Creation Moment 12/23/2023 - The Attempt to Seize the CREATOR's Scepter

"We were made from dust in the image of our Creator. But in rebellion, our culture tells us that we are the creators now.
Q: What is the connection between climate alarmism, abortion, and transgenderism? 

Q: Or between feminism, critical race theory, and postmodernism?
A: The answer begins with an important truth about human beings, revealed in Genesis 2:7: “The Lord A: God formed the man of dust from the ground.”
This truth tells us that we are not gods. It tells us that we are only creatures—part of the stuff that God created.

However, a whole other side of God’s nature is totally inaccessible to us, such as his infinity, omnipotence, self-existence, omniscience,

and so on. God will always be the great and mighty Creator. We will always be his dependent and finite creatures.
Remember, the serpent tempted Eve by falsely promising, “You will be like God” (Genesis 3:5). The first humans wanted something more than mere creatureliness. They wanted to be like the Creator Himself.

Transgenderism is fed by the belief that the fingerprint of God on our biology has no bearing on how we ought to live. We can redefine ourselves, rebelling against the definitions the Creator gave when he made the human race, male and female.

Abortion is an act that makes us the lord of another life. We can decide when life is life, or if a pre-born human should live. But, in reality, that decision has already been made by the Creator of life at fertilization.

As for LGBT, in Romans 1, the Apostle Paul argued that homosexuality opposed God’s creation authority. He did so because God has left a blueprint for sex in our anatomy. Biologically, it’s not hard to see how various parts of our bodies work together. But we deny this blueprint when we apply those parts in ways which they were evidently not designed to be used.

Climate alarmism puts mankind on the Creator’s throne. It says that we are in control of the climate’s destiny and therefore the planet. While we may see real value in being environmentally conscientious, God has told us that the ultimate destiny of the earth is in his hands—it will end in his time, according to his plan.

Critical race theory teaches that skin shades create insurmountable divisions between people groups. As different “races,” we experience different truth paradigms which cannot be shared. White will oppress black, and black will be victimized by white forever. But we know that God the Creator made just one human race—a radically shared humanity.

God made the first woman, Eve, with the commissioning word

“helper.” Then, she is called “mother.” Whether or not she marries and has children, a woman is created as a person-centric human, with many relevant gifts and abilities.
But feminism enters the picture with one defining word—“independence.” It undermines the emphasis of her creation entirely. It totally redefines woman when God had already defined her.

In these examples of contemporary sociopolitical issues, the theme should be clear. 

We are in a struggle to pry the scepter from the Creator’s hands so that we may rule with it instead." 

AIG

IN the NEWS - Climate CULT vs. God's Pinnacle of Creation

I have made the earth, 

and created man upon it: 

And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, 

and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; 

and man became a living being. 

Isaiah 45:12/Genesis 2:7

This CULT is now Targeting the Pinnacle of God's Creation...

"Human breathing contributes to global warming, according to a study published Wednesday in PLoS One. The authors argued that human respiration’s contribution to climate change has been

underestimated and merits further study.

“Exhaled human breath can contain small, elevated concentrations of methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O), both of which contribute to global warming,” the researchers, led by atmospheric physicist Nicholas Cowan of the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, wrote. “We would urge caution in the assumption that emissions from humans are negligible.”

A detailed analysis of test subjects’ diets failed to yield any indication that meat eaters produced more of either gas. While all test subjects exhaled nitrous oxide, only 31% exhaled methane. 

--These individuals, referred to as “methane producers” in the paper, were more likely to be female and over 30 years of age, though the researchers were unable to determine why this was the case.

There you have it; humans are bad for the environment. It was suggested that the authors of this study do the responsible thing for the environment and stop breathing immediately." 

GerryWagoner/F7

IN the NEWS - Once Again, your "unseemly" Government

....also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly... Romans 1:27

"A report revealed that the House investigated a second gay sex

scandal as Washington, DC, reels from the initial emergence of a graphic pornographic video filmed by a Senate aide.
That report confirmed the video “was shared in a private group for gay men in politics.” 

