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We have always been told that it takes millions of years for muddy deposits to turn into rock. Those who believe in creation have always disagreed. It seems pretty clear to us that much of the sedimentary rock we see today was deposited during the Great Flood at the time of Noah, which was not millions of years ago. Creationists generally place the Flood at about 4,600 years ago. Until recently, evolutionists dismissed this date as impossible: sedimentary rocks simply could not form that fast. Well, now it seems that they spoke too soon.While digging some trenches in a salt marsh, a team of sedimentologists found stony nodules in the mud. Further research on how the nodules formed revealed that a mud deposit can be transformed into a layer of sedimentary rock in as little as six months! They found that two bacteria are responsible for this. One species gets its energy from the sulphates in seawater. In the process, it produces hydrogen sulphide. The second species of bacteria can do the same thing. But if too much hydrogen sulphide is present, it can also change iron compounds so that they react with hydrogen sulphide and other salts. The result is stony lumps of iron sulphide and iron carbonate - sedimentary rock that is hardened quickly enough to fossilize any animal before it decays.Science has now confirmed what creationists who believe the Bible have always suspected. There are natural processes that can form sedimentary rock within the limited timeframe allowed by a literal reading of Scriptural history.Luke 19:40"And he answered and said unto them, I tell you that, if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out.”Prayer: Father, I thank You that your entire creation bears witness to You. Amen.Ref: Ref: Andy York, “Set in Stone,” New Scientist. Image: Layers of sedimentary rock in Makhtesh Ramon (50749) Rhododendrites, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1232/29?v=20251111

Conifers aren't bothered by too many insect pests. That's because the oils that give them that nice pine scent are poisonous. They would be poisonous to the conifer sawfly larva if it digested them, too. But while it munches the pine needles, its body is busy storing the poisonous oils for future defense. The fact that the sawfly not only eats pine needles, but also uses the poisonous oils for defense poses a difficult problem for evolution which appears to have no solution.The sawfly larva's unique ability makes it a serious conifer pest both in North America and Europe. Part of the larva's secret is its digestive system. It separates the poisonous oils in the pine needles from the nutritious pulp. Then it regurgitates the poisonous oils and stores them in two special sacs in its mouth. These sacs are lined with a chitinous material that protects the rest of the mouth from the acidic, poisonous oils. When threatened by a spider or even a bird, the sawfly releases some of this bad-smelling oil in the direction of the threat. This strategy effectively convinces most aggressors to seek a meal somewhere else.The problem for evolution is that these complicated structures and special abilities could not have developed in a gradual, step-by -step fashion as evolution demands. If the sawfly once did not originally eat pine needles, then how did it acquire the special ability to eat them and develop this special defense system? So, even this humble fly bears witness to its Creator.Psalm 148:10-13"Beasts, and all cattle; creeping things, and flying fowl: Kings of the earth, and all people; princes, and all judges of the earth: Both young men, and maidens; old men, and children: Let them praise the name of the Lord: for his name alone is excellent; his glory is above the earth and heaven.”Prayer: Dear Lord, help me to be a better witness of Your love for me. Amen.Ref: Creation Research Society, “Neodiprion (Sawfly)” Mark Stewart. Image: Diprion similis final instar larva, Ivar Leidus, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1232/29?v=20251111

Bike thefts spike in summer. WNYC and Gothamist reporter Brittany Kriegstein, talks about the stats and the challenges in preventing having a bike stolen, as listeners share their suggestions. Photo: A woman rides her bike on a Manhattan street. (Photo by FaceMePLS/Flickr via Wikimedia Commons.) Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Vi har alla sett dem på film, läst om dem i böcker eller serietidningar och hört talas om deras blodiga bravader: gladiatorerna, de förslavade krigare som utkämpade dueller till döds på antikens amfiteatrar. Men frågorna är många. Hur uppstod gladiatortraditionen, hur såg en gladiatorstrid ut, vilka typer av gladiatorer fanns det, och när gick ridån ned för spektaklen?Rötterna till gladiatorernas tvekamper är att söka i begravningsritualer, vid vilka människoblod – trodde man – måste spillas för att de dödas andar skulle få det bättre. Seden uppstod i syditalienska Campanien och spred sig omkring år 300 f.Kr. till Rom, där man lärde sig att älska underhållningsvåldet.Det blev vanligt att förmögna romerska karriärister bjöd på gladiatorspel för att bli populära, och en mängd gladiatortyper introducerades – till exempel retiarius, ”nätmannen”, secutor, ”förföljaren”, essedarius, ”vagnskämpen”, sagittarius, ”bågskytten” till häst, och många fler. Kring gladiatorspelen utvecklades en omfattande kultur med gladiatorskolor och träning, och de skickligaste gladiatorerna kunde bli föremål för idoldyrkan av både krigisk och sexuell natur.De kristna kyrkofäderna och biskoparna, som avskydde striderna, kunde indignerat konstatera att deras församlingsmedlemmar var lika entusiastiska som övrig publik. Ända till 400-talet e.Kr. var gladiatorspelen ett stort folknöje i Sydeuropa, Nordafrika och Främre Orienten.I detta avsnitt av podden Harrisons dramatiska historia samtalar Dick Harrison, professor i historia vid Lunds universitet, och fackboksförfattaren Katarina Harrison Lindbergh om gladiatorerna i det antika Rom.Gladiatorer i strid, avbildade på den så kallade Zlitenmosaiken från Leptis Magna i dagens Libyen, troligen 100-talet e.Kr. Mosaiken ger en ovanligt konkret inblick i romerska arenans våld, utrustning och underhållningskultur i Nordafrika. Okänd upphovsperson. Public domain (PD-Art), via Wikimedia Commons.Klippare: Emanuel Lehtonen Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

There are more than 200 ant species in the attine family of ants. All of them farm for a living. And they are as sophisticated about their farming as any modern human farmer. They are found anywhere from the tropics to New Jersey. The specialization shown by these ants makes an evolutionary explanation for them impossible.One example is the famous leaf-cutting ants found in the tropics. Leaf cutters use the leaf pieces they collect to make mulch. Once the mulch is ready, they grow a fungus in it, which they eat. That fungus grew from a “seed” fungus that was stored in a special pouch in the mouth of the queen who began that colony and she brought it from the colony where she grew up. That she has this special pouch for seed material for her children is a witness to God's intelligent design.The ants' digestive system is specialized, too, so that its waste is a ready-to-use fertilizer for the crop. Moreover, the ants weed their crop. Certain ants inspect the fungus ball searching for invading molds. When one is found, the ant will remove it. To make sure that she does not return any contaminating bit of the mold to her crop, the ant then cleans herself before returning to the crop. This, again, is a powerful witness to divine design. The ants also generate herbicides and antibiotics which they use as needed on the crop, another witness to design. Finally, they also prune their crop in a way that has been shown to improve its productivity.All these special design features and behaviors seem to have been put into one creature as a witness against evolution.Proverbs 6:6-8"Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.”Prayer: I praise and glorify You, Father, for the evidence of Your great glory. Amen.Ref: Susan Milius, “Old MacDonald Was an Ant,” Science News. Image: Atta laevigata fungus garden, Alex Wild, CC0, Wikimedia Commons. To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1232/29?v=20251111

