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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Evolutionists who also study paleontology or sedimentary geology sometimes put forth arguments against the world-wide flood spoken of in Scripture being the source of most of the fossils we find.

However, in the opinion many creationists, such arguments demonstrate a potential misunderstanding of the forces of nature that bear upon such a world-wide, cataclysmic event. Re-thinking of sedimentation is beginning as some geologists take a more detailed look at the multi-layering phenomena observed, say, at Mount St. Helens, Yellowstone and the Grand Canyon, in finely separated rock strata, hard-rock erosion from mud-flow, multi-level sedimentation and tree re-planting, coalification, etc. The effects of these processes on the radiometric attributes of underlying strata, (for example trapped Argon concentrations in igneous rocks) are also coming to light via focused, scientific studies.

Its startling how such widely diverging statements are made from two different camps using the same data. But such is certainly the case when interpreting the data provided by fossils. So let’s talk about fossils for awhile. Fossils are remains or traces of once-living organisms. When something dies, it is usually eaten by something else; a predator or bacteria, and is soon gone. So, in order for fossils to form, there must be a way to preserve the remains of animals or plants for a time. This occurs most often on the bottom of bodies of water; oceans, lakes, rivers. When an animal or plant dies in or falls into the water, the remains are sometimes covered up quickly by sediments; mud, peat, or something like that, and the sediment forms a protective covering.

The monarch butterfly can fly thousands of miles to its wintering locations, and some tagged monarchs have been known to travel from Canada to the Neovolcanic Mountains of Mexico, a distance of 3000 miles and a two-month trip. Each Autumn, thousands of Monarch Butterflies gather in southern Canada to migrate south, just to winter in Mexico, Cuba, Pacific Grove, and Newark, California. This wintering period allows them to hibernate, thus conserving their energy. During this interval they eat and drink little, thus enabling some of them to live as long as one year. You can see them flying around and almost blocking the sky, and you will hear the fascinating sound of their wings flapping. During their long flight there is a great danger from predators. The monarch butterflies are the only insects on Earth to migrate annually over continental distances, and it is estimated that over 300 million of these fantastic creatures migrate to Mexico every year.

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We were looking last time at a wonderful analogy to the resurrection, the metamorphosis of the Monarch Butterfly. We came up to the stage last time where the little two inch Monarch caterpillar is looking for a safe place to undergo its transformation, weaves a small silk lump, attaches its tail end to the lump, and then hangs upside down in the shape of a "J". About 12 hours pass, and it begins to move, forcing the skin to split open. It wriggles for up to five hours to shed its skin for the fifth and last time. The chrysalis, at this point, is jade green, with about 24 metallic appearing gold spots surrounding half of its upper abdomen. There are 12 metallic-like gold spots on the remaining parts of the chrysalis, all of which are necessary for the normal development of the butterfly.

The period between Gregor Mendal’s birth in 1822 and Darwin’s Origin of Species in 1859, 37 years later, was a scientifically eventful one. The year that, in Heinzendorf, Austria, Johann Mendel was born, Fourier defined sines and cosines, and Champollion first translated hieroglyphics. Shortly thereafter Silicon was isolated by chemist Berzelius, Botanist Robert Brown discovered "Brownian motion" and the cell nucleus, and the world's population topped 1,000,000,000. Principles of Geology by Charles Lyell was published, Henry demonstrated the electromagnetic telegraph, Faraday described the laws of "electrolysis", and the term "scientist" was coined by the philosopher William Whewell. Then Louis Braille invented a system of writing and printing for the blind, Gustave Coriolis described the "Coriolis effect", and Elements of Botany, by the naturalist Asa Gray, was published. While in Paris the Arc de Triomphe was completed and the garrison at the Alamo was defeated in 1836, a map of the moon's surface was produced by the astronomers Beer and von Madler. Edward Robinson recorded his “Biblical Researches��? when he located Megiddo, Jezreel, Anathoth, Bethel, Shiloh, among many other Biblical sites,

It should be mentioned, however, that evolutionists believe that the great whales evolved from land animals. A typical article on the subject found in the National Geographic magazine, the ancestry time line of whales is many millions of years old and includes, in order, the Pakicetus, Ambulocetus, Rodhocetus, Procetus, Kutchicetus, Durodon, Basilosaurus, Aeticetus, Squalodon, Cetotherium, and Kentridon.

The deeper you dive, the greater the pressure. Since water is, say 62.3 pounds per cubic foot, it exerts about 4.4 lbs/square inch on your body while ten feet under water. Seawater is denser than fresh water, but the calculations are the same. And this is in addition to atmospheric pressure of that ocean of air above us, about 14.7 lbs/square inch at sea level.

Not too long ago we noticing some interesting, specialized examples of irreducible complexities found in the bombardier beetle, beaver, giraffe and the fruitfly. We also briefly discussed the woodpecker. Let's look today a little close at this very special bird.

The woodpecker has a specialized tongue in a tough beak with a sharp point; a shock absorbing tissue behind the bill; a tough, double reinforced skull; a stiff tail for bracing itself; strong leg muscles to hold on; and special four-clawed feet to give added support. The woodpecker can hammer at a tree with a force of over 1000 Gs; 300 times greater than the effect that pushes our astronauts on lift off.

When in Athens in mid first century Paul preached apologetically, carefully laying his foundation to preach Christ and the resurrection of the dead. There near the Acropolis in Athens, Paul preached to atheistic Epicureans and pantheistic Stoics, he used the writings of well known poets of the day, perhaps one of the monotheistic Atatus, Epimenides or Cleanthes.

Jude, Jesus’ half brother and an acknowledged leader of the first century Church in Jerusalem referred to at least two extra-Biblical sources, the cited portions therein thus certified to be historically accurate.

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We've been discussing the fact that evolutionary theory, or any theory for that matter, that claims that it can explain the origin of all living things, but can not provide a mechanism by which such origins can occur, is just plain and simple, bad theory.

Evolutionists would perhaps like to gloss over this point, but mutations, being the only mechanism for the development of new information within a DNA molecule, is positioned like an non-scaleable wall between the theory of evolution and real, natural life. And dating the strata in which these fossils are found by the presupposed dates when the creatures they represent lived uses a form of logic that is popularly referred to as "circular reasoning��?. You can not depend on dating methods that date a fossil by its strata and then date the strata by its fossil.

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We've been talking about the supposed evolution from fish to amphibians, and how the supposed transitional forms found between the two, are not viewed by most creationists as true transitional forms. And we began distinguishing between mutations between species and variation among kinds, how such variation allows changes among kinds of creatures to survive ever-changing climates and other environmental factors..to be fruitful and multiply, as stated by God within Scripture. Just as variation occurs with dogs, for example, where every dog-type, from Pekinese to St. Bernard, all originating from the DNA of the wolf, or as that with the many different types of beaks in finches noticed by Darwin when he visited Galapegos, animals adapt and are fitted to their environment. It is pre-built into their genetic material to be able to do so.

What one can miss, if they are not careful, is that these changes are downward or horizontal, not upwardly vertical. Nothing new is created in the process.

Unfortunately for the evolutionist paradigm, the only animals for which fossils are widely available after these ancient fish are the Ichthyostega, and those already had well-developed legs and toes. The Creationist challenge is simply that the fossil record supplies none of the supposed links of plant to animal, fish to amphibian, amphibian to reptile, or reptile to birds and mammals.

