Hey Folks, I'm starting a Blog. I've been stirred to do this by a few friends and members of my family. I'm looking for your topics of interest. However, I must certainly vent on occasions when I hear some of the insane arguments brought against Christians in these days.
Just today I heard some comments on talk radio implying that Christians don't believe in science. It either has to be science or the Bible. Some of the best science and logic I've seen recently was in the Truth Project. For myself I can concur with the Truth Project in that I have been to Mt. Rushmore in South Dakota 3 times. Never have I heard anyone declare regarding the faces of the Presidents in the side of the mountain, "Oh, look what wind, rain and erosion have done to the side of that mountain. That looks a lot like George Washington up there, etc. It's amazing what evolutionary processes have done to create such exact replicas of 4 U.S. Presidents." They are designed, and therefore we logically conclude that there was a designer. I've never known anyone by any logic to imagine those faces to have evolved and yet they are much less complex than any living thing.
There are so many simple questions regarding evolutionary logic that should be asked. What did the first thing that evolved eat since there was nothing else in existence? Which came first blood or blood vessels and how did they find each other? If the evolution of organs and body parts is arbitrary (without design), how did the eye find its location in front of the brain why not lodge in the belly button? How did all those nerves get connected in with the entire nervous system? How did finger nails find their way to the end of your fingers? Any question is legitimate if every development is mindless, purposeless evolution. In fact when I hear people discuss evolution they usually discuss it with purpose and thus imply that intellect was motivating the process. Such as a large mammal used to wander near the ocean until it began to wade in the water and it loved it so much that it became a whale. That is a summary of an old magazine article I read. Well that shows intent. Even with intent how can that happen? Humans are supposed to be the most highly evolved. Let's see you start breathing through the top of your head and grow fins. Oh, I forgot the old evolutionary trick. It takes too long to be observed. And then if you ask why the millions of transitional forms are not in the fossil record the excuse is that it changes too quickly to show up in the record. Evolution is a lot like Santa Claus. You know he's out there you just can never see him in action.
If we want to be a little more technological, how can we explain slow gradual development of cells when we see the principle of irreducible complexity that shows us that in order to function, at all, cells must have all of their components in place and functioning. You can't add a piece at a time because a cell won't function unless all its pieces are in place.
How did bones develop arbitrarily to have marrow inside that coordinates with the blood system or how did we get various types of skin such as lips with their sensitivity right where we needed them if all these things developed arbitrarily (without design)? All of these body parts and organs seem to be in place with a purpose.
Some evolutionists have at least been honest enough to say that the fossil record does not fit micro-evolutionary theory and have thus proposed punctuated equilibrium (formerly callled the hopeful monster theory, Really!). Thus we have gigantic leaps in the evolutionary process such as a bird laying an egg and out pops a reptile. The only problems with this is it has never been observed and there is no genetic reason for it to happen. It takes a gigantic leap of faith to believe that kind of speculative theory.
Here is what we do observe. Monkeys have monkeys, humans have humans and butter beans produce butter beans. This is consistent with what we would expect genetically and it happens to fit the Biblical description that each plant and animal was created with seed in it after its kind.
What is usually pawned off as evidence for evolution are changes within a kind of plant or animal such as the production of new species of dogs or changes in physical structures of bird's beaks or fruit flies. Here is the bottom line. We don't observe one kind of plant or animal producing another kind. Dogs do not produce cats or even dats, half dog and half cat. Dogs produce dogs birds produce birds and fruit flies produce fruit flies. Natural selection takes place in that there are adaptations within kinds of plants or animals to adjust to certain conditions within their available gene pool. Within a species plants that grow deeper roots in an arid environment would tend to become dominant. Why? Because the others die! That is truly natural selection. Survival of the fitest. It does not explain the beginnings of life or the change from one kind to another.
Well I'm done with this initial vent. In the future I may address such topics as the early Church Father's teaching on the origin of demons or how we believe today the very things the Bible warns us against regarding the end times.
I said I was done but here's one more vent. We get ridiculed for being unscientific and based only on faith, but have you heard of Directed Panspermia. This is a theory that has gained some credibility in the "Scientific circles" regarding the origin of life on this planet that basically says we were brought here in seed form by aliens and planted on this earth. Aliens brought us here! Now that's science!! It is amazing what people will believe as long as its not in the Bible.