Is our galaxy in the center of many others?
This is a tentative finding that the Institute for Creation Research urges Christians to hold onto loosely, but the data suggests that the Earth, or at least our galaxy, is in a very special, central spot amongst many other galaxies. What we read in the Bible wouldn’t lay out that it would have to be so, but considering the central role of Man in all of creation, it also wouldn’t be surprising to us if our galaxy was centrally located. But it sure would be unexpected for evolutionists who think everything happened without planning and intention.
Skip New Year’s resolutions in 2019 – make a rule of life
New Year’s resolutions are often a very surface-oriented attempted fix to a more foundational issue – how are we going to intentionally live our lives to God’s glory?
Abortion was the leading cause of death in 2018
LifeNews.com is reporting that of the approximately 100 million deaths in the world last year, 40 million were due to abortion. In comparison, the next leading cause of death, cancer, killed 8 million.
Children aren’t optional
The average American woman is having just 1.76 children in her lifetime and the Church is following the world’s lead.
Why Coke is now better than Pepsi
In the wake of undercover videos showing US Planned Parenthood (PP) clinics selling baby body parts, major US companies have been cutting their support for PP. That includes Coke but not, according to the group 2nd Vote, Pepsi. (These are American findings – it could be different in Canada and elsewhere in the world.)
No one knows how to make a pencil
If we expect our government to manage the complexities of our economy, consider this: no one on earth knows how to make even a pencil. It’s a simple everyday object that costs only pennies. And yet, as Milton Friedman explains below, the making of a pencil requires the cooperation of thousands, from different countries, who don’t even speak the same languages, and “who might hate one other if they ever met.” This is the genius of free trade – “the magic of the price system” – that something no individual knows how to make, can get produced anyway, by mass cooperation, and so efficiently it can be sold for a trifling sum. As Leanard Read once wrote:
“Skeptics of the free market are forever asking, “Well, how would the free market attend to mail delivery? Education? Or, whatever?” [Unfortunately] a person can no more explain how the free market would attend to mail delivery than his great-grandfather could have explained how television could ever emerge from free market forces! Answer honestly: I don’t know; I never will know; no one will ever know.”
Just as no one knows how to make a pencil. And yet it happens!
