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85. Biblical Texts: Dead Sea Scrolls

Dead Sea Scrolls 1QIsa(a) and 1QIsa(b)(vid), along with the Masoretic text, read for Isaiah 45:12: anoki asiti erets veadam aleha varati “It is I who made the earth and created humankind upon it”

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84. Intelligent Design: Complex Molecular Machines

Lymphocyte cells can produce over 100,000,000 varieties of antibodies, and the processes that produce antibodies require an array of molecular machines. The adaptive immune system is irreducibly complex.

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83. New Testament Chain of Custody

The facts about Jesus were 1) written early, 2) were repeated often, and 3) haven’t changed over time. Chain of custody from John (6-100 A.D.)> Ignatius (35-117 A.D.), Papias (60-135 A.D.), Polycarp (69-155 A.D.)

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82. Early Non-Christian Evidence of Jesus

1) Tacitus, Annals 15.44, 2) Josephus, Antiquities 18.63–64; 20.200, 3) Lucian of Samosata, Passing of Peregrinus 11, 4) Celsus, On the True Doctrine (via Origen), 5) Pliny the Younger, Epistulae 10.96.

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81. Biblical People in Inscriptions

Nergal-sar-ezer the Samgar (Jeremiah 39:3). Nebuchadnezzar II’s Prism, column 3 of prism ES 7834, reads: Nergal-sharru-usur. Samgar reflects Akkadian simmagir, which is a title for a high official. The writer of Jeremiah must have lived then.

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80. Intelligent Design: Habitable Zones

The obliquity habitable zone is determined by the axial tilt of a planet relative to its orbital axis. Higher obliquity pushes several habitable zones outward. For Earth to be within eight habitable zones suggests purposeful design.

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79. Biblical Texts: Dead Sea Scrolls

Dead Sea Scrolls 1QIsa(a) and 1QIsa(b), along with the Masoretic text, read for Isaiah 44:24: anoki yhwh oseh kol “I am Yahweh, who has made all things.”

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78. Intelligent Design: Complex Molecular Machines

Topoisomerase molecular machines are present in all domains of life to untangle supercoils in DNA strands during replication and transcription by breaking and splicing a strand of DNA in a four-step procedure.

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77. Biblical Texts: Papyri

Papyrus 13 is dated 225–250 A.D., and has portions of the book of Hebrews. Hebrews was written before 70 A.D. In 2:17 it reads that Jesus was to: hilaskethai tas hamartias tou laou “make atonement for the sins of the people.”

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76. The Bible: Prophecy

In 586 B.C. Daniel in 9:25-26 prophesied that a coming Messiah would make atonement after a decree, and he would be killed before Jerusalem and the temple are destroyed. The calculations point to 26 or 33 A.D., Jesus.

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75. Eyewitness Testimony

In Galatians chapter 2 Paul consulted with eyewitnesses of Jesus. Papyrus 46, dated 125–225 A.D., reads: Iakobos kai kephas kai Ioannes…dexias edokan emoi..koinonias “James and Cephas and John… gave to me the right hand…of fellowship”

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74. Biblical People in Inscriptions

Tiglath-pileser III inscription, 44 17, 18 reads: [KUR.E-hu-um-ri-a] ...18 URU.sa-me-ri-na e-de-nu-ush-shu u-mash-shi-[ru pa-qa]-ha LUGAL-shu-nu "[the land of Omri]...18 and the city of Sameria I isola[ted]-(now) [they overthrew Peqa]h, their king"

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73. Biblical Texts: Papyri

Papyrus 75 contains most of Luke and John and is dated 175 to 225 A.D. Provenance: Jabal Abu Mana, Egypt. Speaking of Jesus, John writes in 1:3a: panta di autou egeneto “All things were made through him.”

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72. Intelligent Design: Complex Molecular Machines

Myosin nano molecular walking motors travel on actin filament track systems in defined directions. The myosin V walking motor exports cargo, while the myosin VI walking motor acts as the major motor for cargo import.

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71. Intelligent Design

The planthopper Issus coeleoptratus nymph has real, hard, 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.

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70. Biblical Names and Places

Classical scholar and historian Colin J. Hemer in “The Book of Acts in the Setting of Hellenistic History,” identifies 84 facts from the last 16 chapters of Acts that have been confirmed by archaeological and historical research.

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69. Biblical Names in Inscriptions

Gallio (Acts 18:12 etc). A portion of the Delphi Inscription from Delphi, Greece, dated January-August 52 A.D., reads: “Gallio, my fr[iend] an[d procon]cil.” It supports Luke’s chronology and recording of the events during Paul’s travels.

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68. Biblical Texts: Papyri

Papyrus 46 is dated 125–225 A.D. and has most Pauline epistles. Speaking of the resurrection of Jesus, 1 Corinthians 15:6 (written 55 A.D.; P46 partly extant; cited from late 1st cent.) reads: “He appeared to more than 500 brethren at one time.”

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67. Intelligent Design: Complex Molecular Machines

The discovery of irreducibly complex molecular machines in living organisms is compelling evidence for intelligent design. Their existence would clearly not be expected from undirected mechanisms.

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65. Biblical Names in Inscriptions and Seals

Jerubbaal (cf. Judges 6:32). The Khirbet al-Ra’i inscription, dated 1100 BC, reads: Yrb’l “Jerubbaal.” The existence of the name at the time Bible chronology says he lived provides yet another discovery for consideration.