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Recent content by Dale

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    How Did Governor DeSantis Pay for Alligator Alcatraz? Or Who Will Pay?

    According to the Miami Herald, Trump Administration officials are saing that any funds that will be paid out are “not specific to any facility” and “not for construction.” That really sounds like they cannot legally pay for Alligator Alcatraz out of FEMA funds. The story says nothing about...
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    How Did Governor DeSantis Pay for Alligator Alcatraz? Or Who Will Pay?

    “In October 2025 … state officials mocked critics who questioned whether the federal government would actually come through.” These “state officials” include Governor DeSantis, who called the claim that the Feds would not pay a “bogus narrative” on Twitter. State Senator Lori Berman said that...
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    How Did Governor DeSantis Pay for Alligator Alcatraz? Or Who Will Pay?

    Where did Florida Governor Ron DeSantis get the money to build Alligator Alcatraz? The same question applies to other things DeSantis has done on his anti-immigration crusade. We know that the Florida legislature did not order these moves, authorize them, or appropriate the money to pay for...
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    How Long have Humans Lived on Earth?

    Firstlightdawn: “No one has heard of your referance and it will soon disappear into oblivion while Usher's book continues.” You seem to have added Bishop Ussher’s book to the Bible, you will consider no other source. Not only are Ussher’s figures debatable, at best, they depend on...
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    How Long have Humans Lived on Earth?

    In two posts, you have used the phrse “the time of the gentiles.” There is no such phrase known to Christiaity. I don’t know what this means and I don’t think it means anything.
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    How Long have Humans Lived on Earth?

    I have talked to an ultraconservative Baptist who had studied anicent languages. He thought it was obvious that the long lives given for people in Genesis came about because the anicent Israelites showed respect by exaggerating their ages. In many cases they just added an extra zero. Instead of...
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    How Long have Humans Lived on Earth?

    Psalm 104 is a creation story in its own right. It gives us a creation story with no mention of days and no mention of Adam and Eve. That is one sign that the “days” in Genesis One are not as important as you think, and also that Adam and Eve in Genesis 2-3 are not as important as you think...
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    How Long have Humans Lived on Earth?

    There is a church near my home where the pastor preaches that there is creationism and there is atheism. Anything else is a fraud and a farce. I have seen the same man stand in the pulpit and say, “What happened to the young people we used to have?” Pew Foundation polls say that the most common...
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    How Long have Humans Lived on Earth?

    Bishop Ussher’s calculations have been lost, we do not have them. No one knows how he came up with the date of 4004 BC for the creation of the world. Your assumption about the age of the earth is no shared by everyone who studies the Old Testament. Jewish scholars reached different a different...
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    How Long have Humans Lived on Earth?

    If you can really calculate God’s timing so precisely, you should be able to calculate the time of the Second Coming. Everyone who has tried to do that has been wrong. Jesus told us not to try, not even the angels of heaven know the exact time of the Second Coming.
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    How Long have Humans Lived on Earth?

    You did not respond to any of the facts I presented in the OP. Jesus did not tell us to ignore the evidence of our senses. Is there nothing that we can learn from history and archaeology? There are many ways that we know that the Bible is not a history book. Abraham lived about 2,000 BC or...
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    Tit for Tat Tariffs - The US versus the World

    In the US, the Smoot-Hawley Tariff act is one cause of the Great Depression. The Depression affected the entire world and Germany was hit harder than any other county. That led to the rise of the Nazi state, which did lead to war.
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    How Long have Humans Lived on Earth?

    Psalm 104 is a creation story in its own right. It gives us a creation story with no mention of days and no mention of Adam and Eve. That is one sign that the “days” in Genesis One are not as important as you think, and also that Adam and Eve in Genesis 2-3 are not as important as you think...
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    How Long have Humans Lived on Earth?

    John Bauer: “That statement is false, I’m afraid, if it means that Scripture doesn’t narrate real events in space and time—because it does. Just off the top of my head: the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus. Literal history. Paul stakes the truth of the gospel on a public, datable event… ”...