Science Makes the Case for a Designer, The Christmas Truce of World War One, a Root Language to the Indo-European Family of Languages Can Be Seen as Supportive of a Young Earth View



Science Increasingly Makes the Case for God
The odds of life existing on another planet grow ever longer. Intelligent design, anyone?
By
ERIC METAXASDec. 25, 2014 4:56 p.m. ET





A little late for this Christmas but I always loved this story. Perhaps you could file it away for next Christmas as a sermon, Sunday School or Bible study illustration.  Even your kids may marvel at the story next Christmas:

The Christmas Truce
THE PRINCE OF PEACE, THE DESIRE OF NATIONS
By: Eric Metaxas|Published: December 24, 2014 6:00 AM

Here is the ad that Eric Metaxas references that does a dramatization of that truce




Family Tree of Languages Has Roots in Anatolia, Biologists Say
By NICHOLAS WADE
Published: August 23, 2012

Beacon2Light: Check out the proposed dates for the beginnings of this root language. Sounds a lot closer to a biblical, literalist interpretation of Creation (and is helpful to the view of a Tower of Babel confounding of languages) just several thousand years ago than to the idea of millions of years in an evolutionary viewpoint.


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