For "us"

"Do not let the following items escape your notice, as you read these verses:- 

a) The apostle Paul was a Jew, writing to converts from among the Gentiles; yet he classes himself with them. “Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law.” (Gal.3:13)

b) Christ was made a curse for us, “that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ.” (Gal. 3:14) Here again the apostle shows that there is no difference between Jew and Gentile. His being made a curse for us, brings the blessing on the Gentiles. 

c) Again is the same thing shown by the further statement that this occurred “that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.” (Gal. 3:14) 

By one Spirit do all men, of whatever race, have access to the Father. Eph. 2:18. 

d) The blessing of Abraham comes only through the cross of Christ. It was the blessing of sins forgiven,--the gift of the perfect righteousness of God; and this comes only through Christ. Therefore Abraham's faith was in Christ and His cross." 

Sabbath School Lesson 1900

Health Note - Rice and Heart Attacks

Beloved,

I wish above all things that thou mayest ...be in health,..

3 John 1:2

"Sudden narrowing of the coronary arteries, known as coronary artery spasms, can cause chest pain (angina), heart attacks, and other serious cardiovascular issues.

A research team from the Department of Chemical Pharmacology at Toho University’s Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences has discovered that ferulic acid, a natural compound found in rice, and certain vegetables, can help prevent these spasms through two separate mechanisms.
The study revealed two key actions of ferulic acid: 

*It blocks calcium from entering muscle cells through L-type

calcium channels, which are normally responsible for causing the arteries to contract.
*Even when calcium is not involved, it still prevents the arteries from tightening by inhibiting the activation of a specific protein called myosin light chain, which is essential for muscle contraction.
Surprisingly, ferulic acid was sometimes even more effective than diltiazem, a widely used medication for relaxing blood vessels." SciTechDaily

Creation Moment 6/18/2025 - The Creator's Simulator of our Universe

And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; ...and have not LOVE, I am nothing. 

1 Corinthians 13:2
Q: What could the Creator be using these atomic simulator system for on a cosmological scale?

"Putting unusually large atoms in a box with cold copper sides helped researchers control them for an unprecedented 50 minutes at room-temperature, an improvement necessary for building more

powerful quantum computers and simulators
Giant atoms just got a boost as contenders for making the best quantum simulators and computers, as researchers controlled them for an unprecedentedly long time for a room-temperature experiment.
--Grab an atom, 

--tune its quantum properties with electromagnetic pulses 

--changing the energies of its electrons – and you can use it to encode information. 

Do this with thousands of atoms and you have a quantum computer or a simulator for exotic quantum materials. However, after a while, atoms can spontaneously change their state, which introduces errors. They are only controllable, and therefore useful, during a finite “lifetime”, which was previously a maximum of 1400 seconds for room-temperature experiments." 

NewScientist

All Under the Curse

"But “all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.” Rom.

3:23. 

“The carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.” Rom. 8:7. 

Therefore it is that “by the works of the law there shall no flesh be justified” (Rom. 3:20), and as many as seek justification by it are under the curse. 

Note that not only the willful transgressors, but even the seekers after righteousness, if they seek it by their own works, are under the curse."
Sabbath School Lesson 1900

Creation Moment 6/17/2025 - The "Big Bang", Ps. 2:4 and the Last Paragraph

He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: Psalm 2:4

"The faint “afterglow” that fills the universe has long been one of the most important clues supporting the Big Bang theory. Known as cosmic microwave background radiation, this ancient light not only serves as a snapshot of the early universe, but also helps scientists understand how the very first galaxies came to be.

Now, a team of researchers from the Universities of Bonn, Prague, and Nanjing is challenging what we thought we knew. 

--Their new calculations suggest that the strength of this background radiation may have been significantly overestimated. 

*If their findings are confirmed, it could force scientists to rethink some of the most fundamental ideas in modern cosmology.