1810 stod Napoleon på höjden av sin makt. Trots detta möttes den franska ockupationen av hårt motstånd i Spanien och på vissa håll i Italien och Sydtyskland. Det var främst på landsbygden och bland bondebefolkningen som motståndet var störst. Man gillade inte de franska försöken att förändra samhället. Medelklassen i italienska städer var däremot mer positivt inställda till fransmännen.Sakta gick utvecklingen mot en slutlig konfrontation mellan Alexanders Ryssland och Napoleons Frankrike. År 1812 bröt en stor fransk armé in i Ryssland. Inte mindre än 400 000 man marscherade mot Moskva för att en gång för alla tvinga Ryssland till underkastelse.Detta är det andra avsnittet av två om Napoleonkrigen där programledaren Urban Lindstedt samtalar med Martin Hårdstedt, professor i historia vid Umeå universitet om Napoleonkrigen.Vid Borodino i september bjöd ryssarna hårt motstånd, men fransmännen tog slutligen Moskva. Men Napoleon kunde inte komma åt den ryska armén. Ryssarna backade undan och lät kylan och den brända jordens taktik slita ner den franska armén. Fälttåget blev en katastrof för Napoleon. I början på 1813 linkade de sista resterna av hans Grand Armée tillbaka in i Ostpreussen.Omgående samlades en ny allians mot Napoleon. En av de ledande krafterna var den före detta franske marskalken Bernadotte – sedan 1810 svensk kronprins. Tre arméer ringade in Napoleon vid Leipzig och besegrade honom i det största slaget under kriget som pågick fyra dagar i oktober 1813. Napoleon undslapp med en del av armén till Frankrike men tvingades i april 1814 abdikera och förvisade till den lilla ön Elba.De allierade inledde den stora fredskonferensen – Wienkongressen. Knappt hade gränserna reglerats och ordningen efter årtionden återställts innan budet om Napoleons återkomst nådde de församlade ledarna i Wien. Napoleon hade i mars 1815 undkommit från Elba och inledde hundra nya dagar vid makten. Den nya franska armén som i all hast stampades fram besegrades slutligen av brittiska och preussiska styrkor som i ilmarsch sattes in mot den franske kejsaren vid Waterloo den 18 juni 1815. Detta blev det definitiva slutet för Napoleon. Han fångades och sattes på ön St Helena i Atlanten.Slutligen fick Europa fred. Alla förändringar kunde inte återställas av Wienkongressen även om det fanns ett tydligt antirevolutionärt budskap i fredens slutdokument. De gamla kungadynastieran återinsattes på tronerna med ett egentligt undantag: Bernadotte fick behålla sin ställning som kronprins av Sverige. För Norden innebar Napoloenkrigens slut att embryot till fyra självständiga nationella identiteter skapades. Sverige och Danmark var stympade, men Norge hade fått en egen författning även om man befann sig i en påtvingad union med Sverige. Finland nådde en viss autonomi som storfurstendöme inom det ryska imperiet. Hundra år senare vann Norge 1905 och Finland 1917 sin självständighet, men det hade andra förklaringar.Bild: Napoleon och resterna av la grande armée på reträtt efter det ryska fälttåget. Målning av Adolph Northen ca 1850, Public Domain.Musik: La Marseillaise av Band of the Garde Républicaine med dirigent François-Julien Brun. Inspelad i Théâtre des Champs-Elysée 1950, Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain.Lyssna också på Jacob Walter och katastrofen i Ryssland 1812. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Salmo 38:7"Porque mis lomos están llenos de ardor, Y nada hay sano en mi carne".¿Quiere alborotar las plumas de un evolucionista? Sólo hágale acuerdo de que las mutaciones son perjudiciales. Sí, hay muchas mutaciones que son neutrales, pero las mutaciones beneficiosas son sólo un producto de la imaginación de los evolucionistas. La verdad es que las mutaciones suelen traer malformaciones y muerte. Tal es el caso de la pequeña mutación que cambió un inofensivo organismo que se encuentra en los intestinos de los seres humanos y los animales en una bacteria que dio lugar a la peste bubónica.Me refiero a la alteración genética de la bacteria Yersinia pestis. Las investigaciones que se llevan a cabo en la University de Northwestern - Escuela Feinberg de Medicina han descubierto que un solo cambio genético pequeño alteró fundamentalmente a la bacteria y la convirtió en un asesino que acabó con las vidas de más de 75 millones de personas en Europa en el siglo 14.En este caso, la mutación causó lo que se conoce como la "muerte negra." En otros casos, las mutaciones causan cáncer y una multitud de otras enfermedades mortales. Piense en ello. ¿Por qué los dentistas cubrirían su cuerpo con protección de plomo cuando sacan radiografías dentales si la radiación diera como resultado una mutación beneficiosa?Esta nueva investigación pone de manifiesto que las mutaciones son perjudiciales y pueden incluso llevar a la muerte a millones de personas. Tampoco, las mutaciones dan lugar a nuevas especies. Si algo, dan lugar a la extinción de las especies. A pesar de las evidencias, los evolucionistas persisten en afirmar que las mutaciones y la selección natural a lo largo de millones de años añaden a todas las formas de vida en nuestro planeta. Sin embargo, la falta de mutaciones beneficiosas es la sentencia de muerte de la evolución.Oración: Padre Celestial, cuando el primer Adán Te desobedeció, el sufrimiento y la muerte se desataron sobre nuestro mundo. Te doy gracias que Tu Hijo, el último Adán, trajo a nuestro mundo sanidad y perdón. En el nombre de Jesús. Amén.Ref: "Pequeño cambio genético llevado a "La Muerte Negra" y aún peor", Revista Digital | Ciencia. "Temprana aparición del Yersinia pestis como patógeno respiratorio grave," naturaleza Comunicaciones. Imagen: Bubonic plague victims-mass grave in Martigues, France 1720-1721 S Tzortzis, PD, Wikimedia Commons. To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1235/29?v=20251111

Not all dangerous predators can be seen. One of the most dangerous predators in a drop of pond water is Amoeba proteus. This amoeba literally terrorizes its one-celled pond-mates, who can smell the amoeba coming to engulf them. Among the amoeba's favorite snacks are creatures of the genus Euplotes. But Euplotes can defend themselves. When some members of this genus smell the amoeba coming, they dart away to safety. Others can grow pikes to defend themselves. Some can even grow hard shells to protect themselves.This scenario leaves a problem for evolution. What benefit to a predator is there in warning its prey? Evolution should have selected against the amoeba's ability to produce its unique scent, called the A-factor. Now a new discovery has revealed the amoeba's scent is really a clever design, pointing to a Designer. These amoebas reproduce by splitting, so they are surrounded by clones. The A-factor is just strong enough to allow the proteus to identify clone-mates so that they don't eat each other, but not so strong that it prevents proteus from getting enough to eat.God sent His Son, Jesus Christ, to save us from another unseen predator, the devil. The evil in the world is the warning scent of the devil's presence. God has placed many evidences within the creation that He is the Creator so that as our relatively few days on this earth flee by, we will be drawn to His Son, and, believing in Him, receive forgiveness and salvation from sin, death and the devil.Job 9:25-26"Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good. They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey.”Prayer: We thank You, dear Father, that in Your love, You sent Your Son to save me from sin, death and the devil. Amen.Ref: S. Milius, “Amoeba betrayed by anticannibal defense,” Science News. Image: Amoeba proteus, SmallRex, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1232/29?v=20251111

Just about every public school textbook includes the example of the peppered moth. The moth is used as a prime example of natural selection. Supposedly, as the trees in the English countryside began to be covered with coal pollution in the mid -1800s, the light-colored tree trunks became darker. The peppered moth exists in two varieties, black and white, and was said to rest on the tree trunks. As the trunks turned black the white variety was more easily seen and picked off by the birds, leaving the black variety to multiply. Students were told this was natural selection.But since the 1980s, numerous studies of moth populations and how they live have called into question the use of the peppered moth as an example of evolution. Several additional population studies in polluted and unpolluted forests show little correlation between whether there are lighter or darker moths. After pollution control laws went into effect in England, the population of dark moths decreased in the north, but increased in the south! In addition, the nocturnal moths do not rest on the tree trunks during the day but stay hidden under the branches higher in the tree. In the famous photograph shown in every biology textbook - of a pair of moths resting on a tree, the moths were actually glued to the tree trunks to provide the picture!Let's not give away the treasures of the truth of God's inerrant Word for the false treasure of earthly theories which deny our Creator.Luke 12:33"Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth.”Prayer: Thank you, Father, that Your saving Word is trustworthy. Amen.Ref: Jonathan Wells, Ph.D., “Second Thoughts about Peppered Moths,” Image: Biston betularia (Peppered Moth), Janet Graham, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1232/29?v=20251111

C'est peut-être l'anonyme la plus connue de la Bible. Son voyage à Jérusalem et sa rencontre avec un roi sont devenus légendaires. Je suis sûr que vous avez déjà deviné, surtout si vous avez ouvert le 1er livre des Rois au chapitre 10.  NOTES  ·        BIBLIOGRAPHIE | AUTRES ANONYMES·        Épisode enregistré en Vendée (85, France), juillet 2026.·        Image de couverture : La reine de Saba, Jan BOECKHORST, 1645 – huile sur toile, 136 x 180 cm, Fondatie Terninck, Anvers (BE), source : Wikimedia Commons.Plateformes, réseaux & contact : https://linktr.ee/aulargebibliqueRéalisation :  François Bessonnet, prêtre & bibliste. Génériques : Erwan Marchand (D.R.). Sous Licence Creative Commons (cc BY-NC-ND 4.0 FR). No IA Used.Cette émission s'appuie sur les sciences exégétiques et bibliques (voir bibliographie)Soutenez le podcast avec Tipeee  ou Ko-fi

Toutes les cruches ne sont pas des seaux, de même les porteurs d'eau. C'est un homme et sa cruche que nous cherchons avec cet épisode. Et vous trouverez la réponse dans l'évangile de Luc au chapitre 22.  NOTES  ·        BIBLIOGRAPHIE | AUTRES ANONYMES·        Épisode enregistré en Vendée (85, France), juillet 2026.·        Image de couverture : Le porteur d'eau à l'entrée du harem, Gustave BOULANGER, 1883 – huile sur toile 46,5 x 31,1 cm, Collection privée, source : Wikimedia Commons.Plateformes, réseaux & contact : https://linktr.ee/aulargebibliqueRéalisation :  François Bessonnet, prêtre & bibliste. Génériques : Erwan Marchand (D.R.). Sous Licence Creative Commons (cc BY-NC-ND 4.0 FR). No IA Used.Cette émission s'appuie sur les sciences exégétiques et bibliques (voir bibliographie)Soutenez le podcast avec Tipeee  ou Ko-fi

