Mason…Please Read!

Posted on January 25, 2012 by Noah

It has been brought to this Website’s attention that there is a young man that is considering becoming an Atheist because he wants to become a Scientist.  The young man’s name is Mason.  This article is for you Mason.  Our hope is that after reading this that you will have a better understanding that Science and Creationism go “Hand in Hand”…simply because God Created the Science behind all of the Laws and Constants in the Universe.

To begin with the list of Scientists whose discoveries have changed mankind’s path through time is long and filled with distinguished names.  Names like

  • Nicholas Copernicus (1473-1543)
  • Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1627)
  • Johannes Kepler (1571-1630)
  • Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
  • Rene Descartes (1596-1650)
  • Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)
  • Isaac Newton (1642-1727)
  • Robert Boyle (1791-1867)
  • Michael Faraday (1791-1867)
  • Gregor Mendel (1822-1884)
  • William Thomson Kelvin (1824-1907)
  • Max Planck (1858-1947)
  • Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

 

These are all Scientists that were also Christians.  Their Belief in a Creator did not affect their search for Scientific Truths.  If anything this Belief…this knowledge that God Created everything assisted them in the sense that they viewed the Universe as “Designed”.  They knew that “Chance” did not play a part and that everything had a “Purpose”.  Even Einstein mentions that “God does not play dice with the Universe”.

 

So Mason…you do not need to become an Atheist in order to become a Scientist.  True…you will most likely have to learn in a secular setting and be taught “Theories” (such as Evolution) as “Settled Fact “…but you can still use your senses…your intelligence to weigh the facts and decide for yourself.  Many Scientists do not believe in God simply because they were taught NOT TO!  Given no choice but to believe their teachers…they chose their teachers.  And even those that did believe in God (given no Scientific Evidence to the contrary) found themselves concocting elaborate schemes to explain how things were “Created”.

 

Mason…proving the Existence of God is a very difficult thing to do…but the Evidence for His Existence is perponderous.  Throughout this Website you will find Scientific Evidence for a Creator…for Intelligent Design and against Evolution.  We urge you to consider these Scientific Facts and to do your own research.  You are an Immortal Being Mason.  Your Body…this World will soon ”Pass Away”…but you will spend Eternity somewhere else.  So much depends on your decision whether to become an Atheist or not.  “Seek and you shall find…”  We are here for your edification and stand ready to be of any service that we can be.

 

God Bless you Mason!

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“This is The Truth…no wait…this is The Truth…no wait…”

Posted on November 7, 2011 by Noah

"This The Truth...eat it!"

“This is The Truth…no wait…this is The Truth…no wait…”

 

Science is constantly revising its Theories.  As new evidence is discovered…Theories are modified or dropped entirely.  The “science” that was taught just ten years ago, has been modified and updated and revised – to the point where in some cases what was taught has become obsolete.

The Bible on the other hand has remained the same for thousands of years.  The Truths that are found in it have not changed in all that time…as you would think that a Truth would not change.

When it comes to The Bible and those Truths, what I find fascinating is how “Primitive Man” was privy to information that took Science ages to discover. 

Take for instance :

 

Scripture spoke of “Cavemen”.  How they Lived in Caves.  How they were “Outcasts” from Society.  Four Thousand Years Ago Job describes these “…Vile Men…” that were “…banished from human society…” and were “…forced to live in the dry stream beds,
   among the rocks and in holes in the ground.”

So…in reality…”Cavemen” were people that were “Outcast” and forced to live in caves…not Primitive Precursers (or Evolutionary Ancestors) as Evolutionist would want us to believe.

 

Job 30:1-8

New International Version (NIV)

Job 30

 1 “But now they mock me,
   men younger than I,
whose fathers I would have disdained
   to put with my sheep dogs.
2 Of what use was the strength of their hands to me,
   since their vigor had gone from them?
3 Haggard from want and hunger,
   they roamed[a] the parched land
   in desolate wastelands at night.
4 In the brush they gathered salt herbs,
   and their food[b] was the root of the broom bush.
5 They were banished from human society,
   shouted at as if they were thieves.
6 They were forced to live in the dry stream beds,
   among the rocks and in holes in the ground.
7 They brayed among the bushes
   and huddled in the undergrowth.
8 A base and nameless brood,
   they were driven out of the land.

 

Man attempted to answer just how the Earth was Created and how it was being “Held Up” in The Cosmos?  Theories such as it “Rested” on a Giant Turtle or on the back of a Gigantic Elephant or Atlas was carrying it on his shoulder.  We have since come to the conclusion that the Earth “Floats” in Space…held in orbit by gravity.  The Bible KNEW this before Science did!

 Job 26:7

New International Version (NIV)
7 He spreads out the northern skies over empty space;
   he suspends the earth over nothing.

 

 

It wasn’t until the Nineteenth Century that we discovered” that all visible matter is made up of invisible matter.  The Bible told us this a long time ago.

 Hebrews 11:3

New International Version (NIV)

 3 By faith we understandr that the universe was formed at God’s command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible.

 

 

Today’s ship builders make these supertankers that carry enormous amounts of oil.  Their elongated…flat shape is the ideal configuration for traversing the high seas.  They are six times longer than they are wide.  God instructed Noah to build The Ark to these same dimensions…over 4,500 years ago.

Genesis 6:15

New International Version (NIV)

15 This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide and thirty cubits high.[a]

 

 

 

How long did it take Mankind to realize that poor hygiene cultivated disease.  How long did we wash diseased clothes and bodies in standing water?  It was just recently that we realized that fresh running water was needed.

Leviticus 15:13

New International Version (NIV)

 13 “‘When a man is cleansed from his discharge, he is to count off seven days for his ceremonial cleansing; he must wash his clothes and bathe himself with fresh water, and he will be clean.

 

 

 

How many men and women died from disease in wars and environmental disasters and from just horrible sanitation practices.  Thirty-five hundred years ago God commanded His people to:

Deuteronomy 23:12-13

New International Version (NIV)

 12 Designate a place outside the camp where you can go to relieve yourself. 13 As part of your equipment have something to dig with, and when you relieve yourself, dig a hole and cover up your excrement.

 

 

 

It wasn’t until the 1970’s…with the assistance of deep sea diving research submarines (that can withstand pressures of six-thousands pounds per square inch) that oceanographers have been able to discover and study springs on the ocean floor.

Job 38:16

New International Version (NIV)

 16 “Have you journeyed to the springs of the sea
   or walked in the recesses of the deep?

 

 

 

It’s been less than a hundred years that we’ve discovered mountains and trenches in the ocean.  The Bible spoke of them many hundreds of years before we found them.

Jonah 2:5-6

New International Version (NIV)
5 The engulfing waters threatened me,[a]
   the deep surrounded me;
   seaweed was wrapped around my head.
6 To the roots of the mountains I sank down;
   the earth beneath barred me in forever.
But you, LORD my God,
   brought my life up from the pit.

