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Friday, December 28, 2007

Did Dinosaurs and Man Live At The Same Time?

One of my favorite things to read about in all the creation vs evolutionism books and debates I follow is the intriguing subject of Dinosaurs. Did dinosaurs and man coexist? Or are they 65 million years older than us? I must admit, growing up I too believed Dino's were millions of years old simply because this is what was taught to me in school. Our culture has been so branded on the fact that Dino's are millions of years old that no one even bothers to dare question it. My own wife looked at me funny when I told her that they were not that old and there may even be some smaller dinosaurs in remote parts of the world (this comes from dino and dragon legends all over the world) I find it astonishing that in text books you will read that this is fact and at the same time you hear nothing about geological finds which disprove this fairy tale of millions of years old. Did you know that there is much evidence that Dino's are not millions of years old? Did you know that we find human foot prints in the same layer beds as dinosaurs? Did you know we have found dinosaur bones that have not been fossilized and still have red blood cells present? Did you know that there are drawings of dinosaurs by people in caves and on stones long before we even discovered Dino bones? And there pictures were extremely accurate. This can only be possible if they have actually saw them with their own eyes. And how about Bishop Bell’s brass behemoths? A tomb of Bishop Richard Bell in the 1400's in which the brass had Dinosaurs engraved on it;



"Bishop Bell’s tomb shows the clear signs of heavy wear and tear after several centuries of shuffling feet. Skeletons of dinosaurs have been accurately reconstructed only in the last 100 years or so. Prior to this, scientists classifying these reptiles incorrectly pieced together their bones making the first artistic representations wildly inaccurate. It seems highly improbable that an artist in the 15th century accurately portrayed a creature which he had never seen. Rather, it is more likely that these renditions were all creatures which had been observed. Clearly, the only reason modern researchers would fail to identify them as dinosaurs is their antibiblical bias that humans and dinosaurs did not co-exist." - AiG



Why are these facts and finds not making it into secular science books? I would like to suggest the reason is because if such finds are published, what will this say about most secular scientist today? Most likely it will say that they were wrong and therefore their data cannot be trusted. I have wanted to do a post on Dinosaurs for a while but couldn't find the time. In a future post I will do a more in dept study on the topic. I have a lot of great info and resources for everyone looking to defend their faith in this area. Did you know the scriptures talk about Dinosaurs? They are God's creation also and the Lord mentions them in his word. I would also like, in a future blog to go more in depth on the various dating methods and why often dinosaurs are dated so old? These dates are based largely on many assumptions and in conjunction with the Geologic column, which doesn't exist and was made by man. Why is it that when a dinosaur bone is brought for dating the scientist dating them asks "what is it?" When people have mentioned "this is a dinosaur bone" they automatically say they can't use a certain method to date it because it's too old. They are making a major assumption right off the bat. In contrast, when someone has brought in a dinosaur bone and has not revealed what the bone is or where it is from the date often comes out to be thousands of years old not millions. In addition, why has various animal parts submitted for carbon dating and other methods come with one part of the animal extremely older than another part? Or why is it that live shells come out to be 26,000 years old? It's because Carbon dating is inaccurate. But we will get into that in another posting. For now I want to share with you a good site which shows the various trails in which Dino tracks and human tracks are found together. I would like to hear the evolutionists explain this away! This proves that Dinosaurs are not millions of years. The site is a little bland and cheesy but the info is accurate and one of the sites in which I could find a variety of data I was looking for all in one place. There are hundreds of sites from creationist and millions of books to read on the subjects. Science and the Bible are not in conflict folks, but rather they compliment each other.



Ken Ham - Dinosaurs in the Bible

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1424792103455692481&q=ken+ham&total=159&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=1



Evidence that Dinosaurs and Humans co-existed

This is a great site - I urge you to explore it. There are also Dinosaur art in which people drew long before we discovered dinosaurs even existed.

http://www.bible.ca/tracks/tracks.htm

Sir Isaac Newton

This is excellent! You think this would knock a little sense or at least be food for thought to the Atheist? Not to be mean, but as scriptures says "The fool in his heart says there is no God" This is but one example (the argument in the story below) which could be used to show proof of a creator. You would never look at a painting and say that there was no painter. You would never look at a building and say there is no builder would you? I could argue "but you have never seen the painter or builder have you? Would you then change your mind? No, you would still conclude that there was a builder and painter because the painting and the building is proof that they exist. It is no different with our extremely complex universe. There are millions of man made things on this planet, some we know how they were made and other's we don't. Yet we marvel at how complex, organized and designed they are. We Look at things like the Taj Mahal or Stonehedge to give a couple of examples. If this is what mere man could do, how much more can God do? Remember that our world is spinning at about 65,000 mph in it's proper orbit and on it's designed axis. Do you really think there isn't someone sustaining just these few components of many in which keep human life alive and possible? What about the oxygen content in the atmosphere, the "just so right" distance of the sun etc.... God is omniscient and he loves human kind, we are made in his image. We are his favorite, if you will. And he makes sure that our planet does what it's supposed to do each and every day. Enjoy the story, I think it's brilliant.



Sir Isaac Newton is considered one of the two greatest scientists of the last 500 years. He clearly saw the implications of celestial mechanics and the intricately designed wonders in the sky.

“One day, as Newton sat reading in his study with his mechanism on a large table near him, a friend, who saw things differently than he did, stepped in. Scientist that he was, he recognized at a glance what was before him. Stepping up to it, he slowly turned the crank, and with undisguised admiration watched the heavenly bodies all move in their relative speed in their orbits.

“Standing off a few feet he exclaimed, ‘My! What an exquisite thing this is! Who made it?’ Without looking up from his book, Newton answered, ‘Nobody.’

“Quickly turning to Newton, his friend said, ‘Evidently you did not understand my question. I asked who made this?’ Looking up now, Newton solemnly assured him that nobody made it, but that the apparatus had just happened to assume the form it was in.

“The astonished man replied with some heat, ‘You must think I am a fool! Of course somebody made it, and he is a genius, and I’d like to know who he is!’

“Laying his book aside, Newton arose and said, ‘This thing is but a puny imitation of a much grander system, whose laws you know,—and here I am not able to convince you that this mere toy before you is without a designer and maker!

” ‘Yet you profess to believe that the great original from which the design is taken, with its more massive and complicated orbital motions, has come into being without either designer or maker! Now tell me by what sort of reasoning do you reach such a conclusion?’ “—The Minnesota Technolog, October 1957.

Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Creation vs Evolutionism

During my study this week I came across some really good videos on God Tube. I just wanted to share them with some of you. They are all very short videos. I think it's very important to constantly stay in the word of God in order to "give an answer for the hope that we have" (1st Peter 3:15) when someone tries to challenge your faith. Paul said in Acts 17:11 "Now the Bereans were of more noble character than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true." We must test everything against the word of God. The Lord gave us this wonderful gauge in which we can use to seek out his will and filter out that which tries to cause doubt in our hearts. The word of God can be trusted whole heartily. It is an accurate account and description from the One who was there when it happened, because He did it!

I have recently had the opportunity to speak to a couple of guys at my new job about creation and evolution. I was just sitting and minding my own business when the guy next to me starting talking about church and other events. Some how I think he sensed that I was a "religious person" if I may use that term. So he asked me what religion I was and where did I go to church? We spoke for a while and the Lord opened up a great door for me to share and witness to him. I started sharing my testimony with him. Though when he found out my family and I gave 10% tithes not including offerings to our church from each of our pays his eyes opened wide with extreme surprise. He, like most people who don't know the Lord couldn't understand why we would give our hard earned money away to the church.

I began to tell him God blesses us and has met every single one of our needs. I explained how when my daughter was in the hospital and we needed money for food, gas, tolls, parking etc.. I told him of how God provided through people in our church who began sticking envelopes of money in our pockets, not to mention the countless family members who were there for us. I told him we give God 10% but it's all his to start with. He then blesses the 90% and provides all of our needs. This new job is just one of many ways God has provided for us. It opened a few more doors for me to speak to him and then, of coarse, the next question came; "So what do you think about evolution?" I promise you I did not provoke this conversation, the Lord just opened the way and we had an ok discussion as I brought some major flaws up in the evolutionary theory. He seemed hesitant and pretty much dismissed everything I said because of what he was taught in Catholic school. (the catholic church taught him that God used evolution) Another employee then came over and joined the argument, he is actually a friend of mine. He was sort of on the fence but leaned more towards evolution. However, when I asked him for the evidence he had to support evolution he quickly brought up something he was taught in college (Peppered Moths) I was actually shocked that he would bring up this weak old disproved theory. This only showed me that 1. he was teaching something he was taught and most likely did not look into the supporting evidence of this claim. And 2. I couldn't believe he payed a university all that money that in turn taught him a direct lie. Since science is to be observable, demonstrable and repeatable I told him that evolution was none of these things. I could tell he wasn't quite prepared for this argument. Well, long story short, I didn't want to neglect my new job so I didn't prolong the conversation much, I just answered some of there questions. In addition one of my pet peeves I must admit, is when someone asks you a question but does not allow you to finish your sentence. So I tend not to argue much with others when it's like that. It only proves to be frustrating and you don't want to witness to others in frustration but rather in love and with grace so to win them over when combined with how you act. Though I have been guilty of the latter. Anyway, I hope you will all enjoy these and that they will help prepare you when your asked and challenged on your faith, and as always comments are welcome.

