Meditation Upon the PSALMS Series: Psalm 34

"Psalm 34:
The historical background of this acrostic psalm is related (in 1

Samuel 21:10-15).
It bears all the marks of the testimony on one who narrowly escaped death, just as the passage in Samuel describes.
As such, it contains the praise and testimony of the one who was redeemed (verses 1-10), and the seasoned instruction that can stem from such deliverance (verses 11-22).

Individual and corporate applications of the LORD’s deliverance are found throughout. This psalm unfolds with a praise mode followed by teaching.
I. Personal Testimony (34:1-10);
II. Personal Teaching (34:11-22).

Psalm 34:1 I will bless the LORD at all times: His praise [shall] continually [be] in my mouth.
His meaning is, that he should not only retain in his heart a grateful sense of the divine favors, but should express it with his lips.

Psalm 34:4 I sought the LORD, and He heard me, and delivered me from all my fears.

Psalm 34:8 O taste and see that the LORD [is] good: blessed [is] the man [that] trusteth in Him.
I.e. put the matter to the test of experience.

Psalm 34:13 Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
From speaking wrong things.
Always give utterance to truth, and truth alone.
THIS is a test that ought to be repeated over and over with in

creasing emphasis, for evil speaking has come to be the bane of society, and the curse of the church.
*Evil speaking emanates from the… John 8:44 ...father of lies. He is the… Revelation 12:10 ...accuser of the brethren. 

*Not so Christ. Though persecuted and slandered and insulted, He uttered no retaliatory word in reply. 1 Peter 2:23 When He was reviled, He reviled not again.

Psalm 34:18 The LORD [is] nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.
“Broken heart, contrite spirit”:
The word contrite in the Scripture above, means crushed.

Psalm 34:22 The LORD redeemeth the soul of His servants: and none of them that trust in Him shall be desolate.
If Satan continue his assaults, "God's grace is sufficient for thee." 2 Corinthians 12:9.

Faith is the mark of the ransomed."

BooksOfTheBible/Charles Spurgeon/E.J. Waggoner

Creation Moment 3/13/2026 - Random mutation + natural selection has severe limitations as a creative mechanism

I have made the earth, and created man upon it: Isaiah 45:12

"While in the last century the simplest living cells were discovered to

be far more complex than previously imagined, containing colossal amounts of functional information, the neo-Darwinian mechanism of random mutation and natural selection, proposed to explain the origin of life’s complexity, has been shown to be weak and severely limited. Scientists can no longer assign God-like creative powers to mutation plus natural selection."
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Meditation Upon the PSALMS Series: Psalm 33

"Psalm 33:
The outline of this hymn of praise is unmistakable: the call to praise (verses 1-3), the cause for praise (verses 4-19), and the conclusion (verses 20-22).

Creator sovereignly rules over His total creation, over all creatures throughout time.
I. A Praise Prelude (33:1-3).
II. The Rationale for Praise (33:4-5).
A. The LORD’s Sovereign Power in Natural History (33:4);
B. The LORD’s Sovereign Providence over Human History (33:5).
III. The Response of Praise (33:6-19).
A. The Creator’s Sovereign Power (33:6-9);
B. The Creator’s Sovereign Providence (33:10-19).
IV. A Prayer Finale (33:20-22).

Psalm 33:2 Praise the LORD with harp: sing unto Him with the psaltery [and] an instrument of ten strings.
Here for the first time, the psalmist mentions musical instruments, reflecting the Old Testament style of worship.
It is interesting to me that the harp is specifically mentioned as an instrument of praise here and in Revelation, as well.

Revelation 14:2 And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps:
The psaltery was a lyre.
The instrument of ten strings could be many different instruments, such as a guitar.

Psalm 33:3 Sing unto Him a new song; play skillfully with a loud noise.
“A new song”:
I.e., a new occasion and impulse for expressing fresh praise to God (compare Psalms 96:1; 98:1; and 149:1).
Every “song” sung in worship can reflect moment-by-moment appreciation for the grace of God in one’s life.

Psalm 33:6 By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of His mouth.
Psalm 33:9 For He spake, and it was [done]; He commanded, and it stood fast.
Rather, and it was.
The thing of which He spake at once existed.

Psalm 33:11 The counsel of the LORD standeth for ever, the

thoughts of his heart to all generations.
By which are meant, not the doctrines of the Gospel, nor the ordinances of it; though these will stand firm, and remain to the end of the world.

