Dinesh D’Souza was born in Bombay, India; he came to America at the age of 17; and he eventually graduated from Dartmouth. He was a policy adviser in Ronald Reagan’s White House until 1988. His latest book, What’s So Great About Christianity? is a response to many of the new atheists who are traipsing around saying that the greatest problems of the world are caused by religion (in particular Christianity and Islam). Surprisingly, even Michael Shermer, publisher of the magazine, Skeptic, and an ex-Christian, had this to say of D’Souza’s book, What’s So Great About Christianity?:
Evolution reigns supreme in the educational institutions of America and Europe. However, there are major holes in the theory that remain even after over a hundred years of intense efforts to fill them in not to mention the billions of research dollars spent along with some of the careers of many of the finest scientific minds of the 20th century. Even so, alternative theories of how everything came about are routinely ostracized, ridiculed, and rejected without investigation. Ben Stein has done the leg work to track down this anti-freedom conspiracy and expose it for what it is: good old fashioned fear–fear of being wrong. Click the play button below to watch the trailer for this upcoming movie due to hit theaters this spring.
According to the geneologies and timelines given in the scriptures the earth is between 6000 and 10000 years old. This flies in the face of modern science where long ages have replaced the great God who created everything with natural random processes. Finds like these don’t ever cause the long ages to be reconsidered…their old ages are just assumed.
A clay tablet that was dug up near the ancient city of Babylon and stored in a British museum was translated by a visiting professor. As it turns out, the tablet was a receipt for a monetary gift that Nebo-Sarsekim gave to a temple. Nebo-Sarsekim, probably not a name you specifically remember from the Old Testament, can be found in Jeremiah 39.
I’ve been pretty busy and haven’t had a chance to write anything the past few weeks but wanted to point out a few things that have been going on:
1. Council of Europe produced a document that condemns Intelligent Design and Creationism - http://creationsafaris.com/crev200706.htm#20070622a.
The times will be getting worse and worse, and this is another indication of that. Creationists often receive a lot of “official” condemnation…things like this could lead to persecution.
2. The complexity of the human brain - http://creationsafaris.com/crev200706.htm#20070625a
Fascinating information on some recent discoveries about the brain and dismissing Phrenology as a pseudoscience.
3. “When Elegant Theories Go Wrong” - http://creationsafaris.com/crev200706.htm#20070630a
An example of how often well established theories need to be re-thought based on new evidence collected.
Monday, May 28, the Creation Museum opened in Petersburg, Kentucky after many years of planning and construction. To check out the ribbon cutting ceremony use the following link (and scroll down some):
As we like to discuss so much in these blogs, we believe the future to be wrapped up in all that has been prophesied through the pages of scripture. This includes resurrection from the dead, God’s righteous kingdom being established on Earth by Jesus the Messiah, etc. Well, I came across the following on MSN that describes our evolutionary past and what we could expect in the future:
MSN Interactive Evolution Thing (Try it out and have some fun…the only humans I’ve ever seen with a cylinder head were newborn babies right after they’d come through the birth canal )
What I find so fascinating about the above interactive thing is how it is presented. Someone looking at this, without any critical thinking, could easily see how scientists have effectively “proven” this evolutionary path of humans.
Giraffes are truly a wonder of God’s creation. They:
Are the tallest living mammal
Their hearts are about 24 lbs and 2 feet long
Have twice the normal blood pressure for an average large mammal (The blood has quite a ways to go to get to the Giraffe’s brain)
Have a special pressure regulation system in the upper neck called the “rete mirabile” to keep the animal from dying due to excess blood flow to the brain when bending down to drink and also to keep the animal from passing out when it raises it’s head back up after drinking
Have seven neck vertebrae, a perfect combination of strength, flexibility, and weight.
Irreducible complexity (IC) is the argument that certain biological systems are too complex to have evolved from simpler, or “less complete” predecessors, and are at the same time too complex to have arisen naturally through chance mutations.
A mousetrap illustrates this idea (the following is a quote from Michael Behe - see reference 2):
“If any one of the components of the mousetrap (the base, hammer, spring, catch, or holding bar) is removed, then the trap does not function. In other words, the simple little mousetrap has no ability to trap a mouse until several separate parts are all assembled.
Because the mousetrap is necessarily composed of several parts, it is irreducibly complex. Thus, irreducibly complex systems exist.”
Dinesh D’Souza was born in Bombay, India; he came to America at the age of 17; and he eventually graduated from Dartmouth. He was a policy adviser in Ronald Reagan’s White House until 1988. His latest book, What’s So Great About Christianity? is a response to many of the new atheists who are traipsing around saying that the greatest problems of the world are caused by religion (in particular Christianity and Islam). Surprisingly, even Michael Shermer, publisher of the magazine, Skeptic, and an ex-Christian, had this to say of D’Souza’s book, What’s So Great About Christianity?:
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