Accuracy In Prophecy Of Scripture
(I listen to Pastor Greg Laurie's Podcast also, I would highly recomend it)



Scientific Foreknowledge In The Bible



Someone Is Trying To Make A Monkey Out Of You



The Wood Pecker - Something Evolution Could Not Produce



Four Crisis Evolution Faces



How Old Is The Earth?



A Little Humor For You



Summary


I have also enclosed a great article called "Does God Exist?" in the chance that someone out there is reading this but just isn't sure if there really is a God. I would say, please consider all that you have come across on these blogs and take them in with an open mind. One thing for sure is this: On judgment day man will not be able to stand in front of an Almighty God and tell him "I didn't know God" Jesus has left ample evidence of his existence and surely his word which allows us to dive into the mind of God. Therefore, scripture is right in Romans 1:20 when it says "we will be without excuse"


Does God exist? Is there proof of God? The following offers candid, straight-forward reasons to believe in the existence of God...

Just once wouldn't you love for someone to simply show you the evidence for God's existence? No arm-twisting. No statements of, "You just have to believe." Well, here is an attempt to candidly offer some of the reasons which suggest that God exists.

But first consider this. If a person opposes even the possibility of there being a God, then any evidence can be rationalized or explained away. It is like if someone refuses to believe that people have walked on the moon, then no amount of information is going to change their thinking. Photographs of astronauts walking on the moon, interviews with the astronauts, moon rocks...all the evidence would be worthless, because the person has already concluded that people cannot go to the moon.

When it comes to the possibility of God's existence, the Bible says that there are people who have seen sufficient evidence, but they have suppressed the truth about God.1 On the other hand, for those who want to know God if he is there, he says, "You will seek me and find me; when you seek me with all your heart, I will be found by you."2 Before you look at the facts surrounding God's existence, ask yourself, If God does exist, would I want to know him? Here then, are some reasons to consider...

1. Does God exist? The complexity of our planet points to a deliberate Designer who not only created our universe, but sustains it today.
Many examples showing God's design could be given, possibly with no end. But here are a few:

The Earth...its size is perfect. The Earth's size and corresponding gravity holds a thin layer of mostly nitrogen and oxygen gases, only extending about 50 miles above the Earth's surface. If Earth were smaller, an atmosphere would be impossible, like the planet Mercury. If Earth were larger, its atmosphere would contain free hydrogen, like Jupiter.3 Earth is the only known planet equipped with an atmosphere of the right mixture of gases to sustain plant, animal and human life.

The Earth is located the right distance from the sun. Consider the temperature swings we encounter, roughly -30 degrees to +120 degrees. If the Earth were any further away from the sun, we would all freeze. Any closer and we would burn up. Even a fractional variance in the Earth's position to the sun would make life on Earth impossible. The Earth remains this perfect distance from the sun while it rotates around the sun at a speed of nearly 67,000 mph. It is also rotating on its axis, allowing the entire surface of the Earth to be properly warmed and cooled every day.

And our moon is the perfect size and distance from the Earth for its gravitational pull. The moon creates important ocean tides and movement so ocean waters do not stagnate, and yet our massive oceans are restrained from spilling over across the continents.4

Water...colorless, odorless and without taste, and yet no living thing can survive without it. Plants, animals and human beings consist mostly of water (about two-thirds of the human body is water). You'll see why the characteristics of water are uniquely suited to life:

It has an unusually high boiling point and freezing point. Water allows us to live in an environment of fluctuating temperature changes, while keeping our bodies a steady 98.6 degrees.

Water is a universal solvent. This property of water means that thousands of chemicals, minerals and nutrients can be carried throughout our bodies and into the smallest blood vessels.5

Water is also chemically neutral. Without affecting the makeup of the substances it carries, water enables food, medicines and minerals to be absorbed and used by the body.

Water has a unique surface tension. Water in plants can therefore flow upward against gravity, bringing life-giving water and nutrients to the top of even the tallest trees.

Water freezes from the top down and floats, so fish can live in the winter.

Ninety-seven percent of the Earth's water is in the oceans. But on our Earth, there is a system designed which removes salt from the water and then distributes that water throughout the globe. Evaporation takes the ocean waters, leaving the salt, and forms clouds which are easily moved by the wind to disperse water over the land, for vegetation, animals and people. It is a system of purification and supply that sustains life on this planet, a system of recycled and reused water.6

2. Does God exist? The human brain's complexity shows a higher intelligence behind it.
The human brain...simultaneously processes an amazing amount of information. Your brain takes in all the colors and objects you see, the temperature around you, the pressure of your feet against the floor, the sounds around you, the dryness of your mouth, even the texture of your keyboard. Your brain holds and processes all your emotions, thoughts and memories. At the same time your brain keeps track of the ongoing functions of your body like your breathing pattern, eyelid movement, hunger and movement of the muscles in your hands.

The human brain processes more than a million messages a second.7 Your brain weighs the importance of all this data, filtering out the relatively unimportant. This screening function is what allows you to focus and operate effectively in your world. A brain that deals with more than a million pieces of information every second, while evaluating its importance and allowing you to act on the most pertinent information... did it come about just by chance? Was it merely biological causes, perfectly forming the right tissue, blood flow, neurons, structure? The brain functions differently than other organs. There is an intelligence to it, the ability to reason, to produce feelings, to dream and plan, to take action, and relate to other people. How does one explain the human brain?

3. Does God exist? "Chance" or "natural causes" are insufficient explanations.
The alternative to God existing is that all that exists around us came about by natural cause and random chance. If someone is rolling dice, the odds of rolling a pair of sixes is one thing. But the odds of spots appearing on blank dice is something else. What Pasteur attempted to prove centuries ago, science confirms, that life cannot arise from non-life. Where did human, animal, plant life come from?

Also, natural causes are an inadequate explanation for the amount of precise information contained in human DNA. A person who discounts God is left with the conclusion that all of this came about without cause, without design, and is merely good fortune. It is intellectually wanting to observe intricate design and attribute it to luck.

4. Does God exist? To state with certainty that there is no God, a person has to ignore the passion of an enormously vast number of people who are convinced that there is a God.
This is not to say that if enough people believe something it is therefore true. Scientists, for example, have discovered new truths about the universe which overruled previous conclusions. But as science has progressed, no scientific discovery has countered the numerical likelihood of an intelligent mind being behind it all. In fact, the more science discovers about human life and the universe, the more complex and precisely designed we realize these to be. Rather than pointing away from God, evidence mounts further toward an intelligent source. But objective evidence is not all.

There is a much larger issue. Throughout history, billions of people in the world have attested to their firm, core convictions about God's existence--arrived at from their subjective, personal relationship with God. Millions today could give detailed account of their experience with God. They would point to answered prayer and specific, amazing ways God has met their needs, and guided them through important personal decisions. They would offer, not only a description of their beliefs, but detailed reports of God's actions in their lives. Many are sure that a loving God exists and has shown himself to be faithful to them. If you are a skeptic, can you say with certainty: "I am absolutely right and they all are wrong about God"?

5. Does God exist? We know God exists because he pursues us. He is constantly initiating and seeking for us to come to him.
I was an atheist at one time. And like most atheists, the issue of people believing in God bothered me greatly. What is it about atheists that we would spend so much time, attention, and energy refuting something that we don't believe even exists?! What causes us to do that? When I was an atheist, I attributed my intentions as caring for those poor, delusional people...to help them realize their hope was completely ill-founded. To be honest, I also had another motive. As I challenged those who believed in God, I was deeply curious to see if they could convince me otherwise. Part of my quest was to become free from the question of God. If I could conclusively prove to believers that they were wrong, then the issue is off the table, and I would be free to go about my life.

I didn't realize that the reason the topic of God weighed so heavily on my mind, was because God was pressing the issue. I have come to find out that God wants to be known. He created us with the intention that we would know him. He has surrounded us with evidence of himself and he keeps the question of his existence squarely before us. It was as if I couldn't escape thinking about the possibility of God. In fact, the day I chose to acknowledge God's existence, my prayer began with, "Ok, you win..." It might be that the underlying reason atheists are bothered by people believing in God is because God is actively pursuing them.

I am not the only one who has experienced this. Malcolm Muggeridge, socialist and philosophical author, wrote, "I had a notion that somehow, besides questing, I was being pursued." C.S. Lewis said he remembered, "...night after night, feeling whenever my mind lifted even for a second from my work, the steady, unrelenting approach of Him whom I so earnestly desired not to meet. I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all of England."

Lewis went on to write a book titled, "Surprised by Joy" as a result of knowing God. I too had no expectations other than rightfully admitting God's existence. Yet over the following several months, I became amazed by his love for me.

6. Does God exist? Unlike any other revelation of God, Jesus Christ is the clearest, most specific picture of God pursuing us.
Why Jesus? Look throughout the major world religions and you'll find that Buddha, Muhammad, Confucius and Moses all identified themselves as teachers or prophets. None of them ever claimed to be equal to God. Surprisingly, Jesus did. That is what sets Jesus apart from all the others. He said God exists and you're looking at him. Though he talked about his Father in heaven, it was not from the position of separation, but of very close union, unique to all humankind. Jesus said that anyone who had seen Him had seen the Father, anyone who believed in him, believed in the Father.

