Welcome to the Daily Article Podcast for Tuesday, October 4th, 2022.

I'm Chris Elkins with the Denison Forum narrating today's article written by Dr. Jim Denison.

Trust seems to be a scarce commodity these days.

For example, the would-be winners of the almost $29,000 at an Ohio

fishing tournament were disqualified recently after it was discovered that their fish were stuffed

with lead weights and fish fillets. On a much more somber note, as of this morning, the death toll from Hurricane Ian has risen to at least 103.

Part of the problem is that the storm was predicted until the last 36 hours to strike Florida further north than where it landed.

As a result, many in the Fort Myers region were unprepared for the violence of the

hurricane when it hit their area. The main American forecast model insisted for days that the storm

would strike the Florida Panhandle or Big Bend areas as a category two storm. The European model,

which uses faster supercomputers, consistently signaled a more

southerly and stronger storm track for Florida. Its prediction ended up being far closer to the

actual outcome. The National Hurricane Center then split the difference, leading to a predicted

landfall north of where the storm came ashore.

In other news, an Indonesian police chief and nine elite officers were removed from their

posts after at least 125 people, including 32, children, were killed in a soccer stadium crush.

And the polls were wrong once again, this time in

Brazil, where the incumbent president received more votes than had been predicted and is now in

a runoff with his leading challenger. Each day's news provides more proof that we are fallen people

living in a fallen world. Why then is it hard to

convince secular people that they need more than secular society can provide? If lost people

understood that they needed Christ, they would turn to him. The fact that they do not shows that

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