In our ongoing series about the Cortina 1956 Winter Olympics, we look at the sports of Nordic combined and ski jumping, both of which underwent their own evolutions at these Games.   For Nordic combined, a format change and uncoupling from other competitions allowed this event to finally stand on its own. That didn't mean it was easy for anyone outside of the sport to understand how it worked or how some athletes made it to the podium. Plus, there was drama in certain countries about who got to be on the team, and one coach's pushback led to medal success.   Ski jumping, which was actually called "special jumping" at these Olympics, had its own technique revolution led by Swiss jumper Andreas Däscher. The results were a perfect example of "innovate or die."   To see some fun footage from the ski jumping competition, check out this clip that shows athletes jumping in very unexpected clothing.    For a transcript and complete list of sources used in this episode, visit: https://flamealivepod.com.   Speaking of Olympic history, we're having a Summer of Nostalgia at our Patreon site. where we're sharing never-before-seen photos and videos from our escapades at Beijing 2022, Paris 2024, and Milano Cortina 2026. Relive those memories with us by becoming a patron or purchasing the Summer of Nostalgia collection!   Thanks so much for listening, and until next time, keep the flame alive!     Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons via Picryl.   *** Keep the Flame Alive: Obsessed with the Olympics and Paralympics? Just curious about how Olympic and Paralympic sports work? You've found your people! Join your hosts, Olympic aunties Alison Brown and Jill Jaracz for smart, fun, and down-to-earth interviews with athletes coaches, and the unsung heroes behind the Games. Get the stories you don't find anywhere else. Tun in weekly all year-round, and daily during the Olympics and Paralympics. We're your cure for your Olympic Fever! Call us: (208) FLAME-IT. ***     Support the show: http://flamealivepod.com/support Bookshop.org store: https://bookshop.org/shop/flamealivepod Become a patron and get bonus content: http://www.patreon.com/flamealivepod Buy merch here: https://flamealivepod.dashery.com Hang out with us online: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/flamealivepod Insta: http://www.instagram.com/flamealivepod Facebook Group: hhttps://www.facebook.com/groups/flamealivepod Newsletter: Sign up at https://flamealivepod.substack.com/subscribe VM/Text: (208) FLAME-IT / (208) 352-6348            

In this episode of the Teach Different podcast, hosts Steve and Dan Fouts explore a quote by Mark Twain, “whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”  They discuss the psychology behind groupthink, the importance of critical thinking, and the potential dangers of majority opinion. The conversation also touches on practical applications of these ideas in educational settings, particularly in discussions about peer pressure and democracy. Throughout the episode, the hosts emphasize the value of reflection and the need to consider counterclaims in order to foster deeper understanding and critical thinking skills. The episode wraps up with some essential questions for further discussion. If you enjoyed this episode please let us know by contacting us through our website www.teachdifferent.com and stand a chance to get access to all our program materials. We would love to hear from youEpisode Chapters00:00 - Introduction to Teach Different and Mark Twain's Quote04:05 - Exploring Groupthink and Majority Opinion10:10 - The Psychology Behind Following the Majority12:42 - The Tyranny of the Majority and Critical Thinking18:57 - Counterclaims and the Importance of Reflection22:19 - Practical Applications and ConclusionImage Source: Charles Noel Flagg, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d8/Mark_Twain_MET_ap17.96.jpg 

Génesis 1:26“Entonces dijo Dios: ‘Hagamos al hombre a nuestra imagen, conforme a nuestra semejanza; y tenga potestad sobre los peces del mar, las aves de los cielos y las bestias, sobre toda la tierra y sobre todo animal que se arrastra sobre la tierra'”.Una lectura honesta de Génesis ofrece una historia muy diferente sobre la humanidad de lo que ofrece la moderna ciencia evolucionista. ¿Acaso el resto de la Biblia contradice la evolución también? ¿Pueden Génesis y la evolución armonizar?De acuerdo a la evolución, los humanos son el resultado de millones de años de vida, lucha y muerte. Hoy, no somos más que un subcapítulo en aquella larga historia de lucha y muerte sin fin. ¿Puede esto reconciliarse con la Biblia? No, si dejamos que la Biblia se interprete a sí misma. Primero, la Biblia permite solo un día de historia antes de que los humanos entraran en escena. Segundo, los humanos fueron creados no de alguna otra criatura pero fueron hechos por Dios, a Su imagen.La diferencia más importante entre la historia de la evolución y la historia bíblica de la humanidad es el rol que tiene la muerte. De acuerdo a la evolución, la muerte ya era parte de la naturaleza mucho antes de que los humanos llegaran. De acuerdo a la Biblia – por ejemplo, en 1 Corintios 15:21 – la muerte llegó a la creación por causa del pecado del primer hombre, Adán. Esta es la razón por la cual era necesario que otro hombre, Cristo Jesús, eliminara la muerte.Para el cristiano, la parte más objetable de la evolución es que separa el pecado y la muerte la una de la otra. ¡Esto hace que la muerte de Cristo y su resurrección por nosotros sea completamente redundante, ya que la muerte no tiene nada que ver con el pecado! ¡No pueda haber ninguna armonía entre esto y el Evangelio!Oración: Amado Padre, Tú creaste especialmente a los seres humanos porque deseabas tener una relación personal con cada uno de ellos. Cuando considero mi relación espiritual contigo, ayúdame a que recuerde que Tu Hijo, Cristo Jesús, murió para que pueda, a través de Él, recibir el perdón de los pecados. En Su Nombre. Amén.Imagen: Christ Crucified between the Two Thieves, The Three Crosses, MET, Rembrandt, CC0, Wikimedia Commons. To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1235/29?v=20251111

This is a special episode where we meet Hugo Lopez who is a co-founder and volunteer developer for Lingua Libre. All episodes in English (podcast feed) Credits The music and sound clips are from Surf Shimmy by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) [CC BY 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons. Image: Lingualibre-logo.svg by Marc Brouillon WMFr 0x010C, CC BY-SA 4.0. Discuss the episode on the project’s talk page. The episode is also available on Wikimedia Commons.

Den franska revolutionen är en unik händelse i världshistorien där det rådande statsskicket och feodalismen avskaffades i floder av blod. Usla statsfinanser och skriande orättvisor banade vägen för omvälvningen.När den franska monarken Ludvig XVI inkallade ständerna för att genomföra skattehöjningar startade kungen en utveckling han inte klarade av att hantera. Ludvig XVI var svag och vankelmodig. En rad händelser och kungens kontakter med fientliga makter ledde till att han avrättades 1793. En tid senare avrättades även hans gemål Marie-Antoinette.I avsnitt 136 av podden Historia Nu samtalar programledaren Urban Lindstedt med professor Dick Harrison vid Lunds universitet som är aktuell med boken Franska revolutionen.I början av 1793 dömdes så Ludvig XVI, nu ”medborgare Louis Capet”, med knapp majoritet till döden för förräderi och giljotinerades 21 januari. Efter avrättningen utbröt kontrarevolutionära oroligheter på landsbygden som utvecklades till ett inbördeskrig.Den demokratiska författningen från juni 1793 sattes ur spel och ny lagstiftning stadgade dödstraff för revolutionens fiende. Allt mer radikal lagstiftning infördes och snart inträdde fasen som efteråt kallades skräckväldet när tiotusentals människor avrättades som revolutionens fiende. Revolutionen kom att börja äta sina egna barn i en allt bittrare strid om makten.Skräckväldet banade sedan vägen för en militärdiktatur och att Napoleon kröntes som kejsare.Bild: Avrättningen av Ludvig XVI (”Louis Capet”) den 21 januari 1793 på Place de la Révolution i Paris, ett avgörande ögonblick i franska revolutionen som markerade monarkins fall och republikens radikalisering. Gravyr, 1793. Upphovsperson okänd. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.Musik: La Marseillaise, hymne national français interprété par Fédor Chaliapine (1873-1938) entre 1911 et 1914, public domain. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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In Matthew, Jesus describes a merchant looking for fine pearls who, when finding one, sells everything he has to purchase it. It's tempting to think that you and I are the merchant in this story, with the priceless gift of God's pardon in our possession. The problem with that, though, is that you and I didn't purchase it. Jesus did.  No, you and I aren't the merchant in this story.  But hold onto your hat as you hear what you are! Episode art by Roxrsch, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons. Giga Pearl as displayed on gilded octopus statue created by artist Bethany Krull.

Vi kollar tillbaks på årets Wikimania och hyllar alla som vann pris i årets Wikimedian. Shownotes Samanfattning av Wikimania Jans anteckningar Årets Wikimedianer Årets Wikimedian: Jules* Wikimedia pristagare: Dreamyshade Wikimedia pristagare: Barkeep49 Gemenskapsskapare: Chlod Hedersomnämnande: Mari Avetisyan Hedersomnämnande: Hijiri Favoriter Magnus favorit/tips 1: State of Wikimedia & AI 2026: Freedom, Equity, Reliability at a Crossroad (video) Magnus favorit/tips 2: Tabular data vs. structured data – How do we get to a win-win solution? (video) Magnus favorit/tips 3: Research, ”liberté-track”, (video) What Are Our Traffic Trends Telling Us and Why Does It Matter for the Movement? Are Wikimedians using AI in their work (and if yes, how)? Findings from the 2026 Community Insights survey Is Wikimedia a streamable data commons? From Dumps to Data Flows in the Age of AI Extraction From open data to sustainable data commons: A multilayered ecosystem (Construire un modèle de protection des contributions face à l'enclosure des contenus culturels numériques) Can Source Reliability Be Predicted on Wikipedia? Evidence from Feature Analysis Jans favorit/tips 1: Social integration of the new generations: How do we turn casual editors into community leaders? Jans favorit/tips 2: Three things about Wikimedia that even experienced Wikimedians might not know Jans favorit/tips 3: Adding and Managing Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons Nästa program Preliminärt 29 augusti Erkännanden Bild: Simon Delahaye for the Wikimedia Foundation, CC BY-SA 4.0 Musiken och ljudklippen är från Surf Shimmy Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), CC BY 3.0, samt Wikimedia Sound Logo Finalist VQ97, Thaddeus Osborne, CC BY-SA 4.0, och ljudet från Wikidata’s 10th birthday video intro animation, Lea Lacroix (WMDE), CC BY-SA 4.0. Avsnittet hittas också på Wikimedia Commons. Diskutera avsnittet på projektsidans diskussion.