According to the standard model of cosmology, the universe began

13.8 billion years ago with the Big Bang. In the moments that followed, space, time, and matter burst into existence and the universe expanded rapidly. During the first 380,000 years, it also cooled down enough for electrons and protons to combine into neutral hydrogen atoms.
This milestone allowed light to travel freely through space for the first time, since photons were no longer constantly interacting with matter. That moment marked the birth of the cosmic microwave background radiation, the universe’s original light, still detectable today.

“Our calculations indicate that some of the cosmic background
radiation actually originates from the formation of the elliptical galaxies,” says Gjergo. “This accounts for at least 1.4% of the radiation but could even account for all of it.” 

SciTechDaily

Health Note -Get You Some Phytosterol Today

 Beloved,

I wish above all things that thou mayest ...be in health,..

3 John 1:2

"Heart disease and type 2 diabetes are two of the leading causes of death and long-term health problems in the United States. Now, a new study highlights how eating more plant-based foods could make a real difference. Specifically, researchers have identified a compound in plants that may help lower your risk of both conditions.
The compound is called phytosterol. It is found naturally in foods like fruits, vegetables, nuts, and whole grains, and it has a structure similar to cholesterol.

According to the study, people who consumed more phytosterol had a significantly lower risk of developing heart disease and type 2 diabetes. Those with higher intake also showed signs of better blood sugar control, less inflammation, and even changes in their gut bacteria that may support a healthier metabolism.
“Our clinical biomarker and metabolomic results suggest the involvement of insulin activity, inflammation and the metabolism of metabolites associated with type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease,” said Wang. “This suggests that phytosterol might reduce risk by alleviating insulin resistance and inflammation.” SciTechDaily

The Curse to be Redeemed From

"Never forget that it is from the curse of the law, not its blessing, that

Christ hath redeemed us. 

There is a blessing pronounced on those who do the commandments (Blessed are they that do His commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city. Rev. 22:14), and from this Christ has not redeemed us. 

It is from the curse-failure to do the law--that He redeemed us. 

He is not the minister of sin, but of righteousness." 

Sabbath School Lesson 1900

The Real Children of Abraham

“They which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.” Galatians 3:7. 

Abraham is the father of all them that believe, whether they be

circumcised or uncircumcised. Romans 4:11. 

No one, no matter of what nation or people, will enter heaven except as the child of Abraham. 

The faithful followers of Christ are the real seed of Abraham." 

Sabbath School Lesson 1900

Creation Moment 6/16/2025 - Pluto's Internal Heat

Hath in these last days spoken unto us by His Son, whom He hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also He made the worlds; Hebrews 1:2

"Internal heat can be produced in several ways:
*From the sun. But Pluto is too far away (about 6 billion km) to receive any significant heat from the sun.

Pluto compared to the size of the United States

*From radioactivity. But Pluto is too small to have enough radioactive materials to produce the needed heat.
*From tidal heating due to interaction with its largest moon, Charon. This may play some role in generating the internal heat of, for example, Jupiter’s moon, Io. But Jupiter is massive—over 1 million times more massive than Charon. Even though Charon is closer to Pluto than Io is to Jupiter, the tidal forces are still about 100 times smaller. That is, way too small to play a significant part.
*From internal heat present at its formation. This seems the only remaining possibility.
And that is where the dilemma is for long-agers. If Pluto were 4.5 billion years old, its internal heat would have vanished billions of years ago." 

CMI

Papal Notes - GOAL: Reuniting "Babel"

And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast. Revelation 13:3

"Leo XIV celebrated Mass for Pentecost this June 8, 2025, in the presence of more than 70,000 participants from the Jubilee of Ecclesial Movements.

"We are truly the Church of the Risen Lord ... if there are no borders or divisions among us; if we are able to dialogue and accept one another in the Church ... and if, as Church, we become a welcoming and hospitable place for all....As Benedict XVI explained: “The Holy Spirit bestows understanding. The Spirit overcomes the ‘breach’ that began in Babel, the confusion of mind and heart that sets us one against the other. The Spirit opens

borders... The Church must always become anew what she already is. She must open the borders between peoples and break down the barriers between class and race. In her, there cannot be those who are neglected or disdained. In the Church there are only free men and women, brothers and sisters of Jesus Christ.” 

