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Do any of you check out NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day? I remember discovering it several years ago – it’s really pretty neat. All the images/video I’ll be using in this post are from there, used with permission. You can click any image to go to the NASA page – you might just enjoy browsing around there, it is simply incredible! For instance, the image below – at first glance I thought it wasn’t a photo, I thought it must be an artist’s rendering of deep space. It is in fact a image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope … Read more

What is nothing? It is not what is inside an empty shoebox … that is still something. There is air, dust particles, heat, etc. in there. Nothing is not just a tiny bit of something. Nothing is not any thing. Nothing is no thing. Last week, in the Truth & Evidences series, we talked about how the material universe had a beginning, and the scientific evidences there are for that. In the past, scientists thought that perhaps the universe was eternal, but as more and more scientific data has come to light, it points more and more to the fact … Read more

Well, so far in the truth and evidences series we’ve discussed that truth exists, and that we can’t dismiss truth as just being a matter of faith. We’ve also talked about that if truth exists, then it’s opposite is false – and since different worldviews have contradicting claims, then they can’t all be true. And last week we talked about the difference between disagreeing with a viewpoint because of a lack of foundation for it, verses disagreeing with a viewpoint simply because it is not convenient. So far we largely been establishing the nature of truth, but haven’t really been … Read more

So, as I mentioned a couple weeks ago, we’re going to be taking a step back from the “Seek the things above” series, and asking a series of questions that are very fundamental. Is it possible to know the truth about God? Does he even exist at all? Is there even just one truth – or are all beliefs equally true? After all, why should we listen to the Bible at all if we don’t even know if there is any deity at all … much less whether the Bible itself is true? I think C. S. Lewis makes an … Read more

The opposite of true is false. Well, I guess that may seem a little obvious, eh? But it is still important to establish. 🙂 And if you’re wondering why there is an elephant there … well, that comes later in the post. 🙂 So last Wednesday in the Truth & Evidences series we discussed the fact that absolute truth does exist. And, naturally, the next thing that follows is that the opposite of true is false. But we also want to take a look at this question – are all religions just teaching the same thing, but in different ways? … Read more

See that bar right above here where it says “Blog”, “About Me”, etc.? I had seen lots of blogs had these handy stand alone pages, and I knew I wanted them on my blog (this was back when I was on Blogger). After a little poking around I discovered how to do it – its extremely easy, but the starting link is just not in a very obvious place. Apparently I am not the only one who initially didn’t find it straight-forward – yesterday there was a request to explain how I did this. So here you go, Blogger users: … Read more

See that bar right above here where it says “Blog”, “About Me”, etc.? I had seen lots of blogs had these handy stand alone pages, and I knew I wanted them on my blog (this was back when I was on Blogger). After a little poking around I discovered how to do it – its extremely easy, but the starting link is just not in a very obvious place. Apparently I am not the only one who initially didn’t find it straight-forward – yesterday there was a request to explain how I did this. So here you go, Blogger users: … Read more

See that bar right above here where it says “Blog”, “About Me”, etc.? I had seen lots of blogs had these handy stand alone pages, and I knew I wanted them on my blog (this was back when I was on Blogger). After a little poking around I discovered how to do it – its extremely easy, but the starting link is just not in a very obvious place. Apparently I am not the only one who initially didn’t find it straight-forward – yesterday there was a request to explain how I did this. So here you go, Blogger users: … Read more

See that bar right above here where it says “Blog”, “About Me”, etc.? I had seen lots of blogs had these handy stand alone pages, and I knew I wanted them on my blog (this was back when I was on Blogger). After a little poking around I discovered how to do it – its extremely easy, but the starting link is just not in a very obvious place. Apparently I am not the only one who initially didn’t find it straight-forward – yesterday there was a request to explain how I did this. So here you go, Blogger users: … Read more

See that bar right above here where it says “Blog”, “About Me”, etc.? I had seen lots of blogs had these handy stand alone pages, and I knew I wanted them on my blog (this was back when I was on Blogger). After a little poking around I discovered how to do it – its extremely easy, but the starting link is just not in a very obvious place. Apparently I am not the only one who initially didn’t find it straight-forward – yesterday there was a request to explain how I did this. So here you go, Blogger users: … Read more