AND A LITTLE CHILD SHALL LEAD HIM
Isaiah 11:6
"The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them."
In the early 1950s, people were stunned when former Soviet spy Whittaker Chambers testified that Alger Hiss, an American government official, was spying on the U.S. for Russia. In his book Witness, Chambers relates how a little child led him to change his beliefs and the course of his life.
"It was shortly before we moved to Alger Hiss's apartment in Washington. My daughter was in her high chair. I was watching her eat. She was the most miraculous thing that had ever happened in my life. I liked to watch her even when she smeared porridge on her face or dropped it meditatively on the floor. My eye came to rest on the delicate convolutions of her ear – those intricate, perfect ears."
Chambers continued: "The thought passed through my mind: 'No, those ears were not created by any chance coming together of atoms in nature (the Communist view). They could have been created only by immense design.'
"The thought was involuntary and unwanted. I crowded it out of my mind. But I never wholly forgot it or the occasion. I had to crowd it out of my mind. If I had completed it, I should have had to say: Design presupposes God. I did not then know that, at that moment, the finger of God was first laid upon my forehead."
Chambers was right. Not only does creation point to design, it points to the Designer – Jesus Christ.
Heavenly Father, thank You for the witness of Your creation! Your grace is beyond comprehension! In Jesus' Name. Amen.
From the Foreword to Whittaker Chambers' Witness, first published in 1952. Photo: Whittaker Chambers, American writer, editor and former Soviet spy who defected from the Communist Party in 1938. Photo taken in 1948. (PD)
Isaiah 11:6
"The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them."
In the early 1950s, people were stunned when former Soviet spy Whittaker Chambers testified that Alger Hiss, an American government official, was spying on the U.S. for Russia. In his book Witness, Chambers relates how a little child led him to change his beliefs and the course of his life.
"It was shortly before we moved to Alger Hiss's apartment in Washington. My daughter was in her high chair. I was watching her eat. She was the most miraculous thing that had ever happened in my life. I liked to watch her even when she smeared porridge on her face or dropped it meditatively on the floor. My eye came to rest on the delicate convolutions of her ear – those intricate, perfect ears."
Chambers continued: "The thought passed through my mind: 'No, those ears were not created by any chance coming together of atoms in nature (the Communist view). They could have been created only by immense design.'
"The thought was involuntary and unwanted. I crowded it out of my mind. But I never wholly forgot it or the occasion. I had to crowd it out of my mind. If I had completed it, I should have had to say: Design presupposes God. I did not then know that, at that moment, the finger of God was first laid upon my forehead."
Chambers was right. Not only does creation point to design, it points to the Designer – Jesus Christ.
Heavenly Father, thank You for the witness of Your creation! Your grace is beyond comprehension! In Jesus' Name. Amen.
From the Foreword to Whittaker Chambers' Witness, first published in 1952. Photo: Whittaker Chambers, American writer, editor and former Soviet spy who defected from the Communist Party in 1938. Photo taken in 1948. (PD)
HOW ACCURATE IS RADIOCARBON DATING?
Psalm 119:160-161
"Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever. Princes have persecuted me without a cause: but my heart standeth in awe of thy word."
Evolutionists are good at giving the appearance they know what they are talking about when they say that such and such fossil is 150 million years old or 320 million years old or whatever.
Creationists have learned long ago that radiocarbon dating methods cannot be trusted, based as they are on faulty assumptions and incomplete information about the samples. No, we are not being anti-science. Think about it. When different labs test the same fossil sample, why do the labs often come back with results that are millions of years apart?
Let me close today's program with a story sent to us by a listener that illustrates why we old-age dates from evolutionists cannot be trusted. He writes:
"In 1973, I was stationed in Hawaii at Kaneohe Bay Marine Corps Air Station on Oahu. I found some amber-like stuff oozing from a palm tree. There were no insects in it, and it was of the consistency of chewed gum. I put a bit, the size of a marble, into a film canister. Many years later, I came upon that film canister and found the resin to be harder than wood. On a fling, a friend of ours took it to the university where he works and had it tested. The report came back that it was spruce amber … and over 150,000 years old. I never did tell them, 'The rest of the story.'"
