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Yesterday, my read-through-bible-in-a-year plan happened to consist of Genesis 41 and Matthew 13.  I say “happened to” because I saw a very interesting connection between them.

Genesis 41 talks about the Pharaoh’s dreams, where 7 seven skinny cows ate 7 seven fat cows, and then 7 whithered ears of corn ate 7 good ears.  Matthew 13 had Jesus’ parable of the sower, weeds, and mustard, accompanied with an explanation of why he talks in parables.  Let me show you the connections that I made.  It was pretty cool.  You can read along in the scriptures here if you like.

In Matthew 13:1-9, Jesus tells of different kinds of seeds.  Seeds along the path get eaten by the birds.  Seeds along …

Genesis 38:1-30 tells the story of one of Isral’s (Jacob’s) sons, Judah.  Israel’s daughter-in-law, Tamar, was widowed when God took the life of her husband, Israel’s first son Er.  Er was evil.  Israel sent his second son Onan to her to produce offspring for Er, but Onan was evil as well and God killed him, too.  Judah’s last son, Shelah, was too young to produce children, but he promised him to Tamar when he got older.  In the meantime, Tamar whent back home to her father to wait.  When Shilah got older, Judah failed to keep his promise, so Tamar tricked Judah by posing as a prostitute and conceiving twins by him.  When it came time for the twins to be …

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 …

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 …

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 …

My devotional for today was Genesis 27, where Isaac blesses Jacob, thinking it was Esau.  For those unfamiliar with that scripture, the gist of it is that Jacob’s mother Rebekkah convinced Jacob to steal his brother’s blessing from their father, Isaac.  At his mother’s behest, Jacob got two young goats.  She prepared them as his father liked, and then put the goat skins over Jacob’s neck and arms, so that his skin would feel like his brother’s.  Pulling this off required haste, and his father noticed.  Notice though how Jacob lies:
18 So he went in to his father and said, “My father.” And he said, “Here I am. Who are you, my son?” 19 Jacob said to his father, “I am …

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 …

As I’ve been writing about Chapter 4, I have to say that DNA is one area that I am not settled on.  What I mean is that while the Evolutionist responses to the Creationist perspective are reasonable, they have not convinced me that there are natural laws by which raw elements could, stage by stage, evolve into DNA-based life.  It doesn’t threaten my faith if there are such laws, because any hypothetically undiscovered law of nature was designed and created by God.  For me then, the question reduces not to whether God did it, but how.  I sure am curious, and the statistical mind exercises and computer simulations I have been reporting on convince me that it is worth researching further.

The problem …

Picking up from where I left off from yesterday: “Evidence for Creation” (Review) - Chapter 4 “Evidence from Life” (Part 1)

DNA From a Higher Source

DeRosa spends several pages describing the wonder and miracle that we call DNA.  Given all of its complexity, it’s length, its efficiency, its accuracy, and all in such a tiny size, it is truly a wonder of nature.  But, here’s the thing.  Even though I completely agree that God designed DNA, I take it one step further: I believe He may have designed the Evolutionary process through which DNA arose.  To a Creation Scientist, the idea of that still …

I have been reviewing Tom DeRosa’s book “Evidence for Creation”.  It has been a difficult task, because it takes hours for each review, and I feel like it is nothing but an exercise in bashing my fellow Christian as he makes himself look foolish before the world.  I realize the scriptures say that God’s wisdom is foolish in the eyes of the world, but quoting that scripture doesn’t make every contrary view wise.  In fact, the church can be just as foolish as the next guy.

So far, every chapter has been a dismissal of evidence, and a misunderstanding of the scientific process.  DeRosa concentrates on mankind’s inability to duplicate God’s work, without acknowledging the patterns scientists are finding within God’s …