 

 

 

Science tells us that we are made of 28 Base and Trace Elements that are found in the Earth.  God told us this in Genesis.

Genesis 2:7

New International Version (NIV)

7 Then the LORD God formed a man[a] from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.

Genesis 3:19

New International Version (NIV)
19 By the sweat of your brow
   you will eat your food
until you return to the ground,
   since from it you were taken;
for dust you are
   and to dust you will return.”

 

 

 

There are dozens of Scientific Facts revealed in The Bible.  I’ll leave you with one more…perhaps one of the most telling about God and Creation Cosmology.  This Passage speaks to the “Roundness” of The Earth (circle) and to “Inflation” (how Space-Time is inflating – expanding).

Isaiah 40:22

New International Version (NIV)
22 He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth,
   and its people are like grasshoppers.
He stretches out the heavens like a canopy,
   and spreads them out like a tent to live in.

 

God Is Amazing!  Who can deny Him?  The Truth is everywhere for all to see!    

 

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Probability Theory

Posted on November 6, 2011 by Noah

 

 


                         

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Probability – Chance – “What are the Odds?”…

 

All of these things deal with the feasibility of something occurring.  How likely is it to actually happen.  The roll of a dice is perhaps the one thing that comes to mind when we think about probability.  What are the chances  of rolling a seven on a die throw (throwing a pair of dice)?  There is a science devoted to probability and chance and it is called Probability Theory.  Probability Theory is the branch of Mathematics that studies random chance and probabilities.  Taking that into mind…we should be able to calculate just what the odds are of an event occurring in Evolution.

 Let’s take as an example…DNA.  DNA is made up of molecules that have combined to form Amino Acids that link together to form Enzymes or Proteins.  As Dr. John P. Marcus PhD. writes in the book ‘In Six Days’ Edited by  John F. Ashton PhD:

“…the process of converting DNA information into proteins requires at least 75 different protein molecules. But each and every one of these 75 proteins must be synthesized in the first place by the process in which they themselves are involved. How could the process begin without the presence of all the necessary proteins? Could all 75 proteins have arisen by chance in just the right place at just the right time? Could it be that a strand of DNA with all the necessary information for making this exact same set of proteins just happened to be in the same place as all these proteins? And could it be that all the precursor molecules also happened to be around in their energized form so as to allow the proteins to utilize them properly?”  (In Six Days – John F. Ashton PhD. P. 177)

DNA Requires 75 Proteins in order to be ABLE TO REPLICATE itself!

   Let me REPEAT that…

 … “DNA Requires 75 Proteins in order to be ABLE TO REPLICATE itself.”

 If you give it some thought…that would mean that the original DNA (the very first one) had to have those same 75 Proteins.  It has been argued that the very first DNA ( I keep waiting for “The Music”…you’d think that there would be some kind of “Background Music” whenever anyone spoke the words…”First DNA”)…but, it has been argued that the very first DNA was a “Much Simpler Variety” of the DNA we have now.  Ok…so let’s say that instead of 75 Proteins…back then (when the “First DNA” came together) it “only” needed one Protein.

This is being quite gracious and very generous to Evolutionists…but we can afford to do so (as you will soon see).  The average Protein is a chain of around 300 Amino Acids long…but let us be once again quite gracious and calculate for a “smaller” chain of 100 Amino Acids long.  There are 20 Amino Acids that are available in Nature.  We do not need to name them all, we just need to know that without them…Life is not possible and that EVERY PROTEIN is made from them.   So…to “Figure” out the Probability of a chain of Amino Acids 100-mer long coming together…”By Chance” – “Randomly”…we need to multiply the 20 Amino Acids by the number of possible “Positions” (100) that need to be “Filled” in that chain of 100 long Amino Acids.  Are you with me?

To put it another way, if you had to pick a Lotto Number that was 100 numbers long, but you could only use the numbers from one to twenty (1 to 20)…how would you calculate the probability (the odds)?  The Winning Lotto Number could be 6-2-9-14-19-11-6-7-3-2-…and so on.  Any number from 1 to 20 could pop up.  The chances of any ONE Sequence of numbers coming up in this Lotto Pick would be 1 in 20 to the 100th power or:

1 in 1.268 x 10130, or 1 in 12, 680, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000!!!

 Those are the odds of you winning that Lotto.  Pretty GRIM Eh?  We can calculate the odds of a Protein forming by Random Chance in the same manner.  We take the 20 available Amino Acids and raise that number to the Power of the Number of Residues (Positions) in the Protein.  Since the Chain is 100-mers long…the number of Positions is 100.  So the Odds would be 1 in 20 to the 100th power or

 1 in 1.268 x 10130, or 1 in 12, 680, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000!!!

 And this is not taking into account that we first need for all the necessary Amino Acids to be Left-Handed (Chirality — The handedness of an asymmetric molecule), and that any interfering compounds, including Right-Handed Amino Acids, were somehow not present or eliminated altogether, and that these Amino Acids were ALL IN ONE SPOT and not scattered across the World and that in this Pool of Amino Acids they were somehow able to join together into Protein Chains faster than the Proteins normally fall apart…(Whew!…we are being really generous).

 To put this in another perspective, I’ll let Dr. Marcus explain:

 “The earth has a mass of around 5.97 x 1027 grams. If the entire mass of the earth were converted to amino acids, there would be in the order of 3.27 x 1049 amino acid molecules available.  If all of these molecules were converted into 100-residue proteins, there would be 3.27 x 1047 proteins. Since there are 1.27 x 10130 possible combinations of amino acids in a 100-mer protein (see above), a division of the number of possibilities by the number of proteins present on our hypothetical globe shows that the chances of having just one correct sequence in that entire globe of 100-mer proteins is 1 in 3.88 x 1082!!!

 Even if each of these 3.27 x 1047 100-mer proteins could be rearranged many times over into different sequences during the timespan of the earth, the chances that one correct sequence would be produced are still not close to being realistic. Consider that there are “only” 1.45 x 1017 seconds in the mythical evolutionary age of the earth.  It can be calculated that each and every 100-mer protein in that hypothetical earth would need to rearrange itself an average of 2.67 x 1065 times per second in order to try all possible combinations!  The 100-amino-acid molecules could not even come close to assembling and disassembling that quickly. It is physically impossible.”  (In Six Days – John F. Ashton PhD. P. 178-179)

 

 And this is not even considering that more than one Protein may have been needed for that “First DNA”.  It is also not considering a bunch of “Other Things” that needed to be present in that “First Cell” such as an Energy Source – Waste Removal – Defense Mechanism…

 I liken this “First Cell” to a 757 Airplane being created by lightning striking a pool of “Goo”!  The numbers do not lie.  The reality of any Protein coming together by Random Chance is ludicrous and worse than absurd and anyone claiming this is guilty of the “Blind Faith” that they accuse Creationists of having.

