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Thursday, November 05, 2015

Sundry Dinner

by Tom Goodman



Why Self-Driving Cars Must Be Programmed to Kill. Self-driving cars are already cruising the streets. But before they can become widespread, carmakers must solve an impossible ethical dilemma of algorithmic morality.


Sermon Illustration Alert: Submerged 400-Year-Old Church Resurfaces from the Waves


"If pressed to identify a villain in my family’s story, I would have pointed to God." Amy Simpson writes about how a complex relationship with a schizophrenic mom led to a complex relationship with God. Part 1. Part 2.


Summarize the storyline of the Bible in one sentence. Ready? Go.


A Boy’s Discovery Rebuts Temple Mount Revisionism. Palestinians deny Jewish roots at the holy site, but a newly unearthed artifact confirms historical truths. "A 10-year-old Russian boy, Matvei Tcepliaev, recently made an extraordinary discovery in Jerusalem. Working as a volunteer in the Temple Mount Sifting Project, he found a 3,000-year-old seal—engraved limestone about the size of a thimble, with a hole at one end so it could be hung from a string—from the time of King David....The seal confirms the ancient Jewish presence in Jerusalem—more than a millennium before the Muslim Dome of the Rock was built above the ruins of the ancient temples."

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