Job 26:7“Él extiende el Norte sobre el vacío, cuelga la tierra sobre la nada”.La tierra flota en el espacio, y no está sujeta a nada, rodeada por una delgada capa de aire. ¡Lo que la ciencia acaba de llegar a saber, la Biblia ha enseñado durante miles de años! Mientras que los antiguos visualizaban al mundo como plano o descansando sobre tortugas gigantes o algún otro animal, Dios les dijo a los judíos en Job 26:7 que Él “cuelga la tierra sobre la nada”.En Génesis 1:6 leemos que Dios creó un firmamento. En tiempos recientes algunos han dicho que esta palabra comprueba que la Biblia está basada sobre mitos antiguos. Nuevos descubrimientos, sin embargo, están desafiando estas dudas sobre la Biblia.La palabra traducida “firmamento” del hebreo ragia en estos versículos viene de la raíz de una palabra hebrea que se refiere al proceso de hacer una estatua. Al hacer una estatua, el antiguo artesano tomaba un metal suave – como el orto – y empezaba a cuidadosamente golpear delgadas hojas de este sobre una forma de madera de la estatua hasta que la madera estuviera completamente cubierta por una delgada capa de oro.El uso de esta palabra desconcertaba a muchas personas hasta que la tierra fue vista por primera vez desde el espacio. ¡Luego se vio – la tierra suspendida sobre la nada en el espacio, rodeada por una delgada capa – nuestra atmósfera! Así que la Biblia dice la verdad en todos los temas que menciona. Pero sin importar cuanto tiempo estudie las ciencias sociales, no pueden llegar a conocer sobre el amor de Dios para con nosotros en Cristo Jesús. ¡Esto nos es revelado sólo por la Biblia!Oración: Amado Padre celestial, no hay lugar donde pueda ir el hombre que Tú no hayas ya estado allí; no hay ningún conocimiento que puedan tener el hombre que Tú no conozcas ya. Concede Tu Santo Espíritu y sabiduría a aquellos de nosotros que somos llamados por el Nombre de Tu Hijo, para que no seamos desorientados en estos tiempos confusos y desafiantes. En Cristo Jesús. Amén.Imagen: The Blue Marble, NASA on The Commons, PD, Wikimedia Commons. To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1235/29?v=20251111

We are all familiar with the evolutionary tree of life. It is supposed to depict how life began as a single-celled organism and over immense periods of time mutated into all the various forms of life we see today. We have offered several Creation Moments programs recently that explained how new genetic studies simply don't support this evolutionary tree.Those of us who accept young earth creationism are not the only ones who are beginning to notice this problem. Creatures that are completely unrelated, according to the evolutionary tree, have very similar genes. More often than not, DNA information disagrees with a creature's supposed lineage as it is presented on the evolutionary tree of life. Very different creatures, unrelated according to the evolutionary tree, develop from very similar genes. Our genetic knowledge of creatures is most complete with the simpler organisms. Even evolutionists have admitted that microorganisms without a nucleus do not fit into any kind of evolutionary tree. The facts are killing the evolutionary tree of life. Some evolutionists are admitting that the history of life cannot be represented as a tree. Some even ask whether the history of life can ever be known with any certainty.In short, the new genetic information we are rapidly accumulating supports the Bible's teaching that each kind of creature was separately created. New genetic information shows that there is not one trunk to the tree of life. The only real source of life is our victorious, risen Savior, Jesus Christ.John 11:25"Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live…"Prayer: Lord, thank You for giving me life, especially eternal life. Amen.Ref: Creation Matters (ICR), "The DNA Disaster." Image: Electron Microscopic Image of Pyrolobus fumarii (microorganisms without a nucleus), Manfred Rohde, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1232/29?v=20251111

  Why does the analyst write? And further why might the analyst write different kinds of pieces such as clinical writing, scientific papers, narratives, or poetry? There are always the considerations of the impact on our patients, their confidentiality and privacy (theirs and ours) but the desire to write and the writing process as well as its products are interesting to explore analytically. In this episode, Jennifer Davids discusses how she relates to her writing process which she links to the process of thinking, gestated as ideas and words and delivered through a process she calls writing through, a form of working through. For her, the process is not without struggle, searching to express herself in a second language that fits the images and sensory-rich world of her mind. And there are anxieties associated with the process of gestating an idea, “Do I have something to say?”, “Can I produce something worthwhile?”, of publishing her work including the anxieties associated with clinical writing and related themes of confidentiality and privacy. Her process is thoughtful, creative, courageous and inservice of the larger group of analyst readers who might be in dialogue with her.   Jennifer Davids, Fellow British Psychoanalytical Society (BPaS), FIPA, born in South Africa, is a chartered clinical psychologist and a Child, Adolescent and Adult Psychoanalyst, who trained full time in child and adolescent psychoanalysis during the mid to late 1980's at the Anna Freud Centre, and then in adult psychoanalysis at the British Psychoanalytical Society. She is a supervising analyst for child and adolescent psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. After qualifying in 1989 in child and adolescent analysis, Jennifer Davids worked, as a clinical and teaching staff member, at the AFC (Anna Freud Centre, formerly the Hampstead clinic) for 20 years, as well as working in the National Health service as a Consultant Psychotherapist leading a mental health team. She has taught on the faculty of the BPaS, the Tavistock Clinic, IPCAPA, University College and Birkbeck College London, as well as at the Maudsley hospital. She is on the Harlem Family Institute faculty. She teaches internationally, including facilitating an IPA Thinking Lab, and has published and presented widely, including IPA webinars on the body image, abuse and money. Her written publications include pieces on topics as wide ranging as: inter alia, sexual transference and countertransference, adoption, race, publishing in the digital era, and changes in human relating in the AI- and cyber-universe. Davids was an editorial board member of the British Journal of Psychotherapy. She continues to be a consultant to the IPA in Health committee of which she was a member from 2018 to 2025 and she is a board trustee of the International Play Association (England). She lives, draws, writes, and works in full-time private practice in London, UK.   You can download a copy of the paper here. This podcast series is produced by the International Psychoanalytical Association as part of the activities of the IPA Outreach Subcommittee.    Chair: Gaetano Pellegrini  Podcast Coordinator: Florencia Biotti Editing and Post-Production: Massimiliano Guerrieri   Cover Image: Fountain pen writing (literacy). Photo by Petar Milošević, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0), via Wikimedia Commons

Ocho por ciento de interés POR MES. ¿Estamos frente a la invención de los esquemas Ponzi, ANTES que llegara Ponzi? ¿Qué puede salir mal? Esta es la historia de Sarah Howe, alguien que hizo un esquema Ponzi antes que el propio Ponzi, pero nadie recuerda quién es. Temporada 01, Episodio 01. Fuentes / Textos CLAPP, Henry A. (1881) Sympathetic Banking. The Atlantic. July 1881 Issue. LATFEM (2019) Hola, chispita poderosa: ¿querés saber algo sobre el telar de la abundancia? Latfem.org MUJERES CONFIAR (2019) Tres atractivas mentiras de los Telares de los Sueños. Mujeresconfiar.com PIN, Serrana (2024) El regreso de la estafa del mandala de la abundancia. La Mañana. ROBB, George (2017) Ladies of the Ticker: Women and Wall Street from the Gilded Age to the Great Depression. University of Illinois Press. ISBN: 978-0252099748 Fuentes / Sitios Web Wikipedia Recursos Sonoros: Epidemic Sounds, Wikimedia Commons.

Génesis 1:5“Llamó a la luz ‘Día', y a las tinieblas llamó ‘Noche'. Y fue la tarde y la mañana del primer día”.Silenciosamente una inmensa y poderosa forma se desliza a través de la profundidad, el frío y la oscuridad del mar. Los hombres dentro del submarino nuclear no han visto ni el sol ni la luz del día durante meses, sin embargo cada uno sabe que día es. Los hombres saben qué día y qué hora es aún sin ver la luz del día, porque el movimiento del sol – como un reloj – sólo mide el tiempo; no lo crea.Dios tampoco necesita que el sol mida el tiempo. Cuando Él nos dice en Génesis 1 que Él creó todo en seis días y que descansó en el séptimo día, sabemos que son días como los nuestros, aunque el sol no fue creado hasta el cuarto día. Algunas personas se preguntan si los días de Génesis 1 podrían ser días figurativos. Bueno, el mejor intérprete de las Escrituras es las Escrituras mismas. ¿Qué es lo que dice?La palabra traducida “día” en Génesis 1 es la palabra hebrea yom. Cuantas veces ésta palabra es usada en cualquier parte del Antiguo Testamento con un número- como 10 yoms- siempre significará 24 horas de un día. Y cuantas veces la palabra yom es usada en cualquier parte en el Antiguo Testamento con la frase “noche y día” siempre significará 24 horas de un día.Si regresamos a Génesis 1, veremos que el Espíritu Santo ha asegurado que ambos usos de estas normas estén en vigor y así aseguren que ¡Los días del Génesis son como los nuestros!Oración: Te agradezco, Señor, que Tu Palabra es clara y verdadera. Que Tu palabra corrija tanto mi entendimiento como mi vida y no permita que mi propio orgullo me haga sordo y ciego a Tu Palabra. Por el amor de Jesús. Amén.Ref: Bartz, Paul A. “Days in Genesis one and the week.” Bible Science Newsletter. Imagen: Atlantis IV Submarine, Yury Velikanau, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1235/29?v=20251111

