Aristobulus in Britain?

"Peter preached the first missionary sermon to representatives of at least thirteen different sections of the known world. Acts 2:9 Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia...–from the north-east are mentioned. Arabians had come from the south-west. Asia Minor to the north was represented by Jews and proselytes from Phrygia and Pamphylia, Cappadocia, Pontus, and Asia. There were pilgrims from Crete in the Mediterranean Sea, from Libya and Egypt in North Africa, and even strangers from Rome, the center of the Empire. Three thousands souls responded to that first appeal, and during the following days thousands more accepted the message of the Gospel. As these separated after the feast and returned to their various homes, they carried with them the good news of salvation, and began to raise up churches in the very uttermost parts of the Empire.

In the 13th chapter of Acts we find that Antioch, the Graeco-Syrian capital of the East, had become a center from which evangelists were being sent forth into the regions beyond, along the great trade routes which radiated in all directions from that city. Paul, Barnabas, and John Mark received their commissions, under God, from the church at Antioch and spread the message over Asia, Greece, Macedonia, and southern Europe as far as Rome, and perhaps even farther afield. In the second century Alexandria became another center from whence proceeded missionary pioneers into all the earth. It is not, therefore, unreasonable to suppose that some of these fervent Christian missionaries penetrated the forests of Gaul, found themselves on the shores of the narrow channel which separated the wild islands of the Brittani from the mainland, and crossed over to carry the good news of salvation there also.

There are many legends and traditions which suggest different leaders of the early church as the pioneers of the Gospel in Britain.
....group of ancient records identify the Christian worker Aristobulus, whose family is mentioned by Paul in his letter to the Romans,

[Salute Apelles approved in Christ. Salute them which are of Aristobulus' household. Romans 16:10] as one of the pioneers of the Gospel in Britain. Thus The Menologies [Martyrologies] of the Greek Church state: Aristobulus was one of the seventy disciples, and a follower of Paul the apostle, with whom he preached the Gospel to the whole world, and ministered to him. He was chosen by Paul to be the missionary bishop to the land of Britain, inhabited by a very war like and fierce race, by whom he was often scourged and repeatedly dragged as a criminal through their towns. Yet he converted many of them to Christianity; and after he had built churches and ordained deacons and priests for the island, he was there martyred."
W.L.Emmerson

Creation Moment 8/30/2026 - Guess what this Atheist author said?

Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, ... 2 Peter 3:3

"Most importantly, the campaign of the scientific establishment to rule out intelligent design as beyond discussion because it is not science results in the avoidance of significant questions about the relation between evolutionary theory and religious belief, questions that must be faced in order to understand the theory and evaluate the scientific evidence for it." 

Thomas Nagel, prominent philosopher of science and atheist

Today's Counterfit to God's Truth

For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel; Colossians 1:5

"The Bible is the great detector of error—light that rebukes the

darkness. 

*The only way to defeat darkness is to turn on the light. 

Yet today people put all kinds of authorities ahead and in place of the Bible, things such as science, philosophy, feelings, signs and wonders, preachers, and the testimony of the senses." 

Stephen Bohr

Creation Moment 8/29/2026 - The cosmological constant problem

And He is before all things, 

and by Him all things consist. 

Colossians 1:17

"A constant is a value that is added to make equations fit reality as determined by physical measurements. An example is the gravitational constant, which is 6.67430(15)×10−11 denoted by the capital letter G in the formula F = [G x (m1m2/r2)]. 

When the calculations are completed, the formula correctly produces the value of force (F) no matter what the value of the two masses and the distance between them.

The cosmological constant problem in this case refers to the substantial disagreement between the observed values of vacuum energy density (the small value of the cosmological constant) and the much larger value indicated by quantum field theory. 

*The problem is that the calculated energy in a vacuum that contributes to the cosmological constant is calculated to be between 50 and as much as 120 orders of magnitude greater than what is

actually observed.

To solve the problem, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Professor Steven Weinberg proposed what Chown calls “a desperate explanation.” Specifically, he proposed that the value of the cosmological constant is different in different parts of the Universe. In most regions, the cosmological constant is so large that “it blasts matter apart, preventing it from forming galaxies and stars. We find ourselves in a region where the cosmological constant is small enough to permit the existence of stars because” it must be smaller for the reason that we have galaxies and stars in our part of the universe. Therefore, it must be different in our corner of the universe.

