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  • Creation v. Intelligent Design, Encouragement, Jesus Church, Rob Robinson

    Posted on August 12th, 2010

    Written by Rob Robinson

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    How Did God Create The Universe?

    How Did God Create The Universe?

    The Bible clearly teaches that God created the Universe “Ex Nihilo”, out of nothing. Before the Lord began speaking the universe into existence, nothing existed. Psalms 33:6-9 By the word of the LORD the heavens were made, And all the host of them by the breath of His mouth… 9 For He spoke, and it was done; He commanded, and it stood fast. When John began his eyewitness account of Jesus, he begins by telling us that “All things were made by Jesus…” John 1:3 All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. The context of John chapter one is that when he says “all things” John is talking about the entire Universe. Later in the book of Colossians, Paul supports this claim by describing the specific parts of the Universe that Jesus created: Colossians 1:16-17 For by (Jesus) all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. 17 And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.

  • Creation v. Intelligent Design, Science and the Bible

    Posted on August 6th, 2010

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    Who Designed the Features of the Monarch Butterfly?

    Who Designed the Features of the Monarch Butterfly?

    When one examines the life and migration cycles of the monarch butterfly, it is easy to see design features which point back to a Designer. There is inexorable order in the repeatable progress of developmental stages. An incredible plan unfolds in the transforming pupal stage, through larval disintegration and reintegration to the miracle and beauty of a winged insect. Simplicity in feeding, complexity in navigation, beauty in coloration all speak of incredibly packed information in its genetic message. By whatever means it is drawn or directed to make such Herculean flights to its wintering grounds, there must be some type of implanted foreknowledge in its very being that makes it all possible.

  • Creation v. Intelligent Design, Science and the Bible

    Posted on July 27th, 2010

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    How Should Schools Handle Evolution? Debate It

    How Should Schools Handle Evolution? Debate It

    The sky is falling.
    Or so you might think if you have been reading reports about the Kansas State Board of Education’s proposed policy on teaching evolution. Though many have portrayed the hearings that led to the Kansas policy as a re-run of the Scopes trial, the reality is much different. Rather than prohibiting teachers from teaching about evolution (as Tennessee law did for John Scopes in 1925), Kansas is poised to adopt a policy that would enable students to learn more about the topic. (Related:Just teach it) Specifically, the Kansas policy would require students to learn not only the full scientific case for contemporary evolutionary theory, called “neo-Darwinism,” but also the current criticisms of the theory as they appear in scientific literature. The Kansas policy would not require, or prohibit, discussing the theory of “intelligent design,” which has been so much in the news since President Bush spoke about it earlier this month.

  • Bible Prophecy Updates, Creation v. Intelligent Design, Rob Robinson, Science and the Bible

    Posted on June 11th, 2010

    Written by Rob Robinson

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    Always Learning, Never Coming to the Truth

    Always Learning, Never Coming to the Truth

    I just finished an article written on the ‘Uncommon Descent’ web site that details the thought process of world renowned scientist Stephen Hawking. Dr. Hawking believes that the vastness of the universe with the countless Glaxies, Stars and Planets leaving only earth with life upon it is evidence against the existence for God.
    The Bible describes the fact that “The Heavens declare the Glory of God, day unto day they utter speech…” The entire point of the creation of the Universe by God was to display His amazing power to those who dwell on earth. At the end of the book of Revelation where a description is given of all those in the universe who give thanks and praise to God, these are seen speaking from Earth, under the Earth, in Heaven and even Hell itself, but no voices are heard from other planets or distant Worlds.

  • Creation v. Intelligent Design, Science and the Bible

    Posted on May 27th, 2010

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    “Artificial Life” or Intelligently Designed Plagiarism?

    “Artificial Life” or Intelligently Designed Plagiarism?

    The operative phrase above is, “They copied this code.” Venter and his team showed they can successfully identify the code necessary for a living bacterial cell. They sequenced the code, imported the code into a computer, and then outputted it. But we still don’t even understand how all the parts of a bacterial cell work. As biochemist Russell Doolittle wrote in a Nature paper titled “Microbial genomes multiply”:
    in each of the completely sequenced genomes so far there are vast numbers of putative genes for proteins of unknown function. It is precisely this point – the large number of putative genes with no known function – that has been the biggest surprise in genome sequencing…In every genome examined so far, at least a quarter of the genes remain ‘hypothetical,’ in that no function can be ascribed. After such a long history of biochemical and genetic examination, how could there be so much in the way of unknown equipment?
    Learning how to import the right code from a bacterial chromosome into a new bacterial chromosome doesn’t mean we fully understand all aspects of the code or the proteins and structures it encodes.

  • Astronomy, Creation v. Intelligent Design

    Posted on May 22nd, 2010

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    The Mathematical Probability of Life on Earth by Accident

    The Mathematical Probability of Life on Earth by Accident

    Infinity was invented to account for the possibility that in a never-ending universe, anything can happen. Life on other Earth-like planets, for example, is possible in an infinite universe, but not probable, according to a scientist from the University of East Anglia.
    The mathematical model produced by Prof Andrew Watson suggests that the odds of finding new life on other Earth-like planets are low because of the time it has taken for beings such as humans to evolve and the remaining life span of the Earth. Structurally complex and intelligent life evolved late on Earth and this process might be governed by a small number of very difficult evolutionary steps.

  • Creation v. Evolution, Creation v. Intelligent Design

    Posted on January 6th, 2010

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    A Look at What Darwin Got Wrong

    A Look at What Darwin Got Wrong

    For many years, Jerry Fodor has been an outspoken critic of Darwinian reasoning in cognitive science and the philosophy of mind / language. As a graduate student, I saw him present a colloquium on these topics, in front of a semi-hostile audience, and admired his bravado in refusing to kneel before the Altar of Darwin. Sorry if that language seems over the top, but after the end of the Darwin Year, the steady worshipful attitude towards old Charles has finally got to me.
    Now, in the wake of his controversial and much discussed London Review article, Fodor — along with cognitive scientist Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini — has made his arguments fully general inWhat Darwin Got Wrong.

  • Bible Prophecy Updates, Creation v. Intelligent Design, Science

    Posted on December 30th, 2009

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    California Science Center is Sued for Canceling a Film Promoting Intelligent Design

    California Science Center is Sued for Canceling a Film Promoting Intelligent Design

    L.A.’s California Science Center will start the new year defending itself in court for canceling a documentary film attacking Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution.
    A lawsuit alleges that the state-owned center improperly bowed to pressure from the Smithsonian Institution, as well as e-mailed complaints from USC professors and others. It contends that the center violated both the 1st Amendment and a contract to rent the museum’s Imax Theater when it canceled the screening of “Darwin’s Dilemma: The Mystery of the Cambrian Fossil Record.”
    The suit was filed in Los Angeles Superior Court by the American Freedom Alliance, an L.A.-based group described by senior fellow Avi Davis as a nonprofit, nonpartisan “think tank and activist network promoting Western values and ideals.”