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Buzz was a good cat, if there really is such a thing.

Those who know me know I am not a "pet" guy.  If I were to choose my own "pet" it would be a dog that would retrieve ducks for me!  But, personal ecomony being what it is, pets in general are not typically doable in our household.  But we made an exception this past fall for a cat that was owned by a fellow member of our local church.  Apparently, "Buzz" as he was named needed a home where no female cats were present!  So, my two girls pouted and begged and twisted my arm until it broke.

Buzz became ours.  He lived, for the most part, in the unfinished part of our basement, and rarely made a nuisance of himself except to meow in the mornings to remind us he was down there and was hungry!  My oldest daughter, Meaghan pampered him and treated him like a kingly cat.  She often did her school work with buzz lying on her feet on her bed.  And my youngest daughter had a love / hate relationship with Buzz, as he would sometimes swat her toes and scratch her up a bit, probably just to remind her who the king was!

Over the weekend, Buzz started acting weird, kinda sickly.  He then began to swell and was just in obvious pain.  So yesterday we took him to the vet only to be told he had such a massive kidney stone / blockage issue that there really was nothing they could do for him (at least not for under a few thousand dollars).  My girls were and are heartsick.  Buzz did not quite make it to his first birthday, a victim apparently of a neutering gone bad, according to the vet.  So, my house has been a tear-filled place lately (none of them mine, but plenty flowing from my wife and two girls).  I have consoled them all the best I can, treating them to Culver's frozen custard last night!  But, I must admit, even I missed the meows coming through our floor vents this morning.  We all miss Buzz even though he was only with us a few months.

But as Christian parents, we must seize upon every life event as a moment to teach God's truth and gospel.  So, the passing of Buzz has been a springboard for us in our home to remind ourselves:

• Though we were attached to Buzz, he was after all just a cat.  Human life has far more value in God's eyes.  Jesus Himself taught so (Matt 6:26; Luke 13:15; 14:5).  We have reminded ourselves that there are parents in Connecticut burying their children today, and people dying of starvation around the world.  We must fight to keep a biblical perspective in this life.  We must never allow animals to rise to the level of people in our hearts and eyes.
• God is in control and He is always teaching His children and doing what is best for us.  So, though some may call me calloused, I gently urged Meaghan last night to seek what lessons God meant for her to learn.  After all, if not even a single sparrow "will fall to the ground apart from your Father" (Matt 10:31), then it is unlikely Buzz's demise was in any sense "accidental."  God's sovereignty is absolute!  And, Meaghan showed tremendous maturity by saying that perhaps she had allowed Buzz to become too important so God removed the cat before it became an idol.  If that sounds hokey to you, then you must not fully understand the depravity of your own hearts.  John Calvin said our hearts are "idol factories."  Thank God He is jealous for us and does not long tolerate any competitors!
• Everything in this world changes, but not God.  This morning I read Psalm 26 with Keileigh, after her eyes filled with tears when she woke and realized Buzz's meows were not greeting her.  There David tells how he is determined to trust and worship God come what may.  Though all things change, our God's love and faithfulness remains.
• Death, even of cats, is a result of mankind's sin.  The Bible is clear on this (Rom 5:12; 1 Cor 15:21).  Prior to the Fall of Adam and Eve, there was no death.  [This is why, by the way, it is just not biblically feasible to believe that millions of years of death and decay preceded the creation of Adam and Eve.]  Sin brought death into this world, and sadly the whole creation groans under its curse (Rom 8:22).  So, in reality, Buzz died because I am a sinner, and so are my daughters.  We did this to ourselves, people!  Consider how shocking it would have been for God Himself to kill an animal to clothe Adam and Eve after they sinned (Gen 3:21).  Death had entered the world, and would soon strike again when their son Cain killed their other son Abel.  Death is a horrible enemy and it is ugly.

All of this brings us to the Gospel, doesn't it?  While Jesus did not come as an atoning sacrifice for cats, He did come to set all things aright.  For those who have their whole lives changed by Him, who trust Him and turn away from their sin, we are made "new creatures" (2 Cor 5:17).  So, Christians begin to get a glimpse of what one day will become the reality for all the universe - newness of life!  And while animal deaths should not be viewed with the same gravity as human death, all death should stir something deep inside our souls that longs for the day when "the lion will lay down with the lamb, and the child shall play over the adder's den" (Is 11).

And, little girls will no longer have to say goodbye to cats, for "there will no longer be death" (Rev 21:4).

I'll take this ending over Darwin's endless cycle of birth and death any day! 

"A student is not above his teacher, but everyone when he is fully trained will be like his teacher" (Jesus, as recorded in Luke 6:40).

