jackakin's Podcast

Sun, 1 November 2009

Last time we were looking at the inevitable and very natural observations that all things tend to decay, become disordered over time, and that this law is unbreakable, and, according to Scripture, purposeful, subjecting us all and the very universe itself to seeing our emptiness and presenting us with the very real hope for redemption. And the Scripture even tells us how this natural or spontaneous tendency towards disorder and death came to be. Genesis, the book of beginnings, reveals to us an event that occurred just after the creation of the earth, the heavens, and all life. It occurred as the result of another creation; free will. Although they received warning from God that the wages for the sin of disobedience was death, Adam and Eve nevertheless chose to disobey. Hence, according to Scripture, God’s good creation was hurled into a downward spiral, an inevitable death.

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Fri, 30 October 2009

Thermodynamics Revisited - 1 of 2

In the minds of some that hold to an evolutionary explanation as to how natural things have come into being, evolution, ever-increasing order and complexity, seems to be quite natural. But, in the sciences today a term is often used to describe the natural way of things, that is: the way they happen in nature when nature is left to itself. The term is “spontaneous”. All around us in nature we notice events occurring spontaneously, or naturally, and we have come to expect them to play out in certain ways. When lightning hits the side of a mountain during a thunderstorm, causing a fire, we expect that the fire will destroy vegetation, not create it. When a river swells during the rainy season, we expect increased erosion of river banks, and possible damage to any structure in the flood plain. We don’t expect new houses to be formed by the onrushing flood. When a volcano explodes we expect death, destruction and disorder, not life, construction and order. The second we dig some metal ore out of the ground and melt it, form it, bend and shape it into some metal object, like a car, it begins trying to return to the ore state it was in originally. We have our junk yards and landfills to testify to that fact.

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Tue, 27 October 2009

World Views - 3 of 3

In continuing to contast the hopefulness provided for the person who has trusted in and relied upon the promises of Scripture, with the hopeless and dark doctrines of the materialist, the thoughtful Christian can only wonder how the purposefulness and design of our world and universe could be missed. Last time we enlisted some of the incredible intentional attributes that stare us in the face, each item of that list absolutely necessary for life on Earth, regarding the obvious design of the Sun, Moon and planets.

Our atmosphere’s design should also not be forgotten, with just the right proportions and combination and properties of gases. Oxygen, for example, is in supply at about 21%, enough to keep us all breathing, and yet not so much as to reach the approximate 25% concentration where all would combust, which also has the special characteristics that it can be present in the upper atmosphere in single, paired or triple-atomed molecules, just the right size to absorb harmful Solar radiation. We should all have some idea about the Earth’s revolution, defining the length of the day, just the right speed relative to its distance from the Sun to warm but not overheat the surface, and the Earth’s tilt, perfect to provide the necessary seasons and weather patterns.

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Sun, 25 October 2009

World Views - 2 of 3

When enlisting some of the characteristic doctrines of materialism, one sees a hopeless, meaningless universe, purposeless lives, and inevitable future of hopelessness and chaos. This dark scenario is rarely verbalized in the classroom or media today, perhaps because few materialists have really looked towards, or desire to dwell on, the logical conclusion of their beliefs.

Oddly enough, often the same person who holds such a mind-set, whether expressed or no, also harbors a contradicting optimism; a feeling that, somehow, everything is going to turn out all right. Often progressive, he or she thinks that, as we continue to advance, we gain the understanding more and more each day that we are enlightened with perspective, and in full control of our destinies, as the philosopher-futurist, Jeremy Rifkin once put it, …we are now the kingdom, the power and the glory, forever, amen. Carl Sagan also expressed this philosophy, and then presented it as science’s stamp of approval when he said that the universe is all there ever was, is or ever will be.

But the Christian is armed with the explanation of the ages. Of course the cosmos surrounding the Earth is hostile to life, for the surrounding universe is not designed to directly sustain life, but has other, inter-related purposes. The Christian wonders at the kind of blindness that could allow one to look at the huge number of fortuitous facts about our world, solar system and cosmos that make life possible, and yet not see overall design and purpose.

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Fri, 23 October 2009

World Views - 1 of 3

...the Christian is armed with the explanation of the ages, and wonders at the kind of blindness that could allow one to look at the huge number of fortuitous facts about our world, solar system and cosmos that make life possible, and yet not see overall design and purpose, knowing that each person has a purpose, placed inside by the Creator, because the cosmos, which was originally designed as good but is now fallen due to mankind’s sin, has been redeemed, delivered by Christ.

