WAR BETWEEN SCIENCE AND FAITH?
1 Timothy 6:20
"O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called."
Though evolutionists would have you believe there's a war between science and faith, the very idea of a conflict is preposterous. Creation Moments board member Dr. Donald Clark points out that many of the early modern scientists were Christians - like Galileo, Copernicus and Newton. Because of their faith, they believed in a God of order, and this drove them to look for the order in the universe in the first place.
But how things have changed since then! Today we are told that we must keep our faith out of classrooms and scientific institutions in order to do good science. Nothing could be further from the truth! As Dr. Clark writes, "This is a lie from the enemy of our soul to try to indoctrinate our children to not believe in God. How can you do good science if you do not believe that the stuff you are looking at is ordered and if you believe that it came about from chaos?"
Indeed, why perform any experiments at all if the next time you do it the results will be different? There is no point in it. So while many science professors say we must keep science and faith separate, they themselves can't believe this. Otherwise, they would never go into the laboratory.
According to Dr. Clark: "It all boils down to this: What do you put your faith in - science - which is man's understanding of the world - or God's Word? As for me and everyone at Creation Moments, our trust is in God's Word."
Heavenly Father, I pray that You will protect our children and grandchildren from the lie of evolution and that You will guide them into Your truth. Amen.
"War Between Science and Faith?", Donald Clark, Ph.D., 4/30/12. http://www.creationmoments.com/resources/blog/201204/war-between-science-and-faith. Photo: Creation Moments Board Member Dr. Donald Clark, Ph.D.
1 Timothy 6:20
"O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called."
Though evolutionists would have you believe there's a war between science and faith, the very idea of a conflict is preposterous. Creation Moments board member Dr. Donald Clark points out that many of the early modern scientists were Christians - like Galileo, Copernicus and Newton. Because of their faith, they believed in a God of order, and this drove them to look for the order in the universe in the first place.
But how things have changed since then! Today we are told that we must keep our faith out of classrooms and scientific institutions in order to do good science. Nothing could be further from the truth! As Dr. Clark writes, "This is a lie from the enemy of our soul to try to indoctrinate our children to not believe in God. How can you do good science if you do not believe that the stuff you are looking at is ordered and if you believe that it came about from chaos?"
Indeed, why perform any experiments at all if the next time you do it the results will be different? There is no point in it. So while many science professors say we must keep science and faith separate, they themselves can't believe this. Otherwise, they would never go into the laboratory.
According to Dr. Clark: "It all boils down to this: What do you put your faith in - science - which is man's understanding of the world - or God's Word? As for me and everyone at Creation Moments, our trust is in God's Word."
Heavenly Father, I pray that You will protect our children and grandchildren from the lie of evolution and that You will guide them into Your truth. Amen.
"War Between Science and Faith?", Donald Clark, Ph.D., 4/30/12. http://www.creationmoments.com/resources/blog/201204/war-between-science-and-faith. Photo: Creation Moments Board Member Dr. Donald Clark, Ph.D.
DAWKINS BECOMES A CREATIONIST
Luke 24:31
"And their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he vanished out of their sight."
When Creation Moments posted a story with the headline "Dawkins Becomes a Creationist," many evolutionists reacted in disbelief, saying that one of their own - namely, Richard Dawkins - could never become a creationist. And yet, a scientist and veterinarian by the name of Karen Dawkins was also an evolutionist . until God changed her way of thinking.
In an interview with Creation Moments, she said, "As a product of the public school system, I always assumed that evolution was fact. Majoring in science in college, I began having my doubts about the scientific logic of evolution. The first organism I learned about that was not explainable by evolution was the woodpecker. There is no way it could have evolved with so many specialized organs. It had to have been created with all of its specialized organs all at one time. It still took me about 15 years to come to the conclusion that God created the heavens and the earth in six literal days."
She also told us, "Christianity explains the basics of science. Biology, chemistry, geology, physics and astronomy are all based on an orderly, predictable set of laws. And if life is ruled by these laws, then there has to be One who created those predictable sets of laws."
Today Karen Dawkins feels she has a more complete understanding of the sciences by the revealed Word of God. If such a radical change could happen to her, we can only pray that another evolutionist named Dawkins will come to see Christ as Lord and Creator before it's too late.
Heavenly Father, I pray for evolutionists so that their turning to You will impact the lives of many others. Amen.
Karen Dawkins interview on file at Creation Moments. Photo: Karen E. Dawkins, who earned a Bachelor of Science degree as well as a Doctorate in Veterinary Medicine. She is now teaching science as a homeschooling parent.
Luke 24:31
"And their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he vanished out of their sight."
When Creation Moments posted a story with the headline "Dawkins Becomes a Creationist," many evolutionists reacted in disbelief, saying that one of their own - namely, Richard Dawkins - could never become a creationist. And yet, a scientist and veterinarian by the name of Karen Dawkins was also an evolutionist . until God changed her way of thinking.
In an interview with Creation Moments, she said, "As a product of the public school system, I always assumed that evolution was fact. Majoring in science in college, I began having my doubts about the scientific logic of evolution. The first organism I learned about that was not explainable by evolution was the woodpecker. There is no way it could have evolved with so many specialized organs. It had to have been created with all of its specialized organs all at one time. It still took me about 15 years to come to the conclusion that God created the heavens and the earth in six literal days."
