WORLD'S TOP INTELLECTUALS ARE THEISTS
1 Kings 4:30
"And Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt."
"Have you ever heard the claim 'all smart people are atheists', or maybe its inverse: 'people who believe in God are dumb'?" So begins a column at Examiner.com by a writer who decided to see if this is true by taking a closer look at the ten highest IQs ever recorded. His conclusion is that the most intelligent people on the planet believe in God.
Of course, we don't have time today to tell you about all 10, but we will give you a glimpse into the amazing mind of Andrew Magdy Kamal. Just before he turned 17, Andrew was found to have the highest IQ ever recorded � 231.734. According to the columnist, Andrew "is a staunch conservative and a member of the Republican Tea Party. He is also the founder of the Coptic Orthodox Messianicans Group." Andrew said he "hopes to use his talents and intelligence to spread the news of Messiah Yeshua (Jesus Christ) his hero."
The highest IQ ever recorded for an adult in the "advanced IQ test" was attained by Abdessellam Jelloul. He scored an adult IQ of 198. When asked about his religious beliefs, he replied that he "believes in God, a Supreme Architect of the universe."
Obviously, there are intelligent people who do and who don't believe in God. In the end, it is important to remember that it is not one's intellect that can put a person into a right relationship with the God of the universe. It is faith in Jesus Christ.
Heavenly Father, I thank You that it is not a person's great intellect that causes a person to turn to Your Son for salvation. Otherwise, I might not be praying to You right now! Amen.
S. Williams, "Of 10 highest IQ's on earth, at least 8 are Theists, at least 6 are Christians," Examiner.com, 7/10/14. Photo: Andrew Magdy Kamal.
1 Kings 4:30
"And Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt."
"Have you ever heard the claim 'all smart people are atheists', or maybe its inverse: 'people who believe in God are dumb'?" So begins a column at Examiner.com by a writer who decided to see if this is true by taking a closer look at the ten highest IQs ever recorded. His conclusion is that the most intelligent people on the planet believe in God.
Of course, we don't have time today to tell you about all 10, but we will give you a glimpse into the amazing mind of Andrew Magdy Kamal. Just before he turned 17, Andrew was found to have the highest IQ ever recorded � 231.734. According to the columnist, Andrew "is a staunch conservative and a member of the Republican Tea Party. He is also the founder of the Coptic Orthodox Messianicans Group." Andrew said he "hopes to use his talents and intelligence to spread the news of Messiah Yeshua (Jesus Christ) his hero."
The highest IQ ever recorded for an adult in the "advanced IQ test" was attained by Abdessellam Jelloul. He scored an adult IQ of 198. When asked about his religious beliefs, he replied that he "believes in God, a Supreme Architect of the universe."
Obviously, there are intelligent people who do and who don't believe in God. In the end, it is important to remember that it is not one's intellect that can put a person into a right relationship with the God of the universe. It is faith in Jesus Christ.
Heavenly Father, I thank You that it is not a person's great intellect that causes a person to turn to Your Son for salvation. Otherwise, I might not be praying to You right now! Amen.
S. Williams, "Of 10 highest IQ's on earth, at least 8 are Theists, at least 6 are Christians," Examiner.com, 7/10/14. Photo: Andrew Magdy Kamal.
NASA'S GLORY HAS DEPARTED
1 Samuel 4:21
"And she named the child Ichabod, saying, The glory is departed from Israel: because the ark of God was taken, and because of her father-in-law and her husband."
Some of you listening to me today are too young to remember the glory days of NASA � when the U.S. space agency put a man into Earth orbit and, a few years later, on the surface of the moon. NASA had brains and guts in those days � as evidenced by the remarkable story of Apollo 13 � or when astronauts weren't afraid to read passages from Scripture in their transmissions from space.
All of that has changed. One of NASA's main missions now is helping Muslims feel better about their scientific accomplishments. NASA is also trying to find life on other planets to prove that evolution can happen anywhere. And the space agency is spending millions of taxpayer dollars to prove that man-made global warming is real.
So how are these missions working out? Well, a few years ago a NASA rocket, carrying a satellite called Glory, was launched, only to plummet a few minutes later into the Pacific Ocean. How sad, considering that its mission was to gather data supporting man-made global warming!
