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Post by chemengineer on Jul 9, 2023 16:08:34 GMT -5
"In Heaven, there will be no law, and the lion will lie down with the lamb…. The worse the society, the more law there will be. In Hell, there will be nothing but law, and due process will be meticulously observed.” - Professor Grant Gilmore (1977 lecture)
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Post by chemengineer on Jul 10, 2023 10:42:18 GMT -5
"A fool contributes nothing worth hearing and takes offense at everything." - Aristotle
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Post by chemengineer on Jul 12, 2023 8:09:14 GMT -5
"I've come to believe there is little, if any, honesty in the media, and ethic is a word they are totally unfamiliar with." --Ronald Reagan
This was said at a time long before the media slid deep into the cesspool of lies and being lackeys for Democrats.
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Post by chemengineer on Jul 15, 2023 8:28:47 GMT -5
"For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries." ~Dr. Robert Jastrow
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Post by chemengineer on Jul 19, 2023 19:55:09 GMT -5
"The system of revealed truth which this Book [the Bible] contains is like that of the universe, concealed from common observation yet...the centuries have established its Divine origin." –Sir Isaac Newton
(How much more so since Isaac Newton's time......)
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Post by chemengineer on Jul 28, 2023 18:33:55 GMT -5
“I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.” – Thomas Jefferson, letter to James Madison, Jan 30, 1787
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Post by chemengineer on Aug 15, 2023 18:43:30 GMT -5
“Over half a century ago, while I was still a child, I recall hearing a number of older people offer the following explanation for the great disasters that had befallen Russia: ‘Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this has happened.” – Alexandr Solzhenitsyn (Templeton Prize Acceptance Speech)
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Post by chemengineer on Oct 23, 2023 15:03:38 GMT -5
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” ― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
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Post by chemengineer on Oct 24, 2023 18:45:37 GMT -5
I ask not for a lighter load, but for broader shoulders. - Jewish Proverb
This is the final sentence on the final page of my book, soon to be in print:
Science of the Bible
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Post by chemengineer on Oct 26, 2023 20:15:25 GMT -5
I cannot believe that our existence in this universe is a mere quirk of fate, an accident of history, an incidental blip in the great cosmic drama… Through conscious beings the universe has generated self-awareness. This can be no trivial detail, no minor by-product of mindless, purposeless forces. We are truly meant to be here. (Paul Davies, The Mind of God, Simon & Schuster, New York, 1992, p 232)
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Post by chemengineer on Oct 27, 2023 8:21:45 GMT -5
" - A large-scale 1972 study found that persons who did not attend
church were four times as likely to commit suicide than were frequent
church attenders.
- One survey of nearly 14,000 youths found that substance abuse varied
in direct proportion to strength of religious commitment. The authors
concluded that 'importance of religion' was the single best predictor of
substance abuse patterns.
- Several studies have found that alcohol abuse is highest among those
with little or no religious commitment.
- Religious people recover from surgery more quickly than do their
atheistic and agnostic counterparts.
- A number of studies have found a strong inverse correlation between
church attendance and divorce.
- A 1978 study found that church attendance predicted marital
satisfaction better than any other single variable.
- Very religious women report greater happiness and satisfaction with
marital sex.
In short, the burden of both clinical experience and the research data
suggests that among the most important determinants of human happiness
and psychological well-being are our spiritual beliefs and moral
choices."
God: The Evidence, by Patrick Glynn
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Post by chemengineer on Oct 28, 2023 17:07:21 GMT -5
Quotes from Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan
P 13: “...the Bible is ‘inerrant’ “. [Mocking the Bible.]
P 28: “Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain.” [Carl wanted his fans and students to believe he knew a great deal for certain.]
P 29: “Science is not only compatible with spirituality, it is a profound source of spirituality.”
[After mocking the Bible on page 13, he now applauds it alongside science.]
P 30: “If you want to save your child from polio, you can pray or you can inoculate.”
[This is a very ignorant and misguided false "choice." We pray and we inoculate, do we not?]
P 32: “Valid criticism does you a favor.”
[I've done many favors to Carl Sagan then, including writing to his publisher citing his many errors and self-contradictions, such as these. Elsewhere Sagan said "Sex was invented." - Page 28, I forgot which book, I critiqued so many of his. When he wrote me a letter, all he could do was ask me to buy his newest book. I never bought one. I checked them out at the library. Then I sold his letter on EBay for $125.]
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Post by chemengineer on Oct 30, 2023 15:26:29 GMT -5
“I say unequivocally that the evidence for the Resurrection of Jesus Christ is so overwhelming that it compels acceptance by proof which leaves absolutely no room for doubt.” – Sir Lionel Luckhoo, The Most Successful Attorney in History, according to the Guiness Book of Records
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Post by chemengineer on Nov 6, 2023 11:48:42 GMT -5
...if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things. - Philippians 4:8
Create your own Word document with this verse at the top and a growing list of the most memorable compliments you have been given by family and friends. You can review and treasure it from time to time, and deservedly so. Perhaps loved ones will read it at your memorial service to the delight and amazement of all present.
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Post by chemengineer on Nov 14, 2023 17:33:49 GMT -5
“One day, millions of men will leave the Southern Hemisphere to go to the Northern Hemisphere. And they will not go there as friends. Because they will go there to conquer it. And they will conquer it with their sons. The wombs of our women will give us victory.” – Houari Boumedienne, President of Algeria, at the U.N. in 1974
“I have been made victorious through terror.” – (Bukhari 4.52.220 - Mohammad)
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