Aleteia

IN the NEWS - Evangelical Leader Calls for Working with Rome

According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear; unto this day. Romans 11:8

"Former Saddleback Church founder Rick Warren was in Rome last week to attend and speak at Global 2033, a Roman Catholic

evangelism event marking 2,000 years since the birth of Christianity. His presence there had a purpose: to convince and cajole Protestants into joining forces with Catholics to advance the Great Commission.
Speaking to EWTN (The Eternal Word Television Network, which features around-the-clock Catholic programming) Warren offered: "Because no single denomination can complete the Great Commission on their own. There are 2.5 billion people in the world who claim to believe in Jesus Christ…Of the 2.5 billion people who follow Jesus in the world, they’re not Muslims. Okay, 1.3 billion are Catholic. Okay, so it’s an enormous, it’s about half of the Christian church are Catholic. In John 17, which is Jesus’

last prayer before he goes to the cross… his great prayer there is the prayer for unity. It is still the unanswered prayer…"
Warren concluded by singing his praises for EWTN and the positive way it had impacted his life, including the praying the Divine Mercy Chaplet....... "I lost a son…it was the worst day of my life.
One of the things that helped me through was on EWTN, they were playing the Chaplet of Divine Mercy. And the Chaplet of Divine Mercy ministered to me and to my wife. And just doing that, it was a healing balm in my heart. And so thank you EWTN for all you’re doing." 

Protestia

IN the NEWS - Luciferian Dark Money Organizing Global Unrest

Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: Romans 1:31

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https://www.youtube.com/embed/125PKshmlKc?si=TPSAIr8StIY0eDRW

"New Schweizer team investigation reveals how 'No Kings' and its partners bagged $114.8 million from the Arabella dark money network and how these professional protest organizations use tax dollars as a force multiplier.

The expected worldwide mobilization of protests this weekend,

from Mississippi to Malawi, will hardly be a spontaneous eruption. On the contrary, the tumult is a carefully plotted production (complete with a protest song book) financed by the progressive dark money network that has perfected the mounting of made-to-order protests.

The dark money network funding it is known as Arabella Advisors, whose benefactors are the left's own billionaire heroes, the CONTROLIGARCHS, including George Soros, Bill Gates, Hansjorg Wyss, Mark Zuckerberg, and Reid Hoffman.

Arabella provided nearly $5 million to two leftwing nonprofits involved with the "anti-I.C.E." riots in Los Angeles this past week, according to the most recent financial disclosures available. One of those groups, Community Change Action, supports the L.A. protests and has provided protest tips in Spanish.

And the protests this weekend? Arabella has dumped more than $100 million into the coffers of the official "No Kings" protest partners.

This weekend's day of demonstrations is dubbed "No Kings," a purpose-built protest brand created by an entity called The Indivisible Project (or "Indivisible"). That entity and its eponymous offshoots – "Indivisible Civics," "Indivisible Action," "Indivisible East Bay." .

Two of Arabella's top benefactors – the godfather of dark money, George Soros, and shadowy Swiss-billionaire Hansjorg Wyss – are anchor investors in Indivisible's operations. Soros's Open Society Network provided important financial support, ultimately upwards of $8 million, while Wyss's political action fund funneled $2.5 million

to the Indivisible professional protest machine. LinkedIn founder and Big Tech oligarch Reid Hoffman funded Indivisible's Truth Brigade (a project to combat supposed right-wing disinformation), and the left-wing funding behemoth, Tides Nexus, has given more than $3 million.

Arabella's Sixteen Thirty Fund, which The Atlantic called the "indisputable heavyweight of Democratic dark money," has cut multiple checks to Indivisible for "civil rights, social action, and advocacy." In its most recently available financial disclosure (2023), Indivisible reported $14.06 million in contributions.