If we were to calculate what the chances of all 75 Proteins that are needed for Life coming together by Random Chance Processes…we would come up with:

 Given thnat we need 75 Proteins of the same size (100-mer)…the Probability of obtaining the correct sequences for all of them comes to 20 to the 7500th power or 3.7779 x 10 to the 9700th power!!! (Yup!  9,700 zeros.)  It would take the entire length of Time that The Universe has been (supposedly) around…for you to be able to even count a number that large!  No…you will not find Evolutionists discussing Probability (unless they are cornered) and I am sure they all wish they had given themselves a Lot More Time…but “Time is not on their Side”.

 Life is Much Too Amazing to have come about by Random Chance.

 

 

CHIRALITY

 

 

The following is an excerpt from ‘In Six Days’ edited by John F. Ashton PhD.

 

It is Chapter 50 by Don Batten PhD

 

Dr. Batten is a Research Scientist for Answers in Genesis in Australia.   He holds a B. Sc.Agr. with First Class Honors from the University of Sydney and a Ph.D. in Plant Physiology from the University of Sydney.  Dr. Batten worked for 18 years as a Research Scientist for New South Wales Department of Agriculture, studying the Floral Biology, Environmental Adaptation, and Breeding of Sub-    Tropical Tropical Fruit Trees Species sucg as the Lychee, Custard Apple and Mango.

 

 

 

Chirality is a huge problem – the “handedness” of amino acids and sugars, for example.  Physical chemistry can produce amino acids under the right conditions, but they are wrong for life to form because they are mixtures of left-and right-hand forms, not the pure ones need in living things.  Only enzymes produce the pure amino acids and sugars necessary for life, but enzyme manufacture requires a living cell.  Life is based on life.

 

Then there is the insurmountable problem of getting even one functional enzyme by random process, even if you could get all the ingredients assembled together.  Let us consider just one enzyme comprised of a typical 300 amino acids.  Even if we are generous to the materialist and assume that only 150 amino acids have to be specified for the function of the enzyme, the probability of getting a functional sequence is less than 1 in 10195.  We cannot imagine such an improbability.  There are possibly 10 to the 80th power atoms in the universe.  If we made every atom in our universe another universe just like ours, and every one of those atoms were an experiment for every millisecond of the presumed evolutionary age our universe, this would amount to 10 to the 181th power experiments – still a long way short of even the remotest chance of getting one functional enzyme.  That’s just one enzyme.  The simplest living cell must have at least several hundred enzymes/proteins.     (End of Excerpt)

 

 

 

I highLighted what I feel are the absolutely incredible numbers given to a chance “Happening”.  Again…no amount of TIME…not even if you extended the time to 100’s of billions of years…will be EVER – ENOUGH – TIME!

 

We…LIFE…did not come about by Random Chance.

 

 

 

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Grains of Sand

 Or

 “You can Lead a Blind Man to…”

 

Donald Page of Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Study has calculated that the odds against Our Universe randomly assuming a form that is suitable for sustaining life to be 1 out of 10 to the 124th power!

 

According to the University of Hawaii there are seven quintillion five quadrillion grains of sand on all the beaches of the world. That’s a 75 with 17 zeros following!  “75 with 17 zeros following” (7.5×10^18) is seven quintillion, five hundred quadrillion. 

 

So…according to this information you would have a better chance of having a blind man find a grain of sand that you marked with some kind of identifying mark and hid somewhere in the world’s beaches…than The Universe having randomly assumed the form it is in now.  Actually the odds are better for that blind man finding several marked grains of sand hidden somewhere in the world’s beaches than The Universe forming randomly.  Why is it then that so many highly intelligent men and women continue to believe and teach Evolution?

 

Hey…if you’d cover all of my “Expenses”…I’d go looking!

 

 

 

 

 

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The Myth of Lillith

Posted on November 1, 2011 by Noah

 

The Myth of Lillith

 

Did Adam have a wife before Eve? According to Ben Sira he did and her name was Lilith, but there is only one passing reference to Lilith in the entire Bible. It is found in Isaiah 34:14 which reads “there too Lilith shall repose.” The translation is disputed. Following the King James Version, many Bibles render the passage “there too the night creature” or “the screech owl also shall rest there”. Compare these:

 

Romanized Hebrew: pagšu ṣiyyim et-ʾiyyim w-saʿir ʿal-rēʿhu yiqra ʾakšam hirgiʿah lilit u-maṣʾah lah manoḫ (“yelpers meet-[perfect] howlers; hairy-ones cry-[imperfect] to fellow. liyliyth reposes-[perfect], acquires-[perfect] resting-place.” )

 

 

King James: “The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the screech owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest.”

 

 

 

Regardless of the differences, the context is clear in both texts that those mentioned are under Yahweh’s judgment.Lilith (Hebrew לילית) is a Mesopotamian mythological figure. It is not likely that she was known to Abraham’s African ancestors from whom we receive the story of the first Father and Mother in the Garden. Lilith belongs to the pantheon that Daniel and his Judahites companions refused to worship in Babylon. She was associated with wind and storms and was thought to bring disease and death, especially to women and infants. The figure of Lilith first appeared in a class of Sumerian storm spirits as Lilitu around 4000 BC.According to the myth of Lilith, she left Adam because he insisted that she submit to him. She spoke the Divine Name and gained such power that she became an angel, but when God told her to return to Adam, she refused and became a demon. She is cast as the epitome of the evil seductress who works in league with Satan to torment and destroy Adam’s offspring.Here is the passage from The Alphabet of Ben-Sira, a 6th century A.D. midrash:

 

After God created Adam, who was alone, He said, ‘It is not good for man to be alone’. He then created a woman for Adam, from the earth, as He had created Adam himself, and called her Lilith. Adam and Lilith immediately began to fight. She said, ‘I will not lie below,’ and he said, ‘I will not lie beneath you, but only on top. For you are fit only to be in the bottom position, while I am to be the superior one.’ Lilith responded, ‘We are equal to each other inasmuch as we were both created from the earth.’ But they would not listen to one another. When Lilith saw this, she pronounced the Ineffable Name and flew away into the air. Adam stood in prayer before his Creator: ‘Sovereign of the universe!’ he said, ‘the woman you gave me has run away.’ At once, the Holy One, blessed be He, sent these three angels to bring her back.”Said the Holy One to Adam, ‘If she agrees to come back, what is made is good. If not, she must permit one hundred of her children to die every day.’ The angels left God and pursued Lilith, whom they overtook in the midst of the sea, in the mighty waters wherein the Egyptians were destined to drown. They told her God’s word, but she did not wish to return. The angels said, ‘We shall drown you in the sea.’”‘Leave me!’ she said. ‘I was created only to cause sickness to infants. If the infant is male, I have dominion over him for eight days after his birth, and if female, for twenty days.’