Across the land, children young and old are climbing on buses and going back to schools, most of them public or state-run.  For those who know us, it is no secret we homeschool our daughters.  While we do not condemn Christian parents who choose to send their children to public schools, or other private settings, we also do not shy away from pointing out reasons why we insist on teaching our own children.  So, recently I snagged up a copy of a biology textbook from one of our public high school students at church.  The book is Biology: Life on Earth (7th Edition) by Teresa & Gerald Audesirk (Prentice Hall, 2005).  It did not take me long to be disappointed in what I read.

Beginning on page 8, the Science of Biology is defined, and placed within its larger context of the sciences.  Some principles that undergird science are given, the first of which is that the phenomenon or effects around us can all be traced to natural causes.  This is called the Principle of Natural Causality.

Seems harmless?  Not exactly.  This principle, you see, rules out God or miracles.  Period.  There is nothing outside the material world.  Period.  No power outside this universe can act upon it.  Everything is due to natural causes.  So, that cousin you know that had a cancerous tumor one day that was gone a few days later, defying doctors and all medical science - yep, that was not a miracle but just some unknown natural cause.  This principle is the way evolutionary scientists keep the door closed on even the idea that there might be a god of any kind anywhere.

The second principle listed on page 9 is that of Uniformity in Time.  This principle claims that the natural processes we see today have always acted exactly as they do today and will always act this way forever.  So, if carbon decays at a certain rate today, scientists assume (in other words they believe or have faith) that carbon also decayed at that exact same rate 4 billion years ago, or 6,000 years ago.  Yet, we all know that catastrophes (volcanos, hurricanes, floods, earthquakes) change these processes significantly.  Local natural disasters wreak havoc on natural processes like erosion, carbon decay, rock layering, and so on.  We can see this with our own eyes today, yet Darwinian scientists insist on clinging to this faulty principle of Uniformity.  (2 Peter 3 also refutes this principle, by the way).

Why?  Why do they defy what we actually see happening?  Because it's the only way they can keep their precious timeline of billions of years intact.  And they must have billions of years in order to make their theory of evolution work.  So, they deny the Bible's account of a global flood and catastrophe.  In so doing, they also deny the vast majority of the cultures of the world since they, too, have passed down global flood accounts from generation to generation.  The whole world, and the Bible, is wrong.  The lab-coated scientists at Harvard will tell us all what happened in the past, even billions of years ago.  I mean, after all, they were there, right?!?

On page 9, the students who attends our church pointed this statement out to me:  "Some people believe that each of the different types of organisms was individually created at one time in the past by the direct intervention of God, a philosophy called creationism.  Scientists freely admit that this idea cannot be disproved, but creationsim is contrary to both natural causality and uniformity in time."

First, let's note that this is a misrepresentation of creationsim.  We do not believe "each of the different types of organisms was individually created at one time."  We believe what the Bible says, that God created the various "kinds" of creatures and built within them all the DNA code to reproduce an amazing array of offspring within their kind.

Also, notice the authors categorize belief in creation as just that - a "belief" or "philosophy."  It is not science.  Scientists reject creationism.  Really?  Every single scientist rejects creationsim?  There is no scientific evidence for creation?  This is what is clearly implied in this textbook!  It is a LIE.  Nearly all of the very first scientists were creationists!

And the reason they claim scientists reject creationism?  Why the Principles of Natural Causality and Uniformity, which they of course assume (believe) are absolutely true for everyone everywhere at all times.

But the next sentence in the text really takes the cake: "The overwhelming success of science in explaining natural events through natural causes has led scientists to reject creationism."

So, there you have it.  Science has triumphed and proven the Bible untrue!  All science's explanations are trustworthy (nevermind they change constantly).  All their guesses trump any religious explanation (nevermind a growing number of scientists are creationists or are at least beginning to question the evolutionary assumptions).  More and more evidence is mounting against these two precious tenets (Natural Causality and Uniformity) of the Scientific Faith.

I wonder if children in public schools will be exposed to any of the top-notch scientific research being done by men and women with degrees from top universities who believe in Intelligent Design or (gulp!) biblical creation?  Will evidences for creation or a Designer be presented by our state-run schools?  Or, will children be led down the road of believing that no true science can ever acknowledge God for any reason, period.

Will your child be the one to rise up in class this year and ask that Biology teacher how life comes from non-life?  How genetic mutations actually add genetic material which is required for evolution to be true, even though that phenomenon has NEVER been observed anywhere by anyone?  How the salt and silt content in the oceans is what it is if uniformity has been at work for billions of years?  (The oceans would be nothing but salt and silt if these processes had been at work for millions of years).

