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Thursday, February 28, 2008

Everly Claribel-Hope Sirianni Turns 2 !!!

As most of you know, our daughter Everly is going to be two years old this Saturday. We are very excited to be celebrating it with family and friends. This little one is truly a miracle indeed. As some of you can remember, the week we learned of Everly's condition my mother had just past away only a couple days before. Everly was five months in the womb and despite all that was going on with my mother we were very excited to learn the gender of our baby. Unfortunately Liz had to go to the doctors office alone because I had to drive out of town to pick up siblings from the airport who were flying in for the funeral. I remember driving up to NY with a few friends and family when my wife called. We had just finished betting whether or not we would be having a boy or a girl (Desi was right by the way) Instead of hearing the desired news, my wife was crying on the phone as she briefly explained that our daughter had a couple of heart conditions that would most likely prevent her from being born or shortly dying after birth if she did make it. What most people don't know is that Liz endured a miscarriage almost a year prior to that. Our spirits were crushed momentarily. However, we have experienced God's grace long enough to know not to accept what the doctors say right off the bat. The first thing we did was place our faith in Jesus, pray and then notify family and friends of the situation. Those families and friends are still praying for Everly til this day and we are certainly seeing the fruit from that on a daily basis.

Long story short it was a rough remainder for Liz's term. We had many many doctors appointments and echo's. We were encouraged a few times to have an abortion since we wouldn't know the condition of the baby and could be doing more harm than good for "it" as the doctors say. As Christians this was a no brainer, we were ready to trust the Father from there on out, and believe me, our trust was rightly placed. All we did was hold on to the promises of God and he remained faithful, for he cannot disown (or lie to) himself (2 Tim 2:13). Once He makes a promise he is faithful to keep and follow through with it.

Liz and I truly want to thank our family and friends for their support. We would have never of made it if it were not for your help. I am truly proud of my church New Covenant Christian Community Center located at 21 E. Broad St in Bethlehem, PA 18015 with services on Saturday night from 6-8pm and on Sunday mornings from 10am-12am day care provided :) Hahahaha, sorry I had to add that little advertisement. All kidding aside New Covenant is our home and we are truly proud to worship with them. Liz and I continue to pray and look for opportunities to bless others the same way we were blessed. We feel so immensely compelled by the Father to do so, and it is certainly our pleasure as well. This is truly what the body of Christ is all about. As some of our friends who go to CHOP (Children's Hospital Of Philadelphia) know, it can be very expensive to go on a daily basis. There are tolls, gas, food, parking etc.... and Liz and I were driving down there daily not to mention the cost of my mothers funeral. It was a huge financial strain. We continued to trust in the Lord and as before had no reason to doubt his providence. People would come up to us at church and stick envelopes of money in my pocket. On more than one occasion individuals would give us several hundred dollar bills without even thinking twice about it. Others cooked great meals to feed the many people who stayed in our home during the time of the funeral. And several times our wallets were lined with Wawa cards for gas and food. The list goes on and on, and believe me, Liz and I have not forgotten about any of them. We thank you so much. It's God's people being obedient and taking action rather than just sitting back and thinking how tragic it all was but doing nothing about it. As the saying goes. "God is good all the time! And all the time God is good!" And as David said in the Psalms: "............yet I have never seen the righteous forsaken or their children begging bread."

We look forward to seeing many of you at Everly's party. We are truly grateful that this year we get to spend it at home. Last year we spent many holidays such as Fathers day, our Wedding Anniversary and who can forget that we spent Everly's first birthday in the hospital. Even then God provided. Many came to visit and the nurses and doctors provided cake and gifts for Everly. There is nothing our father hasn't done for us and nothing He won't continue to do for us as we continue to trust in Him the way children trust in their parents to provide for them. As the scripture says "He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?" (Rom 8:32)

Again, thank you all. We have incorporated some pictures of our family for you to enjoy. Comments are always welcome. And since this is but a brief overview of the past two years, if anyone wants to know Everly's whole story you can see my posting here: http://jsirianni7.blogspot.com/2007/10/everlys-story.html#c948541950202143316


Liz and I would like to especially thank My mother and father in-law John & Graciette Domingues and John and Janet Callahan who are the closest thing I have to a mother and father on my side of the family. If I were to begin to explain all the ways these individuals have been there for us, I could honestly produce a small book. Liz and I along with Tyler and Everly Love you guys more than you will ever know.