This is similar to claiming that the speed of light in a vacuum is different in different parts of the universe. In some areas it is 186,282 miles per second and in other areas, say, it is 896,367 miles per second. The cosmologists’ response to the cosmological constants problem is a similar escape strategy:

"Since few people are happy with Weinberg’s solution, the cosmological problem represents the biggest discrepancy between a prediction and an observation in the history of physics. The previous biggest concern was how an electron can orbit in an atom before spiraling into its nucleus. Theory predicted that atoms should collapse in a split-second, yet atoms are known to have persisted for the age of the Universe…. The discrepancy was resolved in the 1920s by a revolutionary new theory: quantum theory."

Chown concludes that

".....resolving the cosmological constant problem will require a revolution in physics. Specifically, a theory that unites quantum theory (the theory of the very small) with Einstein’s theory of gravity (the theory of the very big). Such a theory, dubbed quantum gravity, has so far proved elusive."

Modern Big Bang cosmology, in contrast to claims such as Stephen Hawking in his book Brief Answers to the Big Questions, admits that the orthodox view of the Big Bang is in big trouble. Hawking, although committed to Big Bang cosmology, advocates a very different mechanism, called ‘string theory’." 

CEH

Psalm 119:37

"Psalm 119:37 Turn away my eyes from beholding vanity. And that means our own vain thoughts and actions as well as those of others.

*We all know the power of evil associations. 

--We know that it is dangerous and demoralizing for anybody 

continually to hear bad language, and to see wicked deeds. 

--Long familiarity with sin tends insensibly to cause us to lose the sense of its wickedness." 

E.J. Waggoner

Creation Moment 8/28/2026 - Darwinian Mindset Leads to Silly Studies

And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth: Genesis 5:3

"Q: “Why did anyone do this study?” And this recent study is a great example of that. The study, published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, looked at ape and human skulls to see if ancient human infants were as helpless as today’s human infants—all in an effort to discover when our larger brains supposedly evolved—and, well, I don’t think you’ll be shocked by the study findings!


Here’s how they describe the “need” for this study in the abstract of the paper:

"Unlike other catarrhine primates, modern humans deliver a helpless newborn who requires prolonged extensive care. Such helpless infancy is associated with fetus-like, rapid postnatal brain growth, which is essential to produce the large human brain. In the debate about its evolution, a key question has been whether it emerged in Homo erectus, whose brain sizes were approximately 20–40% smaller than Homo sapiens."

To test this, the authors examined 1,504 “cranial specimens,” including nearly 1,000 from great apes and over 500 from modern

humans, looking for deformational plagiocephaly, otherwise known as flat head syndrome. This deformity comes from human babies lying too long on their backs or in the same position and being unable to lift their heads. Apes do not suffer from this condition as they have stronger head control from birth.

The researchers assume that if a skull shows this deformity, it must be because the infant was helpless, like today’s infants. They then looked at cranial fossils from archaic humans, Homo erectus and Homo floresiensis (the so-called “Hobbits”), and found that two of the H. erectus specimens and one of the H. floresiensis specimens exhibited this deformational plagiocephaly. The researchers’ conclusion?

"These support a deep evolutionary origin of hominin helpless infancy, and imply both elaborate parental childcare and cooperative social behaviors that could likely have accompanied it."

In other words, humans had babies that looked and acted like human babies! What a shock!" 

AIG

Pre-1900s Bible footnotes on the Nicolatians

But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate. Revelation 2:6

"This is my 1863 Bible. Every Bible that's like pre-1900s will have similar things. 

So Jesus says twice in Revelation that He hates the doctrine of the

Nicolatians and He never addresses them as like being a church right like he addresses them as being outsiders people outside of the covenant. 

*Look at the definition in the 1800s Nicolatians "certain heretical

Christians referred to in Revelation 26 and 15 who taught that the knowledge of God and Christ was sufficient for salvation and that being justified by faith they were free from the restraints of the law and might indulge in sin with impunity."

Someone tried to tell me that this is not exactly what almost every Christian in the west today believes.

And you'll find that the great deception, which is that you can be in Christ and be lawless, I think, started around the time of the Scoffield Bible.
And naturally, because people have itching ears, they welcome the deception." 

KayPodgee

Creation Moment 8/27/2026 - God as our "parent" since the Creation

"It is well preached by many that when mankind fell through Adam's transgression in the Garden of Eden, the consequences of the resulting curse, which we experience daily, include:

Sinful men harming each other in innumerable ways (assault, lying, theft, murder, deception, wanton endangerment, etc.).

