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

We began our discussions a couple of days ago citing recent studies being performed by scientists unveiling flaws in radiometric dating of rocks. This is important because evolutionists often support their theory with radiometric dates. These studies challenge dating methods using Potassium-Argon, Rubidium 87 to Strontium 87, Thorium 232 to Lead 208, Uranium 235 to Lead 207, Uranium 238 to Lead 206 and Carbon 14, to Nitrogen 14...

Jack

 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

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

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

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 

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

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

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

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