The "undesigned coincidences" of the Gospels

And Jesus said unto them, 

See ye not all these things? 

Matthew 24:2

"The four different gospel accounts have ‘undesigned coincidences’ that reinforce each other’s authenticity, including, e.g., in regard to the feeding of the 5,000. 

Mark says the grass was green (6:39) and that Jesus was escaping the crowds (6:31). 

Q: Why green grass and crowds? 

John writing decades later says it was near Passover (John 6:4), just the time of year where there would be lush green grass and crowds. John also records that Jesus, testing Philip, asked him where they might get food (6:5,6,7). 

Q: Why him? 

John had already said Philip was from Bethsaida (1:44). Luke, not John or Mark, supplies the answer: the feeding was near Bethsaida (Luke 9:10). 

Thus, the combination of these gospels makes sense of Jesus’ choice of Philip: someone with local knowledge. 

In such ways the gospel writers inadvertently reinforce the authenticity of each other’s reports." 

CMI

Papal Notes - Cuba/Biden Bend The Knee

"Vatican News published the following on January 15, 2025:
• “Cuba has announced that it will release from prison 553 people convicted of various crimes. The decision was communicated to Pope Francis earlier this month in a letter from Cuban president Miguel

Díaz-Canel.”
• “A statement from Cuba’s foreign ministry notes that the prisoner release takes place in the context of the ‘close and fluid relations with the Vatican State.'”
• “Cuba’s statement came after an announcement by the White House that President Joe Biden has notified Congress of his intent to lift the U.S. designation of Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism as part of a deal facilitated by the Church.”
• “Cuba’s statement on Tuesday said the country maintains ‘a respectful, frank, and constructive relationship with the Vatican and the Supreme Pontiff, which facilitates decisions such as the one recently taken.'”
Not only is Cuba releasing prisoners, something virtually unheard of,

but the United States has lifted Cuba’s designation as a state sponsor of terrorism. The Pope’s petition led to these two significant shifts in government policy. 

In other words, when the Pope speaks, the world listens. 

This unprecedented diplomatic breakthrough reveals that the Pope has the unique ability to transcend political divisions, prompting even long-time adversaries to seek a reconciliatory course in alignment with his vision for the world.
And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation.... Revelation 14:9, 10." 

AdventMessenger

Creation Moment 1/18/2025 - When the CREATOR Wore Sandals

"Most New Testament scholars agree that Mark was the first of the four gospel accounts to be written. Mark’s gospel is a simple, concise account, focusing more on what Jesus did than on what He taught.

Mark’s recounting of events has an ‘on-the-spot’ quality that is

characteristic of eyewitness reports. Early Christian tradition closely associates Mark (not one of Jesus’ twelve chosen disciples) with the apostle Peter. Thus, they regard Mark’s Gospel as mainly recording the reminiscences and preaching of Peter, who refers affectionately to Mark as “my son” (She who is in Babylon, elect together with you, greets you; and so does Mark my son. 1 Peter 5:13).

Before Jesus is introduced to center-stage, however, Mark puts the beginning of His ministry in its proper scriptural context by quoting two Old Testament passages which point to John the Baptist as the one sent by God to ‘prepare the way’ for Jesus.

In our mind’s eye, then, let us follow a typical day in the earthly life of Jesus (as recorded in Mark 4). It is morning. The shores of Lake Galilee are crowded with people who have come to hear Jesus.

The miracles recorded in Mark are not capable of being explained via natural causes, nor did they require long ages, or any appreciable time, to occur. Such miracles would be utterly impossible without the kind of supernatural power that could create the world and its creatures from nothing in six days." 

CMI

The Test for Christian Doctrine

"Every Christian doctrine must be an expression of the life of Christ in the soul of the believer or it will contribute nothing toward that experience in which we “are changed into the same image from

glory to glory” and “grow up into Him in all things, which is the head, even Christ.” 

The test of every doctrine should therefore be, 

Q: Does it lead to a better knowledge of Christ as the revelation of God to us,

Q:  and to a growing experience in Christ as a living, personal Savior? It must be borne in mind, however, that it is “in obeying the truth through the Spirit” that it becomes life in us, and that therefore the judgment of the unrenewed mind is not a safe guide in pronouncing upon spiritual truth." 

W.W. Prescott

Creation Moment 1/17/2025 - Gene Complexity

Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex!
Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it.
Psalm 139:14 NLT

"Genes are found on both strands of the double-stranded DNA molecule. 

Their complexity has many facets. 

First, the boundaries of what can be called a single gene and its complete set of functions are becoming increasingly hard to delineate. Entire chromosomes and genomes are a continuum of pervasive and overlapping transcription (copying DNA into RNA).

