ARE BIBLICAL CREATIONISTS A STUMBLING BLOCK?
Mark 10:5-6
"And Jesus answered and said unto them, For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept. But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female."
In his excellent article in Creation magazine "Jesus on the Age of the Earth", Carl Wieland reports that the standard secular timeline of billions of years for the age of the universe is "accepted by most people in the evangelical Christian world." He went on to write, "Some would even say that to even dispute billions of years is to place an unnecessary stumbling block in the way of any scientifically-minded potential converts."
I can't count the number of times Creation Moments has been attacked by Christian leaders and laypeople … and even pastors! No, young earth creationists are not the stumbling block. We are simply standing up for biblical authority in a world that is rejecting it. As Wieland writes, many authors of the Bible – even Jesus Himself – make it clear that people were on the Earth at the beginning of creation and not millions of years later.
How tragic, writes Wieland, that so many Christian leaders have been "bluffed and intimidated into assuming that secular interpretations of the evidence should dictate their understanding of God's Word." Ironically, this rejection of biblical authority comes "at a point in history when there are more scientific reasons than ever to confirm the utter rationality of trusting the Bible…"
Yes, you can and must trust the Bible. After all, you don't want to become a stumbling block to the gospel by rejecting what the Bible clearly teaches.
Heavenly Father, I pray that You will keep me from being a stumbling block in the way of unbelievers. I believe that the best way for me to present the gospel is by teaching what the Bible itself teaches. In Jesus' Name. Amen.
Carl Wieland, "Jesus on the Age of the Earth," Creation 34(2) 2012, pp. 51-53. Photo: Dr. Carl Wieland, author and founding editor of Creation magazine. (Fair Use)
Mark 10:5-6
"And Jesus answered and said unto them, For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept. But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female."
In his excellent article in Creation magazine "Jesus on the Age of the Earth", Carl Wieland reports that the standard secular timeline of billions of years for the age of the universe is "accepted by most people in the evangelical Christian world." He went on to write, "Some would even say that to even dispute billions of years is to place an unnecessary stumbling block in the way of any scientifically-minded potential converts."
I can't count the number of times Creation Moments has been attacked by Christian leaders and laypeople … and even pastors! No, young earth creationists are not the stumbling block. We are simply standing up for biblical authority in a world that is rejecting it. As Wieland writes, many authors of the Bible – even Jesus Himself – make it clear that people were on the Earth at the beginning of creation and not millions of years later.
How tragic, writes Wieland, that so many Christian leaders have been "bluffed and intimidated into assuming that secular interpretations of the evidence should dictate their understanding of God's Word." Ironically, this rejection of biblical authority comes "at a point in history when there are more scientific reasons than ever to confirm the utter rationality of trusting the Bible…"
Yes, you can and must trust the Bible. After all, you don't want to become a stumbling block to the gospel by rejecting what the Bible clearly teaches.
Heavenly Father, I pray that You will keep me from being a stumbling block in the way of unbelievers. I believe that the best way for me to present the gospel is by teaching what the Bible itself teaches. In Jesus' Name. Amen.
Carl Wieland, "Jesus on the Age of the Earth," Creation 34(2) 2012, pp. 51-53. Photo: Dr. Carl Wieland, author and founding editor of Creation magazine. (Fair Use)
CREATIONIST ASTROPHYSICIST
Psalm 8:3
"When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;"
Evolutionists would be foolish to question creation scientist Dr. Markus Blietz's credentials as a legitimate scientist. Dr. Blietz earned his Ph.D. in astrophysics at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics and now works in the semiconductor industry in charge of helping researchers develop new ideas.
In an interview that was published in the book Busting Myths, he talks about black holes, comets, distant starlight, and most important, how he came to become a Christian and a creationist. "I read the gospel according to Matthew," he said. "Almost immediately I understood that Jesus was a real, historical person, that He came to fulfill a mission and that I needed Him urgently."
