By Dr. Don Bierle, FaithSearch President

Anyone who is acquainted with the Bible should be familiar with the apostles of Jesus. References to Peter, Paul, James, John, and others occur throughout the New Testament. Many people have also heard the names of some of the great church fathers of the Christian faith such as Augustine, Irenaeus, Origin, and others. 

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It is estimated that by 2026, more than three million farmers in India will be able to access underground water using solar pumps. Once they are installed, these pumps can supply water using light from the sun without additional expense. This will increase badly needed food production in parched rural communities throughout India, Africa, and elsewhere. With the extra water they can even grow cash crops which provide income for poor communities. That’s the good news.

CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) is a sophisticated genetic technology which can engineer changes in the DNA blueprint of plants and animals. History was made in 2023, with the launch of a salad blend made from the first genome-edited plant product using CRISPR. Purple and green mustard greens, naturally bitter to the taste but with a higher nutritional value than lettuce, were gene-edited to remove the bitterness. The result tastes more like lettuce, while retaining its original nutritional content.