He said, "I am the light of the world, he who follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life."8 He claimed attributes belonging only to God: to be able to forgive people of their sin, free them from habits of sin, give people a more abundant life and give them eternal life in heaven. Unlike other teachers who focused people on their words, Jesus pointed people to himself. He did not say, "follow my words and you will find truth." He said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life, no one comes to the Father but through me."9

What proof did Jesus give for claiming to be divine? He did what people can't do. Jesus performed miracles. He healed people...blind, crippled, deaf, even raised a couple of people from the dead. He had power over objects...created food out of thin air, enough to feed crowds of several thousand people. He performed miracles over nature...walked on top of a lake, commanding a raging storm to stop for some friends. People everywhere followed Jesus, because he constantly met their needs, doing the miraculous. He said if you do not want to believe what I'm telling you, you should at least believe in me based on the miracles you're seeing.10

Jesus Christ showed God to be gentle, loving, aware of our self-centeredness and shortcomings, yet deeply wanting a relationship with us. Jesus revealed that although God views us as sinners, worthy of his punishment, his love for us ruled and God came up with a different plan. God himself took on the form of man and accepted the punishment for our sin on our behalf. Sounds ludicrous? Perhaps, but many loving fathers would gladly trade places with their child in a cancer ward if they could. The Bible says that the reason we would love God is because he first loved us.

Jesus died in our place so we could be forgiven. Of all the religions known to humanity, only through Jesus will you see God reaching toward humanity, providing a way for us to have a relationship with him. Jesus proves a divine heart of love, meeting our needs, drawing us to himself. Because of Jesus' death and resurrection, he offers us a new life today. We can be forgiven, fully accepted by God and genuinely loved by God. He says, "I have loved you with an everlasting love, therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you."11 This is God, in action.

Does God exist? If you want to know, investigate Jesus Christ. We're told that "God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life."12

God does not force us to believe in him, though he could. Instead, he has provided sufficient proof of his existence for us to willingly respond to him. The earth's perfect distance from the sun, the unique chemical properties of water, the human brain, DNA, the number of people who attest to knowing God, the gnawing in our hearts and minds to determine if God is there, the willingness for God to be known through Jesus Christ. If you need to know more about Jesus and reasons to believe in him, please see: Beyond Blind Faith.

If you want to begin a relationship with God now, you can.
This is your decision, no coercion here. But if you want to be forgiven by God and come into a relationship with him, you can do so right now by asking him to forgive you and come into your life. Jesus said, "Behold, I stand at the door [of your heart] and knock. He who hears my voice and opens the door, I will come into him [or her]."13 If you want to do this, but aren't sure how to put it into words, this may help: "Jesus, thank you for dying for my sins. You know my life and that I need to be forgiven. I ask you to forgive me right now and come into my life. I want to know you in a real way. Come into my life now. Thank you that you wanted a relationship with me. Amen."

God views your relationship with him as permanent. Referring to all those who believe in him, Jesus Christ said of us, "I know them, and they follow me; and I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish, and no one shall snatch them out of my hand."14

So, does God exist? Looking at all these facts, one can conclude that a loving God does exist and can be known in an intimate, personal way. If you need more information about Jesus' claim to divinity, or about God's existence, or if you have similar important questions, please email us.

- Marilyn Adamson

Sunday, December 9, 2007

Dinosaur Mummy Another Flood Artifact?



As a young boy, Tyler Lyson grew up with a playground that scientists could only dream of – his backyard contained a treasure of dinosaur bones. And in 1999 at the age of just seventeen, he stumbled upon an extremely rare find while out searching for bones on his family’s North Dakota farm. What he accidentally discovered is a piece of history, a mummified dinosaur, which he fittingly named Dakota.

Lyson actually unearthed a hadrosaur - and one of only six mummified dinosaurs ever found. But the finding is even more remarkable because it is the remains of an entire dinosaur – skin and bones, petrified into stone. Evolutionary philosophy dates Dakota to nearly sixty-seven million years.

But are sixty-seven million years really necessary? Paleontologists studying Dakota say this rare preservation of skin and mummification means that the creature had to be buried very rapidly, in flash flood conditions, to petrify in this way. The common-sense, biblical worldview would agree. Not millions of years, though; but yet another result of the Flood in the days of Noah just 4,400 years ago.

If the Flood happened as the Bible says, we should see many leftover artifacts. Rock layers, Grand Canyon, the formation of oil, and even these petrified dinosaur bones are more evidence that God’s Word is scientifically accurate. For more on proving the harmony of science and the Bible, view our newest resource, Is the Bible Scientifically Accurate?

The Golden Compass

After months of controversy, the fantasy film The Golden Compass finally opens this weekend. Some fans of Philip Pullman’s books have been tying themselves in knots over this. They have expressed their hope that the film will keep Pullman’s original anti-God message. But at the same time they were declaring that Christians were being ridiculous for saying that there was any anti-God message at all!

So now for the $64,000 question: Is the movie openly anti-religious?

Hanna Rosin wrote in the Atlantic Monthly that New Line Cinema has “stripped out [Pullman’s] theology and replaced it with some vague derivative of the Force.” In a sense, that is true. New Line, as Rosin recounts, has been keeping a “nervous” eye on the bottom line, knowing that blatant atheism in the movie would hurt sales. Besides, if the film would have delved fully into all of the complexities of the books’ belief system, it would have come to a screeching halt.

In short, Pullman’s anti-God, anti-religion message has been toned down a little in the movie. But it is still there.

The main villain in the movie is a mysterious organization called the Magisterium—a word that will be familiar to Catholics. The organization’s headquarters bears a remarkable similarity to famous religious landmarks, and some of their buildings have pictures of saints on them. Their goal, we are told by various characters, is to “tell people what to do” and to put an end to “free will.” The Magisterium tries to force obedience and stifle thought. And it goes to violent lengths to try to prevent children from reaching puberty and having what Nicole Kidman’s character euphemistically calls “nasty thoughts and unhappy feelings.”

The somewhat simplistic message that emerges is, “Question authority.” But as the Ignatius Press blog points out, it comes across more like “Question authority. Just not our authority.” That is, we are supposed to accept the film’s assertions about what religion is like as, well, the gospel.

But it is just a story, isn’t it? Of course, it is. But as Philip Pullman himself once wrote, “‘Thou shalt not’ might reach the head, but it takes ‘Once upon a time’ to reach the heart.” That is exactly the point made in the new book The Pied Piper of Atheism, which draws the connection between Pullman’s fantasy tales and the legendary figure who stole children away by playing music that appealed to their emotions.

No matter what the filmmakers meant to do, Pullman certainly intended to capture children’s hearts and plant the seed of doubt there. And the film, watered-down as it may be, cannot help but reflect that—as will future films, for in the second and third books in Pullman’s trilogy, the hatred of God is expressed much more clearly and strongly than in the first. (Despite the film’s PG-13 rating for violence, which is justified, parents took younger children to the preview screenings, and more children will undoubtedly be going when the film officially opens.)

In fact, Christian parents are already being bashed by some for not wanting to take their kids to hear this anti-God message. To those parents I say, good for you. Keep questioning the culture’s authority.


Listen to the Audio Podcast:
http://www.breakpoint.org/listingarticle.asp?ID=7292

For further information and reading:
http://www.godandscience.org/doctrine/the_golden_compass_movie.html

What Christ Did For The Atheist

I came across this video when I was watching a video produced in defense of Atheism. I then checked to see what some of the responses where to it from believers. When I watched this video it really touched me. I know most of you have watched the Passion of the Christ, and for some maybe it's been a while. The movie really sends things home especially for the believer. One reason being is that Mel Gibson did his home work on what a real crucifixion was like. And when you read about it in the scriptures it's one thing but when it's told or shown in detail in how it actually happened in the days when the Romans implemented this practice it's another thing, certainly an eye opener. I hope the video gets you thinking about what Christ did for us, even the atheists. Romans 5:8 says this "But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us."

Sunday, November 18, 2007

Probing Questions for Evolutionists

When I first saw this video last year I thought to myself how simple yet probing these questions were. Shouldn't there be more evidence for these claims in which the evolutionists are making? Just a thought.

Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Fighting Evolution...

I just wanted to share this article with all of my friends and anyone faced with a situation where they are not sure what to do regarding the teaching of evolution in schools. Most people are just uninformed of the options and legal rights they have regarding the teaching of creation science and the "theory" of evolution in schools. It is very informative but only a fraction of the rights you have regarding this topic. There is much more information on the topic and I would like to strongly urge anyone interested in it to visit www.creationscienceevangelism and check out the video under the download tab "Lies in the textbooks" There are also a number of resources mentioned in the video for you to call with any questions that you may have. Try to keep your kids informed. My step son and I talk about the bible a lot and he is very familiar for a 10 year old what evolution teaches. He has many many questions fluttering around in his head. He is also very interested in apologetics as he and his friend (also 10) have ongoing debates and talks about Dinosaurs, Fossils and Strata Layers etc... You will be surprised to know that Dinosaurs did not live millions and millions of years ago. This is what is grounded in your head. Did you know that they have found human foot prints in Dinosaur foot prints? Why don't they include that information in your science text books? Why are human bones found near Dinosaur bones? Did you also know that unfosslized Dinosaur bones have been found with blood cells still fresh and easily visible under the microscope? This poses a huge threat to evolution and Dinosaurs being millions of years old. Enjoy the article. I will post more in the near future on Dinosaurs and where God mentions them in scripture and what happened to them. Thanks all. Comments are always welcomed.