Your children are being asked to accept and believe the RELIGION of SCIENCE.  It is blind faith they are being expected to have.  What will you do, Christian parent, to turn the course of education in America?  Will you continue to allow lies to be taught as if they are absolute truth?  Will you risk being ostracized and hated for the sake of Jesus and His truth?  This tide will never turn until Christian parents begin to take public stands armed with the truth of the both the Bible and good, solid science.

Parents beware!  Jesus said our children will become like their teachers. 

Our part of the country (Southeast Indiana) has been experiencing some drought, but nothing as severe as our neighbors to the west.  As we have now begun harvesting from our garden, and being blessed by the giving hearts of other gardeners in our church family, the explosion of color and variety in this basket on our kitchen counter just reminded me of how creatively good and glorious is our God!

God made yellow.  God made squash.  God made yellow squash.  That was His idea!

God made green.  God made zuchinni.  God made green zuchinni.  That was His idea!

God made red.  God made tomatoes.  God made red tomatoes.  That was His idea!

God made green.  God made apples.  God made green apples.  That was His idea!  And green peppers, and green husks concealing yellow and white kernels of fresh corn.  That was His idea!

God made flavors to burst from fruits and vegetables.  That tart green apple was His design!  That juicy rich tomato was His doing!  Getting corn all over your face as you gnaw on it like a horse - yep, that was His glorious plan too!

Have you celebrated the creative glory and genius of God lately?  Have you thanked Him for flavorful meals and the very means to have them?  No science can possibly explain how a seed defies gravity.  It is God's doing!

And, no scientist or theologian can possibly explain how the seed of the gospel takes root in our hearts and blossoms into love for Jesus the Savior and everlasting joy and life.  That is God's doing!

"Seven days you shall celebrate a feast to the Lord your God in the place which the Lord chooses, because the Lord your God will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hands, so that you will be altogether joyful" (Deut 16:15).

"For you have been born again not of seed which is perishable but imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God" (1 Peter 1:23).      

On page 344 of Science Explorer, Pearson Prentice Hall, an 8th Grade textbook used in our local middle school, we read a section titled "Life Reaches Land."

"Until the Silurian Period, only one-celled organisms lived on land.  But during the Silurian Period, plants became abundant .  These first, simpe plants grew low to the ground in damp areas.  By the Devonian Period (dih VOH nee un), plants that could grow in drier areas had evolved.  Among these plants were the earliest ferns.  The first insects also appeared during the Silurian Period.

Both invertebrates and vertebrates lived in the Devonian seas.  Even though the invertebrates were more numerous, the Devonian Period is often called the Age of Fishes.  Every main group of fishes was present in the oceans at this time.  Most fishes now had jaws, bony skeletons, and scales on their bodies . . . Sharks appeared in the late Devonian Period.

During the Devonian Period, animals began to invade the land.  The first vertebrates to crawl onto land were lungfish with strong, muscular fins.  The first amphibians evolved from these lung fish."  [emphasis original]

Now dear Christian parents, realize this is what is discipling your children.  The textbooks do the discipling, along with the curricula.  Your children will, if they remain in public schools, spend 14,000 seat hours in their illustrious K-12 career.  Fourteen thousand hours!  Soak it in.

And what, pray tell, will they be learning?  [Go read the above quote again, slowly.]

This whole section "Life Reaches Land" has not one factual statement in it, nor is any assertion supported by genuine, scientific evidence.  It is mere speculation, guesswork, framed by those whose view of history is unbiblical and godless.

But it's all written in this 8th grade textbook so matter-of-factly.  I mean, what 13-year old is going to question what these science experts have written?  Why, they write as if they were actually there, watching this all unfold in the supposed Silurian and Devonian Periods!

In these three short paragraphs, students were taught not only a fictitious timetable of earth's history, but were also taught that plants evolved (meaning one kind of plant transformed into a totally new kind of plant), and lungfish turned into frogs.  Evidence?  Transitional fossils?  Don't bother asking . . . they don't exist.

More tragically, students were just taught that WE ALL CAME FROM A LUNGFISH.  And that fish came from pond scum.

Friends, our public schools are bastions of pagan religion and godless worldviews.  Christian teachers in this system are, some of them, fighting hard for the right.  But, there is no denying the system is godless and will not change.  Many in the church wish folks like me would stop "picking" on public schools, but I love your children too much to stop exposing the demonic lies being pumped into their brains (and hearts?) for hours on end each day.

It is time to reclaim family discipleship for God's glory and the raising up of godly offspring.  We dare not forget our Master's words:

The student is not above his teacher; but everyone when he is fully trained will be like his teacher (Luke 6:40).