More alarming than the staggering sums that leftwing billionaires are spending on "direct action" protest machines is the fact that taxpayers will almost certainly be funding, at least indirectly, a portion of these protests. As mentioned above, the anti-I.C.E. demonstrations in L.A. were fomented by a group that got state and federal tax dollars.

It's a force-multiplying approach that progressives have mastered, as we learned from the "Gold Bars Off the Titanic" episode, when EPA chief Lee Zeldin revealed that the Biden administration tried to disburse tens of billions of climate cash into the coffers of purpose-built progressive NGOs (Arabella's Windward Fund, for example, was a partner recipient of $2 billion from the EPA for the Rewiring America initiative that Stacey Abrams advised).


Three of the largest Arabella-run funds funneling billionaire cash to professional protest groups are the New Venture Fund, the Hopewell Fund, and the Windward Fund." 

ZeroHedge

Creation Moment 6/15/2025 - Big Admission from an Atheist

For by Him were all things created.... Colossians 1:16

"No viable account, even a purely speculative one, seems to be

available of how a system as staggeringly functionally complex and information-rich as a self-reproducing cell, controlled by DNA, RNA, or some predecessor could have arisen by chemical evolution alone from a dead environment. Recognition of the problem is not limited to the defenders of intelligent design. " 

Thomas Nagel, Mind & Cosmos

Scale of God's Word

Thou art weighed in the balances and art found wanting.

Daniel 5:27

"IT is well frequently to weigh ourselves in the scale of God's Word. Q: Do I take the cup of salvation and call upon the name of the Lord?

Then turn to the life of Christ -- ask yourselves how far you are conformed to His likeness. 

Endeavour to discover whether you have the meekness, the humility, the lovely spirit which He constantly inculcated and displayed. 

Take, then, the epistles, and see whether you can go with the apostle in what he said of his experience. Have you ever cried out as he did—"O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death"? 

Q: Have you ever felt his self-abasement? 

Q: Have you seemed to yourself the chief of sinners, and less than the least of all saints?  

If we thus read God's Word as a test of our spiritual condition, we

shall have good reason to stop many a time and say, "Lord,-- give me warmer zeal; inflame me with more fervent love; Let me no longer be 'found wanting,' when weighed in the balances of the sanctuary, lest I be found wanting in the scales of judgment." "

*Judge yourselves that ye be not judged." 

Charles Spurgeon

Educating the Youth in America started by Christianity

Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, and to depart from evil is understanding. Job 28:28

The “Old Deluder Satan Act,” a Massachusetts law of 1647, states:
“It being one chief project of that old deluder, Satan, to keep men

from the knowledge of the Scriptures, as in former times by keeping them in an unknown tongue. . . . And that learning may not be buried in the graves of our forefathers . . . the Lord assisting our endeavors . . . It is therefore ordered that every township in this jurisdiction, after the Lord hath increased them to fifty households shall forthwith appoint one within their town to teach all such children…to write and read.”

Creation Moment 6/14/2025 - Creator's "Wall of Fire" for our protection

You are my hiding place; Psalm 32:7
Creator's "Wall of Fire" for our protection from the interstellar winds

"NASA’s Voyager spacecraft have crossed the boundaries of the Solar System to uncover an astonishing phenomenon: a fiery, high-temperature “wall” beyond the outer reaches of our cosmic neighborhood. 

This “wall of fire,” found in the boundary region known as the heliopause, marks the transition from the Sun’s influence to interstellar space. As the NASA Heliophysics program explains, the heliosphere—a bubble formed by the Sun’s solar wind—extends far beyond the orbit of Pluto, with the heliopause acting as the dividing line between solar and interstellar winds. ....When these spacecraft reached the edge of our solar neighborhood, they encountered a temperature spike—ranging from 54,000 to 90,000 °F—in a region now referred to as the “wall of fire.”
NASA continues, “The boundary between solar wind and interstellar wind is the heliopause, where the pressure of the two winds are in balance." msn

Second Council of Nice & "that woman Jezebel"

"Revelation 2:20 ...because you suffer that woman Jezebel, which calls her self a prophetess. 