He also spoke out about evolution and world views. "Only belief in Jesus Christ can open our eyes and give us the correct view of our world," he said, adding that "before I was a Christian, I never felt really content with the evolutionary world view, which I had adopted. It produced too many contradictions and left open too many questions. Only the truth in the Word of God is able to give a full, comprehensive answer to our basic questions of life and death."
Dr. Blietz also had these words of advice for young people: "Study science to be able to better serve God." Creation Moments thinks this is great advice, not just for young people but for everyone.
Heavenly Father, thank You for raising up scientists who know biblical truth. I pray that You will encourage and protect them as they take a stand for Your truth in the midst of unbelieving colleagues. In Jesus' Name. Amen.
"Galaxies, Black Holes, and Creation", Jonathan Sarfati and Markus Blietz. Busting Myths, pp. 11-15 (Creation Book Publishers, 2015). Photo: Creationist astrophysicist Dr. Markus Blietz. Courtesy of Creation Ministries International.
Psalm 8:3
"When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;"
Evolutionists would be foolish to question creation scientist Dr. Markus Blietz's credentials as a legitimate scientist. Dr. Blietz earned his Ph.D. in astrophysics at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics and now works in the semiconductor industry in charge of helping researchers develop new ideas.
In an interview that was published in the book Busting Myths, he talks about black holes, comets, distant starlight, and most important, how he came to become a Christian and a creationist. "I read the gospel according to Matthew," he said. "Almost immediately I understood that Jesus was a real, historical person, that He came to fulfill a mission and that I needed Him urgently."
He also spoke out about evolution and world views. "Only belief in Jesus Christ can open our eyes and give us the correct view of our world," he said, adding that "before I was a Christian, I never felt really content with the evolutionary world view, which I had adopted. It produced too many contradictions and left open too many questions. Only the truth in the Word of God is able to give a full, comprehensive answer to our basic questions of life and death."
Dr. Blietz also had these words of advice for young people: "Study science to be able to better serve God." Creation Moments thinks this is great advice, not just for young people but for everyone.
Heavenly Father, thank You for raising up scientists who know biblical truth. I pray that You will encourage and protect them as they take a stand for Your truth in the midst of unbelieving colleagues. In Jesus' Name. Amen.
"Galaxies, Black Holes, and Creation", Jonathan Sarfati and Markus Blietz. Busting Myths, pp. 11-15 (Creation Book Publishers, 2015). Photo: Creationist astrophysicist Dr. Markus Blietz. Courtesy of Creation Ministries International.
EVOLUTIONISTS STILL CLUELESS ON ORIGIN OF LIFE
Job 32:3
"Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job."
How good are evolutionists at explaining the origin of life? Not very! Listen to what some have written and said. First up is professor Paul Davies from the University of Arizona. In his book The Fifth Miracle: The Search for the Origin and Meaning of Life, he wrote, "Obviously, Darwinian evolution can operate only if life of some sort already exists." He continued: "Darwinism can offer absolutely no help in explaining that all-important first step: the origin of life."
Now consider what evolutionist science writer Gordy Slack wrote in The Scientist: "Evolution should be able to explain, in theory at least, all the way back to the very first organism that could replicate itself through biological or chemical processes … and what came before it…. Right now, we are nowhere close."
Here's another honest statement – this one from Simon Morris, professor of evolutionary biology at Cambridge University: "Despite decades of experimentation, with accompanying shouts of 'breakthrough' or 'almost there,' we are still paddling on the edges of an ocean of ignorance."
I close today's broadcast with this marvelous quote from Henry Lipson, professor of physics at the University of Manchester: "I think we must admit that the only acceptable explanation is creation. I know that this is anathema to physicists, as indeed it is to me, but we must not reject a theory that we do not like if the experimental evidence supports it."
Heavenly Father, I pray that when evolutionists run into walls that the tools of science can't break through, they will turn to biblical creation for the truth. In Jesus' Name. Amen.