The shell of the giant pink queen conch is made of such remarkable material that scientists speak of its design, even while they say that it is a product of evolutionary chance. The beautiful shell is made of a form of calcium carbonate called aragonite. Yet it is structured in such a way that it resists fractures 100 to 1,000 times better than aragonite ordinarily would.The conch's secret is that it combines the aragonite with protein. Further, its shell is made up of three layers of aragonite. The middle layer is structured around a rectangular beam of aragonite sheathed in protein. This duplex rod is then bundled with others into a larger beam. The larger beam is in turn bundled with others to produce a larger beam. This complex arrangement gives the shell its extraordinary strength. Pressure that ordinarily causes a catastrophic crack in the aragonite merely scatters the pressure into thousands of tiny cracks.Materials scientists studying the conch shell refer to this as a high-performance composite structure. They hope to apply the principles learned from the conch shell to make stronger building materials, bridges and even space vehicles.If such sophisticated design could arise without a Designer, modern companies would surely be wasting their time hiring highly trained designers to improve their products.Ephesians 6:11"Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil."Prayer: Protect me, dear Lord, within the armor of Your perfect Truth. Amen.Ref: Science News, "Conch yields clues for future materials." Image: Researcher holding juvenile queen conch, Jennifer Doerr, NOAA SEFSC Galveston, PD, Wikimedia Commons. To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1232/29?v=20251111

Axel Heiberg Island in Northern Canada is the closest point of land to the North Pole. The landscape is completely barren today but long ago a dense forest of large meta-sequoia trees grew there. At that time, the climate must have been like Florida today. The stumps of these “fossil trees” have not mineralized and are still wood, that is, cellulose. They are claimed to be 45 million years old.Researchers at Johns Hopkins University studied the hydrogen and oxygen isotopes of the cellulose. These lightweight isotopes are normally quickly lost by evaporation from dead wood but to their surprise the researches discovered an unusually high content. This means that their rate of evaporation was extremely low. In other words, not only did the trees grow in a humid climate but this climate continued a long time after the trees were destroyed. Further, cellulose is quickly broken down by bacterial action if exposed to air so that the trees were buried rapidly, deeply and a lot more recently than 45 million years ago.Creation Moments happened to be present when a sample of this wood was used to calibrate the equipment at a well-known Carbon 14 dating laboratory. Believing the wood to be 45 million years old it should contain no Carbon 14 but in fact it did and dated at only 41 thousand years!Ecclesiastes 11:3"If the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth; and if the tree fall toward the south or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be.”Prayer: Dear Heavenly Father, You have given us so much evidence for a recent creation and Your sustaining hand upon it. Please open the eyes of those who would willfully ignore these signs. In Jesus Name, AmenImage: Looking out at Axel Heiberg Island 06, Matti & Keti, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons + Metasequoia occidentalis Mummified Forest of Axel Heiberg Island, Ansgar Walk, CC BY-SA 2.5, Wikimedia Commons. To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1232/29?v=20251111

Fr. Jeremiah Caughran Wheat Amongst the Weeds, Matthew 13.24-30, 36-43 Download What are we to do when we find tares amongst the wheat? What are we to do when we discover tares affecting us as wheat? How are we to endure? Jesus calls us toward patience regarding these tares because he himself will take care of them in the end. And besides that, we aren't able to always identify the tares from the wheat with our limited perspective, so we must wait for Christ.Image: Christ's Object Lessons by Ellen Gould Harmon White, page 73 (https://archive.org/details/christsobjectles00whitrich), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Ett traditionsenligt inför Wikimania-special. En översikt av programmet, plattformen och en del runtomkring. Shownotes Välkommen Kort presentation av oss Jans AI-blogginlägg Wikimaniaspecial Evenemanget Programmet Vi ser fram emot: Magnus: Three things about Wikimedia that even experienced Wikimedians might not know Make a wish – improving references on Wikimedia projects State of Wikimedia & AI 2026: Freedom, Equity, Reliability at a Crossroad Jan: If AI becomes the first web interface, how can the wikimedia movement adapt? del 1, del 2 The Coolest Projects: 25 Years of Creativity and Innovation (Tribute to Deror Lin's Legacy) Unpopular Opinions & Wild Ideas (Lightning Talk Meetup) Nästa program 29 juli, Wikimania summeras Erkännanden Bild: Eclos Production, CC BY-SA 4.0 Musiken och ljudklippen är från Surf Shimmy Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), CC BY 3.0, samt Wikimedia Sound Logo Finalist VQ97, Thaddeus Osborne, CC BY-SA 4.0, och ljudet från Wikidata’s 10th birthday video intro animation, Lea Lacroix (WMDE), CC BY-SA 4.0. Avsnittet hittas också på Wikimedia Commons. Diskutera avsnittet på projektsidans diskussion.

This is a special episode where we meet Zakaria who is a co-lead for the technical committee of the Core Organizing Team where we talk about remote participation of Wikimania 2026. The schedule is available at https://wikimedia.eventyay.com/wm/wikimania2026/schedule/ All episodes in English (podcast feed) Credits The music and sound clips are from Surf Shimmy by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) [CC BY 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons. Image: Wikimania 2026 ordi retake w colo.png and Wikimania 2026 panneau colo.png both by Eclos Production, CC BY-SA 4.0. Discuss the episode on the project’s talk page. The episode is also available on Wikimedia Commons.

On this Summer Friday, we've put together some of our favorite recent interviews, including: The U.S. fertility rate dropped to another record low in 2025, according to provisional CDC data, marking a 23% drop since 2007. Jill Filipovic, attorney and author of several books, including OK Boomer, Let's Talk: How My Generation Got Left Behind (Atria/One Signal Publishers, 2020),  and Karen Guzzo, director of the Carolina Population Center and a sociology professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, explain what's behind the decline, the current Republican and far-right conservative policy plans to try and reverse those trends and what actually works to incentivize a growing population. Alex Mayyasi, a longtime contributor to Planet Money and the author of Planet Money: A Guide to the Economic Forces That Shape Your Life (W. W. Norton & Company, 2026), and Mary Childs, a co-host of NPR's Planet Money, offers insight into making decisions on getting and spending money and why markets work the way they do. Manoush Zomorodi, host of NPR's TED Radio Hour and author of Body Electric: The Hidden Health Costs of the Digital Age and New Science to Reclaim Your Well-Being (Flatiron, 2026), talks about the impact on our bodies of our interactions with our phones and other tech -- and how to stay healthy and stay connected. Stephanie Coontz, director of research and public education at the Council on Contemporary Families and the author of The Way We Never Were; Marriage, a History; and now, For Better and Worse: The Complicated Past and Challenging Future of Marriage (Viking, May 26, 2026), offers historical context for the institution of marriage and examines the attitudes and policies that can strengthen it. Martha Nussbaum, professor of law and ethics at the University of Chicago and the author of The Republic of Love: Opera & Political Freedom (Oxford University Press, 2026), offers her analysis of opera as an arm of the Enlightenment, from Mozart to today.   These interviews were lightly polished up and edited for time, the original versions are available here: Why U.S. Birth Rates Are Dropping Planet Money: The Book Our Bodies & Our Tech Marriage in Context Opera and Democracy   Photo: Labor Day weekend crowds at Rockaway Beach, Queens, New York, September 2020. (Andre Carrotflower, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons). Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Why do giraffes have long necks or kangaroos have pouches? Evolutionists answer that natural selection has favored the development of certain characteristics while discouraging and eliminating other features. But if this is what happened, we, who believe in creation have a few questions.Giraffes have long necks, say evolutionists, because conditions favored the development of long-necked creatures that could feed on higher parts of the tree. But then many other grazing animals live side by side with giraffes and manage to get by. The horse, according to evolutionary explanations, has crowned teeth in order to survive in its environment. And yet the cow, with its uncrowned teeth, survives quite well in the same environment.Some evolutionists say that plants developed berries so that their seeds, inside the berries, would be carried far and wide by hungry birds, thus ensuring the plants' survival. Why then did some plants develop poisonous berries? And if the maternal instinct evolved to preserve the next generation, why do creatures like the stickleback fish, sea horse, and midwife toad to name a few, leave total care of the young to the male?The truth is that natural selection does not offer a clear and consistent explanation for the living world. The diversity of the created world does not bear witness to evolutionary principles, but to the artistry of our Creator God.Job 5:13"He taketh the wise in their own craftiness, and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.”Prayer: Dear Father, You confound those who are wise in their own hearts and give wisdom and clear vision to those whom You have made pure through the blood of Christ. Let the wisdom and vision I seek be that which You provide. In Jesus' Name. Amen.Ref: R.L. Wysong, D.V.M., The Creation - Evolution Controversy, (Inquiry Press, Midland Michigan). Image: Three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus), Holger Krisp, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1232/29?v=20251111

Completely unrelated creatures that depend entirely upon one another to live and have no way of living without one another, pose a very serious challenge to those who claim that all living things evolved. The relationship is called reciprocal altruism.One startling example is the relationship between the fig wasp and the fig tree. Male figs are not for eating but they produce the pollen to pollinate the sweet, juicy female fig. But the flower parts of both the male and female figs are inside the figs. There is no chance that the wind could spread pollen from the male to the female figs. And there is no other creature except the fig wasp that can transfer the pollen.Herein lies an incredible story. The fig wasp hatches from eggs inside the male fig and its purpose in its short 24-hour life is to lay its eggs inside another male fig. The female wasp emerges from the male fig covered in pollen and is programmed to search among the female figs, thus fertilizing them, before laying its eggs inside a male fig and thus start the cycle again.The fig wasp will only lay its eggs in the male fig while the female fig cannot be pollinated by any other method. Clearly, both the fig wasp and the fig tree were created for this special relationship.Habakkuk 3:17-18"Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines, the labor of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat, the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls—yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation."Prayer: Dear Lord, just as You created the fig wasp and the fig tree for this close relationship, You have created me for a relationship with You. There is no peace for me outside of a relationship with You. Help me to grow closer to You through the instruction of Your Word. Amen.Ref: Bob Devine, Uncle Bob's Animal Stories, (Moody Press, Chicago, IL). Image: Seres barbatus (fig wasp) entering syconium of fig, Alandmanson, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1232/29?v=20251111