 

“When the angels heard Lilith’s words, they insisted she go back. But she swore to them by the name of the living and eternal God: ‘Whenever I see you or your names or your forms in an amulet, I will have no power over that infant.’ She also agreed to have one hundred of her children die every day. Accordingly, every day one hundred demons perish, and for the same reason, we write the angels names on the amulets of young children. When Lilith sees their names, she remembers her oath, and the child recovers.”

 

Lilith’s existence as an historical person depends on a reading of Genesis 1 apart from Genesis 2. The woman created as Adam’s equal in Genesis 1 is said to be Lilith and the woman created subservient (from Adam’s rib) in Genesis 2 is said to be Eve. There are two immediately obvious problems with this interpretation. First, Lilith can hardly be an historical woman if Adam is not an historical person. Both Adam and Lilith belong to the realm of myth and in telling the Gospel, mythical Adam is as necessary as his historical counterpart Enoch (or Nok). Adam must be mythical or platonically interpreted as the Form of Man in order to speak theologically of him as the federal head of all humanity. Enoch is the historical father of the lines that descend from Cain and Seth, as my analysis of the kinship pattern of Genesis 4 and 5 shows.

 Second, Ben Sura and other rabbis were aware that the great chiefs listed in Genesis had two wives. They are constructing the Lilith myth on this culture trait, but culture traits only apply to historical persons living in real time. Lilith is not mentioned in Genesis because insinuating her presence overthrows the biblical picture of Adam and Eve living close to the Creator in Paradise. This paradise was lost due to disobedience of God’s command given to them ‘not to eat’, not because Lilith refused to take the missionary position with Adam.

 

The Lilith myth reveals more about the 6th-century rabbis’ attitude toward women than it does about God and creation.

 

(This article has been reproduced in Yareah Magazine.)

 

 

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Leeming and Leeming A Dictionary of Creation Myths

Posted on November 1, 2011 by Noah

 

‘A Dictionary of Creation Myths’ by Leeming and Leeming is an excellent source for many of the world’s Origin Myths. A Christian…well grounded in Scripture should have no fear of being seduced…but will find this book informative and even entertaining.

Here is an excerpt:

“God made Heaven, and then, after measuring the space underneath with a ball of thread, he began to form the earth. A mole asked to help, and God gave him the thread to hold while he wove the patterns of the earth. Sometimes the mole would let out too much thread, and finally the earth grew too large for the space under heaven. The mole was so upset that he hid under the earth.God sent the bee to look for him; he wanted the mole’s advice on what to do about the mistake. The bee found the mole and he just laughed at the idea of advising God. The bee, however, hid in a flower and overheard the mole mumbling to himself about what he would do if he were God. ‘Iwould squeeze the earth,’ he said. ‘That would make mountains and valleys and make it smaller at the same time.’ When the bee heard this, he went directly to God and told him. God did what the mole had said, and everything fit fine.”The myth of Rumanian Creation in which God weaves the earth from a ball of thread is just one the many stories that make up the wonderous world of creation myths. In virtually every culture throughout the ages, creation myths have played a vital role in providing not only explanations of the origins of societies but also specific cultural identities–serving as a “projection of an aspect of a culture’s soul.”
Covering thousands of years of intricate creation tales, A Dictionary of Creation Mythsis the first and most comprehensive work devoted to creation myths from cultures throughout the world. With an easy-to-use A-Z format, this around-the-world tour provides quick access to information on the beliefs (both exotic and ordinary) of ancient civilizations from Sumeria and Babylonia to Egypt, Greece, and ancient Rome, from India and China to Japan and Indonesia, as well as the rich mythological history of Native Americans, the indigenous peoples of Australia, and many other cultures. We read of the creation myth of the Diegueno tribe of southern California in which the creator, Tu-chai-pai, made the earth female and the sky male and then formed mud into people; the Norse creation story of the gods Odin, Vili, and Ve, who made man and woman out of two fallen trees–Odin breathed life into the new pair, Vili’s gift to them was intelligence, and Ve gave the gifts of sight and hearing; and the myth of Japanese creation in which Izanagei, and his sister Izanami, watch the first land form from ocean water dripping from Izanagi’s spear.Alongside these ancient beliefs are the more modern, such as Darwin’s theory of evolution and the big bang theory. Each entry identifies the culture associated with the myth, and each myth is retold in clear, eloquent prose, with extensive cross-referencing to guide readers to other entries. Throughout, the authors share insightful analyses of the surprisingly intricate relationship of certain myths across cultures, regions, and time. The entry on Maori creation, for example, leads to entries on the Samoan and Tahitian creation stories and on to the motif of “Creation from Nothing.” And, in the course of retelling the creation myth of the Medoc Indians, the authors send us to entries on the “Trickster” and the “earth-diver creation” theme.
From cosmic eggs, frost giants, and the Garden of Eden to Brahma, the Spider Woman, and the Gaia Principle, from myths of the apocalypse and the great world religions to myths of love, re-birth, and science, this unique guide illuminates the phenomenon of creation from all aspects of the human experience. Richly illustrated, A Dictionary of Creation Myths is essential for anyone who has ever wondered how the world was created, where we came from, or why we are here at all. (End of Excerpt)
 

Mythologists have applied various schemes to classify creation myths found throughout human cultures. Eliade and his student, Charles H. Long, developed a classification based on some common motifs that reappear in stories the world over. The classification identifies five basic types: (Leonard & McClure 2004, p. 32–33)

Creation Ex Nihilo — In which the creation is through the thought, word, dream or bodily secretions of a divine being

Earth Diver — Creation in which a diver, usually a bird or amphibian sent by a creator, plunges to the seabed through a primordial ocean to bring up sand or mud which develops into a terrestrial world

Emergence — Myths in which progenitors pass through a series of worlds and metamorphoses until reaching the present world

Creation by — The dismemberment of a primordial being

Creation by — The splitting or ordering of a primordial unity such as the cracking of a cosmic egg or a bringing into form from chaos

  1. Marta Weigle further developed and refined this typology to highlight nine themes, adding elements such as “Deus Faber”, a creation crafted by a deity, creation from the work of two creators working together or against each other, creation from sacrifice and creation from division/conjugation, accretion/conjunction, or secretion. (Leonard & McClure 2004, p. 32–33)
  2. An alternative system based on six recurring narrative themes was designed by Raymond Van Over: (Leonard & McClure 2004, p. 32–33)

A primeval abyss

An Infinite Expanse of waters or space

An Originator Deity which is awakened or an eternal entity within the abyss

An Originator Deity poised above the abyss

A Cosmic Egg or Embryo

An Originator Deity creating life through sound or word

Life Generating from the corpse or dismembered parts of an originator deity

  1. theologians try to discern humanity’s meaning from revealed truths and scientists investigate cosmology with the tools of empiricism and rationality, but creation myths define human reality in very different terms. In the past historians of religion and other students of myth thought of them as forms of primitive or early-stage science or religion and analyzed them in a literal or logical sense. However they are today seen as symbolic narratives which must be understood in terms of their own cultural context. Charles H. Long writes, “The beings referred to in the myth — gods, animals, plants — are forms of power grasped existentially. The myths should not be understood as attempts to work out a rational explanation of deity.” (Long 1963, p. 12)

