On 39th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, Obama's remarks

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British Couple Declares Sex Of Child They Raised As ‘genderless’ For 5 Years

The Heavens declare the value of humanity, yet some do not wish to appreciate that value. One's being is directly connected to their gender.

British Couple Reveals Sex Of Child They Raised As ‘genderless’ For 5 Years | Fox News: "A British couple who raised their child as "gender neutral" in a bid to break free from stereotyping revealed Friday that their five-year-old is a boy.

Beck Laxton and her partner Kieran, from Sawston in central England, referred to their son, Sasha, as "the infant" and dressed the youngster in ambiguous outfits to keep his sex a secret from friends and strangers.

They decided to tell people the child's gender after it became more difficult to conceal when he started pre-school."

When this child grows to adulthood, this "experiment" will prove to be folly. The two women who are the child's parents stated, " "but at the moment he's not really bothered either way," she said. "All I want to do is make people think a bit." All I want is other people to think a bit? "The selfishness of the guardians of this child is evident.

Study after study affirms that a child naturally acts in accordance with his or her gender. This is why the mantra of 'I was born this way', is not publicized in the media like it once was. Yes there are differences of hormones in new born babies. Yes there are examples of hermaphroditism. These are difficult situations that should be treated respectfully as with any other special needs. But to grow a child genderless simply because you want other people to think about it is abusive for the child.

To say that parents or guardians have no bias in the way a child is raised is not truthful. One can provide non gender toys and activities but children are aware of adult's perception on some level of consciousness. 

Canada Choosing Which Gender Survives Mother's Womb

A recent report maintains a significant amount of female babies being aborted in Canada. Mostly from Asian countries the study suggests. How do we as a society respond to such actions. By Doing Nothing! We choose the make and model of car we wish to drive, we choose the type of house to live in and now due to ultrasounds we can choose the sex of our babies by eliminating the undesirable.

Why are Canadians aborting female fetuses? | Sympatico.ca Lifestyle: "Due to immigration to Canada from Asian countries where there is a preference for sons, thousands of unwanted girls are aborted each year in Canada, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Luckily, a new editorial in the Canadian Medical Journal suggests a viable way to put a stop to sex selection in Canada.

"The solution is to postpone the disclosure of medically irrelevant information to women until after about 30 weeks of pregnancy," wrote Doctor Rajendra Kale, CMJ's Interim Editor-in-Chief.

While society does nothing, society will reap negative consequences. Narcissism, greed will occur in our societal personality. These attitudes affect morals in our home life and business life. A stronger consequence, however, will be a newer sexism. Females will be affected in the way they are valued in society. Let's hope the trend changes fast.

Southern pastors believe in creation

Where do our pastors stand on the issue of creation and evolution. You might be surprised what your local pastor believe about the issue of life origins and the Bible.

 Pastors overwhelmingly believe that God did not use evolution to create humans and think Adam and Eve were literal people, according to a recent survey by LifeWay Research. The survey of 1,000 American Protestant pastors also found that ministers are almost evenly split on whether the earth is thousands of years old.

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Darwin Endorsed Intelligent Design At One Time

Charles Darwin is credited for making evolution credible without the need of a creator God. There is a myth that Darwin repented of his views of God and evolution on his deathbed, but he died a self-proclaimed agnostic. Sadly Darwin admitted in his letters of a conviction of God’s existence in creation. From the book published by his son Francis Darwin, The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, he stated,

"Formerly I was led by feelings […] to the firm conviction of the existence of God and of the immortality of the soul. […] I will remember my conviction that there is more in man than the mere breath of his body. But now the grandest scenes would not cause any such convictions and feelings to rise in my mind.”

Charles Darwin admitted that he held a view of an intelligent designer. By only considering natural options for life's origins he closed himself off to the notion of special creation. This inward compass Darwin had at one time focused his attention to the greatness of God. Scientific studies document observations at times through site, touch, hearing, and taste. Darwin admitted that there was an inward pull recognizing God.

Paul spoke in Romans about the existence of God being known to all. "For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse, because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Professing to be wise, they became fools." Romans 1:19-22. NKJV.

Have it your way ... or God's way

Norman Rockwell's Creation of The Ideal

The Bible indicates that we are created in the image of God. If this is true then we will have similar aspects on a different level. For example in the Bible we read that humans are created disticntly from the animals and plants. Humans were given the abilty to think and express that thinking.

North America has Norman Rockwell recreated it, is only an ideal of the past. Family togetherness is realized by social scientists today as ideal. Then why is their not a concerted effort to reach back to this ideal? Why is the search for life on Mars a higher priority than working on family relationships?