According to the Associated Press, the Glory represented "the second-straight blow to NASA's weakened environmental monitoring program. The same thing happened to another climate-monitoring satellite [two years earlier] with the same type of rocket." A NASA official noted that "the loss of Glory will mostly hurt projections and modeling of future climate change."
Truth be told, the glory departed long ago when NASA became focused on missions supporting such pseudo-sciences as man-made global warming and evolution.
Heavenly Father, thank You for scientists who are involved in real scientific endeavors that benefit mankind. In Jesus' Name. Amen.
Steve Schwartz, "NASA � The Glory Has Departed," 3/9/11. http://www.creationmoments.com/resources/blog/201103/nasa-%E2%80%93-glory-has-departed. Photo: Artist's depiction of the Glory satellite in Earth orbit. (PD)
1 Samuel 4:21
"And she named the child Ichabod, saying, The glory is departed from Israel: because the ark of God was taken, and because of her father-in-law and her husband."
Some of you listening to me today are too young to remember the glory days of NASA � when the U.S. space agency put a man into Earth orbit and, a few years later, on the surface of the moon. NASA had brains and guts in those days � as evidenced by the remarkable story of Apollo 13 � or when astronauts weren't afraid to read passages from Scripture in their transmissions from space.
All of that has changed. One of NASA's main missions now is helping Muslims feel better about their scientific accomplishments. NASA is also trying to find life on other planets to prove that evolution can happen anywhere. And the space agency is spending millions of taxpayer dollars to prove that man-made global warming is real.
So how are these missions working out? Well, a few years ago a NASA rocket, carrying a satellite called Glory, was launched, only to plummet a few minutes later into the Pacific Ocean. How sad, considering that its mission was to gather data supporting man-made global warming!
According to the Associated Press, the Glory represented "the second-straight blow to NASA's weakened environmental monitoring program. The same thing happened to another climate-monitoring satellite [two years earlier] with the same type of rocket." A NASA official noted that "the loss of Glory will mostly hurt projections and modeling of future climate change."
Truth be told, the glory departed long ago when NASA became focused on missions supporting such pseudo-sciences as man-made global warming and evolution.
Heavenly Father, thank You for scientists who are involved in real scientific endeavors that benefit mankind. In Jesus' Name. Amen.
Steve Schwartz, "NASA � The Glory Has Departed," 3/9/11. http://www.creationmoments.com/resources/blog/201103/nasa-%E2%80%93-glory-has-departed. Photo: Artist's depiction of the Glory satellite in Earth orbit. (PD)
BEAUTIFUL BUT DEADLY WOMAN
Esther 1:11
"To bring Vashti the queen before the king with the crown royal, to shew the people and the princes her beauty: for she was fair to look on."
In Italian, its name means beautiful woman. The belladonna plant first received this name because it was used to make eye-drops for women in ancient Rome. Belladonna made the women appear more seductive by dilating the pupils of their eyes.
Today, the plant is often called the deadly nightshade, and it certainly lives up to that name. The deadly nightshade is one of the most poisonous plants known. It is particularly dangerous because its glistening black berries are tempting to children. But they can also be fatal to an adult who foolishly consumes as few as two of the berries. Ingesting even one leaf can kill an adult, but the roots are the deadliest part of all.
The deadly nightshade is one of a group of hallucinogenic plants that are known to produce a sensation of flight. According to the book Secrets of the Natural World, "Witches were thought to have used [the] plants in their potions, which may explain why witches are typically portrayed flying through the night sky."
Creation Moments believes that the deadly nightshade represents a collaboration of sorts between God and Adam. God originally created the plant with berries that could be eaten without harm. After all, God called His creation "very good." But after Adam took that fateful bite of the forbidden fruit, God cursed the ground. This is when we believe that the chemistry of the harmless belladonna was changed into a plant that can kill with one bite.
Heavenly Father, thank You for telling us in the Bible how death and suffering came into the world so that we can know they were not a part of Your original creation. In Jesus' Name. Amen.
