Why repentance is a requirement for salvation

As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: there is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. Romans 3:10–11

"From the moment Adam and Eve disobeyed their Creator in the Garden, humanity has attempted to deflect conscious acceptance of guilt. 

Adam blamed God because “the woman” was given to him by the

Creator. 

Eve blamed the serpent—and you and I have continued that reaction ever since.

--That is precisely why repentance is a requirement for salvation. When Adam rebelled, the relationship between man and God was destroyed: “By the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation,” and “by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners” (Romans 5:18–19). 

Each of us must change our mind and admit we are sinful and desperately need God’s gracious forgiveness, praying, “God be merciful to me a sinner” (Luke 18:13). 

HMM III

Language Research Fits Babel

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

"To believe the evolutionary story, one has to presume that early grunts gave rise to thousands of complex languages with syntax, grammar, and semantics: the ability to arrange complex thoughts into words by primitive humans freshly emerging from apedom. 

--Instead, scientists are finding a steady decline in languages that continues to this day. This fits the Genesis 11 account of a high diversity of languages beginning at the Tower of Babel.

The rise and fall of language diversity through the Holocene (Blasi et al., Science Magazine, 23 July 2026). The history of language, these researchers say, is one of loss, not gain. The Editors’ Summary of the paper by Bianca Lopez says,

"More than four languages are lost every year, and this rate is predicted to increase. Blasi et al. investigated how language diversity has changed over the Holocene using a Bayesian modeling approach, ethnographic data, and estimates of the total human population size over time. They assumed a maximum size of ethnolinguistic groups and that the number of different ethnolinguistic groups is related to the number of languages. Their findings suggested that language loss is not a new phenomenon, and that language diversity has been decreasing rapidly over the past one to three millennia following a peak of an order of magnitude higher diversity than we see today."

Estimating the number of languages in ancient history is admittedly speculative, riddled with assumptions. Nevertheless, it is interesting that evolutionary linguists arrive at a story of decline of language diversity rather than progress from few to many languages. Using the evolutionary timeline, the authors state:

"In the absence of direct evidence, researchers have speculated on the global trajectory of the total number of languages over the Holocene. The Megadiverse Paleolithic Hypothesis suggests that the total number of languages has been declining over the last 12,000

years, when agriculture-led language expansions began replacing hunter-gatherer language diversity. Although peak numbers are unknown, estimates range between 12,000 and “tens of thousands” of languages just before the advent of agriculture; such estimates extrapolate from the diversity now found only in New Guinea and Vanuatu. Under this view, proximate causes of the current linguistic diversity crisis (such as warfare, genocide, and the expansion of colonial powers along with their languages, cultures, and pathogens) have accelerated a process of language loss already in place throughout much of the Holocene."

The Genesis record portrays mankind speaking from the beginning. It’s a manifestation of the body and mind of humanity granted by their creation in the image of God. Genesis presents a top-down picture of language: originally one language, but purposely diversified at Babel due to sinful man’s disobedience to God’s order to multiply and fill the earth as stewards of the creation.

To the evolutionist, all of our exceptional capabilities require explaining by gradual material processes. 

Q: Do these authors give an account for the origin of language? 

A: Not really; they assume that groups of humans each had their own languages, and there were lots of them. Their only graph of the Holocene begins with thousands of languages already being used.

"Before the onset of plant and animal domestication, the number of languages was smaller than it is today (4500 to 6000 compared with 7500). Subsequent increases in global population precipitated increased linguistic diversity. We uncovered a linguistic “golden age” with tens of thousands of languages 3000 to 1000 years ago. Great loss of linguistic diversity did not begin with recent colonial expansion but as multinational empires first spread along with their languages, pathogens, and cultures. Thus, extinction has likely played a much greater role in shaping linguistic and cultural diversity than previously thought."

This simply begs the question. Language is assumed to exist at the beginning, then it declines. This assumption offers no explanation for complex communication using rational thought. It’s like assuming a biosphere full of life, then spending a whole paper explaining how most of it went extinct.

Humanity spoke thousands of languages at the dawn of farming — now many of them are lost (Nature News, 23 July 2026). Nature commented on this paper, agreeing that language extinction has been the main trend throughout human history. It’s a crazy way to look at evolution, reports Freda Kreier for Nature:

"Humanity might once have spoken many more languages than it does today, with tens of thousands in use between 3,000 and 1,000 years ago. This far exceeds the more than 7,500 unique languages now used worldwide."

