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Knowing the truth has meaning only as a first step to living the truth day by day.

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Nancy Pearcey
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: January 1
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Philosopher
Nancy Randolph Pearcey
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Developing a Christian worldview means submitting our entire self to God, in an act of devotion and service to Him.
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Darwinism has become our culture's official creation myth, protected by a priesthood as dogmatic as any religious curia.
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For many women today, on a personal level, the problem is not male dominance so much as male desertion.
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An idol is anything put in the place of God as the ultimate reality - the eternal, self-existent, uncaused cause of everything else.
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In studies asking why young people left their family religion, their most frequent response was unanswered doubts and questions. The researchers were surprised: They expected to hear stories of broken relationships and wounded feelings. But the top reason given by young adults was that they did not get answers to their questions.
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