Heavenly Father, help me to show others why the Bible can always be trusted over the speculations of evolutionists. In Jesus' Name. Amen.
Letter on file at Creation Moments, 9/6/12. Photo: Ant inside Baltic amber. Courtesy of Anders L. Damgaard. (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Psalm 119:160-161
"Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever. Princes have persecuted me without a cause: but my heart standeth in awe of thy word."
Evolutionists are good at giving the appearance they know what they are talking about when they say that such and such fossil is 150 million years old or 320 million years old or whatever.
Creationists have learned long ago that radiocarbon dating methods cannot be trusted, based as they are on faulty assumptions and incomplete information about the samples. No, we are not being anti-science. Think about it. When different labs test the same fossil sample, why do the labs often come back with results that are millions of years apart?
Let me close today's program with a story sent to us by a listener that illustrates why we old-age dates from evolutionists cannot be trusted. He writes:
"In 1973, I was stationed in Hawaii at Kaneohe Bay Marine Corps Air Station on Oahu. I found some amber-like stuff oozing from a palm tree. There were no insects in it, and it was of the consistency of chewed gum. I put a bit, the size of a marble, into a film canister. Many years later, I came upon that film canister and found the resin to be harder than wood. On a fling, a friend of ours took it to the university where he works and had it tested. The report came back that it was spruce amber … and over 150,000 years old. I never did tell them, 'The rest of the story.'"
Heavenly Father, help me to show others why the Bible can always be trusted over the speculations of evolutionists. In Jesus' Name. Amen.
Letter on file at Creation Moments, 9/6/12. Photo: Ant inside Baltic amber. Courtesy of Anders L. Damgaard. (CC BY-SA 3.0)
THEORY, HYPOTHESIS … OR SOMETHING ELSE?
2 Peter 1:16
"For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty."
Does the theory of evolution pass the test of being a legitimate theory? Not according to Ph.D. geologist and marine scientist Roger Gallop. In his book Evolution: The Greatest Deception in Modern History, Gallop points out that a theory is "an explanation of a set of related observations based on hypotheses and verified by independent researchers." But, he adds, "evolution – that is, genuine gain in genetic information or net increase in complexity – has never been observed in fossils or living populations."
So if evolution isn't a theory, what is it? A hypothesis? Nope. Dr. Gallop writes, "Evolution is not even worthy of the term hypothesis, which is an educated guess based upon observation."
In that case, what term is appropriate? Since evolution has never been observed or substantiated by empirical science, it would be best to call evolution an assumption. Most scientists accept evolution today because they simply assume it to be true.
And that's not just our position. Listen to what L. Harrison Mathews wrote in his Introduction to Darwin's The Origin of Species: "[Since] biology is in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an unproved theory, is it then a science or a faith?" Mathews then answers the question: "Belief in the theory of evolution is thus exactly parallel to belief in special creation. Both are concepts which believers know to be true but neither, up to the present, has been capable of proof."
Heavenly Father, thank You for reminding me that the theory of evolution is not a theory or a hypothesis … and it most certainly is not a fact! In Jesus' Name. Amen.
Roger G. Gallop, Ph.D., evolution: The Greatest Deception in Modern History, pp. 4-5, (Red Butte Press, 2nd edition, 2014). Photo: Cover of Roger Gallop's book, which was the source of quotes used on today's program.
2 Peter 1:16
"For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty."
Does the theory of evolution pass the test of being a legitimate theory? Not according to Ph.D. geologist and marine scientist Roger Gallop. In his book Evolution: The Greatest Deception in Modern History, Gallop points out that a theory is "an explanation of a set of related observations based on hypotheses and verified by independent researchers." But, he adds, "evolution – that is, genuine gain in genetic information or net increase in complexity – has never been observed in fossils or living populations."
