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June 2025

An Accent on Language Ability After suffering a stroke, a man in Baltimore suddenly began speaking with a Scandinavian accent. Though he had no experience with languages other than English, he suddenly sounded Nordic and appeared unfamiliar with English! In the weeks after the stroke, his speech gradually returned to...Read more
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The worst kind of attack is an ad hominem one, wherein the character of your opponent is impugned and doubt is cast on his integrity, while the evidence he brings is avoided. As a debate teacher once said many years ago, “If your opponent immediately jumps to name calling, he’s...Read more
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When Younus Kathrada prays “O Allah, destroy the Jews,” he isn’t just hoping for divine punishment to come upon them. It is a call to Muslims to do violence to Jews, for the Qur’an tells Muslims that they are the executors of the wrath of Allah: “Fight them, and Allah...Read more
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If there is no moral response possible on man’s part, then “choose you this day” ( Joshua:24:15 And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of...Read more
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The late Robert Jastrow, who hosted more than 100 CBS-TV network programs on space science , struggled for years to deny the distasteful evidence. An agnostic, he shocked many of his fellow scientists when he implied at the 144th National Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Science that...Read more
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It is blatantly dishonest to attempt to explain away differences in belief by saying that they simply represent Progressive Revelation, when, in fact, they represent different “revelations” that contradict each other—and, therefore, cannot possibly all come from God, who does not contradict today what He said yesterday. It may sound...Read more
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Too often the phrase “Touch not God’s anointed!” is an excuse for not exercising the discernment God has given us. Many who say this are unaware that they have already judged an individual to be a prophet of God and, as a consequence, will not do anything that might seem...Read more
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In response to the Bible’s explanation that the universe began as a creative act of God, atheists counter that this is no explanation at all because it only raises a further question: Who created God? Common sense tells us that this question is absurd. For centuries, philosophers have agreed that...Read more
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As far as God’s justice is concerned, Abraham asked a pointed rhetorical question of the Lord: “Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?” ( Genesis:18:25 That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should...Read more
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Creationists have long pointed out that natural selection helps living things adapt to new environments—by sorting (culling from) the built-in genetic variation.1 This is not ‘evolution, since it adds no new genetic information, as ameba-to-man evolution would require. Differing species of lizards of the genus Anolis , like Darwin’s finches...Read more
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