Sources of all quotes can be found in Evolutionists Say the Oddest Things, Lita Cosner, editor, pp. 43-46 (Creation Book Publishers, 2015). Photo: Evolutionist Paul Davies from the University of Arizona (2006). (PD)
Job 32:3
"Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job."
How good are evolutionists at explaining the origin of life? Not very! Listen to what some have written and said. First up is professor Paul Davies from the University of Arizona. In his book The Fifth Miracle: The Search for the Origin and Meaning of Life, he wrote, "Obviously, Darwinian evolution can operate only if life of some sort already exists." He continued: "Darwinism can offer absolutely no help in explaining that all-important first step: the origin of life."
Now consider what evolutionist science writer Gordy Slack wrote in The Scientist: "Evolution should be able to explain, in theory at least, all the way back to the very first organism that could replicate itself through biological or chemical processes … and what came before it…. Right now, we are nowhere close."
Here's another honest statement – this one from Simon Morris, professor of evolutionary biology at Cambridge University: "Despite decades of experimentation, with accompanying shouts of 'breakthrough' or 'almost there,' we are still paddling on the edges of an ocean of ignorance."
I close today's broadcast with this marvelous quote from Henry Lipson, professor of physics at the University of Manchester: "I think we must admit that the only acceptable explanation is creation. I know that this is anathema to physicists, as indeed it is to me, but we must not reject a theory that we do not like if the experimental evidence supports it."
Heavenly Father, I pray that when evolutionists run into walls that the tools of science can't break through, they will turn to biblical creation for the truth. In Jesus' Name. Amen.
Sources of all quotes can be found in Evolutionists Say the Oddest Things, Lita Cosner, editor, pp. 43-46 (Creation Book Publishers, 2015). Photo: Evolutionist Paul Davies from the University of Arizona (2006). (PD)
SO WHERE IS EVERYBODY?
Jeremiah 10:12
"He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion."
On our previous broadcast, we told you about the Fermi paradox. In case you missed it, the Fermi paradox is the attempt by scientists to account for the fact that we have not come in contact with extraterrestrial life. This is a very real problem for evolutionists because they believe that if life evolved here, evolution must have occurred on countless other planets. So why haven't we found anybody out there? Here are a few attempts to solve the Fermi paradox.
Because intelligent civilizations are too far apart in space-time, say some. Because it is too expensive to travel throughout the galaxy, say others. Still other scientists believe it's because civilizations broadcast detectable radio signals only for a brief period of time. Or how about this one – that alien life forms are so different from us, we cannot recognize their attempts to communicate with us. And die-hard evolutionists suggest that intelligent extraterrestrial life does exist, but they don't contact us because they don't want to interfere with our natural evolution and development.
Creation Moments believes that all of these explanations fall short because the Fermi paradox is based on the faulty premises that evolution is true and that life must have evolved elsewhere. As we said last time, we believe the real reason why mankind hasn't found intelligent life out there is because God created such life on only one planet – right here on Earth.
Heavenly Father, I pray that many of those who are looking for extraterrestrials will come to realize that our planet was already visited by Someone who is not of this Earth. In Jesus' Name. Amen.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox. Illustration: A graphical representation of the Arecibo message – mankind's first attempt to use radio waves to tell alien civilizations that we exist. Courtesy of Arne Nordmann. (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Jeremiah 10:12
"He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion."
On our previous broadcast, we told you about the Fermi paradox. In case you missed it, the Fermi paradox is the attempt by scientists to account for the fact that we have not come in contact with extraterrestrial life. This is a very real problem for evolutionists because they believe that if life evolved here, evolution must have occurred on countless other planets. So why haven't we found anybody out there? Here are a few attempts to solve the Fermi paradox.
