LIGHT BENDS!
Genesis 1:16
"And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also."
Perhaps you'll remember that it was Arthur Eddington who measured the bending of starlight near the sun during an eclipse in 1919. His work validated details of Einstein's General Theory of Relativity and established Eddington as one of the greatest astronomers of all time.
But you may not have ever heard that this great scientist was also a man of great faith. His whole life was influenced by his reverence for God as Creator. In fact, he wrote that the details of Creation were worthy of being measured, explored and appreciated. In his book Science and the Unseen World, Eddington declared that the world's meaning was not discoverable from science but must be sought through understanding spiritual realities. How many scientists today would come out and say something like that?
As author and creationist Don DeYoung points out in his book Pioneer Explorers of Intelligent Design, Eddington avoided offering proofs for God's existence but said that the most flawless proof for the existence of God is no substitute for a personal relationship with Him. Such a relationship would take even the most convincing arguments against God's existence and turn them harmlessly aside.
Eddington was absolutely correct. A vital relationship with our Creator, Jesus Christ, will safeguard us from even the most persuasive claims of atheists. Not only will we know for certain that God exists, we will know from personal experience the peace that comes from having an intimate relationship with our Creator and Savior.
Heavenly Father, I pray for evolutionists so that when they turn to You in faith, their changed lives will have an impact on many others. Amen.
Don DeYoung, Pioneer Explorers of Intelligent Design, pp. 2-3 (BMH Books, 2006). Photo: One of Eddington's photographs of the total solar eclipse of May 29, 1919, presented in his 1920 paper confirming Einstein's theory that light "bends". (PD)
Genesis 1:16
"And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also."
Perhaps you'll remember that it was Arthur Eddington who measured the bending of starlight near the sun during an eclipse in 1919. His work validated details of Einstein's General Theory of Relativity and established Eddington as one of the greatest astronomers of all time.
But you may not have ever heard that this great scientist was also a man of great faith. His whole life was influenced by his reverence for God as Creator. In fact, he wrote that the details of Creation were worthy of being measured, explored and appreciated. In his book Science and the Unseen World, Eddington declared that the world's meaning was not discoverable from science but must be sought through understanding spiritual realities. How many scientists today would come out and say something like that?
As author and creationist Don DeYoung points out in his book Pioneer Explorers of Intelligent Design, Eddington avoided offering proofs for God's existence but said that the most flawless proof for the existence of God is no substitute for a personal relationship with Him. Such a relationship would take even the most convincing arguments against God's existence and turn them harmlessly aside.
Eddington was absolutely correct. A vital relationship with our Creator, Jesus Christ, will safeguard us from even the most persuasive claims of atheists. Not only will we know for certain that God exists, we will know from personal experience the peace that comes from having an intimate relationship with our Creator and Savior.
Heavenly Father, I pray for evolutionists so that when they turn to You in faith, their changed lives will have an impact on many others. Amen.
Don DeYoung, Pioneer Explorers of Intelligent Design, pp. 2-3 (BMH Books, 2006). Photo: One of Eddington's photographs of the total solar eclipse of May 29, 1919, presented in his 1920 paper confirming Einstein's theory that light "bends". (PD)
EVOLUTIONISTS ARE SIMPLE MINDED
Psalm 9:1
"I will praise thee, O LORD, with my whole heart; I will shew forth all thy marvellous works."
Evolutionists are simple minded. It's a fact! Charles Darwin thought that the cell was virtually as simple as a blob of gelatin with a nucleus inside, and evolutionists have been simple minded ever since.
To check this out, Creation Moments asked an evolutionist which came first: the heart, the blood or the blood vessels? After all, if the heart evolved first, what good would it be without the other two? If the blood evolved first . well, you get the idea. The evolutionist pretty much avoided our question and said that the heart could easily have come about through natural processes. After all, he said, the heart is "a simple pump."
To put it simply, evolutionists think they can bolster their argument by claiming that the incredibly complex things God created actually have quite simple beginnings. Random collisions between molecules - given enough time - will certainly be able to create simple things, they say. And those simple things, they continue to conjecture, will gradually become more and more complex things, given enough time. Case closed, say the evolutionists.
