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Teresa Neumann (August 9, 2010)

While it can’t be proven 100% that the relics are John the Baptist’s, the archaeologist who made the discovery says "it is important to understand one thing—this is the first time ever in the world archaeological practice that relics of St. John are found together with an inscription which just literally nails the conclusion and leaves no doubts. There are no speculations here.”

(Sozopol, Bulgaria)—Sofia News Agency reports that the recently discovered relics of John the Baptist have been laid in state temporarily in St. George Church in Bulgaria. The human bones, found in a sealed marble reliquary in the St. John the Forerunner Church on the island of St. Ivan (Ivan is the Slavic name for John) on July 28, have been cause for great excitement and euphoria in the Black Sea town of Sozopol.

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From time to time, a column in a newspaper is more revealing than its author probably intended it to be. That seems to be the case with "Myths Widen the Science-Religion Divide" by Elaine Howard Ecklund, published in the July 19, 2010 edition of USA Today. In her essay, Professor Ecklund suggests that science and religion can enter into a constructive dialogue. But a closer look at her essay reveals that this dialogue, at least as it involves most Christians, is a one-way street.

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"The site may have been home to the Shardana tribe of the Sea-Peoples, who, according to some researchers, lived in Harosheth Haggoyim, Sisera’s capital city. The city is mentioned in the Bible’s narratives as Sisera’s capital, and it was from there that the army of chariots set out to fight the Israelites, who were being led by Deborah the prophetess and Barak, son of Avinoam."

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The name of Charles Darwin is immediately reminds people of the theory of evolution. The actual concept of evolution itself is an old as man himself is, and as a philosophy it has been accepted at least from the time of the Greek philosophers, but it was Darwin who converted this philosophical speculation into a scientific hypothesis.

Till the time of Darwin, evolution was only a philosophical idea and people knew that unless they express it in the form of a scientific hypothesis there is no way of testing this concept. This is why Darwin is so important to the students of evolution.

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Computers have descended upon us as magical tools of modern science. Their astonishing speed and their capacity to manipulate vast amounts of data have filled the minds of people with awe. A numerical problem which would require an entire year of manual calculation can today be solved in a day with the help  of computers.  As a consequence computers are viewed with awe, and it was no wonder when Christians shuddered a few years ago when a scholar claimed that his computer has disproved the traditional views about the epistles of St. Paul.

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There is a widespread belief among  educated people that the Bible contains numerous statements which are scientifically erroneous. Many Bible-believing people have tried to solve this problem by compartmentalizing the whole matter. They maintain that there is a "Scientific truth" believed when one studies science, and  that there is a spiritual truth which is believed by the Christians. This kind of a split-belief leads one to error both in science and in theology.

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According to Sputnik, a digest of Soviet literature,  Russian scientists who have observed the honeybees at work are convinced that the bees are brilliant mathematicians. If a man wants to do all what an ordinary bee does, he will not be able to do this without the aid of  complex measuring instruments and computers.

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INTRODUCTION:  Is Jesus Christ the only Savior? As our society becomes increasingly pluralistic, the preceding question becomes less of a genuine inquiry and more of an acerbic taunt to those who hold to the exclusivity of Jesus Christ. Our culture has become undeniably post-Christian and as a result the imperative has become that Christians understand and be prepared to share what the Bible declares regarding the exclusive nature of salvation through Jesus Christ. Can this be done?

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The conflict between creation and evolution has escalated to a very high level in the last two decades. Almost every person has heard something on this topic without actively trying to do so. It is no longer surprising to see an article on evolution/creation in publications which have no relation to these topics.

Many Christians who never gave any attention to these subjects now find themselves in a very perplexing situation. They believe in creation but, when questioned by an enquirer or a skeptic, they don’t know what to say. Some of them even go to the extant of believing that creation is a spiritual belief while evolution is science. In the light of Logic  this is a false classification.

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No honest Christian can ignore The Theory Of Evolution. This theory is so pervasive that it threatens to pervert our whole way of thinking. In fact most of the readers will be shocked to realize that in the past two decades they have accepted many of the subtle pressures brought on them by evolutionary philosophies.

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Christian apologetics is that discipline of study in which one does everything that is academically possible to defend the Christian faith. A thorough defense of the Christian faith requires a good acquaintance with several subjects including the current sciences and historical sciences, and this is a very demanding task. However, before these secular qualifications, one must have a primary spiritual qualification : one must already have submitted his life to the Lord Jesus to enter into a personal relationship with him.

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Christian Apologetics is that subject which deals with the defense of the Christian faith. This is fully a Biblical activity because it has been advised and demonstrated in the Bible at various places. For example, Peter wrote : "Always be prepared to make defense to any one who calls you to account for the hope that is in you" (1 Peter 3:15, RSV ). So making a defense of one’s faith in front of those who question our faith is a part of our spiritual duty. The word "Apologetics" comes from the Greek word APOLOGIA used here, and translated as "defense". So apologetics is a defending of the faith, not making of apologies as some might wrongly conclude from the English word ‘apologetics’.

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