In the history of ancient Israel, Jezebel is that heathen woman whom king Ahab married; and who brought with her her heathen worship and practices: and above all, sun-worship. 

However, it was not enough for her to bring along her heathen then worship and her god: she would supplant all the worship of God, and even God himself, by compelling all the people to worship the sun in the Baalim that she introduced. This she did so thoroughly by her persecuting power, that in all Israel there were but “seven thousand who had not bowed the knee to the image of Baal.” 1 Kings 19:18. 

And even these were so scattered and concealed that the prophet Elijah thought that he alone was left, as they sought his life to take it away. 

--Exactly corresponding to this fourth phase of the Church, in the course of the Seven Churches, is the Fourth Seal in the series of the Seven Seals. 

For it is written: Revelation 6:5-8 And when he had opened the Fourth Seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see. And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth. 

And that this was the slaughter of the saints of God is made plain by the very next verse: 9And when he had opened the Fifth Seal, I saw under the al tar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held.  This fixes upon the Papacy the application, in the Christian dispensation, of the phrase “that woman Jezebel."

In the reign of the original Jezebel, when the king charged Elijah with being “he that troubles Israel,” the prophet replied, 1 Kings 18:18 I have not troubled Israel, but you, and thy father’s house, in that you have forsaken the commandments of the Lord, and you have followed Baalim. 

The ancient Jezebel caused the people not only to forsake the commandments of God, but to do honor to idols. And she not only caused them to forsake the commandments of God, and to do honor to idols, but to do honor also to the sun. 

So it was with the modern Jezebel: In the making of the Papacy, idolatry—image-worship—was introduced, and grew until it became universal in the Church. 

And when in the seventh century an effort was made to abandon it, the Church of Rome, under Pope Gregory II and his successors, defended the images and their worship, and maintained their cause until the seventh general Council, September 24 to October 23, 787, the Second Council of Nice, by a decree confirmed image worship, and established it as a legitimate part of Catholic worship."

A.T. Jones

Creation Moment 6/13/2025 - miçpâr & chûg

"Isaiah 40:26: "Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who has created these things, that brings out their host by number: He calls them all by names by the greatness of His might, for that He is strong in power; not one fails." 

Here, Isaiah comforted Israel by reminding them that their God created the heavens and did so much like a general would line up his troops for war. 

From Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, The Hebrew word for "number" used here is "miçpâr," an arithmetical term for number or enumeration. 

Regarding the term "hosts," Albert Barnes notes: "The word here alludes to the fact that the heavenly bodies seem to be marshalled, or regularly arrayed as an array; that they keep their place, preserve their order, and are apparently led on from the east to the west, like a vast army under a mighty leader…" (Barnes et al., 2005) 

Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary defines the noun form of

the word "array" as "a number of mathematical elements arranged in rows and columns." 

Therefore, according to the prophet Isaiah, the application of an array of numbers to the Genesis creation account is not artificial. Additionally, four verses earlier, the prophet writes in Isaiah 40:22: "It is he that sits on the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretches out the heavens as a curtain, and spreads them out as a tent to dwell in:" 

Many readers mistake this term "circle of the Earth" as evidence of the Bible's foretelling that Earth is round, but "circle" in this passage is the same Hebrew word translated "compass" in Prov 8:27 and "circuit" in Job 22:14. 

It implies that this Hebrew word "chûg" in Creation's context is more descriptive of the Earth's orbit and spin, rather than its shape (Herbert and Johnson, 2018). 

This Biblical evidence gives weight and credibility to our mathematical idea of six days being six rotations / logarithmic." DereklMarshall

What men say of the Sabbath vs. what God says

But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: 

Exodus 20:10

"Some call the day of Christ’s resurrection the first day of the week;

others call it the day of the sun, and the eighth day; and a larger number call it the Lord’s day, but there are no examples of this application till the close of the second century. 

--Some enjoin the observance of both the Sabbath and the first day,

--while others treat the seventh day as despicable." 

J.N. Andrews

Creation Moment 6/12/2025 - Conservation of information

Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! 

