Getting warmer...getting warmer....

from: http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20101210/sc_livescience/lostcivilizationmayhaveexistedbeneaththepersiangulf

Veiled beneath the Persian Gulf, a once-fertile landmass may have supported some of the earliest humans outside Africa some 75,000 to 100,000 years ago, a new review of research suggests.

At its peak, the floodplain now below the Gulf would have been about the size of Great Britain, and then shrank as water began to flood the area. Then, about 8,000 years ago, the land would have been swallowed up by the Indian Ocean, the review scientist said.

The study, which is detailed in the December issue of the journal Current Anthropology, has broad implications for aspects of human history. For instance, scientists have debated over when early modern humans exited Africa, with dates as early as 125,000 years ago and as recent as 60,000 years ago (the more recent date is the currently accepted paradigm), according to study researcher Jeffrey Rose, an archaeologist at the University of Birmingham in the U.K.

"I think Jeff's theory is bold and imaginative, and hopefully will shake things up," Robert Carter of Oxford Brookes University in the U.K. told LiveScience. "It would completely rewrite our understanding of the out-of-Africa migration. It is far from proven, but Jeff and others will be developing research programs to test the theory."

Viktor Cerny of the Archaeogenetics Laboratory, the Institute of Archaeology, in Prague, called Rose's finding an "excellent theory," in an e-mail to LiveScience, though he also points out the need for more research to confirm it.

Man found ALIVE after 4 weeks buried in Haiti!!!

And it gets better. Check out this snippet from the CNN.com article:

from: http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/02/08/haiti.rescue/index.html?hpt=T2

The man told doctors that someone was bringing him water while he was trapped, but doctors told CNN that he sounded confused and at times appeared to believe he was still under the rubble. Connelly said the man must have had some water during the past month to have survived, but Connelly wasn't sure how he would have had access to it.

1 in 3 Scientists believe in God!

from: http://www.christianpost.com/article/20090716/survey-one-third-of-scientists-believe-in-god/index.html

About one out of every three scientists in the United States professed believing in God, a recent survey found.
That figure is strikingly lower than the proportion of the general American public that say they believe in God (83 percent), according to the report by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press and the American Association for the Advancement of Science...
...Other interesting findings in the Pew report include huge differences between scientists who believe humans have evolved over time (87 percent) and Americans in general who hold this belief (32 percent); a large gap between the percentage of scientists who say the earth is warming because of human activity (84 percent) and the percentage of the public who agree with this statement (49 percent); and the proportion of scientists who favor federal funding for embryonic stem cell research (93 percent) and the general public who support such research (58 percent).

This is why I don't look to scientists as those who have all the answers. If one begins with the premise that there is no god, one will interpret all one's findings through that lens. It all depends on what glasses one is wearing. I wear a different set of specs!

Albert Pujols: a Real Hero

Blind Spots in our Faith

Over the past few weeks, I believe God has shown me that all Christians (including I) have blind spots in our faith, areas where we are unable to see how some of the things we believe, say, or do are completely contradictory with our faith. Here's a rather obvious one in our pro-abortion (and even pro-partial birth abortion) commander-in-chief.

from: http://worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=88107
At the National Prayer Breakfast at the Washington Hilton Hotel this morning, President Obama caught pro-life advocates off guard when he said God wouldn't condone taking the life of an innocent human being.
Obama spoke of the need for people of all religions to end persecution "in the name of perceived righteousness."
"[F]ar too often, we see faith wielded as a tool to divide us from one another as an excuse for prejudice and intolerance," he said. "There's no doubt that the very nature of faith means that some of our beliefs will never be the same."
The president said people from various religions all have different views about how humans came to be on Earth and "where we are going next."
Obama attempted to draw similarities among the world's diverse religions.
"No matter what we choose to believe, let us remember that there is no religion whose central tenant is hate," he said.
"There is no God who condones taking the life of an innocent human being. This much we know."

All I can say is...wow.

Israel & the Jewish People: A Rock that cannot be Moved

In Zechariah, chapter 12 verses 2 and 3, God prophesies, "I am going to make Jerusalem a cup that sends all the surrounding peoples reeling. Judah will be besieged as well as Jerusalem. On that day, when all the nations of the earth are gathered against her, I will make Jerusalem an immovable rock for all the nations. All who try to move it will injure themselves."
From the rebirth of Israel in May of 1948, many of the muslim nations surrounding Israel have tried to kill or expel the Jewish people. Many times they have tried...and many times they have failed. Why?
Is it because Israel's military was just that much more powerful than the nations surrounding them? Maybe one could make a case for that being true today, but this has only been true in the last few years. We looked at a few of the miracles from the 1948 war that helped the Jewish people of Israel keep their land in the midst of overwhelming odds. How about these from the years following 1948?
"There was a time in the 1967 Sinai campaign when two Israeli tanks topped a sand dune and found themselves facing a complete Egyptian tank unit. With no explanation, the Egyptians stopped, opened their turrets, jumped out and began to flee through the desert. After the Egyptians were captured, they explained their actions, telling stories of the 'hundreds of Israeli tanks' they had encountered." (Finto, Your People Shall Be My People, p.117)
Then, there's this one:
"During the 1973 Yom Kippur war, Syria marched across the unprotected Golan Heights. They could have been in the city of Haifa within 24 hours had they not suddenly stopped on the ridge of the Jordan River, nearly with firing range of the city of Tiberias, and remained there for three days. This gave the Israelis time to muster their forces and engage the Syrians in battle. Why did the Syrians remain on the ridge? A nonreligious Israeli general described a 'great gray-white hand pressing down onto the Syrians from out of the sky.'" (Finto, Your People Shall Be My People, p.117)
If there truly is a God protecting Israel and anyone who tries to move Jerusalem "will injure themselves" like the Bible says, one starts to understand why it is so important for the United States to #1 support Israel and #2 not try to split Jerusalem and expel the Jewish people. I don't know about you, but I shutter at the thought of fighting against God Himself.