When you look at a launch vehicle sitting on the launch pad, you know there was a lot of intelligence and design involved. Though you didn’t witness firsthand the designers and engineers working through test data and analyses, and you didn’t watch the technicians welding and assembling the pieces together, you know the launch vehicle […]
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I have refrained from commenting on the investigation of Ravi Zacharias until now, probably because like many people, I was shocked about the entire thing. After reading the final report, however, shock has turned to disgust. His legacy is forever tainted. Like so many other Christian apologists, I had learned so much from Ravi’s ministry. Some
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Thus says the Lord: “Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, let not the mighty man boast in his might, let not the rich man boast in his riches, but let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the Lord who practices steadfast love, justice,
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The Bible, although bound together as one book, is a collection of 66 books. Though these books have different authors, styles, audiences, and purposes, they all have one thing in common. They were all written by men. Yet this bound collection of books is said to hold eternal and absolute truth. How can that be
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Since the very beginning of time itself, the battle has not really been between good and evil but between humility and pride. When we read in Isaiah 14 about the fall of Lucifer (Satan, the deceiver, the father of lies, and the ruler of darkness), it started with his pride. He said in his heart,
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One of the most common objections to Christianity is the idea of hell. How could a good and loving God send people to hell? At first glance this appears to be a valid concern. God is love so out of His love, He shouldn’t be “sending” people to hell. And how could we want to worship
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I was excited the past few weeks in our homeschool history lessons to teach my children about Mohamed and the founding of Islam. Yes, you read that correctly. Over the past two years we have studied most of the major world religions: Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Shintoism, and now Islam. We’ve even covered ancient religions like
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On December 11, 1998 NASA launched the Mars Climate Orbiter Probe on a 9.5 month, 416 million mile journey where it would study the climate, atmosphere, and surface changes on Mars. On September 23, 1999 the Mars Climate Orbiter Probe began its planned orbital insertion maneuver. Four minutes after the main engine burn began, communication was lost with the Probe and
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When you think about other world religions, they all have some prophet or messenger who was delivering an important message – either from god or how to reach god. And eventually all of these prophets and messengers dies. Buddha died in 949 BC. Confucius died in 479 BC. Mohammed died in 632 AD. Joseph Smith,
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When I first started working at NASA, it was overwhelming to see what all I needed to learn about the design of a launch vehicle, especially as a systems engineer. Since my job was to find any issues in the interfaces between systems, I needed to have some understanding of how each system worked. However,
