Why We Don't Blow Up Everyday

 "The stability of matter is a continuing puzzle to physicists. 

They point out that when you consider all the physical forces at work in matter, even in something as simple as a glass of water, it’s sort of miraculous that everything doesn’t just collapse and then, releasing huge amounts of energy, blow up. 

Consider that water, H2O, is simply eight electrons orbiting in

“space” around eight tightly packed protons and neutrons (oxygen), with, at a further distance, two electrons each orbiting around independent protons (2 hydrogen atoms). 

This 99% + configuration of space with a few tiny particles, incredibly has bulk and substance. And also incredibly, it has stability under the repelling force of positive proton charges packed together in the nucleus, and the stresses of gravity, atmospheric pressure, and magnetic field.

If matter was not somehow so stable, we’d be at risk of setting off nuclear explosions every time we stirred a cup of coffee or a glass of tea!

Q: Why are the molecules and atoms of life, and all matter as we know them, so incredibly stable? 

Q: Why are all the physical constants of “nature” so well balanced? 

A: The Bible says, speaking of Christ, “For by Him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities – all things have been created by Him and for Him. And He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together” (Col 1:16,17).

He who came to earth in love for us. He it is who stabilizes things in the present, and will de-stabilize them one day in the future, to re-stabilize them in “new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells” (2 Peter 3:13, Revelation 21:21)."
Mark Cadwallader

Your Camera

 Great are the works of the Lord, studied by all who delight in them. Full of splendor and majesty is His work, and His righteousness endures forever. Psalm 111:2,3 ESV

"The human eye is brilliantly complicated, made up of a superb, interconnected system of approximately 40 individual subsystems. These include the iris, pupil, retina, cornea, lens, and optic nerve. By simultaneously detecting contrast while also capturing faint details, the human eye exhibits superiority over the most sophisticated camera today.
The retina, the innermost, light-sensitive layer of eye tissue, can be thought of as equivalent to the film in a camera, or as a sensor with cells that act like individual pixels in a digital display.

 Its design has been maximized for life in our environment.

There are approximately six to seven million cone cells. All of them are concentrated near the macula, the oval-shaped pigmented area in the center of the retina. 

Additionally, there are three varieties of cone cells that are sensitive to different colors of light. Between them, they span the visual range of wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum (400–700 nm):

L-cones (long-wavelength) are sensitive primarily to red in the visible spectrum
M-cones (medium- ) are sensitive to green
S-cones (short- ) are sensitive to blue.
The visual cortex, the part of the brain that processes visual information, interprets the pulses as color, contrast, depth, and other information. (There is also a lot of data processing in the retina itself.) This allows us to make sense of all the data, and ‘see’. 

We can discern about 10 million colors." 

CMI

Time & the Sabbath

And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it He had rested from all His work which God created and made. Genesis 2:3

"The Ten Commandments uses the Sabbath to show that Creator and creature, God and mankind, share something. 

They share action in a continuity of time; 

that is, God’s action is linked to our history. 

---It demonstrates the basis for real fellowship.

Also pivotal is that Creator and creation are separate. 

---It is in the creation done within real history that God shows He is distinct from but present and active in the world we live in.

CMI

Consciousness was not an “emergent property” of dust

"Souls are conscious but the brain is not. 

It is no more aware of itself than a clock is aware of the concept of 8:39 a.m. 

Q: Does a computer understand the program it is running? 

A: No; electrons are merely flowing through it directed by a mind.

Q: Is consciousness a mechanism performed by matter?

A movie does not derive from the flashing pixels on a TV screen; it comes from a mind who intentionally organized matter to convey a message. In every case we know, meaning is a product of an immaterial mind. 

A: Genesis 2:7 says, “the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.” 

Consciousness was not an “emergent property” of dust. 

Nor was the dust already conscious. 

What made Adam come to life, able to perceive his surroundings and experience the qualia from his newly-created senses, and respond in semantically-rich words to his Maker, was the breath of God—the life-giving bequest of an intelligent, wise, creative, self-existent, self-aware One who gave His name as “I AM” (Exodus 3:14)." 

CEH

Biology Myth

MYTH: “Biology is nothing more than sophisticated physics and chemistry.”

"That’s like saying the Internet is nothing more than sophisticated copper wire and silicon chips.
Nobody I talk to ever describes the Internet that way. Do you?
You talk about things like email and Google and Facebook. 

You tell your friend about the Youtube video where the guy goes to every country in the world and does his little dance jig.

All those things are information. 90% of Electrical Engineering is

concerned with controlling and processing information. Only a small part of EE is concerned with things like motors and generators and watts and horsepower.
Even power equipment is controlled by information. 

