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Evolution Taught in the US


A map of how much Evolution is taught in the US.

So why are so many states teaching a hypothesis as a fact?


Map courtesy of Strange Maps

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Go Against the Grain

If you go against the grain, you get splinters, regardless of which neighborhood you’re from …
-Romans 2:9a The Message

As Christians, we’re called to be “set apart” (Romans 1:1) and “stand firm in the faith” (1 Corinthians 16:13). In doing so, we have to “go agains the grain” of culture.
Therefore, we need to life differently than the culture - we need to live according to the Bible, which is the Truth (John 1:1).

By going against the culture, we’ll get ’splinters.’ But what is pain? After all, we have the best ‘pair of tweezers’ in the world - Jesus Christ. Jesus is the one who we can place our trust and take refuge in. He will remove the pain and give us the strength (Isaiah 40:31) we need to overcome any obstacle (James 1:5-6). And just think, when we get ’splinters,’ it will transform us into better Christians who can stand firm (James 1:2)!

So what are we doing here? Let’s get out and take culture head on! Let’s do something more than take a few pot-shots at the issues, wait for the culture to come to us, or argue within the Church - let’s go all out! Let’s live life boldly for Christ - not cower in the corner. We have the most powerful being in the universe on our side, why don’t we take advantage of that?

Put your faith in the Lord, be bold, and take culture head on.

//Bring it World
-Brian Purkiss

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Why Is There Evil in the World?

Why is there evil in the world?
It’s quite simple actually.

God loves us. Therefore He lets us choose our actions. Thus, we (since we are sinful-Genesis 3) choose to do evil.

So why is there evil in the world?
Because of us - not God.

Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done. They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless. Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.
-Romans 1:28-32

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“True” Science

Science is an interconnected series of concepts and conceptual schemes that have developed as a result of experimentation and observation, and are fruitul of further experimentation and observations.
-Science and Common Sense - By: Dr. James B. Conant (former president of Harvard)

Scientific proof is based on showing that something is a fact by repeating the event in the presence of the person questioning the fact.
-More than a Carpenter - Josh McDowell

The scientific method, however it is defined, is related to measurement of phenomena and experimentation or repeated observation.
-The New Encyclopaedia Britannica - Micropaedia Vol. VIII, pg 985

Science:
1: a branch of knowledge or study dealing with a body of facts or truths systematically arranged and showing the operation of general laws
2. systematic knowledge of the physical or material world gained through observation and experimentation.

Translation:
“True” Science is something that can be reproduced and observed.

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The Great Commission

[googlevideo=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4798454957666839036&hl=en]
Video Link –>

6.5 Billion People
193 Countries

56.0 Million people die per year
153,000 per day
6390 per hour
107 per minute
1.78 per second

People are going to hell every moment - for eternity.

It’s an eye opener isn’t it?

//Bring it World
-Brian Purkiss

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