WHERE DID THE ELEPHANT GET ITS TRUNK?
Genesis 1:24
"And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so."
On a previous Creation Moments program, we told you about the elephant's trunk with its 40,000 muscles. This is 70 times the number of muscles in your entire body! And that amazing trunk can bulldoze a tree or pick up a pin.
But why does an elephant have a trunk in the first place? For the answer to that question, we looked in a very old book called Natural Theology. It was written by William Paley in 1802. Yes, that's the same William Paley who came up with the famous analogy of a person who finds a watch and deduces that the watch must have had a watchmaker.
According to Paley, "The short unbending neck of the elephant is compensated by the length and flexibility of his proboscis," or trunk. "He could not have reached the ground without it." In other words, the elephant needed such a trunk to reach food and water. But, then, a person could ask why does the elephant have such a short and unbending neck? Paley answers that he needed such a neck to support such a heavy head!
Obviously, the elephant was given its trunk by a very wise Creator. As Paley so well pointed out, if the elephant had waited millions of years for his trunk to grow, "how was the animal to subsist in the meantime… until the prolongation of its snout was completed?" It is a question that evolutionists today are still unable to answer.
Heavenly Father, thank You that even the elephant's trunk provides a witness to Your hand in creation! In Jesus' Name. Amen.
William Paley, DD, Natural Theology, 1809, p. 140. (The Works of William Paley, Ward Lock & Co.)
Genesis 1:24
"And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so."
On a previous Creation Moments program, we told you about the elephant's trunk with its 40,000 muscles. This is 70 times the number of muscles in your entire body! And that amazing trunk can bulldoze a tree or pick up a pin.
But why does an elephant have a trunk in the first place? For the answer to that question, we looked in a very old book called Natural Theology. It was written by William Paley in 1802. Yes, that's the same William Paley who came up with the famous analogy of a person who finds a watch and deduces that the watch must have had a watchmaker.
According to Paley, "The short unbending neck of the elephant is compensated by the length and flexibility of his proboscis," or trunk. "He could not have reached the ground without it." In other words, the elephant needed such a trunk to reach food and water. But, then, a person could ask why does the elephant have such a short and unbending neck? Paley answers that he needed such a neck to support such a heavy head!
Obviously, the elephant was given its trunk by a very wise Creator. As Paley so well pointed out, if the elephant had waited millions of years for his trunk to grow, "how was the animal to subsist in the meantime… until the prolongation of its snout was completed?" It is a question that evolutionists today are still unable to answer.
Heavenly Father, thank You that even the elephant's trunk provides a witness to Your hand in creation! In Jesus' Name. Amen.
William Paley, DD, Natural Theology, 1809, p. 140. (The Works of William Paley, Ward Lock & Co.)
SCIENCE MAKES THE CASE FOR GOD
Romans 1:20
"For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse."
Though Creation Moments doesn't agree with everything that Christian author and apologist Eric Metaxas believes about origins, we have to congratulate him on his excellent op-ed piece that appeared in The Wall Street Journal – "Science Increasingly Makes the Case for God."
Metaxas pointed out, "Today there are more than 200 known parameters necessary for a planet to support life – every single one of which must be perfectly met, or the whole thing falls apart."
He followed that up by asking such pertinent questions as: "Can every one of those many parameters have been perfect by accident?" And: "Doesn't assuming that an intelligence created these perfect conditions require far less faith than believing that a life-sustaining Earth just happened to beat the inconceivable odds to come into being?"
Naturally, an op-ed piece like this was sure to anger atheists and evolutionists. One prominent atheist – Lawrence Krauss – wrote a letter to the editor stating what we've heard many times before: "The appearance of design of life on Earth is overwhelming, but we now understand, thanks to Charles Darwin, that the appearance of design is not the same as design."
Following in Richard Dawkins' footsteps, Krauss discards what he himself calls the "overwhelming" evidence of design. But atheists like Krauss and Dawkins must toss out this evidence only because their godless worldview demands it. Thanks but no thanks. Creationists prefer real science over the atheistic philosophy of evolutionism. Things that appear to be designed really were designed!
Heavenly Father, thank You for creating the universe with such complexity that even atheists can't miss seeing Your hand in its creation. In Jesus' Name. Amen.