The findings, published on 23 July in Science, suggest that the rise of agriculture spurred an initial language boom as people shifted from a nomadic, hunter-gatherer lifestyle and settled into small, isolated communities. If accurate, these results suggest that language extinction is not a uniquely modern phenomenon, says Heidi Harley, a linguist at the University of Arizona in Tucson.

The true historical diversity of languages suggested by this analysis is “mind-blowing”, she says. “The sheer number of languages that they projected to have existed is like, ‘What? That’s crazy’.”

Indeed, it is rather crazy to think that language is an evolutionary product of mindless, thoughtless, irrational material processes.
Notice the “suggestion” that “the rise of agriculture spurred” a language boom. 

Q: How did a spur arise, and what made it drive the horse to speak? 

Or you can get smart and read the Bible, where people act like real people, and complex things like human language have a rational source: a Mind with power, foresight, and purpose, whose works are revealed in history." CEH

Creation Moment 7/30/2026 - Geometric Morphometrics FLAWED

And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so. Genesis 1:24

"Living alligators expose why juvenile fossils can fool classification methods, (Phys.org, 16 July 2026). This recent article in Phys.org summarizes new research by paleontologist James Napoli, a researcher at Stony Brook University’s Renaissance School of Medicine:

"The challenge of correctly identifying a vertebrate fossil is that, as

all creatures grow, their skeletons change dramatically. Young and adult animals often look so different that it is difficult to tell whether they are the same species, an issue long recognized by paleontologists. Additionally, without being able to witness a species grow or sequence its DNA, proper identification becomes even more uncertain."

The author proposes a way to reduce those mistakes and uncertainties by focusing on anatomical features that remain relatively constant throughout development. That’s the splashy announcement. However, the real core (and lasting importance, I believe) of this research is found in the details of the journal article:

Resolving the “ontogeny problem” in vertebrate paleontology (James G. Napoli, Paleobiology, 2 July 2026). In this research, Napoli is not merely proposing a minor refinement to a niche discipline. He is demonstrating one of the highest virtues of science: the courage to calibrate its methods against the reality science is supposed to be researching.

Measuring the Measuring Stick

Historical sciences face unique challenges. Unlike repeatable laboratory experiments in the present, they try to reconstruct unobservable events in the past. Whether the subject is paleontology, archaeology, or cosmology, researchers must infer past events from

evidence in the present.
There is nothing inherently wrong with analysis aimed at reconstructive historical conjecture; every historical science depends upon it. But its practice begs a fundamental question: 

Q: how do we know our reconstructive methods are trustworthy when we cannot travel back in time to check the results?

Noting this, Napoli’s experimental design is brilliantly simple. Instead of testing paleontology’s standard inferential procedures on fragmentary fossils whose histories are unknown, he applies the field’s analytical tools to living crocodilians whose developmental and taxonomic histories are well understood in the present.
In other words, he chooses a case where reality can answer back in order to verify the methodological warrant for those in the past.

The Limits of the Digital Ruler

Paleontologists have for decades employed a technique known as Geometric Morphometrics (GM) along with a newer and more niche-method called cladistic analysis of ontogeny. These mathematical modeling tools treat ontogenetic change like evolutionary trees, promising to separate genuine species differences from the dramatic shapeshifting that naturally occurs as an animal grows from a juvenile to an adult.
But when Napoli applied these elegant computer models to living American and Chinese alligators, the methods shockingly failed to deliver on those promises.
Napoli reports:

“The failure of morphometric methods to recover obviously distinct groups in morphospace suggests that GM cannot effectively discriminate between anatomically similar species, especially when faced with ontogenetic and polymorphic variation within both… In sum, GM fails to empirically recover the known taxonomy of the trial dataset.”

Furthermore, he notes that the cladistic analysis of ontogeny failed to accurately describe the sequence of character changes in four out of five analytical trials. Of the single trial that technically “succeeded,” Napoli called it a “fluke” arising from ideal, a priori conditions, conditions physically impossible to obtain in true paleontological research.