Alexander Pope, a 17^th century poet, wrote in his Epistle I, NATURE AND STATE OF MAN WITH RESPECT TO THE UNIVERSE: "Hope springs eternal in the human breast."

But knowing what we now know, one will find it difficult to disagree with the conclusion by the eminent Rylands University scholar, F.F. Bruce, stating near the end of his book “Some writers may toy with the fancy of a Christ-myth, but they do not do so on the ground of historical evidence. The historicity of Christ is as axiomatic for an unbiased historian as that of Julius Caesar. It is not the historians who propagate the “Christ-myth theories.��?

John’s influence on Polycarp is evident in his letter to the Philippian church, quoting 1^st John 4:3, for example, stating, “For every one who shall not confess that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh, is antichrist��?. And Polycarp also borrows heavily from 1^st and 2^nd Timothy, when he wrote “I exhort you all therefore to be obedient to the word of righteousness and to practice all endurance, which you saw with your own eyes in Ignatius, Zosimus, Rufus, in others also who came from among yourselves, as well as in Paul and the rest of the Apostles;

The story, entitled Octavius, begins with a description of a leisurely journey taken by three reunited friends, Octavius, Caecilius and Marcus Felix, as they walk on the sands and great rocks along the ancient port of Rome, the seaside resort of Ostia.

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Last time we began to embark on a journey through time, introducing some of those champions of faith, using Eusebius, the third century historian, as well as other viable sources. The power, reliability and accuracy of God's Word is preserved and presented to us by the mosaic comprised of their lives and deaths. Eusebius, as one source, living between 263 and 339 AD, has often been dubbed the Father of Ecclesiastical History. This great historian enthusiastically dedicated his life and energy to documenting the first 300 years of Church history. When reading his summary, History of the Church, it quickly becomes clear that his theme is :  the working of God"s providence through the apostolic succession.

Surprise! The RATE Group, a group of scientists dedicated to a focused study to test these assumptions, have found that study of such rocks, known to be only recently formed in volcanoes, have revealed that molten magma actually absorbs argon into its crystal molecular lattice while cooling, and perhaps thereafter.

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According to all we know today about physical matter, it is made up of atoms, and, even though you can't see them, these atoms make up everything you see, touch, smell, etc. Getting a basic understanding of radioactivity can begin with that of a useful model of the atom, the Bohr Model, named after Niels Bohr who proposed the structure in 1913, that most of us recall from high school or college. Looking much like a tiny solar system, this model consists of a central nucleus, composed of neutrons and protons, surrounded by electrons that "orbit��? around the nucleus. Protons carry a positive charge, neutrons (which are actually built from protons and electrons) are electrically “neutral��?, and the electron is negative.

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Last couple of discussions about the beaver have been about its remarkable design, specialized for aquatic life, and its uncanny dam, food storage, den and canal building skills. The beaver is a capable builder. Its best-known structures, the dams, are built by beavers that need to enlarge the underwater habitat open to them in winter. The dam creates a pond deep enough not to freeze to the bottom, providing storage for winter food and year-round underwater access to the lodge secure from predators.

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It seems to me obvious that the amazing structure and function of the humble chicken egg is carefully designed to house and facilitate the startling processes of a developing a chick embryo into, by a miraculous, 20 day chain of complex events, a baby chick. Now, it may be time to test the evolutionary belief taught to many of our children that tiny, graduated, beneficial mutations slowly could have resulted in the development of a chick embryo inside this ingenious egg. Indeed, a number of important questions come to mind.

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Last time we were taking a closer look at the humble chicken egg. And humble it seems, as one casually takes this wondrous 2 inch-long package out of the frig and holds it between the thumb and forefinger. But, if this same egg had been fertilized by a rooster and allowed to be kept warm under a chicken, over the next 20 days of incubation, a remarkable and miraculous chain of events would occur. And, to exemplify the obvious pre-thought put into this design, the blood vessels to provide oxygen, and others to eliminate waste, attached to membrane lining, and still others growing out of the chick, connecting it to the yolk to provide nourishment, the development of an air sac, the chick's instinctive positioning of its head near that air cell, the directing and double bending of its neck, were enlisted last time.

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No doubt kids and adults alike delight in the illustrations which take a closer look at animals that dramatically demonstrate intelligent design. Recently, for example, we've been exploring the apparent paradox "which came first, the chicken or the egg?��? as it applies to specific evolution-creation debates. So, over the next few discussions, let"s take a closer look at the chicken egg.

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Last time we were looking at that amazing chemist, the Bombardier Beetle, who, though having a brain capacity smaller than the head of a pin, is able to safety mix caustic chemicals and deliver them to its attacker as a pressurized, boiling hot spray.

Another one I like is the woodpecker. The woodpecker has a specialized tongue in a tough beak with a sharp point; a shock absorbing tissue behind the bill; a tough, double reinforced skull; a stiff tail for bracing itself; strong leg muscles to hold on; and special four-clawed feet to give added support. The woodpecker can hammer at a tree with a force of over 1000 Gs; 300 times greater than the effect that pushes our astronauts on lift off. Each strike of the beak must be straight on or else the shear force could break the beak or smash its brain. As the beak strikes, the bird's eyelids close to prevent them from popping out.

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The popular concept today of irreducible complexity has been introduced in previous programs. Though it provides positive proof to the open-minded of the fact that this world has been designed and created by God, it is to many a difficult one to wrap the mind around. Nevertheless, kids and adults alike can delight in the illustrations brought out these days by taking a closer look at animals dramatically demonstrating God's design.

A popular one is the Bombardier Beetle. This amazing little bug utilizes chemicals typically metabolized by its species in remarkable, irreducible ways. Evolutionists find fault with this example but they do not succeed in explaining how the bombardier beetle could have evolved.

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It was Maxwell, a strong opponent of

Darwin, that mathematically refuted LePlace's atheistic nebular hypothesis. Herschel stated that the undevout astronomer must be mad.

Newton acknowledged the Bible as "the most sublime philosophy��?, finding “more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible that in any profane history whatsoever"?. These mentioned here, who lived before, during and after

Darwin, are only a sample of the many thousands in history, and many thousands, perhaps millions, of scientists today, that can not accept the dogmatic tenets of evolutionary theory. Actually, it is the contention of many creationists that, as Wilder-Smith borrowed to entitle one of his books, the Natural Sciences No Nothing of Evolution.

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Today, engineers and physicists solve most problems using Isaac Newton's mechanics and mathematics, though

Newton has been dead for nearly 300 years.

Newton was the first to demonstrate that the same natural laws govern both earthly motion and celestial motion. He is associated with the scientific revolution and the advancement of heliocentrism, the mathematical substantiation for and expansion of Kepler"s laws, for his arguments that light was composed of particles, laws of optics, cooling, the binomial theorem in its entirety; and the principles of conservation of momentum. Finally, he studied the speed of sound in air, and voiced a theory of the origin of stars.

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 These I will talk about have engendered or otherwise contributed to the foundation for mankind’s scientific understanding of his physical world. As the great astronomer, Johann Kepler, the one who in the late 16^th century presented the mathematical and physical laws governing planetary motion said “I had the intention of becoming a theologian...but now I see how God is, by my endeavors, also glorified in astronomy, for 'the heavens declare the glory of God. I am a Christian...I believe... only and alone in the service of Jesus Christ...In Him is all refuge, and all solace."

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We've been looking at the gas helium, a component of our atmosphere. It is fairly rare, about one part in 200,000, but, nevertheless, the mix of the rare gases are of immense importance, affecting our weather and climactic balance.