Psalm 33:14 From the place of His habitation he looketh upon all the inhabitants of the earth.
"He looketh upon all the inhabitants of the earth":
Good and bad.

Psalm 33:15 He fashioneth their hearts alike; he considereth all their works.
The Creator of all things fashioneth their hearts alike; the word, which signifies together at once, intimating that the hearts of all men though separated from one another by never so vast a gulf of time or place, are as exactly alike in respect of their original inclinations, as if they had been all molded at the same time. The worship of a God and then some kind of religion, is necessary to us, we cannot shift it off.

Psalm 33:22 Let Thy mercy, O LORD, be upon us, according as we hope in Thee.
According as we hope in Thee; not according to any merits of theirs, but according to the measure of grace, of the grace of hope which God had bestowed on them, and encouraged them to exercise on Him, in expectation of finding grace and mercy with Him."
BooksOfTheBible/John Gill

Creation Moment 3/12/2026 - Life is based on a digital information processing system.

For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God Himself that formed the earth and made it; He hath established it, He created it not in vain, He formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none else. Isaiah 45:18

"At the heart of life’s digital information processing system is the
genetic code and a set of enzymes that have the genetic code written into them. 

No one knows how these enzymes or the code could have come about by unintelligent processes."
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Meditation Upon the PSALMS Series: Psalm 32

"Psalm 32:
The psalm describes the blessedness of forgiveness as no other does.
This is the theme of especially the first five verses, which include the happiness of the forgiven man (verses 1-2), the physical and

psychological effects of unconfessed sin (verses 3-4), and the simple remedy of confession to obtain God’s forgiveness (verse 5).

On this basis David can experience prayer (verses 6-7), divine instruction (verses 8-9), and personal witness (verses 10-11).
The over-all thrust, intent, and development of Psalm 32 may be summarized as follows: Life’s most important lessons about sin, confession, and forgiveness are skillfully shared by David through two avenues of approach.
I. First Avenue: Remembering These Lessons (32:1-5).
A. Lessons about Results (32:1-2);
B. Lesson about Resistance (32:3-4);
C. Lessons about Responses (32:5).
II. Second Avenue: Relaying These Lessons (32:6-11).
A. Lessons about Responses (32:6-7);
B. Lessons about Resistance (32:8-9);
C. Lessons about Results (32:10-11).

Title:
“A Maschil” in the heading introduces a new technical term.
It could indicate that Psalm 32 was a “contemplative poem”, or a “psalm of understanding”, or a “skillful psalm”.

Psalm 32:1 Blessed [is he whose] transgression [is] forgiven, [whose] sin [is] covered.
Most scholars agree (that this psalm and Psalm 51), were responses to David’s sin with Bathsheba (2 Sam. 11).

Psalm 32:3 When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
Namely, from a full and open confession of my sins, and from pouring out my soul to God in serious and fervent prayers for pardon and peace.

Psalm 32:4 For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.
Meaning the afflicting hand of God, which is not joyous, but grievous, and heavy to be borne.

Psalm 32:6 For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when Thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto Him.
Until the very moment before the flood came, the people could

have asked God to forgive them of their sin and God would have forgiven them, and saved them from the flood.
When the rain started coming down, it was too late.

Psalm 32:7 Thou [art] my hiding place; Thou shalt preserve me from trouble; Thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah.
I have placed myself under his wings; I have covered myself with the robe of his righteousness; and now, therefore, I am safe.

Psalm 32:9 Be ye not as the horse, [or] as the mule, [which] have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee.
“Horse … mule”:
I.e., don’t be stubborn.
BooksOfTheBible/Charles Spurgeon

Papal Notes - Ford bends the Knee to DA POPE

.... and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies. Revelation 18:3

"Pope Leo XIV has a new, custom-outfitted Ford Explorer SUV — complete with papal vanity plates — delivered personally by the automaker’s CEO Jim Farley, and his wife, Lia.

The couple presented the vehicle during a private audience with the pontiff, the Detroit Free Press reported.
The black Explorer Platinum, customized with a 3.3-liter V6 hybrid powertrain and 10-speed hybrid transmission, was assembled at Ford’s Chicago Assembly Plant, located about 5 miles from Leo’s hometown of Dolton. 

It also features vanity license plates that read “DA POPE” and “LEO XIV.”