The Circularity of ‘Baked-In’ Assumptions

Q: Why do these sophisticated and – and widely trusted – scientific methods struggle? 

Napoli exposes a subtle assumption of circular reasoning. To make the mathematics work, evolutionary modelers frequently construct

what they call an “artificial embryo,” a hypothetical, composite ancestor assembled from selected character states rather than direct observation, which is unavailable for nearly all extinct fossil species.

Additionally, because the smallest fossil specimens are commonly assumed to represent the earliest developmental stages before the software even runs, the procedure naturally “discovers” the exact evolutionary trajectory that the initial assumptions favored.

These procedures are promoted as objective tools that can reconstruct the past without human bias, but Napoli revealed a closed loop of circular reasoning. The story was already ‘baked in’ to the dataset before the analysis began. More regrettably, when the method fails, it does not just produce harmless statistical noise; it manufactures false evolutionary trends that radiate across the discipline, like claims regarding the “tendency toward a loss of tooth positions” – he says:

"No clade shows a tendency toward a loss of tooth positions, despite published claims to the contrary."

If these procedures are not empirically testable – or tested, as Napoli does here, what level of confidence should science be placing in their results?

A Lesson Beyond Paleontology

The two living alligator species have supposedly spent 50 million years evolving along separate paths, giving them ample opportunity to lock in distinct physical traits. Yet when put to the test, paleontology’s premier software tools failed to separate them. 

Q: If a method stumbles when faced with two living species separated by tens of millions of years of history, on what grounds should we trust it to decipher the subtle nuances of an incomplete fossil record?

Napoli has reminded us of a fundamental truth: before we trust a

historical reconstruction, we must calibrate the reconstructive engines. Have we? Science progresses not by crowning the most elegant narrative, but by submitting its tools and methods to the uncompromising judgment of empirical reality. It is time for historical biology to stop celebrating its computer-generated stories, and start calibrating its storytellers." 

CEH

Picture of the Buddha: So, So Sad.....

When I read this description of the Buddha, the picture in my mind was so, so sad.....picture the Buddha in the description below and remember what Scripture says:

Of people like the Buddha--

Ever learning, 

and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

2 Timothy 3:7

In contrast to what the Buddha put himself through in a never ending quest for "wisdom" and "knowledge" God says instead:

Beloved, 

I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper 

and be in health, 

even as thy soul prospereth. 

3 John 1:2 

All that self inflicted suffering in the quest for wisdom, a waste of his life, to only die and return to dust like everyone else....no rebirth despite what he thinks and no release into Nirvana despite the tricks his tortured body and mind envisioned. So, so sad....

A description from the Buddha's Wisdom:
"A man is starving beside a river 

--because he is afraid of pleasure.

--His name is Siddhārtha Gautama (the Buddha). 

--For years he has pushed his body toward death in search of awakening the early discourses describe him touching his stomach and feeling his spine they describe the pressure roaring in his ears as he suppresses his breath.

--Another account remembers periods when he survived on a single

grain of rice.

--He has mastered the highest meditative attainments..... none of them set him free now at the edge of collapse....continues past the rose apple memory he ate he recovered his strength he sat beneath a tree at Uruvelā and in the account ascended four stages through the night... the room behind that door the two roads Siddhārtha had followed demanded ever more mastery more deprivation...."

Creation Moment 7/29/2026 - The Holy Spirit at Creation

And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. 

 Genesis 1:2

"Before God spoke a single word of creation, the Spirit of God was already there. The text places Him over the formless, dark, water-covered void before any creative act began. The Holy Spirit was

present at the very origin of all things, actively engaged before there was anything to engage with.
The word “moved” here in Hebrew is rachaph, a word that describes a bird hovering, brooding, watching over something with focused, protective care. The Spirit was hovering with intention, poised over what was formless and empty, ready for what God was about to do.
The Spirit’s character is revealed here: 

--He moves toward what is empty and disordered, not away from it. 

--He does not wait for conditions to improve before He shows up. 

--He was already there over the void.

He was at creation before anything existed, 

and He is with you before anything in your day unfolds." 

EC

The Blood Atonement does what?

