For by Him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible,...For the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, ...so that THEY ARE WITHOUT EXCUSE: Col 1:16 / Rom.1:20

Friday, July 4, 2025

Quite the Admission

Professing themselves to be wise,
 they became fools....
Romans 1:22

"Professor Richard Lewontin, a geneticist, is a renowned champion of neo-Darwinism, and certainly one of the world’s leaders in promoting evolutionary biology. 
He recently wrote this very revealing comment. It illustrates the implicit philosophical bias against Genesis creation regardless of whether or not the facts support it:
"We take the side of science 
in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs
in spite of its failure to fulfil many of its extravagant
promises of health and life
in spite of the tolerance of the scientific community for unsubstantiated just-so stories, because we have a
prior commitment, a commitment to materialism. It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to accept a material explanation of the phenomenal world, but, on the contrary, that we are forced by our a priori adherence to material causes to create an apparatus of investigation and a set of concepts that produce material explanations, no matter how counter-intuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door
." 
CMI

Well, Well, Well... What Do We Have Here?

For by Him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible... Colossians 1:16

"The framework behind the evolutionists’ interpretation is naturalism—it is assumed that things made themselves, that no divine intervention has happened, and that God has not revealed to us knowledge about the past.

Evolution is a deduction from this assumption, and it is essentially the idea that things made themselves.
It includes these unproven ideas:
*nothing gave rise to something at an alleged ‘big bang,’
*non-living matter gave rise to life,
*single-celled organisms gave rise to many-celled organisms, *invertebrates gave rise to vertebrates,
*ape-like creatures gave rise to man,
*non-intelligent and amoral matter gave rise to intelligence and morality, man’s yearnings gave rise to religions, etc.

Professor D.M.S. Watson, one of the leading biologists and science writers of his day, demonstrated the atheistic bias behind much evolutionary thinking when he wrote:
"Evolution [is] a theory universally accepted not because it can be proven by logically coherent evidence to be true, but because the only alternative, special creation, is clearly incredible."

So it’s not a question of biased religious creationists versus objective scientific evolutionists; rather, it is the biases of the Christian religion versus the biases of the religion of secular humanism resulting in different interpretations of the same scientific data. As the anti-creationist science writer Boyce Rensberger admits:
"At this point, it is necessary to reveal a little inside information about how scientists work, something the textbooks don’t usually tell you. The fact is that scientists are not really as objective
and 
dispassionate in their work as they would like you to think. Most scientists first get their ideas about how the world works not through rigorously logical processes but through hunches and wild guesses. As individuals, they often come to believe something to be true long before they assemble the hard evidence that will convince somebody else that it is. Motivated by faith in his own ideas and a desire for acceptance by his peers, a scientist will labor for years knowing in his heart that his theory is correct but devising experiment after experiment whose results he hopes will support his position."

It’s not really a question of who is biased, but which bias is the correct bias with which to be biased!" 
CMI

Saturday, June 28, 2025

Your 9-1-1 clamp bears Hallmarks of a Creator

I will praise Thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made... Psalm 139:14
 
"One particularly bedeviling puzzle is how a repair protein called the
9-1-1 clamp -- a DNA damage "first responder" -- attaches itself to the site of a broken DNA strand to activate the DNA damage checkpoint.

The 9-1-1 clamp is shaped like a ring. 
---To carry out its function, it needs to surround the broken DNA at the junction between an exposed end of one strand of a double-stranded piece of DNA abutting a single-stranded one.
--- Consequently, the ring structure of the 9-1-1 clamp must open to allow the single-stranded DNA to swing into the center of the clamp and then reclose around it. This does not occur spontaneously but is facilitated by another protein complex, called the clamp loader complex.

It’s a complex process—and it’s just one small part of DNA repair, which is just one small part of DNA. This couldn’t be the result of chance (after all, DNA doesn’t have millions of years to wait for a proofreading and repair system to evolve through trial and error!); it bears all the hallmarks of an all-wise Creator who designed us to survive in a fallen world." 
AIG

Saturday, June 21, 2025

Greater Adria "curved, broken and stacked".... Wonder What Caused That?