Most thinking people will agree that the theory of evolution is dangerous and should have no place in the classroom. What should we do to counter and combat this false teaching that is permeating and ruining our society via our tax-supported institutions?

Understand the Importance of the Conflict

The theory of evolution, which is taught as a fact in our public school textbooks, tax-supported parks, museums, and public television programs, is actually not a harmless theory but a dangerous religious belief. I have dedicated my life to helping people learn the truth needed to expose evolutionism as being largely responsible for molding the thinking of hosts of people like Adolph Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Pol Pot of the Khmer in Cambodia, Margaret Sanger, and Karl Marx, who have caused untold suffering in our world. Evolution as it is being taught is dangerous for several reasons.

At stake is the credibility of Jesus. He said the creation of Adam was "the beginning" (Matt. 19:4). Evolution and creation represent worldviews that are polar opposites—one of them is wrong! Also at stake are the morals of our children, because if evolution is true, there are no moral absolutes and only the strongest have a right to survive. If evolution is true, abortion, euthanasia, pornography, genocide, homosexuality, adultery, incest, etc., are all permissible.
Evolution is positively anti-science. Science deals with things that are testable, observable, and demonstrable and evolution has none of those qualities. To call evolution "science" Is to confuse fairy tales with facts. True, evolution has been mixed with science for the last thirty years, but that does not mean that it is the same as science. Beer is often advertised during sporting events but the two subjects have no logical connection, and evolution has no more to do with science than beer has to do with sports.

Real science, not evolution, should be taught in the science classes. Teaching the pagan religion of evolutionism is a waste of valuable class time and textbook space. It is also one of the reasons American kids don’t test as well in science as kids in other parts of the world.
Government should not sponsor religion. Teaching the theory of evolution as fact in tax-supported schools violates the establishment clause of the First Amendment. Why should all taxpayers support one religion over all others in our schools? Efforts must be made on all fronts to inform people that evolution is only a religion and that tax-supported institutions should not teach it as fact.

Live for God!

All our efforts to stem the tide of moral decay in our land are futile unless God leads and supports our cause. The most important thing anyone can do to help fix the problem is to obey 2 Chronicles. 7:14 — "If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land."

Pray for Wisdom

Most importantly, ask God to give you wisdom (James. 1:5) and direction about what He would have you do in His service. Jesus told us that we are to be the "salt of the earth." Salt preserves from corruption. One of our jobs is to preserve this world from corruption; if we do not preserve, we are worthless (see Matt. 5:13).


Win Souls!

God called us to win souls, not causes. The great commission (Mt. 28:19-20; Mk. 16:l5, and Acts 1:8) commands us to preach, baptize, and teach people what Jesus taught His disciples. While there is nothing wrong with working for a cause (1 Sam. 17:29), Christians’ strong tendency is to major on minors and minor on majors; we need to keep priorities in order. The battle raging for the minds of men is a battle between God and the Devil. The people who (knowingly or unknowingly) are working for the Devil are not the real enemy. There is a tendency among Christians to not keep the sin separate from the sinner. However, we can still use the advice given by Abraham Lincoln: "The best way to get rid of an enemy is to make him your friend." When dealing with evolutionists, our job is to love them and to keep a sweet spirit while trying to influence them to be saved. As we win people to Christ they will begin to have their mind renewed and will see that God’s Word is true. Our best offensive weapon is soulwinning—converted evolutionists make great creationists! Most of the active creation scientists are former evolutionists. If we obey Christ and "preach the gospel to every creature," we will see great results.

To spread the Word, to edify the believers, or to evangelize the lost, order or copy extra sets of my tapes to loan, give as gifts, or to donate to libraries at schools, churches, or even the public library. These tapes are regularly updated to improve quality and to add new research and artwork.

Don’t Get Discouraged!

"Be not weary in well doing" (2 Thessalonians. 3:13). "Evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse" (2 Tim. 3:13). "The battle is the Lord’s" (1 Sam. 17:47). Our job is to be faithful until the Lord takes us out of this world. When the events of this world start to get you discouraged, read Psalm 2. The Devil may have his plans, but God in Heaven will laugh! Though I have worked for several years to get the textbooks changed in my home town, all that I have done so far is to keep the subject before the people. I have had no visible effect on the textbooks. It is our job to do right; God will take it from there.

Become Informed

Often people are motivated to do something, but they don’t have the knowledge of the subject to be effective. Many good books have been written to help people learn the truth about creation and evolution. A list of some of these books is included in the annotated bibliography of this notebook. Also important is to become informed about the "New World Order" and the persecution that will come to Christians in America unless the Lord returns soon.
Gary Frye, 809 Oriole Lane, Concord, North Carolina 28025, (704) 782-5273, New Age information or seminar.


Know your rights.

We need more godly politicians, school board members, etc. to get involved in the political aspect of our great Republic while still possible. Students and parents involved in public schools need to know that they have many rights. Here are two good books on the subject which will be a great help to parents and students in learning what one can and cannot do for the Lord in his or her public school.

Students Legal Rights on the Public School Campus by J. W. Brinkley.
Available ($9.95) www.creationscienceevangelism.com or Roever Communications, P.O. Box 136130, Fort Worth, Texas 76136, (817) 238-2005.

Your Rights in the Public Schools by John W. Whitehead. Available ($1.25) from www.creationscienceevangelism.com or from Rutherford Institute, P.O. Box 7482, Charlottesville, Va. 22906-7482, (804) 978-3888.


Teaching Creation Science in Public Schools by Duane T. Gish. Available ($5) from www.creationscienceevangelism.com or from Institute for Creation Research, P.O. Box 2667, El Cajon, Calif. 92021

Call me (Dr. Kent Hovind) for help. It is my privilege to travel and speak (over 700 times each year) in public and private schools, university debates, churches, camps, and radio and television talk shows on the subjects of creation, evolution, and dinosaurs. It is my studied opinion that the Bible is the infallible, inspired, inerrant Word of the living God. The facts from the Bible and science are clear; the entire universe was created by an all-wise Creator only a few thousand years ago. The original creation was perfect and very different than it is today. In the original creation, plants and animals lived longer and grew much bigger than they do today (see Gen. 1:6-7; 5; 6:4, and my Creation Seminar Videotape 1). In my seminars I present many scientific evidences that the world is not "millions of years old." Most people are excited to learn that dinosaurs were in the Garden of Eden, have always lived with man, were on the ark with Noah, and a few may still be alive today in some parts of the world! (See Creation Seminar videotape 2.)

Students often call me for advice on how to handle various situations at school where they are being forced to learn things contrary to their beliefs on creation. Please feel free to call or write if I can be of any help.

Please understand, when I talk about evolution I am not referring to simple variations that occur in any species. Dogs produce a variety of puppies, but never will dogs produce hamster or pine tree offspring! Creationists do not argue that all dogs, wolves, and foxes may have had a common ancestor, nor do they argue that natural selection occurs. These would both be true whether plants and animals were created or evolved. However, real evolution, as presented in the textbooks, teaches that dogs share a common ancestor with pine trees! While anyone is certainly welcome to believe what he wants to believe, no intelligent person can say evolution is real science, because evolution is not observable, testable, or demonstrable. My argument is not with science, but with evolution being improperly incorporated into science where it has no place.

Influence your Area

Everyone has a circle of people they can influence. At activities such as birthday parties, neighborhood Bible classes, Sunday school class parties, etc., you can show creation videos, have a creation speaker, or play games that teach the truth about dinosaurs and creation. You can also help private or home schools with your time, energy, and money.
Use the media (secular or Christian). A great way to reach people with the truth is to have your local radio or TV station contact me for an interview or call-in talk show on creation, evolution, dinosaurs, or the teaching in public schools. Secular stations are often glad to get a controversial guest such as I. I do radio interviews by phone from my house.

Local access cable TV stations are usually willing to air my videotapes.
Write letters to the editor. Most local newspapers have a Letters to the Editor section. I have found this to be a great way to reach many people in an area as each time I have written a letter to the editor, there has been a great response. Nearly all of my letters to the editor are reproduced in this notebook. Some are responses to other articles or letters and, of course, need to be considered in context with the original article; but please feel free to use any of my information to construct a letter to your local paper.

Help teachers and school board members do right. Most teachers, principals, board members, etc., involved in the public school system are sincere, dedicated professionals who want what is best for students. Often they face enormous pressure from small but vocal groups making them feel they are in the battle alone. Informed Christians can help by attending school board meetings, giving good creationist literature to these people, inviting them to creation lectures. Donate good books about creation science to your school’s library.

Learn the real (radical) agenda of the National Education Association (NEA), encourage public school teachers that you know to get out of the NEA and join alternative teachers unions.
Phyllis Schlafly (Eagle Forum), Alton, Illinois, (618) 462-5415

Christian Educators Assn. Int., P.O. Box 41300, Pasadena, Cal. 91114, (818) 798-1124
Keystone Teacher’s Association, 640 Billet Drive, Mechanicsburg, Pa. 17055, (717) 697-0509 or (717) 432-1727

Concerned Educators Against Forced Unionism (CEAFU), 8001 Braddock Road, Springfield, Va. 22160, (703) 321-8519

Review the textbook selections. Of the fifty American states, twenty-two have a state textbook-selection committee, a group of people who look at the books available from all publishers for a given subject and then select five or six that they "approve." The list is then given to the local selection committee in each county. The county textbook selection committee will normally display the books for a few weeks, giving parents a chance to review them. After the committee decides which book to recommend, the school board votes to purchase that book for use in the county schools. Often the books are selected on a rotating basis, with a different subject being chosen each year. In the states without a state-level committee, each county, or district, or teacher may choose their own textbooks.

