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Thursday, January 29th, 2009
Reading Elihu’s speech in Job 37, it struck me that it was immediately followed by Job 38, which contains one of the Creation stories in the Bible that is consistent with both the ancient pagan creation myths, and paradoxically modern science. You can read more about The Creation Account in Job.
What struck me is the contrast between how Elihu attempts to challenge Job with Creation, versus how God does, and how that applies to today.
Job 37
14 “Listen to this, Job;
stop and consider God’s wonders.
15 Do you know how God controls the clouds
and makes his lightning flash?
16 Do you know how the clouds hang poised,
those wonders of him who is …
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Thursday, January 15th, 2009
Jesus told us that without man to bear witness of God, the very rocks would cry out. I believe they do, through the evidence for Evolution. Rocks indeed. For if Evolution happened, then it was according to God’s plan, design, and will; the earth apparently believed God where many of us today do not… and the earth obeyed.
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Wednesday, January 14th, 2009
When I was writing about the order of God’s promises and your acceptance of them yesterday, I wasn’t talking about salvation specifically, though I had it in mind. So, I need to clarify something… the fact that not everyone goes to Heaven. Now, in my examples above, take Saul for example, I implied that God made a promise to him… I was really talking about the commitments that God makes. A commitment is a promise, but not all promises all for salvation. But where the promise is salvation, the logic applies. So, when I was talking about “promises” made to people who don’t believe, how does that apply to those who won’t be saved?
Well once again, I am talking about …
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Monday, December 15th, 2008
Over the last 2 years of studying and writing Geocreationism, I have slowly come to accept evolution more than before. Though I still have questions in my mind, I keep finding more reasons to believe that God a created a universe in which life would evolve according to His predetermined plan.
Early on in my blog, I found a post entitled Mass Delusion - 10 Reasons Why the Majority of Scientists Believe in Evolution. I never responded to it, but at the time as I was merely sympathetic to Evolution. While I am not full-on advocate for Evolution, it is the most logically choice to me, and fits my interpretation of scripture better than anything else I’ve studied. This …
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Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
In “Beyond the Firmament” (Review) - Genesis is Literal, I write about an interesting phenomenon. It would seem that Moses — some would dispute whether it’s Moses, but that’s beside the point for now — wrote what he thought was a historically accurate account of Creation. We now know that he was wrong — it was not historically accurate. However, as GJG of BTF points out, when we put on our Moses hat, and try to view the world as the ancient Hebrews did, we realize that what Moses echoed the account with which they were already familiar, but with the added detail that God is the one who did …
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Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
I have just completed reading Gordon J. Glover’s excellent book, “Beyond the Firmament”. It was very helpful in helping me clarify my views on Creation and Genesis 1, and has made me open to the idea of abandoning the umbrella of “Theistic Evolution”, in favor of just unabashedly saying “Evolution”. This is no small feat.
I have documented on this blog a scriptural basis for seeing Jesus at Creation, and His involvement in it. I stand by it, but I realize that I must soften some of my language. I have historically sounded like the insights I write of was God’s own message. I want to clarify that I do not believe that is true. On the contrary, I agree …
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Tuesday, January 15th, 2008
God’s Wrath on Mankind
Racism
DeRosa documents the racist undertones in some of the early Evolutionary literature. Though certainly not Darwin’s intention, the idea of Natural Selection fed an assessment of the races based on where each falls in the spectrum between advanced society and primitive ape. Such conclusions are offensive and unbiblical, and have a modern root in society’s acceptance of Evolutionary theory.
The late Stephen Jay Gould, a prolific evangelist for evolution, acknowledged evolution’s racist impact, stating,
“Biological arguments for racism may have been common before 1859, but they increased by orders of magnitude following the acceptance of evolutionary theory.”
Additional application of these “insights” has led to philosophies embracing racial purity and supporting abortion.
Nazism
Darwinian evolution undoubtedly influenced Hitler’s ability to rationalize the …
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Tuesday, January 15th, 2008
I ended “Evidence for Creation” (Review) - Chapter 5 “Evidence from Man” (Part 1) rather unfortunately. I closed with this:
DeRosa’s reasoning reminds me of the little kid who gets made [fun of because] the big kids won’t let him use their baseball bat. “Well it’s a stupid bat anyway.” Maybe. Or perhaps you don’t know how to play baseball, and they don’t want their “stupid bat” getting broken.
I reread it today and I clearly sounded like I think Creation Scientists cannot be trusted with handling fossils. I apologize for that. I have no doubt as to their trustworthiness. My point was that the people overseeing the fossils probably do not …
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Monday, January 14th, 2008
I have finally reached the last chapter of Tom DeRosa’s Evidence for Creation. This good Christian man has continuously shown misunderstandings of science and the scientific method, presented evidence for Creation Science that also supports Evolution, engaged in arguments against Evolution that are only true if one assumes the conclusion, and presented conflicting data as evidence. This may well become the basis of my final summary for the book. One more chapter to go however…
Evidence From Man
Evolutionists have a compelling reason to demonstrate an evolutionary link between man and ape. They know that if they succeed, they will silence the arguments of those who believe in special creation. Without any question, evolution would triumph if the fossil evidence were to …
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Saturday, January 12th, 2008
Well, I am almost done with chapter 4 (yay). I had to slow down because my holiday vacation ended and I had to go back to work. Let me jump right in…
Monkey and Man DNA
No one will disagree after a visit to the zoo that chimps look more like us than any other animal… but the differences are so huge that we would never confuse a primate with a human. The proportions of the lengths of our arms and legs, the appearance of the neck, skull, pelvis, hands, and soft tissue structures–including our lips–clearly distinguish the two species. Internally, our proteins are 71 percent different from that of a chimp. We have 46 chromosome at meiosis while a chimp has …
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