Ex Nihilo

Creation ex nihilo (Latin “out of nothing”), also known as “creation de novo“, is a common type of mythical creation. Ex nihilo creation is found in creation stories from ancient Egypt, the Rig Veda, The Bible and the Quran, and many Animistic cultures in Africa, Asia, Oceania and North America. (Leeming 2010, pp. 1–3,153)

The Debate between sheep and grain is an example of an even earlier form of ex nihilo creation myth from ancient Sumer. (Ewa Wasilewska (2000). Creation stories of the Middle East. Jessica Kingsley Publishers. pp. 146–. ISBN 9781853026812. http://books.google.com/books?id=sMj1tyho3CoC&pg=PA146. Retrieved 23 May 2011. )

In most of these stories the world is brought into being by the speech, dream, breath, or pure thought of a creator but creation Ex Nihilo may also take place through a creator’s bodily secretions. The literal translation of the phrase Ex Nihilo is “from nothing” but in many creation myths the line is blurred whether the creative act would be better classified as a creation Ex Nihilo or creation from chaos. With Ex Nihilo, the potential and the substance of creation springs from within the creator. Such a creator may or may not be existing in physical surroundings such as darkness or water, but does not create the world from them. In creation from chaos the substance used for creation is pre-existing within the unformed void. ( Leeming & Leeming 1994, p. 60–61)

In Greek mythology the goddess Nyx stood at or near the beginning of creation.

Creation from Chaos

Chaos (Cosmogony)

  1. In creation from Chaos myth, initially there is nothing but a formless, shapeless expanse. In these stories the word “chaos” means “disorder”, and this formless expanse, which is also sometimes called a void or an abyss, contains the material with which the created world will be made. Chaos may be described as a having the consistency of vapor or water, dimensionless, and sometimes salty or muddy. These myths associate chaos with evil and oblivion, in contrast to “order” (cosmos) which is the good. The act of creation is the bringing of order from disorder, and in many of these cultures it is believed that at some point the forces preserving order and form will weaken and the world will once again be engulfed into the abyss. (Leeming 2010)
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World Parent

There are two types of World Parent myths, both describing a separation or splitting of a primeval entity, the world parent or parents. One form describes the primeval state as an eternal union of two parents, and the creation takes place when the two are pulled apart. The two parents are commonly identified as Sky (usually male) and Earth (usually female) who in the primeval state were so tightly bound to each other that no offspring could emerge. These myths often depict creation as the result of a sexual union, and serve as genealogical record of the deities born from it. (Leeming 2010, p. 16)

In the second form of world parent myth, creation itself springs from dismembered parts of the body of the primeval being. Often in these stories the limbs, hair, blood, bones or organs of the primeval being are somehow severed or sacrificed to transform into sky, earth, animal or plant life, and other worldly features. These myths tend to emphasize creative forces as Animistic in nature rather than sexual, and depict the sacred as the elemental and integral component of the natural world. (Leeming 2010, p. 18)

Emergence

In Emergence myths humanity emerges from another world into the one they currently inhabit. The previous world is often considered the womb of the earth mother, and the process of emergence is likened to the act of giving birth. The role of midwife is usually played by a female deity, like the Spider Woman of Native American mythology. Male characters rarely figure into these stories, and scholars often consider them in counterpoint to male oriented creation myths, like those of the Ex Nihilo variety. (Leeming 2005)

  1. Emergence myths commonly describe the creation of people and/or supernatural beings as a staged ascent or metamorphosis from nascent forms through a series of subterranean worlds to arrive at their current place and form. Often the passage from one world or stage to the next is impelled by inner forces, a process of germination or gestation from earlier, embryonic forms. (Leeming 2010, pp. 21–24 Long 1963)

The genre is most commonly found in Native American cultures where the myths frequently link the final emergence of people from a hole opening to the underworld to stories about their subsequent migrations and eventual settlement in their current homelands. (Wheeler-Voegelin & Moore 1957, pp. 66–73)

Earth-Diver

The Earth-Diver is a common character in various traditional creation myths. In these stories a supreme being usually sends an animal into the primal waters to find bits of sand or mud with which to build habitable land. Some scholars interpret these myths psychologically while others interpret them cosmogonically. In both cases emphasis is placed on beginnings emanating from the depths. (David Adams Leeming and Margaret Adams Leeming (2009). “Earth‐Diver Creation”. A Dictionary of Creation Myths. Oxford University Press.)

  1. Earth-diver myths are common in Native American folklore but can be found among the Chukchi and Yukaghir, the Tatars and many Finno-Ugrian traditions. The pattern of distribution of these stories suggest they have a common origin in the eastern Asiatic coastal region, spreading as peoples migrated west into Siberia and east to the North American continent. (Booth 1984, pp. 168–170)

Characteristic of many Native American myths, earth-diver creation stories begin as beings and potential forms linger asleep or suspended in the primordial realm. The earth-diver is among the first of them to awaken and lay the necessary groundwork by building suitable lands where the coming creation will be able to live. In many cases, these stories will describe a series of failed attempts to make land before the solution is found. ( Leonard & McClure 2004, p. 38)

 

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Why I Started This Site

Posted on November 1, 2011 by Noah

 

“…and the Lion will lie with the Lamb…”

I believed in Evolution for the longest time.  It made so much sense!  I would look at “races” of people (such as the Aborigines) and see the “resemblance” to our ancestors (boy was I shallow).  The Bible’s first chapter — Genesis (the Bible’s foundational chapter)…did not make any sense.  It (Genesis) seemed to be allegorical.  Genesis was a “nice” story that had a philosophical meaning.  As a Christian I tried to harmonize my Christian faith with my belief in Evolution.  It made for some interesting gymnastics.

Genesis is the first book of the Bible and it is perhaps the one book that is the most misunderstood and the most disbelieved.  If we feel that Genesis is not to be believed because man wrote it and man got some things wrong and because of that we should use our own “judgment” on what it says and really means.  If we believe that then we just might as well treat the rest of The Bible the same way.  There is an awful tragedy coming if we do this!

The Bible is a book of TRUTHS.  It is God’s Word.  Genesis says exactly what it is supposed to say.  If you search for the Truth…you will find it.  God Created EVERYTHING in Six Days!  One day we will all know how God did it.  For now we can only speculate.  I will attempt to show you what Science God may have used to accomplish this.

