Bible News Episode 3

Sun, 31 Jul 2011 21:38:36 -0400
community-news-and-opinion, involvement-and-leadership, knowledge, logic, myumbc, wisdom

Muslim Woman’s Op-Ed in USA Today Asks Government to Dictate Theology
A muslim woman, upset by gender discrimination in US mosques, asks the government to force houses of worship to abandon different gender roles for men and women. In Islamic houses of worship, men and women are separated in different rooms or by a partition, for prayers. Asra Nomani, the writer, claims that this makes [mosques] “true men’s clubs.” However, the 1stAmendment guarantees religious freedom against government intrusion into how they operate. Disappointingly, she refers to the Supreme Court decision against Bob Jones University in 1982, which set a dangerous precedent for the freedom of all religions in America to operate freely without government-mandated “gender equality.” For an in-depth explanation, see:
http://www.albertmohler.com/2011/07/12/ever-heard-of-the-first-amendment-an-argument-to-watch/

Spiritual Sickness
A man who rejects all notions of exclusivity goes on a rampage against God (he even reaches out to criticize muslims for believing only muslims are saved, although he spends most of his effort attacking Christianity). He denies the atoning death of Jesus Christ, he denies His divinity, He denies that the Bible is God’s authority, and even denies that the early Church thought Jesus was any more than “a simple and plain person.” Sadly, he is the head of Mercer University. Biblical Christians are encouraged to avoid his false teachings.

Transformers Voice Actor Hears the Gospel
Ray Comfort prayed for “divine encounters,” and was surprised to be moved up to First Class by a flight attendant, whereafter he met and spoke at length with one of the lead voice actors for Transformers, and also spoke with one of the Jonas Brothers and promised to send him a CD entitled “Hell’s Best-Kept Secret.” Mark Ryan is the voice actor for Bumblebee in at least one of the movies and a video game, as well as being the voice of Jetfire in the 2ndmovie and Ironhide in one of the video games. Other works include The Prestige and Charlie’s Angels.

Missouri Flood Creates Scale Model of Badlands Landscape
This is from the levee that the Army Corps of Engineers had to open to relieve the flood earlier this spring. This adds to the contemporary examples, most notably Mt. St. Helens in Washington State, that show that large amounts of rock can be cut, and sediment can be piled up, in a short amount of time, by catastrophic water action.

High Rate of Mutations Accumulating Each Generation in Humans
The fact that 60 to 200 new mutations are “irrevocably added each generation,” indicates that in a short span of (geologic) time, humans would cease to be biologically viable due to the fact that an organism can only tolerate a certain amount of mutations before the species reaches what is called “error catastrophe.”

Can Melanin Survive Without Degrading for 120 million years?
The original melanin in feathers of an extinct bird that is dated at 120 Ga has been confirmed to be part of the original sample of Confuciusornis sanctus.
Correction: while original melanin has been found in fossils dated too old for conventional decay to leave any remaining organic compounds, this particular example is of copper remains in a distribution that shows where eumelanin originally was located. Whether original eumelanin was found in this fossil was left unsaid by any source that I was able to investigate.

Conservatives Fire Back Against Hasty Conclusions by Liberal Media over Anders Breivik

The following links contain rebukes of the over-eager attempt by liberal media outlets such as the New York Times to paint Breivik as “right-wing, fundamentalist Christian,” etc.
Ann Coulter
Daniel Greenfield
Prof. Phyllis Chesler
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