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The Book of Acts is High-Resolution Reportage

The cumulative force of the incidental agreements between Acts and these four epistles strongly supports the conclusion that Acts is high-resolution historical reportage. Taken cumulatively, undesigned coincidences provide powerful evidence for the reliability of Acts as an historical account and confirm that its author, Luke, was well informed, close up to the facts, and habitually scrupulous. This profile comports well with Luke’s own claim to have been Paul’s travelling companion for much of his journeys.

From Christ to Scripture: A Coherent Framework

The justification for the Scriptural canon does not depend on circular reasoning nor on some arbitrary ecclesiastical decree. Rather, it rests on the person of Christ himself , and his commissioning of the apostles as Spirit-guided witnesses of his teaching. This framework provides a coherent epistemic justification of the canon that is consistent with the Protestant affirmation of sola scriptura.

Recurring Design Logic in Attenuation Mechanisms

This is the sort of recurring pattern that one might expect to see in designed systems, but it is more surprising in stochastically evolved systems. It therefore suggests that operon regulation is best understood as the product of engineering rather than blind, unguided processes.

Recurring Design Logic in Operon Regulation

The design logic is the same. And yet, these two systems are not evolutionarily related to one another — as evidenced by the fact that the enzymes encoded by these two operons do not share sequence homology, indicating distinct evolutionary origins.

Evolutionary Obstacles to the Origin of Introns

The origin of spliceosomal introns represents a significant challenge to an evolutionary account of their origins. While the hypothesis that group II introns from bacterial endosymbionts gave rise to eukaryotic introns is the prevailing explanation, it faces a series of substantial obstacles.

The Evidential Value of John’s Gospel to the Case for Christianity

There is a vast array of evidences, both internal and external, that reveal that the fourth gospel is composed by an individual who is extremely well informed, close up to the facts, and habitually scrupulous. This lays the foundation for multiple lines of argument for the truth of Christianity.

How Do Mitotic Errors Affect Cell Proliferation?

Here, I want to draw attention to a review article by Levine and Holland, published in 2018, on “the impact of mitotic errors on cell proliferation and tumorigenesis.” Noting that “mitosis is a delicate event that must be executed with high fidelity to ensure genomic stability,” the paper underscores the critical nature of various aspects of the eukaryotic cell cycle machinery.

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