In 1930, Albert Einstein was asked for his opinion about the possibility of life elsewhere in the universe. “Other beings, perhaps, but not men,” he answered. Then he was asked whether science and religion conflict. “Not really, though it depends, of course, on your religious views.”

Over the past 10 years, astronomers’ new ability to detect planets orbiting other stars has taken this question out of the realm of philosophy, as it was for Einstein, and transformed it into something that scientists might soon be able to answer.
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Recent news has validated one of Whitley’s new journals about the fact that Christians are in peril all over the world (yet another thing that is under-reported in the mainstream media).

Gunmen killed at 7 people and wounded 3 in a drive-by shooting outside a church in southern Egypt as worshipers left a midnight Christmas mass. Coptic Christians make up about 10% of the population in Egypt, which is a Muslim country.
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