And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered. Genesis 7:19

"Greater Adria, depicted as it’s theorized to have looked years ago. Dark green areas represent land above water, while light green areas are submerged.
Researchers have discovered a continent that’s been hidden beneath Southern Europe. The landmass is as big as Greenland.
The only remaining part of this continent is a strip that runs from Turin via the Adriatic Sea to the heel of the boot that forms Italy.
During the continent’s aquatic migration, much of the landmass was scraped off when it was forced under Southern Europe’s mantle. These removed masses then formed parts of the Alps, the Apennines, the Balkans, Greece, and Turkey.
It is quite simply a geological mess,” said van Hinsbergen. “Everything is curved, broken and stacked."
msn

River of Death

And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the
face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth:
Genesis 7:23


"Paleontologists in Alberta, Canada, have recently unearthed “a mass grave on a monumental scale.” The BBC story speaks of
"Thousands of dinosaurs [that] were buried here, killed in an instant on a day of utter devastation."

Now, a group of palaeontologists have come to
Pipestone Creek -appropriately nicknamed the “River of Death”.

In Michael Benton’s paleontology text in the section on dinosaur extinction, he lists “three current models to explain the KPg [Cretaceous-Paleogene or K-T extinction] event.”
These are the impact hypothesis (i.e., the giant asteroid impact supposedly 66 million years ago), the volcanic hypothesis, and the multiple causes hypothesis.
In the multiple causes hypothesis he mentions “evidence of numerous killing agencies, including impact, marine regression [sea level drop], volcanic activity, and changes in climate.” Alas, the most obvious “agency” is not mentioned: a worldwide deluge.

As one can see, any explanation is valid—no matter how outrageous—except the most obvious: a global flood. A section of the BBC article has a most telling title: “A Sudden Devastating Event.” Morelle and Francis state,
We believe that this was a herd on a seasonal migration that got tangled up in some catastrophic event that effectively wiped out, if
not the entire herd, then a good proportion of it,” Prof [Emily] Bamforth says. All the evidence suggests that this catastrophic event was a flash flood - perhaps a storm over the mountains that sent an unstoppable torrent of water towards the herd, ripping trees from
their roots and shifting boulders. Prof Bamforth says the Pachyrhinosaurus wouldn't have stood a chance. “These animals are not able to move very fast because of their sheer numbers, and they're very top heavy - and really not very good at swimming at all.” Rocks found at the site show the swirls of sediment from the fast-flowing water churning everything up. It’s as if the destruction is frozen in time as a wave in the stone."

Virtually every dinosaur fossil ever found is ensconced in sedimentary or (rarely) volcanic sediments, indicating a sudden and catastrophic deposition. This is particularly true with rich Cretaceous dinosaur beds (e.g., the Lance and Ferris Formations in Wyoming and the Hell Creek Formation in Montana).

Q: So why would paleontologists entertain bizarre extinction explanations such as slipped discs, sunspots, or magnetic reversals? A: Because if a scientist dismisses the global Flood out of hand, then anything goes when trying to explain the dinosaur demise. Anything.
The paleontologists are calling the Canadian mass grave the “River of Death,” but it should more accurately be called “The Flood of Death.”
ICR

Time: Distinguished From Eternity

 "In the first place we have evidence that the first day of time began in the eveningperiod, is proved by the context, also by: Psalm 33:6,9 By the word of the Lord were the heavens made, and all the host of them by the breath of His mouth. For He spoke, and it was done, He commanded, and it stood fast. 
That is, the dark portion of the day pre ceded the light portion. Genesis 1:5 The evening and the morning were the first day. 
That this was necessarily the case, may be seen from the order of events in the creation. 
Time, as distinguished from eternity, 
commenced with the first creative act of God. 
The first act was the bringing of the earth into existence. In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 
That this occupied but brief space of time, and not a long extended
But at that time there was no light, nothing but intense darkness, for we read that: Genesis 1:2...darkness was upon the face of the deep. The next act was to create light." 
E.J. Waggoner

Wednesday, June 11, 2025

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

Sunday, June 8, 2025

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

Sunday, June 1, 2025

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