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The dispersal of animals across the globe into all its kinds is even more difficult

From Answers in Genesis:

The Flood of Noah’s day (2348 BC) was a year-long global catastrophe that destroyed the pre-Flood world, reshaped the continents, buried billions of creatures, and laid down the rock layers.

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The Ice Age was a period of several hundred years that began within a short time following the global Flood of Noah’s Day. During this time, global temperatures cooled and glaciers covered one-third of Earth’s surface. The Flood’s after-effects, such as warmer oceans and cooler air temperatures, created the necessary conditions.

Two particular aspects of the Flood were instrumental in causing the Ice Age: (1) extensive volcanic activity during and after the Flood, and (2) the warm oceans following the Flood. We know the extent of the Ice Age because the glaciers left features on the landscape similar to features we observe around glaciers today.

Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil has said that, “Hezbollah must accept that we should live in peace when the conditions are secured for protecting Lebanon, achieving a ceasefire, Israel's withdrawal from Lebanese territory, the return of captives, the return of diplaced Lebanese to their homes, and the state obtaining reparations and other issues," Bassil said in an interview with al-Mayadeen television.

He warned that Hezbollah cannot be disarmed by force, "neither from inside the country nor from outside, because that would either lead to full destruction of Lebanon or to a civil war."

He added that "at the same time, Hezbollah cannot continue to stubbornly insist that these weapons cannot be touched," noting that "the solution should be through an inter-Lebanese, realistic and reasonable agreement that the foreign forces can agree to."

Hezbollah MP Hassan Fadlallah warned on Tuesday that the group would confront any military force created with American and Israeli backing to counter Hezbollah inside Lebanon. Speaking during a press conference, Fadlallah said Hezbollah would treat such a force as a direct enemy.

“If Israel and the U.S. manage to form a collaborator army to fight the Resistance, we will fight it just like we fight Israel,” he said.

He argued that the “Resistance” does not require national consensus to continue operating and accused Lebanese officials of making dangerous concessions to Washington and Tel Aviv.

To be clear, the following is fundamentally wrong, but you can see where the train went off the tracks

This is taken from the provocatively titled Answers in Genesis article, “Beneficial Mutations Don’t Exist” (2023)

>> First, changes in living things brought about by mechanisms like natural or artificial selection cannot be deemed as macroevolution in the sense of bringing about new features or creatures that never existed before, because they only result in a recombination of genetic information that was already in existence prior to selection occurring.

>> All selection processes must select from what was already there, selection is not a creative process—which is what evolution would need to demonstrate.

>> The bottom line is, what we’ve observed is that mutations only alter current traits; they’ve never been observed to add novel ones. It’s not as if creationists don’t understand that trade-offs naturally occur in nature as organisms adapt to their environment, but these adaptations are nondirectional in the macro sense, because typically, they result in the overall fitness of organisms decreasing through the degeneration and/or loss of genetic information

Nawfal claimed that “a lot of people are worried that Israel is trying to instigate a civil war in Lebanon," adding that countries “benefit from having weaker neighbors."

Makhzoumi responded by accusing Hezbollah of undermining Lebanon and said the current situation in the country is “worse than a civil war."

“Today, we have Hezbollah revolting against the government. They kill anybody they want," Makhzoumi said. “Civil war does not have 1.3 million people displaced. Civil war does not have 67 villages that people cannot go to. Civil war does not stop people from coming to visit Lebanon."

Hezbollah said the 43rd anniversary of the “agreement of humiliation and shame” comes amid attempts to revive “something even more dangerous and deviant than the May 17 agreement” through talk of a “full and comprehensive peace agreement between the Lebanese authorities and the Israeli entity.”

It said Lebanese authorities had “drifted far away” and were treating Israel “as though it were a peaceful and recognized entity.”

The group’s remarks came in a statement marking the anniversary of the May 17 Agreement, a 1983 security accord between Lebanon and Israel that called for ending the state of war between the two countries, establishing a security zone in southern Lebanon, and setting a timetable for Israeli withdrawal from areas it occupied at the time.

The agreement was scrapped less than a year later by the Lebanese government following political pressure from former Syrian President Hafez al-Assad and his allies, including Amal Movement leader Nabih Berri and Druze leader Walid Jumblatt.

