Missives
A collection of apologetic and encouraging notes for Christians in need of some power-boosts from time to time.
Evolution imagines a scenario where all ten previous Steps To Life occurred in a primordial creature whose simple life is based on RNA, a molecule that holds genetic data and performs chemical reactions.
A basic question has to be asked. Once a cell has amino acids to form proteins, DNA and RNA to replicate instructions which build the cell, a protective membrane, and so on - where does the cell get all its energy?
In the opening chapters of Genesis, we find that God creates through division; for instance, God divided the light from darkness. Nearly any definition of life includes the ability to reproduce.
If you have ever attempted to loosen a bolt, you encountered chirality (ky-RAHL-ittee). Perhaps you muttered the phrase "lefty loosey, righty tighty". That's because nearly all bolts are threaded in one direction.
"For much of his adult life, Jesus resided in the small fishing village of Capernaum on the Sea of Galilee. It was here during the infancy of early Christianity that He began His ministry in the town synagogue (Mark 1:21)
It's hard to displace a Texan from Texas. They are quite comfortable with all the largess their state affords them: big skies, an international reputation, plenty of land, bright sunshine...
The Tel el-Armana (mound of Armana) lay halfway between Memphis and Thebes, and was the remains of Pharaoh Akhenaton's model capital city which was spoiled and left to ruin around 1358-50 B.C.