Inside, the seat tags feature the Chicago flag and the city’s skyline is stitched into the vehicle’s center console. Engravings of the skyline and St. Peter’s Basilica are found on the scuff plates near the bottom of the SUV’s doors." 

Breitbart

Creation Moment 3/11/2026 - Amino acid sequences that correspond to functional enzymes are incredibly rare

I have made the earth, and created man upon it. Isaiah 45:12

"The sequence space of proteins is inconceivably great (20300 for a protein of 300 amino acids which is an average length). 

Functional proteins form a miniscule fraction of this sequence space. This combinatorial problem, which has no analogue in the world of the machines that we build, must be successfully navigated to

produce functional enzymes and molecular machines. 

This is the reason that humans cannot design molecular machines or enzymes, or even antibodies to block viruses, which is far, far simpler than creating molecular machines or enzymes. 

*Humans can create supercomputers, nuclear submarines, and jet airplanes but are nowhere close to being able to build protein-based molecular machines from scratch." 

EN&V

Meditation Upon the PSALMS Series: Psalm 31

"Psalm 31:

This psalm is uniquely composed of two rounds of lament (in verses 1-6, 9-18), and praise (verses 7-8, 19-24).
Within the two settings (of Psalm 31), the psalmist’s testimonies passionately celebrate the efficiencies of God.

I. The Originally Private Setting (31:1-18).
A. His Testimony About Security and Salvation (31:1-5);
B. His Testimony about Discernment and Deliverance (31:6-8);
C. His Testimony about Reproach and Relief (31:9-18).
II. The Ultimately Public Setting (31:19-24).
A. His Testimonies and Divine Exaltation (31:19-22);
B. His Testimonies and Human Exhortation (31:23-24).

Psalm 31:1 In Thee, O LORD, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in Thy righteousness.
This is the ground of the petitions which follow; or of the reason why the psalmist thus appeals to God.

Psalm 31:3 For Thou [art] my rock and my fortress; therefore for Thy name's sake lead me, and guide me.
David prays for God to be his Rock and Fortress in the future, because he has always looked to Him as his Rock and Fortress in the past.

Psalm 31:12 I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.
All David's youthful prowess was now gone from remembrance; he

had been the savior of his country, but his services were buried in oblivion; popularity is evanescent to the last degree: he who is in every one's mouth today may be forgotten by all tomorrow.
Sad condition for a king! Let us see herein the portrait of the King of kings in His humiliation, when He made Himself of no reputation, and took upon Him the form of a servant.

Psalm 31:24 Be of good courage, and He shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the LORD.
Fear weakens, courage strengthens. Victory waits upon the banners of the brave."
BooksOfTheBible/Charles Spurgeon

Creation Moment 3/10/2026 - That Screaming Headline

He leadeth counsellors away spoiled... Job 12:17

"HEADLINE SCREAMS: 

SciTech Daily: The Fountain of Life: Scientists Uncover the “Chemistry Behind the Origin of Life”

Chemists uncover key to early Earth chemistry, which could unlock paths to speed up chemical synthesis for drug discovery.
Purdue University chemists have discovered a mechanism for peptide-forming reactions to occur in water — something that has baffled scientists for decades.
“This is essentially the chemistry behind the origin of life,” said Graham Cooks. He is the Henry Bohn Hass Distinguished Professor of Analytical Chemistry in Purdue’s College of Science. “This is the first demonstration that primordial molecules, simple amino acids, spontaneously form peptides, the building blocks of life, in droplets of pure water. This is a dramatic discovery.”

The process is familiar by now: Show something slightly new in

chemistry, wildly extrapolate its significance to the media, and make an extravagant claim suggesting that we now see how life can arise naturally.
The article said: “Chemists discover a mechanism for peptide-forming reactions to occur in water, which leads to proteins and so to life on Earth.” Peptides are short chains of amino acids; proteins are composed of much longer chains of amino acids. 

--But for life, the specific sequence of amino acids in a protein is essential for it to fold properly into a functional three-dimensional configuration. 

--The requirement of a particular sequence of amino acids endows the protein with vast amounts of information, far beyond what could be “chanced upon” by any natural process within the history of the entire universe. 

The superficial gloss of the article 

is promoting scientific nonsense." 