Eric Metaxas, "Science Increasingly Makes the Case for God," The Wall Street Journal, 12/26/14, p. A11. http://ericmetaxas.com/media/articles/science-increasingly-makes-case-god/ Photo: Eric Metaxas at the National Prayer Breakfast in 2012. (PD)
Romans 1:20
"For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse."
Though Creation Moments doesn't agree with everything that Christian author and apologist Eric Metaxas believes about origins, we have to congratulate him on his excellent op-ed piece that appeared in The Wall Street Journal – "Science Increasingly Makes the Case for God."
Metaxas pointed out, "Today there are more than 200 known parameters necessary for a planet to support life – every single one of which must be perfectly met, or the whole thing falls apart."
He followed that up by asking such pertinent questions as: "Can every one of those many parameters have been perfect by accident?" And: "Doesn't assuming that an intelligence created these perfect conditions require far less faith than believing that a life-sustaining Earth just happened to beat the inconceivable odds to come into being?"
Naturally, an op-ed piece like this was sure to anger atheists and evolutionists. One prominent atheist – Lawrence Krauss – wrote a letter to the editor stating what we've heard many times before: "The appearance of design of life on Earth is overwhelming, but we now understand, thanks to Charles Darwin, that the appearance of design is not the same as design."
Following in Richard Dawkins' footsteps, Krauss discards what he himself calls the "overwhelming" evidence of design. But atheists like Krauss and Dawkins must toss out this evidence only because their godless worldview demands it. Thanks but no thanks. Creationists prefer real science over the atheistic philosophy of evolutionism. Things that appear to be designed really were designed!
Heavenly Father, thank You for creating the universe with such complexity that even atheists can't miss seeing Your hand in its creation. In Jesus' Name. Amen.
Eric Metaxas, "Science Increasingly Makes the Case for God," The Wall Street Journal, 12/26/14, p. A11. http://ericmetaxas.com/media/articles/science-increasingly-makes-case-god/ Photo: Eric Metaxas at the National Prayer Breakfast in 2012. (PD)
EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT OF THE EXODUS?
Exodus 10:22
"And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days:"
In the early 19th century, a papyrus was found in Egypt – called the Ipuwer papyrus – that appears to be an actual eyewitness account of the events recorded in the book of Exodus. Of course, nearly all secular archaeologists attempted to say the papyrus does not describe these events. After all, their worldview is opposed to the historic reliability of the Bible.
But Rabbi Mordechai Becher, senior lecturer for the Gateways Organization, points out on his webpage that "the papyrus accurately describes violent upheavals in Egypt, starvation, drought, escape of slaves (with the wealth of the Egyptians), and death throughout the land." He goes on to write, "The papyrus was written by an Egyptian named Ipuwer and appears to be an eyewitness account of the effects of the Exodus plagues from the perspective of an average Egyptian."
Here are just a few eyewitness observations from the Ipuwer papyrus that match the events in the book of Exodus: plague is throughout the land, the river (Nile) becomes blood and men thirst for water, grain has perished on every side, the hearts of animals weep while cattle moan, the land is without light, the children of princes have died, and precious metals and stones are "fastened on the neck of female slaves."
In all, Rabbi Becher points out 18 similarities where the Ipuwer papyrus lines up with the Scriptures. For us, the evidence couldn't be more convincing. The events described in the book of Exodus – like the events recorded in Genesis – are historically accurate.
Heavenly Father, though I need no archaeological evidences to "prove" that the Bible is true, I thank You for these evidences because they may help convince skeptics to take a closer look at the Bible. Amen.
Rabbi Mordechai Becher, "The Ten Plagues Live from Egypt", http://ohr.edu/838. Photo: Patterns of Evidence: Exodus is an excellent documentary that discusses the Ipuwer papyrus and many other archaeological evidences supporting the historicity of the book of Exodus. A trailer of the video can be viewed at http://shop.patternsofevidence.com/pages/trailer.
Exodus 10:22
"And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days:"
In the early 19th century, a papyrus was found in Egypt – called the Ipuwer papyrus – that appears to be an actual eyewitness account of the events recorded in the book of Exodus. Of course, nearly all secular archaeologists attempted to say the papyrus does not describe these events. After all, their worldview is opposed to the historic reliability of the Bible.
