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Good News Magazine: July - August 2006

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In This Issue

No Excuses

  • by Scott Ashley
For decades now, most scientists have assumed that uncountable planets inhabited by uncountable life-forms are scattered across the universe, just waiting for us to make contact with them or vice versa.
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Our Amazing Spaceship Earth

  • by Mario Seiglie
Scientists have spent multiple years and billions of dollars searching for life elsewhere in the universe, only to find that earth alone not only teems with life, but seems to be expressly designed for life. An amazing intelligence seems to be behind it all. What is that intelligence telling us?
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Can You Believe Both the Bible and Evolution?

  • by John Ross Schroeder
A number of the world's mainstream religions have come to accept Darwinian evolution as the explanation for our existence. But does Darwinism really square with the Scriptures?

What Motivates Ahmadinejad?

  • by Melvin Rhodes
The president of Iran appears intent on developing nuclear weapons and has repeatedly threatened to wipe Israel off the face of the earth. In the West he is at times portrayed as a madman, but few realize the real motivating force behind his dream of triumphant Islam.

Is the New Testament a Fraud?

  • by John Ross Schroeder
The Da Vinci Code and similar works have portrayed the formation of the New Testament as "history's greatest cover-up." Is it part of a conspiracy to deceive humanity, or is it the divinely inspired, true and accurate picture of what Jesus and His apostles said and did in the first century?

The New Testament: From Oral Testimony to the Written Word

  • by Good News
During His ministry Jesus Christ promised, "Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will by no means pass away" (Mark 13:31). Did He keep this promise in spite of the time interval between His spoken words and when they were actually recorded in writing?
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Gambling: Why It's a Bet Nobody Wins

  • by John Ross Schroeder
Compulsive gambling can and does destroy lives just like drug addiction and alcoholism. It is just one more sign of the moral decline currently gripping many nations.
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Fasting: A Spiritual Power Tool!

Fasting: A Spiritual Power Tool!

  • by Don Hooser
Three earlier articles in this series covered prayer, Bible study and thinking or meditation. Along with those spiritual tools, we need to frequently combine this fourth tool—fasting.

A Place Called Megiddo, Part 2

  • by Darris McNeely
In last issue's article we raised the question of how today's political leaders could be deceived to fight Christ at His second coming. Could something at the site of Megiddo lead to an answer?

World News and Trends: Why earthquakes?

  • by Jerold Aust, John Ross Schroeder
The Bible tells us that in the end times, there will be earthquakes in various places (Matthew 24:7). Although earthquakes likely have shaken our planet as long as it has existed, it appears that more numerous intense earthquakes have happened over the past century.

World News and Trends: European Union not yet united

  • by Jerold Aust, John Ross Schroeder
"The sky is clearing up . . . the thunderstorm clouds of the last year are slowly disappearing," Austrian Foreign Minister Ursula Plassnik told a news conference after two days of talks in Klosterneuburg abbey near Vienna over the weekend of May 27-28. The talks produced fresh consensus on the need for EU treaty changes to be agreed on at least before 2009 (EUObserver.com).

God, Science and the Bible: "Missing link" discovered?

  • by Mario Seiglie, Scott Ashley, Tom Robinson
Proponents of evolution have proclaimed a fossil discovery announced in April (originally found in 2004) as the long-sought "missing link" between water-and land-dwelling creatures.