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3 weeks ago | 
creation.com | Jonathan Sarfati |Peter Williams |Drs Steve Kumar |Philip Bell
This article is from Creation 46(2):52–53, April 2024 Logical fallacies: How to spot and refute themBut we have the mind of Christ (1 Corinthians 2:16). Illustration: © Koctia | Envato ElementNo True ScotsmanThe No True Scotsman fallacy is an arbitrary re-definition of the meaning of a group. It is just an assertion that all group members must have this characteristic.
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Sep 9, 2024 | 
creation.com | Philip Bell |Glen Scrivener |Drs Steve Kumar |Jonathan Sarfati
Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0Sometimes, non-Christian people can surprise us with their perceptive statements about Christianity and Western society. For instance, I have written about atheist Frank Haviland’s bemusement at the way in which many church leaders deny core teachings of the faith they profess (The Church’s hole in the heart).1 Here are some more examples of insight from unbelievers. Matthew Parris is a British journalist and writer, formerly a politician.
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May 1, 2024 | 
creation.com | Philip Bell |Russell Grigg |Jonathan Sarfati |Lita Cosner Sanders
God reveals Himself to human beings in three main ways: in the physical creation, through the pages of Scripture, and through the person of Jesus Christ. Let’s look at the creation of the starry heavens. Composite (P. Bell)Composite (P. Bell)For those who acknowledge the Creator … this mind-bendingly vast cosmos is the handiwork of Christ the Creator. Astronomy teaches us a fantastic amount about the magnificent Cosmos, but we should keep in mind that it is ultimately an imperfect revelation.
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Mar 25, 2024 | 
creation.com | Andrew Sibley |Philip Bell |Russell Grigg
PixabayWriting in the February edition of Christianity Magazine (UK) David Instone-Brewer suggests that Cain was forced to marry an intelligent animal.
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Mar 13, 2024 | 
creation.com | Robert Carter |Philip Bell
And how much variation is tolerable? Credit: Zephyris, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Anyone who’s been paying attention to the science of genomics knows that the question, “How much of the genome is functional?” is hugely contentious. The ‘junk DNA’ hypothesis has been the ruling paradigm for decades, and recent discoveries that highlight the functionality of the non-coding regions of the genome have been slow to win acceptance. It is true that only about 2% of the genome codes for protein.
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Mar 13, 2024 | 
highscalability.com | Philip Bell
You can subscribe to the system design newsletter to excel in system design interviews and software architecture. You can view the original article Consistent hashing explained on systemdesign.one website. How does consistent hashing work?
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Mar 13, 2024 | 
highscalability.com | Philip Bell
The typical problems in a distributed system are the following [1], [11]:maintaining the system state (liveness of nodes)communication between nodesThe potential solutions to these problems are as follows [1]:centralized state management servicepeer-to-peer state management serviceA centralized state management service such as Apache Zookeeper can be configured as the service discovery to keep track of the state of every node in the system.
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Feb 21, 2024 | 
creation.com | Philip Bell |Andrew S Kulikovsky |Jonathan Sarfati
Feedback archive → Feedback 2024Is original sin unjust? Photo 17024448 | Rotten Apple © Dmitrijs Gerciks | Dreamstime.comThe doctrine of original sin causes some to bristle. Brent A. from Canada asked how it squares with the moral principle of individual responsibility spelled out in Ezekiel 18. Keaton Halley of CMI–US offers some thoughts on the subject below, and defends original sin as biblically faithful and morally just.
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Dec 11, 2023 | 
creation.com | Philip Bell |Jerry Bergmann |Jonathan Sarfati
This article is from Creation 44(4):18–22, October 2022 Maarten’sMichael Cook chats with former racist militia member Maarten Labuschagne. After the uplifting worship led by Joe, an inspiring Maori, I stood to address the multi-cultural congregation in the small New Zealand town. The words their pastor, Maarten Labuschagne, had shared earlier seemed unbelievable. For many years, I lived in complete rebellion against God.
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Aug 31, 2023 | 
creation.com | Andrew Sibley |Philip Bell |Thomas Fretwell |Jonathan Sarfati
This article is fromJournal of Creation 36(2):112–115, August 2022 Image: FlickrThe Victoria Institute, or Philosophical Society of Great Britain, was arguably the first creationist organization formed in order to oppose Darwinian evolution and support Christian belief (figure 1). It was founded in 1865, several years after the initial publication of Darwin’s book On the Origin of Species.