How different this is from reality! What scientists once called the "simple cell" is now known to be a city in miniature, complete with manufacturing facilities, transportation systems, power plants and a library of code that enables the cell to be self-replicating. And it's all packed inside that tiny so-called "simple" cell!
For those whose minds are not held captive by atheistic naturalism, an incredibly complex universe filled with amazingly complex creatures requires an unfathomably complex God.
Heavenly Father, I pray that You will open the eyes of unbelievers so they will see the world around them as Your creation. Once they see this, I pray they will understand that You entered Your creation to die for their sins. Amen.
"Evolutionists Are Simple Minded," http://www.creationmoments.com/resources/blog/201104/evolutionists-are-simple-minded. Illustration: Diagram of a typical animal cell, showing that it is anything but simple. Courtesy of BruceBlaus. (CC-BY-SA 3.0)
Psalm 9:1
"I will praise thee, O LORD, with my whole heart; I will shew forth all thy marvellous works."
Evolutionists are simple minded. It's a fact! Charles Darwin thought that the cell was virtually as simple as a blob of gelatin with a nucleus inside, and evolutionists have been simple minded ever since.
To check this out, Creation Moments asked an evolutionist which came first: the heart, the blood or the blood vessels? After all, if the heart evolved first, what good would it be without the other two? If the blood evolved first . well, you get the idea. The evolutionist pretty much avoided our question and said that the heart could easily have come about through natural processes. After all, he said, the heart is "a simple pump."
To put it simply, evolutionists think they can bolster their argument by claiming that the incredibly complex things God created actually have quite simple beginnings. Random collisions between molecules - given enough time - will certainly be able to create simple things, they say. And those simple things, they continue to conjecture, will gradually become more and more complex things, given enough time. Case closed, say the evolutionists.
How different this is from reality! What scientists once called the "simple cell" is now known to be a city in miniature, complete with manufacturing facilities, transportation systems, power plants and a library of code that enables the cell to be self-replicating. And it's all packed inside that tiny so-called "simple" cell!
For those whose minds are not held captive by atheistic naturalism, an incredibly complex universe filled with amazingly complex creatures requires an unfathomably complex God.
Heavenly Father, I pray that You will open the eyes of unbelievers so they will see the world around them as Your creation. Once they see this, I pray they will understand that You entered Your creation to die for their sins. Amen.
"Evolutionists Are Simple Minded," http://www.creationmoments.com/resources/blog/201104/evolutionists-are-simple-minded. Illustration: Diagram of a typical animal cell, showing that it is anything but simple. Courtesy of BruceBlaus. (CC-BY-SA 3.0)
COME OUT, COME OUT, WHEREVER YOU ARE!
Psalm 119:114
"Thou art my hiding place and my shield: I hope in thy word."
It has long been known that electric eels are able to immobilize prey with a jolt of electricity. But new research, reported in the journal Science, has shown that eels also use their electric organs to make fish come out of hiding. A researcher from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, found that the electric discharges from eels caused the muscles of their prey to twitch, making them easier to capture by revealing their whereabouts.
Dr. Kenneth Catania, who led the study, set up small aquatic arenas to test the eels' hunting abilities - putting an eel and a fish into the same tank. As he discovered, the eels' electric pulses directly activated the nerves that controlled their prey's muscles. "You and I couldn't activate every muscle in our bodies at once," he said, "but the eels can do that [remotely] in their prey."
Dr. Catania noticed that hungry eels would emit pairs of pulses when their potential meal was out of view. These "doublets", as they are called, generate very rapid and strong muscle contraction, causing the fish to jump and bringing them out of hiding.
Just like the hapless fish in the tank, we have powerful enemies who seek our destruction. But we know we also have an all-powerful God who protects and preserves us. In Psalm 143:9, the writer cries out: "Deliver me, O LORD, from mine enemies: I flee unto thee to hide me." While our enemies may be many and strong, our God is stronger still.
Heavenly Father, thank You for being a very present help when I am in trouble. When I am under attack, I know I can turn to You. Amen.
"Electric eels 'remotely control their prey'," BBC News Science & Environment, 12/4/14. http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-30335335. Photo: Electric eel at the New England Aquarium in Boston. Courtesy of Stephen G. Johnson. (CC-BY-SA 3.0)
Psalm 119:114
"Thou art my hiding place and my shield: I hope in thy word."