Recent discoveries have revealed that the genes of many plants and animals are not like single entities at all but are a mixture of genes within genes and even genes that overlap each other. 

The regulatory control regions of genes, called promoters, can be shared by two completely different genes whose transcriptions run in opposite directions from each other.

Enhancer (regulatory) elements that also play an important role in regulating gene function can be up to a million bases away from the gene they regulate. As if this weren’t enough, many genes function both forward and backward at the same time, producing both sense and antisense transcripts. 

The regulatory sequences of genes can also be located inside other nearby genes, and researchers have determined that genes dynamically interact with each other in “gene neighborhoods” much more than previously believed, to the point of blurring the boundaries between them.

Second, the informational output provided by genes can change depending on different circumstances that include cell type, tissue type, and other stimuli such as the external environment.

In the genome, both the DNA molecule itself and the histone proteins that the DNA molecule is packaged around can be chemically altered or tagged. The study of these chemical tags is called epigenetics or chromatin remodeling. 

In addition to genes having overlapping boundaries and alternate functions, the information the genes provide is epigenetically altered by the cellular machinery to allow just the right output for the situational need at hand.

When evolutionists talk about creatures sharing the same genes, they are typically referring to very small segments of the genes’ DNA. And in most cases, they specifically mean the protein-coding segments inside genes called exons—not the whole segment of DNA that is actually responsible for producing the information needed to make the correct version of the protein and RNA specific to each creature kind at the right time and in the correct amount.

Q: But what about all the other expressed DNA sequences in the genome besides protein-coding segments? 

Q: Can they be called genes, too? 

Amazingly, there are more than twice as many long non-coding RNA (lncRNA) genes in the human genome as there are protein-coding genes. These lncRNA genes produce long RNAs that are used either structurally or functionally in the cell for many different purposes. In fact, many of these are turning out to be molecules that control and regulate protein-coding genes."

ICR

Message from the Rainbow of God

 And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud. Genesis 9:14

"Just now clouds are plentiful enough, but we are not afraid that the

world will be destroyed by a deluge. 

We see the rainbow often enough to prevent our having any such fears. 

The covenant which the Lord made with Noah stands fast, and we have no doubts about it. 

Q: Why, then, should we think that the clouds of' trouble, which now darken our sky, will end in our destruction? 

Let us dismiss such groundless and dishonoring fears.
Faith always sees the bow of covenant promise whenever sense sees the cloud of affliction. 

--God has a bow with which He might shoot out His arrows of destruction. 

--But see, it is turned upward! 

--It is a bow without an arrow or a string; it is a bow hung out for show, no longer used for war. 

--It is a bow of many colors, expressing joy and delight, and not a bow blood-red with slaughter or black with anger. 

Never does God so darken our sky as to leave His covenant without a witness. 

Until the waters go over the earth again, we shall have no reason for doubting our God." 

Charles Spurgeon

Creation Moment 1/16/2025 - Genesis 2:7 in the Real World

And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. Genesis 2:7

"...the fact that the form of a thing can be separated from its matter is

the very heart of human understanding, and of human intelligence. Without this possibility, modern science itself would not be possible, because all science presupposes the detachment of the mind from its object as a condition of human speech about the object." 

Harry V. Jaffa, The Reichstag Is Still Burning: The Failure of Higher Education and the Decline of the West (1989)

10 Destinations of the Wicked: All The Same Destination

"Q: What shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?" 1Pet.4:17.

I. THEY SHALL DIE. - The soul that sinneth it shall die. Eze.18:4,20,24,31;
[Die: To cease to live, to expire, to decease, to perish. - Webster.]

II. THEY WILL BE DESTROYED. - All the wicked will He destroy. Ps.145:20;
[Destroy: To kill, to slay, to extirpate, applied to men, etc. In general, to [put an end to, to annihilate a thing or the form in which it exists. Destroyed: Demolished, pulled down, ruined, annihilated, devoured swept away, etc., - Web.]

III. THEY SHALL PERISH. - The triumphing of the wicked is

short; . . . he shall perish forever. Job.20:7
[Perish: To die, to lose life in any manner, to wither and decay, to be destroyed, to be destroyed eternally. - Web.]

IV. GO TO PERDITION. - The present world is reserved unto fire against the day of judgment, and perdition of ungodly men. 2Pet.3:7
[Perdition: Utter ruin or destruction. - Butterworth.]

V. THEY SHALL BE CONSUMED. - The destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together, and they that forsake the Lord shall be consumed. Isa.1:28; 50:28; 66:17;
[Consume: To destroy by separating the parts of a thing by decomposition, as by fire, etc., to destroy, to bring to utter ruin, to exterminate. Consumed: Wasted ,burned up, destroyed.- Web.]

