Eye NOT Wired Backward

I will praise Thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvelous are Thy works; 

Psalm 139:14

"One of the tired old canards on which antitheists have dined out for years is the claim that our eye is stupidly wired back to front, something no decent designer would use.

However, ophthalmologists have denounced Dawkins’ claim repeatedly. E.g. George Marshall, the Sir Jules Thorn Lecturer in Ophthalmic Science, stated in reply to Dawkins:

“The idea that the eye is wired backward comes from a lack of knowledge of eye function and anatomy.”

Dr, Marshall explains that the nerves could not go behind the eye,
--because that space is reserved for the choroid,
--which provides the rich blood supply needed for the very metabolically-active retinal pigment epithelium (RPE).
--This is necessary to regenerate the photoreceptors,
--and to absorb excess heat.

*So it is necessary for the nerves to go in front instead.

Not only is the inverted wiring of our eyes a good design, necessary for proper functioning, it is also coordinated with an ingenious fibre-optic plate, so the vertebrate eye has the advantage of a rich blood supply behind the receptors without the disadvantage of nerves blocking out light. Such fine coordination of parts makes sense with a Master Coordinator, while it’s a puzzle for evolutionists."
CMI

Who wrote Quantum Mechanics’ Rules?

In the beginning was the Word, 

and the Word was with God, 

and the Word was God.

John 1:1

"In an essay for Aeon, astrophysicist Adam Frank focuses on the

mystery of consciousness, not evolution. But the objection would seem to be no less powerful there.
Materialists appeal to physics to explain the mind, but in modern physics the particles that make up a brain remain, in many ways, as mysterious as consciousness itself.

When I was a young physics student I once asked a professor: ‘What’s an electron?’ His answer stunned me. ‘An electron,’ he said, ‘is that to which we attribute the properties of the electron.’ 

That vague, circular response was a long way from the dream that drove me into physics, a dream of theories that perfectly described reality. 

Like almost every student over the past 100 years, I was shocked by quantum mechanics, the physics of the micro-world. In place of a clear vision of little bits of matter that explain all the big things around us, quantum physics gives us a powerful yet seemingly paradoxical calculus.
With its emphasis on
*probability waves,
*essential uncertainties and
*experimenters disturbing the reality they seek to measure,

quantum mechanics made imagining the stuff of the world as classical bits of matter (or miniature billiard balls) all but impossible.
Like most physicists, I learned how to ignore the weirdness of quantum physics. ‘Shut up and calculate!’ (the dictum of the American physicist David Mermin) works fine if you are trying to get 100 per cent on your Advanced Quantum Theory homework or building a laser. 

--But behind quantum mechanics’ unequaled calculational precision lie profound, stubbornly persistent questions about what those quantum rules imply about the nature of reality — including our place in it.

Those questions are well-known in the physics community, but perhaps our habit of shutting up has been a little too successful. A century of agnosticism about the true nature of matter hasn’t found its way deeply enough into other fields.

Some neuroscientists think that they’re being precise and grounded
by holding tightly to materialist credentials.
Molecular biologists, geneticists, and many other types of researchers — as well as the nonscientist public — have been similarly drawn to materialism’s seeming finality. But this conviction is out of step with what we physicists know about the material world — or rather, what we don’t know." 

EN&V

Killer Chimps & Romans 8:22

 For we know that the whole creation 

groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. 

Romans 8:22

"Since evolutionists claim chimpanzees are our closest livingrelatives, it’s not surprising that they would look at chimp behavior for clues to that of humans. So when the evidence started to come in that the common chimp (Pan troglodytes) routinely engaged in warfare and killing of its own kind, some were obviously tempted to see in it an explanation for aspects of human sin.

Intriguingly, though, 

---a more common evolutionist response has been to deny that chimps naturally do these things. When chimps were repeatedly reported to be killing their fellows, it was said to be due to human interference with their natural habitat.

 

----Several factors likely drive this for evolution-believers. 

One may be a simple reluctance to think that we have an inherited propensity for evil. The idea that mankind is ‘inherently good’, which defies real-world experience, is a persistent theme in denying humanity’s need for a Savior. 

----For evolutionists concerned with social harmony, there is also a fear that if we are seen to have ‘killer apes’ in our ancestry, we might give up trying to modify our behavior.

 

This is evident in the ‘deep green’ movement, with its overtones of nature worship. 

----Its adherents often romanticize ‘peaceful’ animals like dolphins,

and find it hard to accept the evidence that these, too, engage in killing and torture of their own kind. 

----Applied to human society, such thinking is epitomized by the ‘noble savage’ concept of the French Romantic philosopher Rousseau (1712–1778), which still resonates with many. He idealized ‘primitive’ human societies, closer to nature, as unspoilt and harmonious; in this view, modern civilization is allegedly to blame for human problems and conflicts.

*Now a substantial research project, published as a letter in Nature, seems to have discredited such romantic views about why chimps kill others. The study, by an international community of over 30 scientists, “gathers data from some 426 combined years of observation, across 18 different chimp communities.” It finds that human activity, such as feeding chimps or destroying their habitats, had “little effect on the number of killings”—a total of 152 all up. The kill rate, similar to that in hunter-gatherer societies, goes “up and down as a simple consequence of competition for scarce resources.”

Since the Bible indicates that both humans and nature are fallen, it shouldn’t surprise us to find that chimps kill other chimps, or that dolphins do nasty things to other dolphins." CMI

Audible Animals

"We are all familiar with vocalizations in the animal world. For example, dogs bark, birds sing, frogs croak, and whales send forth their own distinct sounds. 

Recently, a detailed investigation has been conducted to determine sounds made by animals previously thought to be mute.