If man is the result of billions of years of evolution from the simplest of creatures, evolution predicts that man should have retained most, if not all, of the best abilities of those other creatures in his heritage.According to evolution, our ape-like ancestors had opposing toes, just as we have opposing thumbs. If we had retained those opposing toes, we could pick things up without bending over. The female chimp can pull 1,260 pounds with one arm. That would be a pretty handy facility. And then, there is the hero shrew of Uganda, just six inches long, but it can support the weight of a one hundred and sixty-pound man on its back!Even the lowly snail can pull up to 200 times its own weight, and lift ten times its weight. Then what about the trilobite, right at the bottom of the evolutionary ladder and supposedly extinct for 300 million years? This little fellow had the most sophisticated eye lenses, actually double lenses, ever found in nature!Since all of these abilities would be greatly beneficial for us, why didn't evolution let us keep or develop these abilities as we evolved? The answer is simple. We have not evolved. Rather, we have been made by a Creator Who made us for the purpose of a relationship with Himself through His Son, Jesus Christ.Deuteronomy 18:22"When a prophet speaketh in the name of the Lord, if the thing follow not nor come to pass, that is the thing which the Lord hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously; thou shalt not be afraid of him."Prayer: Dear heavenly Father, I thank You that while I cannot leap tall buildings or lift them, You have made me for the higher purpose of a relationship with You. Increase my trust in the atoning work of Your Son for me so that I may grow closer to You. In His Name. Amen.Ref: R.L. Wysong, D.V.M., The Creation - Evolution Controversy, (Inquiry Press, Midland Michigan). Image: Scutisorex somereni (hero shrew), Peter Spelt, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1232/29?v=20251111

The Ship Report, July 15, 2026The historic fireboat David Campbell found a permanent place in history yesterday, after being placed on land at Astoria's Columbia River Maritime Museum. A big crowd turned out to watch the proceedings, which involved lifting the 244,00 lb. boat off a barge and carefully placing her on land as an outdoor exhibit, soon to be open to the public.  The boat has a long. honored history of service in the Portland area.Today we'll talk about her new role educating the public, and about fireboats and what they do.Photo courtesy Wikimedia Commons. The David Campbell in past years welcoming the Rose Festival Fleet to Portland, Oregon.

When a flower lives in harmony with and is dependent upon, say, an insect for fertilization, this is known as symbiosis. Creation Moments programs have given many examples of this and each one defies the notion that these relationships could have developed by chance over very long times. We have another example today:Chicory spaces out the opening of its flowers through the summer on a precisely timed schedule that is in perfect harmony with its pollinators. Early in the season, chicory flowers nearest the bottom of the flower stalk open first and, as they are pollinated, they close and the next flower up the stem opens and so on. There is a remarkable efficiency to this but there is more: The flowers usually open only in the cool morning hours not only to protect the delicate flower from the heat of the sun but also because this is the time the pollinating insects are about. Other flowering plants open their flowers only at night and tend to have white flowers so that they are easily seen in the dark. These are the flowers that are pollinated by night flying moths.Such coordinated inter-relationships between the plant and the animal kingdoms could not have developed through accidental situations. They provide more evidence that the wise Creator designed these and all creatures within their relationships from the very beginning!Matthew 6:28"And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They toil not, neither do they spin…"Prayer: Dear Lord, in Your design of the creation, You have seen to the needs of all living things. Take from me a mind that thinks that I must do for myself what You will do for me, and replace it with faith in Your promises. Amen.Ref: Steven D. Garber, The Urban Naturalist, (John Wiley Sons, Inc.). Cichorium intybus, Nichole Ouellette/ouellette001.com, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1232/29?v=20251111

II Corintios 4:6“...porque Dios, que mandó que de las tinieblas resplandeciera la luz, es el que resplandeció en nuestros corazones, para iluminación del conocimiento de la gloria de Dios en la faz de Jesucristo”.El hecho de que deben respirar aire parecería limitar a las criaturas de mar como las ballenas, delfines y tortugas de mar. Pero estas criaturas son tan bien diseñadas que sus habilidades sorprenden inclusive a los científicos más informados.¿Cuán profundo cree usted que un marino que respira aire puede bucear mientras sostiene su respiración? Mantenga en mente que mientras la criatura desciende a través de las profundidades, el abastecimiento de aire en sus pulmones se comprime y no durará tanto como una respiración que se sostiene cerca de la superficie. Hasta recientemente, las ballenas han mantenido el record. Se ha documentado que los cachalotes a profundidades de 3.000 pies (1.066 metros) bajo las olas.¡Recientemente una tortuga laúd marcada bajo a por lo menos 3.900 pies (1.188 metros), casi tres cuartos de una milla! De acuerdo a los científicos involucrados en este estudio, la tortuga puede haber ida más profundo, pero a 3.900 pies sus equipos de medición ya no funcionaban. ¡En otras palabras, ellos nunca esperaban que una tortuga laúd pudiera bucear tan profundo!Mientras que todos nosotros quedamos asombrados por la habilidad de la tortuga laúd, aquellos que creen en la evolución tienen una razón especial para estar sorprendidos de lo que están aprendiendo. De acuerdo a la evolución, las ballenas y tortugas de mar evolucionaron de criaturas que vivían en la tierra. Los evolucionistas tienen dificultad en rendir cuenta de los cambios especializados extensivos requeridos para cambiar a una tortuga de tierra en una tortuga de mar capaz de operar debajo de tres cuartos de una milla de agua. Aquellos de nosotros que sabemos que todas las cosas fueron creadas por un sabio Creador entendemos que no hay nada que Él no pueda hacer.Oración: Señor, Te agradezco que toda la creación muestra Tu gloria y obra. Oro que más personas, especialmente científicos, puedan ver y entender este testimonio y ser llamados a Tu mensaje de perdón en la Biblia. En Nombre de Cristo Jesús. Amén.Ref: Yertle:1, Orca: 0. Discover. Imagen: Leatherback Turtle near Galibi, JuliasTravels, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1235/29?v=20251111

One of the greatest questions in biology asks how a single fertilized cell divides into many different cells - some become liver cells, skin cells, brain cells and bone cells. This is the ultimate way of asking the question, “Where do babies come from?”Human growth factor, a chemical produced by our body, is being studied to see if it is responsible for the development of all those different cells from a single cell. However, this is only one of thirty known chemicals that influence the development of new cells. Another powerful chemical, called GM-CSF for short, has now been synthesized as a drug and stimulates the development of white blood cells in the bone marrow. This drug has saved otherwise doomed patients who have lost virtually all of their bone marrow by exposure to radiation. Nerve growth factor is another being studied as a possible treatment for Alzheimer's disease and for use in re-attaching limbs.Do you notice where all of these incredible chemicals come from? They don't come from laboratories staffed with the best brains in science. They are produced by our bodies. Science should stand in awe at the evident wisdom behind those chemical structures and the way they work. And that's one of the best arguments that we were created by a wise and powerful Creator, not by mindless chemical accidents!Psalm 139:14"I will praise Thee, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; marvelous are Thy works, and that my soul knoweth right well."Prayer: Dear Lord, I am truly fearfully and wonderfully made. I ask that you would guide medical researchers so that they may learn how to use the substances You have created for the earthly betterment of our condition and that You would be glorified through this. Amen.Ref: Carol Kahn, “Tapping The Healers Within,” OMNI. Image: 1TGK Human Transforming Growth Factor Beta3 Crystallized From, Nevit Dilmen, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1232/29?v=20251111

Produced by Joseph Cottrell, Wayne Hall, Doug Curran and Jeffrey Crecelius This week, we return to our occasional series on YesKit, this time featuring the instrument Tony Kaye used, briefly, in 1968 before he upgraded to a Hammond M100. It was the 1960s iconic keyboard, the British-made Vox Continental. The story of this revolutionary instrument is fascinating and we are indebted to the undisputed expert in the field, Chris Dale, for a great overview I read out at the end of the episode. It was huge fun to both research and then chat about the Vox Continental and I'm sure you will enjoy Mark's demonstrations as much as I did. How did it become the most iconic keyboard of the 1960s? What was the keyboard Tony Kaye had when he joined Yes? Why did he disguise it? Please do add your own comments below. https://youtu.be/dEXb3m2Guiw?si=llKrnAX2F1yg7gm9 https://youtu.be/SoXwfapV3CA?si=c-pkPwJdmADGphqa https://youtu.be/YZBDGATnJKM?si=t8hmcZrISmguc4Gw https://youtu.be/mbj1RFaoyLk?si=zEMYo5Vc24s8AY3G https://youtu.be/UIVe-rZBcm4?si=QanT_u2BnGrX_zUj https://youtu.be/DpPIFP6rcww?si=Kzi_F72QSYaeCM-z https://youtu.be/wG4kxLZTHL4?si=y6OK-d-7AJ7U9b6O https://youtu.be/OZ9-F7FE83o?si=kBdWHLSuD0ovpu9p https://youtu.be/UJLSrxkNR78?si=fU1kevOwOg6v6lwh https://youtu.be/ecDmNNQAB4k?si=IMlKCrESiqfFMVP2 Yes - The Tormato Story & Tales from Topographic Oceans - Yes Album Listening Guide Available now! YesMusicBooks.com YMP Patrons: Producers: Joseph Cottrell Wayne Hall Jeffrey Crecelius Doug Curran Patrons: Aaron SteelmanSteve LuziettiLindAl Dell'AngeloTerence SadlerLobate ScarpBarry GorskyJohn ThomsonMark BaggsBill WhittakerSteve PerryMark James LangBob MartilottaThomas DeVriesMark SlaterBrian HarrisJohn ViolaMartin KjellbergBrian SullivanSteve RodeMichael HanderhanChris BandiniTim StannardMichael O'ConnorCraig EstenesSteve ScottMiguel FalcãoDave OwenChip PalmerPaul HailesDavidGuy DeRomePaul TomeiDavid HeydenSteve MossRachel HadawayDavid PannellGeoffrey MasonRobert NasirDavid WatkinsonHenrik AntonssonRobert VandiverDeclan LogueHogne Bø PettersenRonnie NeeleyDemSteven RoehrScott ColomboBrianTodd DudleySimon BarrowFergus CubbageJohn HoldenStephen LambeFred BarringerDouglas CaldwellSteve DillGary BettsJohn CowanJamie McQuinnGeoff BailieRay RiethmeierKen Fuller Become a Patron! Vox Continental photo - Docrobbie, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

