Wednesday, October 9, 2024
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 9 October 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:13 - 03:48)
Floridians Prepare for Hurricane Milton: In the Wake of Helene, Citizens of the U.S. Face Another Massive Storm, and Our Prayers are With Them
Part II (03:48 - 12:36)
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- Implausibility of radical life extension in humans in the twenty-first century by Nature Aging (Jay Olshansky, Bradley J. Willcox, Lloyd Demetrius, and Hiram Beltrán-Sánchez)
Part III (12:36 - 25:30)
Secular Morality Collapses Under Scrutiny: Materialism Is Incapable of Upholding a Binding Moral Code
- Are Your Morals Too Good to Be True? by The New Yorker (Manvir Singh)
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, October 9, 2024. |
| 0:07.5 | I'm Albert Moeller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events |
| 0:11.6 | from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:13.0 | Well, all our hearts right now are on the state of Florida, |
| 0:16.0 | where Hurricane Milton is now bearing down on the state. |
| 0:20.0 | It is expected to achieve landfall sometime later today, probably around Tampa, Florida, certainly |
| 0:26.0 | there in the Hillsborough County area at this point. |
| 0:29.2 | It is expected by the time it hits to be a category 3 storm but it might be close to a category 4 |
| 0:34.8 | storm and we're talking about a storm of immense power hitting an area or at |
| 0:40.0 | least at this point forecast to hit an area that has not experienced this |
| 0:43.9 | kind of hurricane action in about a hundred years and we are looking at |
| 0:48.4 | something that's really really interesting and could be potentially very deadly and that has to do with the existence of Tampa Bay |
| 0:55.9 | Tampa Bay is a relatively shallow body of water but it's a massive body of water and we're talking about |
| 1:01.9 | well you can just imagine the volume of water and if there is something like a 12 to 15 foot title surge it could basically be like blowing water in a saucer and that's the real danger to a city like Tampa and the larger |
| 1:14.4 | environments of Hillsborough County, certainly near the coast and near the bay. We are talking |
| 1:19.1 | about what could be a deadly combination. And we're also talking about the second major hurricane |
| 1:24.3 | with devastating impact to hit the United States in just a matter of a few weeks. We are |
| 1:28.4 | looking at Hurricane Helene bringing such massive devastation, some of it in in Florida some of it throughout the |
| 1:33.9 | southeast but the most surprising and most devastating impact was in Western |
| 1:38.4 | North Carolina there in the pray right now that this does not happen in Hillsborough County Florida and |
| 1:53.6 | furthermore the storm is forecast at this point to cross Florida and then to |
| 1:57.6 | emerge in the Atlantic Ocean where it's going to have to be recalibrated |
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