The following quote is from a new book, Science After Babel, by David Berlinski. The author is a senior fellow of the Discovery Institute in Seattle. It is quoted from World Magazine, October 21, 2023, p. 32.
There remains, at the heart of the universe, the profound mystery of life itself: “a kind of intelligence evident nowhere else,” whose “fantastic and controlled complexity, its brilliant inventiveness and diversity, its sheer difference from anything else in this or any other world” is beyond the reach of science to explain.
In 1876, at the age of 29, Alexander Graham Bell invented the first telephone. It took until 1984 for the invention of the first portable cellular phone. The first commercially produced cell phone, the Motorola DunaTAC 8000X, sold for $3,995 – equivalent to nearly $12,000 today.
A parachute landed in the Utah desert last September, carrying the first-ever U.S. asteroid sample (250 grams). NASA’s OSIRIS-REx probe was launched in 2016, and collected a sample from the near-earth asteroid Bennu. Analysis will be by the NASA team at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, as well as by 200 mission members from thirty-five countries.
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Oleg will be on another ministry trip to Russia the first three weeks of May – two weeks in Moscow and one week in Armenia. Follow his updates online.
Vernee and Don arrived in Surprise, Arizona, at the beginning of November. Don immediately began teaching a weekly class on “discerning heresy”; substitute taught Sundays in their church; and participated in a weekly men’s Bible study. He also began teaching a new home study called “What’s Next: Will We Live Again?” – challenging seniors to have assurance of life after death through faith in Jesus.
Rick, Adrian, and Don continue developing courses and posting Don’s teaching videos on the Bible Learning Center. Check it out!
FaithSearch is MOVING this spring! The building we are in now is being replaced, so we are moving to another office in an adjacent building – 6800 France Avenue S.
No, it’s smoke! That was often the exchange between my wife, Vernee, and I, during this past summer in South Dakota. Every time the wind came out of the north it brought the smoke resulting from the Canadian wildfire devastation. The 2023 fire season, which started early and ended late, burned an estimated 71,000 square miles of land, an area equivalent to the entire state of North Dakota. (On average, some 9,600 square miles burns each year. That was an over 730% increase for 2023.)