"The atonement furnished by Jesus Christ provides for a release from the punishment inflicted upon the human race because of sin.
There is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; Who gave Himself a ransom for all, to be

testified in due time.
1 Timothy 2:5,6
The blood of Jesus Christ … cleanseth us from all sin.
1 John 1:7
The wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Romans 6:23
As in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
1 Corinthians 15:22."
DawnBible

Creation Moment 7/28/2026 - Genomic Architectural Protein

I will praise Thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: Psalm 139:14

"G4 binding activities in genomic regulators of nucleosome remodeling, paraspeckle assembly, RNA splicing, and three-dimensional genome organization. Among the prominent hits, we identify the genomic architectural protein, CCCTC-binding factor (CTCF), as one of the strongest G4 binders.

The latter function is crucial, as it reflects the ability of G4 structures to regulate large-scale chromosomal structures:
G-quadruplexes interact with several nuclear protein complexes involved in crucial genomic processes. We found that the genomic architectural protein, CCCTC-binding factor (CTCF), directly binds to G4s and this interaction is important for regulation of genome topology and gene expression. Our work uncovers the architectural roles of G4 structures in the genome and contributes important insights into G4 biology and 3D genome organization.

Thus, these G4 structures contribute to a variety of genomic functions, and importantly they help form topologically associating domains (TADs) that control the 3D structure of the genome:
At the scale of tens to hundreds of kilobases, the genome is further assembled into self-interacting regions known as topologically associating domains (TADs), with higher propensity of genomic interactions observed within, rather than between TADs. 

TADs mediate enhancer–promoter interactions and are important for cell-type specific gene expression programs. Interestingly, G4s are shown to be enriched at TAD boundaries and implicated in regulating insulation strength of TADs.
The paper proposes a model that involves CTCF–G4 interaction in mediating long-range chromatin looping to define stable chromatin loops or boundaries of topologically associating domains (TADs).he point being: repetitive DNA helps form non-B DNA shapes like G4s, and these G4s are crucial for defining TADs which help define the 3D structure of the genome, regulating gene expression and even defining cell types. Far from being junk, this repetitive DNA is crucial for formatting the genome."
CaseyLuskin

Randolph County, IN Obituary Lesson: Just a buggy ride [1912]

To day if ye will hear His voice,
harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.
Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. 

Q: For what is your life? 

A: It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

Hebrews 3:15/James 4:14
Just out riding in his buggy---then.....

Battle of  SULTANA

"STRACHAN, Clem R.VETERAN OF SULTANA DEAD AT HUNTSVILLE
[United Press Leased Wire]
Winchester, ind.. An sr. 14.—Clem R. Strachan, 85, one of the few men rescued from the steamboat Sultana when it was sunk near Island No. 14 in the Mississippi river, during the Civil war, is dead a this home in Huntsville today. Strachan dropped over dead while riding in a buggy."
[Date: Wednesday, August 14, 1912, Paper: Elkhart Truth (Elkhart, IN), Page: 2]

SDA News: Uh Oh.....Uganda

But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: Exodus 20:10

"The Government of Uganda has declared the last Saturday of every month a mandatory National Cleaning Day, requiring citizens to participate in community cleaning activities from 7:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. 

For the Seventh-day Adventist Church, this announcement raises

important questions because Adventists observe the Biblical Sabbath during these hours. With approximately 613,000 baptized Adventists in Uganda, many members could be affected if the policy is implemented as announced. In response, the Uganda Union Mission of Seventh-day Adventists has released an official statement confirming that church leaders are engaging the government in respectful dialogue." BroLawrence

Creation Moment 7/27/2026 - Glutamine synthetase (GS): Your microscopic factory in your cells

Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! 

Psalm 139:14 NLT

"Glutamine synthetase (GS) is like a microscopic factory in your cells. 

Enzymes are biological machines, almost always proteins, that cause important reactions in living things to happen that otherwise

wouldn’t, or at least way too slowly to be useful. The enzyme GS plays a crucial role in producing the amino acid glutamine an essential building block for vital biomolecules such as proteins and nucleotides, among others (nucleotides are the building blocks for RNA and DNA). Glutamine (symbol Gln or Q) is the most common amino acid in the human body.
GS is also essential for nitrogen metabolism, both in its role making glutamine and in other ways. GS is found in all life forms. 

Without GS, life as we know it wouldn’t exist!

