{"id":8075,"date":"2026-07-22T18:30:58","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T23:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=8075"},"modified":"2026-07-22T18:30:59","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T23:30:59","slug":"benjamin-franklin-and-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=8075","title":{"rendered":"BENJAMIN FRANKLIN &#8211; AND &#8211; EVOLUTION"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;If a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without the Maker&#8217;s notice,&#8221;<br>Then . . .&#8221;Is it probable that a kingdom will rise without His aid ?&#8221;*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is also an even more obvious parallel&#8212;<br>\u2606 &#8220;If a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without the Maker&#8217;s notice,&#8221;<br>and<br>\u2606\u2606 &#8220;If is improbable that a kingdom will rise without His aid,&#8221;<br>THEN,<br>\u2606\u2606\u2606 It is even more unlikely, inpossible &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; that all creation appeared without the Creator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2606\u2606\u2606\u2606 It is even farther more impossible that a person can be ready for death and after, without Jesus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>*&#8212;&#8211;Benjamin Franklin, to George Washington in the Constitutional Convention, 1787. Then he called for prayer to open every session from then on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without the Maker&#8217;s notice,&#8221;Then . . .&#8221;Is it probable that a kingdom will rise without His aid ?&#8221;* It is also an even more obvious parallel&#8212;\u2606 &#8220;If a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without the Maker&#8217;s notice,&#8221;and\u2606\u2606 &#8220;If is improbable that a kingdom will rise without [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8075"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8075"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8076,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8075\/revisions\/8076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}