So if evolution isn't a theory, what is it? A hypothesis? Nope. Dr. Gallop writes, "Evolution is not even worthy of the term hypothesis, which is an educated guess based upon observation."
In that case, what term is appropriate? Since evolution has never been observed or substantiated by empirical science, it would be best to call evolution an assumption. Most scientists accept evolution today because they simply assume it to be true.
And that's not just our position. Listen to what L. Harrison Mathews wrote in his Introduction to Darwin's The Origin of Species: "[Since] biology is in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an unproved theory, is it then a science or a faith?" Mathews then answers the question: "Belief in the theory of evolution is thus exactly parallel to belief in special creation. Both are concepts which believers know to be true but neither, up to the present, has been capable of proof."
Heavenly Father, thank You for reminding me that the theory of evolution is not a theory or a hypothesis … and it most certainly is not a fact! In Jesus' Name. Amen.
Roger G. Gallop, Ph.D., evolution: The Greatest Deception in Modern History, pp. 4-5, (Red Butte Press, 2nd edition, 2014). Photo: Cover of Roger Gallop's book, which was the source of quotes used on today's program.
BIGGEST VOLCANIC ERUPTION EVER!
Isaiah 2:21
"To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth."
Which part of the world do you suppose is home to the biggest volcanic eruption in history? Indonesia perhaps? In 1883, the volcano Krakatoa erupted, destroying over two-thirds of the island and unleashing a huge tsunami that killed more than 36,000 people. The explosion is thought to have been the loudest sound ever heard in modern history. It could be heard 3,000 miles away. That's 600 miles more than the distance between New York City and Los Angeles!
Over a century later, the eruption of Mount Pinatubo in 1991 ejected a cubic mile of material, creating a column of ash that rose 23 miles into the atmosphere. A year after that eruption spewed millions of tons of sulfur dioxide and other particles into the air that blocked out sunlight, global temperatures dropped by 1 degree Fahrenheit.
Well, it isn't Indonesia or the Philippines. The three biggest eruptions in history all took place at Yellowstone National Park in the United States. What's more, scientists told the journal Science in 2013 that they discovered a huge mass of magma beneath Yellowstone that could fill the Grand Canyon eleven times over!
Needless to say, you don't want to be visiting Yellowstone the next time it erupts! But don't call off your vacation plans just yet. Seismologist Robert Smith from the University of Utah told Live Science that the chance of an eruption at Yellowstone is only about one in 700,000 each year.
Heavenly Father, though volcanic eruptions and other catastrophic events cause me to fear, I know that You are in ultimate control, so I will not let my heart be troubled. In Jesus' Name. Amen.
"The 11 Biggest Volcanic Eruptions in History," Live Science, 2/23/16. Photo: The eruption plume, just minutes after Mount Pinatubo erupted. (USGS – PD)
Isaiah 2:21
"To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth."
Which part of the world do you suppose is home to the biggest volcanic eruption in history? Indonesia perhaps? In 1883, the volcano Krakatoa erupted, destroying over two-thirds of the island and unleashing a huge tsunami that killed more than 36,000 people. The explosion is thought to have been the loudest sound ever heard in modern history. It could be heard 3,000 miles away. That's 600 miles more than the distance between New York City and Los Angeles!
Over a century later, the eruption of Mount Pinatubo in 1991 ejected a cubic mile of material, creating a column of ash that rose 23 miles into the atmosphere. A year after that eruption spewed millions of tons of sulfur dioxide and other particles into the air that blocked out sunlight, global temperatures dropped by 1 degree Fahrenheit.
Well, it isn't Indonesia or the Philippines. The three biggest eruptions in history all took place at Yellowstone National Park in the United States. What's more, scientists told the journal Science in 2013 that they discovered a huge mass of magma beneath Yellowstone that could fill the Grand Canyon eleven times over!