A corrupted creation (snakes now bite, spiders and hornets sting, cells mutate into cancer, bacteria don't just help us digest but attack our bodies, as do fungi, and viruses, etc.).
However, a 3rd immeasurable loss to add to the list above, I have never yet heard mentioned in any kind of sermon or Christian teaching. It can be noticed through one of the many symbolisms of spiritual realities God has given us in His invention of the family.
You may have been too young to remember from your own childhood, but if you have ever parented small children, you know they would be dead in short order without the intervention of their parents......If it had not been the Lord who was on our side... Psalm 124:1" CM

End Time Deception Will INCLUDE Signs

"The Bible tells us that Satan’s deceptions at the end of time will be so deceitful that practically the whole world will buy into his lies: Matthew 24:23-25: "Then if anyone says to you, 'Look, here is the Christ!' or 'There!' do not believe it. For false christs and false prophets will rise and show great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect [notice Satan’s target audience] See, I have told you beforehand.” 

Revelation 16:13, 14: “And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs

coming out of the mouth of the dragon, out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. For they are spirits of demons, performing signs, which go out to the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.” 

Satan will even impart counterfeit spiritual gifts to Christians in order to deceive them. Matthew 7:21-23: "Not everyone who says to Me: 'Lord, Lord,' shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. Many will say to Me in that day, 'Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?' And then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!'" 

Stephen Bohr

Creation Moment 8/26/2026 - Refuting Everettian quantum theory

Core Principles

Everettian quantum theory, also called the many-worlds interpretation (MWI) or relative-state interpretation, is a framework for quantum mechanics proposed by Hugh Everett III in 1957. It rejects the idea of wavefunction collapse and instead asserts that the universal wave function evolves strictly unitarily according to the Schrödinger equation, applying equally to all systems — including observers and measurement devices.
Universality – Quantum mechanics applies to the entire universe as

a closed system, with no privileged “external” observe.
Strict Unitarity – No collapse postulate; the state vector evolves deterministically via the Schrödinger equation.
Multiplicity – Every possible outcome of a quantum measurement is realized in a separate, dynamically independent branch of reality.
Branching and Decoherence
When a measurement occurs, the global state becomes entangled between the system, apparatus, and observer:
|s1⟩⊗|φ0⟩→c1|s1⟩⊗|φ1⟩+c2|s2⟩⊗|φ2⟩
Here, |φi⟩ are pointer states of the apparatus, each correlated with a distinct outcome.

"The reasons why this is so are worth understanding, because they go much deeper than the usual objections, and they’re grounded definitively in a result known as Haag’s theorem, first proved by Rudolf Haag in 1955, a connection that the usual criticisms of Everettian quantum theory never mention.

In the Everettian interpretation, the quantum wavefunction never collapses but rather branches endlessly into parallel histories. Marletto makes her case in favor of this approach on the strength of one claimed virtue, universality. Quantum theory, she opines,

“doesn’t come with a label saying here I cannot be applied.” In other words, if you take the formalism at face value and apply it to everything, starting with the subatomic realm and on up through observers like us to the universe as a whole, and you reject the artificial addition of collapse postulates or hidden variables of any kind that end or supplement the continuous dynamics, then you arrive at the many-worlds version of quantum mechanics as the pure essence of the theory. 

Observers get treated “democratically, all in the same way as qubits.” It is, she states, “the interpretation with the least amount of problems.” This praise is fainter than it sounds, rather like commending a ship as the one with the fewest catastrophic leaks.

The mathematics of quantum theory does not wear its ontology on its sleeve. The claim, based on its mathematics, that every branch of the wavefunction is a real material universe containing a real material copy of you simply does not follow. It is an extravagant metaphysical gloss on the formalism that postulates an innumerable proliferation of unobservable worlds to avoid the conclusion that measurement outcomes are in any way special.

Marletto herself is aware of the extravagance and recoils from it. When pressed by Kuhn on the issue of an endlessly dividing reality, she demurs, insisting that this “sci-fi” version of MWI is a misunderstanding and that no universes are multiplied, no particles are created, and no conservation laws are violated. Rather, “it’s simply that the state changes” through the entanglement of systems.