Joe & Liz Sirianni

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Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Who wants $10,000 or $250,000?






Don't you think certain evolutionist who teach evolution as "fact" would have jumped on this long ago? http://www.creationscienceevangelism/ or http://www.drdino.com/ has also been offering $250,000 dollars for real evidence or proof of evolution for more than ten years and no one has offered real empirical evidence? That's the big question. All the creationist are asking for is one simple indisputable evidence for evolution and they can't even come up with it. Just one!!!???

Here's the offer from http://www.intelligentdesignvsevolution.com/ below

The Argument For Creation:
“Just as a building is absolute proof there was a builder (no building ever built itself), creation is absolute proof there is a Creator. The Bible says that God made all things then caused every animal to bring forth “after its own kind” (dogs don’t have kittens, fish don’t turn into birds, etc., no matter how long they are left). The Bible also says, ‘Whoever looks upon a woman to lust after her has committed adultery already with her in his heart,’ and that no liar or thief will inherit the Kingdom of God, warning ‘All liars with have their part in the lake of fire.’ However, we are told how to be forgiven: “God commended His love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.’ Because of the death and resurrection of Jesus, all who repent and trust in Him receive the gift of everlasting life. Intelligent design maintains that the Bible proves its credibility because it is filled with scientific and medical facts written hundreds of years before man discovered them, showing divine inspiration, and confirming its warning of Hell and offer of Heaven.” http://www.intelligentdesignversusevolution.com/



The Argument For Evolution:
“Biological evolution, simply put, is descent with modification. This definition encompasses small-scale evolution (changes in gene frequency in a population from one generation to the next) and large-scale evolution (the descent of different species from a common ancestor over many generations). Evolution helps us to understand the history of life. The central idea of biological evolution is that all life on Earth shares a common ancestor, just as you and your cousins share a common grandmother. Through the process of descent with modification, the common ancestor of life on Earth gave rise to the fantastic diversity that we see documented in the fossil record and around us today. Evolution means that we're all distant cousins: humans and oak trees, hummingbirds and whales. Frogs, birds, rabbits and lizards all have different forelimbs, reflecting their different lifestyles. But those different forelimbs all share the same set of bones - the humerus, the radius, and the ulna.” http://evolution.berkeley.edu/

“Paleontologists have discovered a new skeleton in the closet of human ancestry that is likely to force science to revise, if not scrap, current theories of human origins. Reuters reported that the discovery left scientists of human evolution . . . confused, saying, 'Lucy may not even be a direct human ancestor after all.” USA Today, March 21, 2001.

“Evolution is a fairy tale for grown-ups. This theory has helped nothing in the progress of science. It is useless.” Professor Louis Bounoure, Director of Research, National Center of Scientific Research, The Advocate, 8 March 1984.

“I myself am convinced that the theory of evolution, especially the extent to which it has been applied, will be one of the great jokes in the history books of the future.” Malcolm Muggeridge (British philosopher), The Advocate, March 8 1984.

“Evolution is unproved and unprovable. We believe it because the only alternative is special creation, and that is unthinkable” Sir Arthur Keith. Criswell, W.A. (1972), Did Man Just Happen? p. 73, Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan).

“Scientists who go about teaching that evolution is a fact of life are great con-men, and the story they are telling may be the greatest hoax ever. In explaining evolution, we do not have one iota of fact.” Dr. T. N. Tahmisian (Atomic Energy Commission), The Fresno Bee, August 20, 1959.

“Scientists concede that their most cherished theories are based on embarrassingly few fossil fragments and that huge gaps exist in the fossil record.” Time magazine, Nov. 7, 1977.

“As by this theory, innumerable transitional forms must have existed. Why do we not find them embedded in the crust of the earth?” Charles Darwin, Evolution or Creation, p.139.

