Lest We Forget Where We Came From

I have enjoyed reading Kent Hovind's writings for several years.  I got a giggle reading this one and thought some of you would find it amusing as well.  His website allows the copying of things in their entirety.  I have done so with the latest article on the site.  Also, here is the link for the website.  http://www.drdino.com 

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Was early Earth’s atmosphere different?

• Written by: Dr. Kent Hovind
• Tags: Evolution
• Difficulty: Beginner

Q: Biology textbooks often say, “Billions of years ago the earth’s atmosphere was very different.” Is this true?

A: No, this is not true, but let me explain why it is important to the evolution of life. Of the six meanings of the word, they are now dealing with number four (organic evolution). Getting life from chemicals is not as easy as they make it sound. They make it sound like a recipe for a cake. “Just get all the ingredients together and add energy.”

Chemicals + Energy ≠Life

If that’s true, blend a frog in a blender for thirty seconds on “liquefy.” Now that you have all the chemicals to make a frog in one location (in exactly the right amount, by the way), add energy and see what happens. You can zap your “frog-nog” with electricity, nuke it in the microwave, or drop in an atomic bomb. No amount of added time or energy will reassemble the frog and make it come alive! Life is more than chemicals plus energy.

No evolution with or without oxygen

One big problem the theory has is with oxygen. Probably the book says that the earth had a “reducing atmosphere.” That means the air had no oxygen. They have to believe that, because any amino acids that formed would have been quickly oxidized otherwise. Oxygen would stop the process before it really got started. Life can’t even get started “evolving” without oxygen present. However, the problem with leaving out oxygen is that ozone is made from oxygen; so there would be no ozone layer to stop ultraviolet light in this imaginary atmosphere “billions of years ago.” Since ultraviolet light destroys ammonia (one of the key gases that they need), there would be no way life could get started without oxygen.

From "Help! I'm Being Taught Evolution In My Biology Class"

Things to consider

Here are some observations to consider:

1. Life cannot evolve with oxygen.
2. Life cannot evolve without oxygen.
3. The many experiments to try to make life in the last fifty-five years have all ended in failure. Science is nowhere close to creating life.
4. All experiments demonstrate that we are even further from creating life than imagined.
5. Evidence shows that the earth has always had oxygen, even more than today.

Quotes

These quotes may help (see Creation Seminar part 4B):

In general, we find no evidence in the sedimentary distribution of carbon, sulfur, uranium, or iron, that an oxygen-free atmosphere has existed at any time during the span of geological history recorded in well preserved sedimentary rocks.¹
It is suggested that from the time of the earliest dated rocks at 3.7 (billion years) ago, Earth had an oxygenic atmosphere.²
The only trend in recent literature is the suggestion of far more oxygen in the early atmosphere than anyone imagined.³
Primordial Air may have been “breathable.” The Earth may have had an oxygen-rich atmosphere as long ago as three billion years and possibly even earlier, three leading geologists claimed.⁴

Life does not come from non-life

There are still textbooks and teachers claiming that science has proven that life can start from chemicals. Could it be that this outmoded idea is clung to because the only other alternative is that God made life? Famous scientists like Redi, Pasteur, and Spallanzani proved years ago that life does not come from non-life.

Footnotes

1. Erich Dimroth and Michael M. Kimberely, “Precambrian Atmospheric Oxygen: Evidence in the Sedimentary Distributions of Carbon, Sulfur, Uranium, and Iron,” Canadian Journal of Earth Science 13, no. 9 (September 1976): 1161-1185. ↩
2. Harry Clemmey and Nick Badham, “Oxygen in the Precambrian Atmosphere: An Evaluation of the Geological Evidence,” Geology, 10, no. 3, (March 1982): 141. ↩
3. Charles Thaxton, Walter Bradley, and Roger Olsen, The Mystery of Life’s Origin (Dallas: Lewis and Stanley, 1992), 80. ↩
4. Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research finds that “Primordial Air May Have Been Breathable,” SpaceDaily, January 11, 2002 (http://www.spacedaily.com/news/early-earth-02a.html). ↩

I Appreciate Their Secret Interest

Some of my former co-workers are following my blog, but are not letting me know what they think about it.  So, they are either really enjoying the essays or they are secretly trying to find out something, something they can use against me. 

It is ironic and funny in a way.  What they think of my ramblings no longer matters.  There was a time when I fretted over every word I uttered in the presence of the mighty ones.  No more.  What they think of me is of no consequence.  Their feelings are of no concern to me.  How they view me is actually comical now.