Much could be mentioned about uses we have found for this gas. Helium is used in lighter than air balloons and blimps, and while heavier than hydrogen, is far safer since it doesn"t burn. It is used as an inert gas shield for arc welding; pressuring liquid fuel rockets; and as a gas for supersonic wind tunnels. It has been put forth that there is but a fraction of the helium that it seems there should be, given the Earth is as old as evolutionists need it to be. Since the colorless and odorless helium is one of the noble gases, being non-reactive, like argon, it does not form other compounds, but remains by itself, easy to track.

We were noting last time that some physicists and physical chemists like Drs. Cook, Vardiman and Humphreys have demonstrated over the years that there is up to a million times less helium in our atmosphere than there would be had the Earth existed for 4.5 billion years. Even using the most conservative estimations, the present abundance of one type of He would accumulate in 1.8 million years, and only 370 thousand years would be required to supply the atmosphere with its present content of another isotope of He. In the most extreme case of we have 3,000 times too small an amount of Helium in our atmosphere. Evolutionists must reason, therefore, that the helium must be somehow escaping from the atmosphere.

The main process which has been considered to explain the excessive loss of helium by long-age theorists is thermal escape. This is the process whereby light gas molecules or atoms can escape from the gravitational attraction of a planet, if they exceed the escape velocity. But, as Vardiman demonstrates by citing fully accepted documentation, even if helium did escape at any scientifically acceptable rate, the present abundance in the atmosphere of one isotope of Helium, ⁴He, containing two protons and two neutrons, would still accumulate in about two million years, far short of the billions of years necessary for evolution.

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As most of us know, to one degree or another, our atmosphere is a mixture of a number of different gases. The atmosphere is the mixture of gases and other materials that surround the Earth in a thin, mostly transparent shell. It is held in place by the Earth's gravity. The main components are nitrogen (78.09%), oxygen (20.95%), argon (0.93%), and carbon dioxide (0.03%).

We are immersed in an ocean of air and, at sea level, we are at its bottom. Air weighs about .075 pounds per cubic foot. As a result of all the air above us, we experience about 14.7 pounds per square foot of atmospheric pressure.

But among the other gases in the atmosphere we could discuss today, helium is very interesting.

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According to all the physics we know today, the evolution of the sun requires that it was too cold for life to form billions of years ago. How do evolutionists resolve this paradox?

It may be helpful to recall that evolutionists theorize that, on early Earth, life forms, like microscopic algae, are supposed to have introduced free oxygen into the air and regulated the amount of other gases. The original atmosphere on Earth, say they, was a reducing atmosphere. The term "reducing��? is used to describe chemical reactions containing free hydrogen. Originally, they postulated an atmosphere consisting of carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), carbon monoxide (CO), ammonia (NH3), free hydrogen and water vapor. Newer schemes exclude ammonia and methane. This is certainly topic for another discussion.

So as new forms of life evolved, the mix of gases in Earth's atmosphere gradually changed. Carl Sagan, among others, proposed that the early atmosphere contained a greater amount of greenhouse gases (such as methane) than today, and that this would have produced average temperatures close to those today, even with a much fainter Sun. As the Sun gradually increased in luminosity, Earth's atmosphere is supposed to have evolved along with it, so that the amount of greenhouse gases have slowly decreased to compensate for the increasing solar luminosity.

Supposedly the Sun has been a main-sequence star since its formation about 4.6 billion years ago. This time represents about half the assumed ten-billion-year main-sequence lifetime of the Sun, so the Sun should have used about half its energy store by now. This means that about half the hydrogen in the core of the Sun has been used up and replaced by helium. This necessitates that the Sun is nearly 40% brighter than it was 4.6 billion years ago, and a 40% change in solar luminosity would have produced dramatic climatic changes.

Now, a star is viewed today as a ball of gas held together by its own gravity, which is continually trying to cause the star to collapse. The pressure of hot gas and/or radiation in the star's interior counterbalances its gravity. During the lifetime of this star, the interior heat and radiation is provided by nuclear reactions near the center, and this phase of the star's life is called its main sequence. The physics behind these theories of star formation absolutely require that the young, main sequence star is much fainter, cooler, than it will be when it matures. Our Sun, of course, has to be at least as old as our Earth, however old that may be. So, the evolutionist must believe that, each and every day, over millions and billions of years, by sheer, happy coincidence, the Earth somehow maintained a heated environment, slowly and exactly cooling to match the gradual increases in the Sun’s temperature, in order to maintain the even, consistent temperatures absolutely essential to the theory of evolution of life.

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This is the last of a series on the decline of the Earth's magnetic field. We"ve thereby noted and look briefly at the two opposing views on the phenomenon; Special Creation and Dynamo theories. Even evolutionists knowledgeable in the field, we’ve observed, acknowledge that the evolutionary magnetic sign reversal hypothesis has no valid theoretical support.

Dr. Barnes, in his book, The Decay of the Earth's Magnetic Moment and the Geochronological Implications, demonstrates that the reversal hypothesis has no  valid theoretical/mathematical basis or observational support. The paleomagnetic data upon which it depends does not correlate with the state of the earth's magnetic field, namely its magnetic moment. Further, the variations in the magnetic fields of Neptune and Uranus, measured during Voyager space explorations, challenge evolutionary theory and support creationist models. For example, Uranus, though producing very little heat, has a very strong magnetic field.

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Last time we were looking at the two opposing theories, Special Creation and Evolutionary Dynamo theories, that are used to explain the unmistakable fact that the Earth's magnetic field is weakening.

Dr. Humphreys concludes that, at present, the only working theory for the origin, fluctuations, rapid reversals, and decay of the field is a creationist theory--a theory that fits all the data. Thus, according to the best theory and data we have, the earth's magnetic field certainly is less than 100,000 years old; very likely less than 10,000 years old, and fits in well with the face-value Biblical age of 6,000 years.

To protect their long-age chronology, evolutionists hold to a reversal hypothesis. The magnetic field is said to have remained at essentially the same value during geologic time, except for intervals in which it went through a reversal, dying down to zero and rising up again with the reverse polarity. The last reversal is supposed to have taken place 700,000 years ago. But the reversal hypothesis has no valid theoretical support. That is acknowledged in Carrigan, C.R. and David Gubbins, on page 125 of the February 1979 Scientific American article "The Source of the Earth's Magnetic Field," stating that "No one has developed an explanation of why the sign reversals take place. The apparent random reversals of the earth's dipole field have remained inscrutable." Neither are there any dependable data to support the reversal hypothesis.

The evolutionary "dynamo" theories claim that complex processes in the earth's core have converted heat energy into electrical energy, much like an electric generator, maintaining the field for billions of years. Many intelligent scientists have been working on these dynamo theories for over four decades without great success. Furthermore, recent measurements of electric currents in the sea floor weigh heavily against the most popular class of dynamo theories.

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Perhaps you have gone on hikes or camping sometime in the past and have had occasion to make use of a compass. As far as we can tell, inside the earth is a big ball of iron, which is magnetically charged, and so produces a magnetic field. How that core is charged will be a major topic in this series, and, as you will see, presents serious problems for the evolutionist. Now the lines of the Earth's magnetic field all point in one direction.