Complex structure: GS is typically composed of 12 identical subunits arranged in two hexagonal rings, stacked on top of each other.
Multiple inputs: It processes various signals, including the cell’s nitrogen levels, energy status, and the presence of inhibitors or activators of its own activity.
Precise calculations: Based on these inputs, GS ‘decides’ how much glutamine to produce.
Specific output: It manufactures just the right amount of glutamine to meet the cell’s needs.
Feedback regulation: GS can adjust its activity based on the products it creates, much like a self-regulating computer system." 

CMI

IN the NEWS - AI finally goes Rogue?

...for false Christs and false prophets will arise, and they will provide signs and wonders in order to deceive, if [such a thing were] possible, even the elect [those God has chosen for Himself]. Mark 13:22 AMP

Q: How might this impact the Mark if the Beast controversy in the End Times?

Q: Could an AI system go rogue one day and fill cyberspace with propaganda for the Beast entity? 

"You probably didn't hear about this one, but an open AI model just broke containment and then hacked another company just to try to complete its task.

OpenAI claims that a group of its AI models broke containment and hacked into the systems of open source AI platform Hugging Face. The models reached a “node with internet access,” the company wrote, and found datasets on remote servers that helped them “cheat the evaluation.” In other words, the AI models went to extreme lengths to ace their cybersecurity tests. Hugging Face said it had “detected and responded to an intrusion into part of our production infrastructure,” which turned out to be OpenAI’s models that had gone rogue.

This is the first software that human beings are not actually writing themselves. They're writing the code that trains the AI, but that process is mostly opaque to even the scientists and engineers that are building it. And as these models become increasingly generally capable, they want they're given a goal. 

For example, in the scenario with OpenAI, it was asked to solve a problem and it couldn't solve that problem. So in order to solve that problem, it broke itself out. It hacked into this other company and tried to find the answer. Those were not things that human beings tried to get the AI to do. Those are what the AI did on its own. 

By the way, this is no regard to anything related to consciousness. These things are just hyper competent optimizers. They're given an objective and they're really really smart and we can't necessarily predict in advance what they're going to do."

JoePags

Creation Moment 7/26/2026 - The “obstetrical dilemma”?

Claiming to be wise, they instead became utter fools. 

Romans 1:22 NLT

"For over half a century, the public has been treated to a confident textbook narrative regarding human childbirth. It is called the

“obstetrical dilemma.” When our evolutionary ancestors adopted the upright posture, natural selection narrowed the pelvis to accommodate bipedal locomotion. Later, as brains expanded, the human birth canal became a hazardous, agonizing bottleneck, saddling human mothers with a uniquely clumsy – and dangerous – evolutionary compromise, while our non-human primate cousins allegedly enjoyed spacious, effortless deliveries.

This neat little parable has been used to explain everything from the helplessness of human infants to the evolution of social midwifery (e.g., by Lucy Hyde). There is just one problem.

The narrative was built on a circular, 

human-centric illusion.

Comparative primate analysis shows that humans are not unique in having a tight cephalopelvic fit at birth (Nature Ecology & Evolution, 29 June 2026).
According to the study by researchers at University College London (UCL), the foundational data supporting this textbook dogma was fundamentally flawed.

"Human childbirth is regarded as uniquely difficult among primates, due to a tight cephalopelvic fit thought to result from an evolutionary trade-off between adaptations to bipedal locomotion and increasing brain size. This impression, however, may be an artefact of past adoption of anthropocentric measurements that underestimate birth challenges in non-human primates."

For nearly eighty years, comparative anthropologists inherited a measurement convention that treated non-human primates as though their pelvic anatomy followed the same obstetric geometry as humans.

The Anatomy of Adolph Schultz

The myth of the carefree primate birth traces back to the 1940s, when primatologist Adolph H. Schultz published comparative investigations estimating the fit of a newborn head into the maternal birth canal. As the authors of the UCL study note:

"This interpretation, and in particular the widely reproduced figure, was highly influential on subsequent work, effectively defining anthropological conceptualization of birth across primates, and reinforcing traditional assumptions that (1) human childbirth is uniquely difficult due to a tight cephalopelvic fit and a distinct pelvic canal shape, and (2) other primates face little to no birth obstruction… Later studies, accepting these assumptions without re-examination, sought to identify the evolutionary and anatomical factors that make human parturition particularly challenging."

