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Dead man bequeaths five million dollars to his dog; UK writers try to protect Darwin's ideas from cancel culture; Instead of paying publishers, Facebook bans all Australian media; Unexpected sponges found below Antarctic ice; Popular preacher says he's sorry for offending LGBTQIA+ activists; Evolutionary biochemists think life maybe came to Earth from Mars; Unbelievers worry about being excluded from Biden administration’s interfaith outreach . . .  and other stories reviewed during this February 24, 2021, broadcast of Answers News. 

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"For they deliberately overlook this fact, that the heavens existed long ago, and the earth was formed out of water and through water by the word of God, and that by means of these the world that then existed was deluged with water and perished. But by the same word the heavens and earth that now exist are stored up for fire, being kept until the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly."  - 2 Peter 3:5-7

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Articles:

Lulu the border collie just inherited 5 million and is living her best life

https://notthebee.com/article/this-dog-just-inherited-5000000/

How should we address Charles Darwin’s complicated legacy?

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/feb/13/how-should-we-address-charles-darwin-complicated-legacy

Facebook’s Australian news ban is a fight the whole world should watch

https://newscientist.com/article/2268431-facebooks-australian-news-ban-is-a-fight-the-whole-world-should-watch/ 

Scientists Accidentally Discover Strange Creatures Under a Half Mile of Ice

https://www.wired.com/story/scientists-discover-strange-creatures-under-a-half-mile-of-ice/

“Faithful people may disagree about what the Bible says about homosexuality”: Max Lucado issues apology after controversy

https://disrn.com/news/faithful-people-may-disagree-about-what-the-bible-says-about-homosexuality-max-lucado-issues-apology-after-controversy

Your ancestors might have been Martians

https://www.popsci.com/story/science/life-on-earth-from-mars/

Secular groups praise Biden’s agenda but express concerns about religious rhetoric

https://religionnews.com/2021/02/04/secular-groups-praise-bidens-agenda-but-express-concerns-about-religious-rhetoric/

The Origin of Modern Humans Cannot be Traced to Any One Single Point in Time or Space

https://www.sciencealert.com/the-origin-of-modern-humans-cannot-be-traced-to-any-one-single-point

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1972 Full Disk Earth photo by Apollo 17, 1972 (The New York Public Library) 

https://unsplash.com/photos/yEauzeZU6xo 

2007 Mars True Color photo by ESA & MPS for OSIRIS Team 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=56489423 

Note: the size ratio of Mars and Earth have been reversed to pillory unbalanced headlines.

Calvin Smith (the Director of Answers in Genesis CA) sits down with special guest and AiG Youth Outreach Coordinator Patricia Engler to discuss her new book written as a survival guide for Christian students in secular universities.  Learn about how her own personal experiences and research have been used by the Lord to equip the next generation!

104-year-old Lucio Caicedo completes his Ph.D. during lockdown; Oxford biologist seeks robot code in spider legs; Ornithologists studying starling genetics find rapid variation that their evolutionary worldview did not predict; Genetic engineers want to assist evolution; Virginia lawmakers remove protections for Christian adoption; Indian judge cites local gods in his decision to force an abortion on a 15-year-old; Study shows puberty-suppressing drugs affect bone-growth and fertility . . . and other stories reviewed during this February 22, 2021, broadcast of Answers News. 

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Hear what the Lord says to you, people of Israel. This is what the Lord says:

“Do not learn the ways of the nations or be terrified by signs in the heavens, though the nations are terrified by them.

For the practices of the peoples are worthless; they cut a tree out of the forest, and a craftsman shapes it with his chisel.

They adorn it with silver and gold; they fasten it with hammer and nails so it will not totter.

Like a scarecrow in a cucumber field, their idols cannot speak;

they must be carried because they cannot walk.

Do not fear them; they can do no harm nor can they do any good.”

No one is like you, Lord; you are great, and your name is mighty in power.

Who should not fear you, King of the nations? This is your due.

Among all the wise leaders of the nations and in all their kingdoms, there is no one like you.

They are all senseless and foolish; they are taught by worthless wooden idols.

Hammered silver is brought from Tarshish and gold from Uphaz.

What the craftsman and goldsmith have made is then dressed in blue and purple—all made by skilled workers.

But the Lord is the true God; he is the living God, the eternal King.

When he is angry, the earth trembles; the nations cannot endure his wrath.

“Tell them this: ‘These gods, who did not make the heavens and the earth, will perish from the earth and from under the heavens.’”

But God made the earth by his power; he founded the world by his wisdom and stretched out the heavens by his understanding.

When he thunders, the waters in the heavens roar; he makes clouds rise from the ends of the earth.

He sends lightning with the rain and brings out the wind from his storehouses.

Everyone is senseless and without knowledge; every goldsmith is shamed by his idols.

The images he makes are a fraud; they have no breath in them.

They are worthless, the objects of mockery; when their judgment comes, they will perish.

He who is the Portion of Jacob is not like these, for he is the Maker of all things,

including Israel, the people of his inheritance—the Lord Almighty is his name.