It was not always so.  Picking on everything I did without telling me what I did wrong nor how to fix it, had me tied up in knots and one incompetent fool's comment, "Why don't you just quit?!" had me to the brink of suicide even after I told them what he was doing to me. 

He even told me that he could not stand the sight of me and he found it actually painful to look at me.  For now he does not have to look at my horrid visage.  He only has to look at himself in the mirror each morning.  I think I would rather look at me.  My conscience is clear. 

There is nothing more intimidating than to have someone in authority say that he cannot stand the sight of you.  After 16 plus years working at the same company with little or no problems to have someone who does have a bad attitude tell me that, it was mind-blowing.

I have absolutely no idea what is wrong with the young man, except that he has a bad mental problem.  There is nothing more frustrating than to have someone with a lesser mental capacity and no idea how to communicate within a corporate structure to tell you they cannot stand the sight of you and that is it.

Maybe it had something to do with that email I received from one of the officers of the company, the one that I ignored and pretended that I did not get.  I just could not believe that he could have been so insensitive and suggestive. 

There were many things that they did that I tried desperately to ignore.  I am not bitter any more ... maybe just a little.  I used to think of ways to cause them grief, but have since decided that they will do themselves in all by their lonesome.  Nothing like a little greed and pride to do a grand job on the old ego.  THE LORD said that vengeance is HIS so I think I will just leave it with HIM.  HE will do a far better job than me anyway.

So, to paraphrase an old saying, "Don't let them wear you down!"  Trust in GOD to deliver you from fools. 

Shalom.  Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem.

There Is Hope!

There is HOPE.  Always has been.

In the darkest of hours, even at the brink of death, there is hope.

The first glimmer of hope was given in Genesis when GOD pronounced that the seed of the woman would be the Saviour of the world.  HIS heel would crush the head of the serpent.

When HE gave us HIS WORD HE gave us hope.  The culmination of that HOPE was in the great sacrifice when GOD'S SON showed up on earth shed HIS HOLY, SINLESS BLOOD and died for HIS people to save them from their sins.  HE rose again and sits at the right hand of THE FATHER.  HIS PROMISE to return was not empty as is ours.  HIS second coming is imminent whether it be today, next year or 100 years from now.

Are you prepared to meet GOD on HIS terms?  Have you thought about what it will take to get you to Heaven?  If you think being good will get you there, THE BIBLE says that only Salvation through the death and resurrection of the ultimate sacrifice will any of us be clean enough to stand before a HOLY GOD.  You must believe and accept HIM as your SAVIOUR.  Accept HIM as LORD over your life.

These are pretty bold statements but they do not come from me, the come from THE BIBLE.  I purposely do not quote Chapter and Verse from THE BIBLE.  I feel it is up to you to make the study your own.  Pick up that BOOK that gathers dust on the shelf or is stored in a box in the garage or is maybe hidden because you do not want anyone to find it, but cannot bring yourself to throw it away.  Then read it.  Find out for yourself why HE did everything.  The answers are in there.  Sometimes I have found them to be difficult to understand, but understanding comes with study.

THERE IS HOPE.  AS LONG AS THERE IS BREATH, THERE IS HOPE.

Shalom.  Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem.

The Sky Really Is Falling, You Know!

Radiation, volcanic ash, acid rain (not to be confused with acid rock), meteorites, blizzards, tornadoes, hail, monsoons, snow (not to be confused with heroin), firecrackers, greenhouse gases, methane gas from cattle - okay, some of that is not falling from the sky.

THE LORD told us that certain things were bound to happen.  Did we listen?  Of course not! 

Before explorers discovered the world was round, GOD told us in Scripture that the earth was round and before scientists proved that the earth orbited around the sun HE told us in Scripture that the earth was hung in the heavens.  HE never said anything about the earth being carried about on the back of a turtle or held up by Atlas or anything like that.

Funny how THE WORD OF GOD is almost always in question and being derided by the poor ignorant souls who choose to ignore, pooh-pooh and denigrate THE WORD OF GOD.  It was TRUE when it was passed down orally through the generations.  It was TRUE when it was written in stone by THE HAND OF GOD.  It was TRUE when GOD spoke through men and put HIS WORDS in writing.  It is TRUE today.

What is more amazing is it does not matter if you believe it is TRUE.  It is still TRUE.  It will always be TRUE.  That is why they call it ABSOLUTE TRUTH.

Science, technology and all of the philosophers spouting human words of wisdom as though they truly know anything.  They deny the power of GOD while still being unable to explain anything, give reasons for the existence of earth, humanity and all the trappings. 