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Wed, 21 October 2009

Battle of Snow and Ice - 3 of 3

To conclude our observations regarding prophecy in Scripture that allude to end times judgement, as seen in, for example, Job and Revelation, we noted a recent though dwarfish example of upcoming events by looking at Mt. St. Helens. As afore-mentioned, such well-documented events as Mt. St. Helens eruptions help unlock mysteries about future, predicted events , as well as the past. But such catastrophic events as were seen during the 1980 Mt. St. Helens eruption are nothing in comparison to those described in Revelation ear-marking the very end of the world.

Therein, for example, a burning mountain, reminiscent of an asteroid, and a great star, perhaps a comet, is predicted to hit the sea and earth. Hail burns up huge areas of the earth’s vegetation. Much of the earth’s water supply is poisoned. Something happens to our Sun to actually reduce its luminosity, followed later by a Solar blast, perhaps a monstrous flare, that scorches the earth.

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Sun, 18 October 2009

Battle of Snow and Ice - 2 of 3

Last time we were looking at an interesting scripture found in the ancient book of Job, as God Himself releases a string of mysteries to Job, demonstrating the inadequacies of Mankind to instruct, or even fully understand, God’s purposes. Therein He rhetorically states to Job, recorded in in verse 23, “Have you entered into the treasures of the snow, or have you seen the treasures of the hail, which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?”

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Fri, 16 October 2009

The Battle of Snow and Ice - 1 of 3

For reasons previosly mentioned and many more, water and its characteristics are truly amazing, and obviously specially designed to help maintain life on Earth. It was also previously mentioned that, despite the fact that water is so important to us, we still don't have a really good molecular-level understanding of it. When water is a liquid, the molecules mix around very closely to one another, each attracted to the other by hydrogen bonds. As water cools, the molecules slow down and pack into a crystalline structure, ice. But a very unique property of water is that, because of its arrangement of hydrogen and oxygen atoms, the ice is uniquely less dense than its liquid state. Hence, as water freezes it expands, and so, it floats. As we know, this particular characteristic of water is crucial to the very existence of life on Earth.

Perhaps because of such factors as its antediluvian, or pre-flood knowledge of the water and earth sciences, and a number of other attributes, I personally find the book of Job particularly interesting.

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Wed, 14 October 2009

Fossils - 15 of 15

In concluding our discussions regarding what we can learn from the fossil record, it has been necessary to enlist many of the claims that can not be factually supported by the fossil record. The bottom line is that, with over 250,000 fossils on display and no transitional fossils that are beyond debate, the creationist presents the fossil record as that which is an embarrassment to the evolutionary theory as presented by neo-Darwinists, and that there are no transitional forms from one-celled creatures to the most complex mammals, via any biological pathways that we know of: not from one-celled to invertebrates, not from invertebrates to the vertebrate fishes, not from fishes to amphibians, not from amphibians to reptiles, not from reptiles to birds, not from reptiles to mammals. All of these are distinct, all of them unique, all of them specially designed.

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Sun, 11 October 2009

Fossils - 14 of 15

We have been encapsulating the past discussions regarding proported fossil evidence for an evolutionary history and the lack of real evidence in support of these claims. We left off last time with the Coelacanth, dubbed before living Coelacanths were discovered in the 1930s as the dinofish, a cross between amphibians and fishes. Well, we now know, as you might expect, that the Coelacanth is 100% fish. The skeptic would explain this embarrassing upset as the result of an accidental discovery of a creature previously thought to have been extinct. After all, a cynic might observe, it’s easy to claim all kinds of “fishibian” traits when there is no living creature available to disprove your evolutionary conjectures. So much for the supposed missing link between fishes and amphibians.