Secrets of the Natural World (Reader's Digest/Dorling Kindersley, 1993), p. 122. Photo: Berries of the deadly nightshade. Courtesy of Karelj. (CC-BY-SA 3.0)
Esther 1:11
"To bring Vashti the queen before the king with the crown royal, to shew the people and the princes her beauty: for she was fair to look on."
In Italian, its name means beautiful woman. The belladonna plant first received this name because it was used to make eye-drops for women in ancient Rome. Belladonna made the women appear more seductive by dilating the pupils of their eyes.
Today, the plant is often called the deadly nightshade, and it certainly lives up to that name. The deadly nightshade is one of the most poisonous plants known. It is particularly dangerous because its glistening black berries are tempting to children. But they can also be fatal to an adult who foolishly consumes as few as two of the berries. Ingesting even one leaf can kill an adult, but the roots are the deadliest part of all.
The deadly nightshade is one of a group of hallucinogenic plants that are known to produce a sensation of flight. According to the book Secrets of the Natural World, "Witches were thought to have used [the] plants in their potions, which may explain why witches are typically portrayed flying through the night sky."
Creation Moments believes that the deadly nightshade represents a collaboration of sorts between God and Adam. God originally created the plant with berries that could be eaten without harm. After all, God called His creation "very good." But after Adam took that fateful bite of the forbidden fruit, God cursed the ground. This is when we believe that the chemistry of the harmless belladonna was changed into a plant that can kill with one bite.
Heavenly Father, thank You for telling us in the Bible how death and suffering came into the world so that we can know they were not a part of Your original creation. In Jesus' Name. Amen.
Secrets of the Natural World (Reader's Digest/Dorling Kindersley, 1993), p. 122. Photo: Berries of the deadly nightshade. Courtesy of Karelj. (CC-BY-SA 3.0)
NO BRAIN? NO PROBLEM!
Psalm 136:25-26
"Who giveth food to all flesh: for his mercy endureth for ever. O give thanks unto the God of heaven: for his mercy endureth for ever."
Judging from the things many of us choose to eat, you'd be right in thinking that we sometimes don't use our brains when it comes to making healthy food choices. But a tiny multicellular animal, which scientists call "Trix" for short, doesn't use its brain at all at mealtime. In fact, it doesn't have a brain or a single nerve cell in its whole millimeter-sized body.
So how is it that these tiny, brainless creatures are found worldwide, crawling across shallow seafloors on a belly covered in hairlike cilia in search of algae? Scientists have recently discovered that Trix have a whole bag of tricks that enable them to seek out algae with surprising sophistication.
According to an article in LiveScience, when scientists used light and electron microscopy to look up close at Trix, they found two previously unknown cell types, giving Trix a total of six body cell types in all. By contrast, humans have hundreds of different cell types. Scientists think that one of these new cell types � which they call "crystal cells" � allows Trix to sense their environment, thus enabling it to find its lunch on the seafloor.
Though scientists now know how Trix find food, they don't have a clue how they came to have these crystal cells to begin with. And they are utterly incapable of explaining how Trix survived before they supposedly "evolved" those cells. To creationists, however, it's crystal clear that God created this creature with all the cell types it needed to survive.
Heavenly Father, it doesn't take a brain like Einstein's to see that even an animal without a brain is highly complex. I praise Your Son, Jesus Christ, for being that Designer! Amen.
N. Weiler, "No Organs, No Problem: Weird Animal Hunts Without Nerves or Muscles," LiveScience, 9/2/15. Photo: Trichoplax, a simple animal with no organs, feeds on microalgae (red specks). Credit: Carolyn Smith.
Psalm 136:25-26
"Who giveth food to all flesh: for his mercy endureth for ever. O give thanks unto the God of heaven: for his mercy endureth for ever."
Judging from the things many of us choose to eat, you'd be right in thinking that we sometimes don't use our brains when it comes to making healthy food choices. But a tiny multicellular animal, which scientists call "Trix" for short, doesn't use its brain at all at mealtime. In fact, it doesn't have a brain or a single nerve cell in its whole millimeter-sized body.
So how is it that these tiny, brainless creatures are found worldwide, crawling across shallow seafloors on a belly covered in hairlike cilia in search of algae? Scientists have recently discovered that Trix have a whole bag of tricks that enable them to seek out algae with surprising sophistication.