UncommonDescent

Meditation Upon the PSALMS Series: Psalm 30

"Psalm 30: The words “house of David” in the superscription are
intended to record the occasion of the psalm’s writing, but may point to either the dedication of David’s palace (2 Sam. 5:11), or the dedication of the threshing floor of Araunah (or Ornan), the site of the future temple (2 Sam. 24:18-25; 1 Chron. 21:18-30).
The main idea of the psalm is clearly expressed: “Thou has turned for me my mourning into dancing (verse 11).
The joy and thanks voiced in the final two verses, however, are only the aftermath of David’s thanks (verses 1-5), for the LORD’s chastening hand on a boastful servant (verses 6-10).

A mixture of forms characterizes Psalm 30.
David speaks out of a cycle of life (i.e., lamentation and laud), especially moving through prayer to praise.
In spite of great variety, the psalm is bonded together by praise emphases (compare verses 4, 9, and 12).

And here the psalmist’s beginning and ending pledges to praise provide structure for his prayers and testimonies.
I. His Beginning Pledge of Praise (30:1a).
II. His Look Back upon Historic Prayers and Testimonies (30:1b-9).
A. His Individual Remembrance (30:1b-3);
B. His Public Reminders (30:4-5);
C. His Individual Reflections (30:6-9).
III. His Look Ahead to Continuing Prayers and Testimonies (30:10-12a).
IV. His Concluding Pledge of Praise (30:12b).

Psalm 30:1 I will extol Thee, O LORD; for Thou hast lifted me up, and hast not made my foes to rejoice over me.
“Extol” is a word often used in the Old Testament for lifting a bucket up out of a well.

Psalm 30:5 For His anger [endureth but] a moment; in His favor [is] life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy [cometh] in the morning.

In the second half of the verse weeping is personified, and represented by the figure of a wanderer, who leaves in the morning the lodging, into which he had entered the preceding evening. After him another guest arrives, namely, joy.

2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

Psalm 30:9 What profit [is there] in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise Thee? shall it declare Thy truth?

The argument which the psalmist uses here is that he could better serve God by his life than by his death.

Psalm 30:11

Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: Thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;
Observe the contrast, God takes away the mourning of His people; and what does He give them instead of it? Quiet and peace? Aye, and a great deal more than that. Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing. He makes their hearts to dance at the sound of His name."
BooksOfTheBible/Charles Spurgeon

Creation Moment 3/9/2026 - How to read articles on LHS 1903

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

"Like a double-stuffed Oreo of planetary proportions, the star LHS 1903 boasts two rocky exoplanets sandwiching two gaseous ones.

From the star outward, the lineup — rocky-gaseous-gaseous-rocky — defies models that predict rocky planets appearing close in and gaseous ones further out. 

The configuration hints at a history of violence in the system,

potentially refining our understanding of planetary formation, researchers report February 12 in Science.

(OR---The configuration hints that this is unique because it was DESIGNED that way)

“Bad stuff does happen in young planetary systems,” says Andrew Cameron. “This one has the look of something that’s been turned inside out.”

LHS 1903 is a red dwarf star located roughly 116 light-years away and is about half as massive as the sun. Its four companions all orbit in less than 30 days, making for a compact system whose worlds range from around 1.4 to 2.5 times our planet’s radius, straddling the boundary between super-Earths and mini-Neptunes.

Planets are thought to form from the dusty disks surrounding young stars. (MAYBE---you "thought" wrong) Rocky planets typically grow closer in, where intense starlight can strip away their atmospheres. Gas is more prevalent in the outer disk, spawning giants like Jupiter that often retain thick envelopes.
“LHS 1903 follows that pattern beautifully for the first three planets,” Cameron says. “Then, something weird happened to the fourth planet.”
Based on its density, LHS 1903’s fourth planet appears to be rocky, whereas the two planets starward from it seem to be wrapped in gaseous envelopes. It would be like finding a world resembling Venus out past the orbit of Neptune.

The fourth planet may have ("may have"---so you are just GUESSING? OR---it may have been made that way for a REASON you have not figured out yet) grown up late, “just as the system ran out of gas,” Cameron says." 

ScienceNews

Meditation Upon the PSALMS Series: Psalm 29

"Psalm 29:
A thunderstorm is viewed in this psalm, not as a phenomenon of impersonal nature, but as an act of divine intervention.

David opens the psalm by a call for praise to the LORD (verse 1-2).
He next describes the LORD’s power in a storm: first over the sea (verses 3-4), then over Lebanon (verses 5-6), and finally over the wilderness (verses 7-9).
The concluding verses of the psalm appropriately express the application of God’s power to His people (verses 10-11).
The verses march to the tune of thunderbolts. God is everywhere conspicuous, and all the earth is hushed by the majesty of His presence. The word of God in the law and gospel is here also depicted in its majesty of power.