This response is fair game since it is the going position among sophisticated Everettians who, following David Wallace, treat worlds as emergent patterns within the one evolving quantum state, real in

the way tigers and hurricanes are real emergent patterns in the world. But the analogy conceals the difficulty rather than resolving it. Tigers and hurricanes are patterns within an already actual world, whereas branches are supposed to be worlds. An emergent pattern inherits its actuality from the arena in which it emerges, and in the Everettian case the actuality of the branch is the very thing in question. If what MWI refers to as “branching” is really nothing more than an entanglement structure developing within a single quantum state, then the question of how a branch is actually a world constituting a concrete reality with you in it has not been answered; it has been dropped from the picture entirely.

You can’t have it both ways. Either the branches are, in fact, substantial parallel realities and the ontological inflation is real, or they’re merely bookkeeping structures in a mathematical object and you’re keeping the label “many worlds” while jettisoning the worlds.

In fact, if you are a theist, it is natural to read it in terms of divine omniscience, that is, as exhaustive conceptual knowledge of every history that could be experienced, of which one history, ours, is actual. The mathematical elegance and parsimony the Everettians so desire are preserved in this reading, but the quantum multiverse is not.

What needs attention here is what these phenomena actually show. Superpositions yield interference effects that no single component could produce by itself, which means the phenomenon cannot be dismissed as a mere indicator of epistemic ignorance. But it is also the case that in the experimental manipulation of superposed states we stand outside the superposition observing it, so in these cases, at least, its components are demonstrably real without being co-actual parallel realities in which different versions of ourselves observe different things. Nothing in the physics compels their promotion to concrete worlds elsewhere, either.
Examined through a quantum lens, physical objects cast modal shadows. The quantum wavefunction maps this possibility structure, decoherence traces its path into the single stable history of our experience, and the choice we are presented with is not whether the structure is real, but where it resides. The Everettian finds a place for it by actualizing all of it at a heavy price that we are about to evaluate; the theist houses it in the mind of God, and pays nothing but recognition of the One “in whom we live and move and have our being” (Acts 17:28).

Let’s start with the branching process itself. Consistent with the mathematics of waves, the quantum state can be decomposed into a sum of component waves in infinitely many different ways, each way defining a set of “worlds” that is wholly dependent on the choice of its components. For example, decompose the wavefunction one way and Schrödinger’s cat bifurcates into a living-cat branch and a dead-cat branch; but decompose it differently in an equally legitimate mathematical way, and the branches are exotic superpositions that have no classical description at all. Mathematics is no guide here.

The situation regarding quantum probabilities is even worse. To illustrate this, suppose that a quantum event has two outcomes with

probabilities of one-third and two-thirds. 

Q: If MWI is correct, then both outcomes occur, so what sense can be made of the assertion that their probabilities are unequal? 

Q: In fact, if everything that can happen quantum-mechanically does happen, in what sense is anything improbable at all?

The currently favored patch for this problem is due to David Deutsch and David Wallace. What they do is reinterpret the quantum probabilities as betting odds that a rational agent should adopt with respect to his branching future. This is a clever proposal, but there are compelling reasons to think it ultimately fails. As David Baker has argued, there is a vicious circularity in the repair. The branches must exist before the bets are placed, but these branches are created by decoherence, and the decoherence required has already helped itself to the probabilities the decision-theoretic analysis was supposed to supply.

Finally, let’s not forget the matter of persons. Marletto’s suggestion that MWI treats observers “democratically as qubits” sounds enticingly egalitarian until one asks “What happens to me?” at a branching event. Aside from our earlier point that in the experimental manipulation of superposed states we stand outside the superposition observing it, so its components are not co-actual parallel realities in which different versions of ourselves observe different things, the fact remains that the first-person perspective each of us occupies is an unassailable datum before we do any physics at all. It is not the sort of thing that can be partitioned. Furthermore, if the branching structure contains continuers of you making incompatible decisions, so that choices that you make are unmade by you elsewhere, then moral responsibility, which requires you (and not quantum dynamics) to be the actualizing source of the choice that is made, is left without a basis.

When we are dealing with finitely many degrees of freedom in ordinary quantum mechanics, the classic Stone-von Neumann theorem guarantees that, under standard regularity assumptions, the theory has essentially one Hilbert space representation in which it functions. Different formulations amount to nothing more than different notations that represent the same physics. When we move to quantum field theory (QFT), however, fields have infinitely many degrees of freedom — roughly, one for each point of space — and the guarantee of a unique representation collapses. There are infinitely many mathematically legitimate representations and they are inequivalent in the sense that the vacuum state from which the representation is built is not even a state in any other representation.