“If pressed about man's ancestry, I would have to unequivocally say that all we have is a huge question mark.” Richard Leakey, paleo-anthropologist.

"The more scientists have searched for the transitional forms that lie between species, the more they have been frustrated." Newsweek, November 3, 1980.

“Often a cold shudder has run through me, and I have asked myself whether I may have not devoted myself to a fantasy.” Charles Darwin, Life and Letters, 1887, Vol. 2, p. 229.

“I would rather believe in fairy tales than in such wild speculation.” Sir Ernest Chain, co-holder of 1945 Nobel Prize for developing penicillin (The Life of Ernest Chain, Ronald W. Clark, pp. 147-148).

“The main problem in reconstructing the origins of man is lack of fossil evidence: all there is could be displayed on a dinner table.” New Scientist, 20 May, 1982.

A Chinese farmer glued together the head and body of a primitive bird and the tail and hind limbs of a dromaeosaur dinosaur, and in 1999 completely fooled the world-wide scientific community into thinking that they had found the “missing link” between carnivorous dinosaurs and modern birds. [National Geographic Magazine, Vol. 196, No. 5, November, 1999]. Named Archaeoraptor, “this fossil find constitutes the most recent evolution fraud... that we know of. Storrs L. Olson of the Smithsonian Institution said, “National Geographic has reached an all-time low for engaging in sensationalistic, unsubstantiated, tabloid journalism.”

The $10,000 Offer

A transitional form (or missing link) is an example of one species “evolving” into another species. Excited scientists thought they had found one when they discovered “Archaeopteryx.” The fossil led to the theory that the dinosaurs did not become extinct, but rather all turned into birds. The Field Museum in Chicago displayed what was believed to be an archaeopteryx fossil on October 4-19, 1997. It was hailed as “Archaeopteryx: The Bird That Rocked the World.” However, Dr. Alan Feduccia (evolutionary biologist at the University of North Carolina), said, “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 ‘paleo-babble’ is going to change that.” [Science, February 5, 1993]. So here’s my challenge: I will give $10,000 to the first person who can prove to me that they have found a genuine living transitional form (a lizard that produced a bird, or a dog that produced kittens, or a sheep that produced a chicken, or even as Archaeopteryx—a dinosaur that produced a bird). Species do not cross, no matter how long you leave them. The whole of creation is proof that evolution is truly “a fairytale for grownups.”

Ray Comfort. email proof@intelligentdesignversusevolution.com

Sunday, February 24, 2008

More Evidence For A Global Flood? Oh yeah...

Another interesting article on discoveries supporting evidence for a global flood. I love how the Lord has made it so easy for Christians to defend their faith. He has given us truth and overwhelming evidence that can only be supported when looking at it through the lens of the biblical creation account, we should run with that truth all the way home. It's funny how the evolutionist would rather continue scratching their heads than look at the same exact evidence we are looking at with an honest and open mind. I would like to suggest that they might find God in it and therefore do not want that kind of accountability in their lives. It's the same reason we change the channel when they show that poor homeless child in a foreign country. We know if we see the commercial we might feel conviction and actually feel obligated to do something about it. Let's pray that they (the evolutionists) start responding appropriately to what God has plainly put before their eyes.

http://creationontheweb.com/content/view/5639/

Friday, February 22, 2008

Death Before Adam?

One of the biggest problems that theistic evolutionists have when trying to incorporate millions of years and evolution in the creation account is that something had to die before Adam. this is a direct contradiction from what the word of God says. Theistic evolutionists will tell you they think that Adam is a product of evolution and millions of years but the scriptures specifically say "In the "beginning" he made them male and female. To fit the theory of the evolutionist God would have had to say "At the "end" of creation he made (or evolved) them male and female. This would also mean that God lied to the Israelites all of those years until the smart evolutionist came along to properly interpret the scriptures for them. Not to mention when he created he said "And it was very good" How can you say it was very good if things had to die and mutate? Here's a great article from CSE's website on the subject. I hope you will find it interesting and that it will better equip you to defend your faith against such a fairy tale and indoctrination as evolutionism.