But the UCL research team, led by Drs. Nicole Torres-Tamayo and Lia Betti, decided to actually look at the raw data using modern 3D skeletal modeling across 29 primate species.

--What they found completely dismantles Schultz’s historical narrative.
Schultz committed a human-centric measurement error. In human anatomy, the tightest part of the birth canal is measured from the top ridge of the sacrum to the pubic bone. Schultz applied these same human landmarks to other primates. However, a monkey’s sacrum sits much higher relative to its pelvis. By using human points, Schultz drew a fictional, tilted plane that completely missed the actual skeletal bottleneck. As the authors write:

"In non-human primates, the sacrum is positioned higher relative to the pubis … By applying standard human obstetric measurements to non-human primate anatomy, pelvic inlets are treated as idealized, generic ovals… misrepresenting cephalopelvic relationships in non-human primates and providing an unreliable basis for understanding the apparent uniqueness in human childbirth."

When the UCL team mapped the true rigid skeletal ring, non-human primate birth canals instantly shrank by an average of 11%, reaching more than an 18% reduction in some species.
Furthermore, evolutionary models assumed all primates are born like humans, crown-first. In reality, primates with pronounced snouts, like baboons and squirrel monkeys, almost always deliver face-first, with their necks fully extended. This changes the geometric orientation entirely, making the head height, rather than head length, the critical measurement.

Smaller Primates Have It Worse

When the researchers corrected these errors and applied realistic face-first dimensions, the myth of the “unique human dilemma” evaporated. While great apes like chimpanzees and gorillas do have spacious birth canals, humans are not the odd ones out in the wider primate world. In fact, under true geometric scaling (allometry), smaller primates face obstetric crises that make human childbirth look spacious:

"Our results challenge the traditional perception of a uniquely tight cephalopelvic fit at human birth by showing more extreme CPP [cephalopelvic proportions] in several non-human primate species and a tighter fit in more taxa than previously recognized… While humans remain among the most constrained species of apes, the even tighter fits in several primates, such as galagos, squirrel monkeys and patas monkeys, indicate that birth constraints are not unique to our evolutionary lineage."

In small-bodied monkeys like tamarins and squirrel monkeys, the neonatal head is actually geometrically larger than the resting pelvic opening, yielding CPP scores of 1.87 and 1.92 – almost twice the size of the available space! These animals survive only because they possess dynamic design features that put “evolutionary trade-off” theories to shame. For example, the pelvic ligaments of squirrel monkeys relax so significantly during labor that their hipbones temporarily dislocate, expanding the birth canal area by up to 100%.

The Smoking Gun: “Never Been Assessed”

The paper does not disprove that bipedalism affects the human pelvis, but what the paper does explode is the dogmatic certainty with which the “unique human evolutionary penalty” was preached for generations without any comparative data to back it up.
In a stunning admission of institutional blind spots, the authors write:

"To the best of our knowledge … the relationship between maternal body size and the two key components of CPP, pelvic inlet size and neonatal head size, has never been assessed."

Read that sentence again. For sixty-five years – ever since Sherwood Washburn officially coined the term “obstetrical dilemma” in 1960 – physical anthropology and evolutionary biology have treated this concept as an unquestioned, fundamental fact. Yet, the core mathematical engine of the entire theory was never checked across the primate order.
Researchers spent decades asking why humans possessed a unique evolutionary trade-off before first establishing whether that uniqueness actually existed. They repeatedly reproduced a simplified 1940s schematic, assumed the relationship was unique to humans, and started building their theoretical castles in the sky

Unchecked Dogma: a Pattern?

The authors of this paper are acknowledging and exposing a profound pathology in the scientific enterprise. Human institutions

possess an immense capacity for “paradigmatic amnesia.” A pioneer proposes a speculative, simplified model that satisfies the philosophical requirements of the current consensus. The model gets turned into a clean, compelling textbook diagram. Within a generation, the messy, unexamined caveats are completely forgotten, and the diagram hardens into a dogma." 

