Outside the Walls
There is, as can be imagined, much to interest a Bible student in the bustling, modern city of Jerusalem. We tour the sobering Yad Vashem, the heart-rending Holocaust Memorial, complete with its Avenue of Righteous Gentiles, those who helped the...
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The morning dawns clear and brisk as the salt sea breeze off the Mediterranean awakens us to our first full day in Israel. We will be journeying along the coastal plain today, then around the end of Carmel to Haifa, across...
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The Curse & the Blessing
I am awake early to watch the sun spread its rippling sheet of gold across the surface of the Galilean lake. Palm fronds stir in the morning breeze along the edge of this subtropical inland sea. A few fishing boats...
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At Last!
We notice the bullet-pocked walls above the Zion Gate as we enter the confines of the Old City. They are a grim reminder that Yerushalayim, the City of Peace, has hardly lived up to its name. These bullet scars were...
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How to Prepare for a Trip to Israel
Any tour travels at the rate of the least interested person. If someone comes along "for a holiday," and complains about the food or accommodations, is the last one on the bus every day, gripes about not enough shopping time,...
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Peace & Safety
Is Middle East peace an oxymoron?* It certainly seems so. Jerusalem (meaning, the city of peace) has heard the march of earth's armies through her streets perhaps more than any other. As Charles Gulston writes in his classic Jerusalem: the...
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Is Evolution Probable?
Evolution is not a true theory at all. Webster defines a theory as "a formulation of apparent relationships or underlying principles of certain observed phenomena which has been verified to some degree." No matter how proponents of evolution brandish their...
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Choose Your Assumptions Carefully
The validity of the assumptions made in the beginning of a venture determine the validity of the conclusion. This is preeminently true in the creation-evolution debate. Science Undermined At the beginning of modern science, foremost scientists like Newton, Kepler, Pascal, Boyle, Faraday,...
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You Have to Believe Evolution
Ever since my Intro. Biology course at university, I have concluded that any scientist who accepts macro-evolution must suffer from a form of intellectual schizophrenia. How else can you explain the following scenario? The professor strides confidently into the lecture...
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