Was there Death Before Adam Sinned?
Author: Dr. Kent Hovind


The Bible teaches that death entered the world because of man's sin.



"Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin: and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:" Romans 5:12 "Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses," Romans 5:14 "For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead." I Corinthians 15:21-22 "For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive."


Some Christians are committed to the idea that the earth is billions of years old. The biggest obstacle to this is the fact that there would be death before sin. These teachers often say that there was death before sin since Adam would have eaten (and killed) plants. This assumes, of course, that plants are alive in the Biblical sense. While there are hundreds of verses dealing with man dying the following scriptures will show that plants do not die in the same sense that a man or animal dies. Just as a computer is a complex machine able to run for hours at the touch of a button, a plant is a complex self-replicating food source but it is not alive. A computer can "die" and so can a car engine but they don't die in the sense people do. Plants have no breath or blood. Notice the distinction between plants and living things in these verses.



Genesis 1:11-13 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. 12And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good. 13And the evening and the morning were the third day.



Genesis 1:20-23 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good. And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth. And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.



Genesis 1:24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so


Notice that plants are made on day 3 and living things on days five and six.



Genesis 1:29-30 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. 30And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.


Notice that the green herbs were given to the living animals for food.



Genesis 3:3 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.


God said the people would die not the tree or the fruit.



Genesis 4:3-5 Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD. 4And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering: 5But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect.


Cain's offering did not contain blood or life and was rejected by God. This is where we get the expression, you can't get blood out of a turnip. As beautiful as Cain's offering may have been and as hard as he may have worked to provide it, it was not accepted since there was no death.



Genesis 6:17 And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die.



Genesis 6:19-21 And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female. Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive. And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them.



Here we see a clear distinction between the living things and the food that is eaten.



Genesis 7:14-15 They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort. And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life.



Genesis 7:22 All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land,



Genesis 9:1-4 And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. 2And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered. 3Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things. 4But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.


Now man is allowed to eat meat even as the plants. Here again we see a distinction between the living things and the plants.



Lev. 17-13-16 And whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, that eateth any manner of blood; I will even set my face against that soul that eateth blood, and will cut him off from among his people. 11For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul. 12Therefore I said unto the children of Israel, No soul of you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger that sojourneth among you eat blood. 13And whatsoever man there be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, which hunteth and catcheth any beast or fowl that may be eaten; he shall even pour out the blood thereof, and cover it with dust. 14For it is the life of all flesh; the blood of it is for the life thereof: therefore I said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh: for the life of all flesh is the blood thereof: whosoever eateth it shall be cut off. 15And every soul that eateth that which died of itself, or that which was torn with beasts,...shall bear his iniquity.


Plants do not have blood and fruit and nuts fall from the tree and we eat them. If they were alive while on the tree and dead when they fall off this would be forbidden. Plants are said to "wither", "fade" and "fall away" but this is not death as man or animals experience.



Jer. 8:13 I will surely consume them, saith the LORD: there shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade;



Psalm 1:3 And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.



Psalm 37:2 For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.



Psalm 102:4 My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.



Psalm 102:11 My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.



Psalm 129:6 Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up:



Isaiah 1:30 For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water.



Isaiah 15:6 For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the hay is withered away, the grass faileth, there is no green thing.



Isaiah 19:6 And the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither.



Isaiah 19:7 The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and every thing sown by the brooks, shall wither, be driven away, and be no more.



Isaiah 40:7 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.



Isaiah 40:24 Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.



Isaiah 64:6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.



Jeremiah 8:13 I will surely consume them, saith the LORD: there shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and the things that I have given them shall pass away from them.



Jeremiah 12:4 How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of every field wither, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein? the beasts are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our last end.



Ezekiel 17:9-10 Say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Shall it prosper? shall he not pull up the roots thereof, and cut off the fruit thereof, that it wither? it shall wither in all the leaves of her spring, even without great power or many people to pluck it up by the roots thereof. Yea, behold, being planted, shall it prosper? shall it not utterly wither, when the east wind toucheth it? it shall wither in the furrows where it grew.