3 representative realms of the supremacy of God bring forth praise to God alone.
I. The Lord’s Supremacy over Heavenly Beings (29:1-2);
II. The Lord’s Supremacy over the “forces of Nature” (29:3-9);
III. The Lord’s Supremacy over Humanity (29:10-11).

Psalm 29:1 Give unto the LORD, O ye mighty, give unto the LORD glory and strength.
“O ye mighty”:
Literally “sons of God”.
The reference here (in Psalm 29), is most likely to God's mighty angels.

Psalm 29:3 The voice of the LORD [is] upon the waters: the God of glory thundereth: the LORD [is] upon many waters.
“The voice of the LORD”:
His voice is frequently associated with the thunder (compare e.g., 1 Sam. 7:10; Job 37:4-5; Psalm 18:13; l Isa. 30:30-31).
Jeremiah 10:13 When He utters His voice there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and He causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; He makes lightnings for the rain, and brings forth the wind out of His treasures.

Psalm 29:4 The voice of the LORD [is] powerful; the voice of the LORD [is] full of majesty.
Or "with power"; as thunder, in the effect of it shows.
The poet describes the appearances of things, not the actual reality.
To him it seems as if the thunder, rolling along the sky, hewed out a chasm in the clouds, from which the forked lightning issued.

Psalm 29:6 He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn.
As the thunder crashes and rolls and reverberates among the mountains, it seems as though the mountains themselves shook, and were moved from their places.
This is expressed with extreme vividness, though no doubt with truly Oriental hyperbole, in the present passage.
"Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn":
Rather, like a young wild ox.
Lebanon and Sirion, or Hermon (Deut. 3:9), are the two principal mountains of Palestine.
The authority in the voice of God makes any mountain obey, whether it is a physical mountain or a spiritual mountain.
Jesus said in Mark 11:23:
For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and

shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.

Psalm 29:7 The voice of the LORD divideth the flames of fire.
Rather, “the voice of the LORD heweth out flames of fire”.

Psalm 29:11 The LORD will give strength unto His people; the LORD will bless His people with peace.
His special people, His covenant people, whom He has chosen for Himself."
BooksOfTheBible.Charles Spurgeon

Creation Moment 3/8/2026 - Colossians 1:16 All Around Us

For by Him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through Him and for Him. Colossians 1:16
"This means one would expect that life should show evidence of being created by an intelligence and that it could not have arisen from matter by natural processes. 

*Scientists know that life is built on the molecule of hereditary called

DNA. 

The more DNA has been studied, 

--the more we understand it is like a library of books filled with information. 

--That information is read by a code system. 

--We also know that information and code systems cannot arise from matter by natural processes. 

--Information and codes can only come from an intelligence. 

Thus, DNA can only be explained by an intelligent designer. This does not prove it was the God of the Bible, but it does confirm what the Bible declares." 

AIG

Meditation Upon the PSALMS Series: Psalm 28

"Psalm 28 is another prayer by David for deliverance, one of many which he prayed when pursued by one enemy or another.
It contains a petition both for deliverance (verses 1-3), and for divine retribution (verses 4-5), before suddenly shifting to an unshakable tone of thanksgiving for the anticipated answer (see verses 6-9).

Verses 1-9: We encounter a radical shift from lamentation and prayer

to thanksgiving.
The psalmist, without regard for his unchanged circumstances, shows confidence in crisis.
David, moving through two cycles of crisis and confidence, magnifies the justice of God.
I. First Cycle: Individual in Outlook, and Terminates in Praise (28:1-7);
A. His Personal Crisis (28:1-5b);
B. His Personal Confidence (28:5c-7).
II. Second Cycle: Corporate in Outlook, and Terminates in Prayer (28:8-9);
A. His Reassurance in the Light of Corporate Confidence (28:8);
B. His Request in the Face of Corporate Crisis (28:9).

Psalm 28:1 Unto Thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, [if] thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.
David is speaking to his LORD.
He is the Rock that we build upon.

Psalm 28:2 Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto Thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.
The Holy of Holies, in the tabernacle and in the temple.
Where were the ark, the mercy seat, and cherubim, between which the LORD dwelt, and gave responses to His people.

