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 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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?"

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

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.

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 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.