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.

Richard Dawkins' Children book

Column: This atheist tried to steal Christmas – USATODAY.com

Obama Chooses to Kill Unborn Babies

While most of the country is worried about thier own nickles and dimes, President Barak Obama has chosen to allow funding for embryonic stem cell research. An embryo is an unborn human. By endorsing research into the lives of unborn children, the value of life is deminished. The psalmist wrote:

My flesh was made by you, and my parts joined together in my mother's body. Psa 139:13

Obama is allowing our tax money to be spent destroying the gift of life granted to every unborn child. Evolution philsophy has shown in it's grotesque nature in ignoring the gift of God. Below is an action alert email from the American Family Association. Visit http://www.afa.net/. for more information.


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Obama OKs embryonic stem cell research; actions are immoral and ineffective
March 10, 2009

Dear Nancy,

President Obama has given the ok to destroy human life in the name of scientific research.Embryonic stem cell research is immoral and ineffective. It is immoral because it destroys human life at its earliest stage of development by harvesting the stem cells for body parts. It is ineffective because it has yet to be used a single time in any therapeutic application.Researchers must get their funding from taxpayers for embryonic stem cell research because they can't convince private sources to invest. Private investors know there are no proven uses for embryonic stem cells. It's all hype, hope and theory.But adult stem cell research, on the other hand, is ethically benign and is already being used to treat over 70 diseases and conditions. If taxpayer dollars are going to be spent on stem cell research, that's where it ought to go.By reversing funding restrictions on embryonic stem cell research, Pres. Obama is making every American taxpayer complicit in immoral, life destroying research. This is a terrible example of political ideology trumping sound science.

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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.

Lecture on Charles Darwin by John Martin March 9

At the monthly meeting of the Missouri Association of Creation (MAC) I will be delivering a lecture on Charles Darwin and the Christian Compromise. March 9th, 2009 at 7:30 p.m. For directions to this event please visit http://www.gennet.org/

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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.

North Dakota House Gives Fertilized Eggs Human Status

The measure that would make it all but impossible to get an abortion in the state now goes to the North Dakota Senate after the state House.http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/02/18/north-dakota-house-gives-fertilized-eggs-human-status/

Fox News reported this February 18.

The bill declares that "any organism with the genome of homo sapiens" is a person protected by rights granted by the North Dakota Constitution and state laws.

The measure's sponsor, Rep. Dan Ruby, R-Minot, said the legislation did not automatically ban abortion. Ruby has introduced bills in previous sessions of the Legislature to prohibit abortion in North Dakota.

Hopefully the North Dakota senate will pass this bill to endorse the value of life. I do not know how it is worded, but hopefully it will not be caught in legal arguments of liability. For example, because a woman has a spontaneous abortion, would a police report have to be filled out?

This is another example where intelligent design could be promoted in public schools. Discussion of issues like this in civics, sociology, and biology could be addressed. Evolution philosophy biases against this bill could be discussed in encouraging critical thinking skills.

La Brea Tar Pit scientists declare new discoveries

Old News is New News

The discovery took place in 2006 and the news was made then. Remains of thousands of critters were discovered in a new area of the famous La Brea tar pits. After work was beun in an area once occupied by a parking lot. Here is what the AP states.

Among the finds is a near-intact mammoth skeleton and bones of saber-toothed cats, dire wolves, bisons, horses, ground sloths and other mammals.

Researchers discovered 16 fossil deposits under an old parking lot next to the tar pits in 2006 and began sifting through them last summer.

Officials of the Page Museum at the tar pits plan to formally announce their findings on Wednesday. The discoveries could double the museum's Ice Age collection.

This is an example of old news being new news. Why is it submitted again to the main stream media? Obviously there is a need for funding. Money is motivating factor of this news story just as the recent story of methane on Mars story. The museum at La Brea and the folks of NASA have the same agenda - get money by announcing old news again.

When examining other discoveries relating to evolution you will notice a similar agenda in news releases. Does these news stories minimize the reliability of the discoveries? Perhaps not, but one must asks questions relating to perceptions. Perceptions can be the difference between subjective inquiry versus objective observations.

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.

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.

Evolution Philosophy Teaches Only Two Kids per Family

From The Sunday Times. February 1, 2009. Two children should be limit, says green guru. Sarah-Kate Templeton, Health Editor

According to the UK government's green adviser couples who have more than two children are being “irresponsible” by creating an unbearable burden on the environment. Jonathon Porritt, who chairs the government's Sustainable Development Commission, said that curbing population growth through contraception and abortion must be at the heart of policies to fight global warming. Porritt said, “I am unapologetic about asking people to connect up their own responsibility for their total environmental footprint and how they decide to procreate and how many children they think are appropriate.”

The Optimum Population Trust, a campaign group of which Porritt is a patron, says each baby born in Britain will, during his or her lifetime, burn carbon roughly equivalent to 2½ acres of old-growth oak woodland - an area the size of Trafalgar Square.

The British population, now 61m, will pass 70m by 2028, the Office for National Statistics says. The fertility rate for women born outside Britain is estimated to be 2.5, compared with 1.7 for those born here. The global population of 6.7 billion is expected to rise to 9.2 billion by 2050.

The story does not mention any threat of over population in the UK as far as food sources are concerned. Using evolutionary philosophy, Porritt focuses on the energy consumption that extra children will take. An environmental footprint excuse is contrary to biblical principles:

Genesis 1:28 Then God blessed them, and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it;

Psalm 127:3. Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, The fruit of the womb is a reward.

While the Bible does not condemn parents for not having children, there is a strong mandate to encourage the philosophy that children are a blessing from God and not a curse. Evolutionary philosophy condemns parents choice for children. When this choice is suppressed, allegiance is transferred from God's privilege to worldly philosophy. Abortions would be encouraged more than ever thereby taking the lives of millions of more children.