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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 Eric Metaxas' book on Miracles 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 language...

1. Bill Nye is Arrogant Whether it was his reference to the Creation Museum as "this facility" or his frequent references to Kentucky (especially his fear that the people of Kentucky would hold the nation back in the competition for technological advances if they dared to undermine the preeminent position of evolution in school textbooks) or his arguments based on the "reasonable man," Bill Nye betrayed his smug attitude toward his host state, host location and debating opponent.   Apparently, in my opinion, Bill Nye thought his audience was stupid.  Again and again, he theorized that if a universal flood was true, then why don't we have a fossilized creature struggling upwards?  Supposedly, his mind was so stuck in the deluge of water from his obsession with Noah that he forgot (or hoped that his audience would forget, more likely) that fossils aren't made in water but are formed in mud, soil, etc. and often are found in rock layers.  If you or I are...