In a strongly worded and implicitly political message directed at the leadership of Hezbollah and its armed factions, Prime Minister Nawaf Salam stated unequivocally:

“The country is utterly fed up with engaging in futile adventures and destructive confrontations waged primarily to serve regional agendas or the interests of foreign powers. The latest of these adventures is the recent war whose repercussions we are now experiencing—a war we, as a nation and a people, did not choose, but rather one imposed upon us by a unilateral decision that bypassed constitutional institutions.”

Salam reiterated his firm commitment to the principle of state sovereignty. He also stressed the necessity of having only one legitimate armed force in Lebanon, namely the Lebanese army and official security forces. He deemed this the sole guarantor of border security and the rule of law.

So often it seems the debate about evolution turns into a critique of the Biblical Account of the Great Flood and the hyper evolution of life required to repopulate a lifeless planet in 5,500 to 10,000 years time.

I understand why, and I’ve done it myself. How can a person believe every species of a “kind” evolved in a lifetime(?) but not in a million years or more? And so on. Still, perhaps it ought to be its own subreddit?

Lebanon has lodged a formal complaint against Iran at the United Nations, accusing Tehran of violating diplomatic protocol, interfering in the country’s internal affairs, and dragging Lebanon into war, Al Arabiya English has learned.

In a letter circulated among members of the UN Security Council and General Assembly, Beirut accused Iran of violating the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations and conducting unauthorized activities on Lebanese territory through Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

Lebanese officials have increasingly accused Hezbollah of acting independently of the state and undermining Lebanon’s sovereignty by tying the country to Iran’s regional agenda.

The list of individuals includes:
(All Lebanese nationals)
1 - Ali Mohammed Karneeb.
2 - Nasser Hassan Nasr.
3 - Hassan Shehadeh Osman.
4 - Samer Hassan Fawaz.
5 - Ahmed Mohammed Yazbek.
6 - Isa Hussein Qasir.
7 - Ibrahim Ali Daher.
8 - Abbas Hassan Ghareeb.
9 - Emad Mohammed Bazzi.
10 - Ezzat Yousef Akr.
11 - Wahid Mahmud Sbeiti.
12 - Mustafa Habib Harb.
13 - Mohammed Suleiman Badir.
14 - Adel Mohammad Mansour.
15 - Ali Ahmed Krisht.
16 - Nima Ahmad Jamil.

The list of entities includes:
(All based in Lebanon).
1- Bayt Al-Mal Al Muslimeen.
2 - Al Qard Al-Hassan Association.
3 - Al Tasheelat Company.
4 - The Auditors for Accounting and Auditing.
5 - Al Khobara For Accounting, Auditing and Studies.

One soldier, who stuck a cigarette in the mouth of a statue of Mary, was sentenced to 21 days of military prison, and a soldier who filmed the incident was sentenced to 14 days, a military spokesperson said.

POLL of Israelis about Desecration

Respondents included 547 Jewish respondents and 202 Arab respondents. The data was analyzed and weighted by voting and religiosity to represent the makeup of the adult population in Israel. No margin of error was provided.

Asked why they believed the soldier was wrong, 65% of Israelis said that symbols of other religions should not be destroyed, 13% that it caused reputational damage to Israel, and 12% opposed it because it was a violation of army protocol.

Asked for their opinion on the incident, 90% of respondents said the soldier made a mistake, 6% said he did the right thing, and 4% did not know

I am tired, but when I see my colleagues from the service and we sit together, I forget the exhaustion. I get energy from the guys.

There is no visible presence of Hezbollah fighters. But the Shiite organization sets the rules, partly for its own protection.

Photography on the streets, for example, is prohibited, reflecting a deep concern about Israeli surveillance.

While many Lebanese now view Hezbollah’s influence critically, support within the Shiite community remains strong.

"We in Dahiya have become resilient: We lose our homes and then get back up again," says a resident who supports Hezbollah and wants to remain anonymous. "Houses are not important as long as someone defends our rights and dies to preserve our sovereignty."

German national Monika Borgmann has lived in the Haret Hreik suburb since 2001. She has her own history with Hezbollah: her husband Lokmann Slim was among the loudest critics of the organization and its dominance in the country.

Five years ago he was killed - allegedly murdered by Hezbollah. To this day, no one has been charged or arrested. Borgmann nevertheless never wanted to move away from Haret Hreik.

"We wanted this place and we still want to defend it," she told dpa.