God help us.  Our children are being swallowed up in a sea of godlessness.  Sound the alarm!  Blow the trumpet!  Warn the people of God to stop giving to Caesar what clearly belongs to God!  "Children are a heritage from the Lord" (Psalm 127).  So, why then do 90% of us keep turning them over to the state to be discipled?

And for those of you who think I have no bones to pick with homeschoolers, stay tuned . . .

Most of you are probably familiar with the old TV show "Kids Say the Darndest Things."  I believe the orignal version was hosted by Art Linkletter, then later by Bill Cosby.  It was cute show.

The thought struck me today that perhaps we need a show titled "Scientists Say the Darndest Things."  It could be hosted by Ken Ham or a creation scientist like Jason Lisle, or maybe even an ID (Intelligent design) researcher with more degrees than a thermometer.  Anyway, the idea would be to challenge so many of the ridiculous statements of "science" that so many of us gullible creatures just blow off or worse, actually buy or believe.

For example:

"No two snowflakes are alike."

Really?  How do you know?  How would anyone know?  Wouldn't someone have to have seen every single snowflake that has ever fallen to make such an assertion?  The only One who truly knows is God, and He ain't telling.

Or how about this one:

"The dinosaurs are extinct."

Really?  How do you know?  Have you done a study where you have someone observing every square inch of the earth simultaneously, all verifying there is no dinosaur in sight?

By the way, I invite any scientist who makes this claim to come this summer to swim in nearby Northeast Creek here in my hometown.  Splash about wildly and see if you may not be introduced to a "terrible lizard" with hard scales and a powerful tail, not to mention bone-crushing jaws and razor-like teeth!

Here's a good one:

"The earth is 4.6 billion years old."  Or, "This fossil is 75 million years old."

Really?  How do you know?  Were you there?

We must begin again to teach our children to think.  Having recently judged a science fair at a local middle school, I can tell you our kids do not know how to recognize even the most obvious signs of design in this world.  99% of the kids pulled their science "project" straight off the internet, including all the "facts," the procedures to follow, their hypotheses, and even their findings and conclusions.  It's all done for them.  And at the click of a mouse no less.

True science is all but gone in our culture.  Studying the creation around us is supposed to lead us to worship the Creator.

"The heavens declare the glory of God and the skies proclaim His handiwork" (Psalm 19:1).

"For His invisible attributes, namely, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made.  So they are without excuse" (Romans 1:20).

It's not a matter of evidence.  No!  It's a matter of interpreting the world around us, and to do that, we use our worldview - the glasses through which we view everything.

Now, will our children attain biblical glasses in the public schools?  Will their studies direct them to the foot of the cross of Christ where they exclaim, "You are worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power; for You created all things and for Your pleasure they exist and were made"?  Will state schools cause them to "take every thought captive to Christ"?

The answer is obvious.  And even Christian teachers have their hands tied by the Darwinian and humanist curricula (textbooks) in that system.  It is the curriculum that teaches and disciples children, dear friends.

May God help us reclaim true thinking in the next generation.

"Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things."

 

 

"He [Jesus] answered, 'Have you not read that He who created them in the beginning made them male and female?' " (Matt 19:4).

"For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and they were unaware until the flood came and swept them all away, so will be the coming of the Son of Man" (Matt 24:38-39).

Matthew surely does seem to be showing us that Jesus believed that Genesis was literal history, doesn't he?  Jesus said God made people "in the beginning" of the creation, like on day six, not after several hundred million years of evolution!  Jesus cited the real historic event of Noah's flood as a way for us to discern when the world is nearing His return / second coming.  So, if the flood narrative is poetry or allegory (which it's not), then Jesus' second coming must also be allegory (which it's not).

In the decades after Darwin gave atheists a seemingly viable vehicle to explain the world apart from God, even very well-meaning theologians jumped on his bandwagon and tried to perform interpretive gymnastics with Genesis.  They were trying to accomodate the Bible to Darwin's theory, which at the time looked so legit.  They tried to squeeze in millions of years by inventing the gap theory, or the day-age theory, or the framework hypothesis.  In short, they were all too eager to accomodate God's Word to man's word, and they invented ways of reading Genesis that were not even dreamed of for thousands of years prior.  This is called eisegesis, or reading into a text what is not really there.  It is never recommended for Bible believers, and the more time that passes since Darwin's lie, the more it becomes clear even to secular scientists that this theory's days are numbered!  There simply is no need for any Christian to feel obligated to somehow "reconcile" Genesis and the Bible with Darwinian  theory and the geologic epochs (million/billions of years).  Why would we want to reconcile God's absolute truth with unscientific lies? 