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Articles:

104-year-old Colombian man completes his Ph.D., credits lockdowns for keeping him home to work:  https://disrn.com/news/104-year-old-colombian-man-completes-his-phd-due-to-lockdowns/

Spider Legs Build Webs without the Brain’s Help:  https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/spider-legs-build-webs-without-the-brains-help/

Genetic evolution doesn't always take millions of years:  https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/02/210209151837.htm

Assisting Evolution: How Far Should We Go to Help Species Adapt?:  https://e360.yale.edu/features/assisting-evolution-how-far-should-we-go-to-help-species-adapt

Virginia House Advances Bill Repealing Protections for Faith-Based Adoption Agencies:  https://www.ncregister.com/cna/virginia-house-advances-bill-repealing-protections-for-faith-based-adoption-agencies

Straw-man fallacies re-frame strong positions as weak ones, while motte-and-bailey fallacies re-frame weak positions as a strong ones. In both cases, you can respond by bringing the discussion back to what the original position said.

Analogies can make arguments sound persuasive, but they can’t prove anything is true. Tips for answering analogies that argue against the Bible include finding an important difference between the things being compared and using big-picture questions to make the analogy argue for a biblical worldview. Let’s apply these tips to the analogy that all religions are like three blind men feeling one elephant.

Lawyer appears in court as kitten; Harvard biologists claim to know how fins became limbs; Evolutionists hope jumping genes will hide their shame over living fossils; Snopes publishes non-fact-checked article claiming creationists are dangerous; Hospital maternity ward requires non-scientific language to please LGBTQIA+ activists; YouTube deletes LifeSiteNews; Media touts "experts" who claim the Jews made the Bible up during their captivity in Babylon; Experts argue about dating method results for 47 Chinese teeth . . . and other stories reviewed during this February 17, 2021, broadcast of Answers News.

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Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe. For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom,  but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles,  but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.  For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

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Articles: 

Comedy Break: At a Texas court hearing, a lawyer accidentally shows up with his Zoom filter set to “cat” mode 

https://disrn.com/news/comedy-break-at-a-texas-court-hearing-a-lawyer-accidentally-shows-up-with-his-zoom-filter-set-to-cat-mode 

From fins to limbs 

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/01/210122140630.htm 

Huge Fish, Once Believed Extinct, Isn’t the ‘Living Fossil’ Scientists Thought 

https://gizmodo.com/huge-fish-once-believed-extinct-isn-t-the-living-fos-1846230762

Why Creationism Bears All the Hallmarks of a Conspiracy Theory 

https://www.snopes.com/news/2021/02/04/why-creationism-bears-all-the-hallmarks-of-a-conspiracy-theory/ 

Nurses advised to swap words such as 'breast milk' for the more inclusive 'human milk' 

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/england-maternity-human-milk-inclusive 

BREAKING: YouTube shuts down LifeSite’s channel, every video completely gone 

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/breaking-youtube-shuts-down-lifesites-channel-every-video-completely-gone 

Bible experts ‘certain’ Tower of Babel real after ‘compelling clue’ matched Genesis story 

https://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/1395422/bible-news-tower-babel-real-found-archaeology-babylon-iraq-book-genesis-god-spt 

Story of human evolution gets another rewrite with DNA analysis of Chinese teeth 

https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/08/asia/early-humans-in-china-time-line-scn/index.html 

Spider Legs Build Webs without the Brain’s Help 

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/spider-legs-build-webs-without-the-brains-help/ 

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Photo by slowmotiongli

https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/coelacanth-latimeria-chalumnae-adult-gm1226716876-361521176 

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How the slippery slope of marginalizing Genesis became the runaway train of disbelief in culture today!

Old news about spinach experiment trends on social media; Biden sends tax dollars to international population control; Frisco school board keeps schools closed but votes to change all the racist names; Evolutionists insist Parasaurolophus skull supports their dogma; Harvard astronomer proclaims alien visitors and warns that science has become too detached from reality; Barna survey shows moral relativism has captured Gen-Z . . . and other stories reviewed during this February 15, 2021, broadcast of Answers News.

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"I will cause your name to be remembered in all generations; 

therefore nations will praise you forever and ever." - Psalm 45:17

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Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, 

who put darkness for light and light for darkness, 

who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter! - Isaiah 5:20

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Articles:

Spinach in your inbox: 2016 on Scientists ‘Teaching’ Spinach to Send Emails Goes Viral

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/scientists-spinach-send-emails_n_601985fcc5b653f644d799be

Biden repeals funding ban for abortion groups overseas

https://www.baptistpress.com/resource-library/news/biden-repeals-funding-ban-for-abortion-groups-overseas/

San Francisco school board votes to rename dozens of schools-including Washington and Lincoln

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2021/01/29/sanfrancisco-schoolnames-racist-rename/

New skull of tube-crested dinosaur reveals evolution of bizarre crest

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/01/210125094343.htm

Astronomer Avi Loeb Says Aliens Have Visited, and He’s Not Kidding

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/astronomer-avi-loeb-says-aliens-have-visited-and-hes-not-kidding1/

Moral relativism is the ‘majority opinion’ of Gen Z, new study reveals

https://www.christianpost.com/news/moral-relativism-the-majority-opinion-of-gen-z-study.html

Malaria threw human evolution into overdrive on this African archipelago

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/01/210128134710.htm

From fins to limbs

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/01/210122140630.htm

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Photo by Breanna Louise

https://unsplash.com/photos/tuKlMfOKhDQ 

Some researchers think that part of human spirituality may be linked to genetics. So, you might hear people suggest that we only believe in God because our DNA tells us to. Is that valid? Let’s see how to respond to this argument using the 7 Checks of Critical Thinking.

Is a message true because many people seem to think so? Logic says no, but psychology shows that popular opinion is incredibly persuasive. Research reveals that a third of students will give a wrong answer to an easy question, just because everyone else does. People are also less likely to think critically about arguments voicing the majority opinion. What does this mean for Christians in secular classrooms and cultures?