It is not immediately clear if the two episodes are explicitly linked or if the videos were shared among the same group.
One of the videos, watched by Semafor, featured a man masturbating inside a House office building, which was identifiable by standard Capitol House furniture and carpeting. The desk at which the videographer performed also held a branded congressional mouse pad. A screenshot of a second video obtained by Semafor shows two men engaged in a sex act in an office setting. The participants’ faces are not visible in any of the material viewed by Semafor." Breitbart

Creation Moment 12/22/2023 - 6 Days

But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: 

Exodus 20:10

"Some people wonder why God didn’t instantly create the cosmos in which we live.
The Ten Commandments, the covenant document between Israel and God, uses the Sabbath to show that Creator and creature, God and mankind, share something. 

They share action in a continuity of time;

 that is, God’s action is linked to our history. 

It demonstrates the basis for real fellowship.
God is the relating One who is holy. 

That is, separate. 

The days set the theme that will finally come to fruition in the Incarnation of God (Jesus) among His creatures as one of them." 

CMI

An Everlasting Love

Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love. 

Jeremiah 31:3

"SOMETIMES the Lord Jesus tells His Church His love thoughts.  'Thou art all fair, my love.' (Song of Solomon 4:7).

*It is true, this is not His ordinary method; 

He is a wise lover, and knows when to keep back the intimation of

love and when to let it out; but there are times when He will make no secret of it; times when He will put it beyond all dispute in the souls of His people. 

Ask those of the Lord's people who have lived the nearest to the gates of heaven, and they will tell you that they have had seasons when the love of Christ towards them has been a fact so clear and sure, that they could no more doubt it than they could question their own existence." 

Charles Spuegeon

Law of God = LIBERTY

"Christ declared, “Every one that commits sin is the bondservant of sin.” John 8:34. Therefore it "is the man whose life is not in obedience to the law of God who is deprived of liberty."

F.D. Nichol/F7

Creation Moment 12/21/2023 - Only a "Disturbing Mystery" for the Atheist

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. Genesis 1:1

"The origin of the universe is a mystery for science, surely for the

present one. It is a disturbing mystery ... The same applies to the origin of life and of Homo sapiens .... The concept of God .... helps us to make decisions in the right direction. We should be very different, I fear, if we did not have that concept." 

 E.P. Wigner, Nobel Prize for Physics

The Pre-Flood Giant kauri tree unearthed in New Zealand

And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.
Genesis 7:19

"News reports featured an enormous kauri tree (Agathis australis) unearthed at New Zealand’s Ngawha geothermal power station site.

In February 2019, it was found 8 m deep in clay as contractors were doing earthworks for a power station expansion.

An article by Newsweek reports comments from Alan Hogg, director of the radiocarbon dating laboratory connected with New Zealand’s University of Waikato. The article says that carbon dating revealed the kauri tree lived for 1,500 years, between 41,000 and 42,500 years ago.3 Alan Hogg is recognized as an international authority on radiocarbon tree-ring dating, including development of the Southern Hemisphere C-14 calibration curve.

Here are some comments on this news report as I think about it from a Biblical geological perspective.

1. Carbon dates ranging from 41,000 to 42,000 years are typical of dates for samples of wood that grew in the pre-Flood era and were ripped up during Noah’s Flood. This is because the C-14 concentration in the pre-Flood era was much less than it is today.

2. With such ‘old’ C-14 dates it seems unlikely that the kauri tree would have grown in the post-Flood era. The Flood ended about 4,500 years ago. If the tree grew for 1,500 years, then it would have been ripped up and buried about 3,000 years ago (around 1000BC).

Any growth in the period from 3,500 to 3,000 years ago would give a C-14 result between 4,500 and 3,500 C-!4 years. Hence, the C-14 ‘dates’ seem to indicate the tree is from the pre-Flood era.

3. Interestingly, the estimated age of the tree, 1,500 years, is about the same as the duration of the pre-Flood era, 1,700 years. The age may have been estimated by counting rings, or from the tree diameter. Or it may have been estimated by C-14 dating of samples from the middle and outside of the tree. In that case, it’s possible that the age of the tree may be overestimated, if there was a build-up of C-14 in the pre-Flood era.