When evolution teachings are promoted than morals are compromised eventually. Evolution teaches a selfish philosophy of look at the world for your limited time only.

Burger King's  Have it Your Way

Evolution philosophy erodes God's plan for an ideal life. Culture is just an evolved entity. The slogan for Burger King is Have It Your Way. Beer Commericals speak of the ideal life of the individual and not of family relationships. Political focus is on the almighty dollar. With all of this said...The Bible gives guidance for an ideal family life. But this is ignored.

When those who promote the idea of Intelligent Design or Biblical creation it is because of faith in God's word and present reality. Like produces like. An orange tree produces oranges for other orange trees to grow. Evolution philosophy ignores this common reality and also the reality of moral values declining. If we are to see true success in North America it is not in promoting evolution but the reality of the world around us. This reality involves morals and God's word has answers for ailing morals.

Charles Darwin and Worm Research

I have been reading on the life of Darwin and noticed that discussion is given to Darwin's publication about earthworms. "The Formation of Vegetable Mould Through the Action of Worms, With Observations on Their Habits, published in 1881, sold even better than On the Origin of Species during Darwin's lifetime."

It is interesting that NPR in mentioning this trivia point did not refer to a similar work published almost 100 years earlier. The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne. Published by Gilbert White. (18 July 1720 – 26 June 1793) White was a pioneering naturalist and ornithologist.who wrote about the significance of earthworms.

Earthworms, though in appearance a small and despicable link in the chain of nature, yet, if lost, would make a lamentable chasm [...] worms seem to be the great promoters of vegetation, which would proceed but lamely without them...

Some scholars think Darwin was the first major observer of the benefit of earthworms. in NPR.org's article Darwin's Earthworm Experiments Broke New Ground.by Joe Palca we read:

"At the time when Darwin started looking at the worms, no one appreciated the role they had in agriculture," says Alun Anderson, a journalist who became interested in Darwin's worm work.In fact, Anderson says, in the mid 19th century, most people thought earthworms were pests.

Could it be that because White was a Christian clergyman who held a bias in creationism, his work is ignored? I think so.

Obama Chooses Abortion Advocate Kathleen Sebelius

Evolution materialistic philosophy supports the choice of abortion. The undesirable are eliminated in the struggle for Darwinian evolution to occur.

Today President Barak Obama appointed Kathleen Sebelius for Secretary of Health and Human Services. She just happens to be in the midst of abortion controversy. "As governor, Sebelius saw the abortion rate decline 8.5 percent in Kansas between 2002 and 2007, according to the state's health department." So why are people upset at her?

Kansas-based Operation Rescue said it would launch a full-out campaign against Sebelius because, as governor, she has had the support of Dr. George Tiller, who has been indicted for allegedly performing late-term abortions on underage girls.

The Catholic League "notes on its Web site that the Roman Catholic governor's 'support for abortion is so far off-the-charts that she has been publicly criticized by the last three archbishops of Kansas City.'"

What will happen to America's abortion policies in the next four years? Focus on Kathleen Sebelius.

Information for this post came from: Anti-Abortion Activists Plan to Fight Sebelius' Nomination for HHS. Monday, March 02, 2009.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/first100days/2009/03/02/sebelius-positions-abortion/

Were the Apolo 8 Astronauts Stupid Creationists?

Here is the Apollo 8 Mission's reading from a portion of Genesis 1. It is interesting that Christianity and specifically Creation is brought out in their mission. There is a criticism of Creationism that states that by promoting it in our schools we are promoting ignorance in overall education. These critics forget that foundations of modern science were established because of Christianity. Even the philosophy of atheism has it's roots in Christianity in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

The rigorous training of an astronaut not only involves physical fitness but also multiple intelligences. Understanding of physics, computer systems, astronomy, meteorology, or just some of the studies needed in understanding space flight. Emotional fitness is critical as well and isn't it interesting that Apollo 8 astronauts advocated creationism? I think this is another think worth mentioning in public schools.

ID Should be Taught in America's Science Classrooms

This blog post is a response to Commentary: Where does intelligent design fit in at school?
David Prejean • February 18, 2009

No academic discipline is an island to itself. What academic disciplines are needed to understand science? Of course one must know how to read and write to understand science on a basic cognitive level. This is not debatable, however in public schools in America, there are thousands of children who sit in science classrooms and are illiterate. One must know how to read and write to understand science.