Psalm 28:3 Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbors, but mischief [is] in their hearts.
The wicked having flattering tongues which try to draw the believer into their sin with them.
The next Scripture tells us of a few sinners we are not to be with.
1 Corinthians 5:11 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or

covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such a one no not to eat.

Psalm 28:4 Give them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their endeavors: give them after the work of their hands; render to them their desert.
Reward them according to what they do.

Psalm 28:9 Save Thy people, and bless Thine inheritance: feed them also, and lift them up for ever.
Colossians 3:24 Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ."
BooksOfTheBible

Creation Moment 3/7/2026 - DNA Proofreading

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

Psalm 139:14 NLT

"A scientific paper this week about a similarly complex operation, DNA Proofreading, was just published in Science Magazine. Let’s watch their feeble attempt at maintaining their view that cells emerged by blind, unguided natural processes, and that life went from goo to you by way of the zoo without a master Designer.

Evolution of error correction through a need for speed (Ravasio et al., Science, 19 Feb 2026). Seven molecular biologists and biochemists primarily from the University of Chicago try their hand at evolving repair processes like this one. The team includes Nobel laureate Jack Szostak, a leader in origin-of-life research, who could not answer Dr James Tour’s challenge in 2023. Get your Baloney Detector fired up; let’s look at their reasoning about how such complex operations might emerge by chance. This should be fun.

The Editor’s Summary shows that the authors intend for their hypothesis to explain all complex operations in biological processes by evolution only:

"Life expends substantial effort correcting errors introduced by the forces of disorder. Molecular machines, from polymerases to the ribosome, use elaborate proofreading schemes to double-check their work, reducing errors at the cost of time and energy. Such mechanisms may not evolve easily because they devote precious

resources to fixing mistakes. However, mistakes themselves also impose a time penalty, an effect known as stalling. Ravasio et al. present a theoretical analysis showing that because of stalling, error-correction mechanisms can in fact evolve to accelerate biological processes. The researchers found experimental support for this conclusion across a wide range of systems, from genome replication to the assembly of complex molecular structures."

That’s the sales pitch: “Our notion is that such complex things can evolve! Watch this!”. OK, let us watch how they do this trick. 

Q: Can a hat emerge and pull a rabbit out all by itself without a magician?

The Darwinian authors understand what they’re up against:

“Error-correcting mechanisms are ubiquitous in biology and are found whenever a process must select a correct substrate over alternative, incorrect substrates.”

The above is true for DNA synthesis, DNA replication, tRNA aminoacylation, and ribosomal assembly, and more.

“In many cases, the fidelity achieved by biology exceeds that expected from equilibrium thermodynamics, that is, from differences in binding energy between correct and incorrect substrates.”

“Large genomes need error correction to avoid the error catastrophe, yet canonical error-correcting machinery itself seems to require sizable, information-rich genomes.”

Error correction creates a “chicken-and-egg problem for fidelity.” 

Q: How could a cell do without it from the beginning?

“Error catastrophe” refers to the outcome of errors accumulating in an informational system. Without high fidelity duplication, information quickly collapses into gibberish. So how do they get around these design requirements? Answer: they separate speed from fidelity. They propose that selection for speed came first, and fidelity second. But watch for the magic words and question-begging assumptions:

"In the context of the origins of life, the speed-first route to error correction suggests a way around the chicken-and-egg problem for fidelity. Large genomes need error correction to avoid the error catastrophe, yet canonical error-correcting machinery itself seems to require sizable, information-rich genomes. Our results suggest a resolution of this tension by showing that simple error-correcting mechanisms could evolve before the evolution of complex ribozymes such as an RNA replicase. The key mechanism is that misincorporations stall growth, so that variants with even rudimentary error correction replicate faster and become more abundant, even before other information-rich function-encoding sequences emerge.

Once such speed-selected error correction mechanisms are in place, the resulting incidental increase in fidelity can be co-opted to maintain and evolve increasingly information-rich sequences. For example, high-fidelity RNA replication would enable the evolution of new advantageous ribozymes, creating a secondary selective pressure to retain and refine the error-correcting mechanisms that initially evolved “for free“. This two-step dynamic—speed advantage first, functional payoff later—is an example of a complexity ratchet: Nonequilibrium machinery becomes entrenched not because complexity was needed, but because selection for speed favors it and subsequent functions lock it in place. Accordingly, the evolutionary path to error-correcting ribozymes and, by extension, to large, information-bearing genomes may be smoother than previously thought."