The fact remains, however, that this success is purchased by quietly setting aside premises that cannot hold exactly in the interacting

relativistic theory, and even after seventy years of effort, no nontrivial interacting QFT describing our four-dimensional world has ever been rigorously constructed. In fact, for the simplest candidate, approached through its standard lattice formulation, the mathematicians Aizenman and Duminil-Copin showed in 2021 that the exact interacting theory does not exist at all: take the continuum limit and the interaction completely disappears.

Now, consider the many-worlds picture: the Everettian asks us to be face-value realists about the “universal wavefunction,” the quantum state of life, the universe, and everything. In this picture, the state of everything must be a state of quantum fields. But Haag’s theorem tells us that no unique, dynamics-inde. At bottom, nature behaves in ways we can count on, but it does so for no discernible physical reason.
This is no mere gap awaiting some clever equation to close it. If we follow the two explanatory demands — the first being the existence of experiencers, and the second being the existence of a ground for their experiences — to their logical and ontological conclusion, declining, with the tradition of sufficient reason, to treat this structure as a brute fact, we arrive at the inversion of materialism. The possibility structures of this world reside in a Mind, and the actual world of our experience is that Mind’s communication of one unified history to the finite minds who share it. pendent arena exists for there to be such a state." 

MindMatters

The "curse of the law"

"Revelation also says, "Blessed is he that keeps the commandments of God so that he has the right to enter into the city and take from the tree of life," implying that no, you're not going to make it if you refuse God's law in high-handed

rebellion. 

*That's what the curse of the law is. God breaks down the curse of

the law. David breaks it down. It's in Jeremiah. It's all throughout the Bible, but nobody reads. The curse of the law is when you arrogantly reject God's law.

*Then you're under a curse. And remember, they literally killed Jesus in the flesh because he flipped their money tables.
They were making money off of His father's house. 

Q: Why do we think they openly proclaimed, "We have no king but Caesar." Most people in these institutional churches are not walking in Biblical salvation. 

David literally says, "Salvation is far from the wicked because they don't seek Your statutes." When Jesus says, "Depart from Me, you workers of lawlessness." He's quoting Psalm 119. The finishing part of that verse says, "So that I may keep the commandments of my God." 

KayPodgee

*In other words -- being under the curse of the law means the penalty of the law for violating it.

Creation Moment 8/25/2026 - Folly of the Fools of evolution within the Church

"The now deceased vocal atheist William Provine a professor in

biology mentioned in previous episodes once said as the creationists claim belief in modern evolution makes atheists of people. 

One can have a religious view that is compatible with evolution only if the religious view is indistinguishable from atheism. 

And in fact, the Bible quite similarly describes this result as well in Proverbs 26:5: Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest you be like him yourself." 

AIG

IN the NEWS - Veneration of 1,700-year-old skull

Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: Exodus 20:4

"During an elaborate ceremony where the skull of Saint Agatha was placed back in a gold bust, the Vatican's secretary of state, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, bowed and kissed the relic as part of Christian tradition. This ritual is part of the Catholic rite of veneration.

The 1,700-year-old skull is believed to belong to Saint Agatha, a third-century martyr and patron saint of Catania, Sicily. According to Christian lore, she died in prison around 251 AD during Emperor Decius’s persecution of Christians.
After her death, she was honored as a martyr and became Catania's patron saint. Her relics were then taken to Constantinople centuries later, before they were returned to her place of birth in 1126. For this particular event, a prayer vigil was first held on Aug. 16, followed by the restoration of the skull.
Footage of the ceremony quickly surfaced on social media, shedding light on the ancient tradition followed in Catholicism. According to Catholics, the act shows respect to the saint rather than worshipping her remains, but has ignited debate around the veneration of relics.
Many non-Catholics said the ritual was "idolatry," meaning the worship of a physical object or image as a God." 

msn

Creation Moment 8/24/2026 - Assumptions Wrong Again

And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: He made the stars also. Genesis 1:16

"James Webb Space Telescope finds ‘hidden stars’ making the universe’s 1st galaxies much bigger than we knew (Space.com, 20 August 2026). The mass of early galaxies is larger than expected, if small stars are included. 

Latest images from the James Webb Space Telescope are breaking assumptions. 

According to Big Bang theory, Population I and II stars and planets needed to form after the first generation of Population III stars—composed of hydrogen and helium—had exploded and sent heavy elements into the gas and dust. “This result shows that much more mass than previously thought is hidden in small stars,” team leader Mariska Kriek of Leiden University said. 

