Worldwide Proclamation of the Gospel Brought to View

"Revelation 14:6 And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting Gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people, 7 Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to Him; for the hour of His judgment is come: and worship Him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters. 

IN THESE words a special, 

worldwide proclamation of the Gospel is brought to view. 

It is the same work of which Christ spoke when He said, 

in Matthew 24:14 

---This Gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; 

---and then shall the end come. 

This appears from the fact that the next event in the prophecy is the coming of Christ. 

Revelation 14:14 And I looked, and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud one sat like unto the Son of man, having on His head a golden crown, and in His hand a sharp sickle. 15 And another angel name out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to Him that sat on the cloud, Thrust in your sickle, and reap; for the time is come for You to reap; for the harvest of the earth is ripe. 16 And He that sat on the cloud thrust in His sickle on the earth; and the earth was reaped."
E.J. Waggoner

IN the NEWS - Permission Granted

But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them.... 2 Peter 2:1 ESV

"The Vatican has given the go-ahead for Catholics to continue visiting a southern Bosnian village where children reported seeing visions of the Virgin Mary.

The Vatican offered its approval for devotion in one of the most

contested aspects of Roman Catholic practice in recent years. The village of Međugorje was put on the map in 1981, after six children and teenagers claimed to have seen an apparition of the Virgin Mary..... new Vatican criteria that was put in place this year, ruled that the "spiritual fruits" stemming from the Međugorje experience more than justified allowing the people to organize pilgrimages there and permitting public acts of devotion.

Since the first reports of apparitions, Catholics have flocked to Međugorje to visit the place which has been held in high religious regard. Until now, the Vatican has not officially backed the pilgrimages to the area, and past diocesan bishops have voiced doubts about the validity of the claims. 

Some of the original witnesses from 1981, have claimed the visions have occurred regularly since then, even daily, and that Mary sends them messages." 

IrishTimes

Creation Moment 9/28/2024 - "Redshift" Blues for Big Bangers

"William G. Tifft in 1973: “quantized redshifts.” The big bang theory

was becoming stronger at the time. Robert Wilson and Arno Penzias had detected the cosmic background radiation, the alleged “echo” of the big bang, in 1964. Alternative cosmologies were waning in popularity and the big bang was king. It was rapidly becoming the “standard model” for the origin of the universe. But quantized redshifts threw a monkey wrench into the big bang. If true, they suggested that redshifts were not a function of distance or age.

Tifft claimed to have detected 

--a periodicity to redshift values, 

--rather than a continuum. 

*The big bang predicted a continuum of redshifts due to the expansion of the universe. 

Q: How could they be periodic, like beads on a string? 

It made no sense. A few other astronomers followed up with additional estimates of periodic redshift values, either linear or logarithmic. 

Because Tifft was hanging out with mavericks like Fred Hoyle, J.V. Narlikar, Halton Arp and Geoffrey Burbidge, most cosmologists tended to dismiss the announcement as a mistake based on some flaw in measurements or an anomaly that would be explained later.

This year, more discussion appeared among cosmologists about quantized redshifts, and Phys.org picked up the buzz.

Quantized redshift and challenges to Big Bang hypothesis (23 Sept 2024, Phys.org). This article emerged as a dialog on Science X Network, a location on Phys.org’s parent company “where researchers can report findings from their published research articles.” The published article in this instance was posted August 12 on Cornell’s arXiv preprint server:

Quantized Redshift and its significance for recent observations (12 Aug 2024, arXiv). This preprint by Arindam Mal, Sarbani Palit, Christopher C. Fulton, Sisir Roy was the basis for the Phys.org article by two of the authors, Mal and Roy. The abstract of the paper claims new values of periodicity for quantized redshifts:

"We have observed a fundamental periodicity of 0.051 with a confidence interval of 95% in linear scale with the site-available Sloan Digital Sky Survey data release 7 (SDSS DR7) quasar-galaxy pair data set. We have independently generated quasar-galaxy pair data sets from both 2dF and SDSS and found fundamental periodicities of 0.077 and 0.089 in log scale with a confidence interval of 95%."

Astronomers subscribing to alternative cosmologists claim that

redshifts of quasars (the most luminous objects at great distances) are not functions of expansion of the universe, but rather age effects of quasars being ejected from galactic centers.

The Phys.org article says that observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have come into the discussion:

"Recent observations by JWST and other telescopes violate the standard cosmology fundamental principle that the universe is on average homogeneous and isotropic. Also violated are standard model predictions about high redshift, high luminosity, metallicity and carbon evolution in the early universe, including the presence of large filament objects, galaxies like the Milky Way and unexpected morphology of objects at both high and low redshift."

Some specific instances are mentioned in the article:

"The recently observed GNz7q is a dusty starburst galaxy from which a luminous quasar is apparently emerging, a situation that is not consistent with the presence of a still young central black hole in a less massive phase at high redshift.

GN-z11 is estimated to be only 70 million years old but appears to be a moderately massive, metal-free, second-generation galaxy. JWST has observed a supermassive black hole at 200 million years after the Big Bang, which raises the question as to how this SMBH formed so quickly just after the birth of the universe. Many other observations raise fundamental questions about the formation and evolution of both galaxies and quasars."

Cosmology in Crisis

Apart from the question of quantized redshifts, recent articles have worried about other anomalies threatening the standard big bang model.

Cosmology is at a tipping point – we may be on the verge of discovering new physics (12 Sept 2024, The Conversation). Andreea Font of Liverpool John Moore University uses the “tipping point” motif to suggest that things could go in opposite directions. Nevertheless, she remains “excited” at the possibility of new physics emerging from the debates.

"For the past few years, a series of controversies have rocked the well-established field of cosmology. In a nutshell, the predictions of the standard model of the universe appear to be at odds with some recent observations."

Study: Early dark energy could resolve cosmology’s two biggest puzzles (12 Sept 2024, MIT News). Jennifer Chu’s use of the phrase “two biggest puzzles” indicates that some major anomalies are not yet resolved. “In the universe’s first billion years, this brief and mysterious force could have produced more bright galaxies than theory predicts.” 

If proposed “early dark energy” could resolve them, that implies it

does not at this time. Nobody knows what dark energy is anyway. Sounds like adding a fudge factor to keep a theory from collapsing. MIT astronomers were sent into scramble mode when JWST kept finding big, bright galaxies too early for comfort. Solution: turn up the perhapsimaybecouldness knob.

"The bright galaxies that JWST saw would be like seeing a clustering of lights around big cities, whereas theory predicts something like the light around more rural settings like Yellowstone National Park,” Shen says. “And we don’t expect that clustering of light so early on.

For physicists, the observations imply that there is either something fundamentally wrong with the physics underlying the models or a missing ingredient in the early universe that scientists have not accounted for. The MIT team explored the possibility of the latter, and whether the missing ingredient might be early dark energy."

Q: So what is early dark energy but a fudge factor? 

A: It’s “a sort of antigravitational force that is turned on only at very early times.” Sounds like the Guth Goof, concocting inflation out of whole cloth to solve one problem by creating others.

Q: After cosmic dark ages, what burned away ubiquitous clouds of gas? 

A: NASA telescope finds surprises (10 Sept 2024, Science Magazine). One must read claims about the big bang with scrutiny. This article, while treating the big bang like established fact, exchanges one problem for its opposite problem.

"During the first billion years after the Big Bang, as the first stars and galaxies switched on and filled the darkness with new light, they also caused another transformation: ionizing the neutral hydrogen gas filling the universe. Until recently, astronomers struggled to explain how it could happen. Ionizing hydrogen requires high-energy ultraviolet (UV) light, and the sparse, fledgling galaxies did not seem up to the task. Now, JWST, NASA’s orbiting infrared observatory, has turned that on its head. It is finding so many bright young galaxies and luminous black holes that there may be an oversupply of UV light."

Combination and summary of ATLAS dark matter searches within 2HDM+a framework (12 Sept 2024, Science China Press via Phys.org). They keep looking but just cannot find the stuff.

"Despite extensive astronomical observations confirming the existence of dark matter, we have limited knowledge about the properties of dark matter particles. From a microscopic perspective, the Standard Model of particle physics, established in the mid-20th century, has been hugely successful and confirmed by numerous experiments.

However, the Standard Model cannot explain the existence of dark matter in the universe, indicating the need for new physics beyond the Standard Model to account for dark matter candidate particles, and the urgent need to find experimental evidence of these candidates."

The crisis in big bang cosmology should be a reminder to Bible believers to trust the Word of God and not build their models on the shifting sands of materialist ideas. Details are hard to resolve sometimes, but we have the big picture from the Eyewitness: “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. Genesis 1:1.” 

CEH

Devout souls

For this child I prayed.
1 Samuel 1:27

"Devout souls delight to look upon those mercies which they have obtained in answer to supplication, for they can see God’s especial love in them. 

When we can name our blessings Samuel, that is, “asked of God,” they will be as dear to us as her child was to Hannah. 

Peninnah had many children, but they came as common blessings unsought in prayer: Hannah’s one heaven-given child was dearer far, because he was the fruit of earnest pleadings. 

How sweet was that water to Samson which he found at “the well of him that prayed!” 

Q: Did we pray for the conversion of our children? 

How doubly sweet, when they are saved, to see in them our own petitions fulfilled! 

---Even when prayer speeds not, the blessings grow all the richer for the delay." 

Charles Spurgeon

Creation Moment 9/27/2024 - Problem for Materialists

For His invisible attributes, that is, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen since the creation of the world, being understood through what He has made. 

As a result, people are without excuse. 

Romans 1:20 CSB

"Prior to the origin of the MATTER -- there is No MATTER to do the Causing." 

Stephen Meyer

FOLLOW

And they follow Me.
John 10:27

"We should follow our Lord as unhesitatingly as sheep follow their shepherd, for He has a right to lead us wherever He pleases. 

We are not our own, 

we are bought with a price—

let us recognize the rights of the redeeming blood. 

The soldier follows his captain, the servant obeys his master, much more must we follow our Redeemer, to whom we are a purchased possession. 

 Often might our Lord say to us as to Peter, “What is that to thee? Follow thou me.” 

Wherever Jesus may lead us, He goes before us. 

To the dens of lions, or to the hills of leopards, we will follow our Beloved. Precious Jesus, draw us, and we will run after Thee." 

Charles Spurgeon

Creation Moment 9/26/2024 - Dyson said it

And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge;.... and have not LOVE, I am nothing. 

1 Corinthians 13:2

"The public has a distorted view of science, because children are
taught in school that science is a collection of firmly established truths. In fact, science is not a collection of truths. It is a continuing exploration of mysteries.... Our planet is covered by continents and oceans whose origin we cannot explain.... The origin of life is a total mystery, and so is the existence of human consciousness." 

Freeman Dyson

Meeting Sin as an Invading Force (Luke 14:31,32)

"All the right calculation at the beginning. Jesus says, Matthew 11:30 My yoke is easy… –and it is so. He says, 30 ...My burden is light; –and it is so. 

But many people who are in the way do not find His yoke easy nor His burden light. 

And all the difficulty is that they do not make the right calculation as to the contest that is met in the way. 

Jesus said: Luke 14:31 What king, going to make war against

another king, sits not down first, and consults whether he be able with ten thousand to meet him that comes against him with twenty thousand? 32 Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends an embassage, and desires conditions of peace. 

Many start in the way, and this is the right thing to do. 

---But by not properly estimating the force against them nor their power to meet it, they do not prosper in the way as they should, nor as they expected. 

---They do not rightly estimate the power of sin, nor their power to meet it successfully. In a little while they find themselves failing repeatedly, and then, after many “ups and downs,” they begin to think that that is the way, and then begin to excuse sin, and apologize for it, and try to strike conditions of peace in that sort of experience.

 

*But this will never do. Victory can never come that way. No; sit down first, and “consult” as to what are the forces against you, and whether you are able to meet them, and if not able to meet them, then what to do in order to meet them successfully; 

--for no apology, 

--no compromise, 

--no peace, must ever be sought or allowed with sin." 

A.T. J ones

Creation Moment 9/25/2024 - Polluting Science Literature

.....and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity. Psalm 62:9

"The inherent uncertainty of research provides a safe haven for data omission, manipulation or exaggeration. Because interpretation of data is an imperfect science, there are few consequences for those tempted to oversell their findings. 

On the contrary, ...faulty embellishment can help to determine whether a study is published--and where.... significant errors or falsehoods may be overlooked or simply pass unchallenged. As a result, modern science can churn out a flotsam of dead-end data that pollute the literature and waste precious resources." Jim Woodgett, Nature, 05 Sept. 2012

Reconciliation of God

Q: What provision was made for reconciliation on earth?

And all things are of God, 

---who hath reconciled us to Himself by Jesus Christ, and hath

given to us the ministry of reconciliation; 

---To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; 

---and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation. 

Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God. 

For He hath made him to be sin for us, 

who knew no sin; 

---that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him.
2 Corinthians 5:18–21

Creation Moment 9/24/2024 - Baleen whales

"Baleen whales are among the biggest creatures on Earth – science is revealing new secrets about their size (11 Sept 2024, The Conversation).

“And God created great sea creatures,” Genesis 1:21 has stated for over three millennia, but Darwinians scoff at such notions believed by “people of faith.” 

In this piece on the Darwine-drunk website The Conversation, Sam McKee dispenses with faith. He has Darwinian evolution to give him understanding!

“Baleen whales evolved bristly baleen plates instead of teeth, which filter or trap krill, plankton and small fish inside their mouths,” he says. But is it logical to beg the question? Has his study of rorquals, which includes baleen whales, given him understanding?

"Rorquals swim large distances which has made uncovering their evolution difficult for many reasons, including that it’s harder to identify individual populations. Furthermore, the scale of commercial hunting in the past two centuries almost destroyed many rorqual populations."

The promised understanding never comes. He wonders why large animals like whales don’t get cancer, having many more cells than we do. Maybe it’s because “molecular mechanisms of rorquals seem to give them cancer resistance.” 

But that could be by design, not evolution. Where is the promised science (not faith) that can explain whales’ immunity from cancer and huge size? Comparing genes of rorquals of different sizes doesn’t mean that they evolved from each other in a Darwinian way. There is no clear evolutionary path. It’s all fluff.

"Another 2023 genetic study helped us understand how hybridisation muddled the picture of their genomic makeup, as there has been much interbreeding between rorqual species. But we now know that rorquals took a different ecological and evolutionary niche to other baleen whales, as well as toothed whales, to become impressive hunters."

Why is it an “evolutionary niche” and not just a niche? 

Is his use of that adjective a subconscious tribute to Darwin? Hybridization is not evolution. It merely shuffles existing genetic information. It doesn’t create new genetic information as Darwinism requires." CEH

LESSON of: "With the wild beasts"

And He was there in the wilderness forty days, tempted of Satan; and was with the wild beasts; and the angels ministered unto Him. Mark 1:13

"With the wild beasts - This is a curious circumstance, which is mentioned by none of the other evangelists; and seems to intimate that 

---He was in the most remote, unfrequented, and savage part of the desert; 

---which, together with the diabolic influence, tended to render the whole scene the more horrid. 

Mark observes this circumstance of his being in the wilderness—that he was with the wild beasts.

It was an instance of His Father's care of Him,

that He was preserved from being torn in pieces by the wild beasts, which encouraged Him the more that His Father would provide for Him when He was hungry." 

Adam Clarke

Creation Moment 9/23/2024 - The Creator Stooped

All things were made by Him; and without Him was not any thing made that was made. John 1:3

"....and that consequently He is no creature, as all created nature was formed by Him: for without Him was nothing made that is made, Now, as what was before creation must be eternal, and as what gave being to all things, could not have borrowed or derived its being from any thing, 

therefore Jesus, 

--who was before all things 

--and who made all things, 

must necessarily be the ETERNAL God.

He that hung upon the cross was the Maker of all worlds.
He that came as an infant, for our sake, was the Infinite.
How low he stooped!" 

Charles Spurgeon/Matthew Henry

The Cry of Sinners: Same as the Cry of the Demons

Saying, Let us alone; what have we to do with Thee, Thou Jesus of Nazareth? art Thou come to destroy us? I know thee who Thou art, the Holy One of God. Mark 1:24

Q: How often that is still the cry of sinners,

"Let us alone." 

Charles Spurgeon

The "Really" File - (Unloving Times)

....unloving,....unmerciful... Romans 1:31

"The dating and hookup app Bumble, which enables women to facilitate random sexual encounters with strangers, is financing free screenings around the country of Hillary Clinton’s pro-abortion

documentary, with the screenings set to occur ahead of November’s presidential election.
Bumble is financing the rollout of Zurawski v Texas, which will open in Austin on September 24 before a series of free screenings at Alamo Drafthouse theaters around the country on September 25, according to a report from The Hollywood Reporter.
The movie is reportedly still looking for a traditional theatrical distributor or streamer, which it would need to launch an awards season campaign.

From the "Really" File

Zurawski v Texas follows a group of women who sue the state of Texas following the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade. As Breitbart News reported, one of the women was Amanda Zurawski — whose story was used by Joe Biden reelection campaign.
Hillary Clinton helped produce Zurawski v Texas through her production company HiddenLight, which she co-founded along with daughter Chelsea.
The app — which also bills itself as a networking platform — was the brainchild of Whitney Wolfe Herd, who previously worked at another app, Tinder." Breitbart

REALLY?

Creation Moment 9/22/2024 - By a Creator or Flukes?

Thus saith God the LORD, He that created the heavens, and stretched them out; He that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; He that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein: Isaiah 42:5

"...the notion that life’s diversity could have developed by some preternaturally benign concatenation of flukes does not commend

itself as an intuitive probability to unbiased observers with no stake in finding a wholly materialistic explanation for all things. 

Could Nature, without any intelligence itself, have been capable of developing creatures with immense reserves of intelligence, or is this, as opponents have persistently objected, just a freethinking donnish fantasy harbored by those who simply will there to be a materialist Grand Theory of Everything?"
Neil Thomas, Evolution News June 10, 2022

In the evening .....

In the evening withhold not thy hand.
Ecclesiastes 11:6

"In the evening of the day opportunities are plentiful: men return from their labor, and the zealous soul-winner finds time to tell abroad the love of Jesus. 

Q: Have I no evening work for Jesus? 

---Sinners are perishing for lack of knowledge; 

---he who loiters may find his skirts crimson with the blood of souls. Jesus gave both His hands to the nails, 

Q: how can I keep back one of mine from his blessed work? 

Night and day He toiled and prayed for me, how can I give a single hour to the pampering of my flesh with luxurious ease? 

Up, idle heart; stretch out thy hand to work, or uplift it to pray; heaven and hell are in earnest, let me be so, and this evening sow good seed for the Lord my God.

By His grace I will die in harness, and lay down my charge only when I lay down my body." 

Charles Spurgeon

Creation Moment 9/21/2024 - From Boyle's will

When I consider .....the work of Thy fingers..... What is man, that Thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that Thou visitest him?
Psalm 8:3,4

"Wishing them also a most happy success in their laudable attempts to discover the true nature of the works of God, and praying, that they and all other searchers into physical truths may cordially 

refer their attainments to 

---the glory of the Author of Nature, 

---and the benefit of mankind."

Robert Boyle (1627-1691), speaking of the Royal Society in his will

"Boyle is largely regarded today as the first modern chemist, and

therefore one of the founders of modern chemistry, and one of the pioneers of modern experimental scientific method. He is best known for Boyle's law,] which describes the inversely proportional relationship between the absolute pressure and volume of a gas, if the temperature is kept constant within a closed system. Among his works, The Sceptical Chymist is seen as a cornerstone book in the field of chemistry." 

wiki

When the Saints "Judge"

"Now, according to the following verses, judgment is not given to the saints in this life, but in the life to come: 

Revelation 20:4 I saw thrones, and they [the “much people in Heaven,” Revelation 19:1-8] sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them;...and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. 

1 Corinthians 6:2 Do you not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters? 

3 Know you not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life? 

1 Corinthians 4:5 Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts; and then shall every man have praise of God. 

From these texts it is plain that: 

• The judgment that is given to the saints is a judgment both of the world and of angels (the evil angels); 

• It does not pertain to this life; 

• It is with Christ in Heaven, where they reign with him a thousand years; and 

• It is given to the saints at the coming of the Lord. This is made emphatic by the closing words of Daniel, quoted above: 

Daniel 7:21 The same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them; 22 Until the Ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the Most High; and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom." 

A.T. Jones

Creation Moment 9/20/2024 - 4 Problems of the human evolutionary model

So God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him; male and female created He them. 

Genesis 1:27

"The human evolutionary model has many fundamental problems.

For example, there is strong evidence that human populations cannot survive in deep time due the relentless accumulation of slightly deleterious mutations (Sanford 2014). 

