The Antikythera Mechanism, and other links

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• 10 Gravestone Clues to Find Your Ancestors -- “This gravestone from Narracan Cemetery in the Shire of Baw Baw, Victoria, Australia lists the cause of death for most of the family members.”
• Are Your Kids Going To Grow Up To Be Democrats? Know The Warning Signs -- “If you see any of these signs, now you have time to disown your children and write them out of your will before they donate their inheritance to Kamala Harris or something.” (satire)
• Associate Justice Clarence Thomas Wants the Supreme Court To Look At Facebook’s “Broad Immunity” -- “Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act passed in 1196 provides social media sites and other internet providers immunity from lawsuits that arise from something posted by a user.”
• Ben Stratton: Feedback with Don Neagle on 3/4/22 -- “Listen to Ben Stratton of the J. H. Spencer Historical Society, a radio interview on Logan County Baptist History (Select ‘Podcasts’ and then search for ‘Feedback w Don Neagle’ on 3/4/22)”
• Debunked Transitional Fossils Are the Tip of the Iceberg -- “...the pattern of the fossil record is consistently one of sudden appearance, and evolutionists have yet to successfully construct a single robustly populated series of gradually transitioning fossils that move chronologically from one form to a distinctly different morphology.”
• Dogtrot House, Tattnall County -- “Located southeast of Reidsville, this dogtrot is an amazing survivor. From my perspective, these are getting harder and harder to find.”
• EXCLUSIVE: In Leaked Audio Former NIH Director/New Biden Science Adviser Laughs Over Threatening Unemployment to Force Vaccines, Blames Trump For Covid Deaths -- “Former head of the NIH, FRancis Collins, appointed as President Bidens new science adviser, has consistently maintained that he plays a nonpartisan role in the federal government.”
• Florida Boarding House was Known for its Biscuits -- “The house sat along an important travel route for cattlemen who were moving their stocks to the markets in Jacksonville.”
• Florida Education Bill, CS/CS/HB 1557 -- “An act relating to parental rights in education; amending s. 1001.42, F.S.; requiring district school boards to adopt procedures that comport with certain provisions of law for notifying a student’s parent of specified information...”
• Friedhof Lauterbrunnen -- “Friedhof Lauterbrunnen, the village cemetery, is located near the highest waterfall in Switzerland, Mürrenbach Fall, cascading 1,638 feet off the cliffside.”
• Historic Rural Churches of Georgia -- “Partners for Sacred Places has honored Historic Rural Churches with a juried award.”
• How Church Discipline Aims at Heaven -- “The church cannot worship God while living in sin. Scripture warns us that if we live in sin, God will not hear our prayers (Ps. 66:18).”
• How the Federal Government Used Evangelical Leaders to Spread COVID Propaganda to Churches -- “But the pro-life Christian framing was sure to win Collins a hearing among an audience with deep religious convictions about the evil of abortion.”
• How Tim Keller & Russell Moore Became Grifters for Masks & Vaccines -- “Megan Basham, a reporter for the Daily Wire recently wrote an article exposing how Francis Collins and the NIH co-opted evangelical leaders like Tim Keller and Russell Moore, influencing them to support the establishment narrative on masks and the COVID vaccines.” (interview)
• Pterosaurs Didn’t Have Feathers -- “Moreover, the very existence of preserved dinosaur and pterosaur skin fibers is itself a strong argument that these creatures did not live millions of years ago.”
• Textual Criticism and the End of Biblical Inerrancy -- “I have to admit I was stunned by what happened; I had never expected to see an evangelical try to convince people that there were errors in the Bible.”
• The Antikythera Mechanism: Testament to ancient human genius -- “Our work reveals the Antikythera Mechanism as a beautiful conception, translated by superb engineering into a device of genius. It challenges all our preconceptions about the technological capabilities of the ancient Greeks.”
• The Best Defense of the Bible is the Bible -- “When ones faith depends upon the veracity of the academic and not upon the Bible alone, one is building upon sand.”
• The Lord Gave the Word: A Study in the History of the Biblical Text -- “The Bible is the eternal Word of God. It has been given by God to man that it might be the absolute, supreme, authoritative, infallible, and unchangeable standard for faith and practice.”
• The Myth of a Christian Baby Daddy -- “A man who fathers a child, and commits himself to a course of life which involves shirking the responsibility of raising and providing for that child, and his mother, is committed to a life which involves a permanent and ongoing intentional rebellion against God.”
• Utah, stick this in your pipe and smoke it! Idaho is the ‘least sinful’ state in U.S. -- “WalletHub says it compared all of the states ‘across 47 key indicators of immoral or illicit behavior. Our data set ranges from violent crimes per capita to excessive drinking to the share of the population with gambling disorders.’”
• WaPo columnist says “fans of Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill have a new favorite word: ‘grooming’” ... and I think someone hit a nerve. -- “Most of the bill reads like this; it’s basically a parents’ rights manifesto requiring transparency and parental involvement, which is probably what many leftists really object to.”
• Why There Are Just Four Gospels in the Bible -- “But there is one final aspect of the explanation for a ‘fourfold Gospel,’ and it is the one I suggested could give us the ‘most direct path’ to the answer: the self-authenticating power of these Gospels themselves.”