Posts Tagged ‘creation’
Are We Not Cavemen?
Sunday, May 9th, 2010Yitro 5770 – Father Sky, Mother Earth
Friday, February 5th, 2010Exodus 20:24-26 You shall make an altar of earth to Me, and shall sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your oxen. In all places where I record My name I will come to you, and I will bless you. (25) And if you will make Me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of cut stone. For if you lift up your tool upon it, you have defiled it. (26) And you shall not go up by steps to My altar, that your nakedness be not uncovered on it.
In a very real sense, God is our father and the earth our mother. The God of heaven took a bit of earth and breathed his spirit into it, creating life. This fact in combination with the astounding miracles of reproduction, of putting seeds in the ground so that they will sprout and produce more seeds, of a man and woman joining their bodies to create a new person, could easily lead people into fertility cults. If imitation is the sincerest flattery, how better can we worship the Creator than through an act of creation? The command to make an altar of earth in order to worship the God of heaven re-emphasizes our descent from these two. However, there are two more commands attached to this one that strongly imply God does not approve of sex as an act of worship.
In the first command, God says we are not to build the altar with cut stones. We might have ideas about how to make a more beautiful altar, but God has said he will prepare the stones. We get to select them and place them, but the materials and format are strictly up to him. God wants his worship, his way, not ours. He has told us how he is to be worshiped, and, although we might have a great deal of leeway in some of the details, we are not free to improvise however we choose. Although he commanded us to reproduce, he did not command us to worship him through the reproductive act.
In the second command, God says the altar should be placed so as to avoid even accidental exposure of the priest’s nakedness. If there was any doubt as to whether nudity should or should not be a part of overt worship, that should quell it.
Creationism Confirmed Again
Monday, November 2nd, 2009Creation scientists have long said that, since carnivorous behavior is an artifact of the Fall, many (or most) venoms probably devolved from digestive enzymes. Evolutionary biologists have once again confirmed a creationist hypothesis by discovering that the North American shrew and the Mexican beaded lizard both employ a venom that appears to have devolved from the same digestive enzyme, kallikrein.
“The venom is essentially an overactivation of the original digestive enzyme, amplifying its effects,” Yael T. Aminetzach said. “What had been a mild anticoagulant in the salivary glands of both species has become a much more extreme compound that causes paralysis and death in prey that is bitten.”
For the Gullible
Monday, May 4th, 2009White blood cells can spontaneously grow legs, move themselves around the body, and communicate with other cells. Isn’t evolution amazing! It’s so…so…providential!
White Blood Cells Can Sprout ‘Legs’ And Move Like Millipedes
ScienceDaily (May 4, 2009) — How do white blood cells — immune system “soldiers” — get to the site of infection or injury? To do so, they must crawl swiftly along the lining of the blood vessel, gripping it tightly to avoid being swept away in the blood flow, all the while searching for temporary “road signs” made of special adhesion molecules that let them know where to cross the blood vessel barrier so they can get to the damaged tissue.
Weizmann Institute of Science (2009, May 4). White Blood Cells Can Sprout ‘Legs’ And Move Like Millipedes. ScienceDaily. Retrieved May 4, 2009, from http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090504094424.htm#
Creation-Evolution Headlines
Tuesday, June 10th, 2008Creation-Evolution Headlines is one of the coolest sites on the Web. David Coppedge must put an incredible amount of effort into this project. He reviews the science news for articles related to creation and evolution, summarizes them, analyzes them, and explains what it all means in language most of us can understand. I contributed a couple of articles a few years back, but didn’t have the time to keep it up. It’s hard work. Check it out.
Platypus, Darwin Bane
Thursday, May 8th, 2008In an AFP article by Marlowe Hood, Darwinists once again demonstrate a complete lack of critical thinking skills:
According to a study released Wednesday, the [platypus] is a genetic potpourri — part bird, part reptile and part lactating mammal.
And we all know how common it is in nature for vastly different species to interbreed. How else do you think we could have the werewolf, the unicorn, and the Tree-man?
“The platypus genome is extremely important, because it is the missing link in our understanding of how we and other mammals first evolved,” explained Oxford University’s Chris Ponting, one of the study’s architects. “This is our ticket back in time to when all mammals laid eggs while suckling their young on milk.”
The fossil record is just chock full of evidence for egg-laying mammals.
“It is much more of a melange than anyone expected,” commented Ewan Birney, who led the genome analysis at the European Bioinformatics Institute in Cambridge….
Anyone that is, except those people who have ever seen a platypus (or a picture of one) and generally accept that living things reproduce after their own kind. I guess the really devout Darwinists must have thought the bill, the webbed feet, the egg-laying, and the poisonous spike were not the results of genetic coding. But then, if they understood the nature of codes–especially object oriented codes like DNA and C++–they wouldn’t be Darwinists.
“By comparing the platypus genome to other mammalian genomes, we’ll be able to study genes that have been conserved throughout evolution,” said senior author Richard Wilson, a researcher at Washington University.
Sure we will. Because dinosaurs (with one kind of sexual determination) evolved into birds (with a different kind of sexual determination) which evolved into mammals (with yet another kind of sexual determination), except for the platypus (with retro avian sexual determination) which apparently evolved directly from birds except for the parts that evolved from from reptiles or from mammals. All three branches of the evolutionary tree…er…bush exchange chromosomes all the time in nature.
Riiiiiiiiiiight…..
Genes ‘Out of Nowhere’ Send Eyes Elsewhere
Wednesday, July 25th, 2007Fruit fly gene from ‘out of nowhere’ may change ideas about how new genes are formed, researchers report. According to the Cornell University article, some species of fruit flies have a gene that appears to be completely unrelated to any other gene in any other species of any other living thing. Of course, maybe that’s because they haven’t cataloged every species on earth yet. After all, these flies might have inherited the gene from some heretofore undiscovered horse ancestor. It’s found right next to another sequence that coulda-mighta-been transposed by a virus. That clinches it, doesn’t it?
- The gene sequence is not found anywhere else.
- It appears to have been created out of whole cloth.
- It appears to code for proteins involved in sperm cell development.
Let’s not jump to any obvious conclusions. Nothing to see here, folks. Move along. Hey! Look at the big fish over there….Wait. I thought that fish was extinct….
Synthetic Life?
Thursday, June 28th, 2007According to a news item at Yahoo!, “Scientists take step to making synthetic life.” The article continues, “Scientists have taken a first step toward making synthetic life by transferring genetic material from one bacterium into another, transforming the second microbe into a copy of the first.” That seems a bit like putting taco ingredients into a pita and then claiming you’ve taken the first step toward making synthetic food.