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Afghanistan’s education minister has announced that women are permanently banned from schools. UN Women has not said a word.

Engineering is real magic

The distinction between engineering and magic is entirely a modern linguistic conceit. To the ancients, a wizard, a magus, a sorceror, was not a man who commanded forces outside the laws of nature. He was a man who commanded the forces of nature, by manipulating them through his understanding of natural law. But the modern word for a man who commands the universe by understanding its laws is "engineer". Yes, the ancient sorceror would try to commune with the spirits of the dead, or read the destiny of kings in the stars, or perform fertility rites to make the crops grow, but this wasn't some special supernatural discipline to him. This was simply his model of how the natural world worked. He would not have made a distinction between understanding heat and phase changes, and thereby distilling alcohol, and cutting out the intestines of a bird to predict the fortunes of a business venture. Both, to him, were philosophy and natural law. But as our understanding of the laws of physics grew more sophisticated, we gradually exiled the term "magic" to that which had not been proven to work, and to that which had been proven not to work. Were we given the opportunity to take an ancient Egyptian king on a tour of modern society, riding in an electric car, he would remark that we are a rich people, because we have many powerful magicians. Some of us might hasten to correct him, telling him that there is no magic used here. But he would not, in fact, be wrong.

"There were what we might call hominids- human like creatures- we might even call them proto-humans" Apologist N.T. Wright explains that if Adam and Eve literally existed, they were likely were 'human-like' primates that lived 200,000-5 million years ago.

Last night, I gave a talk on the “Death and Resurrection of Christian America, Both Our People and Our Nation” My five practical points of advice for those who want to help make America Christian again were as follows: 1. Be Holy. If we want a Christian nation, we must first live Christian lives ourselves. Renewal, reform, and resurrection always begin with repentance; see 1 Peter 1:15-16. 2. Be Fruitful. Aka have lots of kids—this is far more critical than you realize. Americans have stopped having kids, and Christians are no exception to this act of national suicide. It must be reversed if we are to have any shot at taking the country back. And yes—get your kids out of public school; see Genesis 1:28. 3. Be Courageous. The secular left wants nothing more than to scare and silence you—don’t let them; see Numbers 14 and 2 Timothy 1:7-8. 4. Be Prudent. Recognize we must lead others to where we want to go and that requires patience and wisdom—sometimes you need to “hide your power levels,” some people are Overton Window smashers, some work within institutions in a more discrete manner; see Matthew 10:16 5. Be Persistent. This won’t happen overnight. It’s a generational project. We must endure through setbacks and remain committed for the long struggle ahead, knowing the reward comes to those who do not quit; see Galatians 6:9.