4. I checked the geological map for clues whether tree was buried in Flood or post-Flood deposits. The area is dominated by the Whangai Formation, which is classified as late Cretaceous, 65 million years in the long-age scheme. Kauri trees are not reported in these sediments. There is an area labelled as Quaternary (eQa) and dated on the geological map at 128,000 years to 1.8 million years, in the area where the power plant is located. It is described as moderately consolidated mud, sand, gravel and peat. The tree was buried 8 m deep in clay, so I expect the kauri log was buried in this deposit.

5. There is a discrepancy between the 0.128 to 1.8 million years of the sediment and the 41,000 years for the kauri tree. Either the C-14 date will need to be discounted or the Quaternary deposit assigned a different date.

6. Pre-Flood trees would mean they were buried late in the Flood, similar to the brown coal deposits in Victoria, such as at Yallourn. This means that the forests now in New Zealand are related to the trees that were buried. They began to grow after the Flood from the vegetation that was deposited on the land by the Flood as the floodwaters went down.

Here are my preliminary conclusions about the kauri tree unearthed:

1. The huge kauri tree grew in a kauri forest before the Flood.

2. The Flood catastrophe ripped up the trees, separating the logs from the branches and leaves, so that the tree had no roots or branches.

3. The logs accumulated in log-mats which floated around on the oceans during the Flood.

4. As the waters of the Flood receded, and the energy of the receding water flow decreased, the log mats deposited in the smaller river valleys, and they were rapidly covered with sediment.

5. There is a discrepancy in the C-14 age of the tree and the age assigned to the Quaternary deposit on the geological map. Either the C-14 date will need to be discounted or the Quaternary deposit assigned a different date.

6. Once the floodwaters had receded, the kauri vegetation left on the surface provided the seeds and cuttings that enabled the post-Flood forests to grow and become established in New Zealand."

BiblicalGeology/TasWalker

IN the NEWS - Vatican Challenges God's Word

And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.

Since they thought it foolish to acknowledge God, He abandoned them to their foolish thinking and let them do things that should never be done.
Romans 1:27,28 NLT

"The Vatican has reversed its position banning the blessing of homosexual couples, asserting that a blessing can now be “offered to

all without requiring anything.”
In March, 2021, the Vatican’s doctrinal office (CDF) issued a statement declaring that the Church has no authority to bless homosexual unions, noting that God Himself “does not and cannot bless sin.”

Under a broader, pastoral understanding of blessings, “one can understand the possibility of blessing couples in irregular situations and same-sex couples without officially validating their status or changing in any way the Church’s perennial teaching on marriage,” Cardinal Fernández writes in his presentation of the Declaration.
In the text, Cardinal Fernández insists that allowing the blessing of objectively sinful relationships avoids “the danger that a pastoral gesture that is so beloved and widespread will be subjected to too many moral prerequisites,” which “could overshadow the unconditional power of God’s love that forms the basis for the gesture of blessing.”
“Such blessings are meant for everyone; no one is to be excluded from them,” the text states.

By extension, since a blessing can now be “offered to all without requiring anything,” one must suppose that sweatshops, drug cartels, prostitution rings, abortion clinics, and child pornography studios should not be denied a blessing if they request one.

The very act of requesting a blessing means acknowledging “that the life of the Church springs from the womb of God’s mercy and helps

us to move forward, to live better, and to respond to the Lord’s will,” the text states.
“Thus, when people ask for a blessing, an exhaustive moral analysis should not be placed as a precondition for conferring it,” Fernández writes. “For, those seeking a blessing should not be required to have prior moral perfection.”
“This world needs blessings, and we can give blessings and receive blessings,” the Declaration states.
In this way, “every brother and every sister will be able to feel that, in the Church, they are always pilgrims, always beggars, always loved, and, despite everything, always blessed,” it concludes." Breitbart

Creation Moment 12/20/2023 - Extrapolation from Pumpkins about Individuality

For ever since the world was created, people have seen the earth and sky. Through everything God made, they can clearly see His invisible qualities—His eternal power and divine nature. 