Any person in the county may review the books and make comments at the school board meeting. I would suggest that informed Christians in each county get involved in the textbook selection process. The input of the Gablers in Texas will save lots of work for anyone wanting to get involved. Their organization reviews each new textbook as it comes out, sending a copy of their review to any who request one. The Gablers are fine Christian people and have worked on a donation basis for over thirty years.

The GablersEducational Research AnalystsP.O. Box 7518, Longview, Texas, 75607-7518(903) 753-5993

Sophia and Isabella Still Need Prayer and a Miracle

Things were not looking good for the Israelites as they exited Egypt only
to come up against the Red Sea. Then God intervened and what must've have
seemed like an insurmountable obstacle was instantly overcome.

Things are not looking good for little Isabella and Sophia. Please pray
with Dan and Jaime that God would again intervene and overcome what
presently seems like an insurmountable obstacle.

Last Monday the diagnosis had been removed from the girls. This morning,
the ultrasound revealed that they are not only back in the syndrome but in
stage IV (stage V is death). There is fluid all over Isabella's brain and
heart the pressure from which is causing her heart to beat irregularly.

By God's grace, Isabella has already survived some equally "hopeless"
situations. For those of you who remember, she was, at one point, pretty
much wrapped in "saran wrap" as there was no fluid in her
sac...miraculously (and against all medical understanding), the necessary
fluid began to accumulate around her. This is only one story. As many of
you know, there have been many ways that God has visibly had His
sustaining hands on these girls--much to the doctors astonishment.

God is no less able to save these babies now that they are in Stage IV as
when they were in Stage I. Please intercede on their behalf praying in
faith that God would Glorify His Great Name by saving these little ones.

Jaime and Dan are overwhelmed by the prayer response and they are so very
grateful.

A key verse of Jaime's throughout has been:

"With man this is impossible,
but not with God;
all things are possible with God"
-- Mark 10:27

Jaime did mention that even in the midst of the confusion and
disappointment of this mornings news, God provided encouragement through a
specific answer to prayer. Leading up to this ultrasound, Jaime was
praying that the girls would've grown, and that Sophia would be at 1.2
pounds and Isabella at 1.5 pounds. These were precisely their weights. It
was as though God was saying "I heard you, I'm still here and I'm still at
work"... Let us not give up hope.

Jaime and Dan are flying out to Philadelphia this evening, with the
potentially life-saving surgery scheduled for tomorrow morning. Please
pray that the babies would remain healthy until then and that the surgery
would be successful—"astonishingly" so.

-----------Updated Email From Jaime -------------

Dear Friends,

I just came back from the doctors where I found out that our twins are
back into their syndrome. This time they are at Stage IV (Stage I
being the earliest stage, Stage V is death). They are showing signs
of demise. Sophia has fluid around her heart and brain, and as a
result her heart is no longer pumping effectively. Dan and I are
flying out to Philadelphia tonight to meet with fetal surgeons at the
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia tomorrow morning. They would like
to perform surgery as soon as possible as they feel Sophia is
critical.

Please pray both babies would stay alive until surgery, and that the
surgery would be a success. Dan and I have been here before, where we
are being told they won't make it through the night - only this time
they are much more critical.

This morning I specifically felt the need to pray "I will accept
whatever you have for me today" which is something I have been praying
since this all began. Dan and I accept this situation knowing that
God sees everything and knows everything. We trust Him. We believe
He is a good God whatever the outcome for our girls. Today we rest in
Him and humbly bring our pleas for our girls before Him once again.

Thank you for your ongoing prayers to Him who is faithful.

Trusting in Him,
Jaime Buraga



Liz and I have forwarded this to everyone we know, please continue to burden your hearts for them. They are great friends of ours and were there for us the entire time Everly was in the hospital.

Thank you


Joe

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Intellectual Arrogance




Wow.....



Joe

Does Teaching Evolution as Fact Harm Anyone?

"I am prepared to fight and die for my cause, . . . I, as a natural selector, will eliminate all who I see unfit, disgraces of human race and failures of natural selection. No, the truth is that I am just an animal, a human, an individual, a dissident . . . . It’s time to put NATURAL SELECTION & SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST back on tracks!"

The above quote comes from a young man who was a self-proclaimed Social Darwinist who took it upon himself to end the lives of at least eight people at Jokela High School near Helsinki, Finland

This is just one of many many examples today of how evolutionary thinking can effect one's way of how he/she lives their lives.

Our prayers go out to all those who lost loved ones in this incident and many other incidents that aren't even making headline news due to their frequent occurrences.

Read the rest of the article at the link below:

Finland School Shootings: The Sad Evolution Connection
http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/2007/11/08/finland-fruits-of-humanism

Sunday, November 11, 2007

And They Call This Science?



And they call this Science? The first 30 seconds or so of this video is the best!!!

I also like how he tells the camera to cut and then doesn't even answer the question originally asked. He expounds on something completely different. Answer the question Mr. Dawkins.

Are there any examples of increases in information in the genome?

Archaeopteryx




In an ongoing debate with a friend from work and after much discussion on creation vs evolution, I finally asked my friend to please give me his best evidence for evolution. He took a deep breath and said............... "Archaeopteryx" I laughed only because this is the second time he has attempted to use this "unique bird" to prove his dying theory.


At home I also asked my 9 year old son to bring his science book home because I wanted to see what the book was teaching him. Sure enough amongst all of the "millions and millions" teaching was found a small section on Archaeopteryx. It said that Archaeopteryx was proof for evolution. I know that there are many other text books that show this as well. I found it rather perturbing that there would be something in my sons text book that has been disproved for years now. This is deliberately teaching a lie in the text book to our kids! This is extremely unacceptable. There are many other states who have laws that their text books will be "factual" and "up to date" on their teachings. But these lies in the text books will be discussed more in a future blog.

Archaeopteryx was nothing more than a bird.

Evolutionist Alan Feduccia stated: “Paleontologists have tried to turn Archaeopteryx into an earth-bound, feathered dinosaur. But it’s not. It is a bird, a perching bird. And no amount of ‘paleobabble’ is going to change that” (as quoted in Morell, 1993, 259:764
Archaeopteryx had all the brain features of a bird equipped for flight. And though it had claws on it's wings, so do 12 birds today. The Swan, Hoatzin and Ibis just to name a few. And though it had teeth in it's beak this doesn't make it proof it was a reptile at one point. A humming bird has teeth in it's beak as well. Some mammals/reptiles have teeth and some don't. Some fish have teeth and some don't. This doesn't prove Archaeopteryx was reptilian at any point. Birds and reptiles are very different in many many aspects. They have different lung systems, different reproductive systems, different body coverings, different circulatory systems, and different brain structures as well. There are hundreds and thousands of differences between birds and reptiles!

"The evolutionary origin of bird is largely a matter of deduction. There is no fossil evidence of the stages through which the remarkable change from reptile to bird was achieved." W. E. Swinton, British Museum of Natural History, London

Here are two articles I printed out and then underlined and highlighted many points and gave to my friend at work. He wrote a few things on it but for the most part, he didn't respond to it but left it alone. As Lee Strobel says "We have truth on our side, lets play that card!" I thank the Lord that creationists don't have to run around and spend most of their lives trying to prove so hard that creation happened. We don't have to go and pin peppered moth's to tree's and collect bones and fossils from miles apart of each other and say that it's a missing link. How poorly we would be portraying God to the world if we attempted to build a foundation on lies about creation? God left so much overwhelming evidence that he created it. Most evolutionist have to produce false, fake, poor and downright inaccurate data to desperately attempt to prove the evolutionary theory. This is a sad state of events in my opinion.

Enjoy the articles.



Article 1

Archaeopteryx (unlike Archaeoraptor) is NOT a hoax—it is a true bird, not a “missing link”

With all the publicity about the Archaeoraptor fiasco (see Archaeoraptor Hoax Update—National Geographic Recants!), some have recalled the 1986 claim by Sir Fred Hoyle and Dr Chandra Wickramasinghe that Archaeopteryx is a forgery.1 Archaeopteryx is one of the most famous of the alleged transitional forms promoted by evolutionists. This is probably why some anti-Darwinians are keen to dismiss it as a forgery.