So, inside a compass is a small magnet attached to a needle. Most of us know that magnets attract each other and so the magnet of the needle is attracted to the magnet produced by the Earth. Since the Earth"s magnetic lines always point in one direction, the compass needle will also point in one direction. The magnet is placed in the needle so that it points North. Obviously, once we figure out where the North is, we can decipher where South, East and West are as well.

Dr. Henry Morris summarizes well when he theorizes that either of two alternatives must explain the history of language:

(1) There was an original population of men, possibly up to four million years ago, with a highly complex language and culture. This original population somehow broke up into a number of separate populations, each developing independently for so long that the extreme peculiarities of its language emerged as a remnant of the ancestral language. OR….

(2) There was an original population of men several thousand years ago that once used a complex ancestral language, but then broke up into smaller populations. This break-up was accomplished in a traumatic separation, accomplished by a sudden transforming of the one original language into a number of distinctively and uniquely different languages.

Modern, scientific study of language has categorized as 1) proto-Indo-European (which is branched to Indo-Iranian, after Jones’ studies in 1786, Baltic, Slavic, Armenian, Greek, Albanian, Celtic, Roman, and Germanic); 2) Afro-Asiatic (Egyptian, Semitic, Cushatic, Berber and Chad); 3) Sino-Tibetan (Mandarin and all Chinese speaking); 4) Dravidian (Southern Indian)and 5) Ural (Northern Asia and parts of Europe) divisions. Let’s leave out the more recent, American languages.

We began our last session introducing the contrast between the evolutionary view of human language and cultural development and that described in Genesis. We first noted that, regardless of extravagant claims made by those wishing to bridge the gap between human and animal language, all we know today from our greatest experts on the subject is that the gap is unbridgeable.

Due to the tremendous lack of hard evidence to support their claims of long ages, evolutionists are forced to invent outlandish theories about language development. To accept these we must accept that people of ancient cultures were unable to write anything for hundreds of thousands to millions of years! So, for just a moment, let’s instead look to what we know.

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A very important physical ability distinguishing man from apes and other animals is his capacity of language. The ability to communicate with others of his own kind in abstract, symbolic speech is unique to man, and the evolutionist has never been able to bridge the tremendous gulf between this ability and the grunts and barks and chatterings of animals.

Some researchers have, of course, made extravagant claims as to the potentiality of teaching chimpanzees to speak, for example, or have developed highly imaginative speculations as to how animal noises may have evolved into human languages. Such notions are, however, not based on real scientific observation or evidence.

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The Roman Historian, A.N. Sherwin-White comments on the book of Acts, for example, by stating "For Acts the confirmation of historicity is overwhelming…Any attempt to reject its basic historicity must now appear absurd. Roman historians have long taken it for granted"? Other great archaeologists, Ramsay, Glueck, Albright, Warwick, Unger, and the list goes on and on, state the same about their findings.

And now we have enough evidence, just from letters among Christians who were contemporary and lived just after the apostles, to place all of the writings of the New Testament in the first century.

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Dr. Clifford Wilson, a Biblical archaeologist and linguist, in his book EBLA TABLETS: Secrets of a Forgotten City documents the findings at Ebla, on the main road to Aleppo in Northern Syria. Possibly the most significant discovery yet made relating to the background of early Bible times, these describe a period 1000 years before Moses. First excavated by Professor Matthiae of the Rome University in 1964, thousands of tablets are uncovered each year. The tablets deal with statistics, economic matters, offerings to the gods, names of many Biblical cities (including Sodom and Gomorrah), trade routes, provides multilingual vocabulary lists, and judicial proceedings.

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This is the last of the enlisting of the positions about origins held in common by most modern creationists. We've defined the basics of evolutionary mechanisms, marveled at some examples of the thousands of factors required for the preservation of life on Earth, noticed the deep human longing for heaven, that the vast ages presented to us by evolutionists are not required nor are such vast ages supported by scripture. We"ve, perhaps reluctantly, been forced to conclude that there really is no compromise between these two diametrically opposed views.

Indeed, the evolution-creation controversy begins to appear more like a war that a debate or discussion. One Christian writer, a scientist, cites articles with titles like this one "Is Religion a Form of Mental Illness?"

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In this series of discussions we have been attempting to clarify and present beliefs held in common by most modern creationists. We've underlined the basics of evolutionary mechanisms, natural selection and beneficial mutation, exemplified the thousands of factors beneficently ordered to nurture and preserve life on Earth, that human kind is clearly wired, and so longs for, heaven, that the vast ages propagated by evolutionists are not required nor should be asserted to exist, neither are such vast ages supported by scripture.

Added to these must be the essential realization that, when taken to their logical ends, the doctrines of Darwinian evolution and special creationism are mutually exclusive.

So far in this series we’ve examined the mechanisms of evolution; natural selection and beneficial mutation, presented as the creator of all life, and demonstrated why such mechanisms could not have produced the design and complexity found in living things. Secondly, we put out a short list to exemplify the thousands of factors beneficently ordered to nurture and preserve life on Earth. Finally, we cited the deep desire inside ourselves, and in past and present cultures around the globe, as strong evidence for a creator. We are clearly wired, and so long for, heaven.

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Last time we began a series of discussions summarizing concepts and ideas that all informed creationists hold in common by introducing the two mechanisms of evolutionary theory, natural selection and beneficial mutations. We put forth the conclusion that these mechanisms are entirely inadequate to explain origin of life and origin of species, and that all scripture, as well as hard facts derived from scientific inquiry, testify that the working systems within living things are inseparable, incredibly complicated and integrated; irreducibly complex, requiring forethought and design.

A good first step to understanding the evolutionary position is to know that there are only two mechanisms to evolution, when evolution is defined as the creator of all living things. One mechanism, called natural selection, or survival of the fittest, is factual, observable, and accepted by informed creationists, as well as evolutionists...

Jack

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Last time we were describing a group of Scientists formed to investigate and evaluate the reliability of various, popular methods of radiometric dating, called the Radioisotopes and the Age of the Earth (or RATE) group.

As afore-mentioned, some of their observations and conclusions are surprising, at least they are surprising to evolutionary geologists.

For example, careful research into the popular Potassium – Argon dating method, method of choice for igneous rocks with minerals such as potassium feldspar, muscovite and green-sand, has brought forth the conclusion that the assumptions under-girding the method are flawed...

Jack

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Evolutionists invariably cite "proof"? of the Earth's old age, in order to support their theory, as supplied by radiometric dating. However, in recent years, the questionable assumptions of these dating methods are being experimentally challenged by creation scientists.

In 1996 a group of Scientists formed to investigate those assumptions and evaluate the reliability of popular methods of radiometric dating. This, research group, called the Radioisotopes and the Age of the Earth (or RATE) group, is comprised of well-qualified researchers...

 Jack 

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Last couple of days we've been reviewing the seeming paradox of the Biblical proclamation that all the heavenly bodies were created on the fourth day of creation, just days before the creation of Adam, contrasted with scientific understanding today of the speed of light and the unimaginable dimensions of the universe. How could objects and events thousands, millions, even billions of light years away from us be seen if created within the short history of mankind, as seeming to have been reported by Scripture?

We also have been discussing the theoretical and proven understanding that time is slowed down in proportion to the density of mass. Yes, time moves slower when closer to matter. Now, for just a moment, picture all the matter in the universe being in one place. If you were to have two clocks during the first days of creation, one clock located near the entire, incredibly dense mass of the universe, estimated today to be 10⁵¹ kilograms, and another clock located far enough away, relativistic calculations show that the clock far away would measure billions of years of time passing, while the clock close to the total mass of the universe is slowed and only registers a single day! As inconceivable as it may be, there is no absolute time. The belief held by evolutionists that the universe is infinite with no boundary is, as stated by Hawkings in his book, a Brief History in Time, is completely arbitrary.