Ezekiel 17:10 Yea, behold, being planted, shall it prosper? shall it not utterly wither, when the east wind toucheth it? it shall wither in the furrows where it grew.



1 Peter 1:24 For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:



Ecclesiastes 3:2 A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;


People are born and die but plants are plucked up.



The only verse I have found that teaches that plants die: Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground; Job 14:8



This is Job speaking in this chapter not God and Job is talking about when men die in this passage. Be very cautious about taking doctrine from the book of Job. The Bible is the inspired Word of God. While it is true that Job (or one of his four friends) said the things recorded in Job, what they said may not be true. The Bible accurately records even the lies of Satan. This one verse from Job is not evidence that plants die in the Bible sense.



Summary:



The Bible is very clear that God made everything in six days. Exodus 20:11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. Exodus 31:17 It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.



Those who wish the earth to be older than the 6,000 years the Bible allows for are often trying to justify their position with compromises like the gap theory, the day age theory or progressive creationism. Each of these unscriptural positions calls for death before sin so nearly always they bring up the question about plants dying. We have seen this is not the case. Death before sin would nullify the need for the death of Christ and accuse God of creating a world with suffering and calling it good.



God's Word is accurate as it is written. There was no death before Adam sinned. There has been plenty of death since he sinned but Jesus came to redeem us from the curse of sin and give us eternal life. If you have not received His free gift of eternal life (Romans 6:23) why not ask for His forgiveness right now? Call our office if you would like more information on salvation, creation or evolution.

Previous posts:

Did God Use Evolution?

http://jsirianni7.blogspot.com/2007/11/did-god-use-evolution-to-bring-about.html

Theistic Evolution - Future Shock?

http://jsirianni7.blogspot.com/2007/11/theistic-evolution-future-shock.html

Proven By Scripture That God Did Not Use Millions Of Years

http://jsirianni7.blogspot.com/2007/11/proven-by-scripture-that-god-did-not.html

Quote - Kent Hovind

Here is a great quote from one of my favorite Creationists, Dr. Kent Hovind:

"The Lord is due back any minute to take the Christians from the earth. We need to use our limited time left on earth to win souls and influence others for Him. Nothing else will matter in a hundred years!"




Amen!

Thursday, February 21, 2008

Sneak Peak - "Final Inquiry"

From what I could gather, this movie is out already. It had several different release dates (Pending on the country releasing it) But I think it just came out in the US. In any event it looks to be interesting.





When a solar eclipse and earthquakes simultaneously occur throughout the Roman Empire, Emperor Tiberius calls upon Tito Valerio Tauro (Daniele Liotti), a prominent Roman investigator, to seek out the proposed cause... an alleged resurrection of a Jewish rabbi... a powerful mystery that could bring down an empire.
DVD information

Release Date (USA): 2008-02-19

Rating (USA): PG-13

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Director: Giulio Base

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Studio: 20th Century Fox

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Cast
Daniele Liotti
Max Von Sydow
Monica Cruz
Enrico Lo Verso
F. Murray Abraham
Maria Pia Calzone
Ornella Muti

Evolution, A "Scientific Theory"

Interesting article on Creation Science Evangelism's web site. I think it's a step in the right direction but we still have a long way to go. I couldn't get access to embed the code for the video in this posting, but I provided the link at the bottom to get to CSE's website where you can watch the video on Fox news.

Creation Science Evangelism would like to thank the Florida Family Policy Council for all their hardwork. Below is a copy of their press release.

For Immediate Release
February 19, 2008

State Board of Education Approves
Evolution- Science Standards
With Symbolic Change

Board Rejects Academic Freedom Amendment to
Protect Public School Teachers

(TALLAHASSEE, FL) This morning the State Board of Education (SBOE) by a 3-4 vote approved the new Florida Science Standards which presents macro evolution as "the fundamental concept underlying all of biology, and is supported by multiple forms of scientific evidence." They simultaneously failed to adopt a simple one sentence proposal which would protect teachers and afford them a bright line to know that they can present evidence critical of evolution without fear of being disciplined, reprimanded or fired.

