Wed, 29 July 2009 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. Direct download: Akin_for_the_Truth_-_111_-_woodpecker.mp3 Category: podcasts -- posted at: 11:02 AM |
Mon, 27 July 2009 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 citing some extra-Biblical sources, sources outside the Bible, that were used or referred to by Biblical authors, such as Jude, Moses and Paul. We ended by mentioning that the careful use of extra-Biblical support for Scripture is allowed, but some basic, perhaps obvious rules should be followed. First, it must assist and support scripture. As Jesus said, not one implied punctuation mark in scripture can be broken, until all is fulfilled. Cited, outside sources are not permitted that would alter, revise or otherwise change the meaning or record of Holy Scripture. |
Fri, 24 July 2009 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 When in Jude, Jesus’ half brother and an acknowledged leader of the first century Church in |
Tue, 21 July 2009 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 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. Up-to-date literature on the subject seems in agreement that fossil beds, where fossil beds show up on a large scale, are produced by sudden events, such as floods and volcanoes. Over hundreds or thousands of years, the sediments around these remains harden, converted into rock. |
Sat, 18 July 2009
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 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. |
Wed, 15 July 2009 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 It can be fairly said that a theory that claims that it explains the origin of all living things but can not provide a mechanism by which such origins can occur is a very bad theory. It is a certainty that many of the pictures that we as children in school can remember to reinforce evolutionary explanation have since been discarded. Yet, they are still in books and kids are still being taught them, and such images are still etched in our minds. Do you remember those peppered moths? In your school text book you are presented with two photos, taken of a species of moth. One was taken a hundred years after the first one. The first one shows a black peppered moth well disguised against trees that have been blackened during the 19th century coal-burning industrial revolution in |
Mon, 13 July 2009 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 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. |
Fri, 10 July 2009 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 discussing the various supposed transitional forms, or missing links, that have been proposed by evolutionists to contribute to the evolution of fish into amphibians. Of course, though obvious and intuitive, it has been mentioned many times that true missing links, that show single, beneficial mutations and incomplete transitions, must have lived in order to transfer their incomplete, not-yet-useful traits, to their progeny, which could then combine with another similar mutation during some far future event, to eventually form a discernible, useful new trait. But such are missing in their millions. Until such fossils are found, evolutionists, whether unconsciously or purposely, redefine the term “missing link��?. To an evolutionist today, a missing link is one that, though all of its features are fully formed, has characteristics in common with the two it supposedly links. One website cites a whole list of fossils filling the “missing link��? between lobe-finned fish and tetrapods, most of them discovered just since 1987. Others have been found as recently as 2006. The Panderichthys, for example, is supposedly a fish which had very similar skull and fin bones to some amphibians, so, say they, they must have later evolved to become amphibians. |
Tue, 7 July 2009 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 believe that amphibians evolved from one of three orders of lobe-finned fishes: either lungfish, coelacanths, or extinct ancient fish. Evolutionists apparently haven’t quite decided which yet. Coelacanths never leave the water, but they are said to have four arm-link fins, resembling the beginnings of legs. 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. Comments[0] |
Sat, 4 July 2009 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 It’s generally known that the vast majority of people in this world and throughout the ages have believed in God. In modern times, of the major religions, Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism and Islam, all but Hinduism and Buddhism, are monotheistic, acknowledging but one God. Of all these religions, Christianity and Judaism are unique, distinguished from all others in their historicity…they are historic. There is, from this very day, an unbroken chain of documented and undeniable history… all the way to the cross, and from thence back through the centuries ofComments[0] |
Wed, 1 July 2009 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 My big-hearted and tireless Springer Spaniel has rarely in his life, if ever, been fed in the kitchen. He’s not allowed to sit at the table, and he never gets fed directly from anyone’s plate. But, every night, without fail, this loveable dreamer stares expectantly at each of us, as we sit down to eat, in hope and excited anticipation of receiving some food gift during dinner. It never happens, but he will nevertheless try again tonight. In this, as in other ways, my Spaniel lends insight to some attributes of human nature.
Alexander Pope, a 17th century poet, wrote in his Epistle I, NATURE AND STATE OF MAN WITH RESPECT TO THE UNIVERSE: "Hope springs eternal in the human breast." Comments[0] |
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