Though we might spend hours discussing the various accomodationist theories, the blunt fact is that every New Testament writer quotes or refers to Genesis 1-12 in his Spirit-breathed writing.  Every single NT writer assumes that Genesis is a literally true, narrative history of the origins and beginnings of the world and universe.  Friends, when we presume to know how to better interpret the Bible than those NT writers being borne along by God's Spirit, we are on the hermeneutical Titanic!  Simply put, we're wrong.

But what is so darned important about Genesis 1-12 anyway?  I mean, big deal if it's poetry (which no Hebrew scholar worth his salt would claim) or allegory (ditto)?  As long as we trust in Jesus, isn't that all that matters?

Not so fast.  Consider the doctrines (teachings) that have their foundation in the first chapters of Genesis.  Here are just a few:

1. Creation ex nihilo.  God made everything out of nothing.  He spoke and it was so.  This goes to God's omnipotence and eternal nature.
2. God as the Source of all life, all energy, and all power.  All life, energy and power is derived from Creator God.  Is it insignificant that Gen 1:2 tells us God's Spirit "hovered" or "vibrated" over the initially formless, watery mass called earth?  I think not.  God is imparting energy and motion and power to His creation!
3. Manhood and womanhood, or gender roles.  The gender confusion plaguing our nation is easily resolved by a return to Genesis 1-2.
4. Human dominion.  God gave people stewardship over the earth and all its resources.  He commanded us to rule over the animals and plants, and to cultivate and beautify it.  PETA, contrary to the thinking of cultural elites, is not exercising proper dominion by elevating animals to human status.  They are defiling God's created order and mandate.
5. God's creation of marriage.  One man, one woman for life.  Any questions?
6. God's love for children.  God's first command to people?  "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth."  God loves children!  But we do not.  We medicate ourselves to ensure we do not have children, or at least so that we only have them when it's most convenient for us.  We surgically alter ourselves in order to avoid obeying God's mandate.
7. The joy of work.  God made us to work!  Work was not a part of the curse of sin entering the world.  Adam was told to cultivate the garden from the word "go."  The curse of sin, however, has ensured that the earth and its resources fight back now, making our work toilsome.  Nevertheless, people are created to find joy in work.  Is our culture living up to this, or are we idolizing work and letting it ruin our lives?
8. God as the Supreme Lawgiver.  Our nation's founders grasped this concept well.  Today,  our leaders do not so much as acknowledge that all truth and right and good finds it standard in God and His Law.
9. God as Covenant-Maker and Covenant-Keeper.  It was Adam, and by extension us, that broke covenant.  Not God.
10. Mankind as fallen, helpless, spiritually dead sinners.  When Adam and Eve rebelled, they carved out a massive chasm between their rebel hearts and their Creator God.  The chasm is so wide and deep that no mortal can cross it on his own power, by his own wit, will or wisdom.  God promised if Adam sinned, "Dying you shall die."  We've been dying ever since.
11. God's gracious initiative to atone (cover) our sin and rebellion.  God made animal skin clothing for Adam and Eve, a clear foreshadowing of the truth that only God can atone for sins.  Our sewing fig-leaves has never worked to patch things up with God, and it never shall.
12. God's promise of salvation which would come through a seed (offspring) of Eve and would one day reverse the curse and crush Satan's evil head.  Genesis 3:15 is known as the proto evangel, or first gospel.  Indeed, it is the first time in Scripture where we are told as sinners to hope in a merciful Savior-Warrior-King who would come as one of us, yet deliver us.
13. God's wrath and holy anger against sin, as seen in the global flood of Noah.  Why do atheistic scientists hate the idea of a global flood?  NASA has theorized that there once was a global flood on Mars (which as far as we know has no water today).  Why would they have no problem with the idea of a global flood on a waterless planet like Mars, but despise the same idea here on the planet earth, where we have water, water, everywhere?!?!  Gets to the heart of the matter, doesn't it?
14. The reason for the various people groups (not races, as the Bible teaches we are all one race - Adam's race).  The Tower of Babel provides the explanation for the people groups of the world, the languages of the world, different cultures, etc.  This is something Darwinian theory simply cannot effectively explain.
15. The plan of redemption unfolding through a man named Abram, to whom God promised "all the people of the earth will be blessed" through you.  See Galatians 3:15-22.

Friends, you may think all the above is meaningless or not important.  But if you do, you have to also admit the gospel is not important.  To make Genesis allegory is to make the gospel of a holy God reconciling unholy sinners through His perfect Son, the God-man Jesus, a farce and allegory.  Was the cross of Christ where an allegorical Jesus died for our allegorical sins and provided allegorical salvation for those who trust in this whole big allegory? 

