Sunday, January 3, 2016

CREATION MOMENTS: 1.3.16


CHARLES DARWIN AND KARL MARX

Psalm 53:1

"The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good."
Have you noticed how many of the most admired atheists come from a science background? I could name dozens – Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett and Stephen Hawking, to name a few. Thousands of people are fans of the late Carl Sagan and his protégé, Neil deGrass Tyson. Some of these atheists are practically superstars with followers numbering in the millions.

Well, Charles Darwin had his share of followers, too. At first, his Origin of Species was accepted not on any scientific merit but rather because it offered an apparently rational alternative to the miraculous. Darwin's earliest followers were not scientists of the day but rather theologians who rejected the miracles of the Bible.

Darwin's followers each had their own particular motives for accepting the theory of evolution. But one of his most notable followers was Karl Marx. As the author of The Communist Manifesto, Marx found the struggle-to-the-death principle in natural selection a perfect confirmation of his own view of man's class struggle. In appreciation, Marx sent Darwin a copy of his Das Kapital in 1873.

Six years later, Marx wrote to Darwin, requesting permission to dedicate his next volume to him. But Darwin declined the offer, explaining that "it would pain certain members of his family if he were associated with so atheistic a book."

Sometimes I wonder if Darwin would turn in his grave if he knew of the horrors his theory has been asked to justify in the last two centuries!

Heavenly Father, I do not follow any man. Instead, I follow Your Son, Jesus Christ, who died to give me eternal life. He alone is worthy of my praise. Amen.

Ian T. Taylor, In the Minds of Men: Darwin and the New World Order (TFE Publishing and Creation Moments, Sixth Edition, 2008), pp. 386-387. Photo: Memorial to Karl Marx in Moscow. The inscription reads: "Proletarians of all countries, unite!" (CC-BY 3.0)
 
SCIENCE WAS WRONG ABOUT BOA CONSTRICTORS

Genesis 3:13

"And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat."
Remember being taught that boa constrictors kill their prey by literally squeezing the breath out of them? Well, scientists now know this isn't true at all.

As a recent National Geographic article points out, "Boa constrictors were long thought to kill their prey by suffocation, slowly squeezing the life out one ragged breath at a time. But a new study reveals that these big, non-venomous serpents, found in tropical Central and South America, subdue their quarry with a much quicker method: Cutting off their blood supply."

The study was conducted by vertebrate ecologist Scott Boback and his research team at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. After feeding lab rats to boa constrictors, they found that the snakes were killing their prey by stopping the flow of blood – a much faster killing method than death by strangulation. Boback theorizes that killing by circulatory arrest gives constricting snakes an evolutionary advantage. After all, the quicker the prey dies, the less chance that it will bite the snake.

That's what it's all about, isn't it? Evolution. Isn't it interesting that evolution was also given credit when science mistakenly thought that suffocation was the means of death? The important thing to evolutionary scientists is not how boa constrictors kill their prey. The important thing for them is giving evolution full credit.

When creationists observe the animal kingdom, we praise God. When evolutionists observe the animal kingdom, they, too, give praise, but to a different "god" entirely.

Heavenly Father, it seems that evolution has become a god to many. I pray that You will expose this false god and point people to the Creator who alone can save people from their sins. In Jesus' Name. Amen.

Jason Bittel, "Why We Were Totally Wrong About How Boa Constrictors Kill," National Geographic, 7/22/15. Photo: Boa constrictor stopping the circulatory system of a rodent. (Wikimedia Commons)
 
HAWKING JOINS SEARCH FOR EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE

Jeremiah 29:13

"And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart."
In an interview with Britain's The Guardian newspaper in 2011, famed physicist Stephen Hawking warned that the efforts by the SETI Institute to actively "contact possible intelligent life out there is way too risky and dangerous."

In a report on why he fears contact with alien life, Hawking wrote: "I imagine they might exist in massive ships, having used all the resources from their home planet. Such advanced aliens would perhaps become nomads, looking to conquer and colonize whatever planets they can reach. If aliens ever visit us, I think the outcome would be much as when Christopher Columbus first landed in America, which didn't turn out very well for the Native Americans."

Fast forward now to July of 2015, and you'll see that professor Hawking has become much more hawkish in searching for extraterrestrial life. Stephen Hawking joined tech investor Yuri Milner and famed astrophysicist Lord Martin Rees in announcing the launch of Breakthrough Initiatives. Over the next 10 years, Milner will invest $100 million in this project that will give scientists access to some of the best telescopes in the world. This, they feel, is one giant step forward in the search for extraterrestrial life.

However, they will come up just as empty-handed as the SETI project did after decades of fruitless searching. Breakthrough Initiatives is searching for the wrong thing, you see. If they searched for God – the giver of all life – they would find Him when they searched with all their heart.

Heavenly Father, I know that the search for extraterrestrial life is really just an attempt to prove that our planet, teeming with the life that You created, is nothing special. I pray that many scientists will turn to You after failing in this endeavor to find life elsewhere. Amen.

Dave Masko, "UFO sightings warn of alien invasion, states Stephen Hawking who fears SETI's search," HULIQ, 5/28/11. Heather Kelly, "Search for alien life gets $100M and Stephen Hawking's blessing," CNNMoney, 7/21/15. Photo: Stephen Hawking, shown in 2008, has long feared that an advanced civilization might wipe out mankind.
 
A SNAKE WITH FOUR LEGS?

Genesis 3:14

"And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:"
Did you hear the exciting news about the scientist who found a snake with four legs? Well, actually it wasn't a snake. It was a fossil that British paleontologist David Martill from the University of Portsmouth discovered in an almost-forgotten box at a museum in Germany.

After the fossil's discoverer announced: "I realized we'd actually got the missing link between lizards and snakes", it didn't take long for tabloid-style headlines like these to start appearing:

• "Four-legged fossil holds secret of snake's slithering origins"
• "Weird 4-legged snake was transitional creature" and
• "Snakes' four-legged missing link"

Headlines like these are very misleading, to say the least. For one thing, this fossil is not the earth-shaking discovery that science publications would like us to believe. Have you ever heard of worm lizards? Did you know that many snakes with two legs have been found? The only thing different about this fossil is that it has four rather than two legs. Some scientists, in fact, aren't even convinced it's a snake at all. They think it's just a reptile.

Here at Creation Moments, we think it's quite possible that this four-legged snake fossil is hard evidence for what creationists have been saying all along about snakes. For as the Bible tells us in Genesis 3:14, God punished the serpent for deceiving Eve by making it crawl on its belly. This clearly suggests that snakes had legs before the curse.

Heavenly Father, give Your people a calm spirit so that we will not panic when scientists discover a fossil that appears to confirm evolution. No fossil will ever prove Your Word to be untrue! In Jesus' Name. Amen.

"Four-legged snake fossil found", ScienceDaily, 7/23/15. Photo: Taken by Dave Martill. Courtesy of the University of Portsmouth. (Fair Use)
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