However, in the article, Bird evolution flies out the window, the creationist anatomist Dr David Menton shows that Archaeopteryx is a true bird with flight feathers, not a transitional form—and certainly not a feathered dinosaur. And Dr Alan Feduccia, a world authority on birds at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an evolutionist himself (see Feduccia v Creationists), says:

“Paleontologists have tried to turn Archaeopteryx into an earth-bound, feathered dinosaur. But it’s not. It is a bird, a perching bird. And no amount of ‘paleobabble’ is going to change that.”2
Both these expert scientists totally reject the charge of forgery. Dr Menton points out that the Archaeopteryx bones have tiny bumps where the feathers were attached to the bones by ligaments. This was unexpected, so impossible to attribute to a forgery. So it is simply wrong to say that the feathers are just imprints added to a dino skeleton.
Also, Alan Fedducia, in his encyclopedic The Origin and Evolution of Birds,3 cites a number of reasons why Fred Hoyle is completely wrong. For example, limestone often contains dendritic (tree-like) patterns formed by precipitating manganese dioxide, and they are unique as are snowflakes. Some of them are on both the slab and counterslab containing the Solnhofen Archaeopteryx fossil, including some on top of the feather imprints. Alan Charig et al. found that when he backwardly printed a negative photograph of the counterslab dendrite patterns, they match perfectly with the corresponding dendrites of the main slab. Therefore the dendrites must have formed on the bedding plane before the slab was split.

Since that book, more recent evidence has even further devastated the hoax theory:
The skeletons had pneumatized vertebrae and pelvis. This indicates the presence of both a cervical and abdominal air sac, i.e. at least two of the five sacs present in modern birds. This in turn indicates that the unique
avian lung design was already present in what most evolutionists claim is the earliest bird.4 An evolutionist trying to forge a dinosaur with feathers would not have thought to pneumatize allegedly reptilian bones. Rather, the evidence supports the creationist view that birds have always been birds.

Analysis of the skull with computer tomography (CT) scanning shows that Archaeopteryx had a brain like a modern bird’s, three times the size of that of a dinosaur of equivalent size (although smaller than that of living birds). Archaeopteryx even had large optic lobes to process the visual input needed for flying. Furthermore, even the inner ear had a cochlea length and semicircular canal propoprtions were in the range of a modern flying bird’s. This implies that Archaeopteryx could hear in a similar way, and also had the sense of balance required for coordinating flight.5 Pterosaurs likewise had similar brain structures for flight—the large optic lobes, semicircular canals for balance, and huge floccular lobes, probably for coordination of the head, eye and neck allowing gaze-stabilization while flying.6 Once more, a forger adding feathers to a dino would not have thought to make an avian braincase, while it is yet another problem for evolutionists.
Answers in Genesis will not stock any books that promote the Archaeopteryx hoax idea, at least not without a disclaimer, because it is the truth which shall set you free (cf. John 8:32), not error.

Article 2

Archaeopteryx

Creation scientists and speakers have a wealth of documentation to support their claim that the general nature of the fossil record is hostile to evolution but supports the predictions of the creation model. All higher kinds of plants and animals appear abruptly and without transition. Are we misrepresenting evolution to insist on transitional forms? How many should we expect? If we examine the mutation/selection theory, which is the mechanism of evolution held by the overwhelming majority today, we see that each change is slow and gradual, involving the accumulation of a vast number of ‘micromutations’ or ‘point mutations’. We see then, that the number of transitional forms involved in the transformation of, say, fish to amphibian over hundreds of millions of years are incredibly vast—so much so that we would not expect to be able to recognize end forms and transitional forms separately—there would be an almost imperceptible ‘oozing’ of one kind into another. Furthermore, it is an integral part of the theory that each form is successful, that is, each ‘successive approximation’ has a survival or reproductive advantage over its predecessor, or else it would not become established and give rise to subsequent forms. Therefore there is no reason whatever for the ‘end forms’ to have more chance of fossilization than the ‘intermediates’. Sampling errors (which includes the ‘poverty of the record’ argument) are random, and while they could account for occasional or sporadic gaps, they may not be used as an excuse for systematic gaps.

What do most evolutionists offer in the place of the millions upon millions of transitional forms between higher kinds predicted by their model? The answer is usually ONE transitional form—Archaeopteryx. You see, by making the prediction of NO transitional forms versus BILLIONS of such forms, creationists are really ‘laying it on the line’. All the evolutionist has to do is produce one indisputable transitional form between the higher kinds to seriously challenge the creation model. Others are occasionally mentioned, such as Seymouria, but these are not seriously considered as links by informed evolutionists (although many still do) for the simple reason that their supposed descendants appear ‘earlier’ in the fossil record than these ‘transitional forms’! However, Archaeopteryx is usually proudly mentioned as a classical example of a transitional form (without of course mentioning that it is essentially the only example).

Let’s take a close look at this remarkable ancient creature. The first specimen was found in Upper Jurassic limestone in Bavaria in 1861, missing only the right foot, the lower jaw and a few cervical vertebrae. The second specimen was found ten miles away in 1877. There have been two more finds since, very fragmentary, but all our knowledge is based on these first two.
Archaeopteryx had many features which caused most investigators to class it immediately as a bird, Aves. The feathers were identical in structure and arrangement to those of modern birds, a highly complex arrangement. It also had a birdlike posture, perching feet, a long sinuous neck holding its head high and a beaklike structure. However, it had many features not typical of modern birds and more typical of the class Reptilia. The most obvious two are the long, drooping tail and the teeth it possessed. Modern birds do not have teeth. However, extinct birds such as Icthyornis and Hesperornis, which were unquestionably 100% birds, also had teeth. Closer examination reveals many other features which Archaeopteryx shared in common with reptiles. For example, the skull has many ‘reptilian’ features including lack of the posterior domelike expansion typical of birds otherwise.

Other such features are listed beiow and most may be visualised by a comparison diagram between Archaeopteryx and the modern pigeon. [Editor’s note: original publication had accompanying illustrations that could not be reproduced for the Web site.]


  • The cervical vertebrae lacked the heterocoelaus centra peculiar to birds.

  • The trunk vertebrae were not fused together as in birds.

  • The weight of most birds is supported by a solid synsacrum. Archaeopteryx had a tail which functioned to counterbalance his weight and the weight of his abdominal viscera was supported by a belly wall stiffened with gastralia, thin slivers of bone.

  • The ribs were not connected by uncinate processes nor anchored into the sternum, as in birds.

  • The pelvic bones were much smaller than most birds and did not extend nearly so far along the vertebral column. However, they had the avian backward twist of the pubes below the ischia.

  • It had claws at the ends of the three digits. There are three living birds today which have claws in either the adult or juvenile form. Archaeopteryx seems to have been able to crawl agilely through the trees as well as making short flights. That it was not a powerful flier may be inferred from the small area of origin which it had for flight muscles.

  • The hand and wrist were not in the form of an inflexible blade.

  • It had 3 independent metatarsals, rather than one as birds do.

  • The fibula was equal in length to the tibia, as in reptiles, but not birds.
In summary, it may be said that Archaeopteryx is truly unique, and appears to exhibit a mosaic of characters, sharing some in common with the class Aves and some with the class Reptilia. It seems to have been suited to a lifestyle of short flights and agile crawling in trees, and those features which make it unquestionably a bird for classification purposes are uniquely and completely present and perfect. The feathers are not halfway transition from scales to feathers, an assumed transformation of the most astounding complexity. If for no other reason, this would disqualify it as a transitional form. A bat is not a transitional form between bird and mammal, nor is a platypus transitional between duck and mammal, even though it exhibits some features of both.The evolutionist Lecomte du Mouy recognizes this. In the book ‘Human Destiny’ (N.Y. 1947) he writes:

‘…we are not even authorized to consider the exceptional case of Archaeopteryx as a true link. By link, we mean a necessary stage of transition between classes such as reptiles and birds, or between smaller groups. An animal displaying characters belonging to two different groups cannot be treated as a true link as long as the intermediary stages have not been found, and as long as the mechanism of transition remains unknown.’

Furthermore, Archaeopteryx stands alone, uniquely himself with no fossil between himself and either birds or reptiles. The evolutionist Barbara Stahl, in her book ‘Vertebrate History: Problems in Evolution’ (McGraw-Hill 1941) writes:

‘Since Archaeopteryx occupies an isolated position in the fossil record, it is impossible to tell whether the animal gave rise to more advanced fliers…’ (This section of her book was reviewed by Prof. Alfred Romer.)

The evolutionist A.J. Marshall writing in ‘Biology and Comparative Physiology of Birds’ (Academic Press 1960 p.1) states that:
‘The origin of birds is largely a matter of deduction. There is no fossil of the stages through which the remarkable change from reptile to bird was achieved.’

All of this is surely enough to establish that this bird is not a transitional form. Yet the above has been known for years, and still many evolutionists present it as a striking example of a transitional form. There has been a new discovery which surely demolishes the last hope in this direction. A bird which is unquestionabiy a true bird has been found which dates (by the evolutionists’ own methods) at some 60 million years older than Archaeopteryx. This was announced in ‘Science-News’ (Vol. 112, Sep. 1977 p.198) The find was assessed as above by Dr. James Jensen of Brighan Young University. The article also quotes Prof. John Ostrom of Yale:
‘…we must now look for the ancestors of flying birds in a period of time much older than that in which Archaeopteryx lived.’ As Gish has said in another context, children cannot be older than their parents!

I will restate simply the reasons why Archaeopteryx cannot be regarded as a transitional form.

  • It has a ‘mosaic’ of characters in common with both groups but shows no true transitional structure such as a part-scale, part-feather.

  • There are no fossil links between it and either reptiles or birds—it stands alone.

  • True birds have been found which are assigned by evolutionists to an earlier time than Archaeopteryx.