A group of zoologists led by the University of Zurich declare that, “Their study includes evidence for 53 species of four major clades of land vertebrates – turtles, tuataras, caecilians and lungfishes – in the form of vocal recordings and contextual behavioral information accompanying sound production.”

The ScienceDaily article stated, “Many turtles, for example, which were thought to be mute are in fact showing broad and complex acoustic repertoires.”

We read repeatedly in Genesis 1 that God created creatures after their kind. As such, it wouldn’t be surprising to discover that many (and possibly all) have unique sound production. “Acoustic communication is not only widespread in land vertebrates like birds and mammals, but also in reptiles, amphibians, and fishes.”

Evolutionists deny the Biblical record of creation and must posit a naturalistic origin of complex acoustic communication in animals. “Our results now show that acoustic communication did not evolve multiple times in diverse clades, but has a common and ancient evolutionary origin,” concludes the study leader Marcelo Sánchez.

But not only did such communication not evolve multiple times, it

most certainly did not evolve from some ethereal, unknown creature in deep evolutionary time. As the late non-creationist Tom Bethell stated, “Common descent is a deduction from Darwin’s theory, but it has never been demonstrated.”

Dr. Casey Luskin stated in regard to this tenuous theory,

"The truth is that common ancestry is merely an assumption that governs interpretation of the data, not an undeniable conclusion. Whenever data contradicts expectations of common descent, evolutionists resort to a variety of ad hoc rationalizations to save common descent from being falsified."

The fossil record shows the sudden appearance of all the animal groups complete and fully formed without evidence of their evolution.

Scripture says that God created each type after his kind 10 times in [Genesis 1]. It seems that the writer of Scripture went out of his way to insist that animals and plants were created fully formed as particular kinds and did not get here by altering previous existing kinds, nor do they change into other basic kinds.
But for evolutionists, not only are animals’ origins unknown, but that of their acoustic communication is equally unknown.

Writing in Nature Communications, Jorgewich-Cohen et al. state,

“We suggest a single origin of acoustic communication in the last common ancestor of all Choanata [the Tetrapodomorpha—a clade of vertebrates] over 400 million years before present (mybp).” This last common ancestor is unknown, of course. The authors continue, “In support of this, vertebrate hearing epithelia and cerebral promotor circuits that control vocal behaviors are considered to be homologous and operate in the same hindbrain compartment, respectively.”

Homology is a circular evolutionary concept, and is a “controversial term” according to some evolutionists. 

Q: Could it be that vertebrates share similar anatomical features because they were created according to a common plan, by a common Creator?

God created all animals after their kind, 

complete with sophisticated vocal abilities." 

ICR

Darwinism is Self Refuting from the Git-Go

That I may make it manifest, 

as I ought to speak. 

Colossians 4:4

"Darwinistic materialism is self-refuting because it requires appealing

to nonphysical realities to even make its case. 

---You have to use words to argue that words are not real. 

---You have to think to try to explain that thinking is a physical process." 

CEH

Fine-Tuning of the Universe: Hoyle Said It....

For the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead; 

so that they are without excuse: 

Romans 1:20

Hoyle Said It....
"Fred Hoyle, an eminent physicist and agnostic, stated, “A commonsense interpretation of the facts suggests that a super intellect has monkeyed with physics, as well as chemistry and

biology, and that there are no blind forces worth speaking about in nature.” 

Physicist P.C.W. Davies, also religiously unaffiliated, insists that “the entire universe is balanced on a knife-edge, and would be total chaos if any of the natural ‘constants’ were off even slightly.”

The existence and fine-tuning of numerous constants and parameters of the universe is unexpected and mysterious if naturalism is true. But it makes perfect sense if Christianity is true, and God desired to create beings He could have a relationship with." 

Blaze

Fine-Tuning of the Universe: The Strong Nuclear Force

For the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead; 

so that they are without excuse: 

Romans 1:20

The strong nuclear force:
"This force holds together the protons and neutrons in an atom’s nucleus. 

If it were slightly weaker, protons and neutrons wouldn’t stick together, making complex atoms impossible. Without complex atoms, the chemical diversity necessary for life wouldn’t exist. 

If it were stronger, protons could potentially bind to each other more readily, which could lead to a universe without stable hydrogen, an essential element for life."
Blaze

Fine-Tuning of the Universe: Goldilocks Zone

For the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead; 

so that they are without excuse: 

Romans 1:20

The size and distance of the Earth from the sun:
"Earth’s position in the solar system is in what scientists call the "Goldilocks Zone," where it’s not too hot and not too cold, allowing for liquid water to exist on its surface. 

The size of Earth also ensures that it has the right gravity to retain an atmosphere suitable for life without being too strong to inhibit the mobility of organisms."
Blaze

How God did it....and Stamped it....and Redeemed it

He hath made the earth by His power, 

He hath established the world by His wisdom, 

and hath stretched out the heavens by His discretion. 

Jeremiah 10:12

You Cannot "Un-bless" what God has Blessed

God made all 7 days....but He only BLESSED one....

And God blessed the seventh day,

and sanctified it:

For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth,

the sea, and all that in them is,

and rested the seventh day:

wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, 

and hallowed it.

Genesis 2:3/Exodus 20:11

And from Jesus Christ, ....
--the first begotten of the dead, 
--Unto Him that loved us,
--and washed us from our sins in His own blood,

But He was wounded
for our transgressions,
He was bruised
for our iniquities:
the chastisement 

of our peace
was upon Him;
and with His stripes 

we are healed.
Ye are bought with a price.....
Revelation 1:5/Isaiah 53:5/1 Corinthians 7:23