But Rabbi Mordechai Becher, senior lecturer for the Gateways Organization, points out on his webpage that "the papyrus accurately describes violent upheavals in Egypt, starvation, drought, escape of slaves (with the wealth of the Egyptians), and death throughout the land." He goes on to write, "The papyrus was written by an Egyptian named Ipuwer and appears to be an eyewitness account of the effects of the Exodus plagues from the perspective of an average Egyptian."
Here are just a few eyewitness observations from the Ipuwer papyrus that match the events in the book of Exodus: plague is throughout the land, the river (Nile) becomes blood and men thirst for water, grain has perished on every side, the hearts of animals weep while cattle moan, the land is without light, the children of princes have died, and precious metals and stones are "fastened on the neck of female slaves."
In all, Rabbi Becher points out 18 similarities where the Ipuwer papyrus lines up with the Scriptures. For us, the evidence couldn't be more convincing. The events described in the book of Exodus – like the events recorded in Genesis – are historically accurate.
Heavenly Father, though I need no archaeological evidences to "prove" that the Bible is true, I thank You for these evidences because they may help convince skeptics to take a closer look at the Bible. Amen.
Rabbi Mordechai Becher, "The Ten Plagues Live from Egypt", http://ohr.edu/838. Photo: Patterns of Evidence: Exodus is an excellent documentary that discusses the Ipuwer papyrus and many other archaeological evidences supporting the historicity of the book of Exodus. A trailer of the video can be viewed at http://shop.patternsofevidence.com/pages/trailer.
BULLIES!
1 John 4:6
"We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error."
In a recent study of over 4,000 children in the United Kingdom and more than 1,420 children in the United States, researchers concluded that bullied children have similar or worse mental health problems later in life than those who have suffered emotional or even physical abuse.
Yes, bullying is a very serious issue, and it's not just other kids who are doing the bullying. Sometimes it's a teacher who pounds his desk and shouts, "I've been a science teacher for over 30 years, and I tell you that evolution is not a hypothesis or even a theory – it's a fact!" Most students are reluctant to say anything for fear of receiving a failing grade. Besides, their teachers have studied such matters far longer than they have, so what right do they have to say anything?
But here's another way of looking at this. By rejecting the Bible as the authoritative source of knowledge, such teachers have a distorted understanding of the world around them. And the longer they look through this distorted "lens", the more hardened they become in their error.
So, Christian students, don't let yourself be silenced by arrogant science teachers. Remember that their long years of study proves nothing. After all, the Bible – unlike science textbooks – doesn't need to be constantly updated and revised. The Bible's truths are true for all time. So the longer you study the Bible – the reliable source of knowledge and wisdom – the greater your understanding of the world around you will be.
Heavenly Father, with evolution being taught as fact, I pray that You will place Your hand of protection on Christian students and help them stand strong for biblical truth. In Jesus' Name. Amen.
"Back off, bullies!" ScienceNews for Students, 5/12/15. Steve Schwartz, "We're Not Worthy! We're Not Worthy!" 10/26/09, Creation Moments.
1 John 4:6
"We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error."
In a recent study of over 4,000 children in the United Kingdom and more than 1,420 children in the United States, researchers concluded that bullied children have similar or worse mental health problems later in life than those who have suffered emotional or even physical abuse.
Yes, bullying is a very serious issue, and it's not just other kids who are doing the bullying. Sometimes it's a teacher who pounds his desk and shouts, "I've been a science teacher for over 30 years, and I tell you that evolution is not a hypothesis or even a theory – it's a fact!" Most students are reluctant to say anything for fear of receiving a failing grade. Besides, their teachers have studied such matters far longer than they have, so what right do they have to say anything?
But here's another way of looking at this. By rejecting the Bible as the authoritative source of knowledge, such teachers have a distorted understanding of the world around them. And the longer they look through this distorted "lens", the more hardened they become in their error.
So, Christian students, don't let yourself be silenced by arrogant science teachers. Remember that their long years of study proves nothing. After all, the Bible – unlike science textbooks – doesn't need to be constantly updated and revised. The Bible's truths are true for all time. So the longer you study the Bible – the reliable source of knowledge and wisdom – the greater your understanding of the world around you will be.
Heavenly Father, with evolution being taught as fact, I pray that You will place Your hand of protection on Christian students and help them stand strong for biblical truth. In Jesus' Name. Amen.
"Back off, bullies!" ScienceNews for Students, 5/12/15. Steve Schwartz, "We're Not Worthy! We're Not Worthy!" 10/26/09, Creation Moments.
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