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Fri, 9 October 2009

Fossils - 13 of 15

Recently we’ve been talking a lot about what is generally known about fossils…the different ways they can be formed…what conditions are present, where they tend to be found, and how widely differently they can be interpreted. We also investigated, based on information presently available to us all, the plausibility of the theory that one-celled animals could transform into multi-celled invertebrates, that invertebrates could transform into vertebrates, that vertebrate fishes could evolve into amphibians, that amphibians could change into reptiles, or that reptiles could evolve into birds and mammals. And so this theory, called evolution, first states that the one-celled organisms of the primordial world evolved into the vast array of complex multi-celled invertebrates, creatures without internal skeletons, during what is dubbed as the Cambrian period. This evolutionary phenomenon is called the Cambrian explosion, and we have cited the fact that the mechanisms that could have caused this event in history are unexplained and very much in doubt.

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Wed, 7 October 2009

Fossils - 12 of 15

We have been looking a bit closer at evolutionary claims, dominating our media and educational system, boldly and categorically present to the public, including our kids, that the fossils support their theories. On the contrary, however, a focused inspection on any given evidence finds that evidence contrived. It must be a requirement that serious, unbroken transitional fossil evidence must be found in order to support such outlandish presumption that millions of favorable mutations, occurring simultaneously and/or in perfect order, have conspired to produce the incredible variety of living things found in nature. As afore-mentioned, imagined scenarios bolstered by scanty, easily challenged evidence such as the "walking whale" fossil reported in 1993, or the highly publicized intermediate between fish and amphibians, the Coelacanth, are used as proof of transition, until ultimately unproven.

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Sun, 4 October 2009

Fossils - 11 of 15

Various similarities and differences found in fossil fishes and amphibians in limb structure, head attachment, elbow and knee joints, skull patterns and internal gills, are used to support the idea of transitional forms, attempting to obscure the line between the two classes. As we brought to light last time, however, the fact that there are very distinct skeletal differences between amphibians and fishes presents us with only one of the many problems encountered in trying to link fishes and amphibians. The internal organs...gills, ears, eyes, pelvic girdle, etc., are quite different also, and major changes would have had to occur in just the right order to accomplish the transition. But. alas, no "fishibian" has ever been found. Every fish, living or fossil, even those with unusual characteristics, is fully fish, and every amphibian, living or fossil, is fully amphibian.”

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Thu, 1 October 2009

Fossils - 10 of 15

Perhaps you’ve looked at a lungfish on some TV documentary and imagined you were seeing some evolutionary transitional creature linking fishes to amphibians. Despite the fact that many are taught that lungfish evolved into land creatures, few evolutionists consider any form of lungfish to have been the forerunner of amphibians, mainly because of skeletal differences, for the lungfish has no hint of legs. Only museum visitors and TV documentary watchers still carry this misconception. But the evolutionist must explain variation seen in nature by the spontaneous development of increasing order from class to class, species to species, and so, for example, from fishes to amphibians. So let’s look at the supposed transition from fishes to amphibians. Amphibians are often defined as cold-blooded animals characterized by moist, smooth skin that live both on land and in water at various life stages, and that have gills at some stage of development. So frogs, toads and salamanders are amphibians. According to the general view held by today’s evolutionist, it was a transition from fins to feet that took place in the water, not any movement from water to land, that marked the transition from fish to amphibian.

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Tue, 29 September 2009

Fossils - 9 of 15

We were discussing some of the reasons why many evolutionists believe there is a genetic link between ancient reptile and mammals, believing that an intermediate group evolved from the 'true' reptiles, which gradually acquired mammalian characters until a point was reached where we have artificially drawn a line between reptiles and mammals. Creationist biologists and paleontologists remind us, however, that the creatures included within the class Mammalia are a diverse group. The mammals comprise 32 orders, most of which are placental mammals but which also include the Monotremata, which embrace the egg-laying spiny ant-eater and the egg-laying duckbilled platypus, and the Marsupialia, which include the opossums and the pouched marsupials, such as the kangaroo and wallabies.

In a 2003 copyrighted Impact article Dr. Duane Gish states the following. “It is interesting to note that while claiming that intermediate forms for the reptile-to-mammal transition have been found, some evolutionists admit that no immediate ancestors for any of the 32 mammalian orders have been discovered. Thus, George Gaylord Simpson, after stating that nowhere in the world is there any trace of a fossil that would close the considerable gap between Hyracotherium ("Eohippus"), which evolutionists assume was the first horse, and its supposed ancestral order Condylarthra, goes on to say "This is true of all the thirty-two orders of mammals…The earliest and most primitive known members of every order already have the basic ordinal characters, and in no case is an approximately continuous sequence from one order to another known. In most cases the break is so sharp and the gap so large that the origin of the order is speculative and much disputed." Here Dr. Gish is citing Simpson’s book entitled Tempo and Mode in Evolution, New York: Columbia University Press, 1944.