VII. BE SLAIN. - With the breath of His lips shall he slay the wicked. Isa.11:4;
[Slain: Killed. - Web.]

VIII. THEY SHALL COME TO AN END. - The end of the wicked shall be cut off. Ps.37:38;
[End: Conclusion, cessation, termination, a point beyond which no progression can be made. To be: To exist - Web.]

IX. THEY SHALL BE ROOTED OUT AND CUT OFF. But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it. Prov.2:22;
["Rooted out" and "cut off," would mean any thing else rather than eternal torment in the fire of hell.]

X. THEY SHALL BE BURNED UP. Behold the day cometh that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly shall be stubble; and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord. Mal.4:1;
[Burn: To consume with fire, to reduce to ashes by the action of heat or fire. To burn up: to consume entirely by fire. - Web.]."
Uriah Smith

Creation Moment 1/15/2025 - VLASS J041009.05-013919.88

"Astronomers have discovered a blazar — a quasar with a jet aligned along our line of sight — at redshift of 7. 

Named VLASS J041009.05-013919.88, this object is the most distant blazar ever identified.....VLASS J041009.05-013919.88 (J0410-0139 for short) is powered by a black hole with a mass of 700 million solar masses.
Multi-wavelength observations show that its radio variability, compact structure, and X-ray properties identify it as a blazar with a jet aligned toward Earth.
“The fact that J0410–0139 is a blazar, a jet that by chance happens to point directly towards Earth, has immediate statistical implications,” said Dr. Eduardo Bañados, an astronomer at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy.
(a) This discovery raises questions about how supermassive black holes grow so rapidly in the Universe’s infancy.
Models may need to account for jet-enhanced accretion or obscured, super-Eddington growth to reconcile this finding with the known black hole population at such high redshifts.
(b) “The alignment of J0410-0139’s jet with our line of sight allows astronomers to peer directly into the heart of this cosmic powerhouse.” SciNews

a- Well maybe they didn't "grow rapidly" over eons but rather were Created as is for this purpose.

b- A Created "powerhouse" -- a cosmic battery for our world.

Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear. Hebrews 11:3

Question to Ponder

"The controversy is in its height. 

Tremendous power is being brought to bear to hold subjects in the kingdom of Satan. He is bringing upon people every devise to hold them in the bonds of sin; to take their minds away from the realization of the near coming of Christ, and fill them with pleasure and self-seeking.
Q: If Satan would not hesitate to take the life of the Son of God will he hesitate to take your life?" W.W. Prescott

They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters;
These see the works of the LORD, and His wonders in the deep.

For He commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof.
They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul is melted because of trouble.
They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits' end.
Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and He bringeth them out of their distresses.
He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still.
Then are they glad because they be quiet; so He bringeth them unto their desired haven.
Psalm 107:23-30

Creation Moment 1/14/2025 - Creation the Root of Timeline of History

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 

Genesis 1:1

"The cross is embedded in a specific place in a true, historical

timeline that extends backward to when God created the heavens and earth. 

It then extrapolates forward from that place into our today and then beyond us to a time when Christ will someday return and rule over a fully restored new heavens and new earth." 

AIG

The Sanctifier and the Sanctified

For both He that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause He is not ashamed to call them brethren... Hebrews 2:11

"It is men of this world, sinful men, whom Christ sanctifies--He is the Sanctifier. And He and these are all of one.

Therefore Christ became man; 

He takes the place of man; 

He was born as man is born. 

In His human nature, Christ came from the man from whom we all have come; so that the expression in this verse, "all of one," is the same as "all from one,"--as all coming forth from one. 

One man is the source and head of all our human nature. And the genealogy of Christ, as one of us, runs to Adam. Luke 3:38." 

A.T. Jones

Justification & Works

"Faith, not works, is that through which men are saved. "For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God; not of works, lest any man should boast." 

Eph. 2:8,9.

Q: Where is boasting, then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay; but by the law of faith. Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law. 

Rom. 3:27, 28.

The gospel excludes boasting, 

--and boasting is a natural consequence of all attempts at justification

by works; 

--yet the gospel does not exclude works. 

On the contrary, works--good works--are the one grand object of the gospel. "For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before prepared that we should walk in them." 

Eph. 2:10, with margin.

There is not the slightest contradiction here. 

The difference is between our works and God's works. 

Our works are always faulty; 

God's works are always perfect." 

E.J. Waggoner

Papal Notes - Last Straw with God

Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities. Revelation 18:2,5

"The Vatican has given gay men the go-ahead to become priests,

provided they remain celibate and refrain from promoting “gay culture,” according to a directive published by the Italian Bishops Conference.
Last year, the pontiff apologized after complaining in an interview that there is too much “frociaggine” (Italian for “faggotry”) occurring in seminaries.