So, now picture for a moment a Biblical, expanding universe, that does have a boundary, and a center, and an earth relatively close to that center...

In contrast to the big bang theory, the Scriptural record states that the universe is not infinite. Solomon stated in I Kings 8 and in II Chronicles , Chapters 2 and 6, that the cosmos cannot contain God and it is recorded in Isaiah 40:12 that God measured the cosmos between His thumb and forefinger. Genesis Chapter 1 described that the cosmos, or the firmament, is bounded by waters above and below.

But, still, the issue of light being visible from systems and events too far away have troubled young earth creationists for the last century, and more so recently as convincing data regarding the hugeness of the universe has continued to accumulate...

The Big Bang Theory is the dominant scientific theory about the origin of the universe. According to the big bang, the universe was created sometime between 10 billion and 20 billion years ago from a cosmic explosion that hurled matter and in all directions. The big bang was initially suggested in 1927 because it explains why distant galaxies are traveling away from us at great speeds. Four observations, Expansion of the Universe, Origin of the cosmic background radiation, Synthesis of the light elements, and Formation of galaxies and large-scale structure are cited today as proof of the big bang theory...

Back in 1789, the First Amendment of our Constitution was constructed, stating that "Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." ...jack

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Black box analyses is used in many fields...mathematics, chemistry, computer programming, physics, and, Behe contends, in biology. It is often referred to as boundary analysis, because the analyst disregards what occurs inside the "box" and focuses on what crosses the boundary (what goes in and what comes out of the box). Regarding biology: energy and chemistry goes in and life supposedly comes out.

One of Behe's chief premises...we now know too much about what's inside the black box to hold a blind, evolutionary view.

Jack

What is now known, that Darwin didn’t know at that time, which was finally noticed by the scientific community about 40 years later, was presented by Gregor Mendal. Now considered to be the father of Genetics, Gregor Mendal demonstrated with his garden peas that variations in a species has nothing to do with new information, but the scrambling and recombination of information already existing.

Jack

But if free scientific discourse were to be tolerated, it would quickly be revealed to those who don’t already know it that, in fact, all of these discussions only are presenting examples, in all cases, of either variations within species and natural selection, or dreamt up, unsubstantiated scenarios, and certainly not the creation of anything new in a species or class.

This book displays a general attitude and aggressive approach to the evolution-creation debate that you can commonly see in similar books and articles produced by some of the leading evolutionists these days.

Like some of his peers, Mr. Berra can see clearly that there are a lot of people today that are questioning the assumptions and statements-of-fact being brought forth by some of today's evolutionary "mouthpieces?.

Jack

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Over the last few days we've been presenting the laws of thermodynamics and how they align themselves strongly in support of Scripture and against evolutionism. It was previously mentioned that evolutionists claim that creationists misunderstand that the law defies evolution only in a closed system, and, due to the availability of the Sun"s energy, evolution of life on earth, by local increases in order, can occur.

But the late AW Wilder-Smith clarifies, in his book The Creation of Life, that this idea about the Sun providing energy for evolution is itself a misunderstanding of open and closed systems. In a presentation he picks up a stick off the ground, warmed by the hot Sun above, and rotting, and shows that the Sun, providing unorganized energy, heats up the stick, and so only serves to make the deterioration of the stick happen faster. The use of the Sun’s energy, which Smith calls teleonomy, can only be done by an intelligently designed plant. Smith, a brilliant scientist with three PhD’s in the biological field, clarifies that the spontaneous synthesis of life’s building blocks, and embedding of information within life, is made absolutely impossible by the Second Law of Thermodynamics.

We have been discussing thermodynamics and the fact that Scriptural statements about the creation of energy and matter, and the inevitable demise of all material things, is heavily supported by the four laws of thermodynamics. We left off last time with a little detail about the zeroth and first laws. Today and next time we will look a bit more closely at the Second and Third Laws.

The second law of thermodynamics builds upon the First law by stating that all energy, which according to the first law cannot be created or destroyed, experiences a universal process of change, and it is a directional change, but it is not an upward change.

These Biblical realities are heavily demonstrated by the laws of thermodynamics. Thermodynamics is one of those disciplines, heavily based in mathematics, that is supported by universally accepted, scientific laws. There are four such laws presented by thermodynamics. They are the Zeroth, First, Second and Third laws.

But despite such confident and unsupportable claims made by evolutionary apologists like Huxley, we at best only know what the accumulation of knowledge presents to be true. In science, we enunciate such accumulated knowledge in the form of laws, and the “meat and potatoes��? of a given scientific law usually is associated with cause and effect relationships.

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Last time we ended our discussion pondering how intelligent observers in the last century could miss such obvious facts as we’ve been discussing as they were developing theories about the origin of coal. It was proposed that, as is often is the case when discussing origins, that it may have to do with foundational beliefs, world views if you will, upon which any theory is built.

If you don’t believe, or worse, are vehemently opposed to the Biblical claim of a worldwide flood, then the idea of a violent, world-wide, sudden event occurring in marine waters creating coal beds is at best an idea that would not occur to you, and at worst is repulsive and perhaps a little frightening...Jack

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This fourth of a five part, closer look at what most of us have been taught about coal and how it developed, continues to challenge the idea that coal developed in freshwater swamps over millions of years.

So far we’ve reviewed seven observable facts that demonstrate that coal contains marine plants and animals and so should not be theorized to have been generated from freshwater swamps; that coal beds are often impaled by tree trucks oriented in all directions and so should not be believed to have layered over long time periods; that the beds and the trees and roots within them often contain materials that are foreign to the areas where the coal beds are found. Something sudden and energetic, violent, not slow and calm, seems to be associated with coal beds. Also, we saw evidences that these beds are often too vast to be credible swamp floors, and that many coal beds found today are without soils beneath them, necessary to the swamp theory...Jack

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We have been looking at the theories proposed for the origin of coal, and noting reasons for preferring the flood theory above the more commonly known swamp theory. The three reasons discussed last time; many plants found in coal are not swamp plants, trees found in coal beds sometimes contain energetically transported foreign material, and fossils of salt-water life is often found in coal, all seem to contradict the millions-of-years, slow layering, fresh-water swamp theory.

Now, a fourth observation supporting the flood theory: upright tree trunks penetrating tens of feet, perpendicular, diagonally positioned, or upside down, are sometimes found in and associated with coal beds, showing a short time period for coal forming before the tree could rot and fall. Because the tree is in growth position and shows no root regeneration, it probably was buried very quickly, certainly before it could decay...Jack

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Last time we began to examine the two prevalent theories today used to explain the formation of coal on the Earth; the swamp theory and the flood theory, and how they fit into the Biblical record.

The swamp theory claims that, millions of years ago, much of our land was covered by freshwater swamps. In these swamps were leaves, stems, spores, free trunks, branches, plant roots, resins, charred wood from swamp fires, other organic material, and mineral (inorganic) matter were deposited within the swampy basins. This process continued for many years forming heavy, soggy layers and eventually a material called peat. Then dirt, sand and clay covered the peat and heat and pressure produced by these layers caused the peat to become rich carbon deposits. After millions of years, the story goes on to propose, these carbon deposits formed coal...Jack

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What do you think about coal? Bet you didn’t expect that question today. Well, coal is important to the Bible-believer, because in its study one can find a powerful demonstration of Noah’s great Flood.