CEH

Holiness matters

"In no uncertain terms, the Scriptures teach that without holiness, "no one will see God" (Hebrews 12:14 NKJV). How startling! It is evident that holiness is vital for every believer."
P. Gerard Damsteegt

Creation Moment 7/25/2026 - That "learned smokescreen"

Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. Romans 1:19 

"Talk of natural selection, shape-shifting evolution, and quantum

fluctuations (held to explain the creation of the universe) are then at the end of the day little but a learned smokescreen concealing unacknowledged ignorance. 

Yet surely the beginning of wisdom should take as it starting point the acknowledgement that there are very definite limits to our collective knowledge: speculation should not be confused with ascertainable 

fact." 

Neil Thomas, Science & Culture Today, Jan. 2025

Leaders in the Christian Church

"The Old Testament attests two distinct kinds of authorization rituals.

First, the elaborate ordination of Aaronic priests elevated them to a higher cultic status that authorized them to have more intimate access to God’s presence than the laity. This elevation was for life, and it was only for males. 

Second, the simple commissioning of Joshua, with hand-leaning, authorized him to fulfill a representative leadership role for the Israelite community. 

The New Testament has only equivalents to the simpler commissioning ritual with hand-laying in order to authorize administrators and missionaries for their tasks, with no indication that they thereby gained elevated status in terms of access to God.

Absence of priestly ordination in the New Testament corresponds with the absence of human priests as cultic mediators in the New Testament Christian Church.

In the New Testament, the only priestly mediator is the divine-human Christ, who ministers in God’s temple in heaven (1 Tim. 2:5; Heb. 2:17; 4:14, 15; 5:5, 6, 10; 6:20; chapters 7–10). 

All Christians comprise “a royal priesthood” (1 Peter 2:9; Rev. 1:6; 5:10; 20:6), just as all Israelites were to be “a kingdom of priests” (Ex. 19:6). 

There are leaders in the Christian Church, but they do not have greater access to God than other Christians do, so an ontological distinction between priests or ministers and laypersons does not apply to New Testament Christianity. 

The tradition of sacramental ordination in Christianity is not from the New Testament; it entered Christian tradition from the Roman ordinatio (Latin) tradition after New Testament times." 

Roy Gane

SYMBOLISM: The blood on the right earlobes, right thumbs, and right big toes

"As part of the ordination offering, Moses put some of the blood on the right earlobes, right thumbs, and right big toes of Aaron and his sons and tossed the rest of the blood against the sides of YHWH’s altar (Lev. 8:23, 24). 

This indexed a bond in blood with life-and-death consequences between the Deity and His priestly servants, as when Moses had sprinkled blood both on the people and on the altar during the national covenant ritual (Ex. 24:6–8). 

Sacrificial blood on the extremities of the priests implied that they would hear/obey YHWH, 

do with their hands what He would command them to do, 

and go with their feet where He told them to go.

“Then Moses took some of the anointing oil and of the blood that was on the altar and sprinkled it on Aaron and his garments, and also on his sons and his sons’ garments. So he consecrated Aaron and his garments, and his sons and his sons’ garments,” thereby consecrating them (Lev. 8:30). The liminal period of their rite of passage lasted seven days, during which they were not permitted to leave the sacred precincts (vss. 33–35).

This priestly ordination was characterized by several factors. 

First, ordination authorized the priests to have special access to the deity as His special servants and as mediators for the laypeople.

Second, priests maintained their positions for life (Num. 20:26–28). (Contrast the age limit of 50 years old for members of the Levite work force [Num. 8:25]). 

Third, priestly officiation was explicitly limited to males, as shown by the rule that only male descendants of Aaron were to eat portions of most holy sacrifices (Lev. 6:11, 22 [Eng. vss. 18, 29]; 7:6)." 

Roy Gane

Creation Moment 7/24/2026 - "Bara" of Creation

"The Hebrew word used in verse 1 for “created” is bara. 

It appears only three times in Genesis 1, and every time it describes something that could not have been produced by natural process. 

*Making things from existing materials is something humans do. 

*Bara describes something else entirely: bringing something into existence from nothing, with no raw material, no building block, and no prior condition.

--This concept, creation out of nothing, means God had no limitations when He made the universe. He spoke, and what was not became what is. The universe owes its very existence to Him, not just its arrangement.

This cuts away at two errors: pantheism, the idea that God and the universe are the same thing, and dualism, the idea that there are two eternal principles, God and matter, locked in a contest. 