She also told us, "Christianity explains the basics of science. Biology, chemistry, geology, physics and astronomy are all based on an orderly, predictable set of laws. And if life is ruled by these laws, then there has to be One who created those predictable sets of laws."
Today Karen Dawkins feels she has a more complete understanding of the sciences by the revealed Word of God. If such a radical change could happen to her, we can only pray that another evolutionist named Dawkins will come to see Christ as Lord and Creator before it's too late.
Heavenly Father, I pray for evolutionists so that their turning to You will impact the lives of many others. Amen.
Karen Dawkins interview on file at Creation Moments. Photo: Karen E. Dawkins, who earned a Bachelor of Science degree as well as a Doctorate in Veterinary Medicine. She is now teaching science as a homeschooling parent.
THE SCIENCE OF PARKING YOUR CAR
Isaiah 4:6
"And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the daytime from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain."
It's a sunny, sweltering summer day, and you're looking for a place to park your car. Since you know you'll be gone for several hours, you look for a nice shaded spot so your car will be more comfortable when you return. Or it's a blustery winter day with sub-zero temperatures. This time you park your car where there's as much sunlight as possible so that the sunlight streaming through your windows will heat your car's interior while you're gone.
What you are doing is practicing what scientists call behavioral thermoregulation. Through experience, we learn how to adjust our parking behavior to fit the climate conditions. But did you know that animals and plants also know how to adjust their bodies to help them stay warm or cool?
Insects and reptiles are particularly skilled at this. On a cold day, for example, an insect will adjust its position so that it intercepts as much sunlight as possible. Lizards and snakes bask in the sunlight on cold days, and on warm days seek relief in the shade or by burrowing underground.
Surprisingly, plants, too, know how to adjust their positions. The silk tree, for example, has leaves that it can move into three different positions depending on whether it needs to keep cool or gain heat.
Most likely, somebody taught you where to park your car for maximum comfort. Or you were intelligent enough to figure it out. But it could only have been God who taught the animals and the plants.
Heavenly Father, since You have provided for the comfort and survival of the least of Your creatures, I know I can trust that You are providing for me as well. Amen.
R. Allen, Bulletproof Feathers, p. 121 (University of Chicago Press, 2010). Photo: During cold weather, western bluebirds stay warm by huddling. Courtesy of Blalonde. (CC-BY-SA 4.0 International)
Isaiah 4:6
"And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the daytime from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain."
It's a sunny, sweltering summer day, and you're looking for a place to park your car. Since you know you'll be gone for several hours, you look for a nice shaded spot so your car will be more comfortable when you return. Or it's a blustery winter day with sub-zero temperatures. This time you park your car where there's as much sunlight as possible so that the sunlight streaming through your windows will heat your car's interior while you're gone.
What you are doing is practicing what scientists call behavioral thermoregulation. Through experience, we learn how to adjust our parking behavior to fit the climate conditions. But did you know that animals and plants also know how to adjust their bodies to help them stay warm or cool?
Insects and reptiles are particularly skilled at this. On a cold day, for example, an insect will adjust its position so that it intercepts as much sunlight as possible. Lizards and snakes bask in the sunlight on cold days, and on warm days seek relief in the shade or by burrowing underground.
Surprisingly, plants, too, know how to adjust their positions. The silk tree, for example, has leaves that it can move into three different positions depending on whether it needs to keep cool or gain heat.
Most likely, somebody taught you where to park your car for maximum comfort. Or you were intelligent enough to figure it out. But it could only have been God who taught the animals and the plants.
Heavenly Father, since You have provided for the comfort and survival of the least of Your creatures, I know I can trust that You are providing for me as well. Amen.
R. Allen, Bulletproof Feathers, p. 121 (University of Chicago Press, 2010). Photo: During cold weather, western bluebirds stay warm by huddling. Courtesy of Blalonde. (CC-BY-SA 4.0 International)
WHY YOU WERE BORN AND NOT HATCHED
Job 10:18a
"Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb?"
You can thank roving pieces of DNA that you were born rather than hatched from an egg. At least, that's what evolutionary biologist Vincent Lynch and his team at the University of Chicago tell us. Science News magazine brings us the story about roving pieces of DNA that helped early mammals replace egg-laying in favor of giving birth to live young.
These "jumping genes" flipped the switch on thousands of genes, turning off ones that build hard eggshells and turning on genes that allow a fetus to develop in the uterus. Lynch said that the genes that turned on allowed the mother's body to recognize she is pregnant. It then suppressed her immune system so her body didn't sense the foreign DNA in the fetus and reject it. Animals that become pregnant, he continued, had the evolutionary advantage of carrying their developing young with them, rather than laying eggs in one spot where they'd be vulnerable to predators or unpredictable weather.
What the article fails to mention is that all of this - all of it - is sheer speculation. Can you imagine all of the millions of unaccounted-for changes that would need to take place to go from an egg-laying bird to a mammal that bears live young?