The first documented US coal mining was probably a 50 ton excavation that was dug in 1748. Today, we produce over one billion tons per year...  jack

Though ingenious in their fabrications, scenarios presented to demonstrate the development of an eye ask you to believe what is naturally impossible. Evolutionists casually present computer models, for example, showing that a fish eye can evolve in 364,000 generations. This modeling utilizes mutation rates that are known, but it is not mentioned the requirement that the mutation must be favorable, that is, useful to the development of a desired end, a complex, working eye...Jack

It is difficult these days to not be aware of the serious debate existing about all claims made by evolutionary materialists...Jack

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We’ve been looking at a couple of interesting terms these last two days; axiom, and paradox. Thus we could better understand strategically why the enemy, Satan, spends so much time attacking Genesis, the book of origins, and so by attempting to present Genesis as a collection of ancient myths and allegories, indirectly attacks the very cross of Christ. We also examined the paradox of the salvation of the unrepentant by the repentance of the only one capable of perfect repentance, one who doesn’t need to repent. That perfect penitent is Christ...

 jack

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We’ve been looking at a couple of interesting terms these last two days; axiom, and paradox. Thus we could better understand strategically why the enemy, Satan, spends so much time attacking Genesis, the book of origins, and so by attempting to present Genesis as a collection of ancient myths and allegories, indirectly attacks the very cross of Christ. We also examined the paradox of the salvation of the unrepentant by the repentance of the only one capable of perfect repentance, one who doesn’t need to repent. That perfect penitent is Christ.

Now, another paradox; Which came first, the chicken or the egg? To embrace this question, we must go outside of our experience. We have seen that eggs come from hens, so maybe the chicken came first. However, when fertilized by a rooster, the egg will produce, through a mind boggling series of complex processes, a baby chicken. We observe that this is the only way chickens come into the world. So the which came first question remains unanswered.

It is unanswered because the logical end of this question is one of origins...

jack

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Last time we defined the word axiom, a-x-i-o-m, as a basic truth or fact that does not need to be proven, because it’s foundational. Now I’m going to bring in another term…paradox. This word is more familiar. Paradox combines the para- root with the Greek word for "thought," something that takes us outside our normal thinking.

A paradox can be false if it couples incorrect concepts, definitions or understandings. For example, How can God, for whom nothing is impossible, create a stone that He can’t lift? If God can lift anything, then He can’t make anything that He can’t lift. On the other hand, if He can create such a stone, then at least one thing is impossible to Him, that is; the lifting of this stone. But this proposed paradox is a false one, because the meanings behind the question are mutually exclusive, and, additionally, we are talking about God. And it makes no logical sense to ask what will happen when an irresistible force meets an immovable object? And second, the God we’re talking about is a lot more than just an irresistible force.

 jack

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Have you ever heard the term “axiom��? before? An axiom, a-x-i-o-m, is a basic truth or fact that does not need to be proven, because it’s foundational. In math, it is axiomatic that, if you multiply any number by one, the product equals that same number. This is more useful than you may think, very helpful the sciences to convert and preserve units and values.

So, if one can build an argument on a foundation of axiomatic premises during a discussion, the logic of that side of a given debate is strengthened.

I doubt if you would think it a very profound to state that foundational truths have always been at the base of sound reasoning. Jesus certainly put forth this concept in His parable about building your house on sand. The idea is that a solid foundation, though initially perhaps more difficult to establish, chiseling out of the rocks as it were the base for your foundation, the end result is a house that will endure when those inevitable violent storms arrive...

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In the last couple of days we've been looking at similarities among cultures and noting that most entertain myths and beliefs similar in many ways to a primordal paradise, a Garden of Eden.

Among the most intriguing ancient traditions to me is that reported of the Miautso tribes, who at one time occupied most of inland

China south of the Yangtze River. These tribes have been gradually driven into the mountains of the southwest by the better-armed and better-organized Chinese.

As explained by the translator, Edgar Truax, "The Miao traditions are very precise, as compared with those of many primitive peoples, because they are not only handed down in metrical form, but, also, they are in couplets, in which the same or similar meaning is expressed in different wording, so that the second sentence acts as a definition of the first, where it might otherwise not be clear. This is very much like one form of Hebrew poetry.

jack

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Jack

For your consideration:

Hesiod; “At first the immortals who dwell on Olympus created a golden race of mortal men, and they lived like gods, carefree in their hearts, shielded from pain and misery. Helpless old age did not exist, and with limbs of unsagging vigor they enjoyed the delights of feasts, out of evil's reach.��?

 And, in the jungles of ancient Meso-america, a similar account was preserved in the. Popoi Vuh; “And in this way they (the Creators and Makers) were filled with joy, because they had found a beautiful land, full of pleasures. There were foods of every kind.��? But a problem surfaced. The gods found that the "created" came into a possession of knowledge and vision equaling that of the "creators", and this could not be tolerated for long. Holding council, they resolved to remove these powers from the realm of mankind. This divine dilemma is almost identical to the one described in Genesis 3:22.

jack

The idea that there is in our past a cultural memory of a paradise, where there was no death, disease or pain, is not hard to prove.

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 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 icon...Jack You may have heard the story, how that, in Dayton, Tennessee, back in 1925, John Scopes, a high school biology teacher, was put on trial for breaking the state's Butler Act, which forbade the teaching of "any theory that denies the story of the Divine Creation of man as taught in the Bible….��?. To assist the prosecution, the World Christian Fundamentals Association secured the services of William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska...jack

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In the last couple of days we’ve looked at the only two mechanisms available to evolutionists to validate their theory, and have been presented with the tiny testimony of the fruit fly.

But even if you could demonstrate beneficial mutation, how do you then explain integrated functions and systems in a creature.

For example, neo-Darwinists believe that subsequent generations of giraffes mutated beneficially to have longer and longer necks. But it takes a very powerful heart to pump blood up to the full-grown giraffe’s brain, 18 feet in the air. A thirsty giraffe must lower that head way down to drink water. While the head is down, that powerful heart, now some eight feet above the head, with one mighty pump, will burst its brain’s blood vessels. So the giraffe needs special arterial valves that can close and regulate blood flow to the brain while it drinks. But now the giraffe sees a lion, raises its head and starts running.

With its head raised the giraffe won’t get blood in time and so will quickly black out. Fortunately, the giraffe also has a unique, sponge-like tissue just beneath its brain that gently absorbs blood to prevent capillary damage while the head is down, and then gently contracts and squeezes this blood into its brain while the head raises, preventing the giraffe from fainting until blood from the nearest re-opened valve reaches the brain.

The giraffe needs all of these characteristics at once.

Jack

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So, simply put, evolutionists must, for each complex, living organism, and for each complex system within each organism, come up with scenarios to explain how, gradually, one incremental mutation at a time, such complex systems and beings could come to be. At the same time, each system component must be working on its own. We’ll examine a couple examples over the next few days.

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Jack

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It’s probably a good idea to understand a phrase popularized within the Christian community by Behe and others: Irreducible complexity. To better understand the importance of irreducible complexity, we must first recall the basic tenets of the theory of Darwinian Evolution. There are only two mechanisms that are believed to make evolution possible.

