If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!
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* - The distance between the wingtips of a Boeing 747 is longer * than the first flight made by the Wright Brothers. * * - It is estimated that there are at least 1,000,000,000,000,000 * ants lving on the Earth. * * - Decreed by law in 18th century Ireland, the cure for rabies * was to smother the patient between two feather beds and then * to get a "sufficient number of neighbours lying on it" * until he was out of danger. * * - In the human body, bones are 22 percent water, muscles * are 75 percent water, blood serum is 92 percent, saliva is * 99.5 percent and tooth enamel is 2 percent water.
According to a report by scientists in the national journal Nature, geckos are small tropical reptiles whose ability to walk up walls and across ceilings has previously defied all attempts to explain how they could stick to any surface with no sign of any glue or suction mechanism to hold them on. A group of biologists and engineers studied the microscopic hairs on gecko toes and found the ends of the hairs directly attach to molecules in the walking surface by van der Waals force, a type of attraction between atoms. The report concludes that engineering a structure like a gecko foot is “beyond the limits of human technology,” but scientists express the hope that the “natural technology of gecko foot-hairs can provide biological inspiration for future design of a remarkably effective adhesive.”
If understanding how to [design] gecko foot-hairs is beyond intelligent human engineers, it is certainly beyond blind, mindless chance. The more we look into the precision engineering found in living things, the more we are reminded of the apostle Paul’s warning that human beings who study the created world are without excuse for ignoring the creator.
As Michael Denton points out: “The conclusion may have religious implications, but it does not depend on religious suppositions.”
From: Dennis R. Petersen, Unlocking the Mysteries of Creation, Master Books, 2002, p. 113
One of the reasons for the success of the internet is its open, peer-to-peer nature. All computers on the internet are equal, and in the past it hasn't mattered whether your computer is a 386 in Nguru on the end of a satellite phone or a big monster in a New York rack. If that ever changes, I think we will lose part of the essential, vital character of the internet. (Doug Winter)
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Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best of minds. Men and women live on the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which they never enter and with their hand on the door latch they die outside. GK Chesterton
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*[Jesus said,] "I have told you these things, so that in Me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world. --John 16
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