It has long been known that electric eels are able to immobilize prey with a jolt of electricity. But new research, reported in the journal Science, has shown that eels also use their electric organs to make fish come out of hiding. A researcher from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, found that the electric discharges from eels caused the muscles of their prey to twitch, making them easier to capture by revealing their whereabouts.
Dr. Kenneth Catania, who led the study, set up small aquatic arenas to test the eels' hunting abilities - putting an eel and a fish into the same tank. As he discovered, the eels' electric pulses directly activated the nerves that controlled their prey's muscles. "You and I couldn't activate every muscle in our bodies at once," he said, "but the eels can do that [remotely] in their prey."
Dr. Catania noticed that hungry eels would emit pairs of pulses when their potential meal was out of view. These "doublets", as they are called, generate very rapid and strong muscle contraction, causing the fish to jump and bringing them out of hiding.
Just like the hapless fish in the tank, we have powerful enemies who seek our destruction. But we know we also have an all-powerful God who protects and preserves us. In Psalm 143:9, the writer cries out: "Deliver me, O LORD, from mine enemies: I flee unto thee to hide me." While our enemies may be many and strong, our God is stronger still.
Heavenly Father, thank You for being a very present help when I am in trouble. When I am under attack, I know I can turn to You. Amen.
"Electric eels 'remotely control their prey'," BBC News Science & Environment, 12/4/14. http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-30335335. Photo: Electric eel at the New England Aquarium in Boston. Courtesy of Stephen G. Johnson. (CC-BY-SA 3.0)
THE BRILLIANCE OF BUTTERFLY WINGS
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."
What do a butterfly's shimmering wings, a fish's opalescent scales, and a peacock's brilliant feathers have in common? None of the colors come from pigments. As an article at the Gizmodo website rightly points out, "All of their beautifully iridescent colors are produced by the physical interaction of light with sophisticated nanoscale architecture that we are only just beginning to understand."
That is a true statement, a scientific statement describing why such striking colors come from wings that do not use pigments. Unfortunately, the writer quickly turns from science to science fiction when she states that the first color-building life forms probably date back to the Cambrian explosion over 500 million years ago - a time that, quote, "was a period of rapid evolutionary advancement, during which eyes evolved from simple light sensors to neurologically sophisticated organs that could detect color, shade and contrast."
Where is the evidence for such a statement? And why can't science writers stick to science? Once again, we see how science writers - and the publications they work for - seamlessly blend science and science fiction into the same sentence. Evolutionists' brains are wired this way because of their commitment to the philosophy of evolution. So, too, should Christians be so committed to the authority of the Word of God that we can't help but view the vibrant colors of butterfly wings as painted there by our magnificent Creator!
Truly, the brilliance of butterfly wings depends entirely on the brilliance of the God who created them!
Heavenly Father, help us distinguish between truth and error in everything we read, hear and see. We rely upon Your Spirit of Truth to guide us in these dark, deceptive and troubling times. Amen.
M. Stone. "How Nanoscale Optics Create Nature's Most Dazzling Colors," Gizmodo, 2/19/15. http://gizmodo.com/how-nanoscale-optics-create-natures-most-dazzling-color-1686142700. Photo: Morpho butterfly. Courtesy of Didier Derkarts. (CC-BY-SA 3.0)
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."
What do a butterfly's shimmering wings, a fish's opalescent scales, and a peacock's brilliant feathers have in common? None of the colors come from pigments. As an article at the Gizmodo website rightly points out, "All of their beautifully iridescent colors are produced by the physical interaction of light with sophisticated nanoscale architecture that we are only just beginning to understand."
That is a true statement, a scientific statement describing why such striking colors come from wings that do not use pigments. Unfortunately, the writer quickly turns from science to science fiction when she states that the first color-building life forms probably date back to the Cambrian explosion over 500 million years ago - a time that, quote, "was a period of rapid evolutionary advancement, during which eyes evolved from simple light sensors to neurologically sophisticated organs that could detect color, shade and contrast."