The first mechanism is natural selection, sometimes referred to as the survival of the fittest. Most of us, creationist or evolutionist, don’t have a problem with this concept. Natural selection doesn’t belong to, neither was it first expressed by, an evolutionist. But, as the Dutch botanist Hugo DeVries wrote in his book Their Origin By Mutation, “Natural selection may explain the survival of the fittest, but not the arrival of the fittest.��? In other words, natural selection can’t create any thing new, but can only eliminate what is already created.

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The words of Jesus, in answer to His disciples’ question about the details of His return, are recorded by Luke, Chapter 17. In that night, Jesus said, two shall be sleeping in bed, one shall be taken and the other left.

Surely a nearby scientist or philosopher listening to Jesus would see no problem with His statement, for Jesus said He would be returning at night and that two would be sleeping in bed. .But the rest of Jesus’ answer may seem confusing, for He goes on to say that two women will be grinding, and two men will be working in the field, one taken and the other left.

Grinding meal was traditionally done in the morning, and no one worked in the field at night. But Jesus also said He would be coming at night.True enough, it will be night, somewhere, perhaps in Israel, when he returns, .but it will also be dawn, dusk, morning and afternoon elsewhere in the world.

The support actually provided by science for and against religious belief is very much exaggerated in today’s culture. The reason for this is understandable. Science, when operating within its own arena, has been quite successful.

For example, in a typical environmental laboratory like mine there is a wide variety of scientific experiments, if you will, occurring every single day. Such a lab has a number of instruments, standards, equipment, tools, glassware, and personnel...

jack

 For your consideration...the following is an excerpt from a radio spot on KAPL radio, Jacksonville, Oregon, called " Akin For the Truth". To hear the entire spot (a few minutes long), click the icon....JackThe world’s population, by generally accepted historical information, was, in 1700 AD, 600,000,000, in 1800 AD, 900,000,000…a .4% rate increase.

Due to war, natural disaster, food availability, etc., calculating population growth is an imprecise business. But we do know that the estimated population increase between 1700 and 1800, .4%, predated the great advances made in medicine associated with increased rate growth that would occur in late 19^th and 20^th century. Last time we used calculations to verify the accuracy of Genesis as it describes those 70 Semites that became a nation of an estimated three million within 430 years. Now, using this premedical rate of .4%, we can use population calculations to test another Biblical event, Noah’s worldwide flood.

Jack

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Let’s say you read in the Bible that a little clan of 70 Semites, who in about 1850 BC came down from Palestine, led by Jacob, through Beersheba to Egypt to live near Jacob’s son Joseph, and that this small group of 70 Semites, within just 430 years, grew to a population of some three million. Can we believe it?

But knowing what we now know, one will find it difficult to disagree with the conclusion by the eminent Rylands University scholar, F.F. Bruce, stating near the end of his book “Some writers may toy with the fancy of a Christ-myth, but they do not do so on the ground of historical evidence. The historicity of Christ is as axiomatic for an unbiased historian as that of Julius Caesar. It is not the historians who propagate the “Christ-myth theories.�

John’s influence on Polycarp is evident in his letter to the Philippian church, quoting 1^st John 4:3, for example, stating, “For every one who shall not confess that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh, is antichrist�. And Polycarp also borrows heavily from 1^st and 2^nd Timothy, when he wrote “I exhort you all therefore to be obedient to the word of righteousness and to practice all endurance, which you saw with your own eyes in Ignatius, Zosimus, Rufus, in others also who came from among yourselves, as well as in Paul and the rest of the Apostles; being persuaded that all these ran not in vain but in faith and righteousness, and that they are in their due place in the presence of the Lord, with whom also they suffered. For they loved not the present world, but Him that died for our sakes and was raised by God for us.�

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Last time we began to embark on a journey through time, introducing some of those champions of faith, using Eusebius, the third century historian, as well as other viable sources. The power, reliability and accuracy of God's Word is preserved and presented to us by the mosaic comprised of their lives and deaths. Eusebius, as one source, living between 263 and 339 AD, has often been dubbed the Father of Ecclesiastical History. This great historian enthusiastically dedicated his life and energy to documenting the first 300 years of Church history. When reading his summary, History of the Church, it quickly becomes clear that his theme is :  the working of God"s providence through the apostolic succession.

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Sometimes, when I’m feeling like I’m having a rough time, I’ll crack open and read a chapter out of Foxe’s Book of Martyrs.

While reading this historical account of persecutions all the way back to Nero’s in AD 67, one can’t help but be amazed at the grace of God, and the courage of these lovers of God, these martyrs for Christ. And John Foxe knew the scriptures, Old Testament and New, clearly understanding grace, forgiveness, communion, and the Son-ship and the deity of Christ. John Foxe, who lived from 1516 to 1587, recorded the persecutions and martyrdoms of notable Christians, from Coomans, Hues and others in 1568, Ridley and Latimer in 1555, Calvin, Huss, Bunyan, Tyndale, Luther and Wickliffe, to the early 1300’s, and thence back to the Apostles themselves. When you read the writings of ancient, devout followers of Christ, you are peering into their spiritual insights, personal prayer lives, opinions about entertainment, clothing, work, and every other aspect of daily life.

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In the last couple of days we've been looking at similarities among cultures and noting that most entertain myths and beliefs similar in many ways to a primordal paradise, a Garden of Eden.

 Among the most intriguing ancient traditions to me is that reported of the Miautso tribes, who at one time occupied most of inland China south of the Yangtze River. These tribes have been gradually driven into the mountains of the southwest by the better-armed and better-organized Chinese.

 As explained by the translator, Edgar Truax, "The Miao traditions are very precise, as compared with those of many primitive peoples, because they are not only handed down in metrical form, but, also, they are in couplets, in which the same or similar meaning is expressed in different wording, so that the second sentence acts as a definition of the first, where it might otherwise not be clear. This is very much like one form of Hebrew poetry.

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We've been recently exploring the idea that there is, in our past, a cultural memory of a paradise, where there was no death, disease or pain.

Alene Oestreicher, in a 1989 ICR Impact article, compares Genesis 2 with the Greek beliefs from the 8th century B.C. She quotes Hesiod; "At first the immortals who dwell on

Olympus created a golden race of mortal men, and they lived like gods, carefree in their hearts, shielded from pain and misery. Helpless old age did not exist, and with limbs of unsagging vigor they enjoyed the delights of feasts, out of evil's reach.�

There was such tradition already in Greek culture centuries before ancient Homer penned the Iliad. The even more ancient Sumerians’ Eden traditions speak of a time when there was no sin and where animals lived together in harmony; when man was in harmony with deity and never died. The ancient Chinese Kwang-tze in 400 BC presented, among many other Eden-like ideas, that a woman’s desire for knowledge brought forth the end of this paradise. Even the ancient language of the Chinese, with symbols reaching back through the ages of a 4500 year, unbroken civilization, is deeply rooted in a primordial paradise.  

The Maitzu, ancient people in the mountains of Southwest China, have a verbal, amazingly Genesis-like tradition of Creation, of a catastrophic flood, a Tower of Babel, and a geneology that reaches all the way back to Seth, Adam’s son, and the ancestors of the Native American tribe near the Grand Canyon today refer to a world wide flood as the Canyon’s cause. 

