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Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Astrophysics Points to the God of the Bible MP3 Audio by Hugh Ross - Apologetics 315
Over at Apologetics 315 - Astrophysicist, Hugh Ross explains how the fine tuning of the universe is evidence for the existence of the God described in the Bible. Listen to the mp3.
I like the lecture a lot. Hugh Ross did a good job of showing that the Universe was created out of nothing and points to a cause who is just like the God described in the Bible. The evidence says that the cause must be external to the space-time continuum.
Astrophysics Points to the God of the Bible MP3 Audio by Hugh Ross - Apologetics 315
The Surahs of the Qur'an in Chronological Order
On his blog, James White posted a chart containing a chart placing the Surah of the Koran in a possible Chronological order.
96 | 68 | 73 | 74 | 1 | 111 | 81 | 87 | 92 | 89 | 93 | 94 | 103 | 100 |
108 | 102 | 107 | 109 | 105 | 113 | 114 | 112 | 53 | 80 | 97 | 91 | 85 | 95 |
106 | 101 | 75 | 104 | 77 | 50 | 90 | 86 | 54 | 38 | 7 | 72 | 36 | 25 |
35 | 19 | 20 | 56 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 17 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 15 | 6 | 37 |
31 | 34 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 51 | 88 | 18 | 16 |
71 | 14 | 21 | 23 | 32 | 52 | 67 | 69 | 70 | 78 | 79 | 82 | 84 | 30 |
29 | 83 | 2 | 68 | 3 | 33 | 60 | 4 | 99 | 57 | 47 | 13 | 55 | 76 |
65 | 98 | 59 | 24 | 22 | 63 | 58 | 49 | 66 | 64 | 61 | 62 | 48 | 5 |
8-9 | 110 |
What Hollywood Believes: James Taylor
James Taylor was quoted in What Hollywood Believes as saying that he believes that spirituality is an important part of recovery from drugs and alcohol. However he did say that his songs were "spirituals for agnostics." I think what is really telling is his answer to the question: "Does not having faith in a person God make it harder to stick with a 12-step recovery program?" He said:
"Twelve step programs say an interesting thing: Either you have a God, or you are God and don't want the job."
This freaked me out. I hope not all programs teach such a bad idea. It really speaks to where we are in our culture however. People have taken god off the thrones of their lives and replaced Him with themselves. This is why we are in the state we are in as a species and society.