Psalm 139:14 NLT

"Dembski opens with a simple illustration: someone searches for a hidden Easter egg, guided by clues like “warmer” or “colder.” 

These clues help, but Dembski asks: Where did the guide get the information? Finding the right instructions is just as hard — sometimes harder — than the original search.

This idea is called the conservation of information: you can’t

magically reduce the difficulty of a problem by adding guidance, because the guidance itself must come from somewhere. In mathematical terms, you never get something from nothing. Any system that solves a complex problem must contain, or have access.

Dembski uses this principle to challenge Darwinian evolution. Conventional claims about evolution, he argues, assume that natural processes can produce complex life from simple beginnings without an intelligent source. But this assumption violates conservation of information, because the complexity requires prior information.

He critiques a common description of evolution, the familiar claim that monkeys at typewriters could eventually accidentally produce the works of Shakespeare by chance — with the help of a correcting agent (a lab technician who uses White-Out).ess to, the information needed to solve it.
That lab tech, Dembski says, already knows the target outcome and introduces outside knowledge. Without that external input, random mutation and natural selection alone are insufficient to explain biological complexity.

Dembski is skeptical of AGI — the idea that machines will someday think and reason like humans. He argues that it is a myth. While machines can perform specific tasks using massive amounts of data, humans achieve much more with much less.
For example, Tesla’s AI uses billions of video frames to learn driving, but people learn to drive with far less input. This shows human intelligence is fundamentally different, and probably unmatchable by machines." 

MindMatters

"Present Truth"

Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth. 2 Peter 1:12

"The Third Angel’s Message—this great threefold message— is in

every feature present truth. And when in its own words it is shown that this message is given in view of the fact that the hour of God’s judgment “is come,” and knowing that now is the time of that message, it is only present truth thoroughly to believe that in very truth "the hour of His judgment is come."

That message is now due

 in the world. 

It is being given to the world. For years this has been so. Therefore for years it has been, and it now is, present truth that the hour of God’s judgment is come." 

A.T. Jones

On the Streets of Babylon: Pre-Adamite Theory Heard on the Streets

Babylon is fallen, is fallen,..
Come out of her, My people,
Revelation 14:8/18:4

There seems to the old "Pre-Adamite Theory" Heard on the Streets" heard on the Streets of Babylon...

"New Testament scholar N.T. Wright shared more about his long-standing position on the early chapters of Genesis, offering that not only is it poetry that is not to be taken literally, but that “Adam” and “Eve” were simply a primal pair of hominids (a type of primates that first appeared 5-7 million years ago) living among other hominids when “some strange force or power” called to be a part of “the human” project.
When previously commenting on Genesis 3, Wright, who is a Darwinian evolutionist who believes the earth is millions of years old, has said: "…

But it seems to me that just as God called Abraham and Sarah out of a welter of wandering nations and said I’ve got aspecial purpose for you, the way that I see it is that God called one pair of hominids and said “OK, this place is a bit chaotic, you and I together, we’re going to have a project. We’re going to plant this garden and we’re going to go out from here and this is how it’s going to be.” So when Cain goes off he founds a city. Excuse me, who else is in the city? I wonder whether we are right even to treat the young-earth position as a kind of allowable if regrettable alternative, something we know our cousins down the road get up to but which shouldn’t stop us getting together at Christmas…And if, as I suspect, many of us don’t think of young-earthism as an allowable alternative, is this simply for the pragmatic reason that it makes it hard for us to be Christians because the wider world looks at those folks and thinks we must be like that too?" Protestia

Creation Moment 6/11/2025 - Marshall Refutes Dawkins on the Eye

I will praise Thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are Thy works; Psalm 139:14

"One of the tired old canards on which antitheists have dined out for years is the claim that our eye is stupidly wired back to front, something no decent designer would use. E.g. the vociferous misotheist and eugenicist Clinton R. Dawkins said in his famous book, The Blind Watchmaker:

“Any engineer would naturally assume that the photocells would

point towards the light, with their wires leading backwards towards the brain. He would laugh at any suggestion that the photocells might point away, from the light, with their wires departing on the side nearest the light. Yet this is exactly what happens in all vertebrate retinas. Each photocell is, in effect, wired in backwards, with its wire sticking out on the side nearest the light. The wire has to travel over the surface of the retina to a point where it dives through a hole in the retina (the so-called ‘blind spot’) to join the optic nerve. This means that the light, instead of being granted an unrestricted passage to the photocells, has to pass through a forest of connecting wires, presumably suffering at least some attenuation and distortion (actually, probably not much but, still, it is the principle of the thing that would offend any tidy-minded engineer). I don’t know the exact explanation for this strange state of affairs. The relevant period of evolution is so long ago.”

Other anti-creationists such as Kenneth Miller parrot the same sort of argument.
However, ophthalmologists have denounced Dawkins’ claim repeatedly. E.g. George Marshall, the Sir Jules Thorn Lecturer in Ophthalmic Science, stated in reply to Dawkins:

“The idea that the eye is wired backward comes from a lack of knowledge of eye function and anatomy.”

Dr, Marshall explains that the nerves could not go behind the eye, 

--because that space is reserved for the choroid, 

--which provides the rich blood supply needed for the very metabolically-active retinal pigment epithelium (RPE). 

--This is necessary to regenerate the photoreceptors, 

--and to absorb excess heat. 

*So it is necessary for the nerves to go in front instead.

It’s important to note that the ‘superior’ design of Dawkins with the nerves behind the photoreceptors would require either:

The choroid in front of the retina—but the choroid is opaque because of all the red blood cells, so this design would be as useless as an eye with a haemorrhage!

Photoreceptors not in contact with the RPE and choroid at all—but the photoreceptors would be slow to regenerate, so it would probably

take months before we could drive after we were photographed with a flashbulb, as another ophthalmologist, Joseph Calkins, points out.
Another creationist ophthalmologist, Dr Peter Gurney, in a detailed article, pointed out all the above with the RPE, but pointed out another use: extracting excess heat.

Not only is the inverted wiring of our eyes a good design, necessary for proper functioning, it is also coordinated with an ingenious fibre-optic plate, so the vertebrate eye has the advantage of a rich blood supply behind the receptors without the disadvantage of nerves blocking out light. Such fine coordination of parts makes sense with a Master Coordinator, while it’s a puzzle for evolutionists." 

CMI

Anne Askew Blown Up At The Stake

If the world hate you, 

ye know that it hated Me before it hated you. 

John 15:18

"Anne Askew’s life (c. 1521-1546) was one of many made famous by John Foxe in his book of Martyrs in 1563, though at the time of her death in 1546 the crowd that came to see her was so large that it had to be forced back to make space for her to burn.

Anne had been relatively well educated, and could certainly read, and so she read, and she read the Bible. And what she read their turned her mind to the teachings of evangelicals. Anne was not of the shy and retiring type, she shared her views with her neighbors and husband. Neither were happy with her talk.

There in the Cathedral she quietly read their Bible – though the Act in Advancement of Religion in 1543 had laid down that women should only read the Bible in private.

For Master Kyme, Anne rebellion was too much – and he threw his wife out. Anne responded by demanding a divorce; of her two children, by the way there is no sign, so it may be they died in infancy. Anne had no hope of gaining a divorce from the Bishop of Lincoln, and so she took herself to London, to the court of Chancery where she might have a better chance. She was a well connected noblewoman; her brother Edward was cup-bearer to the king, and her half-brother Christopher had been a gentleman of the privy chamber. Edward had served Archbishop Cranmer; and critically Anne’s sister Jane was married to George St Poll, a lawyer in the service of the duke and duchess of Suffolk, Catherine Willoughby, a member of the Queen’s household. This connection to the queen’s household would have consequences.