“That has implications for all kinds of fields within astronomy. Because many planets orbit small stars, it could even mean that more planets formed in the early universe than we previously assumed.” CEH

Sabbath and the family

....in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it. Exodus 20:11

"The Sabbath and the family were alike instituted in Eden, and in
God's purpose they are indissolubly linked together." 

E.G.W.

Creation Moment 8/23/2026 - "multiple coordinated steps "

But now thus saith the LORD that created thee.... Isaiah 43:1

"Organization of the Stentor body plan by localized mRNAs (PNAS, 10 August 2026). Timothy A. Mitchison comments on a new paper about the complexity in the body plan of a microbe. 

Even getting the long axis right in the trumpet-shaped ciliated protist Stentor requires multiple coordinated steps (genetic and epigenetic), to say nothing of building the circumferential axis where a ring of cilia sweep nutrients into its cornucopia.

“All cells are spatially organized,” Mitchison begins, “but the organizational complexity and precision of most metazoan cells pale in comparison to ciliated protists which display elaborate body plans.” And the little organism can regenerate itself if injured. The author says nothing about evolution." CEH

Luther's Question

...God is love. 1 John 4:8

"Martin Luther said, "If they could hate the one, that healed the sick,

that comforted the brokenhearted, that raised the dead, what kind of God must they have if they hated Him?" 

So, we have to set the record straight on the character of God.

And in the cross, all lies about the character of God fade." 

Walter Veith

Our Passover Lamb

"Note that the beginning of Passover when the lamb was slain is not the Passover sabbath but this day occurs on the 15th of Nisan the following day. 

Jesus became our Passover lamb and died at the exact time the Passover lamb would have been sacrificed. Matthew, Mark and Luke all record that Christ died at the ninth hour (9 hours after the sun had risen, 3:00 p.m.).
Matthew 27:46 And about the NINTH HOUR Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?
This is the same time that Josephus records the slaughter of the Passover lambs commenced. Christ fulfilled the symbolism of the Passover lambs exactly by giving his life just as the unblemished Passover lambs began to be slain on the 14th of Nisan." WCT

Creation Moment 8/22/2026 - Genetic Entropy Lesson from a Virus

For by Him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible,... Colossians 1:16

"John Sanford recently published a paper in a secular journal with what we believe are profound implications. The basic claim is that ‘genetic entropy’ works in the real world, which brings questions about the role of natural selection and the long-term survival of species into the future.

The paper analyzed mutation accumulation in the human H1N1 influenza genome using over 95 years’ worth of genetic sequences. This type of data is a rarity in the world of genetics, since most sequence data are from recent organisms with long generation times. The influenza virus, however, has been isolated and sequenced from human tissue samples all the way back to 1918. With a human-to-human transmission on average every three days or so, this makes over 11,000 disease generations and many times more than that number of viral generations. The number of viral generations is possibly comparable to the number of generations since the supposed human-chimpanzee split.

We provided data that more than suggests that the various influenza viruses that infect humans cannot survive long term, and we were the first to notice the disappearance of the human version of the H1N1 influenza virus in mid-2009. We closed our arguments by suggesting government agencies are barking up the wrong tree in their quest to detect newly evolving strains. Instead, scientists should be focusing their efforts to understand the appearance of new viruses, because once a virus makes a cross-species jump it burns fast and hot and eventually burns out. It is the new versions that are the greatest threat, not the old, worn-out ones. We discussed the 2009-2010 ‘swine’ flu outbreak, noting that it was far less serious than expected, and that this was probably due to the fact that the virus had picked up thousands of mutations and was much less robust compared to the original H1N1 ancestral virus that entered the swine population about the same time the human version appeared.

There are additional implications to our work, although most of these were not explicitly stated in the text.

First, this is apparently the first experiment designed to test the Darwinian mutation/selection model in any species over tens of thousands of generations. All other experiments (even Lenski) used