Where is the evidence for such a statement? And why can't science writers stick to science? Once again, we see how science writers - and the publications they work for - seamlessly blend science and science fiction into the same sentence. Evolutionists' brains are wired this way because of their commitment to the philosophy of evolution. So, too, should Christians be so committed to the authority of the Word of God that we can't help but view the vibrant colors of butterfly wings as painted there by our magnificent Creator!
Truly, the brilliance of butterfly wings depends entirely on the brilliance of the God who created them!
Heavenly Father, help us distinguish between truth and error in everything we read, hear and see. We rely upon Your Spirit of Truth to guide us in these dark, deceptive and troubling times. Amen.
M. Stone. "How Nanoscale Optics Create Nature's Most Dazzling Colors," Gizmodo, 2/19/15. http://gizmodo.com/how-nanoscale-optics-create-natures-most-dazzling-color-1686142700. Photo: Morpho butterfly. Courtesy of Didier Derkarts. (CC-BY-SA 3.0)
OUR MULTI-DIRECTIONAL GENETIC CODE
Romans 11:33
"O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!"
Have you ever heard the palindrome "Madam, I'm Adam"? With a palindrome, the letters are exactly the same whether you read the sentence from left to right or from right to left.
But did you know your genetic code is a different kind of palindrome that conveys one series of messages when it is read from front to back and a different series of messages when it is read it from back to front? Other meaningful information can even be found in overlapping portions of the genome! Think about your genetic code as if it were a novel. It would tell one story when read from front to back, an additional story from back to front, and many other stories as you read overlapping messages of the code!
Evolutionists find this very troubling. After all, their whole theory depends on random mutations resulting in improvements. But as scientists at the FMS Foundation point out, this multi-directional coding makes it impossible for a random "typo" to benefit one code without disrupting the others. This fundamental problem, they said, has been overlooked until now. "The bottom line," they conclude, "is that overlapping codes cannot arise by any natural process - they must be very carefully designed."
Yes, evolutionists must come to grips with the fact that the genetic code was designed. Chance mutations would only destroy the code. While evolution can't even begin to account for the genetic code found within every cell of your body, it was an easy task for our Creator!
Oh Lord, thank You for revealing to us the incredible complexity of the genetic code. I pray that You will use this information to utterly destroy the foolishness of evolution. Amen.
"Scientists Discover Astounding DNA Complexity," Chris Rupe, Dr. John Sanford and Chloe Pappano, FMS Foundation, 2014. http://media.wix.com/ugd/a704d4_43295b5fe0e548f69dca984314e4f925.pdf. Illustration: Chemical structure of DNA. Courtesy of Madprime. (CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication)
Romans 11:33
"O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!"
Have you ever heard the palindrome "Madam, I'm Adam"? With a palindrome, the letters are exactly the same whether you read the sentence from left to right or from right to left.
But did you know your genetic code is a different kind of palindrome that conveys one series of messages when it is read from front to back and a different series of messages when it is read it from back to front? Other meaningful information can even be found in overlapping portions of the genome! Think about your genetic code as if it were a novel. It would tell one story when read from front to back, an additional story from back to front, and many other stories as you read overlapping messages of the code!
Evolutionists find this very troubling. After all, their whole theory depends on random mutations resulting in improvements. But as scientists at the FMS Foundation point out, this multi-directional coding makes it impossible for a random "typo" to benefit one code without disrupting the others. This fundamental problem, they said, has been overlooked until now. "The bottom line," they conclude, "is that overlapping codes cannot arise by any natural process - they must be very carefully designed."
Yes, evolutionists must come to grips with the fact that the genetic code was designed. Chance mutations would only destroy the code. While evolution can't even begin to account for the genetic code found within every cell of your body, it was an easy task for our Creator!
Oh Lord, thank You for revealing to us the incredible complexity of the genetic code. I pray that You will use this information to utterly destroy the foolishness of evolution. Amen.
"Scientists Discover Astounding DNA Complexity," Chris Rupe, Dr. John Sanford and Chloe Pappano, FMS Foundation, 2014. http://media.wix.com/ugd/a704d4_43295b5fe0e548f69dca984314e4f925.pdf. Illustration: Chemical structure of DNA. Courtesy of Madprime. (CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication)
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