The Bible and homosexuality? | gay | bible | lesbian by Matt Slick The Bible doesn't speak of homosexuality very often, but when it does, it condemns it as sin. Let's take a look. Lev. 18:22, "You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female; it is an abomination." Homosexuality is clearly condemned in the Bible. Unlike other sins, homosexuality has a heavy judgment administered by God Himself upon those who commit it - and support it. "For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural, 27 and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error," (Rom. 1:26-27). As a result, they can no longer see the error of what they are doing. So, in their hearty approval of homosexuality they encourage others to be trapped in their sinfulness. Is this politically correct? ....really?
How do you prove photography to a blind man? That was the question I was asked: how would you prove to a blind man, that photography exists? I knew what he was getting at. We had been discussing psychics. He was a firm believer in psychic powers, had had psychic experiences, and regularly visited a psychic. It took me about ten seconds to think of a way to show he was wrong. He will want to repeat the experiment with different rooms and different sighted people. The believer went quiet. My first question was, if you did this 1,000 times, and the sighted person got the correct number of fingers (say) 225 times out of 1,000 (where pure chance would be 200 times), would the blind man believe that this “anomaly” was proof of photography? What if the blind man had to do a drawing and hold it up in front of the camera, instead of his fingers? What if the blind man had to select one drawing from four “targets” and hold it up in front of the camera, instead of his fingers? The guy didn’t want to answer. Post Script
Godchecker.com - Your Guide To The Gods Furusiyya It was a concept and noble art that included the arts of war and hunting, equestrianism, tactics and strategy, and certain games like chess. This art was practiced throughout the Muslim world, and saw its greatest achievement in Mamluk Egypt during the 14th century. The term is a derivation of faras "horse", and in modern Standard Arabic means "equestrianism" in general.[1] The term for "horseman" or "knight" is fāris (also an Arabic given name, and the origin of the Spanish rank of Alférez). Disciplines of furusiyya[edit] The three basic categories of furūsiyya are horsemanship (including veterinary aspects of proper care for the horse, the proper riding techniques), archery, and charging with the lance. In a narrow sense of the term, furūsiyya literature comprises works by professional military writers with a Mamluk background or close ties to the Mamluk establishment. Furusiyya as an ethical code[edit] Furusiyyah literature[edit] See also[edit] References[edit] External links[edit]
10 Things I Wish Everyone Knew about the Creation vs. Evolution Debate Mike Lehmann edits Jesus & Dawkins, a blog that looks at the intersection of Christianity, science, and atheism. Recently, Lehmann had an exchange with Creation Museum founder Ken Ham about the creation/evolution debate. We asked him to list what he wishes everyone understood about creation and evolution. 1. Darwin’s idea can help us read the Bible better. Darwin has helped us recover a truth the church fathers knew well but us moderns often forget: The Bible’s authority doesn’t depend on our ability to harmonize it with the latest scientific discoveries. 2. As the National Academy of Sciences explains, a scientific theory is “a comprehensive explanation of some aspect of nature that is supported by a vast body of evidence.” In this debate, we should use the word “theory” properly. 3. Theologian William Carroll describes what the doctrine of creation is really about: The doctrine of creation is not about cosmological or biological change — it’s about why anything exists at all. 4. 5. 6.