For a while I believed in the “one day is a thousand years” theory.  Supposedly, the Six Days of Genesis were actually 4.5 Billion Years combined (I never really did the math as to what that equaled per day?).  Then there was The Gap Theory.  This one appealed to my Science Fiction side.  In this Theory…God Created the Earth and destroyed it…only to re-create it again and populate it with Adam and Eve.  There was also a part in there were God destroyed Satan’s “Home Planet” and that is what “The Asteroid Belt” is composed of (the debris from that planet).

 

It was all so neat and tidy and made sense to my material mind…not to mention “The Kid” in me.

 

It wasn’t until a fellow Christian showed me some books about Evolution Vs. Creation that I began to read Scientific evidence disputing Evolution.  The first book that I read was ‘The Genesis Flood’ by Henry M. Morris.  It began to open my eyes to truths that fit more in harmony with my religious beliefs.  Ken Hamm is another man that strongly influenced my “Awakening”.

 

What I would like to do on this site is to go through the various books that I have read and discuss what they reveal about Creation and Evolution.  Books such as ‘The Lie — Evolution’ by Ken Hamm — ‘In Six Days’ Edited by John F. Ashton and many others.  You will also find Articles from other sources.  I also will have a Forum where you will be able to post your questions or your own thoughts and receive feedback from myself or other members of this community.  I also will welcome your opinions and suggestions and any insights you might have.

 

So…thank you for reading…thank you for being here and I pray and hope that this site will be of service and a blessing to you.

 

Noah

 

 

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Did a White Hole Create Our Universe?

Posted on November 1, 2011 by Noah

 

Did God use a White Hole to Create The Universe?

 

Have you ever tossed a rock into a body of water and watched the ripples move out away from the impact center?  Of course you have!  I would say that everyone has done this at one time or another.  That “ripple effect” is the way most people see The Universe being created – “The Big Bang Theory”.  They see it as an explosion at the center of The Universe that “expands” outwards.  The reality is that scientists that adhere to The Big Bang Theory do not see it that way.  They picture The Big Bang as being more like a balloon being blown up.  They see space as the surface of that balloon…with all of the galaxies and planets and stars lying on the surface of this balloon.

 

As the balloon is inflated (Inflation) its surface (Space) expands and everything on that surface moves away from everything else that is on that surface.  Imagine putting small dots on the surface of a balloon and then blowing it up.  Those small dots will move away from each other…the speed of their movement being determined by how fast the balloon is being inflated (Inflation).  In this scenario there would be no center to move away from and there would be no edge either.  An observer in any galaxy on this surface (Universe) would see approximately the same number of galaxies as any other observer in any other galaxy and there would not be an observer on “The Edge” of The Universe that would see more galaxies on one side as opposed to the other side.  The “surface” (Universe) would be uniform and “balanced”.  This balanced and uniform view of The Universe is called Isotropic (homogeneous).  This assumption would seem to be a reasonable one as The Universe (as seen from Earth) appears to be similar in all directions.

 

The “idea” or view that The Earth is at the center of The Universe is an opinion that is untenable to those that do not believe in a God created universe.  That is why The Big Bang Theory is so appealing to them.  Never mind that The Earth being the center point of Creation would also explain why everything seems uniform as seen from the Earth’s viewpoint.  The Big Bang Model was founded and is sustained on the assumption that since the Earth “cannot possibly” be at or near the center of the Universe (as this would suggest purpose and Intelligent Design), The Universe must be “Isotropic”.

 

This “Isotropic” model is an assumption.  At present all of the data that we have merely shows us what The Universe looks like and there is currently no concrete way of testing homogeneity of The Universe.  But…we have to start somewhere…with some kind of axiom.  Evolutionists use the “Copernican Principle” that says that we are not unique and specially created and are in a privileged position — such as being at the center of The Universe.  Or you can start with the premise that we are, in a special place, with our exact location in The Universe CHOSEN by The Designer of The Universe.    

 

What if the Earth was at the center of The Universe?  What if God did Create the Earth and everything in The Universe?  What we observe from our vantage point from Earth is exactly what you’d expect to see.  This “type” of Creation would explain a lot of things.  Take for Instance this:

 

Pioneer 1

 

 

Pioneer 1. Photograph. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Web. 30 Sep. 2011. <http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/media/116647/Pioneer-1

A Modern Space Mystery

 

Can a “Problem” With Gravity Be Solved By Creation Cosmologies?

 by John UpChurch and Peter Galling, AiG–U.S.

 March 24, 2008      AnswersInGenesis.com

 

 It has the makings of a science fiction movie: in the farthest reaches of our solar system, scientists discover spacecraft acting mysteriously and other unexplained phenomena—and now these strange happenings are spreading closer to home.  However, this is not the plot for some space opera; this is the focus of a recent news story concerning unexpected anomalies in the motion of several space probes.  Could a creation-based cosmological model hold the answer?

 Although the data are still preliminary and await official publication, researchers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) have released findings that five spacecraft, when flying past earth, have gone either faster or slower than expected by standard models. This may not seem like a monumental discovery at first glance, but it has nonetheless left JPL astronomer John Anderson “humble and perplexed” because there is “no convincing explanation.” (1)

A bit of history might help explain the import of this finding.  If you have followed astronomy, there’s a chance you may have heard of a phenomenon known as the “Pioneer anomaly.”  Named for the Pioneer 10 and 11 spacecraft, this anomaly has garnered much press over the last two decades or so, primarily because mainstream science has yet to come up with an explanation.  To put it succinctly, the Pioneer spacecraft are inexplicably slowing down (accelerating sunward) for some unknown reason. (2)   While it would be easy to dismiss such an anomaly as stemming from a mundane mechanical or non-novel physical cause (mathematical or data errors, gas leaks, effect of solar wind or dark matter), similar findings for other spacecraft (e.g., Ulysses and Galileo) help establish the anomaly as something that must be accounted for. (3)  That is, it is easier to dismiss something as trivial and, in this case, more likely due to individual spacecraft malfunction if it is only seen in a small sample; however, when we have a larger sample, the results are more likely to be significant.

 That’s what makes the JPL news release so interesting.  While there’s no conclusive evidence that the two anomalies are linked (Anderson says that he would be surprised if they were not), some cosmological models put forth by creationists could make sense of both.  Although there are other models, (4) as the field of Creation cosmology has been expanding in recent years, for this article we will focus on Dr. Russell Humphreys’ “white hole” cosmology and how it could help us understand the recent data. (5)

 

Footnotes

1.Charles Q. Choi, “NASA Baffled by Force Acting on Space Probe,” MSNBC, http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23410705/.

2.Tariz Malik, “Newfound Data Could Solve NASA’s Great Gravity Mystery,” Space.com, http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/070327_scitues_pioneeranom.html.

3.D. Russell Humphreys, “Creation Cosmologies Solve Spacecraft Mystery,” ICR, http://www.icr.org/article/3472/.

