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More NASA Foolishness

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OSIRIS-REx they're calling it, supposedly a mere technical acronym. It is a mission to travel to the asteroid Bennu, map it, take a sample, and return to Earth, so that they can analyze the sample and learn what part asteroids played in bringing the building blocks of life to Earth.      This is stupid for several reasons. First of all, we can tell you with total confidence that asteroids had nothing, absolutely nothing to do with life on Earth. There were no building blocks. Stop passing off theories as facts!!     "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth" (Genesis 1:1). All anyone has to do is read the first 3 chapters of the Bible and he will know the answers to all kinds of questions that people pose today. No need for philosophy. No need for "discovery" missions to "unlock the secrets of Earth's origins", etc. God was there in the beginning. He did it, and He tells us about it in His book. Instead of spending astronomical a...

"RESPECTABLE CHRISTIANITY"

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by William R. Newell "In these days of 'respectable' Christianity, with its great cathedrals, churches, denominations, colleges, seminaries, 'uplift movements,' etc., you may say, Men no longer have any temptation to be 'ashamed of the gospel.'  But lo, and behold, it is not the gospel they preach; but a man-reforming, world-mending message of fallen flesh!  Who today preaches of the wrath of God?  But Paul speaks of wrath twelve times in Romans, and says: 'If God visit not with wrath, He cannot be the Judge of the world,'  Who preaches of the awful things we are about to find true of the Gentile world in the end of this chapter?  Who preaches, that even among the moral philosophers, the 'better' classes (in the first part of Ch.2): or the 'religious' world as represented by the Jew (last part of Ch. 2); or in the whole world (3:10-20), that 'none is righteous,' ' none doeth good'?  Who preaches that the wh...