Needless to say, you don't want to be visiting Yellowstone the next time it erupts! But don't call off your vacation plans just yet. Seismologist Robert Smith from the University of Utah told Live Science that the chance of an eruption at Yellowstone is only about one in 700,000 each year.
Heavenly Father, though volcanic eruptions and other catastrophic events cause me to fear, I know that You are in ultimate control, so I will not let my heart be troubled. In Jesus' Name. Amen.
"The 11 Biggest Volcanic Eruptions in History," Live Science, 2/23/16. Photo: The eruption plume, just minutes after Mount Pinatubo erupted. (USGS – PD)
EVOLUTION – A MATTER OF FAITH
John 1:3-4
"All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men."
Does the name Harold Clayton Urey ring a bell? Urey was an American physical chemist who did pioneering work on isotopes, earning him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering the element deuterium. He also played a significant role in the development of the atom bomb. Still no bell? Well, perhaps you'll recognize his name if I mention the Miller-Urey experiment, conducted in 1952.
In that famous experiment, a mixture of ammonia, methane, hydrogen and water was exposed to electric sparks to simulate lightning. The mixture ended up producing some amino acids – the building blocks of life – but many news outlets mistakenly reported that Harold Urey and Stanley Miller had created life in the lab.
Though Urey's name is still known and revered by evolutionists, I wonder how many of them know where Harold Urey ended up in his views on the origin of life. Listen carefully to what he told the Christian Science Monitor ten years after the Miller-Urey experiment:
"All of us who study the origin of life find that the more we look into it, the more we feel that it is too complex to have evolved anywhere." He went on to say he "believes as an article of faith that life evolved from dead matter on this planet." An article of faith, not science!
And that is exactly what evolution really is – a faith that denies both the Bible and the most fundamental laws of science.
Heavenly Father, I pray that more evolutionists would come to realize that living cells are so incredibly complex, only our Creator could have made them! In Jesus' Name. Amen.
Quoted in Roger G. Gallop, Ph.D., evolution: The Greatest Deception in Modern History, p. 46 (Red Butte Press, 2nd edition, 2014). Christian Science Monitor, 1/4/62, p. 4. Photo: Harold Clayton Urey in 1933. (PD)
John 1:3-4
"All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men."
Does the name Harold Clayton Urey ring a bell? Urey was an American physical chemist who did pioneering work on isotopes, earning him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering the element deuterium. He also played a significant role in the development of the atom bomb. Still no bell? Well, perhaps you'll recognize his name if I mention the Miller-Urey experiment, conducted in 1952.
In that famous experiment, a mixture of ammonia, methane, hydrogen and water was exposed to electric sparks to simulate lightning. The mixture ended up producing some amino acids – the building blocks of life – but many news outlets mistakenly reported that Harold Urey and Stanley Miller had created life in the lab.
Though Urey's name is still known and revered by evolutionists, I wonder how many of them know where Harold Urey ended up in his views on the origin of life. Listen carefully to what he told the Christian Science Monitor ten years after the Miller-Urey experiment:
"All of us who study the origin of life find that the more we look into it, the more we feel that it is too complex to have evolved anywhere." He went on to say he "believes as an article of faith that life evolved from dead matter on this planet." An article of faith, not science!
And that is exactly what evolution really is – a faith that denies both the Bible and the most fundamental laws of science.
Heavenly Father, I pray that more evolutionists would come to realize that living cells are so incredibly complex, only our Creator could have made them! In Jesus' Name. Amen.
Quoted in Roger G. Gallop, Ph.D., evolution: The Greatest Deception in Modern History, p. 46 (Red Butte Press, 2nd edition, 2014). Christian Science Monitor, 1/4/62, p. 4. Photo: Harold Clayton Urey in 1933. (PD)
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