I can't speak for you, but as for me and my house, we're not about to give up "In the beginning God."

"For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day" (Ex 20:11).

A few years ago, a college student in our church gave me a copy of a book that was being handed out on her campus like cotton candy.  It's titled Pro Evo: Pro Evolution - Guideline for an Age of Joy.  The author is Asama?  The book represents a tragic attempt to formulate an ethical system founded upon Darwinian evolution.

Were it not so serious in its approach, one would find it comical.  A system of ethics founded upon the notion that we are all cosmic accidents and originated from pond slime?  Is this Asama guy kidding?

No.  I'm afraid he's not.  Let's consider some of the concepts in this demonic book:

"the meaning and purpose of man's existence, is to be a transition and step in the course of evolution" (p. 26, his emphasis).

Now doesn't that make you feel warm all over?  You are just a stepping stone.  A cog in the impersonal, mindless Darwinian machine.  Your life has no real significance except to perhaps advance the cause of a process that has never been observed by any scientist anywhere at anytime!  Wow!  That's something worth living and dying for, isn't it?

"A person's thoughts and actions that impair his own evolution and that of his environment work against - obstruct - cosmic evolution; they are anti-evolution"  (p. 27, his emphasis).

Hmmm.  I wonder if Christianity, by this definition, is anti-evolution and therefore should be eradicated?  And what of homosexuality under these parameters?  It would seem to be anti-evo, would it not?

"Anti-evo behavior - impoliteness . . . envy . . . hostility . . . hate . . . killing people and animals . . . cowardice . . . anger . . . arrogance . . . lust . . . rage and so on - disappear of their own accord, or do not arise at all, if a person sets only pro-evo goals and persistently seeks to achieve them" (p. 59, his emphasis).

Who knew ridding ourselves of our sin nature and all its ill effects was so easy?  No need for a Savior.  No need for God and His grace.  Indeed, no God to even be concerned with, only yourself and self-mastery.  Only one problem, God is on record saying, "Can the Ethiopian change his skin color or the leopard his spots?  Then you who are accustomed to doing evil can do good" (Jeremiah 13:23).  Let's see, should I trust God or some unknown author named Asama?

On page 65 Asama argues that destroying all human life with an atomic bomb would be of no real consequence, since in "a few tens of millions of years beings with minds and consciousness will probably have developed on our planet again."

Don't you feel safe living amongst people who think like this?

"impairing consciousness with . . . misinformation . . . is the greatest wrong" (p. 74, his emphasis).

Again, one must believe the author considers the Bible a source of "misinformation," and thus "the greatest wrong."

"Man is not an independent being with his 'own' strength and his 'own' thoughts and actions.  Whatever he may think or do consciously or unconsciously; all is behavior that occurs automatically within the energy-organism of the universe" (p. 78-9).

Translation: You are an automaton.  You cannot be held responsible for any of your thoughts or actions.

Lest you think I have mistranslated above, hear this from page 85:

"Even when a person . . . deliberately acts in an anti-evo way, he is innocent.  His regulating structures and environmental influences are responsible for his actions.  'Trapped in error,' he will not have been able to think or act otherwise."

Darwinian ethics allow for no individual accountability.  No one can be held responsible for anything, period.  We are all just doing what the mindless, impersonal time machine of evolution has programmed us to do - be it rape, theft, murder, torture, mutilation, sexual perversion, etc. 

One final quote from this book from hell:

"Man will cease dying of old age - this will no longer be necessary for human evolution" (p. 125).

Don't hold your breath waiting for this day to come, dear people.  The only way death will no longer visit us sinful rebels under the curse of a holy God is when the King of kings returns and makes all things new (Rev 21-22).  Then, and only then, "there shall be no more death."

But for those who have lived in rejection of God, His Christ and His gospel, there will be perpetual death and decay.  As the Greek philosopher Philo put it: "The punishment of the wicked is to live forever dying."

The spirit of anti-Christ is alive and well, particularly in Darwinian evolution.  Renouce this godlessness, fight it at every level of the corrupt educational systems of our land, and look to Christ and live!

P.S.  You are sending your children off to college fully equipped for this fight, aren't you?  And are you comfortable sending tens of thousands of your dollars to pay the salaries of professors who teach this satanic mess?

"Your science class is going on a field trip, but this trip is a little out of the ordinary.  You're going to travel back billions  of years to the earliest days on earth . . . Enter the time machine and strap yourself in . . . a dial on the dashboard shows the number of years before the present.  You stare at the dial - it reads 4.6 billion years" (Science Explorer, Pearson Prentice Hall, 8th Grade textbook, p. 338).

