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Stephen C. Meyer explains the evidence for the Big Bang on John Ankerberg show

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This is a short post, because I can’t embed the video – so I’m just going to post the link to the Lightsource web site which has the video.

Here’s a web page from Caltech that goes over 3 of the 6 evidences for the Big Bang.

Excerpt:

Three main observational results over the past century led astronomers to become certain that the universe began with the big bang. First, they found out that the universe is expanding—meaning that the separations between galaxies are becoming larger and larger. This led them to deduce that everything used to be extremely close together before some kind of explosion. Second, the big bang perfectly explains the abundance of helium and other nuclei like deuterium (an isotope of hydrogen) in the universe. A hot, dense, and expanding environment at the beginning could produce these nuclei in the abundance we observe today. Third, astronomers could actually observe the cosmic background radiation—the afterglow of the explosion—from every direction in the universe. This last evidence so conclusively confirmed the theory of the universe’s beginning that Stephen Hawking said, “It is the discovery of the century, if not of all time.”

The article explains all three evidences in detail. It is important to show atheists how the progress of science has dashed their hopes for an eternal, uncaused universe. One discovery – that could be reversed. Two discoveries – that’s conclusive. Three – discoveries – that’s an open and shut case. (And there are three more discoveries not mentioned in the article – the second law of thermodynamics, radioactive element abundances and the stellar lifecycle itself).

And, of course, William Lane Craig uses this scientific evidence in his kalam cosmological argument, which is described in a peer-reviewed paper from this Astrophysics journal.

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Paul Ryan explains how raising taxes hurts job creation

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Here’s Republican budget guru Paul Ryan, explaining WHY Republicans fight so hard against higher taxes on job creators.

I think more Republicans need to explain the basics of job creation to the people, and often.

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Paul Ryan explains why the millionaire tax causes unemployment to rise

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From Fox News Sunday.

Partial transcript:

“If you tax something more, Chris, you get less of it,” Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) told Fox News’ Chris Wallace. “Class warfare, Chris, may make for really good politics, but it makes for rotten economics. We don’t need a system that seeks to divide people and prey on peoples’ fear, envy and anxiety. We need a system that creates jobs and innovation, and removes these barriers for entrepreneurs to go out and hire people. I’m afraid these kinds of tax increases don’t work.”

“This is being called the ‘Buffet rule” because it comes after Warren Buffet, the multi-billionaire owner of Berkshire Hathaway said, ‘I get so much of my money from capital gains, I end up paying a lower effective tax rate than my secretary who gets her money in salary,’” Wallace noted. “What about the question of fairness, sir?”

“What he forgets to mention is that is a double tax,” Ryan insisted. “Capital gains and dividends are taxes on money that has already been taxed once before based on income… It looks like the president wants to move down the class warfare path. Class warfare will simply divide the country more, attack job creators, divide people and it doesn’t grow the economy.”

That’s the way it is – we may not like it, but the rich create jobs. If you attach the rich, they move their capital overseas and the jobs go with the capital. That’s the way the world works. If you tax job creators less, and regulate them less, the jobs stay here.