Bara says no to both. 

God and His creation are distinct, 

and there was no eternal matter for Him to work against." 

EvergrowingChristian

IN the News - What IF?

"NASA has released a surprising new warning suggesting scientists may have underestimated how severely an extreme solar storm could affect Earth. Researchers say a powerful space weather event could disrupt satellites, GPS navigation, communications, and portions of
the electrical grid, while admitting there may be no clearly defined upper limit to the planet’s response.
NASA's Gddard Space Flight Center are warning that miscalculations and false assumptions may have resulted in an enormous underestimation of the worst case effects of a solar storm. NASA scientists are now saying there may be no limit to the destructive energy that could rain down on the world. They derive that suspicion from more than a million data points where solar wind was gauged by NASA craft in Earth's orbit."
LH

Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken. Luke 21:26

Creation Moment 7/23/2026 - Power of the Creator

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. John 1:1,3

"The cosmos did not always exist. 

It began. 

And before it began, only God was: the Creator who exists independently of creation, not merely its most powerful resident.
For the Christian, this matters in the most practical way. 

Every situation you face, every crisis, every confusion, sits inside time. God sits outside it." 

EverGrowingChristian

IN the NEWS - Tabby's Star and alien NONSENSE

In the story below one can see how certain media outlets run with stories to excite the public imagination without any real pushback. The so-called "Type II" civilization could be nothing more than other celestial bodies acting upon the star system. Or misreading of data.
Of course the real reason is in the last line....."fostering interest and support for future research" -- that means research funding---MONEY....Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough,.. Isaiah 56:11

"Tabby's Star, officially cataloged as KIC 8462852, is a binary star system composed of a main F-type star and a red dwarf companion, approximately 1,470 light-years from Earth in Cygnus.

Kepler’s mission to discover exoplanets relies on detecting the periodic dimming of stars caused by planets passing in front of them. However, Tabby’s Star defies this model with:
Irregular Dimming Patterns: Unlike the consistent dimming caused by exoplanets, Tabby’s Star experiences erratic dips in brightness lasting days or weeks.
Long-Term Fading: Observations suggest the star has gradually dimmed over a century, a phenomenon not commonly associated

with stellar processes.
No Infrared Signature: A Dyson sphere or swarm would emit waste heat detectable in the infrared spectrum, yet searches using the Spitzer Space Telescope and other instruments have not found significant excess infrared radiation.

The implications of such a civilization being discovered are profound, extending into scientific, philosophical, and societal realms.
The Kardashev Scale is a method of measuring a civilization’s level of technological advancement based on the amount of energy it can utilize. Developed by the Russian astrophysicist Nikolai Kardashev in 1964, the scale classifies civilizations into three primary types: Type I, Type II, and Type III. 

Type I civilizations can harness all the energy available on their home planet, Type II can utilize the total energy output of their star, and Type III can control energy on the scale of their entire galaxy.

A Type II Civilization is characterized by its ability to capture and utilize the energy of its entire host star, possibly through a hypothetical structure known as a Dyson Sphere. Such a civilization would possess technology far beyond our current capabilities, enabling them to manipulate solar systems and potentially colonize other planets.
Key findings in the discovery include significant energy fluctuations and formations that suggest the existence of large-scale structures capable of capturing stellar energy. These observations have led scientists to believe that they may have found the first evidence of a civilization that has reached the Type II stage on the Kardashev

Scale.
It challenges existing theories about the development of intelligent life and the potential for technological advancement on a cosmic scale.
Some experts question the validity of the evidence, suggesting that the observed anomalies could be attributed to natural phenomena or errors in data interpretation. One of the primary concerns is the potential for misinterpretation of the data, which could lead to premature or incorrect conclusions about the existence of a Type II Civilization.

$$$ Engaging the public and educating them about the significance of this discovery is essential for fostering interest and support for future research." $$$

MorningOverview/BadenHutchins

Creation Moment 7/22/2026 - What we can extrapolate from “In the beginning”

"The very first word of Scripture is “In the beginning,” placing a

fixed start point for all things before placing God before that point. The universe had a start. God did not. 

He is the uncaused, self-existent cause behind all causes, standing entirely outside the timeline He made." 

Evergrowing/Genesis 1:1