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

For your consideration...the above 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

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

 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....Jack

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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 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....Jack

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...

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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....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.

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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....Jack

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.”