Speaker: Alvin Plantinga – The Heidelberg Catechism: “Providence is the almighty and ever present power of God by which he upholds, as with his hand, heaven and earth and all creatures, and so rules them that leaf and blade, rain and drought, fruitful and lean years, food and drink, health and sickness, prosperity and poverty–all things, in fact, come to us not by chance but from his fatherly hand.”
Classical Christian idea here: Regularity, dependability; but also special action. Miracles in scripture: the parting of the Red Sea, Jesus’s walking on water and changing water into wine, miraculous healings, rising from the dead. But not just in Bible times: according to classical Christians, also now responds to prayers; healings; works in the hearts and minds of his children (internal testimony of the Holy Spirit; sanctification). God constantly causes events in the world.
May 21 – The cheetah is not only the world’s fastest land animal, it is also one of the most energy efficient, expending only what it needs to survive. It’s that efficiency that engineers at MIT are working to emulate in a robotic cheetah, already clocked as the second fast robot ever developed. Ben Gruber reports.
Angelina Jolie’s bizarre announcement that she had both of her healthy breasts surgically removed to “prevent” cancer has turned into a PR nightmare. Not only has Natural News revealed the hidden agenda of corporations patenting and owning human genetic code so they can reap trillions in profits from genetic slavery, now a New Jersey kindergarten teacher is blasting Angelina Jolie for promoting an elitist procedure only affordable to the ultra-wealthy.
This week, the Kepler science team announced the spacecraft was in a Thruster-Controlled Safe Mode. The root cause was undetermined but the proximate cause appears to be an attitude error caused by a malfunction in Kepler’s reaction wheel 4, one of the telescope’s pointing mechanisms. The team has since put the telescope in what’s known as a Point Rest State, to minimize fuel usage while the investigation continues. Though no decisions have been made about the fate of the mission, the team notes that even if data collection were to end, Kepler has collected substantial quantities of data that should yield a string of scientific discoveries for years to come. Also, Living Off Earth, Future of Human Space Exploration, Garver briefed on Future Technologies, J-2X prepared for gimbal tests, Bolden checks out Aero Tech, Dreamchaser’s arrival, Hangout with Star Trek cast and more!
Mike Adams and Robert Scott Bell discuss the Youtube censorship of a previous video discussing the corporate ownership of human genes.
Currently, 20% of your DNA is owned by corporations and universities. The US government claims it controls 100% of all your genes and can assign ownership of them to any corporation that files a patent.
Discussion of this issue is being censored on Youtube and across the mainstream media. This is information the system does not want you to know about.
The super-active sunspot responsible for unleashing the three most powerful solar flares of 2013 now rotating toward Earth and will likely facing our planet.
Active Region 1748, as the sunspot is known, unleashed three monster solar flares between Sunday and Monday (May 12 to 13). Every one of the solar storms registered as an X-class flare — the most powerful type — with each successive event stronger than the last, culminating in an X3.2 megablast Monday night
These solar explosions did not affect Earth, since AR1748 was not facing our planet at the time. But the sunspot is now circling into view, so future flares and any associated eruptions of super-hot solar plasma — called coronal mass ejections (CMEs) — could potentially target our planet, scientists say.
Today it will be far enough onto the disk that any CMEs that we got would probably have some impact on Earth,” solar astrophysicist C. Alex Young, of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.
AR1748 should be near the center of the solar disk by around Saturday, Young added.
“If it sends something off, then we can expect to get some CMEs sort of head-on” at that point, he said.
Sunspots are temporary dark and relatively cool patches on our star’s surface where the local magnetic field is very strong. They frequently, but not always, serve as staging grounds for powerful solar flares and CMEs.
At about the size of two Earths, AR1748 is not a particularly large sunspot. (Sunspots can stretch for tens of thousands of miles across the solar surface.) But the active region does appear to have an unusually complex structure, Young said.
At the time, it’s tough to say if its complexity is increasing, which could be an indicator of future activity. Today things should become clearer in the next day or so, as scientists get a better look at the sunspot, he added.
Sierra Nevada Corp. (SNC) Space Systems’ Dream Chaser test flight craft, also known as an engineering test article, arrived at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center in Edwards, Calif., May 15 to begin tests of its flight and runway landing systems.
With its wings and tail structure removed and shrouded in plastic wrap, the test article was transported from the company’s facility in Louisville, Colo., atop a flatbed truck and trailer. The five-state journey took about five days to complete.
Michio Kaku dubbed Alcubierre’s notion a “passport to the universe.” It takes advantage of a quirk in the cosmological code that allows for the expansion and contraction of space-time, and could allow for hyper-fast travel between interstellar destinations. Essentially, the empty space behind a starship would be made to expand rapidly, pushing the craft in a forward direction — passengers would perceive it as movement despite the complete lack of acceleration.
Scientists speculate that such a drive could result in “speeds” that could take a spacecraft to Alpha Centauri in a mere two weeks — even though the system is 4.3 light-years away.
This documentary tells the story of Tony and Christine Clark and their two sons Matthew and Michael, who have developed an age-defying disease that made them regress to childhood
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