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School-choice Opponents Mislead on Family Income

Saturday, August 2, 2025 - 6:28am

Opponents of Oklahoma’s school choice program claim it primarily benefits “the rich” because, in effect, the joint income of a working mom and dad with children is greater than the income of a young, single person with no children.

Is God Dead? Series: The Science of Babel

Saturday, August 2, 2025 - 6:28am

Christians hold that the eight survivors of The Great Flood (Noah and his wife, their three sons, and their wives) disembarked the Ark on Mount Ararat and then migrated to the Plains of Shinar in ancient Mesopotamia. There, rather than multiply and spread throughout the entire earth as God had commanded, this remnant of humanity collectively built a city and a great tower that “reached up to the heavens” and attempted to compete with God. It was there and then that the entire human race was gathered as one race, one people, speaking one language, all the while disobeying God’s command to disperse. “Then God said, ‘Come, let us go down and there confuse their language, so that they may not understand one another’s speech.’ So, the Lord dispersed them from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city. Therefore, its name was called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth. And from there the Lord dispersed them over the face of all the earth” (Gen 11:7-9). What an incredible story! But is it true? Can it be true? Today there are some 6,000 languages spoken around the world. Can it be that all of these languages came from a common single language, a first language? Linguists (scholars who study languages) tell us that languages evolve and change over time due to migration, mixing, and cultural considerations. These language changes can act as a road map leading back to the language family from which it evolved. Linguist John McWhorter writes, “Typically, speakers leave footprints from their old language in their version of the new one.” Here is an example. If we look at the word father, we begin to understand that some words in various languages have striking similarities. The English word father, is vader in German, padre in Spanish, and padre in Italian. From this simple comparison, it is easy to see