Thus begins the section in the public school textbook titled "Early Earth."

The kids reading this fantasy are more likely  to actually hop in a time machine and strap themselves in than they are to find solid proof of anything stated in this entire chapter!  I do not even know where to begin to critique this section of the text being foisted on our children (assuming your children are in state run schools).  I have already pointed out that this section begins by refuting the premise already stated in the same textbook concerning the definition of "hypothesis."  Even though the first chapter laid down the law that a hypothesis must be testable, the rest of the book keeps using the term in contradictory ways.  So much for scholarship.  (See my previous post, "Weeping in the New Year.")

Let me quote some stuff from this section:

"How do sceintists know the age of Earth?  Using radioactive dating, scientists have determined that the oldest rocks ever found on Earth are about 4 billion years old . . . According to this hypothesis [misuse of the word again] Earth and moon are about the same age.  When Earth was very young, it collided with a large object.  The collision threw a large amount of material from both bodies into orbit around the Earth.  This material combined to form the moon.  Scientists have dated moon rocks that were brought to Earth by astronauts during the 1970s.  Radioactive dating shows that the oldest moon rocks are about 4.6 billion years old.  Scientists infer that Earth is also roughly 4.6 billion years old - only a little older than those moon rocks" (pp. 338-9).

OK, there is so much trash and non-sense in that one paragraph that it is mind boggling.  Let's see . . .

• Scientists "know" the age of the earth by radioactive dating?  Are you speaking of the dating method that has proven horribly inconsistent and inaccurate time and again?  The same method that says rocks exploded from Mt. St. Helens in the early 1980s are ridiculously old?
• Dr. Andrew Snelling in a lecture this past summer pointed out that 90% of the dating methods available to scientists indicate the earth is young.  But, Darwinian scientists choose to use only those methods (10%) that typically render a "billions of years" verdict.
• The only thing scientists can "know" about radioactive dating is it stinks as a scientific tool.  Why?  Because it assumes "the present is the key to the past," a principle spread by Charles Lyell (Darwin's mentor) that stated that if we observe slow processes today, that's how things have always been.  There are tons of scientists (many even non-Christian) who now call that theory into question.  Why?  Because the EVIDENCE of past global catastrophe's is strong, to put it mildly.  Large-scale cataclysms wreak havoc on any "radioactive clocks."
• I like how things are stated in the textbook so "matter of factly."  Like, "When Earth was very young, it collided with a large object."  And we know this how?
• While the text makes sure to tell students about scientists' dating moon rocks to 4.6 billion years old, it does not bother to relay the little factoid to students concerning the "surprise" NASA received when Armstrong set foot on the moon.  You see, many Darwinian scientists who assumed the moon was billions of years old assumed there would be a big, thich layer of dust on the moon.  They knew, based on their present observations, that exposure to the sun destroys rock layers and makes them into dust at few ten-thousandths of an inch per year.  At this rate, the billions of years old moon may very well have had a dust covering a few miles deep!  Armstrong was actually quite concerned about that "one small step for man."  Would he step off the module and instantly be buried alive in moon dust?  But alas, there was not much dust at all on the moon . . .whew!  Calculations showed there were only a few thousand years of dust accumulation on the moon (Douglas F. Kelly, Creation and Change, Mentor Books, 1997, p. 150-1).
• So, why so little dust?  Why the HUGE discrepancy between the radioactive dating and the dust accumulation methods?  More importantly, why are students not being told these things in their textbooks? 
• I also like how they imply all scientists are in universal agreement on these matters of origins and dates!

Friends of Christ, the issues with this one little paragraph in a school "science" text are myriad.  The paragraph I cited above is totally incompatible with the Bible's account of creation.  For example, the textbook assumes materials were already present before earth formed, asserting, "Scientists think that Earth began as a ball of dust, rock, and ice in space.  Gravity pulled this mass together" (p. 339).  The Bible says God created the whole universe out of nothing.  God did not need nor did He use pre-existing matter to create all that is or ever will be.  The textbook further claims the sun was in existence prior to formation of Earth (p. 339).  The Bible teaches God made the sun after the earth (Genesis 1:1-2, 16).  The list goes on.

You cannot have your cake and eat it too in this matter.  The Bible and this Onslow County public school textbook are diametrically opposed. 

Students of America - cry out!

Parents of America - cry out!

Public school teachers of America - cry out!

As for me and my house, we will take our view of origins from the only One who was there:

"In the beginning God . . ."           

