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Sweeting: A century after Hubble’s discovery, our neighbor galaxies suggest a creator’s mind
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Sweeting: A century after Hubble’s discovery, our neighbor galaxies suggest a creator’s mind

By Don Sweeting | Commentary, DonSweeting.com When you look into the night sky, the naked eye can only make out 2,500-3,000 stars, five planets and maybe one to three galaxies, and that’s assuming ideal atmospheric conditions and the right location. That has been enough in human history to dazzle us with the immensity and wonder of what we can see. But 100 years ago, astronomer Edwin P. Hubble (1889-1953), working at the Mount Wilson Observatory in California, made a stunning discovery: He calculated that a spiral nebula called Andromeda was about 860,000 light years away — more than eight times further than the most distant stars in our galaxy. He came to realize that what we thought was a gas or star cluster in the Milky Way was actually another galaxy, and that the Milky Way was j...
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Sweeting: On Independence Day, let’s review America’s three founding documents
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Commentary, National

Sweeting: On Independence Day, let’s review America’s three founding documents

By DON SWEETING | Guest Commentary America’s founding was deeply influenced by the principles of Christianity. While our nation has not always lived up to our ideals, the principle of human dignity and the promises of “liberty and justice for all,” articulated in 1776, still stirs our hearts today.  Our Declaration of Independence and Constitution are utterly unique in the history of nations. They were framed under the influence of a biblical understanding of life, history, government and human nature. We desperately need to return to this understanding. While the earliest settlers were not saints, and had varied understandings of their faith, they were overwhelmingly professing Christians—pilgrims, missionaries, and pioneers. The composition of the early colonies at the time...
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Sweeting: Free speech on campus isn’t absolute
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Centennial Institute, Commentary

Sweeting: Free speech on campus isn’t absolute

By Don Sweeting | DonSweeting.com Fierce campus debates swirl around the Israel-Hamas war. One of them is a debate about the extent of free speech. Should there be restrictions on those protesting Israel’s military actions or its right to exist? Protesters’ voices vary, with some being pro-Palestinian and others pro-Hamas. Some are calling for a cease-fire, while others call for the end to the Jewish state. Freedom of speech is a precious right guaranteed in our Constitution’s First Amendment. The right to discuss, debate, inquire and even protest on a university campus should be cherished and protected. But are there limits? When Columbia University President Minouche Shafik started clamping down on pro-Palestinian protesters, students, faculty and a university oversight panel criti...
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