Let’s get this straight. Stalling is bad, because it brings life to a halt. Therefore life “needed” a way to avoid stalling. Presto! A hat emerged to meet this need! Then “selection pressure” produced a rabbit that the hat could pull out of itself. These wonders evolved for free! No intelligence required! What a smooth magic act. Szostak holds up a sign saying, APPLAUSE.

Clear-thinking heads must shame these charlatans out of science. Even in the most charitable version of this tale, it won’t wash. Imagine some mindless machine trying to copy DNA. It’s fast but has low fidelity. What’s going to happen? It will produce strands of gibberish long before some “subsequent functions” or a “functional payoff” arrives (or emerges, one of the Darwinists’ favorite miracle words). The hat will evaporate before the rabbit emerges, leaving behind the smoke of error catastrophe.

A need cannot pull a solution from nothing. Just because it would be nice to have a fast, high-fidelity molecular machine, nothing in nature requires that it materialize. The laws of probability guarantee that it never will." 

CEH

Meditation Upon the PSALMS Series: Psalm 27

"Psalm 27 is so structured so that the psalmist’s expressions of confident trust includes his prayer for deliverance.

David first expresses his complete confidence and trust in his God (verses 1-6).
On this basis, he then feels free to present his petition for deliverance from his enemies (see verses 7-12).
Finally, he returns full-circle to the trust previously stated as the only proper attitude for one who must now wait for God to act (verses 13-14).

Verses 1-14:
This psalm is characterized by strong contrasts such as lament and laud; persecution and praise; plus warfare and worship.
In Psalm 27, the psalmist, in the presence of his LORD, engages in 3 conversations which help him balance the ups and downs of real life.

I. He Converses with Himself about Privileges (27:1-6);
II. He Converses with the LORD about Problems (27:7-12);
III. He Converses with Himself about Perseverance (27:13-14). 

Psalm 27:1 The LORD [is] my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD [is] the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
John tells us, that in Christ was life; and the life was the light of men; "but he adds that, the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. John 1:4-5

Psalm 27:2 When the wicked, [even] mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.
“Eat up my flesh”:
An allusion to the psalmist’s enemies being like vicious beasts (compare Psalms 7:2; 14:4; 17:12; Job 19:22; Jer. 30:16; 50:7)
“They stumbled and fell”:
These two words convey a thorough defeat.

Psalm 27:4 One [thing] have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to inquire in His temple.

This desire of which David speaks here, is the desire of all believers. This is our dearest wish, only we extend it to those days of our immortal life which have not yet dawned.
The beauty of the Lord. In connection with these words, we would try to show that the character of God is attractive, and fitted to inspire us with love for Him, and to make us, as it were, run after Him.

Psalm 27:5 For in the time of trouble He shall hide me in His pavilion: in the secret of His tabernacle shall He hide me; He shall set me up upon a rock.
David's security, as our security, is in the LORD.
Jesus Christ is the Rock of foundation that we should build upon.

Psalm 27:8 When Thou saids, Seek ye My face; my heart said unto Thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek.
For you to seek the face of the LORD is to attend His house and ordinances, that is where He grants His presence.

Psalm 27:10 When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.
"When my father and mother forsake me":
That is, the nearest and dearest friends.

Psalm 27:11 Teach me Your way, O Lord, and lead me in a plain path.
His way. When one, through constant meditation therein, knows the way of God, and has learned the secret of the Lord, his own way is assured.

Psalm 27:13 I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.
The words "I had fainted"......The psalmist refers to the state of mind produced by the efforts of his enemies to destroy him."
BooksOfTheBible/Charles Spurgeon

Creation Moment 3/6/2026 - The "Law" that "groans"

For we know that all creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. Romans 8:22 NLT

"The essence of the generalized second law (of thermodynamics) is that when considering non-equilibrium states,

the final entropy must be greater than the initial entropy, which means that the final information available to an observer of a system is less than the observer’s initial information.

Within the generalized second law, entropy is identified with the uncertainty that an observer has concerning a system, and the generalized second law requires that this uncertainty increases with the passage of time. As Gange summarizes,
"In the words of the New Generalized Second Law, an observer functioning within a closed system will lose, but never gain, information." 

Science&Culture

In other words....since sin has entered the world, the world has been devolving---not evolving into a higher state of order.