Saturday, November 10, 2007

Proven by Scripture that God did not use millions and millions of years

I would highly recommend, and in fact, strongly urge anyone with an theistic evolutionary view on the creation account who is truly committed to seeking out the truth of what God said he did rather than what man says he did, to check out at least the first 35-40 minutes of this video. Though it is well worth it to watch the entire thing. Watch it in segments if you don't have the time... I usually download these to my PDA and listen in my car on the way to work or at night before falling asleep... Scripture is very "plain" and "clear" on the matter.

God did it in six literal 24 hr days not millions - Since theistic evolutionist's think that to God a day "is" a thousand years instead of what the bible actually says which is "like" a thousand years to God, referring to the fact that our father is outside of time.

Psalm 90:4
For a thousand years in your sight are like a day that has just gone by, or like a watch in the night.
2 Peter 3:8
But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day

Otherwise this would mean that all Christians are not saved yet because Jesus said "on the third day he was to be raised to life"
We would still have a thousand years to go then and we would all still be in our sin and not justified because there was no sacrifice "once for all" on our account.

And he says his "process" in creating Adam; He was "of the dust of the earth" not a result of evolution.
1 Corinthians 15:47

I'm not sure where this implies that god had Adam evolve through death and mutation.


http://www.creationscienceevangelism.com/downloads.php
Click on the link above and click "Garden of Eden" and select one of the three qualities you want. I hope God reveals his truth to you.

It is very important as Christians to thoroughly examine the scriptures EVERY DAY.

Acts 17:11
Now the Bereans were of more noble character than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true.

I ask you to "examine" the scriptures and see if what we are saying is true, never take my word for it obviously. Paul said "test everything" (1 Thessalonians 5:21) that is to say, hold it up to the word of God, does it contradict what he says or does it fall in line? The bible is our final authority, it is the love letter in which we are to gauge our decisions in life. It is a way to tap into the mind of God. That's why he gave us this life's manual. So I ask you to match up your theory with what God says and see if they are compatible or not. I think you will find that evolution is the exact opposite of how God our father said he did it.

Thanks for checking out my blog, I look forward to reading your comments.


Joe

Thursday, November 8, 2007

Theistic Evolution? Future Shock?

But, what about the future? This is an area that is not often addressed in the creation/evolution dialogue, but it poses some pretty sticky problems for the theistic evolutionist who wishes to be consistent in his interpretation of Scripture. Following are a few passages and ideas which need to be addressed:

1 Corinthians 15:51–53. If God needed millions of years to ‘create’ our first human bodies, which were already ravaged by disease and death, how will He be able to give us new, incorruptible bodies ‘in the twinkling of an eye’ when Christ returns?

Acts 3:21 refers to a future time when everything will be restored. For the theistic evolutionist (or the closely related ‘long-age creationist’) this should logically mean a restoration back to billions of years of death and suffering. The Bible in fact indicates that all things will be restored to a situation in which death (the ‘last enemy’—1 Corinthians 15:26) shall be no more. Why? Because there will be ‘no more curse’ (Revelation 22:3).

Isaiah 34:4 and Revelation 6:13–14. These passages refer to a future time of cataclysmic changes in the heavens. Stars falling from the sky, and the heavens rolling up, do not sound like slow processes needing millions of years. Long-agers insist that it had to take 15 billion years for the light from the most distant objects to reach us here on earth. Obviously, it will not take 15 billion years for the heavens to ‘roll together as a scroll.’ So perhaps we’ve not yet fully understood the mechanics of starlight and time, and that 15 billion year figure needs several zeros lopped off.

2 Peter 3:6–12 also poses a number of ‘future’ problems for theistic evolutionists. We know that the waters of the biblical Flood increased for at least 150 days (Genesis 7:24). Clearly, these Flood days must have been literal, 24-hour periods (though undoubtedly they seemed longer to Noah et al!)

So, the first problem is this: How long will the future destruction of the heavens and earth by fire last? Millions of years? Do you believe that this refers to the theory that the universe will slowly contract under its own gravity (the ‘big crunch’) until a new big bang occurs? Verse 10 says ‘the heavens shall pass away with a great noise.’ Once again, that sounds rather sudden and final. The ‘heavens’ here means the visible universe.

Then there’s verse eight, ‘One day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.’ If each ‘day’ of Genesis chapter one lasted millions of years, and the ‘day’ here is literally a thousand years long, all language loses its meaning! Obviously, the best way to understand this verse is in the context of God’s patience. It has nothing to do with the actual length of biblical days, but stresses that God is outside of time. A day is not equal to a thousand years—it is (to God) like a thousand years—and vice versa, a thousand years is like one day to God.

2 Peter 3:13. Now we turn to the ‘new heavens and a new earth.’ If God needed billions of years to create the first heavens and earth, how long will it take to make new ones? What will believers who have been saved and have received new bodies be doing all that time? Hopefully not listening to harp music! Are you impressed by a God who needs zillions of years to get the job done?

Finally, there is at least one more problem. If God used evolution in the past, will He still use it in the future? When he re-creates the bodies of the redeemed through evolutionary processes, will we look like those almond-eyed, spindly-legged creatures of the movies and TV? Let’s hope not!

We must be consistent when we ‘interpret’ the Scriptures. If God created everything in six days in the past, as a plain reading of the Genesis account would demand, He’ll have no problem re-creating it all quickly in the future, as a plain reading of the passages cited above would imply. If He created Adam in a fraction of a day, and Eve out of Adam, He’ll have no problem granting new bodies ‘in the twinkling of an eye’ in the future. If death entered the world on a specific day in the past, it can be abolished within a day in the future.

When it comes to origins, ‘Father God plus Mother Nature’ equals an illegitimate child—theistic evolution. There are many aspects of God’s Word which make it clear that you can’t have it both ways.

Read the entire article here:
http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v20/i3/theistic_evolution.asp

Wednesday, November 7, 2007

Saved by grace ... and evolution?

Can we be saved by grace and evolution?

excerpt -

"because evolution IS COMPATIBLE with God"

Which “god” are you referring to here? The God of the Bible, who says what He did in Genesis, which disagrees with molecules-to-man evolution. A god of a millions-of-years-old earth is a god of death, not the God of life and God of love that Scripture teaches. Applying attributes of such a false god to the God of the Bible demeans the character and nature of God. It would also mean that an all-good, all-powerful, truthful God deceived Israelites and Christians, who loved and trusted Him for thousands of years, all the while waiting for atheists to “interpret” Genesis properly for us.
I understand that you, like most of us at AiG have been taught evolution, whether in public schools or the media. But holding it in such high regard over the Word of God is not good theology. The false belief system of evolution that has been promoted for 150 years has subtly crept into many Christians’ thinking, and it is time to get back to God’s Word and not be deceived. God's Word is sufficient. In the past 150 years, many once-Christian universities become atheistic upon the acceptance of evolution; public schools have become atheistic upon acceptance of evolution with prayer, the Ten Commandments, and the Bible removed from the classroom; nations that were largely Christian have become largely atheistic upon acceptance of evolution (England for example); evolution was a driving force in the actions of Hitler, Stalin, and other mass murderers. After such a history what would possibly make someone think that evolution provides a foundation to lead people to Christ?


Read the entire article here:
http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/2007/09/21/feedback-theistic-evolution

Tuesday, November 6, 2007

Did God Use Evolution To Bring About His Creation?

I have incorporated some great articles that I have read in the past because I think they shed some great light on recent subjects between evolution and creation and theistic evolution. They are from AiG (Answers In Genesis) a leading authority in the case for the truth in Gods word. Enjoy and Feel free to post any comments

‘He could have done it that way … couldn’t He?’ (Operation: Refuting Compromise (ORC))
http://www.answersingenesis.org/us/newsletters/0204lead.asp

Why wouldn’t God use evolution?
http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/feedback/2005/1223.asp

Did the Creator use Evolution?
http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v11/i2/evolution.asp

What’s the problem with theistic evolution?
http://www.answersingenesis.org/Home/Area/feedback/2005/0520.asp


I would love to hear some feedback on the subject if anyone else is interested. Im sure other's would like to hear your comments. Thanks again.

Joe

Pedro's Orginal Post - Joe's Reply

Pedro's original post:
Pedro said...