While most would agree that our circulatory system is vital to life, many of us don't fully appreciate the almost miraculous workings of that system.Your heart pumps about one hundred thousand times every day. That means that your heart pumps the equivalent of 10 tons of blood every day or 80 million gallons in a lifetime. Your circulatory system brings that blood to every cell in your body through a capillary network that is so large that the combined capillaries of only four people, stretched end to end, would reach from the Earth to the moon!But your circulatory system involves quality as well as quantity. The chemistry of your blood is monitored and adjusted to within incredibly fine limits to keep it in precise balance second by second, day by day, year in, year out. For example, the acidity of your blood is adjusted constantly to within one part in a hundred million.Our circulation system cannot be simply “good enough” it has to work perfectly. So if mindless evolution created us, it had to make the whole system perfect the first time. There is no room for millions of years or for a poorer circulation system to be improved by mutations. Here the facts clearly support Scripture strongly indicating that we were created in finished form, not developed slowly by trial and error.Genesis 9:4"But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat."Prayer: Dear Lord Jesus Christ, You Who created blood and everything else took our human form and nature and shed Your blood on the cross for my salvation. Take my life and let it be one of continuous thanks to You. AmenImage: Human Heart and Circulatory System, Bryan Brandenburg, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1232/29?v=20251111

Hydraulics are part of our everyday lives. Fluids, such as the brake fluid used in your car, cannot be compressed so when you step on the brake pedal that fluid can be forced from a cylinder into the braking mechanisms attached to your wheels. All hydraulic machines work in a similar way because the fluid used will flow easily to areas where there is less pressure.Our Creator made great use of hydraulic principles in many of His creations. We have rigid bones and use fluid to expand and contract our muscles to bend and the stretch our legs. But the spider, for example, does not have a rigid skeleton so it uses muscles to bend its legs then pumps fluid into his leg to straighten it out.The North American Dwarf mistletoe builds up hydraulic pressure equal to that found in a truck tire in order to catapult its seeds out to a distance of almost 50 feet at a speed close to 60 miles per hour. The squirting cucumber found in the Mediterranean area uses the same principle to propel its seeds up to forty feet.Unless you think that the brake system in your car came together by chance and natural forces, it doesn't make any sense to believe that spiders and other plants and animals came about without a Designer and Creator.Job 15:8"Hast thou heard the secret of God? And dost thou withhold wisdom for thyself?"Prayer: Dear Lord, I am constantly amazed at the technical excellence of Your creation. I ask that more scientists would also be amazed, and draw the natural conclusion that You are God. From this realization, help them to be open to hearing what You have done for them and all of us through Your Son, Jesus Christ. In His Name. Amen.Image: Squirting Cucumber, Katja Schulz, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1232/29?v=20251111

I Ukraina sommaren 1943 plundrar ett SS-kommando på uppdrag av Heinrich Himmler 18 odlingsanläggningar på jakt efter fröer i världens första genbank. Fröerna skulle bli grunden till det tusenåriga rikets superfröer för att föda det onda imperiet.Fröerna hade samlats in av den berömde växtförädlaren Nikolaj Vavilov på expeditioner runt om i världen. Men Vavilov hade dött i Stalins fängelser i början av året, eftersom han inte ville underordna vetenskapen den sovjetiska ideologin.I avsnitt 124 av podden Historia Nu samtalar programledaren Urban Lindstedt med journalisten och författaren Jens Nordqvist som är aktuell med boken Den stora fröstölden - Svält, plundring och mord i växtförädlingens århundrade.Den moderna växtförädlingen tog fart i början av 1900-talet med återupptäckten av den österrikiske munken Gregor Mendels teorier kring korsning av växter från 1860-talet. Världens växande befolkning behövde efter mer tåliga och högavkastande spannmål och grönsaker.Tyskland, Sovjetunionen, USA och Sverige var de länder som i början av 1930-talet kommit längs i arbetet med växtförädling. En gemensam nämnare var det statliga stödet, och inblandningen, i växtförädlingen.Nikolaj Vavilov såg den ständigt föränderliga biologiska mångfalden som resultatet av ett samspel mellan människan och naturen. Trots att blomkål, grönkål, brysselkål, vitkål, rödkål och broccoli ser helt olika ut stammar de alla från samma art, vildkål (Brassica oleracea). I människans tjänst har den vilda arten utvecklats till vitt skilda grönsaker. Växtförädlingens historia var full av storartade bedrifter.Nikolaj Vavilov stötte på många hinder i sin kamp mot svälten. Han och de andra växtförädlarna kämpade mot torka och väta, skadedjur och virussjukdomar. I hans väg stod även Lysenkos pseudovetenskap, brutala partibossar och politiska tjallare. Ändå var han en obotlig optimist. Han trodde verkligen att förnuftet till slut skulle segra och han trodde på växtförädlingens förmåga. Naturen var rik nog att föda människan, och den vetenskap han älskade mer än livet gav honom de redskap som behövdes för att resurserna skulle kunna nyttjas.Nazityskland har slängt avundsjuka blickar på Sovjetunionens växtförädlingsprogram. Utan en livsmedelssektor som kunde försörja det tyska riket och dess militärapparat skulle expansionen österut aldrig gå att genomföra.Ledare för SS:s frökommando är den unge växtförädlaren och SS-officeren Heinz Brücher, som med hjälp av de ryska fröerna ska ta fram nya supergrödor. Nazisterna bedriver redan en omfattande växtförädling i flera koncentrationsläger, bland annat Auschwitz.I krigets slutskede gömmer Brücher de värdefulla fröerna för att senare kunna användas. Med hjälp av just frösamlingen vill han köpa sig fri lejd till tryggheten i Sverige.Musik: Po dolinam i po vzgoriam av S. Alimov och T. AturovBild: NKDV:s fotografi av genetikern Nikolaj Vavilov ur NKVD:s utredningsakt. Vavilov greps 1940 under Stalins utrensningar och avled i fängelse i Saratov 1943. Foto: NKVD, Centrala arkivet vid Ryska federationens FSB, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Modern criticism of the Bible began in the late 1700's and has continued to this day. The usual claim, often from Bible scholars, has been that the Bible is nothing more than error-filled human writings. Before serious excavation work had begun in the mid-1800's, scholars felt free to consider lack of evidence as proof that people, cities, and even whole nations mentioned in the Bible never existed. It didn't seem to matter to them that they had never even bothered to look for the evidence.Soon, biblical archaeology started finding the evidences. And, with each discovery, the critics' pronouncements about errors in the Bible began to crumble. One example is the biblical record of Joshua's leadership of Israel in occupying the Promised Land. Joshua 11:10-11 reports how Joshua defeated Hazor, burning the city to the ground. All this had been dismissed by the doubters but then archaeologists found the ruins of Hazor. The ruins clearly showed destruction by an intense fire. The fire had been so hot that adobe had been baked lobster red, stones had been changed by the heat of the fire, and the ashes of the city were five feet deep!Every claim that there is error in the Bible has been based upon lack of knowledge. Let's face it, no matter what the subject, including history, God has more knowledge than we do!Joshua 11:10-11"And Joshua at that time turned back and took Hazor, and smote the king thereof with the sword; for Hazor formerly was the head of all those kingdoms. And they smote all the souls who were therein with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying them. There was not any left to breathe; and he burned Hazor with fire."Prayer: Dear heavenly Father, I thank You for Your Word, which has been preserved for our instruction today. Guide me by Your Holy Spirit to make good use of Your Word in my daily life. In Jesus' Name. Amen.Image: Tel Hazor 1983, Bukvoed, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1232/29?v=20251111

