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158. Intelligent Design: Habitable Zones

To sustain life a planet is only a truly habitable candidate if it resides in all of the habitable zones. For Earth to be within nine or more habitable zones suggests purposeful design.

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.

157. Hezekiah’s Tunnel

“The rest of the deeds of Hezekiah and all his might and how he made the pool and the conduit and brought water into the city, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?” (2 Kings 20:20; 2 Chronicles 32:30)

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.

37, 81, 114. Biblical People in Inscriptions

Nergal-sar-ezer, Nebu-sar-sekim and Nebuzaradan are mentioned in 2Kings 25:8ff and Jeremiah 39:3, and the names have been found in tablet BM 114789 and prism ES7834. The writers of 2 Kings and Jeremiah must have lived at that time.

46b. Intelligent Design

The ATP synthase machine with rotary motor is able to produce about 100 ATP molecules per second with near-100% efficiency. In humans it produces about 150 pounds of ATP every day, which is used rapidly as energy. ATP synthase is irreducibly complex.

156. Bible Prophecy

“For a child is born to us … and his name is called Wonder of a Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace.” (Isaiah 9:6). Jesus says to the crowd at the Jerusalem temple, "Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham existed, I AM.” (John 8:58).

155. Prophecy

“Then the eyes of the blind will be opened, and the ears of the deaf will be unstopped. And the lame man will leap … and the … mute will sing.” (Isaiah 35:5-6). “Large crowds came … lame, blind, mute, crippled … and he [Jesus] healed them.” (Matthew 15:30).

154. Prophecy

“He [the LORD] alone stretches out the heavens, and walks on the waves of the sea.” (Job 9:8). “He [Jesus] came to them, walking on the sea …” (Mark 6:48; Matthew 14:25).

153. Prophecy

“He [the LORD] caused the storm to be calm, and their waves were hushed.” (Psalm 107:29; Psalm 89:9). “And he [Jesus] got up and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, ‘Peace! Be calm!’ And the wind stopped, and there was a great calm.” (Mark 4:39; Matthew 8:26).

152. Prophecy

Dead Sea Scroll 1QIsa(a) and LXX manuscripts for Isaiah 9:1-2 read: “Galilee…The people sitting in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death, a light has dawned.” (See Matthew 4:15-16)

151. Prophecy

The book of Micah was written between 735 and 700 BC. In 5:2 it reads “But you, Bethlehem…out of you will come … one to be ruler … whose goings forth are from of old, from the days of eternity.” (See Matthew 2:6. Below image is Micah 5:2 in 8HevXII, 50 BC)

150. Prophecy

Dead Sea Scroll 1QIsa(a) for Isaiah 7:14, originally written ca. 700 BC, reads: “Look, the virgin has conceived and is bearing a son, and his name will be Immanuel.” (Cited in Matthew 1:23. Immanuel means “God with us.”)

96. Appearances of the Risen Jesus

149. Identity of Jesus

In the account of John in 14:9b-10b it reads “Jesus replied, ‘Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father …It is the Father residing in me, performing his works.’”

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.”

71. Intelligent Design

The planthopper Issus coeleoptratus nymph has real, mechanical, interdigitating gears near the top of its hindlegs. The purposeful arrangement of parts is reasonably and persuasively explained by reference to an intelligent cause.

148. Early New Testament Papyri

Papyri 4+64+67 consists of fragments of several chapters of Matthew and Luke, and is dated 150-175 AD. Matthew 26:10 reads (Jesus says): [ti kopous pa]rechete [te g]unaiki “[Why do] you cause [trouble to the w]oman?”

62. Biblical Texts: New Testament

The New Testament Greek manuscript witnesses are: 141 papyri, 323 majuscules, 3,011 minuscules, 2,484 lectionaries, plus 18,130+ non-Greek manuscripts, and over one million patristic quotations from the late 1st-15th centuries.

11. Biblical People in Inscriptions

Baruch son of Neriah (Jeremiah 32:12ff; 36:32). The scribe, disciple, secretary, and friend of the prophet Jeremiah (c. 650-570 BC). A bulla reads lbrkyhw bn nryhw hspr “Belonging to Berekyahu, the son of Neriyahu, the scribe.”