to laugh yet. Open with a promise of what they will know by the end.
Your ideas are like your children. You are too close to them. What is obvious to you is invisible to everyone else. Explain the obvious.
The 5-minute rule: the first 5 minutes of any talk determine whether people will listen for the next 55. Spend more time on your opening than anything else.
Repeat your most important idea 3 times in 3 different ways. Once is never enough.
Build a fence around your idea. Tell people what it is NOT before you tell them what it IS.
Verbal punctuation. Pause. Let the idea land before moving to the next one.
Ask questions nobody will answer. Then wait 7 seconds. The silence is not awkward. It is processing.
Never read your slides. Your audience can read. They cannot listen and read simultaneously.
Use the board not the slides. Writing forces you to slow down. Slowing down forces clarity.
Inspire before you inform. Nobody learns from someone they are not inspired by.
End with a contribution not a summary. Tell them what you gave them. Not what you said.
Never say thank you at the end. It is weak. End with something that lands.
Stories make ideas stick. Data makes ideas understood. You need both. In that order.
The quality of your communication determines the quality of your ideas in the eyes of the world. Not the ideas themselves.
Practice is not preparation. Practice IS the skill.
Patrick Winston understood something most people spend their entire careers missing.
Your ideas are only as powerful as your ability to transfer them into someone else's mind.
You can be the smartest person in the room and be completely invisible.
Or you can master communication and make average ideas feel like breakthroughs.
He chose to spend his last lecture teaching this.
Watch it tonight.
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