All the interesting things you do with electricity involve signals or digital codes. Temperature measurement or text messages or a radio transmission.
The software is more interesting than the hardware. 

So it is with DNA. 

Chemicals are just the hardware."

CosmicFingerprints

Thank You for making me so wonderfully complex!
Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it.
Psalm 139:14 NLT

The "WHY" of Creation

"Why: Man’s creation is listed separately because he was created in

God’s image. “So God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him; male and female created He them” (Genesis 1:27). 

God’s purpose for the entire material universe was humanity. “The heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat” (2 Peter 3:10).

--Everything will eventually be uncreated except for humanity."

ICR

The "WHAT" of Creation

"What: God spoke into existence what previously had not existed

(Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear. Hebrews 11:3). 

The Hebrew words bara (divine creation through God’s command) and yom (the day-by-day pattern of God’s creation work) 

---remove any wiggle room for evolutionary insertion into the first chapter of Genesis." 

ICR

TNR points to Genesis as HISTORY

TNR points to Genesis as a history book, not poetic prose or allegory.

TNR (True Narrative Representation) is used to weed through ancient texts to sort of historical writings from fiction.

When applied to the book of Genesis it gets a grade of 99.999%...meaning that it is a nearly 100% chance that it was written based on, and meant to pass on, historical events.

3 criteria of TNR:
1- Determinacy (whether the objects in the narrative are realistic)
2- Connectedness (the time sequential of subset events examined)
3- Generalizability (the reproducibility of events and/or exploring the evidence for residua if it was meant to be a one time occurrence)  

EXAMPLE applied to the ark......

Determinacy ..The measurements are realistic and the design sturdy for such a catastrophe by all objective assessments. Also, it is calculated to have enough room to hold up to 16,000 animals.
Connectedness ........... The time sequence of events is realistic for the story and is supported by 9 literary devices.
Generalizability.......... Here we find the residue of the one time event in the global fossil record, geology, biology, anthropology, etc.....

Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples:

and they are written for our admonition,

upon whom the ends of the world are come.

1 Corinthians 10:11

"t-values" of Dendrochronology

As the valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the river's side, as the trees of lign aloes which the LORD hath planted, and as cedar trees beside the waters.
Numbers 24:6

"There are several fundamental problems with using tree rings as reliable natural clocks. 

Beyond the fact that more or less than one ring can be added to a tree per year, the main problem with using “dendrochronology” as a reliable natural clock, independent of other forms of calibration, is that matching rings from different pieces of wood isn’t remotely a dependable science. And, this has been known for some time now.

In a 1986 paper, “Interpretation of cross correlation between tree-ring series”, Yamaguchi recognized that overlapping tree rings from different trees tend to “auto correlate” or actually cross-match with each other in several different places within a tree-ring sequence.

What he did to prove this is quite interesting. He took a 290-ring Douglas-fir log known, by historical methods, to date between AD 1482 and 1668 and demonstrated that it could cross-match in multiple different places within the Pacific Northwest Douglas Fir Master Growth-ring Sequence to give very good “t-values.” 

A t-value is given to a “wiggle-match” on the basis of a statistical analysis of the correspondence between two wood samples. This statistical assessment is done by computer which assigns high t-values (3 and above) to good wiggle-matches and low t-values (below 3) to those with poor correspondence between the ring patterns. 

Amazingly, using such t-value analysis, Yamaguchi found 113

different matches having a confidence level of greater than 99.9%. For example, Yamaguchi demonstrated that his log could cross-match with other tree-ring sequences to give t-values of around 5 at AD 1504 (for the low end of the ring age), 7 at AD 1647 and 4.5 at AD 1763. Six of these matches were non-overlapping. That means that this particular piece of wood could be dated to be any one of those six vastly different ages to within a 99.9% degree of confidence. 

-- Because of this fundamental problem, many of the most well-known tree-ring series are fatally flawed.

....of Rod A. Savidge, a professor of tree physiology/biochemistry, Forestry, and Environmental Management at the University of New Brunswick. He vented the following interesting comments regarding the science of dendrochronology, published in a Letter to the Editor in the New York Times, November of 2002:

“As a tree physiologist who has devoted his career to understanding how trees make wood, I have made sufficient observations on tree rings and cambial growth to know that dendrochronology is not at all an exact science. Indeed, its activities include subjective interpretations of what does and what does not constitute an annual ring, statistical manipulation of data to fulfill subjective expectations, and discarding of perfectly good data sets when they contradict other data sets that have already been accepted. Such massaging of data cannot by any stretch of the imagination be considered science; it merely demonstrates a total lack of rigor attending so-called dendrochronology “research” . . . It would be a major step forward if dendrochronology could embrace the scientific method.”

Sean Pitman