They search for the string that binds us all together while discussing whether or not there is life on other planets and whether or not their salvation would be dependent upon Jesus The Christ. 

My goodness!  We have yet to determine if there is intelligent life here on earth.  But, we so do want to solve spiritual problems on worlds that we are not sure even exist. Huh?  The theory of everything is just that - theory. 

I like science.  I really do.  I just think we spend so much time trying to deal with the what ifs of the universe, that we fail to deal with some of the things right here, right now that we might actually be able to handle.  I like science fiction as well.  There has been quite a few discoveries brought on by people reading science fiction and saying, "Why not?"

Science has done more to prove the existence of GOD and reinforce the Scriptures than it has to disprove it.

That is my rant for the night.  I have been watching too much Discovery Channel.

Oh, did I mention meteorites?  There's a big one coming.  Straight for the earth, too!  ;]

Shalom.  Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem. 

Why Don't You Just Get A Job?

I have never been as aware of how that question must sound as I am now.  I know now how difficult it can be.  I have been unemployed through no choice of my own during an economy that lends itself to joblessness.  So, how does one just find a job?

The question that comes next is, "Why don't you just go where there are jobs?"

When I was in my 30's and younger, I asked those same questions of chronically unemployed people I met.  Little did I know that some day I would be there.

I actually might be able to get a job elsewhere maybe moving a thousand miles or maybe just 200 miles away from my home.  But I have found I do not want to move.  I have lived here for almost 20 years.  Our house is ours.  I have pets.  I am 62.  When I was 32 moving was not a big deal.  The excitement of moving to a new area was a good thing.  I actually had a job that required that I move every 2 to 3 years.  I was the office manager for a construction company that set up offices across the country until jobs were finished.  Back then, I enjoyed moving.  I had little and few connections.   My ex-husband had custody of our son and it was easier to be gone than fight with the ex every day over some of the dumbest things.  I was still able to see my son when scheduled visits were allowed.

Back then, arthritis was not a factor.  And the extra weight I have put on was not there to slow me down.  My mother suffered from rheumatoid arthritis but even with that knowledge, I never thought about how it might affect me in 20 or 30 years.  I actually never thought about aging and therefore never prepared myself mentally for it.

I also never considered that I would one day not be working.  Retirement was the farthest thing from my mind.  Even last year, I thought it was at least 4 years away.  I have not even taken a vacation in 20 years.  For the past 40 years, with the exception of 11 months after the birth of my son when he was nursing, I was never unemployed for more than a few days. 

At this point it has been almost a year since my former employer terminated my employment simply because he could.  It was unexpected.  I had not planned on being unemployed, but when I found myself unemployed I tried to be optimistic.  I tried to keep a stiff upper lip, look on the bright side, know that when a door is closed another opens,  and all those positive things.  I tried, but failed at doing any of it.  I tried counseling for the deep depression and severe anxiety and that worked rather well for a while.  One can only afford so many sessions.  I have worked in the garden, walked 2 miles a day (that lasted a week), picked up old hobbies, completed some projects around the house, purged some old junk, prepared for a yard sale that has not happened yet, tried to rekindle old friendships, written more than 100 blogs about a variety of stuff, read my Bible and prayed.

I am still fighting the depression and anxiety.  I am almost afraid to work.  The what ifs fight to consume me no matter how hard I fight the urge to fend off what if. 

For many families out there, the what ifs are a reality.  They have lost well-paying jobs, then their house, then their cars and some have lost their spouse and children.  I often wondered before the economy went south how some of those young people afforded the new vehicle, the big house and all that stuff and when they started losing homes and vehicles and went back home to live with parents (for a while, just til we get back on our feet) what I had suspected was true.  Many did not even realize they were living above their means.  They thought it was normal to live from paycheck to paycheck and rely on credit cards.  They thought the party would never end.

But, when all is said and done, above all I am blessed!  I have a husband who still loves me even though he is stuck with me 24/7.  We have food on the table, clothes on our back and a roof over our head.  Our debts are small and we own most of what we have outright. 

We have a garden.  We have our pets and we have friendly neighbors.  We have a relationship with THE MESSIAH.  We know that when we die, we will be in the presence of GOD ALMIGHTY.  It is comforting to know that whatever happens HE will always be there for me.  If it had not been for that, I would not be able to write and whine about what has happened.  I owe it all to HIM who said HE would never leave nor forsake me.  I can turn from HIM knowing HE will never turn from me.  It is only because of HIS Peace that I have been able to survive and thrive.

Shalom.  Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem.