constitution and nature, so that we can as soon run from ourselves, as run from death.”
by William Gurnall (1616-1679)
But he does not know that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol. Proverbs 9:18 RSV
And the Spirit & the bride say, come.... Reveaaltion 22:17
And the Spirit & the bride say, come...Revelation 22:17 - May We One Day Bow Down In The DUST At HIS FEET ...... {click on blog TITLE at top to refresh page}---QUESTION: ...when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth? LUKE 18:8
Sunday, August 30, 2026
Puritan Corner - Death
constitution and nature, so that we can as soon run from ourselves, as run from death.”
by William Gurnall (1616-1679)
But he does not know that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol. Proverbs 9:18 RSV
Will the New Age Play a Role in End Times Events?
Q: Could the New Age play a role in End Times Events such as the impersonation of Christ?
"......titled The Reappearance of The Christ published in 1948 this book was a treatise about the return of the worshiped Lord Jesus Christ but its scope went beyond traditional Christianity. In Chapter one titled the doctrine of the coming one Alice Bailey wrote "Ever down the ages and at every great human crisis always in the hours of necessity at the founding of a new race or in the awakening of a prepared humanity to a new and wider vision the heart of God impelled by the law of compassion sends forth a teacher a world Savior an illuminator an avatar a transmitting intermediary a Christ. Christ gives the message which will heal which will indicate the next step to be taken by the race of men which will illumine a
dark world problem and give to man an expression of some hitherto unrealized aspect of divinity. Our planetary crisis is due to bad karma meaning the retribution of unwholesome deeds. It is the law of karma or cause and retribution that is at work right now and human need a change of heart because a change of human's heart will determine whether we can save the planet or not the best way and the easiest way to free ourselves from this bad retribution is to reverse our action." AliceBaileyFromSunLight/YouTube
inspired and re-orientated from Rome because the Master Jesus will again take hold of the Christian Church in an effort to re-spiritualize it and to re-organize it. From the chair of the Pope of Rome, the Master Jesus will attempt to swing that great branch of the religious beliefs of the world again into a position of spiritual power and away from its present authoritative and temporary political potency."
--Not only Christians expect Christ's return, but also Muslims claim Christ will walk the earth before allah returns. Then Hindu's believe Vishnu will come in the avatar of Kalki and Buddhists await Maitreya.
The New Age, founded by Alice Bailey, a follower of the Theosophy of Madam Blavatsky, believe in this "cosmic christ" to return and enlighten the earth.
Much of the world, via the modern environmental movement, is heavily influenced by New Age thought.
--Now picture Satan impersonating Christ. As Muslims and Christians proclaim Christ has come, so too would the Hindoos and the Buddhist proclaim their great teacher has come, possibly as an avatar of Christ. Then the secular world, embracing New Age environmentalism, declares Alice Bailey was right.
--We are told in the end there will be a time of trouble. During the natural calamities befalling the earth enters this "cosmic christ" figure and uses Ladauto Si' style arguments such as Sunday Sacredness as a day to honor not only the Father God but also the mother earth by reducing your carbon footprint. Both the Papal Encyclical Ladauto Si' and Alice Bailey as seen below will claim to be vindicated.
**Common ground ACHIEVED. ...and all the world wondered after the beast. Revelation 13:3
-*-Just some random thoughts...nothing to be dogmatic about.
***Also, it is my opinion, (only an opinion) that Lucifer's bag-of-tricks show at the end will likely be near the close of probation. It will be the impetus for a global death decree to offer up the resisters to the mark of the beast (to what amounts to a sort of human sacrifice to Lucifer without realizing it).
For IF someone appeared as Christ on earth, and convinced the earth it was he...then if he leaves and calamities begin to fall again they will wonder what they did now?
And the answer will be that they suffer to live those opposed to their global policies (Mark of the Beast policies--which were rubber stamped as the right thing by this visiting christ to earth).
"......titled The Reappearance of The Christ published in 1948 this book was a treatise about the return of the worshiped Lord Jesus Christ but its scope went beyond traditional Christianity. In Chapter one titled the doctrine of the coming one Alice Bailey wrote "Ever down the ages and at every great human crisis always in the hours of necessity at the founding of a new race or in the awakening of a prepared humanity to a new and wider vision the heart of God impelled by the law of compassion sends forth a teacher a world Savior an illuminator an avatar a transmitting intermediary a Christ. Christ gives the message which will heal which will indicate the next step to be taken by the race of men which will illumine a
***Listen to Alice Bailey herself, who claimed to write under inspiration (spirits) of so-called "masters".
From her book The Destiny of Nations p.59: "Upon the spiritual side, as I told you in an earlier book, the whole field of religion will be re-
***They (Lucifer's inspired host) are telling you what they are planning to do --- from Ladauto Si' to Alice Bailey. They are blunt.
Creation Moment 8/31/2026 - Astrocytes
I will praise Thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: Psalm 139:14
"Focal astrocyte loss reveals nuclear translocation during lesion repopulation (Herwerth et al, Nature Neuroscience, 23 July 2026). The authors found that an adult’s brain may have a much greater regenerative capacity than previously assumed. This new discovery focuses on a star-shaped type of cell (called ‘astrocytes’) that have been seen to repopulate damaged areas, sending nuclei into lesions and rebuilding networks.
In a press release by the University of Zurich (August 2026), the authors state that “The findings of our study reveal a previously unknown ability of the adult brain to repair itself”.
In addition to bringing some hope to families who have watched loved ones with traumatic injuries struggle, without medical reassurance, this previously unknown healing functional process involving astrocytes is worth deeper examination from the lens of the origins and design debate.
In conventional medicine, astrocytes are recognized as a type of glial cells (with the term ‘glia’ meaning ‘glue’, as early scientists thought
they were simply the ‘glue’ holding the brain together). It was already known that these cells support the nervous system, in that, while they do not carry electrical signals like neurons, they perform essential roles that keep neurons alive, nourished, and functioning properly.
In this way, astrocytes as a type of glial cell were viewed as reactive, rather than regenerative, where upon a brain injury, astrocytes were observed to form borders around lesions that were often considered a barrier to regeneration rather than a repair mechanism. As it was assumed that the border made by astrocytes did not include repair, neurons were seen as irreplaceable.
While conventional medicine supported the idea of some amount of recovery possible via physiotherapy, this ‘recovery’ was thought of as only functional compensation, traditionally explained by surviving areas of the brain taking over lost functions, not by true tissue repair. For example, according to conventional medicine, patients could relearn speech after left-hemisphere damage because other regions adapted, not because cells regrew.
The findings by Herwerth et al (2026) provide insights that may form the basis of an important medical paradigm shift. The adult brain is no longer seen as incapable of structural repair. Since astrocytes are now seen to demonstrate a regenerative plasticity, this could inspire new therapies and provide renewed hope for patients with traumatic brain injuries that may benefit from treatments that harness astrocyte regeneration.
Herwerth et al (2026) outline four steps in the process of cell regeneration through astrocyte action, namely, structural remodeling, proliferation and nuclei migration, multinucleated states, and transient gene activation. As outlined, each of these steps involved complex processes that build upon the previous step toward the unified goal of cell recovery. The process may be summarized in more detail as follows:
Step 1: Structural Remodeling: After a traumatic injury, there is a loss of astrocytes in the region of injury. The first step of healing occurs at the site of focal astrocyte loss, where astrocytes around the injury (i.e. perilesional astrocytes), orient themselves toward the
center of the lesion or injury. Not only do these cells change their orientation at the site of injury, but their star-shaped extensions become more elongated. According to the authors, this elongation is the highest on day 5 after the injury.
The orientation and elongation of the astrocytes around the injured section of the brain functions similar to scaffolds erected around a damaged building.
Step 2: Proliferation and Daughter Nuclei Migration: In the next step of the process, Herwerth et al (2026) found that astrocyte division took place. In Herwerth’s study, roughly 60% of perilesional astrocytes proliferated, and sent nuclei gliding through cytoplasmic extensions into the lesion. The authors explain that the gliding nuclei move “…across long distances to repopulate the damaged area of the brain and knit the astrocyte network back together.”
This observation is noteworthy as most cell migration involves the whole cell moving, rather than just the cell nucleus. However, in the case of astrocytes working on repairing a damaged cell, this approach is efficient to repopulate damaged areas quickly without uprooting the entire cell. In the case of astrocytes, the nucleus itself relocates while still sharing cytoplasm with the mother cell for a time. This phenomenon is often known by the term ‘nucleokinesis’.
One of the reasons this observation is surprising is that adult astrocytes were long thought to be static support cells. Nucleokinesis processes are often associated with neural development (e.g., in embryos); however, this process also remains built-into the adult brain structures and activates upon injury. With this process, the nucleus (the genetic blueprint) is transported like a seed into barren territory.
Step 3: Multinucleated States and Cytoplasmic Sharing: Herworth et al’s (2026) discovery also revealed another surprising aspect of the astrocyte’s role and context in the brain cell regeneration process. Specifically, during migration of the cell nuclei, electron microscopy revealed that mother and daughter nuclei often shared the same cytoplasm during migration. The authors explained why this was surprising. In their words: “Despite their distance from each other, mother and daughter nuclei share the same cytoplasm.” This design feature, even in this transitional state, ensures resources and signaling continuity until the daughter nuclei could survive alone.
Step 4: Transient Gene Activation: A fourth aspect of the astrocyte healing process was the discovery that astrocytes’ repair functions only activate when needed and where needed, with this function deactivating after the cell regeneration process has been completed. This prevents constant overgrowth or inflammation, ensuring balance in the brain.
Using spatial transcriptomics as a method to show which genes are active in specific locations of tissue, the authors found a distinct “injury-associated” gene pattern that activates after astrocyte loss. These genes helped the astrocytes remodel, proliferate, and move nuclei into the damaged area. Once the astrocyte network was rebuilt, those genes quieted down and returned to normal baseline activity.
The transient-nature of the repair process triggered by injury points to the existence of a built-in emergency programme within the cellular network inside our brains. This dynamic regulation is like a fail-safe system in engineering: automatically triggered during damage, guiding repair, and then resetting to normal once stability is restored. Additionally, because the repair program is transient, the fact that the genes are only switched on temporarily at a precise timing prevents permanent changes and maladaptive overgrowth. From a design perspective, the improbability of such coordinated processes arising by chance is a strong testimony to intelligent design; astrocytes act with foresight, precision, and purpose.
While the design argument for astrocytes stands strong, mainstream publications continue to appeal to evolutionary processes to explain the functions of astrocytes (e.g., from Cell Stem Cell, Frontiers in Cell and Development Biology and BioRxiv). Even in August 2026, an article entitled: Written in the Stars: Astrocyte Biology from Evolution to Disease (Falcone et al), Acta Physiol (Oxf), attributed astrocytes as:
Falcone et al (2026) also argue that:
As with most evolutionary explanations, the functions of astrocytes
are reduced to merely being a reaction to demands for survival. Yet the improbability of nucleokinesis, cytoplasmic sharing, and transient gene activation arising stepwise is immense. Each mechanism requires multiple coordinated components, with precise orientations, positionings and timings to manage injury, alongside the other functions that astrocytes play. Without all parts functioning together, repair would fail.
Q: With such complexities, how could the astrocyte regeneration process be born from a gradual accumulation of random mutations to function so seamlessly as a holistic, integrated design?"
"Focal astrocyte loss reveals nuclear translocation during lesion repopulation (Herwerth et al, Nature Neuroscience, 23 July 2026). The authors found that an adult’s brain may have a much greater regenerative capacity than previously assumed. This new discovery focuses on a star-shaped type of cell (called ‘astrocytes’) that have been seen to repopulate damaged areas, sending nuclei into lesions and rebuilding networks.
In a press release by the University of Zurich (August 2026), the authors state that “The findings of our study reveal a previously unknown ability of the adult brain to repair itself”.
In addition to bringing some hope to families who have watched loved ones with traumatic injuries struggle, without medical reassurance, this previously unknown healing functional process involving astrocytes is worth deeper examination from the lens of the origins and design debate.
In conventional medicine, astrocytes are recognized as a type of glial cells (with the term ‘glia’ meaning ‘glue’, as early scientists thought
In this way, astrocytes as a type of glial cell were viewed as reactive, rather than regenerative, where upon a brain injury, astrocytes were observed to form borders around lesions that were often considered a barrier to regeneration rather than a repair mechanism. As it was assumed that the border made by astrocytes did not include repair, neurons were seen as irreplaceable.
While conventional medicine supported the idea of some amount of recovery possible via physiotherapy, this ‘recovery’ was thought of as only functional compensation, traditionally explained by surviving areas of the brain taking over lost functions, not by true tissue repair. For example, according to conventional medicine, patients could relearn speech after left-hemisphere damage because other regions adapted, not because cells regrew.
The findings by Herwerth et al (2026) provide insights that may form the basis of an important medical paradigm shift. The adult brain is no longer seen as incapable of structural repair. Since astrocytes are now seen to demonstrate a regenerative plasticity, this could inspire new therapies and provide renewed hope for patients with traumatic brain injuries that may benefit from treatments that harness astrocyte regeneration.
Herwerth et al (2026) outline four steps in the process of cell regeneration through astrocyte action, namely, structural remodeling, proliferation and nuclei migration, multinucleated states, and transient gene activation. As outlined, each of these steps involved complex processes that build upon the previous step toward the unified goal of cell recovery. The process may be summarized in more detail as follows:
Step 1: Structural Remodeling: After a traumatic injury, there is a loss of astrocytes in the region of injury. The first step of healing occurs at the site of focal astrocyte loss, where astrocytes around the injury (i.e. perilesional astrocytes), orient themselves toward the
The orientation and elongation of the astrocytes around the injured section of the brain functions similar to scaffolds erected around a damaged building.
Q: From an evolutionary standpoint of chance processes, what would be the probability for random mutations to explain why astrocytes consistently extend toward injury?