But Anne attracted attention in London and it was probably March 1545 when she first got into trouble. She was hauled in front of the Bishop of London Edmund Bonner and interrogated. Eventually Bonner went away and wrote a document, a confession of faith and demanded she agree to it. Anne’s statement though was equivocal: “I Anne Askew do believe all manner of things contained in the faith of the Catholic church”.
This sounds innocuous enough, but Anne had managed to distance herself from the Roman church, and claimed the proper catholic church was of her own, the reformers. But for now, Anne was released as her family and connections fought her cause. In June 1545 Anne Askew was arraigned again before a jury for denying the mass; but no witness came forward and so the jury released her.

Gardiner tried to charm her – he was her friend, he said, he only wanted to save her soul. Anne firmly and contemptuously pushed this away; these were the kind of weasel words of Judas she spat. The Council got nowhere, neither in persuading her that she was in error, or in eliciting any names. Time and again they pressed her about her connection to the Countess of Hertford, Lady Denny, the Duchess of Suffolk – all women of Catherine Parr’s household. Eventually the Council gave up. The recorder of the session concluded wearily that
seeing no persuasion of good reason could take place, she was sent to Newgate, to remain there to answer to the law.

In Newgate prison, Anne started writing of her experience, and composing her ballad. But her ordeal had only just started.
She flatly rejected the existence of any priestly miracle in the eucharist:

“As for that ye call your God, it is a piece of bread. For a more proof thereof… let it but lie in the box three months and it will be mouldy.”

But Stephen Gardiner, Thomas Wriothesley, and Richard Rich were

no less determined to break Anne, to get the information they needed to bring down the Queen and secure England’s future for traditional religion. Anne was taken secretly to the Tower. Gardiner ordered Kingston, the Constable of the Tower to have Anne racked. Extraordinarily, two members of the Privy Council took part in this by hand. Wriothesley and Rich met her there, and again pressed her for her connections at court, and in the presence of Anthony Kingston, they threatened her with the rack. This was quite illegal; torture was not allowed for anyone under the legal process without express permission of the king; noblemen were protected and it was unthinkable to torture a woman. Still Anne would not yield.

Essentially, Wriothesley and Rich ordered Kingston to put Anne to the rack. She as stripped to her shift, and she climbed onto the rack and was tied, hands and feet and the wheel turned to tighten the ropes. Anthony Kingston was clearly horrified, and once again Anne refused to talk. So Wriothesley and Rich demanded she be racked again, and much harder.
Still Anne would not tell them what they wanted to know. She would admit that some men had come to give her some money in prison to help her, and that they had said they’d come from Lady Denny and Countess Hertford, but that was all.

Anne was taken quietly and secretly to a private house to recover from her torture – but the violence visited on her body was too hideous, her joints were dislocated, she could not walk. Rich and Wriothesley had to face the music of the Council, horrified at what had been done – but the kind of music we are talking about here is a good old traditional establishment cover up.

Anne was once more given a chance to recant, and once more refused, and was returned to Newgate, there to write her story. The date for her execution was set as 12th July 1546. She would not die alone – three others, John Lascelles, John Hadlam, and John Hemley were also to be burned. There was a huge crowd, and both Wriothesley and Norfolk were there to see all was done. All three men were tied to stakes with faggots around them as normal, but Anne’s case was different – she was too broken to walk. Pushing through the crowd and the noise came the serjeants, bringing between them a chair on which Anne was carried. She could not stand at the stake to be burned, and so a small chair was set at the bottom of the stake and she was tied by ankles, wrist, chest and neck to the stake where she sat. Then through the crowd came her torturer Thomas Wriothesley, and he cried out that they could still recant and be pardoned. Anne replied for them all that when she replied that she ‘came not hither to deny my Lord and Master!’.
Anne had to be carried to the stake on a chair. She was then tied with chains to a separate chair which was attached to the woodpile, which was then set alight. As if this wasn’t enough, the fire was set to burn slowly, ensuring that Anne endured as much pain in her

last moments as the men could cause.

Somebody who took pity on Anne, covered her in gunpowder to ensure a swift end.

At the time of Anne’s execution, a thunderstorm rolled into London. It was believed that this was a display of Gods wrath at the murder of innocents."
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