Thursday, February 28, 2013
Picture. Without the Facts (Google Image Series)
The Bible contains thousands of names, dates, cities, rulers, genealogies, events, and scientific facts.
Name one thing that has been proven wrong in the Bible.
While you're thinking, let me remind you that archeology continually affirms the Bible, and has not yet contradicted a single thing. Consider just a few of these facts here.
But other than that this picture is spot on.
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Evolution's Leap of Faith (Google Image Series)
(If you don't see the sarcasm here, the joke is that evolution's critics like to remind people that evolution is "just a theory.")
The truth is, gravity is not "just a theory." It used to be. Now it is called the "law of gravity" because evidence has proven the theory.
Evolution is still "just a theory" because there is no evidence to prove it. Even what Darwin himself said was necessary to confirm his theory has not happened.
Honestly, "theory" is quite a compliment. In light of the lack of provable data, "science fiction" is more accurate.
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Some Craz-E Card (Google Image Series)
That's funny. The Bible actually said that
the earth is round and suspended in space centuries before it was proven to be.
Once again, the science confirmed the Bible, not evolution.
It is He who
sits above the circle of the earth,
And its inhabitants are like grasshoppers
Isaiah 40:22
He stretches out the north over empty space.
He hangs the
earth on nothing.
Job 26:7
He drew a circular horizon on the face of the waters,
At the boundary of light and darkness.
Job 26:10
So who is it that
doesn't understand what (or Who) controls the universe?
Friday, February 22, 2013
Comfort of Religion or Truth of Atheism
As I have noted in the past, one suggestion that really
bothers me is the one that asserts that evolutionists have all the brilliant
minds on their side while Creationists get the ones too weak-minded to make it
in academia. Darwinists act as if their team has all the jocks while we get the
rejects, the ones not picked to play
the game.
One of the weapons in their arsenal of demonizing our side
is the “comfort of religion” missile. The way this one works is by pointing to
our belief in God as a crutch—as something we lean on because we are too scared
to come to grips with the fact that we, and life, are meaningless.
So we are said to be holding onto our precious comfort of
religion like a child desperately contending that Santa Claus is real, even
though he is beginning to see evidence to the contrary. We lay our heads on our
collective pillow, and finally drift off to sleep comforting ourselves with our
religion.
As atheist philosopher Paul Kurtz put it, “Religious systems
of belief, thought, emotion, and attitude are products of the creative human
imagination. They traffic in fantasy and fiction, taking the promises of
long-forgotten historical figures and endowing them eternal cosmic
significance.”
Apparently when Kurts thinks of Jesus, he thinks
“long-forgotten historical figure.” Apparently Jesus’ millions of followers
over 2,000 years are not enough for Kurtz.
But beyond that, notice what Kurtz is claiming: that it is
our creative human imaginations that have created this belief system; it is our
defense mechanism for coping in this world.
To carry Kurtz’s point out, if we would just do away with
our make believe playtime, then we would finally come to terms with evolution
and atheism.
In his book Atheism,
the Case Against God, George H. Smith suggests, “If the choice must be made
between the comfort of religion and the truth of atheism, many people will
sacrifice the latter without hesitation.”
So we shrug off the truth of atheism in order to be comforted
by our imaginary religion. I have written many articles refuting the notion
that there is any truth to atheism/evolution, so I won’t do that here. But comfort of religion?
This idea would only sound good if Christians enjoyed
problem-free lives, or if the Bible painted God as a fluffy teddy bear. Did
Jesus have the comfort of religion in the Garden of Gethsemane or on the cross
of Calvary? Did Paul have the comfort of religion when he was shipwrecked,
beaten, snake bit, imprisoned, and beheaded? Did Peter have the comfort of
religion when he was crucified upside down? Or when the other apostles were all
killed for their faith?
Do the 165,000 Christians who are martyred worldwide each
year have the comfort of religion?[1] Do
the Chinese believers who have their tongues cut off for teaching the Bible
have the comfort of religion? Did the Bible translators who were burned at the
stake have the comfort of religion?
Jesus promised that the Holy Spirit would be our Comforter,
but He did not promise us an easy, pain-free life. So what comfort are we
supposedly clinging to?
It appears to me it is the atheist that is clinging to
comfort as he soothes himself with his pseudo-science, assuring himself that
there is no God, Lord, or Judge.
I think the fact that so many people cling to God’s Word despite the persecution shows that
religion is not for the weak; rather, history is filled with accounts of people
bravely using their final words to appeal to their executioners to give their
hearts to the Lord.
If I were faced with choosing the comfort of religion or the
truth of atheism, I suppose I too would sacrifice the latter, but only because
there is no truth in atheism.
Monday, February 11, 2013
Unexpected Love
Unexpected Love by
Julie Zine Coleman is a study on “God’s heart revealed in Jesus’ conversations
with women.” The book explores nine conversations that Jesus had with women
during His earthly ministry; these women are Jesus’ mother, the woman with the
issue of blood, the woman who anointed Jesus’ feet with her hair, the
Syrophoenician woman, the woman caught in adultery, Martha, the woman at the
well, Salome, and Mary Magdalene.
Each chapter begins with the actual text from Scripture
written out, then the author’s paraphrase of the event. I really appreciated
that the Scriptural account came first, which allowed any reader not familiar
with the Bible to see the biblical record first, then see the author’s
thoughts. Julie’s gift for writing clearly comes through in her paraphrase of
these events.
After the story is set up there is a Digging Deeper section
where it is obvious that the author has done an immense amount of study. In this
section she includes details gathered from outside sources such as the Talmud,
Josephus, and early church fathers and historians.
The next section of each chapter is a list of questions. These
questions are ones that the reader may find herself wondering without even
realizing it, and then they are clearly answered.
Finally, each chapter ends with some Food for Thought—some additional
points to ponder—as well as a Journaling section for those who choose to do so.
This book is written to women, but as a man I gained so much
from it. I highly recommend this book to both women and men who want to dig
deep into these nine events from Scripture. It is also a powerful argument for
the nonbeliever who thinks that Christianity is a boys’ club or amale-dominated religion.
Friday, February 8, 2013
Famous Frauds in Evolution Part 4: Embryo Sketches
The final famous fraud that we will look at is Ernst
Haeckel’s drawings of embryo development:
Haeckel sketched the development of several species from
embryo to adulthood. He traced the development of a salamander, fish, turtle,
rabbit, chick, hog, calf, and human. The point of the chart was clear: to prove
common ancestry by showing the similarities among each study in the embryonic
stage.
How important is this chart to evolution? Charles Darwin,
who was a close friend of Haeckel, said the chart was, “by far the strongest
single class of facts in favor of” evolution. [1]
Haeckel’s theory was that human embryos replay each stage of
the evolutionary process before becoming human. We now know that his sketches
were fake.
Even his peers accused him of fraud. Not only was he a liar,
he was wrong. His theory, which he called “ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny,”
has also been scientifically debunked. And yet his theory is used to justify
abortion and embryonic stem cell research.
(Part 3)
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