Proclaiming the Gospel with Evidence to All Peoples Everywhere
A team of scientists based in London deleted a gene from twenty-five human embryos using the gene editing CRISPR (an acronym for “clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats”). Within two weeks they were alarmed to discover numerous unintended edits which would likely lead to birth defects and even cancer later in life. They were all killed immediately.
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A 20,623% return on your investment, in less than a year?! That’s what a person in New Haven, CT, stumbled upon at a garage sale.
The $35 purchase of a blue and white porcelain lotus bowl was later sold at auction by Sotheby’s for $721,800. It turned out to be a rare (one of only seven known) and valuable fifteenth-century Chinese artifact from the Ming Dynasty.
Source: World Magazine, 04.10.21 Volume 36, Number 7, p. 18
In a recent survey, the Pew Research Center reported that only 49% of millennials in the U.S. identify as Christian, making them the first non-majority-Christian generation in American history.
Source: World Magazine, 11.09.19 Volume 34, Number 21, p.11
Kane Tanaka, currently the world’s oldest human at 118, is scheduled to carry the Olympic torch ahead of the Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Understandably, she will do most of her route in a wheelchair but is determined to walk at least part of it.
Appropriately, the family gave her a new pair of sneakers at her last birthday. The title for the oldest person ever to live (not counting Bible characters) belonged to a French woman who lived to 122.
Source: World Magazine, 04.10.21 Volume 36, Number 7, p. 18
By Dr. Don Bierle, FaithSearch President
Was Jesus serious when He asked the question, “…when the Son of Man comes, will He find faith on the earth?” (Luke 18:8b). In what way can we imagine the possible extinction of faith?
In part one, I wrote that the primary distinction of Christianity from other religions is its faith object. The danger is that people tend to focus on their faith, per se, rather than the object of their faith, Jesus Christ. When they do that, faith equals “feelings,” something other religions have as well. That kind of “faith” may just as well become extinct because it is worthless (1 Corinthians 15:14,17).
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