This is simply Amazing, folks!!! A couple of days ago I was running (I use that term very loosely) on my treadmill, watching a DVD sermon by Louie Giglio...and I was BLOWN AWAY! I want to share what I learned....but I fear not being able to convey it as well as I want. I will share anyway. He (Louie)…

According to Nury Vittachi, real atheists might not exist. He says that Cognitive scientists are concluding from their research that “a metaphysical outlook may be so deeply ingrained in human thought processes that it cannot be expunged.” They believe that even people who reject the God of organized…

Each day we are either moving closer to God or further away from Him; there is no middle ground. According to scientists, in one twenty-four hour period, if you're an adult of average weight, here is what you accomplish: Your heart beats 103,689 times Your blood travels 168,000,000 miles You breathe…

When Albert Einstein was asked if he believed in God, here was his response: "I'm not an atheist. I don't think I can call myself a pantheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many languages.…

Charles H. Duell was the Commissioner of US patent office in 1899. Mr. Deull's most famous attributed utterance is that "everything that can be invented has been invented." Most patent attorneys have also heard that the quote is apocryphal. In his 1989 article, Samuel Sass traced the quote back to 1981…

In A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson marvels at what makes up human life: No one really knows, but there may be as many as a million types of protein in the human body, and each one is a little miracle. By all the laws of probability proteins shouldn't exist. To make a protein you need…

An international team of scientists is arguing in a new study that the world has entered the Anthropocene, or human epoch, marking the end of the Holocene which began some 12,000 years ago as the planet thawed from the ice age. The argument is that humans have made an impact on the world significant…

Speaking at a conference in Southern California, author and apologist Lee Strobel said there are scientists who think scientific evidence disproves the existence of a creator, but that is not true. He says three areas of science point to the existence of God and new discoveries continue to point in that…

When I was 15 my family went on a cross-Canada vacation. We drove west to Alberta for my cousin’s wedding. We did a lot of sight-seeing along the way and we also spent time visiting my Aunt in British Columbia. It was an unforgettable trip. I got to see the Prairies and the Mountains and the Ocean for…

Bill Gates is considered the richest man in the world, with an estimated wealth of 76$ billion. In 2000, he founded a foundation ranked as one of the most generous in the world, and he has since stepped down from his position as chairman of Microsoft to focus on philanthropy. When Gates was asked about…

When agricultural experts from the far away land of Israel arrived in Columbia and explained how the local farmers could make money growing potatoes, nobody believed them. Local farmers from Columbia’s northern desert region, La Guajira told the visitors the land would produce a lot of rocks, but not…

Stephen Hawking, the physicist who is renowned for his work on the most complex questions of astrophysics, admitted there is one topic he thinks about often that stumps him. “Women,” said Hawking. “They are a complete mystery.” --The Week, January 20, 2012, p. 6 Illustration by Jim L. Wilson and Rodger…

Scientists have recently increased the estimation of the size of our universe. From the previously estimated 200 billion galaxies researchers at The University of Nottingham, believe the figure is likely 10 times that. In their research, published in the October issue of The Astrophysical Journal, the…

Do you remember Pig Pen, the character from the Peanuts comic strip that walked around with a cloud of dust surrounding him? Well it turns out; we all have such a cloud surrounding us. “Every human body is surrounded by an invisible cloud of millions of microbes that is as unique as our fingerprints.”…

A man whose actions changed the course of human history remained humble about his accomplishments until the day he died. Astronaut Neil Armstrong was the first human to set foot on the moon in July 1969. His statement as he stepped onto the lunar surface has become one of the best known quotes in the…

A White Christmas for North Carolina in 2010 meant a little extra money in the wallets of customers of a Wilmington jewelry store. The owner of Perry’s Emporium, Alan Perry promised to refund the cost of jewelry purchased at his store between November 26 and December 11th, if Ashville got more than three…

A typical smartphone can make calls, send texts, and surf the Internet. Now, thanks to a Danish research team, phones can conduct brain scans. The team has developed an app that can monitor brain activity when coupled with a special headset. Presently the app only works with one smartphone model, using…

The Wonder of it All Standing above the tree line, I looked down upon God's creation with a sense of awe and wonder. Beneath my feet was the mountain tundra in full bloom. The clouds overhead swirled and darted from place to place as the chilling wind dared to push me from my observation post. While…

A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests humans have good reasons to fear snakes, and ophidiophobia may rise from the experiences of our ancestors. In the research, scientists document the way frequent python attacks affected a tribe of preliterate, hunter-gathers…

He wrote in advance the epitaph to be on his gravestone: “The body of Benjamin Franklin, Printer, like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out and stripped of its lettering and gilding, lies here … Yet the Work itself shall not be lost; for it will, as he believed, appear once more in a new and…

From the beginning, humankind has sought ways to control the environment in which they live, including the weather. One of the miracles of Jesus reported by the gospel writers is his control over the wind and the storms. God, not humans, is in control of the winds, and our education and technology is…

SMALL THINGS Did you know that ordinary Scotch tape can emit X-rays? According to a report published in the journal, Nature, scientists discovered that when you peel off the adhesive tape from its roll in a vacuum, you produce X-rays. The action produces so much X-ray radiation that researchers were…

Proverbs 31:10-31 Here's a story Erma Bombeck told about how God created Mothers. When the good Lord was creating mothers He was into His sixth day of "overtime" when the angel appeared and said, "You're doing a lot of fiddling around this one." And the Lord said, "Have you read the specs on this order?…