According to an article in LiveScience, when scientists used light and electron microscopy to look up close at Trix, they found two previously unknown cell types, giving Trix a total of six body cell types in all. By contrast, humans have hundreds of different cell types. Scientists think that one of these new cell types � which they call "crystal cells" � allows Trix to sense their environment, thus enabling it to find its lunch on the seafloor.
Though scientists now know how Trix find food, they don't have a clue how they came to have these crystal cells to begin with. And they are utterly incapable of explaining how Trix survived before they supposedly "evolved" those cells. To creationists, however, it's crystal clear that God created this creature with all the cell types it needed to survive.
Heavenly Father, it doesn't take a brain like Einstein's to see that even an animal without a brain is highly complex. I praise Your Son, Jesus Christ, for being that Designer! Amen.
N. Weiler, "No Organs, No Problem: Weird Animal Hunts Without Nerves or Muscles," LiveScience, 9/2/15. Photo: Trichoplax, a simple animal with no organs, feeds on microalgae (red specks). Credit: Carolyn Smith.
IMMIGRATION PROBLEM
Exodus 22:21
"Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt."
On an earlier broadcast, I shared with you how Darwinism led to racism and horrendous acts that are comparable to what terrorists are doing today with unspeakable acts of violence. Though our broadcast today tells a far less gruesome story, it does show how Darwinism even played a part in America's early immigration policies.
At the turn of the twentieth century, when immigrants were flooding into North America, there were certain groups very hostile to Roman Catholicism, and they were looking for justification to exclude Catholics from the country on scientific grounds. Obviously, to have excluded them on religious grounds would have undermined the boast of America being "the land of the free" and would in any case have violated the Constitution.
However, Franz Boas, a German anthropologist, was asked to set up a team on Ellis Island where immigrants could be scientifically screened. Screening was carried out by measurement of head size and distance from fingertip to knee cap, all on the presumption that Man had evolved from the ape and that those closer to the ape's proportions were to be excluded. The "dark races" especially included those from Catholic countries. Many immigrants were turned back on the dubious grounds that their lower intelligence would dilute the general gene pool.
Even today there are people who believe that certain races of people are less evolved than others. But those people certainly did not get that notion from the Bible. The Bible affirms there is only one race � the human race!
Heavenly Father, like the song says, Jesus loves the little children, red, brown, yellow, black and white! Thank You, Jesus, for coming to save the lost, no matter what their skin color might be. Amen.
Ian Taylor, "Scientific Racism," on file at Creation Moments. Photo: The main building on Ellis Island. Courtesy of Ingfbruno. (CC-BY-SA 3.0)
Exodus 22:21
"Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt."
On an earlier broadcast, I shared with you how Darwinism led to racism and horrendous acts that are comparable to what terrorists are doing today with unspeakable acts of violence. Though our broadcast today tells a far less gruesome story, it does show how Darwinism even played a part in America's early immigration policies.
At the turn of the twentieth century, when immigrants were flooding into North America, there were certain groups very hostile to Roman Catholicism, and they were looking for justification to exclude Catholics from the country on scientific grounds. Obviously, to have excluded them on religious grounds would have undermined the boast of America being "the land of the free" and would in any case have violated the Constitution.
However, Franz Boas, a German anthropologist, was asked to set up a team on Ellis Island where immigrants could be scientifically screened. Screening was carried out by measurement of head size and distance from fingertip to knee cap, all on the presumption that Man had evolved from the ape and that those closer to the ape's proportions were to be excluded. The "dark races" especially included those from Catholic countries. Many immigrants were turned back on the dubious grounds that their lower intelligence would dilute the general gene pool.
Even today there are people who believe that certain races of people are less evolved than others. But those people certainly did not get that notion from the Bible. The Bible affirms there is only one race � the human race!
Heavenly Father, like the song says, Jesus loves the little children, red, brown, yellow, black and white! Thank You, Jesus, for coming to save the lost, no matter what their skin color might be. Amen.
Ian Taylor, "Scientific Racism," on file at Creation Moments. Photo: The main building on Ellis Island. Courtesy of Ingfbruno. (CC-BY-SA 3.0)
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