Instead the SBOE adopted a symbolic amendment which describes evolution as a "scientific theory" along with other theories. "This is a meaningless change to try and placate the people of Florida who were very upset at the arrogance in the way evolution is described in the standards." said Florida Family Policy Council President, John Stemberger. "This is a sad day in Florida, when a handful of religious Darwinists can hijack the curriculum framing process and push their ideological agenda at the expense of the education of our children."

"I'm extremely disappointed that the Board of Education approved standards that do not allow for academic freedom and protection for teachers who teach the weaknesses in Darwinism." said Kim Kendall, a concerned parent from St. John's County who has helped lead the effort to allow evolution taught with no gag order placed on the teachers.

Ten persons were allowed to speak on each side of the debate. During public testimony prior to the Board's vote, members of a coalition of parents, scientists, public school teachers and policy experts stressed that they were not opposing the inclusion of evolution per se in the science curriculum, but were opposing an attempt to present evolution dogmatically and censor relevant scientific evidence critical of the theory. All of those opposed to parts of the standards spoke in favor of the Academic Freedom Amendment.

Fred Cutting, a member of the Framers Committee who voted against the proposed science standards was present to describe the biased process that had taken place within the original committee rewriting the standards. "The life-sciences sub-committee was very one-sided and narrow in its final views. The evolution standards approved today are dogmatic and not scientifically neutral," Cutting said.

The Florida Family Policy Council is expected to pursue legislative action to protect teachers and academic freedom in the classroom.


Watch the video from Fox News
http://drdino.com/readNews.php?id=44

Tuesday, February 5, 2008

Evolution - The Missing Link To Abortion



Thirty-five years ago this week, America joined the ranks of nations engaging in the genocide of its own people. In 1973 the U.S. Supreme Court launched an all-out assault, this time not on a religious or ethnic group, but on victims with no voice, no defense, and no allies. It marks the day that, under the pretense of privacy, the womb became an unfair battlefield for the unborn.

The beginning of America’s toleration for abortion can be traced back to the mid-1800s. It was in 1860 that German college professor Ernst Haeckel, just finishing Darwin’s Origin of the Species, left his physician practice for the study of embryology. So convinced by what he read, Haeckel became one of the most zealous advocates of Darwinism in the nineteenth century.

Nine years later, with no real evidence for evolution, Haeckel devised sketched charts of human developmental stages. By 1875, Haeckel was convicted of fraud in a trial held by his own university. There he admitted to faking his drawings in an attempt to show similarities between the human embryo and that of animals. But today, many biology textbooks still include these charts, purposefully deceiving thousands of students, with no mention of their fraudulent history.

Despite Haeckel's conviction, his drawings paved the way for the murdering of the unborn. If a human life is nothing more than an animal, it’s no wonder the textbooks refer to the unborn as a mere “blob of tissue.” Haeckel’s sacred cow of evolution is the well-hidden and underlying missing link to abortion.

America often mourns the horror of September 11, 2001 when nearly three thousand lives were tragically taken, yet keeps silent as more than four thousand lives are stolen each day through this evolution-influenced terrorism called abortion. We protest the casualties of war—yet turn our heads away from the 50 million innocent victims of Roe v. Wade. As Christians continue to stand on the sidelines, the Bible is unwavering; God ordained each of us in the womb (Jeremiah 1:5). Christians, it’s time to take a stand –it’s time for a change.

For more ways evolution deceives society and its impact on our world, view Lies in the Textbooks and The Dangers of Evolution from our Creation Seminar Series.

- CSE

Monday, February 4, 2008

For The Birds?




Paleontologists say they have found a 100-million-year-old missing link, named Gansus, in the evolution of birds. The traits are fully bird. In fact, evolutionists argue that this creature is 100% bird, similar to a duck.




So if Gansus doesn’t appear to be evolving to or evolving from another type of bird-like creature, why is it called an intermediate? Apparently because it was discovered in the fossil record that fits with the dates evolutionists have set aside for the evolution of the birds.




It’s a denying of the obvious: birds have always been birds. They were made on Day 5 of creation (Genesis 1:20) and then reproduced after their kind.


- AiG