For thousands of years, man has applied a huge variety of things to his skin to help injuries heal. By trial and error he has come up with ointments that keep injured skin moist to assist the natural healing process. Antibiotics were eventually added to these ointments. But until recently no one has been able to actually increase the rate at which skin naturally heals.That has now changed. Epidermal growth factor is one of the chemicals that God created to help keep the body in working order. Research has learned how to copy the chemical responsible and tests have shown that application of the man-made Epidermal growth factor can speed the rate at which wounds heal. Studies show that wounds on which epidermal growth factor is used heal about a day-and-a-half faster than normal. That might not seem like much, but when burn victims need many skin grafts, epidermal growth factor could mean the difference between life and death.With all his knowledge of the chemistry of biology, one would naturally assume that man should be able to develop better healing agents than mindless evolutionary processes. But of course, man is not emulating mindless evolutionary processes but the work of the Creator God Himself. The Creator of natural Epidermal growth factor had the original wisdom to design it and include it in our physiology.Job 10:10-12"Hast Thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese? Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast protected me with bones and sinews. Thou hast granted me life and favor, and Thy visitation hath preserved my spirit."Prayer: Dear Lord, as I look around Your creation, I see so many ways in which Your knowledge and wisdom is so obviously practical. Help me to understand that all of Your wisdom, including what You tell me in Scripture, is really practical and useful for life. AmenRef: R. Cowen, “Speeding up wound healing the EGF way,” Science News. Image: Mouse epidermal growth factor, Boghog2, PD, Wikimedia Commons. To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1232/29?v=20251111

The familiar little insect known as the water boatman is a marvel of engineering design. About an inch long, it swims on its back on the surface of the pond using two of its legs that are extra long and have little paddles on the end, just like the oars of a boat. Anyone who has tried swimming on his back knows how difficult it is to see where he is going, but not the water boatman. His eyes are especially placed for perfect sight while swimming on his back.As I mentioned, the boatman is an insect so of course does not have gills like a fish, yet he spends a lot of time underwater. How does he do this? Well, his Creator gave him the ability to breathe through his tail that he sticks out of the water, just like a snorkel tube. There are tiny hairs that keep the water out of this tube while he draws fresh air in to refill his air tanks for another dive. Those tiny hairs also tell the boatman whether a nearby movement in the water is something that would threaten him or something that might be good for lunch.Surely, the specialized features of this little insect could not have gradually developed by trial and error but are evidences of superb design and a master Designer.Romans 1:20"For from the creation of the world the invisible things of Him are clearly seen, being understood through the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse."Prayer: Dear Lord, even though the creation has been scarred and damaged by sin, its beauty and wonder is still marvelous to behold. For this, I thank You as I look forward to seeing the New Creation. In Jesus' Name. Amen.Ref: Bob Devine, Uncle Bob's Animal Stories, (Moody Press, Chicago, IL). Image: Notonecta glauca (water-boatman) Germany, Regani, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1232/29?v=20251111

Genes carry the biological information to make specific living things. Evolution says that simpler living things evolved first and more complex life evolved later. This would lead us to believe that more complex living things would have developed more genes. The creation approach suggests that each creature was designed with the genetic material necessary for its survival in its intended environment. As a result, the genetic complexity of living things would be related to the way it lives, not to its place in a supposed evolutionary hierarchy.Evolutionary scientists today are puzzled with the publication of the completed genome of the common fruit fly. The fruit fly has a nervous system, complex body plan and even an immune system and is the first animal to have its genome mapped. The puzzle arises with the discovery that the fruit fly has between 13,000 and 14,000 genes. The lowly roundworm, said by evolution to be among the first land creatures, should be genetically simple, yet it has over 18,000 genes. The genetic differences between the worm and the fly speak of design. The sightless worm relies on smell to make its living, so it has about 1,000 genes involved in its olfactory system. The sighted fly relies much less on smell and has less than 100 genes for detecting scents.This simply illustrates that truly scientific findings will never contradict the Bible by supporting evolution.Psalm 119:73"Thy hands have made me and fashioned me; give me understanding, that I may learn Thy commandments."Prayer: Dear Father, help me to keep my nervous system healthy through wholesome stimulation and thoughts so that it can always be a source of my thanksgiving to You in all things. In Jesus Name. Amen.Ref: Science News, pp. 382 383, "Fly Genome Creates a Buzz." Image: APHIS-Moore Air Base, Protection and Quarantine Science and Technology Insect Management and Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory, USDAgov, PD, Wikimedia Commons. To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1232/29?v=20251111

Episode 519 debuts on Wednesday, June 24, at 7:00 PM (Eastern Time). Rebroadcasts will take place according to the Crusade Radio Network programming schedule. Our topic is Truth Itself Is an Oasis of Sanity. My guest is Sister Maria Philomena, M.I.C.M. Josef Pieper's Abuse of Language, Abuse of Power: A Modern Illustration — by Br. Lawrence Mary M.I.C.M., Tert., at catholicism.org Terror Glossary of Soviet Hate Speech — at communistcrimes.org Siwa Oasis, Aftans Lake (Egypt). Photo credit: Maaly Saeed, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Reconquest is a militant, engaging, and informative Catholic radio program featuring interviews with interesting guests as well as commentary by your host. It is a radio-journalistic extension of the Crusade of Saint Benedict Center.

In 1836, well-known English astronomer Sir John Herschel wrote a series of articles for the New York Sun reporting his discovery of life on the moon. He reported seeing buffalo, goats, cranes, and other animals. The Sun finally admitted that the whole thing had been a prank, and most of the public was amused.There is as much evidence for life on the moon or other planets today as there was in 1836. Moreover, as we explore the other planets of the solar system, the evidence grows that there is little hope that other life will be found in space. At a conference on extra-terrestrial life well-known astronomer, Dr. Robert Jastrow, remarked that the question was “essentially a religious controversy.”That the question of life in space is religious is an important insight in two ways: Recent advances in biochemistry have abundantly demonstrated that life could not have begun spontaneously from non-life on planet Earth. Evolutionists are putting their faith in the discovery of evidence that life began on some other planet. There is the further hope that with such a discovery this will be the final nail in the coffin of Christianity and proof of their own religion of evolution. What space exploration has taught so far confirms what the Bible implies, that planet Earth is a very special place specifically designed for life.Romans 8:22-23"For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. And not only they, but ourselves also, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body."Prayer: Dear Father, I thank You for making all the Earth so beautiful that even after the destruction by sin, the beauty around us naturally makes us think of You. Help me to add my words to that witness. In Jesus' Name. Amen.Ref: “Old Crow Bones and Radiocarbon Dating,” Creation Ex Nihilo. Image: The Inhabitants of the Moon, 1836, PD, Wikimedia Commons, changes made. To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1232/29?v=20251111

Many creation supporters are Christians that are also interested in ancient history and like to read about the latest archaeological discoveries. However, they are concerned when, say, some very ancient remains are carbon-14 dated at forty or even fifty thousand years old. According to the Bible, the Creation itself is no more than 10,000 years old, so how does the Bible-believing Christian handle this kind of information? To assure ourselves, we need to lift the cloak of secrecy about carbon-14 dating.Willard Libby developed the carbon-14 dating method in 1947. This was considered such a major breakthrough that he received the Nobel Prize a few years later. However, like every other method of measurement, the method itself had to be calibrated against things of historically dated and known age. Libby used wooden coffin lids and for the earliest dates was obliged to use historically dated material from Egypt. Libby reported in a footnote that the Egyptologist had confessed that Egyptian dating is “perhaps five centuries too old at five thousand years.” This one little foot-note reveals that if Egyptian dates were honestly brought forward by five hundred years, they would confirm the biblical Exodus. Secondly, any ages greater than about 5,000 years are beyond the range of historical calibration. The bottom line is that the carbon-14 method does have several serious and recognized problems beyond about 2,000 years.1 Corinthians 3:18“Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.”Prayer: Heavenly Father, I thank You that You are patient with us, especially when we read of discoveries and begin to doubt Your Word. Continue to teach me and give me understanding. In Jesus' Name. Amen.Image: Willard Frank Libby in Lab, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1232/29?v=20251111

Just how good are those Radiocarbon dates? When reporting an exciting archaeological discovery, popular science magazines tell the reader, for example, that some man-made artifact is 40,000 years old. A few years ago it was common to find tolerance figures such as plus or minus 1500 years attached to these ages. These tolerance figures effectively leave an impression of objective precision in the mind of the reader. Those tolerance figures are seldom used today.The Radiocarbon method was developed in 1948 and at that time was believed to be the ultimate answer to the archaeologists dating problems. The method has not lived up to its promise and today it is distrusted by the scientific community unless backed up by a second dating method. To give one example, when scientists Carbon-dated a mammoth bone hide-scraper discovered in the Yukon it was evident that man and mammoth lived at the same time but it Carbon-dated at 25 to 32 thousand years old. However, this put man on the North American Continent about twenty thousand years before humans were supposed to have arrived here! Eventually, a second test method using a nuclear accelerator was used and this dated the same piece of bone at only two thousand years!This example is common and Bible-believing Christians should not be concerned that Carbon dated ages will in any way disprove the Bible.Exodus 20:11"For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it."Prayer: Dear Lord Jesus Christ, You are the Word through Whom we were created made flesh for our salvation. You are the beating heart of Scriptural truth. Help us to see that, for Your sake, all of Scripture is trustworthy.Ref: “Old Crow Bones and Radiocarbon Dating,” Creation Ex Nihilo. Image: Jacques Cinq-Mars at Blue Caves dig, Yukon, Ruth M. Gotthardt, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1232/29?v=20251111

Rockland County legislator Beth Davidson, Tarrytown Village trustee Effie Phillips-Staley, lawyer, former television reporter and democracy advocate Mike Sacks and Cait Conley, army veteran, former director for counterterrorism on the National Security Council and senior executive at cybersecurity and infrastructure security agency, discuss key issues as they campaign in the June primary election to be the Democratic nominee for Congress for New York's 17th congressional district. Photo: Views of West Haverstraw and Haverstraw in Rockland County, New York (Photo by Alexisrael via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0) Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.