While the Pope has never contradicted the catechism of the Catholic Church, which states that “homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered,” he has made several concessions to the LGBT community, including a ruling in December 2023 allowing priests to bless unmarried and same-sex couples." 

RT

Creation Moment 1/13/2025 - CRISPR-Cas9

Woe unto the world because of offences! Matthew 18:7

"In October of 2019, Netflix released the first season of a new miniseries called Unnatural Selection. It focuses on recent advances in genome editing and the many moral and ethical dilemmas associated with it.

Throughout the series, many of the players anthropomorphize evolution, claiming evolution ‘did’ this or that. 

But evolution is not a conscious entity. 

Even if it were real, it could not do anything. 

One person in the documentary even calls himself an ‘evolutionary engineer’, 

somehow missing the fact that he mixed a theoretical and random process that has no purpose or design with a decidedly human process of intelligent design and creative thinking. 

But there is one thing each viewer must remember: the feats of genetic engineering displayed in this series are clearly operational science. The procedures displayed do not directly rely on an evolutionary history or belief, no matter how often they refer to evolution.

At the center of all this activity is a new technology called CRISPR-Cas9. This enzyme system serves as sort of an immune system for

some bacterial species. They can take foreign DNA and stick a copy of it into their genome. This requires the ability to find a specific location in the genome, cut the DNA, insert the new DNA, and repair the cut. 

In the end, they accumulate short sections of viral DNA that together are referred to as ‘clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats’ (CRISPR). These were first discovered in the 1980s. Associated with CRISPRs are a set of genes called CRISPR associated systems (Cas). The proteins produced by these genes have helicase and nuclease motifs, meaning they appeared to have something to do with the DNA structure. They were first reported in 2003.
But in 2012 the world changed.
This was the year several researchers figured out how to use Cas9 as a way to manipulate any DNA they choose. Cas9 uses a guide RNA to ‘find’ a target location in the bacterial genome. The guide section literally sticks to complementary DNA. By changing this RNA, they were able to change the target. Then by changing the other end of the RNA, they were able to change what sequence would be inserted. This has given us an unbelievably powerful and accurate tool for genetic manipulation.

In 2015, the first reports of changing human DNA in cultured human cells were published. Then, to worldwide shock and almost universal condemnation, the birth of several CRISPR-edited babies was reported in China in 2018. The Chinese government rightly shut down the laboratory and the work they were performing. But two girls had already been born (and a third child was already on the way).

Thus, no longer is this a pipedream or the subject of sci-fi. The genetic manipulation of human DNA is a real thing, and the implications are huge. In a few short years, your doctor might sit you down to talk about a new treatment for some ailment you are experiencing. This treatment might just involve the use of CRISPR-Cas9, or something similar. 

But there is a moral hazard here. 

Q: Will you remember to ask the doctor how many embryos were destroyed or how many babies were selectively aborted in order to develop this new procedure?" 

CMI

Our Calling in this Drama

"This

world is the theatre on which a drama is being enacted which
is commanding the attention of the universe. 

We are called to be actors in this drama. 

The question to be worked out is, 

Q: Which plan of government is the better, Satan's or God's? 

Q: To which one will God's created beings give their allegiance? When God sends out His servants, what is their work. "Delivering thee from the people and from the Gentiles unto whom now I send thee. 

--To open their eyes 

--and to turn them from darkness to light, 

--and from the power of Satan unto God, 

--that they may receive forgiveness of sins" Acts 26: 17, 18."

W.W. Prescott

On the Streets of Babylon: Talk of Werewolves on the Streets

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

There seems to be some "Werewolves "  spotted on the Streets of Babylon....

"Prophetess Katie Souza’s bio says she was a “career criminal most of her life,” being “convicted of a number of felonies and sent to

federal prison to serve almost twelve years” before God saved her nearly twenty years ago.
She now hosts the TV show ‘Healing Your Soul,” where she practices and doles out healing miracles, prophecies, and teaches weird and wonky things like Christians can engage in ‘Time travel in the spirit.’.... Souza says that she’s encountered werewolves more than once through the years, but it was the very first one that she ran into which certainly left a large impression on her. “The first one was up in the mountains,” she says, “And I was not a believer. At that time, I was walking in sin. I was a drug addict, and I thought to myself, ‘[you’ve] totally lost it.'”
Later, Souza came into a conversation with a woman who lived on the property were she spotted the werewolf. It turned out that this woman had left a coven of witches, and the werewolf was there for her, but Souza had interfered. Souza also found out that she had interacted with the man who was a werewolf and his wife, a witch, who had tried to recruit Souza into the coven."
Protestia/Charisma

Creation Moment 1/12/2025 - ChatGPT still can't compete with human brain

Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex!

Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it.

