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123. Intelligent Design
In the complex process of vision, the signal from the retina splits into about 20 channels that analyze the image before it reaches the brain, and data compression mechanisms generate efficiently compressed sensory information.
122. Eye Witnesses
Codex Vaticanus is dated 300-350 A.D. and contains the majority of the Greek New Testament. In Acts 3:15 Peter (with John) says to the crowd concerning Jesus, “You killed the author of life, but God raised him from the dead. We are witnesses of this.”
121. Intelligent Design
RuvAB is a molecular machine in bacteria made of two motors, labelled RuvB AAA+ ATPases, and a RuvA stator. The RuvB motors rotate together with the DNA substrate and form the RuvAB branch migration complex that handles DNA recombination and repair.
120. Correct Form of Name
The name Areopagus is the Late Latin composite form of the Greek name Areios Pagos. Luke, the writer of Acts 17:19 and 22, correctly uses the two-word form applied to the court. This form is found in many inscriptions of the period.
4. Names of Biblical People in Inscriptions
Alexander son of Simon the Cyrenean was one of two sons of Simon who carried the crossbeam of Jesus (Mark 15:21). An ossuary inscription pre 70 AD (Heb. Univ. No. 1965) reads: 1. “Alexander the Cyrenian,” 2. “Alexander (son of) Simon.”
119. Intelligent Design: Habitable Zones
The tidal habitable zone of a planet is the range that is far enough from a host star to prevent tidal locking but close enough for life-essential radiation. A large number of exoplanet candidates are likely tidally locked.
118. Intelligent Design
The MRX(MRN) complex plays a central role in the cellular response to DNA double-strand breaks, and also forms telomere length counting machinery that measures the integrity of telomeres. The MRX complex is irreducibly complex.
117. Isaiah 9:6: Jesus
Jesus: born (Mat 1:18-25; Luk 1:35); Wonderful Counselor (Luk 2:47, 20:26; Joh 3:7, 7:15; 8:58); God (Joh 1:1-3, 20:28; Phi 2:6; Col 1:15-16, 2:9; 1Ti 3:16; Heb 1:2-3, 8; 1Jo 5:20); Father (Joh 10:30, 14:8-11); Peace (Joh 14:27, 16:33; Rom 5:1, 16:20).
116. Bible Prophecy
Dead Sea Scroll 1QIsa(a) for Isaiah 9:6 reads: ki yeled yullad lanu … vayyiqqare shemo Pele-Yo’ets El Gibbor Avi’-Ad Sar-Shalom “For a child is born to us … and his name is called Wonder of a Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace.”
115. Correct Name
Troas was a city and region in NW Asia Minor, designated by Augustus as “Colonia Augusta Troadensium.” Luke (Acts 16:8, etc.) and Paul (2 Corinthians 2:12; 2 Timothy 4:13) use the name Troados, the proper form of the name Troas as current in the first century.
114. Biblical People in Inscriptions
Nebuzaradan (Jeremiah 39:9 etc; 2Kings 25:8ff). He served under King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. Nebuchadnezzar II’s Prism, column 3 of prism ES 7834, reads: Nabu-zer-iddin. The writers of Jeremiah and 2 Kings must have lived at that time.
113. Eye Witnesses
Papyrus 91 is dated 250 A.D. and contains fragments of Acts 2:30-37; 2:46-3:2. P91 with codex Sinaiticus read for 2:32 (Peter says, with the Eleven disciples): “God has raised this Jesus to life, to which we are all witnesses.”
112. Biblical Texts: Early Papyri
Papyrus 75 contains most of Luke and John and is dated 175 to 225 A.D. Luke 8:25b reads (the disciples say, after Jesus rebuked the violent storm on the lake): “Who is this? He commands even the winds and the water, and they obey him!”
111. Intelligent Design: Complex Molecular Machines
The blood coagulation system is a molecular machine with an assembly of substrates, protein cofactors, enzymes and calcium ions on a phospholipid surface. After its initiation pathways converge it is irreducibly complex.
110. Correct Identifications
In Acts 17:6,8 it reads: tous politarchas. Luke correctly identifies the political leaders of Thessalonica as having the title politarchs, a term abundantly attested there and at other ancient Macedonian cities. (Hemer, 115)
109. Intelligent Design: Complex Molecular Machines
The ribosome is an RNA molecular machine that plays a crucial role in protein synthesis and is optimized for error-correction, speed and control. The ribosome is irreducibly complex.
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108. Intelligent Design
A habitable planet must have a strong magnetic field, similar to Earth’s, to shield life from both deadly solar and cosmic radiation, and to maintain surface water. The planet’s mass and rotation rate should be very similar to Earth’s.
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107. Bible Antiquity
While excavating a tomb near Jerusalem in 1979, two silver scroll amulets dated to the 7th century B.C. were uncovered, which were found to have Numbers 6:24-26, providing evidence for the antiquity of the Pentateuch.
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106. Intelligent Design
Helicases are essential enzymes involved in all aspects of nucleic acid metabolism including DNA replication, repair and transcription. The helicase PcrA can unwind DNA for transcription at an incredible rate of over 1000 base pairs per second.
Daily evidence concerning the Bible from a forensic evidentiary approach, from cosmology, biology and archaeology.
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