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Did the Mount St. Helens Eruption Prove Flood Geology?

December 18, 2022

“The eruption demonstrated that geologic catastrophe can produce in hours and days geologic features previously believed to have taken millions of years. When we see what the volcano did in such a short time, we can better appreciate how the catastrophe of Noah’s Flood formed the much larger geological features on planet Earth.” — Dr. […]

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It’s the Culture Wars, Stupid

December 11, 2022

“No, it’s not about the economy. It’s about our kids and the cultural indoctrination that is poisoning their futures.” — Mike Stenhouse, CEO of the Rhode Island Center for Freedom and Prosperity, a free market think tank By now, we are all aware of the results from the 2022 mid-terms here in America. The GOP […]

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The U.S. Is Being Diplomatically Outmaneuvered by China

December 4, 2022

It’s not just China’s huge armies we have to be concerned about, or their technological know-how. To put it bluntly, we are losing the diplomacy game to Communist China. But, we don’t have to. I have posted before about the threat China poses not just to American dominance but to freedom and prosperity around the […]

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What Geisler Got Wrong about Calvinism and Hyper-Calvinism

November 27, 2022

“Norman Geisler considers his view a ‘middle’ ground position, however, many Reformed critics of Geisler could categorize him as holding a weakened form of Arminianism.” — Peter Sammons, Reprobation and God’s Sovereignty, 109, n.14 This is a follow-up to my post of a few weeks back. I had mentioned Dr. Norman Geisler as a notable […]

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Thank God for Gut Bacteria

November 20, 2022

You might read that title and think I’m a little weird. But, by the end of this post, you’ll be thankful for the lil fellas, too. (Though you may still think I’m weird.) A few years ago, I was having some digestive issues. (Nothing major.) I don’t remember the details — probably just as well […]

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What Kanye Said

November 13, 2022

Kanye West — I refuse to call him ‘Ye’ — gets a lot of grief. This has been especially true in recent years, now that he has adopted a largely conservative political view and become a Christian (of some sort). As with Donald Trump, some of the criticism is fair, thanks to his big ego […]

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When Is a UFO Not a UFO?, Part 2

November 6, 2022

“The more you investigate, the more likely you are to find that there is LESS to these stories than meets the eye.” — astronomer Andrew Fraknoi, Science Education and Outreach: Forging a Path to the Future journal Continuing from Part 1, we again consider the question asked in the post’s title: When is a UFO […]

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Five Misconceptions About Calvinism

October 30, 2022

In honor of Reformation Day this year, I opted to provide some information about the teachings of one of the Reformers, John Calvin. A little over a year ago, a Facebook friend shared a rather long post (possibly extracted from an e-book) from someone named Robin Schumacher. I was not familiar with the name at […]

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When Is a UFO Not a UFO?, Part 1

October 23, 2022

“They can fly rings around the moon, but we’re years ahead of them on the highway.” — old man re UFOs, Close Encounters of the Third Kind There is more than one way to answer the titular question here. One response is, “When it’s called by another name.” During World War II, Allied aircraft pilots […]

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A Budget Blueprint Better Than Biden’s

October 16, 2022

“[T]he Biden administration imagines its budget will produce low inflation, steady growth, and low unemployment, when in reality, the opposite would be likely.” — Matthew Dickerson et al., The Heritage Foundation The House Budget Committee voted last month to pass Biden’s budget — a $3.5 trillion spending bill, which does not include the separate $1 […]

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