Psalm 139:14 NLT

"The public release of ChatGPT on November 30, 2022, astonished the world. 

Marc Andreessen spoke for many when he described it as, “Pure, absolute, indescribable magic.”
The spell was hard to resist. Bill Gates said that ChatGPT was “every bit as important as the PC, as the internet.”
Wharton professor Ethan Mollick predicted that the productivity gains might be larger than the gains from steam power.
In a seeming competition for the most exaggerated claims, Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet and Google, proclaimed that, it is “more profound than fire” and Turing winner Geoffrey Hinton declared, “I think it’s comparable in scale with the Industrial Revolution or electricity — or maybe the wheel.”

ChatGPT and its competitors, in all their iterations, 

--are still just text-generators based on statistical patterns in the text databases they train on. 

--They do not know how words relate to the real world. 

They are consequently unable to do many of the things human brains can do 

--including assessing the validity of the text they input and output, -----engaging in critical thinking, 

--and applying common sense. 

Human trainers may clean up some of the obvious mistakes made by large language models (LLMs) but such cleansing does not give LLMs human powers of reasoning and understanding.el.

There will continue to be modest improvements in their responses (assisted by human trainers), but the identification of statistical patterns in text they do not understand is not going to give us AGI, let alone superintelligence." 

MindMatters

Christ the Author of the Sabbath

"The same being who wrought in the creation of this earth, and the

arrangement of it for the habitation of man, who had ordained the marriage institution, and had placed the first human pair in possession of their goodly heritage, was the same one who spent the seventh day in holy rest and contemplation, and thus laid the foundation of the Sabbath for the new-fledged world. 

He then blessed the day and set it apart for holy use. 

Severing it by a boundary which never should be invaded, from all secular time, he dedicated it forever to the worship of Himself, and the memory of His creative work; for, says the record, He "sanctified it"; that is, 

He put it under the guardianship of a definite statute, formulated to regulate its observance. 

To "sanctify " means nothing less than this. 

When Christ declared so emphatically to the people of His time that 

"the Sabbath was made for man" (Mark 2:27), He knew whereof He affirmed; for He was the very one who performed the acts that made it, and He knew, better than man can know, its object and intent." 

Uriah Smith

Creation Moment 1/11/2025 - Creation Linked to Redemption

"And from the fact that every day man may see something of the works of the Creator, the Sabbath is given for the especial purpose of keeping God in mind as the great Creator. 

But for the Sabbath rest, men would forget God. And forgetting God, they fail to avail themselves of His power, in overcoming sin.

God sanctified the Sabbath for man, that man might know that He is the One that sanctifies from sin. It was Christ that blessed the Sabbath, and sanctified it, so that the seventh day is the Lord’s day. 

The blessing of the Sabbath is the blessing of Christ, and that is sanctification, for: 1 Corinthians 1:30 [Christ] is of God made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, sanctification, and redemption. 

Here again we see that the Sabbath means sanctification. The Sabbath is the memorial of creation, but redemption is creation. David prayed, Psalm 51:1 Create in me a clean heart.
Romans 1:16,20 The Gospel is the power of God unto salvation. And the power of God is seen only in ...the things that He has made. 

So the power of the Gospel is the power that created the worlds. Therefore, the Sabbath, in commemoration of creation, makes known to man the power of God to save from sin. 

As it calls to remembrance the power of God as shown in the works of His hands, it reminds us of the words of the apostle: Ephesians 2:8-10 By grace are you saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; Not of works, lest any man should boast. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God has before ordained, that we should walk in them. This, and this alone, is the object of the Sabbath." 

E.J. Waggoner

Christ is called God

"In many places in the Bible Christ is called God. 

 The Psalmist says, "The mighty God, even the Lord [Jehovah], hath spoken, 

---and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof. 

Out of Zion, 

---the perfection of beauty, God hath shined. 

Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence; 

---a fire shall devour before Him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about Him. 

 He shall call to the heavens from above, 

---and to the earth, that He may judge His people. 

 Gather My saints together unto Me; 

---those that have made a covenant with Me by sacrifice. 

 And the heavens shall declare His righteousness; 

---for God is judge Himself.” Psalms 50:1-6
That this passage has reference to Christ may be known 

1) by the fact already learned, that all judgment is committed to the Son, and 

2) by the fact that it is at the second coming of Christ that He sends His angels to gather together His elect from the four winds. Matthew 24:31." 

E.J. Waggoner

Phonemes tell us.......

Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth. Genesis 11:9

"Psychologist Quentin Atkinson counted distinct units of sound, called phonemes, in 504 of the world’s nearly 7,000 languages. 

He found that sub-Saharan African languages average the most phonemes, while language groups farther away have fewer phonemes. 