Many of the mutations that account for the millions of rare alleles in the human population should be very slightly deleterious. This should result in continuous genetic degeneration and eventual extinction. 

A second profound problem with the human evolutionary model is the fact that there is simply no credible way that mutation/selection can create the vast amount of new information that would be required to change an ape population into a human population. 

The enormous difficulty of creating the biological information that makes life, and makes us human, has been demonstrated on many levels (Marks et al. 2013). 

The counter-claim has been that the famous nylonase gene is proof that it is easy to create new functional biological information. However, the spontaneous nylonase claim has recently been falsified (Cordova and Sanford 2017). 

The human evolution model has a third glaring problem called “the waiting time problem”. It turns out that it would take at least 84 million years to create and fix a nucleotide string consisting of only two letters in a human-like ancestral population (Sanford et al. 2015). Yet human evolution requires a vast number of specific nucleotide strings that are much longer than two letters long. 

A fourth serious problem associated with the human evolutionary model involves the fact that the bones that are popularly claimed to be “transitional fossils” are actually highly contested within the field of paleoanthropology (Rupe and Sanford 2017)."

John C. Sanford

Reign of sin

"Where sin abounded, Romans 5:21 says that “sin has reigned.” And to reign is: 

• to hold and exercise sovereign power; 

• to exercise commanding influence; 

• to dominate; 

• to exercise control over; 

• control as by right or superior force; 

• to prevail irresistibly; exist widely or to the exclusion of something else. 

That is what the word of God says that sin does in men and with men as they are of themselves. 

And until that fact is recognized, no man can be delivered from the

power of sin. The word used, and translated “reigned,” is a word that signifies and relates to governments and the reign of sovereigns. 

And when the Word of God thus speaks, it wants us to understand that men in sin are under the government and sovereign power of sin, just as men who are in an earthly kingdom are under the power of that government. 

Again: the Scripture describes the condition of the sinner thus: Romans 7:14 I am carnal, sold under sin. In these times a man who was sold was a slave, and was in all things absolutely subject to his master." 

A.T. Jones

SDA News - Ben Carson's Response to 2nd assassination attempt of Trump

Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. John 8:44

"Yesterday, Dr. Ben Carson posted on X the following message:
"This is a dark day in American history, and I fear we are not

grasping the gravity of the situation. Two assassination attempts in two months. It’s unacceptable.
Your ideals and beliefs should never present a threat to your life in the United States of America.
We are in the midst of a severe moral and spiritual crisis in this nation. This cannot be the society our children and grandchildren inherit.
I am praying that God will give us the fortitude and wisdom to navigate ourselves out of it. I’d ask that all of you join me in those prayers today." F7

Again? Trump Reported Safe After Gunfire Near His Location
Don Jr: AK-47 Found at West Palm Beach Golf Course
“President Trump is safe following gunshots in his vicinity,” Trump
campaign Communications Director Steven Cheung said in a

statement. “No further details at this time.” According to one report, the gunshots were fired while Trump was at Trump National Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, where he was golfing today. Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr., said a suspect has been apprehended and an AK-47 rifle was found in the bushes at Trump National, citing law enforcement officials.
Update 5:56 p.m.: Multiple media outlets have identified the suspect as Ryan Wesley Routh.
Update 4:51 p.m.: The FBI now says it is investigating what appears to be an attempted assassination of Trump. The shots came from "a few hundred feet from where Trump was playing," according to Fox News. "It was the Secret Service that fired the gunshots" after they

saw a man carrying a long gun, Fox reported. He reportedly dropped the gun and ran and was apprehended by Secret Service. 

The 58-year-old apparently has an unusual past which includes a criminal conviction, trying to recruit US-trained Afghan fighters to join the Ukrainian military, and writing a self-published book, in which he ponders, among other things, why Russian President Vladimir Putin “has not been killed yet.” "Ryan Wesley Routh, 58, the alleged attempted assassin who was
apprehended Sunday after trying to kill former President Donald Trump, reportedly had a Harris-Biden bumper sticker on a truck outside his home in Hawaii."

Breitbart

Creation Moment 9/19/2024 - Duons & tRNAs

I will praise Thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made:
marvellous are Thy works;
Psalm 139:14

"Researchers over the past decade have been characterizing new, previously hidden genetic codes embedded within the same sections of genes that code for proteins—utterly defying all naturalistic explanations for their existence.