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Sun, 27 September 2009

Fossils - 8 of 15

As mentioned previously, the evolutionist sees through the lens of materialism and gradualism to explain variation by the development of increased order, from single-celled to multicelled, invertibrates to vertibrates, from primitive jawless fish to sharks, skates, and rays, from primitive jawless fish to bony fish, from primitive bony fish to amphibians, transitions among amphibians, from amphibians to amniotes (first reptiles), some transitions among reptiles, and from synapsid (having a skull with an extra low opening behind the eyes) reptiles to mammals, and from diapsid (two holes on each side of their skulls) reptiles to birds. Let’s briefly discuss the supposed transition from reptiles to mammals.

Evolutionists begin the discussion by citing the differences between “early” reptiles and modern mammals. Distinctions in skull, braincase attachment, palate and dentition. These particular reptiles had teeth all of the same type, whereas the modern mammal has molars, canines, etc. These reptiles had teeth that were replaced continuously, unlike the mammal, and had a single ear bone, or stapes, whereas the mammal has three ear bones; the stapes, incus and malleus.

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Fri, 25 September 2009

Fossils - 7 of 15

Even though we are often literally bombarded with the notion held by some evolutionists that vertebrates, those creatures with their skeletons inside, somehow evolved from invertebrates, those creatures with all their soft parts held together by an outside skeleton, it seems that the evidence is all in favor of the creationist view. Even though this transition is supposed to have taken 100 million years, not a single intermediate has ever been discovered. If vertebrates themselves have not evolved, as seems certain, evolutionary theory is dead, and it is unnecessary to further speculate about evolution of groups within the vertebrates, or within any other division. By the way, there is to date no clue as to how the one-celled organisms could have evolved into the vast array of complex multi-celled invertebrates during what is dubbed as the Cambrian period.

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Tue, 22 September 2009

Fossils - 6 of 15

The theory of evolution, states within its doctrine that vertebrates evolved from more primitive invertebrates. The term “vertebrate” describes an creature that has an endoskeleton, that is; an internal, skeletal frame, upon which its systems of muscles, nerves, circulation, etc., are mounted. The five classes of these are the cold-blooded fish, amphibians and reptiles, and the warm-blooded birds and mammals. An invertebrate is an organism whose body is held together by an external skeleton. Examples of these are insects, sponges, worms, arthropods, mollusks, and even tiny one-celled animals, or protozoa. Now, the average evolutionist believes that the time between the origin of life and the abrupt appearance in the fossil record of the many complex invertebrates was nearly three billion years, and about 100 million years for one of these invertebrates to evolve into the vertebrates, or fishes.

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Sat, 19 September 2009

Fossils - 5 of 15

We have been looking at the testimony of fossils in general and the theory proposed by evolutionists in particular that birds have through the ages somehow evolved from reptiles. Their case in point, the Archaeopteryx. It has been asserted for example, that Archaeopteryx shares 21 specialized characters with coelurosaurian dinosaurs. Recent research on various anatomical features of Archaeopteryx, however, has shown, in every case, that the characteristic in question is bird-like, not reptile-like. K.N. Whetstone, in the 1983 Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology revealed that when the cranium of the London specimen was removed from the limestone and studied, it was shown to be bird-like, not reptile-like. M.J. Benton published in a 1983 article in Nature that "details of the brain case and associated bones at the back of the skull seem to suggest that Archaeopteryx is not the ancestral bird, but an offshoot from the early avian stem."

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Thu, 17 September 2009

Fossils - 4 of 15

For your consideration...the following is an excerpt from a radio spot on KAPL radio, Jacksonville, Oregon, called " Akin For the Truth". To listen to the entire spot (a few minutes long), click the little microphone icon....Jack
As stated earlier, Creationists assert that there is no correlation in fossils found in sediments and increasing complexities and that all of the "kinds” of animals are distinct within each kind. After looking carefully at the data, creationists have concluded that there are no transitional forms from invertebrates to vertebrates, from fish to amphibians, from amphibians to reptiles, from reptiles to mammals, or from reptiles to birds. So let's talk now about the supposed transition from reptiles to birds.

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