These findings, published in Science, are consistent with the principle that “when a very small number of individuals break off from a larger population, there is a gradual loss” of linguistic complexity.

Controversy in the linguistic community is being stirred up by another recent study, this one from Nature. Researchers analyzed the grammatical rules of word order in several language groups and found that the patterns were too random to construct an evolutionary language tree.

The findings of these studies are consistent with a Biblical worldview, so long as evolutionary presuppositions are ignored. 

God gave Adam and Eve language when He made them about 6,000 years ago. 

When people rebelled at the Tower of Babel, God confused their language. 

Their new languages then lost complexity as small people groups spread out. The languages created then were the forerunners of today’s languages." 

AIG

Friends of Your Enemy: They Really Do Want You Dead

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. 

1 Corinthians 15:26

"There is a clear consensus among the global elite that overpopulation is the primary cause of the most important problems that our world is facing today.

Many of them are completely convinced that humans are literally a “plague” upon the Earth and that extreme measures are required to prevent us from destroying the entire planet
To the elite, everything from global warming to our growing economic problems can be directly traced back to a lack of population control. They warn that if nothing is done about our exploding population, humanity will be facing a future full of poverty, war and suffering on a filthy, desolate planet. 

They complain that it “costs too much” to keep elderly patients that are terminally ill alive, and they eagerly promote “family planning” in developing nations as a way to combat population growth. 

 Of course just about anything that reduces the human population in any way is a positive thing for those that believe in this philosophy.

 This very twisted philosophy is being promoted in our movies, in our television shows, in our music, in countless books, on many of our most prominent websites, and it is being taught at top colleges and universities all over the world. The people that are promoting this philosophy have very, very deep pockets, and they are actually convinced that they are helping to “save the world” by controlling the growth of the human population.

From the time of Charles Darwin all the way to today, we have been relentlessly warned about what would happen if something was not done to reduce population growth.
Of course the dire consequences that we were warned about have never actually come to fruition.
But that hasn’t stopped the elite from continuing to issue even more warnings.
The following are 47 shocking population control quotes from the global elite that will make you want to lose your lunch…

1. Charles Darwin: “At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilised races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace throughout the world the savage races. At the same time the anthropomorphous apes, as Professor Schaaffhausen has remarked, will no doubt be exterminated. The break will then be rendered wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilised state as we may hope, than the Caucasian and some ape as low as a baboon, instead of as at present between the negro or Australian and the gorilla.”

2. Bill Gates: “The problem is that the population is growing the fastest where people are less able to deal with it. So it’s in the very poorest places that you’re going to have a tripling in population by

2050. (…) And we’ve got to make sure that we help out with the tools now so that they don’t have an impossible situation later.”

3. John D. Rockefeller: “The population problem must be recognized by government as a principal element in long-range planning.”

4. David Rockefeller: “The negative impact of population growth on all of our planetary ecosystems is becoming appallingly evident.”

5. Planned Parenthood Founder Margaret Sanger: “All of our problems are the result of overbreeding among the working class”

6. CNN Founder Ted Turner: “A total population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal.”

7. HBO personality Bill Maher: “I’m pro-choice, I’m for assisted suicide, I’m for regular suicide, I’m for whatever gets the freeway moving—that’s what I’m for. . . . It’s too crowded, the planet is too crowded and we need to promote death.”

8. UK Television Presenter Sir David Attenborough: “We are a plague on the Earth. It’s coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It’s not just climate change; it’s sheer space, places to grow food for this enormous horde. Either we limit our population growth or the natural world will do it for us, and the natural world is doing it for us right now”

9. Former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson: “The primary challenge facing our species is the reproduction of our species itself…It is time we had a grown-up discussion about the optimum quantity of human beings in this country and on this planet…All the evidence shows that we can help reduce population growth, and world poverty, by promoting literacy and female emancipation and access to birth control.”

10. Dave Foreman, Earth First Co-Founder: “My three main goals would be to reduce human population to about 100 million worldwide, destroy the industrial infrastructure and see wilderness, with it’s full complement of species, returning throughout the world.”

11. Paul Ehrlich, a former science adviser to president George W. Bush and the author of “The Population Bomb”: “Solving the population problem is not going to solve the problems of racism… of sexism… of religious intolerance… of war… of gross economic

inequality. But if you don’t solve the population problem, you’re not going to solve any of those problems. Whatever problem you’re interested in, you’re not going to solve it unless you also solve the population problem.”

12. Richard Branson: “The truth is this: the Earth cannot provide enough food and fresh water for 10 billion people, never mind homes, never mind roads, hospitals and schools.”

13. Environmental activist Roger Martin: “On a finite planet, the optimum population providing the best quality of life for all, is clearly much smaller than the maximum, permitting bare survival. The more we are, the less for each; fewer people mean better lives.”

