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Episode 175: Limitations of Science, or of Scientists - 1 of 2

For your consideration...the following is an excerpt from a radio spot on KAPL 1300 AM radio, Jacksonville, Oregonhttp://www.kaplradio.com/ called " Akin For the Truth", or at KCGP LP 106.7 Radio, andhttp://www.calvarygp.com/taxonomy/term/83. For other tools, you may want to check out our Website at akinforthetruth.net.

To listen to the entire spot on this Podcast (a few minutes long), click the little microphone icon....Jack

The support actually provided by science for and against religious belief is very much exaggerated in today’s culture. The reason for this is understandable. Science, when operating within its own arena, has been quite successful.

For example, in a typical environmental laboratory like mine there is a wide variety of scientific experiments, if you will, occurring every single day. Such a lab has a number of instruments, standards, equipment, tools, glassware, and personnel...

jack

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Episode 178: Numbers and the Bible - 2 of 2

For your consideration...the following is an excerpt from a radio spot on KAPL 1300 AM radio, Jacksonville, Oregonhttp://www.kaplradio.com/ called " Akin For the Truth", or at KCGP LP 106.7 Radio, andhttp://www.calvarygp.com/taxonomy/term/83. For other tools, you may want to check out our Website at akinforthetruth.net.

To listen to the entire spot on this Podcast (a few minutes long), click the little microphone icon....Jack

 

The world’s population, by generally accepted historical information, was, in 1700 AD, 600,000,000, in 1800 AD, 900,000,000…a .4% rate increase.

Due to war, natural disaster, food availability, etc., calculating population growth is an imprecise business. But we do know that the estimated population increase between 1700 and 1800, .4%, predated the great advances made in medicine associated with increased rate growth that would occur in late 19th and 20th century. Last time we used calculations to verify the accuracy of Genesis as it describes those 70 Semites that became a nation of an estimated three million within 430 years. Now, using this premedical rate of .4%, we can use population calculations to test another Biblical event, Noah’s worldwide flood.

Jack

Direct download: Akin_for_the_Truth_-_032_-_Population_rates_b.mp3
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Episode 177: Numbers and the Bible - 1 of 2

For your consideration...the following is an excerpt from a radio spot on KAPL 1300 AM radio, Jacksonville, Oregonhttp://www.kaplradio.com/ called " Akin For the Truth", or at KCGP LP 106.7 Radio, andhttp://www.calvarygp.com/taxonomy/term/83. For other tools, you may want to check out our Website at akinforthetruth.net.

To listen to the entire spot on this Podcast (a few minutes long), click the little microphone icon....Jack

Let’s say you read in the Bible that a little clan of 70 Semites, who in about 1850 BC came down from Palestine, led by Jacob, through Beersheba to Egypt to live near Jacob’s son Joseph, and that this small group of 70 Semites, within just 430 years, grew to a population of some three million. Can we believe it?

 

Direct download: Akin_for_the_Truth_-_031_-_Population_rates_a.mp3
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Episode 176: Limitations of Science, or of Scientists - 2 of 2

 

For your consideration...the following is an excerpt from a radio spot on KAPL 1300 AM radio, Jacksonville, Oregonhttp://www.kaplradio.com/ called " Akin For the Truth", or at KCGP LP 106.7 Radio, andhttp://www.calvarygp.com/taxonomy/term/83. For other tools, you may want to check out our Website at akinforthetruth.net.

To listen to the entire spot on this Podcast (a few minutes long), click the little microphone icon....Jack

The words of Jesus, in answer to His disciples’ question about the details of His return, are recorded by Luke, Chapter 17. In that night, Jesus said, two shall be sleeping in bed, one shall be taken and the other left.

Surely a nearby scientist or philosopher listening to Jesus would see no problem with His statement, for Jesus said He would be returning at night and that two would be sleeping in bed. .But the rest of Jesus’ answer may seem confusing, for He goes on to say that two women will be grinding, and two men will be working in the field, one taken and the other left.

 

Grinding meal was traditionally done in the morning, and no one worked in the field at night. But Jesus also said He would be coming at night.True enough, it will be night, somewhere, perhaps in Israel, when he returns, .but it will also be dawn, dusk, morning and afternoon elsewhere in the world.

 

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