Step 2: Proliferation and Daughter Nuclei Migration: In the next step of the process, Herwerth et al (2026) found that astrocyte division took place. In Herwerth’s study, roughly 60% of perilesional astrocytes proliferated, and sent nuclei gliding through cytoplasmic extensions into the lesion. The authors explain that the gliding nuclei move “…across long distances to repopulate the damaged area of the brain and knit the astrocyte network back together.”
This observation is noteworthy as most cell migration involves the whole cell moving, rather than just the cell nucleus. However, in the case of astrocytes working on repairing a damaged cell, this approach is efficient to repopulate damaged areas quickly without uprooting the entire cell. In the case of astrocytes, the nucleus itself relocates while still sharing cytoplasm with the mother cell for a time. This phenomenon is often known by the term ‘nucleokinesis’.
One of the reasons this observation is surprising is that adult astrocytes were long thought to be static support cells. Nucleokinesis processes are often associated with neural development (e.g., in embryos); however, this process also remains built-into the adult brain structures and activates upon injury. With this process, the nucleus (the genetic blueprint) is transported like a seed into barren territory.
Q: From an evolutionary standpoint, why would a cell evolve to move nuclei independently? What is the probability of such a mechanism arising piecemeal?
Step 3: Multinucleated States and Cytoplasmic Sharing: Herworth et al’s (2026) discovery also revealed another surprising aspect of the astrocyte’s role and context in the brain cell regeneration process. Specifically, during migration of the cell nuclei, electron microscopy revealed that mother and daughter nuclei often shared the same cytoplasm during migration. The authors explained why this was surprising. In their words: “Despite their distance from each other, mother and daughter nuclei share the same cytoplasm.” This design feature, even in this transitional state, ensures resources and signaling continuity until the daughter nuclei could survive alone.
Q: Could evolutionary chance really account for such foresight?
Step 4: Transient Gene Activation: A fourth aspect of the astrocyte healing process was the discovery that astrocytes’ repair functions only activate when needed and where needed, with this function deactivating after the cell regeneration process has been completed. This prevents constant overgrowth or inflammation, ensuring balance in the brain.
Using spatial transcriptomics as a method to show which genes are active in specific locations of tissue, the authors found a distinct “injury-associated” gene pattern that activates after astrocyte loss. These genes helped the astrocytes remodel, proliferate, and move nuclei into the damaged area. Once the astrocyte network was rebuilt, those genes quieted down and returned to normal baseline activity.
The transient-nature of the repair process triggered by injury points to the existence of a built-in emergency programme within the cellular network inside our brains. This dynamic regulation is like a fail-safe system in engineering: automatically triggered during damage, guiding repair, and then resetting to normal once stability is restored. Additionally, because the repair program is transient, the fact that the genes are only switched on temporarily at a precise timing prevents permanent changes and maladaptive overgrowth. From a design perspective, the improbability of such coordinated processes arising by chance is a strong testimony to intelligent design; astrocytes act with foresight, precision, and purpose.
Q: How could evolution explain such reversible, context-dependent programming?
While the design argument for astrocytes stands strong, mainstream publications continue to appeal to evolutionary processes to explain the functions of astrocytes (e.g., from Cell Stem Cell, Frontiers in Cell and Development Biology and BioRxiv). Even in August 2026, an article entitled: Written in the Stars: Astrocyte Biology from Evolution to Disease (Falcone et al), Acta Physiol (Oxf), attributed astrocytes as:
“… emerging as supportive cells of primitive sensory organs…” and driving “…a continuous expansion of astroglial complexity and functional versatility, ultimately making them indispensable neuroprotectors and homeostatic regulators.”
Falcone et al (2026) also argue that:
“…The large, morphologically elaborate astrocytes of the human brain arguably reflect an evolutionary response to increased neuronal homeostatic demands…”
As with most evolutionary explanations, the functions of astrocytes
Q: With such complexities, how could the astrocyte regeneration process be born from a gradual accumulation of random mutations to function so seamlessly as a holistic, integrated design?"
CEH
Saturday, August 29, 2026
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
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,
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
Friday, August 28, 2026
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 Bible is the great detector of error—light that rebukes the
*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
Thursday, August 27, 2026
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:
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?
In other words, humans had babies that looked and acted like human babies! What a shock!"
"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
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
Wednesday, August 26, 2026
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."
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
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
Tuesday, August 25, 2026
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.
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.
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."
Universality – Quantum mechanics applies to the entire universe as
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.
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,
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
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
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
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
Monday, August 24, 2026
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.
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
Sunday, August 23, 2026
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."
"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.
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
Saturday, August 22, 2026
Sabbath and the family
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
Friday, August 21, 2026
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
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.
"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
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
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