4.For other examples see John G. Hartnett, “A New Cosmology: Solution to the Starlight Travel Time Problem,” JoC 17 no. 2 (2003): 98–102; Stuart Burgess, He Made the Stars Also, (Day One Publications, 2001); and Robert Newton (Jason Lisle), “Distant Starlight and Genesis: Conventions of Time Measurement,” JoC 15 no. 1: 80–85.

5.For a complete overview of Dr. Humphreys’ cosmology, see “Seven Years of Starlight and Time.”

 

 

 

 

 

According to a Paper that Dr. Humphreys wrote the behavior of the Pioneer craft and others as well “supports the essentials of several Creationist cosmologies—a cosmic centre of mass, expansion of space, and recent gravitational time dilation.”   (Russell Humphreys, “Creationist Cosmologies Explain the Anomalous Acceleration of Pioneer Spacecraft,” JoC 21 no. 2 (2007), p.65)

 

If you were to give it some thought…if the Earth is at or near the center of The Universe you would expect to “see” and “feel” some form of space and time displacement and dilation (whether from a White Hole — a Black Hole in reverse — or another method) and we would also expect to see the anomalous behavior of spacecraft as they move out from the Gravity Well or “valley”.

 

While the Pioneer Spacecrafts were affected far from the Earth, these recent probes show the anomaly can be local as well.

 

Creation cosmologies predict and account for many phenomena that The Big Bang Theory needs ad hoc stories to explain away.  While we lack insufficient data to be able to say conclusively that this is the way it all began…we can be very optimistic.

 

Ultimately, the main point to remember is that any theory or model based on human conjecture of how God formed The Universe is fallible because it depends on our limited understanding.  Various Creation cosmologies may very well be Bolstered by these Probe Anomalies, and certainly these Models are built upon the foundation of God’s Word.  But they also Depend somewhat upon Conjecture into the Past.  We must always keep in Mind that The True Authority is the One who

 

“laid the cornerstone [of the earth], when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy”   (Job 38:6–7).

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Noah’s Flood or Gilgamesh

Posted on November 1, 2011 by Noah

 

Noah’s Flood or Gilgamesh

 

Comparison of the Babylonian

and Noachian flood stories

 

Author: B.A. Robinson

 

 Comparing the stories

 The Chaldean Flood Tablets from the city of Ur in what is now Southern Iraq, describe how the Bablylonian God Ea had decided to eliminate humans and other land animals with a great flood which was to become “the end of all flesh”. He selected Ut-Napishtim, to build an ark to save a few humans, and samples of other animals.

 The Babylonian text “The Epic of Galgamesh” 1,8 and the Hebrew story are essentially identical with about 20 major points in common. Their texts are obviously linked in some way. Either:

  Genesis was copied from an earlier Babylonian story, or

  The Galgamesh myth was copied from an earlier Hebrew story, or

  Both were copied from a common source that predates them both.

 In both the Genesis and Galgamesh stories:

 •The Genesis story describes how mankind had become obnoxious to God; they were hopelessly sinful and wicked. In the Babylonian story, they were too numerous and noisy.

• The Gods (or God)  decided to send a worldwide flood. This would drown men, women, children, babies and infants, as well as eliminate all of the land animals and birds.

• The Gods (or God) knew of one righteous man, Ut-Napishtim or Noah.

• The Gods (or God) ordered the hero to build a multi-story wooden ark (called a chest or box in the original Hebrew).

• The ark would be sealed with pitch.

• The ark would have with many internal compartments

• It would have a single door

• It would have at least one window.

• The ark was built and loaded with the hero, a few other humans, and samples from all species of other land animals.

• A great rain covered the land with water.

• The mountains were initially covered with water.

• The ark landed on a mountain in the Middle East.

• The hero sent out birds at regular intervals to find if any dry land was in the vicinity.

• The first two birds returned to the ark. The third bird apparently found dry land because it did not return.

• The hero and his family left the ark, ritually killed an animal, offered it as a sacrifice.

• God (or the Gods in the Epic of Gilgamesh) smelled the roasted meat of the sacrifice.

• The hero was blessed.

• The Babylonian gods seemed genuinely sorry for the genocide that they had created. The God of Noah appears to have regretted his actions as well, because he promised never to do it again.

 

 There were a number of differences between the two stories:

 • Noah received his instructions directly from Jehovah; Ut-Napishtim received them indirectly during a dream.

• Noah’s ark was 3 stories high and rectangular in shape. Two estimated dimensions are 547 x 91 ft. and 450 x 75 ft. The Babylonian ark was 6 stories high and square.

• Ut-Napishtim invited additional people on board: a pilot and some skilled workmen.

• Noah’s ark landed on Mt. Ararat; Ut-Napishtim’sat on Mt. Nisir; these locations are both in the Middle East, and are located few hundred miles apart

• In the Bible, some of the water emerged from beneath the earth. And the rains from above lasted for 40 days and nights. A 40 day interval often symbolized a period of judgment in the Hebrew Scriptures. 2 In the Babylonian account, the water came only in the form of rain, and lasted only 6 days.

• Noah released a raven once and a dove twice; Ut-Napishtim released three birds: a dove, swallow and raven.

 

 Significance of the two stories

  To conservative Christians, Genesis is inerrant: it is completely truthful and contained no error in its original form. God inspired Moses to write the book and preserved him from including any errors. Thus the Noachian flood really happened exactly as stated in Genesis. The similarities between the Babylonian and Hebrew texts were probably caused by two factors:  both were accounts of the same worldwide flood.

  The Genesis account is absolutely true and was written during the Exodus of the Jewish people from Egypt. The Babylonian account was written later; its author may have copied elements from the Hebrew story.

 ”The Epic of Gilgamesh, then, contains the corrupted account as preserved and embellished by peoples who did not follow the God of the Hebrews.” (7)

  To liberal Christians, the flood story in Genesis were mainly written by three unknown authors:  “J”  used Yahweh as the name of God, and wrote circa 848 BC to 722 BC in the southern kingdom of Judah.

  ”P” a priest who lived much later, sometime before 587 BC.

  ”R”, an unknown redactor, who joined the writings of J and P and two other writers together. He added only one sentence to the flood story.

The story is a legend with spiritual significance. However there was no actual worldwide flood. The story is a myth, derived largely from the earlier Babylonian account. It was picked up by the ancient Israelites as an oral tradition and later written down by J and P.

  To some Agnostics, Atheists, etc, the flood story is pure myth. The viciousness of the God or Gods who are said to be responsible for the flood is shown by the lack of concern for the men, women, children, youths, infants and newborns who died a terrible death by drowning. The myth shows how Gods are created by the minds of humans, rather than vice versa. The flood account gradually evolved from the original Babylonian version to the Hebrew version. The Babylonian version may have been a distorted record of an ancient flood which occurred when the Mediterranean Sea partially emptied into the Black Sea circa 5600 BC.

 Which Came First Noah or Ut-Napishtim?

