Is America Headed for Disaster? | with Eric Metaxas

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Podcast: Play in new window Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | Android | iHeartRadio | Email | TuneIn | RSS Is America headed down a dark path similar to that of Nazi Germany? If history has shown us anything, it’s that bad things happen when Christians don’t collectively speak out against evil. The German Church of the 1930’s is a great example of what NOT to do in a tumultuous time of political crisis, but has the American Church fallen into the same passive trap of doing nothing while evil slowly tightens its grip on our country? The groundbreaking book ‘Letter to the American Church‘ hopped off bookshelves across the country and has now become a brand-new documentary film serving as the final clarion call to sleeping Christians and conservatives. This week, the author of…
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Deep Fakes and Propaganda for Artificial General Intelligence

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The video shows a supposed table tennis match between a robot and a top human player. Yet the video is not of an actual match. Source
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A Student is Not Greater Than His Teacher

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I still have nightmares about being in college. It usually has something to do with a math final and being unable to graduate without passing it. Why does it always have to be math? I wake up vowing I will never go back to college. One thing that was sure to make or break my semester in university was something some students might not consider before enrolling. It wasn’t the subject. It wasn’t even the course requirements listed on the syllabus. It was something much more important: the teacher. The teacher is a major contributor to whether you succeed or fail a class. Several of my teachers started the first day’s introductions by giving the most un-motivational speech that was sure to make more students drop the class before the…
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On Ronald Reagan’s Birthday, Let’s Appreciate His Debt — and Ours — to Intelligent Design

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President Reagan wrung a startling spiritual concession from his Communist counterpart — with an argument for intelligent design. Source
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Parables from Nature: A Profile of Margaret Gatty

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Although she refrained from challenging Darwin publicly, Margaret had strong thoughts of opposition to Darwin’s proposals. Source
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Researchers: Goats Can Read Basic Human Emotions

Alan McElligott, anger, animal feed, Christof Koch, City University of Hong Kong, contentedness, Dogs, Edward Feser, emotions, fear, goats, Heaven, horses, Intelligent Design, livestock, Marianne Mason, mind, moral choice, Neuroscience & Mind, philosophers, Purzel, reason, soul, University of Hong Kong, University of Roehampton, voice
Readers may wonder at first whether this research was worth doing, but hang on. It turns out that goats can understand basic emotions by voice alone. Source
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Artificial General Intelligence: Machines vs. Organisms

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It may seem that I’m picking too much on Ray Kurzweil. But he and I have been crossing paths for a long time. Source
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Fossil Friday: New Evidence for the Human Nature of Neanderthals

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What is at stake is not just some esoteric species problem in the ivory tower, but the very question of human nature and human uniqueness. Source
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