Joe, I disagree with many of your arguments whole heartily. I honestly don’t want to get into it any deeper because I feel that it wouldn’t be a productive conversation. Nonetheless, I want to respond to a select few things you said. Joe Said: "Again, this contradicts God's word and who He is. You’re saying that he didn't do it the way He says he did."No, I am not disagreeing with what God said. God never told anyone in Genesis what His processes were... he just said "Let there be..." There are certainly a lot of processes that could have taken place after those words were said. The actual processes of His creation were not disclosed in Genesis. Science has discovered some very interesting things that shed some light on this subject. I can hear your arguments already... No, I don't put my faith in science, but I know that God allows mankind to discover many things through science that up until recently only God had knowledge of.Joe Said "They also believe that God still controls these processes and that evolution is still proceeding. These teachings are contrary to the clear teaching of Scripture that God has completed His creation (Genesis 2:1-2)." ... "Are you saying that God did a poor job the first time? hmm...."I don’t disagree with God’s word. God’s creation was life itself and the evolutionary functionality encoded into its design. He did complete it in instituting this design and it is a very impressive design indeed... one that evolves.Joe Said "You want to argue evolution and it's process but you don't want to argue how the first organism got there to evolve in the first place?"There is no argument there either... God created the first organism... he created all living things through his processes. God has his methods and we humans will never fully understand them all, but God does allow us to understand some of them.Joe Said "Simply stated, as people of God, to say that God used both creation and then evolution to bring about his work, is to say God lied when he stated in Genesis "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." He made it very clear from the very first sentence that He did it all.” What is the big deal about evolution? Geez, you act like it a mortal sin. It does not make God any less powerful if he chose to do it that way. Could God have created a creation that evolves? Sure, God could have done it any way he wanted too. What is clear to me is that the story of creation did not define every fine detail about His actual processes. This leaves much open to discovery.Joe Said "2 Peter 3:8 The context of this passage concerns the Second Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ"Even though this verse was talking about the 2nd Coming of Jesus, its concept of God’s time is the Truth... or are you saying it is a lie? (I would not normally put it this way, but I wanted to illustrate how your extreme methods of reasoning feel when it’s directed towards you. Just as you probably find it a bit offense that I would suggest this about you, I find it rather offensive when you suggest that I would intentionally make God out to be a liar. I know your intentions were not to suggest that God lies and I would appreciate it if you would give me that common courtesy as well. There is no need to be so extreme in one’s arguments.)Joe Said "Be careful Pedro, when you believe in something that you cannot see..."I believe in many things I don’t see. So do you. Do you believe in electrons? Do you believe in gravity? Much of this modern world is based on things you can’t see and things you don’t fully understand. Does it make them any less real?Joe Said "Creation and evolution is not a battle between religion and science, it is a battle of "our" religion against "their" religion. A battle of two world views."Some people use science to say there is no god. Some people interpret the Bible to say there is no truth in science. Some people see God’s hand in Science and see it harmony with His Word. From the stand point of Creation, I am pretty clear where you stand on this subject now and I am sure its pretty clear where I stand. There is not much of a point in us arguing about it anymore. When it’s all said and done, what you believe about creation and what I believe are not going to define our salvation nor block us from it. We can just leave it at that and be happy to have understood two view points on this subject. Thanks again for sharing your views through this blog Joe.


Joe's Reply:
It would seem by certain parts of your email that I have offended you by what I said. It sort of reminds me when Paul was preaching to the Galatians in chapter 4 and said "Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth?" Not implying at all that we have become enemies obviously, but by the fact that he somehow offended them. I would ask, have I offended you for telling you the truth? Pedro you have terribly compromised God's word to better fit your "theory" of evolution. You have believed your biology and astronomy teachers rather than believe God himself.

You argue that God never explained the processes that he used to bring about his creation, you say he says "Let there be.........". Yes you are right, but allow me to finish those lines you quote that God spoke long ago. "Let there be......... and then there was" and "let there be.........and it was so..." and in conclusion with what he created for that "day" he says And there was evening, and there was morning—the ____ day. Did it say those days are a thousand years? You didn't post my entire quote when you quoted me on that. Again, that scriptures shows you that God is outside of time! Could you please show me from scripture where it implies, or where god said he used evolution and millions and millions of years? If you are correct, you should be able to tell me where God says or implies this. My bible says God is not a god of confusion but a God of clarity (1st Cor 14:33 NASB). He has made his creation very clear in his historical account in scripture because he didn't want you to make the mistake that he made it all, and without millions of years or evolution.

The bible says: Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, [b] and over all the creatures that move along the ground." God is referring to the trinity when he says "us". We are created in Gods "image" not through evolution and from a monkey. You side with evolution which says that man evolved as a result of those fish. Which one is it? if you side with evolution, then yes YOU ARE CALLING GOD A LIAR because he says he did it one way, and you are telling God he's wrong and the he used evolution to do it. I always think it's funny when people try to tell God how he created something when he told us how he created it already. One of you is wrong Pedro and my money is on you if I had to choose between you and God. Again he says "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. How plain does it have to be? Where does it say he used evolution and millions of years? Please show me so that I can understand where your coming from. God told man this: "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground." Evolution says you came from primordial soup then evolved over millions of years and then eventually became a monkey and then a highly sophisticated piece of human machinery. But God said man and animals were made on day six and then gave man dominion to rule over all the animals that evolution says we came from. Who is right? Why does it upset you when I tell the evolutionary thinker he is calling God a liar?

Pedro, please take this section of scripture I'm going to paste below and make it clear to me so that "I may have understanding" of how God used evolution and millions of years to bring about his creation. Please show me where my interpretation of God's already interpreted word is wrong:


1 Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array. 2 By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested [a] from all his work. 3 And God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.
Adam and Eve
4 This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created. When the LORD God made the earth and the heavens- 5 and no shrub of the field had yet appeared on the earth [
b] and no plant of the field had yet sprung up, for the LORD God had not sent rain on the earth [c] and there was no man to work the ground, 6 but streams [d] came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground- the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being. (Emphasis mine)

Please tell me, especially in that last sentence, where you get the interpretation that God used millions of years and evolution to bring forth Adam and Eve? The truth is that Evolution is the exact opposite of creation, they cannot exist together. Evolution says Dinosaurs turned into birds the bible says God made the birds on day five and he made the reptiles on day six evolution says reptiles came first and then the birds. I don't understand??? Everything about evolution is backwards when compared to the bible!!! Who should we listen to? God or your evolutionists? I'm with Peter in Acts when he said "We must obey God rather than men!"
And then you say you can hear my arguments........"I don't put my faith in Science" Your right I don't put my faith in science. I have nothing against science at all. I love science. What I'm telling you is real science confirms god's word. They do not contradict each other as most people believe. Evolution is not real science. Molecules to man theory is a fantasy, pure speculation for the evolutionist who doesn't want to be held accountable to God.
Pedro said: "I don’t disagree with God’s word. God’s creation was life itself and the evolutionary functionality encoded into its design. He did complete it in instituting this design and it is a very impressive design indeed... one that evolves."
I don't understand why you keep saying that your not disagreeing with God's word. Yes you are. He did not say he did it this way. Please tell me again where in scripture it says or implies that he used the evolutionary hypothesis to "make" or "create"?
You say God created the first organism. God says he created Adam a full grown, walking and talking man. Who is right? You or God? Since you agree with his word, you would have to say God, right? Then why do you keep saying he used evolution when God did not say he used it but told us he created Adam and Eve?

Pedro said: What is the big deal about evolution? Geez, you act like it's a mortal sin. It does not make God any less powerful if he chose to do it that way. Could God have created a creation that evolves? Sure, God could have done it any way he wanted too. What is clear to me is that the story of creation did not define every fine detail about His actual processes. This leaves much open to discovery.


What is the big deal about evolution? The big deal is that it's a lie and God never used it, never said he used it, told us plainly how he created (when he said Has not my hand made all these things?). It was created by his hand and power not evolution. God hates the lie therefore, he hates evolution. God said he hates "a lying tongue" and "a false witness who pours out lies" (Proverbs 6:17 & 19) And as far as discovery goes, we are still waiting to "discover" the missing link, the transitional fossil that shows any ounce of credible, indisputable evidence of one species transforming into a completely different species. It doesn't exist!!!

As for the paragraph you wrote to me asking "are you calling God a liar". You say there is no need to be extreme in my arguments. On the contrary, because of the evil of evolution and the potential danger in it, it is my obligation to correct you. Please, I urge you when you get the chance to watch the video "The Dangers of Evolution" If you really want to see the effects of it and how it has caused world wars and school shootings etc.... I strongly urge you to watch the video when you can, I guarantee you won't ever ask "what's the big deal with evolution?" again. What if one day a cop came to your door and told you that kids at school shot your daughter because she believed in God? How would you feel to learn that the one boy who after shooting everyone and turned the gun on himself, was wearing a t-shirt that said "Natural Selection" on it? And lets say they found a video of the boys before they plotted this whole school shooting and the video talked about various things like black people - and one of the boys said (referring to a black athlete in his school that he planned on shooting, and later did) "that boy doesn't deserve the jaw evolution gave him" This was the case in the Columbine shooting. Watch the video. http://www.creationscienceevangelism.com/downloads.php

Pedro said: "There is not much of a point in us arguing about it anymore. When it’s all said and done, what you believe about creation and what I believe are not going to define our salvation nor block us from it. We can just leave it at that and be happy to have understood two view points on this subject. "

I hear you man, but what I believe is what God said, what you believe is not from God's word, it is your interpretation and speculation and that which your teachers taught you most likely. God didn't say it, that's why I can't understand and have a hard time believing why you would take these views, especially as a Christian. However I may disagree, it is respectively and I thank you also for allowing these postings so that other's can see these views. I would like to point you to some great resources however before your mind is made up on these matters. Do with them what you would like.

This article is really exactly on this subject (read it when you get the chance) I could of honestly just pasted it for you and it would address the theistic evolutionary viewpoint but I wanted to reply personally. ( I will be posting this article in a future blog shortly)
http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v27/i1/creation.asp

Videos: you can download these to your pda if you want and pop some headphones in and listen while your doing dishes or something.
http://www.creationscienceevangelism.com/downloads.php

also check out the links posted on the right on my main blog page.

And when you get a chance maybe you can see this written debate against Dr. Kent Hovind and
Hugh Ross - Hugh Ross believes what you believe only more in depth. Check out the arguments between the two and see what they say on the subject.
http://www.answersingenesis.org/news/Ross_Hovind_Analysis.asp


Thanks Pedro,

your brother,

Joe