The first that comes to mind is the theory that the evolution of humans is demonstrated within the developing human embryo. According to some, if you look at the various stages of development of the human embryo during a women’s pregnancy, you can see the various stages of human evolution. The main arguments for embryonic recapitulation are the supposed "gill slits" (left over from fish), "yolk sac" (left over from the reptile stage), and "tail" (from the monkeys) in the human embryo. But even informed evolutionists have now abandoned this theory. The gill slits, so called, are never slits, nor do they ever function in respiration. They are actually four pairs of pouches: the first pair becomes germ-fighting organs; the second, the middle ear canals; the third and fourth pairs become the parathyroid and thymus glands. The yolk sac does not store food because the mother's body provides this to the embryo. In fact, the "yolk sac’s true function is to produce the first blood cells. The "tail" is no tail, but just the tip of the spine extending beyond the muscles of the embryo. The end of this will eventually become the coccyx, instrumental in the ability to stand and sit as humans do.

In our ongoing enlisting of some good examples of creatures that defy evolutionary theory by their very existence, we last presented a brief overview of the beaver, chicken egg and the Monarch butterfly. Before that we mentioned the Bombardier Beetle, the woodpecker and birds in general, and the octopus. Careful analyses of the sperm whale reveals a specialized, designed creature, with literally tons of features that must all be in place at once for its survival. Large lungs, special oxygen storage ability in their blood, extraordinary heart, extra circulatory control for pressure equalization, discontinuous sinus cavities, specialized lung tissue, reinforced inner ears, continuous backbone to the tail, are just a few examples, and all provide a dramatic, large scale demonstration to the observer that the whale is irreducibly complex...jack

The Beaver is another that is just another example of special design. Many “which came first��? and “how did the animal survive while developing it��? kinds of questions come to mind when one looks at its completed design and instinctual habits...jack

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If any of you philosophers are searching for a successful marriage between philosophy and theology, let me recommend a book that, in my opinion, every Christian today should study: Mere Christianity, by CS Lewis. The book’s introduction and development is purely philosophical and demonstrates how argumentation itself, and the common perceptions of what is right and wrong, provide us with a clue to the meaning of the universe.

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The same argument was reiterated by Paul in Romans: “For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse��? (KJV, Romans 1:20). Pierce’s "Neglected Argument" stands as a challenge to any living philosopher or scientist who would like to do away with the need for God. What must be explained is the miraculous comprehensibility of the world of experience.

Jack

 For your consideration...the following is an excerpt from a radio spot on KAPL radio, Jacksonville, Oregon, called " Akin For the Truth". To hear the entire spot (a few minutes long), click the icon....JackDr. John Oller quotes the early 20^th century philosopher, Charles Sanders Peirce, the recognized father of pragmatism, from Peirce’s published piece… "A Neglected Argument for the Reality of God." Therein Pierce insisted, "The endless variety in the world has not been created by law. It is not of the nature of uniformity to originate variation, nor of law to beget circumstance. When we gaze upon the multifariousness of nature we are looking straight into the face of a "living spontaneity."

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How many of you high school and college students can find in your textbooks, shown as proof of evolution, series of pictures or photos of advancing stages of human and other mammals as they develop before birth?

Darwin said that embryological evidence was "second to none in importance." The idea that higher life forms go through the previous evolutionary chain before birth was popularized by Ernst Haeckel in 1866. It was later found that Haeckel forged the diagrams which he used as evidence for this theory.

Jack

Remember those textbook pictures of an ancient bird, with a mouthful of teeth, strange, arm-like, hooked wings, perched on a high branch, able only to glide to the next branch? It has been asserted that this bird, called the Archaeopteryx, shares 21 characteristics with dinosaurs. Research on various anatomical features of Archaeopteryx in the last ten years or so, however, has shown, in every case, that the characteristic in question is bird-like, not reptile-like.

Jack

For your consideration...the following is an excerpt from a radio spot on KAPL radio, Jacksonville, Oregon, called " Akin For the Truth". To hear the entire spot (a few minutes long), click the icon....JackIf science is a search for truth, then it follows that no scientific theory should be allowed to freeze into dogma, immune from critical examination and evaluation.

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For your consideration; Are the stars speaking to us?

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In Psalm 19, David proclaims that the Heavens declare, are telling the glory of God and the work of His hands, and that their testimony, incessant day after day and night after night, inaudibly utters articulate speech and shows, a universal language, speaking to all the world.

In the context of the Psalm we also see a contrasting but connected structure, speaking first of the heavens, and second of the scriptures. Psalm 19 is not just describing the mere wonder of the heavens, but is also telling us that the heavens contain a revelation from God.

For your consideration...the following is an excerpt from a radio spot on KAPL radio, Jacksonville, Oregon, called " Akin For the Truth". To hear the entire spot (a few minutes long), click the icon....JackThe final of a series of three on the nesting of principals and beliefs from the Old Testament book of Genesis within the ancient picture writing found on Chinese boneware and pottery.

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The second of a series of three on the nesting of principals and beliefs from the Old Testament book of Genesis within the ancient picture writing found on Chinese boneware and pottery.

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For your consideration: What if an ancient language, originating from a 4500 year old, unbroken civilization...China...was found to contain unmistakable signatures of the Old Testament, the book of Genesis in particular? First of three in this series.

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Here are some more examples.

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But another interesting body of proof lies outside of the New Testament itself… that of what we call the Apostolic Fathers. The term “Apostolic Fathers��? refers to church leaders that lived during, or right after the original apostles. Many of these knew and were disciples of the Apostles.

For your review: the second of a series of three.

Jack

For your consideration...the following is an excerpt from a radio spot on KAPL radio, Jacksonville, Oregon, called " Akin For the Truth". To hear the entire spot (a few minutes long), click the icon....JackCritics today can be heard saying that The “old��? Jesus and “old Christianity��? are no longer relevant. Jesus did not rise from the dead. The canonical Gospels are late and cannot be trusted.

These claims meander along the lines of the centuries-old heresy inferring that the Biblical Jesus differs from the historical Jesus. Really, the logical question is this:  Is The New Testament Historical?

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The quotations are so numerous and widespread that, if no manuscripts of the New Testament were extant, the New Testament could be reproduced from the writings of the early Fathers alone.

Geisler, 1986

Indeed, so extensive are these citations that, if all other sources for our knowledge of the text of the New Testament were destroyed, they would be sufficient alone for the reconstruction of practically the entire New Testament.

Bruce Metzger,   1992

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What is life? is it just a bunch of chemicals all coincidentally mixed together to create functioning creatures like you and me? Or does it demonstrate prethought, information, design?  

 For your consideration...the following is an excerpt from a radio spot on KAPL radio, Jacksonville, Oregon, called " Akin For the Truth". To hear the entire spot (a few minutes long), click the icon....JackAn example of misplaced or false argumentation...When, in 1860, Asa Gray conveyed by letter to Darwin that he thought the human eye too complex to evolve unaided (a scientific conclusion, based on study, reason and observation), Darwin retorted that he did not think the eye was designed because there was too much cruelty in the world (eg a wasp that plants its eggs in living insects or a cat that plays with mice) to allow him to conclude that the human eye was beneficiently designed (a religious conclusion, based on feelings and subjective interpretations, and, Christian scholars have argued, demonstrating Darwin's basic ignorance of the Biblical tenets within his own religious M.A. degree).

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For your consideration...the following is an excerpt from a radio spot on KAPL radio, Jacksonville, Oregon, called " Akin For the Truth". To hear the entire spot (a few minutes long), click the icon....JackFor your review, Straw Man, Ad hominem, False appeals to authority, etc., discussed.

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