many fewer generations, or assumed common ancestry (e.g. anything written about the evolution of humans and chimpanzees from a common ancestor) without actually testing it.
Second, despite pervasive and demonstrable natural selection among these viruses, the 1918 version of the human H1N1 virus went extinct, twice, at the appearance of a competing strain, apparently due to a lack of robustness caused by mutation accumulation. The first time was in 1957 when a competing serotype appeared. After an accidental reintroduction of human H1N1 in 1976, the second extinction occurred when a recombined version of the swine H1N1 appeared in humans, and after more than 10% of the human H1N1 genome had ‘rusted away’.
Third, accumulating mutations are not silent, even those that do not affect the amino acid chain of a protein, because codon usage influences translation efficiency. Circulating levels of the many transfer RNAs are proportional to the frequency of their corresponding codons. Thus, changing from common to rare codons is expected to decrease the speed of translation. Unchecked mutation accumulation leads to a breakdown in codon bias, potentially affecting translation efficiency in the host cell.
Lastly, since the various mutations accumulated in a linear fashion, those mutations that escaped the selective filter (that would be most of the mutations) apparently accumulated according to the laws of chemistry. Thus, genetic change is overwhelmingly a product of thermodynamics, not selection. Over time there was, approximately, a 1% net increase in A, a 0.5% net increase in U (H1N1 is an RNA virus), a 0.5% net loss of C, and a 1% net loss of G.

Natural selection had a minimal effect on mutational direction. 

Q: Does this mean the direction of ‘evolutionary’ change is predetermined? 

A: If so, and if the common ancestor of things like humans and chimpanzees is not ‘on the curve’, they should not have a common ancestor. This would be a very interesting line of study." 

CMI

Mysterious, Unaccountable SIN

But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? Romans 7:23,24

“Sin is an intruder, for whose presence no reason can be given. 

It is mysterious, unaccountable;

to excuse it, 

is to defend it.” 

E.G.W.

Creation Moment 8/21/2026 - Christianity and evolution NOT compatible

"Evolution destroys utterly and finally the very reason Jesus' earthly

life was supposedly made necessary. 

Destroy Adam and Eve and in the rubble you will find the sorry remains of the Son of God. 

--If Jesus was not the redeemer who died for our sins and this is what evolution means, then Christianity is nothing. 

--You see, abandoning the Genesis account as true history has had truly terrible consequences both within and outside the church. 

The word of God says, "The last enemy to be destroyed is death." 1 Corinthians 15:26. God didn't create the world with an active enemy within it. And yet, for those believers who've adopted the secular timeline and attempted to add it to the Bible, they must logically conclude there was death in this world before Adam sinned.

Bad things, so to speak, would not have occurred in the creation until after Adam disobeyed God and sin entered the world at the time of the fall. 

Just as Romans 5:12 states, "Therefore, just as sin came into the
world through one man and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all have sinned."

AIG

2 Corinthians 6:17

Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith
the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,..... 

2 Corinthians 6:17

"Let me tell you, my brothers and sisters, for you to carry out your purpose as a lightbearer, God desires that you SEPARATE YOURSELF FROM EVERY EXPRESSION OF DARKNESS." 

Randy Skeete

Creation Moment 8/20/2026 - Spiritual Lesson from the opening of Creation Week

"Genesis chapter 1 reading from verse one. And I read from the King James version. In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form and void, and

darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, "Let there be light." And there was light. And God saw the light that it was good. And God did what? Divided the light from the darkness. God did what? God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light day and the darkness he called night and the evening and the morning were the first day. 

We see God dividing, separating, severing one thing from the other. It was not God's will when he created this world physically that light and darkness should coexist, should commingle and intermingle and mix and by the way intermarry.
Some things should not mingle and mix and have any form of fellowship or communion." 

Randy Skeete

Spiritual LESSON of the Call of Abraham

And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, 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 all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, 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.
And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, My people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.
Revelation 18:2-4

"God called Abraham out of the Chaldees, which by the way is the same thing as Babylon.
Q: Is there a call in these last days to come out of Babylon? 

Are you familiar with it?

--That call goes all the way to Abraham.
The Chaldees was Babylon. God called Abraham out of the Chaldees.

Q: Now why did God do that? 

*There is another principle by which God functions -- the principle of purpose. Purpose than existence. 

In other words, you are alive for a purpose. And if you don't fulfill that purpose, you have no right to live." 

Randy Skeete

Creation Moment 8/19/2026 -Hot Water and Cracked Rock?

"Could an asteroid impact really spark life? A recent AGU Advances paper says early asteroid impacts might have cracked Earth’s crust and made large hot-water systems where life could have begun. 

But the main problem remains: the study gives a possible opportunity for chemistry to happen, but it doesn’t show how dead chemicals made the coded systems needed for life.

The paper simply suggests large impacts could make rock more open and cracked. Water could then move through hot rock and carry minerals. The authors estimate that impacts might have made much of the upper crust open to water 4.3 billion years ago or earlier.1 Southwest Research Institute said these environments were places “where life could have evolved.”