 The Babylonian tablets which contain the full story of the flood have been dated circa 650 BC. However, portions of the story have been found on tablets from about 2000 BC. A study of the language used in the tablets indicates that the story originated much earlier than 2000 BC. (3) Variations of the original story have been found translated into other ancient languages. (4)

 Many conservative Christians believe that the flood occurred circa 2349 BC, and that the account in Genesis was written by Moses in the 1450′s BC, shortly before his death. (5,8)   Thus, the Babylonian text must be a corrupted version based on a Paganized adaptation of the true story in Genesis. Alternatively, it might be an independent attempt at describing the world-wide flood.

 Liberal theologians, noting the different names used to refer to God, and the different writing styles throughout the Pentateuch (first 5 books of the Hebrew Scriptures), believe that Genesis was assembled over a 4 century interval, circa 950 to 540 BC by authors from a variety of traditions. (6)

 J and P seem to have based their stories on two original stories from Mesopotamian sources, perhaps based on a massive series of floods in Ur and surrounding areas circa 2800 BC which would be perceived by the local population as being very extensive; perhaps world wide. Alternatively, it may have been based on the catastrophic flooding of the Black Sea.

 References

1.N.K. Saunders, “The Epic of Gilgamesh”, Penguin Books, London UK (1964)

2.Numbers 14:34

3.Alexander Heidel, “The Gilgamesh Epic and Old Testament Parallels”. Univ. of Chicago, Chicago IL (1949)

4.Werner Keller, “The Bible as History”, W. Morrow, New York, NY, (1956)

5.Schofield Reference Bible. Genesis, chapters 6 to 9

6.C.M. Laymon, ed., “The Interpreter’s One Volume Commentary on the Bible”, Abingdon Press, Nashville, TN (1991)

7.Frank Lorey, Impact #285: The Flood of Noah and the Flood of Gilgamesh”, Institute for Creation Research, El Cajon, CA (1997) Online at: http://www.icr.org/pubs/imp/imp-285.htm

8.”Myths of the flood: The flood narrative from the Gilgamesh epic,” at: http://www-relg-studies.scu.edu/netcours/rs011/restrict/

 

 

 

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How Evolution Works

Posted on November 1, 2011 by Noah

 

How Evolution Works

 

Everything I Say is a Lie (and That is the Truth!)  

Groucho Marx

   It astounds me to think of how easily we are hoodwinked.  Of how simple it is for us to fool ourselves.  I am an amateur magician and I know very well the human mind’s ability to “see what it wants to see”!  Yet…it is always such a shock when you realize that something that you have held dear and close to your heart…is not true!  Especially something that you had never given a second thought as to it possibly being false.

 

        That is the case with Evolution. I now look back and wonder…”how could I have been so blind!”  I continue to find so many things that seem so obvious now…yet I never saw them before!  Why is that?

 

        Take the giraffe.  I was taught Evolution as if it were truth…a fact (Evolution is a T-H-E-O-R-Y).  I was taught that giraffes became the way they are because of over millions of years of stretching their necks out…their necks got longer.  Makes all the sense in the world…right?  One day a giraffe is born with it’s neck a little bit longer and it manages to grow bigger and stronger (because of this “advantage”) and it “passes” this mutation on to its offsprings and they in turn do the same…until BOOM — one day millions of years later…another offspring is born with it’s neck just a bit longer and this goes on for millions of years until the “perfect” height is reached!  How can you dispute that?

 Here’s a video that will hopefully open some eyes or at least give some pause to re-think “The Theory of Evolution”.

 

 

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how Evolution

 

“claims” it was created.

 

 

 

 

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I Think…Therefore I Am!

Posted on November 1, 2011 by Noah

 

I Think…Therefore I Am!

 

 

 

Descartes, the Philosopher came to the conclusion that he was not a figment of some alien entity’s imagination because he concluded that if he could think…then therefore he must exist!  Simply put…if he could create information…well then…he must be a “Sentient Entity”.

This is also an excellent argument against Evolution…INFORMATION.  Information in the form of DNA.  DNA is essentially information.  It is information that is coded…a language.  Just as the letters comprising this post are a code that everyone understands and is able to decode…DNA is also a code.

The amount of information in DNA is equivalent to 1,000 books with 1,000 pages each.  1,000 pages of different Information.  In just one of the two copies of DNA that are in a cell…there are 3 X 109 Nucleotide Bases (genetic letters)…that’s 3 BILLION!

All this information in something that is so small that you will need a very powerful microscope to be able to see it.  It is estimated that you could store all the DNA of every human in the world in a container the size of an Aspirin Bottle.

Why would this be a problem to Evolutionists?  Given the billions and billions of years involved here…anything is possible!  No…in this case it is not.  Because we are talking about INFORMATION.  We are talking about INSTRUCTIONS…a BLUE PRINT.  DNA is a “Code” that needs a “Key” in order to interpret the Code.

Something like this can only come from an Intelligent Mind!  Well…you might say…if I placed a Monkey in front of a typewriter and had him punching keys for 4.5 Billion Years…he would come up with the complete instructions on ‘How to Make a Nuclear Bomb’.  We could debate that by figuring how many letters it would take to write that book (with spaces in the right places) and how long it would take for each tap…but in reality…you have to begin with the question of “How did that Monkey get hold of a typewriter and why would he stay there “Tapping” away for eons?  Essentially this analogy is similar to saying that after a passing Hurricane…pebbles on a beach have been rearranged to form letters that spell out the entire Britannica Encyclopedia.  I don’t care how many Hurricanes pass through…it is Never going to happen!

We tend to think that the information is in the Organic DNA.  It is not!  Just as the information in this article is not in the pixels on your screen.  Information is what comes out of your mind and is transferred to another’s mind.

You can measure a flower’s petal length and call it information…but that information was not on or in that petal.  That information was CREATED in your MIND.  Do you follow my train of thought?  Information is not in the letters that you are reading.  The letters are simply a “Code” for the information I am transferring to your mind.

I hope that I am getting this “Information” across to you.  So…you see then that Evolutionists have a huge problem with DNA’s Information?  And that problem is…

”Where did this information come from?”

To say that it was all by RANDOM CHANCE is LUDRICOUS!  It is like saying that given enough bombs exploding in Print Shops…you will eventually come up with a complete copy of the novel ‘War and Peace’…with illustrations!  Does anyone else see how absurd that is?

If I were to tell you that by blowing up a Junkyard you would (given enough attempts) eventually create a Boeing 757…would you believe me?

That is exactly what Evolutionist want us to Believe.

As difficult as it may seem for you to believe that God exists and that God Created everything you see (including yourself).  Believing the alternative (Evolution) is even harder to believe.  In reality they are both a Religion – Creationism and Evolutionism.  Both ask you to believe on Faith, because neither one can show you irrefutable evidence that it is true.  There is much “Evidence” for the existence of God and the existence of Heaven and Hell.  Which Religion are you going to choose?

 

 

 

 

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