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How Eratosthenes Proved the Earth Is Round 2200 Years Ago
Eratosthenes was an ethnic ancient Greek mathematician who managed the great library of Alexandria, Egypt circa 240 BC. He was born in Cyrene, Libya in 276 BC and died in Alexandria, Egypt in 194 BC. One day he was reading a text that told of how at midday on the summer solstice in the city […]
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Understanding the Bible With the Concept of “Type.”
The concept of Jesus echoing throughout the Old Testament is called “type”1. For example: 1. Joseph, the son of Jacob whose brothers sold him into slavery, is a type of Jesus, most wise and forgiving.2. God told Abraham to sacrifice his only son, Isaac. Abraham is a type of God, the Father. Isaac is a […]
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Why Has American Culture Collapsed?
Since all civilizations grew up around religion, maybe that is a good place from which to start getting answers. It is a fact that Christian Western Civilization with America as its crown jewel, was the greatest, most prosperous, most technically advanced, most just civilization in human history. What was it about the Christian religion that […]
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One Question for Atheists
Do you believe in God or do you believe that everything just happened all by itself?
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My 1st Day Lesson Plan for My 12th Grade Physics Class
Lesson 1 Introduction to Scientific Inquiry Key Concepts and Questions This first lesson for seniors this fall semester will be “looking under the hood” of reality which is physics. I’m bringing to class my Model 600 Pro Kitchenaid stand mixer, and I am going to have my students take off the cover for a look […]
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Get Your Kids into Classical Education
I want to recommend a start up classical high school in East Texas, called Saint Boniface Catholic Classical High School. Its inaugural year began August 17, 2021. This academic year, 2022-23, the curriculum is mathematics starting with Euclidian geometry taught from Euclid’s own texts, and algebra, natural science including algebra-based physics, Latin/Spanish, Medieval literature, Medieval […]
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Why is the Supreme Court Supreme?
And what really happened with the Dobbs decision? “Marbury v. Madison (1803) was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that established for the first time that federal courts had the power to overturn an act of Congress on the ground that it violated the U.S. Constitution.” What’s right with that picture? With a simple understanding of the Constitution […]
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The War Between Truth & Stupid
I was over at atheist Ranting about Politics and Religion’s blog. He had a 4th of July quote from former slave Frederick Douglass: ““What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to […]
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Brandon Unites the Nation
I am really surprised that leftists still take the Pelosi Congress seriously any more. The justice department discredited itself with the Mueller fiasco that spent years and $40 million to uncover nothing. Then there were the sham impeachments that put President Trump on trial for making a business phone call to Ukraine, and mean tweets. […]
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