Just as you would expect from a team of evolutionary biologists, their research is built on the premise that evolution is a fact. They never even considered the more believable explanation that some creatures were designed to lay eggs and others were designed to give birth to live young.
Heavenly Father, help Your children learn how to differentiate between truth and error, facts and speculation. Guide us into Your truth, I pray. Amen.
"Pregnancy in mammals evolved with help from roving DNA", Science News, 1/29/15. Photo: Eggs of an ostrich, cassowary, chicken, flamingo, pigeon and blackbird. Courtesy of HTO. (CC-BY-SA 3.0)
Job 10:18a
"Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb?"
You can thank roving pieces of DNA that you were born rather than hatched from an egg. At least, that's what evolutionary biologist Vincent Lynch and his team at the University of Chicago tell us. Science News magazine brings us the story about roving pieces of DNA that helped early mammals replace egg-laying in favor of giving birth to live young.
These "jumping genes" flipped the switch on thousands of genes, turning off ones that build hard eggshells and turning on genes that allow a fetus to develop in the uterus. Lynch said that the genes that turned on allowed the mother's body to recognize she is pregnant. It then suppressed her immune system so her body didn't sense the foreign DNA in the fetus and reject it. Animals that become pregnant, he continued, had the evolutionary advantage of carrying their developing young with them, rather than laying eggs in one spot where they'd be vulnerable to predators or unpredictable weather.
What the article fails to mention is that all of this - all of it - is sheer speculation. Can you imagine all of the millions of unaccounted-for changes that would need to take place to go from an egg-laying bird to a mammal that bears live young?
Just as you would expect from a team of evolutionary biologists, their research is built on the premise that evolution is a fact. They never even considered the more believable explanation that some creatures were designed to lay eggs and others were designed to give birth to live young.
Heavenly Father, help Your children learn how to differentiate between truth and error, facts and speculation. Guide us into Your truth, I pray. Amen.
"Pregnancy in mammals evolved with help from roving DNA", Science News, 1/29/15. Photo: Eggs of an ostrich, cassowary, chicken, flamingo, pigeon and blackbird. Courtesy of HTO. (CC-BY-SA 3.0)
SIX HUNDRED YEARS BEFORE DARWIN
2 John 1:7
"For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist."
Most people consider Charles Darwin to be the father of evolution. The fact is, someone beat him to it by six hundred years. In the thirteenth century, a Muslim scholar by the name of Nasir al-Din Tusi proposed a theory of evolution that in many ways foreshadowed Darwin's.
Tusi's theory begins with a universe consisting of equal and similar elements. Those elements evolved into minerals and then to plants. From there they evolved to animals, and then to humans. He even put forward the idea that hereditary variability was an important factor for the biological evolution of living things.
This Persian scholar was born in the city of Tus in northeastern Iran in the year 1201. In addition to his work in biology, Tusi was an architect, astronomer, chemist, mathematician, poet, philosopher, physician, physicist and theologian. In all, he is responsible for 150 works, most of which are in Arabic.
Regarding evolution, he considered humans to be the "middle step of the evolutionary stairway." The final step, he wrote, can be achieved through man's will. Tusi was also the first to suggest that not only do organisms change over time but that the whole range of life has evolved from a point when there was no life at all. In other words, life from non-life.
There is one other point of similarity between Tusi's and Darwin's theories of evolution. Both theories are based on the faulty reasoning of man rather than the sure Word of God.
Heavenly Father, I pray that You will help people come to a knowledge of the truth that's found in the pages of the Bible. Amen.
D. Green, The Science Book, p. 121 (DK Publishing, 2014). Photo: A stamp issued in the republic of Azerbaijan in 2009 honoring Tusi.
2 John 1:7
"For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist."
Most people consider Charles Darwin to be the father of evolution. The fact is, someone beat him to it by six hundred years. In the thirteenth century, a Muslim scholar by the name of Nasir al-Din Tusi proposed a theory of evolution that in many ways foreshadowed Darwin's.
Tusi's theory begins with a universe consisting of equal and similar elements. Those elements evolved into minerals and then to plants. From there they evolved to animals, and then to humans. He even put forward the idea that hereditary variability was an important factor for the biological evolution of living things.
This Persian scholar was born in the city of Tus in northeastern Iran in the year 1201. In addition to his work in biology, Tusi was an architect, astronomer, chemist, mathematician, poet, philosopher, physician, physicist and theologian. In all, he is responsible for 150 works, most of which are in Arabic.
Regarding evolution, he considered humans to be the "middle step of the evolutionary stairway." The final step, he wrote, can be achieved through man's will. Tusi was also the first to suggest that not only do organisms change over time but that the whole range of life has evolved from a point when there was no life at all. In other words, life from non-life.
There is one other point of similarity between Tusi's and Darwin's theories of evolution. Both theories are based on the faulty reasoning of man rather than the sure Word of God.
Heavenly Father, I pray that You will help people come to a knowledge of the truth that's found in the pages of the Bible. Amen.
D. Green, The Science Book, p. 121 (DK Publishing, 2014). Photo: A stamp issued in the republic of Azerbaijan in 2009 honoring Tusi.
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