This same linear sequence of genetic information that encodes multiple programming languages with different instructions is truly evidence of supernatural engineering that can only be ascribed to the all-powerful and all-wise Creator.

Protein-coding genes contain key information to make proteins and contain the most studied type of genetic code. Some of the most important chunks of code in protein-coding genes, called exons, are those segments that specify the actual template for protein sequences.

In exons, three consecutive DNA letters form what is called a codon, and each codon corresponds to a specific amino acid in a protein.

Long sets of codons in genes contain the protein-making information that ends up being represented in an RNA copy of the gene used to translate (create) entire proteins, which may be hundreds of amino acids in length, using cellular machinery (ribosomes).

In the early days of molecular biology, when the genetic code was being deciphered, codons initially appeared to possess some redundancy. This was because there are 61 codons in contrast to only 20 amino acids. As far as specifying a particular amino acid, the first two bases in the codon structure are the same, but the third base can vary.

For example, the codons GGU, GGC, GGA, and GGG all encode the same amino acid called glycine. When scientists first discovered this phenomenon, they called the variation in the third base a “wobble”
and, out of ignorance, simply relegated the variability as redundant or degenerate. In other words, they assumed that all the different codon variants for a given amino acid were functionally equivalent.

Until recently, scientists believed that the protein-coding regions of genes had mysterious signals other than codons that told the cell machinery how to regulate and process the RNA transcripts (copies of genes) prior to making the protein. Researchers originally thought that these regulatory codes and the protein template codes containing the codons operated independently of each other, but they no longer think this. These codes are embedded in the “wobble” base.

In 2013, a study was published in which researchers mapped the locations of where transcription factors were binding in active genes. They were surprised to discover that a significant proportion of the binding sites contained codons and that the third base in a codon contained information for the binding of a specific type of transcription factor in addition to coding for an amino acid. This initial discovery of a dual-use codon was labeled a duon. In humans, they discovered that about 15% of codons were dual-use codons, or duons.

This research showed that multiple overlapping or parallel codes in exons not only exist but also that these codes actually work both separately and together.

To summarize this remarkable discovery, the researchers said, “Our results indicate that simultaneous encoding of amino acid and regulatory information within exons is a major functional feature of complex genomes,” and the “information architecture of the received genetic code is optimized for superimposition of additional information.”

So, not only does a codon provide the information for which specific

amino acid to add in the making of a protein, but the variant of that codon also influences the information needed to regulate its folding at multiple levels. Thus, you have two different sets of information encoded in different languages in the same section of DNA. The researchers of the translation pausing paper note, “Dual interpretations enable the assembly of the protein’s primary structure while enabling additional folding controls via pausing of the translation process.” What was once thought to be meaningless redundancy or wobble has now been proven to be exactly the opposite.

Another discovery in 2016 showed that the third base of codons regulates rates of gene transcription, levels of mRNA copies made from a gene, and the corresponding amounts of protein produced. In other words, the amount of mRNA output produced from a gene is directly related to the specific DNA sequence in codons.

Gene output must be highly controlled and regulated in the cell, just like a cruise control mechanism in a car regulates its speed. If genes are not properly regulated, cellular dysfunction would result in disease or death. In addition to the many other types of DNA codes in and around genes that control transcription, now it is known that the specific sequence of codons, including the third base, plays a key role in gene regulation by controlling the rate of transcription.

Transfer RNAs (tRNAs) are specialized adaptor molecules composed of RNA, typically 76 to 90 nucleotides in length, that serve as the physical link between the mRNA and the amino acid sequence of proteins. The tRNAs do this by carrying a specified amino acid to the protein-synthesizing machinery—the ribosome. The complementation of a three-nucleotide codon in an mRNA by a three-nucleotide anticodon in the tRNA attached to the specified amino acid enables protein synthesis at the ribosome based on the mRNA code.

Like factories that make multiple products, all the assembly lines need a steady supply of the correct parts, and the processes involved in doing that need to be perfectly orchestrated. The tRNAs are the key parts in the protein assembly process that provide the correct amino acids at the ribosome when a protein is being synthesized. This complex coordination and resource distribution is affected by the third base in codons. Thus, the third base of a codon must be accurately coded or fine-tuned to produce the correct amount of a specified protein." 

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