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From here: crev.info/2011/03/don't_tell_t…
-Gareth †
March 12, 2011 — John Horgan, a blogger for Scientific American, wanted to use this headline 20 years ago, but the editor didn’t let him. Now that editor is gone, so Horgan let the cat out of the bag: “Pssst! Don’t tell the creationists, but scientists don't have a clue how life began.” Well, he just did.
Horgan lamented that the situation is even more lamentable today. Based on Dennis Overbye’s “romp into theories of the cradle of life” published in the New York Times last month, Horgan concluded, “Geologists, chemists, astronomers and biologists are as stumped as ever by the riddle of life.” You name it: protein-first, DNA-first, metabolism-first, RNA World (an erstwhile leading contender) – they’re all stumping the scientists with insurmountable problems.
“The RNA world is so dissatisfying that some frustrated scientists are resorting to much more far out—literally—speculation,” Horgan continued. By that he means panspermia. He realizes that Crick’s old escape route doesn’t solve anything: “Of course, panspermia theories merely push the problem of life’s origin into outer space. If life didn’t begin here, how did it begin out there?”
Horgan ended by comforting himself with the argument that creationists have a similar problem, how to explain the origin of God. “And at least scientists are making an honest effort to solve life’s mystery instead of blaming it all on God.”Creationists don’t blame God; they thank Him and worship Him for the marvel of life. Do you see the anti-Creator hysteria that leads evolutionists to frantic rants of desperation to keep from admitting the obvious—that life was created? Thanks to John for being honest enough to admit the problem (something the snooze media almost never do), but then he played dog in the manger: “We might be clueless, frustrated, desperate, empty-handed and broke, but nobody else gets to play the origins game.” Let’s fix his last sentence: “At least we clueless power-hungry pseudo-scientific demagogues can blame God instead of making an honest effort to follow the evidence where it leads.”
In the new anthology about naturalism, The Nature of Nature (ISI, 2011), Christian de Duve (see 03/01/2011) tried to defend methodological naturalism as the best approach for science, but then had to confront the problem of the origin of life. Even though he clearly admitted that the problem is unsolved, he appealed to vast periods of time for the improbable (online book) to happen and expressed his faith that naturalism would solve it some day over the rainbow. He thus issued promissory notes for futureware backed with the collateral of reckless drafts on the bank of time (07/02/2007). But it’s not God-of-the-gaps when the gaps get wider; it’s naturalism-of-the-gaps (03/02/2011).
Could any other human activity get away with this? Does the losing team get to play the series? Does the town drunk get to be Grand Marshall? (maybe in the Doo-Dah Parade). Does the least qualified get the job? (only with affirmative action). Does the loss leader get to push out the competition? (Well, sometimes, but that is tactics, not honest business.) All right, then; if evolutionists are the losers, the Darwine drunks, the least qualified, and the loss leaders, let’s call for reform. Get the dogs out of the manger. How about a showing up with a nice kitty: a huge sabretooth cat (02/28/2011).
For a response to Horgan’s old chestnut about who created the Creator, watch sabretooth Sarfati pounce on CMI.
-Gareth †
The Flood of Noah
For those people who ask "Where did all the water go from Noah's Flood?" (or to those critics who claim there's not enough water), a "Mammoth underground ocean discovered: Contains 3x more water than all oceans combined" https://www.thebrighterside.news/post/mammoth-underground-ocean-discovered-contains-3x-more-water-than-all-oceans-combined A previous article on this was also written back in 2014 Scientists discover an ocean 400 miles beneath our feet that could fill our oceans three times over There has also been previous articles on secular sites which indirectly gives evidence of a global Flood (and where the water went); it's just the secular dating that's usually way off for the links referring to 'ancient megafloods' - because they have to force it into their [false/invented/imagined] uniformitarian worldview: :bulletgreen: Ancient 'Megafloods' Tilted The Very Direction of Earth's Crust, Scientists Find :bulletred: Megaflood in English Channel separated Britain from
God's attributes in every Book of the Bible (song)
I didn't create this list/song, but “He Is” is an informative worship song meant to highlight the attributes of God throughout all 66 books of the Christian Bible. The Holy Trinity of God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit is personified in many ways throughout the Bible and revealed both physically and metaphorically throughout the book. This song lists one of these instances for each book. It's not my favourite version of this song (that version - sung by the Peniel Choir - isn't available online), but it's close enough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7Btc3g0UaU It also definitely helped me learn and remember the Books of the Bible [in order], too :) "In Genesis, He's the breath of life In Exodus, the Passover Lamb In Leviticus, He's our high priest Numbers, the fire by night Deuteronomy, He's Moses' voice In Joshua, He is salvation's choice Judges, law-giver In Ruth, the kinsmen redeemer First and Second Samuel, our trusted prophet In Kings and Chronicles, He's sovereign Ezra,
The hypocrisy of abortion
Before I start with the titular subject, I'd first like to prove that science shows us we are unique, fully human beings from conception to birth (all the way to death) - and not just some bundle of fetal* tissue that can be removed before the shifting preferences of progressive Leftists to decide when it becomes "human". *Ironically, the word "fetus" (or the alternative spelling, foetus) means "offspring" or "bringing forth"; in other words, it means baby. From a scientific viewpoint, at the moment of conception, the baby is a new, unique human being with its own DNA and genetic code. In that fraction of a second when the chromosomes form pairs, the sex of the new child will be determined, hereditary characteristics received from each parent will be set, and a new life will have begun.” --Kaluger, G., and Kaluger, M., Human Development: The Span of Life, page 28-29, The C.V. Mosby Co., St. Louis, 1974. Each human begins life as a combination of two cells, a female ovum and a
Any Bible/theological questions you want to ask?
Happy New Year (and even Decade!) everyone!
I thought I'd start this year off by asking if anyone's got any questions for me about the Bible - or theology in general? :)
I'm happy to answer any of your questions (or even objections if you have any) :thumbsup:
~ServantofJesus
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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free!! Sad thing is, so many people don't want the truth, because it will actually mean that they are accountable to "some being" and they hate that idea. They'd much rather believe they are the result of some primordial soup and there's no purpose to life!! How sad!!!