To understand biology, one must understand chemistry. To understand chemistry one must understand algebra. Today there are thousands of high school students who are severely deficient in understanding biology because of poor math skills. We must emphasize math for students to understand science.

To understand biology sufficiently one needs to know history of biology. If future discoveries in science are to happen than anchors of previous discoveries must be understood. Biases of scientists past and present are important to understand how conclusions were made. The beginning of modern science was founded upon intelligent design as a bias. The lives of John Newton, Francis Bacon, Charles Lyell, William Buckland and hundreds of other scientists held the similar bias of beleving that God created everything. Religious bias did not hinder these men in their pursuit of emperical truth it only enhanced it.

In addition to reading, writing, math, history, brought into the classroom, controversy should be addressed as well. What better way to understand a precept then to have its antithesis presented. By contrasting ID and evolution, one will understand far better than if opposing viewpoints held by scientists who advocate ID are ignored.

Galaxy has 'billions of Earths' Response

Star Trek or should I say Planet Trek is starting from March 7th, when the Kepler Mission will be launched. The photo on this blog shows the Cygnus Region of where the Kepler telescope will focus.

The claim has been made that 100 billion earth like planets are yet to be discovered. In the past 15 years there has been 300 planets identified outside of our solar system. Here is what the news from BBC on Feb 15, 2009 says."

Galaxy has 'billions of Earths'

The number of stars points to there being many rocky planets. Dr Alan Boss of the Carnegie Institution of Science said many of these worlds could be inhabited by simple lifeforms.

Dr Boss estimates that Nasa's Kepler mission, due for launch in March, should begin finding some of these Earth-like planets within the next few years.

The next logical leap using evolutionary assumptions is to suggest that their are numerous civilized planets.

Recent work at Edinburgh University tried to quantify how many intelligent civilisations might be out there. The research suggested there could be thousands of them.

Is this science or science fiction? Is a belief in aliens a belief that is preferred to be discussed in public schools? Why then are people making such a fuss of intelligent design being taught? ID is open to the suggestion that life on earth came about from outside of our solar system. Is this not information that the Kepler Mission is open to receiving? I say let ID be taught along with the Kepler Mission.

Academic Freedom Day is Today February 12, 2009

Happy Academic Freedom Day!

Information about the 200th birthday of Darwin is found all around the world today. Here are three of the most prominent creation and ID websites and what they are posting on Darwin Day and Academic Freedom Day.


Answers In Genesis. Answers in Genesis is a young earth creationist organization lead by Ken Ham. Institute of Creation Research,

Darwin and Lincoln: The Race Connection

Exactly 200 years ago today, two very famous people were born. Both men greatly impacted the world, but their legacies were quite different.

Institute Creation Research. February Acts and Facts. By Henry Morris III, D.Min.ICR is one of the oldest and most renowned organization of scientists who advocate young earth creationism.

Darwin's Dangerous Doctrine

Morris speaks about the growing compromise among Evangelical leaders to accept evolution


Discovery Institute has several articles including:

Darwin's Birth Day. By: Geoffrey Simmons. Amazon.com. February 11, 2009

Had Charles Darwin been able to witness his own gestation period, might he have changed his mind about the evolution of mankind? Assuming that he was an honest and keen observer of nature--and the evidence suggests that he was--the answer is a resounding yes. He essentially said so in 1872 when he wrote:

“If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive slight modifications, my theory would ultimately breakdown.”

Discovery Institute is the world's best known intelligent design, ID, organization.

Vatican conference will give intelligent design critical study

News of the Vatican Conference on Evolution has been mentioned for some months now. It will be in March. What is new is the openness to examine intelligent design. Most Catholic theologians including the present pope, suggests that God used evolution for everything to occur.

The following information is from "Vatican conference will give intelligent design critical study. By Carol Glatz. Catholic News Service."

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- An upcoming Vatican-sponsored conference on evolution will include critical study of the theory of intelligent design, which, organizers said, represents poor theology and science.

While proponents of intelligent design were not invited to give presentations at the March 3-7 international conference, organizers agreed to discuss how it appeared and developed as a cultural ideology, not as science.

Why were ID scientists not allowed to express their views? The criticism is that ID developed as a cultural ideology is not true. Scientists of the 18th and 19th centuries held creationism ideas.

This sentence is really interesting:

The conference will look at "a correct exegesis" of biblical accounts of creation, said Father Leclerc.

The error of this statement is that the word exegesis should be substituted for eisegeis. When one imposes their own presupposition on the Bible, then this is the opposite of exegesis.