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Friday the 13th of April 2029 could be a very unlucky day for planet Earth. At 4:36 am Greenwich Mean Time, a 25-million-ton, 820-ft.-wide asteroid called 99942 Apophis will slice across the orbit of the moon and barrel toward Earth at more than 28,000 mph. The huge pockmarked rock, two-thirds the size of Devils Tower in Wyoming, will pack the energy of 65,000 Hiroshima bombs -- enough to wipe out a small country or kick up an 800-ft. tsunami. On this day, however, Apophis is not expected to live up to its namesake, the ancient Egyptian god of darkness and...

The Lost City, Andy Garcia's film about Cuba, is now playing in American theatres and everybody should see it for at least two reasons. First, various film festivals and South American countries, Garcia says, have refused to show it. That’s a recommendation in itself. And secondly, after the sinister romance of The Motorcycle Diaries, filmgoers deserve an honest portrayal of Che Guevara, which The Lost City provides, even though it is not a political movie. The story takes place just before the revolution and centers on Fico Fellove, played by Garcia, owner of El Tropico, a Havana nightclub, and his...

The Kingdoms of this World Biblical historians believe that Nimrod, the son of Cush and grandson of Ham, was responsible for building the city of Babel. In his quest to usurp God, he convinced the people to build the Tower of Babel. Spurred on by his vision of a world empire, he wanted to create a central headquarters from which he would keep all people under his ruthless and despotic authority. In the end, he believed they would worship him as God (Genesis 11). One of the ways that Satan tempted Yeshua (Jesus) during his 40 days in the wilderness...

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Posted: 7/7/05 Farmer survives night trapped in baler machine By Dawn Slade Mille Lacs County Times Harold Dee Magnuson, 48, of Onamia, was caught in a hay baler for 20 hours before milkman Ronald Hess spotted the farmer and rescued him. Magnuson was working in his field around 5:15 p.m. on Thursday, June 23 when temperatures were nearing 100 degrees. Magnuson, who lives alone on a dead-end road (262nd Street) south of Onamia, smelled something burning and stopped after a round bale rolled out of the machine. The rear portion of the baler was open and Magnuson was cleaning out...

The general theory of evolution is based on several faulty assumptions. (Note: It is important to understand by this statement that we are not disputing simple variations that some call "microevolution," whose micro-changes are often observed but never lead to a fundamentally different kind of plant or animal.) The following assumptions of evolutionary theory are easy to prove false: The universe is billions of years old. Life spontaneously arose from nonliving minerals. Mutations create or improve a kind. Natural selection has creative power. In this section we will deal with the first of these assumptions. The others will be dealt...

The year is about 1446 BC. The Egyptian pharaoh, his army and all the members of all the priesthoods have left in great haste. They are enraged that their entire slave population has fled, even though less than a week earlier the pharaoh and his ministers had virtually begged them to leave. The Egyptians lavished the great multitude of slaves with objects of gold, silver and precious stones as supposed "payment" for all the work they had done as slaves. EXO 12:35 And the children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they borrowed of the Egyptians...

as Titanic a symbol of noblesse oblige or elitism? Were her final hours marked by male chivalry or by class warfare? In recent years, the trend among some authors and film producers has been to minimize reports from Titanic survivors in favor of a historiography predicated on raw statistics. But do statistics comparing the percentage of Titanic deaths by class prove a deliberate attempt on the part of crew and first class passengers to withhold lifeboats from the poor? It is true that more third class passengers died than first class, but what does that mean? Are the statistics, in...

Chinese Language Supports Creation Account One of the primary characteristics which separates human behavior from animals is the ability to transfer abstract concepts to another human via written language. The Bible teaches that this ability came directly from our Creator. It also teaches that the vastly different languages of the world are a result of the confusion of one original language during an event known as the tower of Babel. Our English word babble (meaning gibberish, chatter, nonsense) has it roots in this event. There should be accounts in ancient cultures for Biblical events such as the creation of man,...