Top 10 Best Books For Inquiring Minds Books We have done a number of previous book lists that have featured some very popular books. It seems, with Christmas just around the corner, that we ought to do a special list of books that are perfect as gifts for the kinds of people that frequent out site – people seeking after new knowledge and trivia. This list is books is hand picked by me for no reason other than I have either read them and enjoyed them, or they have been extremely big sellers amongst our readers. The Greatest Stories Never Told Rick Beyer Buy this book from Amazon This is history candy — the good stuff. Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things Charles Panati Buy this book at Amazon If you enjoy trivia and unusual facts, then Charles Panati’s Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things, is the perfect book. Book of Secrets Thomas Eaton Buy this book at Amazon Did you know there’s a secret daily flight from the United States to Cuba? The Book of General Ignorance John Mitchinson and John Lloyd Buy this book at Amazon Bonus
Richard Feynman videos Videos This page has been recently updated. The Fantastic Mr Feynman - BBC documentary, May 2013 Feynman's 1984 lecture on Tiny Machines (79 minutes) Richard Phillips Feynman - The Last Journey Of A Genius (full version, 54 minutes) The Challenger - BBC movie (full version, 89 minutes) Richard Feynman - Los Alamos From Below (audio, 69 minutes) The Character of Physical Law - The Messenger Series of Physics Lectures: Fun to Imagine: The Douglas Robb Memorial Lectures: Take the World from Another Point of View: BBC Horizon 1964 - Strangeness Minus Three The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Distinction of Past and Future Quantum Mechanical View of Reality 1 Quantum Mechanical View of Reality 2 Quantum Mechanical View of Reality 3 Quantum Mechanical View of Reality 4 Feynman on Wave Particle Duality Elementary Particles and the Laws of Physics - The 1986 Dirac Memorial Lectures Joining the Challenger Commission Evidence to the Challenger Commission On computers (75 minutes) Playing bongos Home
10 Awesome Online Classes You Can Take For Free Cool, but you need iTunes for nearly everything, and that gets an 'F.' Are there really no other places to get these lessons? I was sure there are some on Academic Earth. Flagged 1. 7 of them are available via YouTube. 2. iTunes is free. 1. 2. Don't worry, we're looking out for you! While I have no personal beef with iTunes, I know that many people share your sentiments — so I actually made a concerted effort to include relevant youtube links when possible.
Relativistic Baseball What would happen if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90% the speed of light? - Ellen McManis Let’s set aside the question of how we got the baseball moving that fast. The answer turns out to be “a lot of things”, and they all happen very quickly, and it doesn’t end well for the batter (or the pitcher). The ball is going so fast that everything else is practically stationary. The ideas of aerodynamics don’t apply here. These gamma rays and debris expand outward in a bubble centered on the pitcher’s mound. The constant fusion at the front of the ball pushes back on it, slowing it down, as if the ball were a rocket flying tail-first while firing its engines. After about 70 nanoseconds the ball arrives at home plate. When it reaches the batter, the center of the cloud is still moving at an appreciable fraction of the speed of light. Suppose you’re watching from a hilltop outside the city.
How to Trick Your Brain for Happiness This month, we feature videos of a Greater Good presentation by Rick Hanson, the best-selling author and trailblazing psychologist. In this excerpt from his talk, Dr. Hanson explains how we can take advantage of the brain’s natural “plasticity”—it’s ability to change shape over time. gobyg There’s this great line by Ani Tenzin Palmo, an English woman who spent 12 years in a cave in Tibet: “We do not know what a thought is, yet we’re thinking them all the time.” It’s true. In recent years, though, we have started to better understand the neural bases of states like happiness, gratitude, resilience, love, compassion, and so forth. Ultimately, what this can mean is that with proper practice, we can increasingly trick our neural machinery to cultivate positive states of mind. But in order to understand how, you need to understand three important facts about the brain. Fact one: As the brain changes, the mind changes, for better or worse. Fact two: As the mind changes, the brain changes. 1. 2. 3.
The story of the Gömböc September 2009 Play this movie to see the Gömböc wriggle. This article is also available as a podcast. A Gömböc is a strange thing. Balancing act The defining feature of a Gömböc is the fact that it's got just two points of equilibrium: one is stable and the other is unstable. A Gömböc made from plexiglass. "It's a bit like putting a ball on a hilly landscape," says Domokos, "if you put the ball down at a generic point, it will always roll off in the same direction, down into the valley. To give it its full mathematical description, a Gömböc is a three-dimensional, convex and homogeneous object with exactly one stable point of equilibrium and one unstable point of equilibrium. Doubtful existence An ellipse has two stable and two unstable points of equilibrium. The reason why many people thought that Gömböcs didn't exist is that in two dimensions there is no convex shape with only two points of equilibrium. A geometric stem cell "This is intuitively clear," says Domokos. Mathematical field work