Answers in Genesis, led by Ken Ham, is causing quite a stir in the `rank`s of atheism, secularism, Darwinism, and sadly Christianity, with the announcement that they are planning to build an exact replica of Noah's Ark.

If Noah's flood is a myth, why do Darwinists care so much about this theme park scheduled to open in 2017? I don't hear any evolutionists or Popes or Christians getting frothy at the mouth about all the secular, mythological theme parks already in existence. (You do realize the Castle at Disney World is mythological, don't you?). Nobody wrote disparaging remarks in popular newspapers when "The Wizarding World of Harry Potter" debuted!

Ah, friends, "we wrestle not against flesh and blood."

The accusations made against Ken Ham and The ARK Encounter are outrageous. Three professors essentially blame him for our children's poor math and science performances!  But wait a minute, I thought what our children are being taught in public schools is Darwinism, not Biblical Creation!  How can something that has not been allowed in classrooms in many decades be the reason for our students' dismal aptitude?

I cannot say it better than Ken Ham, so please click Here and read his blog to see his rebuttal.

"Be wretched and mourn and weep.  Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom" (James 4:9).

While millions partied and puked the New Year in, I slept.  But going to bed at a normal hour was not the only thing I did to ring in 2011.  In recent weeks, I have been weeping and praying for God to move in great power in my own heart, and the in the hearts of others in my church and community to reverse the wretched condition of our souls.

Now, if weeping and mourning does not sound like anything you're interested in, if you claim the name of Christ, you had better reconsider.  Isaiah foretold Jesus would be a "man of sorrows, acquainted with grief."  How sadly ironic, then, that those of us who say we're His followers are given to doing everything possible to avoid sorrow and grief.  Why, we do not even grieve over our own sins.  Instead, we flaunt them on facebook.

I cannot help but wonder what a Youth Ministry that truly understood the gravity of sin would look like.  Would games, activities, and super team-building object lessons still have prominence?  Or, would teens be meeting together to weep and pray for revival together on their knees, confessing their sins to one another and begging for some genuine accountability in their lives?

Fun and games.  Smiles and laughter.  Nothing wrong with them in their time and place, but friends, this is what the church and her ministries now center on and relish above all else!  Meanwhile, neighbors and friends plunge into hell every day.  People starve.  War rages.  Sin is promoted in governments and in school houses.

So, in 2011, what will make you weep?  What will finally bring you to obey James 4:9 on your knees?

There are many things over which I weep, but in the weeks ahead I want to hone in on one BIGGIE - the ongoing indoctrination of thousands of young students in the Satanic lies of the religion known variously as Darwinism, Atheistic evolution, naturalism or materialism.  Whatever the label, the source remains the same - the Father of Lies (John 8:44).

Darwinian evolution is not science.  It is a religion, dare I say a cult.  It is atheism.  It is faith in naturalism.  I shall in weeks ahead offer words from the mouths of Darwinists themselves (and Darwin himself) to prove my assertion.  But for now, let me begin by quoting from an 8th grade public school textbook titled Science Explorer  (Pearson Prentice Hall, 2005).

Chapter 1 "Scientific Inquiry" lays the foundations:

"Scientific inquiry refers to the diverse ways in which scientists study the natural world and propose explanations based on the evidence they gather" (p. 6, emphasis original).

"In science, a hypothesis must be testable" (p. 7, emphasis original).

So, I understand from this that science deals in evidence and in testable propositions.  Fair enough.

Fast forward to Chapter 8 "A Trip Through Geologic Time."  Section 5, "Early Earth" states:

"Scientists hypothesize that Earth formed at the same time as the other planets and the sun, roughly 4.6 billion years ago" (p. 338, emphasis original).

Wait a minute!  Time out!  How is it that scientists "hypothesize" about something that is not testable?!?  On page 7 this science text flatly stated a hypothesis must be "testable."  Therefore, the claim that the earth is 4.6 billion years old, or got its start "roughly 4.6 billion years ago" is not a hypothesis.  It is an anti-hypothesis.  What scientist was around 4 billion years ago to put this assertion to the test?

If this is the best "science" we have to offer our kids, then is it any wonder our students simply cannot compete in the global markets?  This is not science.  This textbook has just violated the law of non-contradiction (do they still teach logic in schools?).  This is senseless.  Absolute non-sense.

Funny, the statement about the earth's age is not even a true hypothesis!  It is simply an opinionated sentence.  And, tragically, it is a false sentence.  It is a lie, and it came from the "father of lies."

Oh, but this is just the tip of the iceberg in this so-called science textbook.  Stay tuned . . . we're just getting started.

"For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them" (Exodus 20:11).