Because intelligent civilizations are too far apart in space-time, say some. Because it is too expensive to travel throughout the galaxy, say others. Still other scientists believe it's because civilizations broadcast detectable radio signals only for a brief period of time. Or how about this one – that alien life forms are so different from us, we cannot recognize their attempts to communicate with us. And die-hard evolutionists suggest that intelligent extraterrestrial life does exist, but they don't contact us because they don't want to interfere with our natural evolution and development.
Creation Moments believes that all of these explanations fall short because the Fermi paradox is based on the faulty premises that evolution is true and that life must have evolved elsewhere. As we said last time, we believe the real reason why mankind hasn't found intelligent life out there is because God created such life on only one planet – right here on Earth.
Heavenly Father, I pray that many of those who are looking for extraterrestrials will come to realize that our planet was already visited by Someone who is not of this Earth. In Jesus' Name. Amen.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox. Illustration: A graphical representation of the Arecibo message – mankind's first attempt to use radio waves to tell alien civilizations that we exist. Courtesy of Arne Nordmann. (CC BY-SA 3.0)
THE FERMI PARADOX
Deuteronomy 10:14
"Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the LORD'S thy God, the earth also, with all that therein is."
Where is everybody?! That's what physicist Enrico Fermi wanted to know. After all, if life evolved on Earth, he thought, certainly it must have evolved on countless other planets. So in 1950, he put forth what is called the "Fermi paradox" – a challenge to other scientists to explain why extraterrestrial life has not yet been found.
One of the more popular explanations is that the universe is so big, we just haven't found them yet. But now there are scientists who think aliens may have already found us! They are hiding from us to protect themselves, according to Adrian Kent of the Perimeter Institute in Ontario, Canada. Aliens, he suggests, do not want to attract the attention of more advanced species from other planets who might want to harm them.
But let's think about that. If aliens have developed the technology to travel through the vastness of space to a planet that only managed to put a man on its moon around 50 years ago, wouldn't they be far more advanced than us and have nothing to fear?
Many other scientists have attempted to solve the Fermi paradox. Some of their solutions are very imaginative. But here is one solution that I believe agrees with both science and the Bible. The reason why man has not found other beings elsewhere in our vast universe is because the Earth is the only planet created by God to nurture human beings, who were made in the image of God Himself.
Heavenly Father, I pray that scientists would turn their attention to learning about the universe that You created – just like it really is and not like they want or imagine it to be. In Jesus' Name. Amen.
"Is ET hiding?", Creation magazine, Jan-Mar 2012, p. 9. Photo: Italian-American physicist Enrico Fermi (1901-1954). (PD)
Deuteronomy 10:14
"Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the LORD'S thy God, the earth also, with all that therein is."
Where is everybody?! That's what physicist Enrico Fermi wanted to know. After all, if life evolved on Earth, he thought, certainly it must have evolved on countless other planets. So in 1950, he put forth what is called the "Fermi paradox" – a challenge to other scientists to explain why extraterrestrial life has not yet been found.
One of the more popular explanations is that the universe is so big, we just haven't found them yet. But now there are scientists who think aliens may have already found us! They are hiding from us to protect themselves, according to Adrian Kent of the Perimeter Institute in Ontario, Canada. Aliens, he suggests, do not want to attract the attention of more advanced species from other planets who might want to harm them.
But let's think about that. If aliens have developed the technology to travel through the vastness of space to a planet that only managed to put a man on its moon around 50 years ago, wouldn't they be far more advanced than us and have nothing to fear?
Many other scientists have attempted to solve the Fermi paradox. Some of their solutions are very imaginative. But here is one solution that I believe agrees with both science and the Bible. The reason why man has not found other beings elsewhere in our vast universe is because the Earth is the only planet created by God to nurture human beings, who were made in the image of God Himself.
Heavenly Father, I pray that scientists would turn their attention to learning about the universe that You created – just like it really is and not like they want or imagine it to be. In Jesus' Name. Amen.
"Is ET hiding?", Creation magazine, Jan-Mar 2012, p. 9. Photo: Italian-American physicist Enrico Fermi (1901-1954). (PD)
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