William Franklin Graham Jr.
(November 7, 1918 – February 21, 2018)

Billy Graham was a evangelist, ordained Southern Baptist minister,
and civil rights advocate whose broadcasts and world crusades
featuring live sermons became well known in the mid-to-late 20th century. Throughout his career, spanning over six decades,
Graham rose to prominence as an evangelical Christian figure
in the United States and abroad. He died Feb. 21 at his home in
Montreat. He was 99.

Cyrus Ingerson Scofield (August 19, 1843 – July 24, 1921)

Scofield was an American theologian, minister, and writer whose
best-selling annotated Bible popularized dispensationalism and
futurism among fundamentalist Christians.

1917 edition of the Scofield Bible.

    
Evangelist Billy Graham with his son Franklin.

On July 14, 1952, William Franklin Graham III was born in
North Carolina’s Appalachian Mountains. At that time, his         
father Billy Graham’s international ministry was growing—
and the evangelist founded the Billy Graham Evangelistic
Association.

On January 10, 1982, Franklin Graham was ordained before
3,000 people at Grace Community Church in Tempe, Arizona.

William Franklin Graham III is 73 years old today.

July 10, 1925: In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called Scopes
Monkey Trial began with John Thomas Scopes, a young
high school science teacher, accused of teaching evolution
in violation of the Butler Act, a Tennessee state law.

The law, passed in March, made it a misdemeanor punishable
by fine to “teach any theory that denies the story of the Divine
Creation of man as taught in the Bible, and to teach instead
that man has descended from a lower order of animals.”

The trial became a national spectacle, with prominent figures
like Clarence Darrow defending Scopes and William Jennings
Bryan assisting the prosecution.

John Thomas Scopes(1900 – 1970) the teacher
on trial for teaching evolution.

Defense attorney Clarence Darrow, left, and
prosecutor William Jennings Bryan speak
with each other during the trial.  

(FOX NEWS) – The Dead Sea Scrolls may be even older than
researchers thought, according to a new study driven by an
artificial intelligence (AI) model.

A group of researchers from the Netherlands, Italy and Denmark
recently published their findings in the journal PLOS One on
June 4.

The researchers said they developed an AI-based date-prediction
model named Enoch, a nod to the biblical patriarch of the same
name.

The scrolls have attracted a great amount of interest from both
scholars and the public at large since their discovery.