--That claim goes beyond what the study shows. A hot-water system may have water, heat, and minerals, but life needs much more than active chemistry. Cracked rock and hot water do not explain DNA, RNA, proteins, or the genetic code—key parts of the cell that allow life to exist. These parts must work together; they are not a random chemical configuration.

Conventional origin-of-life research often starts with carefully chosen conditions. Even the famous Miller experiment, still widely cited in origin-of-life discussions, produced some amino acids under a planned laboratory setup. That result is often treated as a big step toward life. But amino acids are not life, just as bricks are not a house. Neither life nor a house come about without a plan, an order, and a builder.

Water-based environments, as discussed in the study, actually present an interesting dilemma for cells. Cells need water to keep their control system functionally intact, and a hot-water system can make reactions happen faster. But faster reactions do not create the right order, code, or function. Additionally, water makes many reactions that join small molecules into long chains difficult, causing interfering side reactions. Outside the protected setting of a cell, water can also help break those chains apart.

Parts of the cell depend on each other. DNA stores coded instructions. Proteins, such as enzymes, do specific jobs. RNA helps connect the two. ICR has noted that biological networks like these show logic, control, and rule-based design as found in engineered systems. That kind of control has not been observed to arise from lifeless chemistry.

From a creationist view, the evidence points to a purposeful design behind life. Nehemiah 9:6 says, “You alone are the LORD; You have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth and everything on it, the seas and all that is in them, and You preserve them all.” This does not deny chemistry. It places chemistry, life, and preservation under the wisdom and power of the Creator.

The asteroid paper may help explain how impacts changed early rock systems, but it does not indicate life came into existence as a result of an asteroid impact. The study merely shows that conventional scientists can model a possible setting for chemistry to happen. The origin of life still requires what hot water and cracked rock have never been seen to produce: coded information, linked systems, and purposeful engineering." 

ICR

For those who can sing.....

And David and all Israel played before God with all their might, and with singing, and with harps, and with psalteries, and with timbrels, and with cymbals, and with trumpets. 

1 Chronicles 13:8

"And when God gives a purpose to a man or a purpose to a woman, he requires the carrying out of that purpose by the abilities and the talents, the strengths, the resources, the endowments that He gives to that person for the carrying out.
Q: Do you think God gave you the gift of singing so that you can

win a Grammy?
A: No, that's not why God gave you the gift of singing that through the ministry of song, you may touch hard hearts. 

You may minister to the love and the grace and the goodness of God. That gift is given that you might carry out the purpose for which God gave you life." 

Randy Skeete

Feasting on TV and Hollywood?

"You cannot feast your mind on TV and Hollywood and have a
spiritual character. It's just not possible. 

Q: Because by beholding we become what?

A: Changed. 

So if we are spending more time with Hollywood's productions than we are with the word of the living God, how can we expect ever to be ready for the coming of Jesus?

This is no time to flirt with the devil's allurements and conform to the

world's standards.
Saturate your mind with the word of God. Jesus says, "Watch." (Matthew 24:42)
Daily let God mold your mind, shape your character, transform your life through the spirit inspired word of God." 

Mark Finley

Creation Moment 8/18/2026 - Evolution is a blind-faith belief

For the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: Romans 1:20

"You see, the idea of evolution doesn’t come from fossils, biology, or DNA. Rather, it comes from an interpretation of the fossils, biological systems, and DNA from a worldview founded in the belief of naturalism (atheism). Scientists start with their worldview—evolutionary naturalism—and they interpret the evidence in light of their worldview. It’s a belief system (really a religion) that relies on faith. But it’s a blind faith.
Evolutionists must believe all of these things by blind faith:Life came from nonlife . . . even though this contradicts the law of biogenesis.

--One kind of creature changed into another kind . . . even though that’s never been observed.
--Natural selection can create new genetic information . . . even though that’s never been observed. Natural selection works on already-existing genetic diversity.

--Various, extremely complex systems evolved multiple times each (e.g., powered flight supposedly evolved at least four separate times).

Millions of years ago, life exploded on the scene in great diversity with few “ancestors” in the rock layers below (this is called the Cambrian explosion).
--Humans and great apes share a common ancestor . . . even though the number of differences between us and them keeps increasing with each new study!

--Soft tissue managed to last millions of years in the fossil record.

And that’s just some of the problems with evolutionary ideas." 

AIG