14. Al Gore: “One of the things we could do about it is to change the technologies, to put out less of this pollution, to stabilize the

population, and one of the principal ways of doing that is to empower and educate girls and women. You have to have ubiquitous availability of fertility management so women can choose how many children to have, the spacing of the children… You have to educate girls and empower women. And that’s the most powerful leveraging factor, and when that happens, then the population begins to stabilize and societies begin to make better choices and more balanced choices.”

15. MIT professor Penny Chisholm: “The real trick is, in terms of trying to level off at someplace lower than that 9 billion, is to get the birthrates in the developing countries to drop as fast as we can. And that will determine the level at which humans will level off on earth.”

16. Julia Whitty, a columnist for Mother Jones: “The only known solution to ecological overshoot is to decelerate our population growth faster than it’s decelerating now and eventually reverse it—at the same time we slow and eventually reverse the rate at which we consume the planet’s resources. Success in these twin endeavors will crack our most pressing global issues: climate change, food scarcity, water supplies, immigration, health care, biodiversity loss, even war. On one front, we’ve already made unprecedented strides, reducing global fertility from an average 4.92 children per woman in 1950 to 2.56 today—an accomplishment of trial and sometimes brutally coercive error, but also a result of one woman at a time making her individual choices. The speed of this childbearing revolution, swimming hard against biological programming, rates as perhaps our greatest collective feat to date.”

17. Colorado State University Professor Philip Cafaro in a paper entitled “Climate Ethics and Population Policy”: “Ending human population growth is almost certainly a necessary (but not sufficient) condition for preventing catastrophic global climate change. Indeed, significantly reducing current human numbers may be necessary in order to do so.”

18. Professor of Biology at the University of Texas at Austin Eric R. Pianka: “I have two grandchildren and I want them to inherit a stable Earth. But I fear for them. Humans have overpopulated the Earth and in the process have created an ideal nutritional substrate on which bacteria and viruses (microbes) will grow and prosper. We are behaving like bacteria growing on an agar plate, flourishing until natural limits are reached or until another microbe colonizes and takes over, using them as their resource. In addition to our extremely high population density, we are social and mobile, exactly the conditions that favor growth and spread of pathogenic (disease-causing) microbes. I believe it is only a matter of time until microbes once again assert control over our population, since we are unwilling to control it ourselves. This idea has been espoused by ecologists for at least four decades and is nothing new. People just don’t want to hear it.”

19. Kofi Annan, UN Secretary-General from 1997-2006: “The idea that population growth guarantees a better life — financially or otherwise — is a myth that only those who sell nappies, prams and the like have any right to believe.”

20. Thoraya Ahmed Obaid, UN Under-Secretary-General from 2000-2010: “We cannot confront the massive challenges of poverty, hunger, disease and environmental destruction unless we address issues of population and reproductive health.”

21. Bill Nye: “In 1750, there were about a billion humans in the world. Now, there are well over seven billion people in the world. It

more than doubled in my lifetime. So all these people trying to live the way we live in the developed world is filling the atmosphere with a great deal more carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases than existed a couple of centuries ago. It’s the speed at which it is changing that is going to be troublesome for so many large populations of humans around the world.”

22. Actress Cameron Diaz: “I think women are afraid to say that they don’t want children because they’re going to get shunned. But I think that’s changing too now. I have more girlfriends who don’t have kids than those that do. And, honestly? We don’t need any more kids. We have plenty of people on this planet.”

23. Democrat strategist Steven Rattner: “WE need death panels. Well, maybe not death panels, exactly, but unless we start allocating health care resources more prudently — rationing, by its proper name — the exploding cost of Medicare will swamp the federal budget.”

24. Matthew Yglesias, a business and economics correspondent for Slate, in an article entitled “The Case for Death Panels, in One Chart”: “But not only is this health care spending on the elderly the key issue in the federal budget, our disproportionate allocation of health care dollars to old people surely accounts for the remarkable lack of apparent cost effectiveness of the American health care system. When the patient is already over 80, the simple fact of the matter is that no amount of treatment is going to work miracles in terms of life expectancy or quality of life.”

25. Stephen Hawking: “In the last 200 years the population of our planet has grown exponentially, at a rate of 1.9 per cent per year. If it continued at this rate, with the population doubling every 40 years, by 2600 we would all be standing literally shoulder to shoulder.”

26. Gloria Steinem: “Everybody with a womb doesn’t have to have a child any more than everybody with vocal chords has to be an opera singer.”

27. Jane Goodall: “It’s our population growth that underlies just about every single one of the problems that we’ve inflicted on the planet. If there were just a few of us, then the nasty things we do wouldn’t really matter and Mother Nature would take care of it — but there are so many of us.”

28. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg: “Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of.”

29. Planned Parenthood Founder Margaret Sanger: “The most merciful thing that the large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.”

30. Salon columnist Mary Elizabeth Williams in an article entitled “So What If Abortion Ends Life?”: “All life is not equal. That’s a difficult thing for liberals like me to talk about, lest we wind up looking like death-panel-loving, kill-your-grandma-and-your-precious-baby storm troopers. Yet a fetus can be a human life without having the same rights as the woman in whose body it resides.”

31. Paul Ehrlich: “Basically, then, there are only two kinds of solutions to the population problem. One is a ‘birth rate solution,’ in which we find ways to lower the birth rate. The other is a ‘death rate solution,’ in which ways to raise the death rate — war, famine, pestilence — find us.”

32. Alberto Giubilini of Monash University in Melbourne, Australia and Francesca Minerva of the University of Melbourne in a paper published in the Journal of Medical Ethics: “[W]hen circumstances occur after birth such that they would have justified abortion, what we call after-birth abortion should be permissible. … [W]e propose to call this practice ‘after-birth abortion’, rather than ‘infanticide,’ to emphasize that the moral status of the individual killed is comparable with that of a fetus … rather than to that of a child. Therefore, we claim that killing a newborn could be ethically permissible in all the circumstances where abortion would be. Such circumstances include cases where the newborn has the potential to have an (at least) acceptable life, but the well-being of the family is at risk.”

33. Nina Fedoroff, a key adviser to Hillary Clinton: “We need to continue to decrease the growth rate of the global population; the planet can’t support many more people.”

34. Barack Obama’s primary science adviser, John Holdren: “A program of sterilizing women after their second or third child,

despite the relatively greater difficulty of the operation than vasectomy, might be easier to implement than trying to sterilize men.”

35. Another quote from John Holdren: “If population control measures are not initiated immediately and effectively, all the technology man can bring to bear will not fend off the misery to come.”

36. David Brower, the first Executive Director of the Sierra Club: “Childbearing [should be] a punishable crime against society, unless the parents hold a government license … All potential parents [should be] required to use contraceptive chemicals, the government issuing antidotes to citizens chosen for childbearing.”

37. Maurice Strong: “Either we reduce the world’s population voluntarily or nature will do this for us, but brutally.”

38. Thomas Ferguson, former official in the U.S. State Department Office of Population Affairs: “There is a single theme behind all our work–we must reduce population levels. Either governments do it our way, through nice clean methods, or they will get the kinds of mess that we have in El Salvador, or in Iran or in Beirut. Population is a political problem. Once population is out of control, it requires authoritarian government, even fascism, to reduce it…”

39. Mikhail Gorbachev: “We must speak more clearly about sexuality, contraception, about abortion, about values that control population, because the ecological crisis, in short, is the population crisis. Cut the population by 90% and there aren’t enough people left to do a great deal of ecological damage.”

40. Jacques Costeau: “In order to stabilize world population, we must eliminate 350,000 people per day. It is a horrible thing to say, but it is just as bad not to say it.”

41. Finnish environmentalist Pentti Linkola: “If there were a button I could press, I would sacrifice myself without hesitating if it meant millions of people would die”

42. Author Dan Brown: “Overpopulation is an issue so profound that all of us need to ask what should be done.”

43. Prince Phillip, husband of Queen Elizabeth II and co-founder of the World Wildlife Fund: “In the event that I am reincarnated, I would like to return as a deadly virus, in order to contribute something to solve overpopulation.”

44. Ashley Judd: “It’s unconscionable to breed, with the number of children who are starving to death in impoverished countries.”

45. John Guillebaud, professor of family planning at University College London: “The effect on the planet of having one child less is an order of magnitude greater than all these other things we might do, such as switching off lights. An extra child is the equivalent of a lot of flights across the planet.”

46. Bill Gates: “The world today has 6.8 billion people. That’s headed up to about nine billion. Now, if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower that by, perhaps, 10 or 15 percent.”

47. Charles Darwin: “With savages, the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated; and those that survive commonly exhibit a vigorous state of health. We civilised men, on the other hand, do our utmost to check the process of elimination; we build asylums for the imbecile, the maimed, and the sick; we institute poor-laws; and our medical

men exert their utmost skill to save the life of every one to the last moment. There is reason to believe that vaccination has preserved thousands, who from a weak constitution would formerly have succumbed to small-pox. Thus the weak members of civilised societies propagate their kind. No one who has attended to the breeding of domestic animals will doubt that this must be highly injurious to the race of man. It is surprising how soon a want of care, or care wrongly directed, leads to the degeneration of a domestic race; but excepting in the case of man himself, hardly any one is so ignorant as to allow his worst animals to breed.” 

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