So they have no excuse for not knowing God. 

Romans 1:20 NLT

Variety for the taste buds and eyes---extrapolate from the example of the Pumpkin for every

other fruit---and one can see how things were created with the ability to produce variety---God knowing that His created beings would have different taste preferences due to individuality. Therefore, one can logically deduce that in an evolutionary worldview this would bever happen by random chance. Individuality would not logically arise from evolutionary processes...evolution would have no concern about pleasing your eyes or taste buds---but a loving "Father" would.

 

"Pumpkins are super-healthy food. 

--They’re full of essential vitamins and minerals, fiber, and protein. 

--The seeds are good for you, too! 

--There are over 100 varieties of pumpkins. 

--They come in all sorts of colors, like orange, green, white, yellow, pink, and blue. 

--Pumpkins grow from the flowers of their plants, which makes them a type of fruit." 

ICR

Grey Heads & Black Hearts

Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds.
Proverbs 27:23

"Every wise merchant will occasionally hold a stock-taking, when he will cast up his accounts, examine what he has on hand, and ascertain decisively whether his trade is prosperous or declining. 

Every man who is wise in the kingdom of heaven, will cry, "Search me, O God, and try me"; (Ps. 139:23) and he will frequently set apart special seasons for self-examination, to discover whether things are right between God and his soul.

Let the oldest saint look well to the fundamentals of his piety, for

grey heads may cover black hearts: and let not the young professor despise the word of warning, for the greenness of youth may be joined to the rottenness of hypocrisy. 

Every now and then a cedar falls into our midst. 

The enemy still continues to sow tares among the wheat."
Charles Spurgeon

Creation Moment 12/19/2023 - Tasmania CASE STUDY

And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell.... 

Acts 17:26

"The story of the complete extermination of the native peoples of Tasmania in the late 1800s is a well-documented example of one of the many negative results of pre-and post-Darwin racist evolutionary theories.

Statements by Tasmanian contemporaries document the belief that

the Tasmanians were regarded as biologically inferior humans. One local Tasmanian land commissioner “referred to local blacks as ‘Ourang Outang’s,’ adding that it would be a disgrace “to the human race to call them Men.”

The human evolutionary chain began with the highest level of humans, white European males….. and at the bottom were the Tasmanian natives, “who were scarcely distinguishable from apes.”

Conversely, “evangelical Protestantism of the late eighteenth century… advocated monogenism, the idea that all humans descended from Adam and Eve. Their preachers insisted that, given the right conditions, people of any race might be ‘improved.’
In harmony with this belief, missionaries flocked to the British colonies in the Americas, India, South Africa and the Pacific,” and later added Australia and Tasmania to their mission work."

Allport, the principal exporter of the bodily remains of Tasmanian Aboriginal people to Europe, during his career
shipped a total of five Tasmanian Aboriginal skeletons to Europe, proudly identifying himself as the most prolific trader in Tasmanian bodily remains. He made clear in his letters that he had directed the grave-robbing himself. …. "as populations of …. Tasmanian Aboriginal people were diminished, demand for their remains in museums and private collections increased."

Morton Allport worked to meet this demand. Allport’s exploits

included acquiring the remains of an Aboriginal man, William Lanne, considered a “prize specimen” as he was believed by the colonists to be the last Tasmanian man when he died in 1869. … Allport likely instructed that Lanne’s body be mutilated both before and—following his exhumation—after his burial so that Allport could add him to a museum collection in Hobart…. despite state-sponsored violence committed against …. Tasmanian Aboriginal peoples, they were both described by the colonists as being at fault for what happened to them—that they couldn’t cope in the ‘modern’ world.”

The concern over Allport’s activities is based on the fact that, instead of treating the remains of these people with the respect due to human beings, they were treated as animals, both when they were alive and when they had died. When they were alive, normal human compassion would have done what was necessary to ensure they did not become extinct. But due to racist beliefs existing then, they were treated as if they were an inferior race and, as Darwin correctly predicted, would become extinct, rendering the gap between apes and modern man wider. 

In Darwin’s words,

"At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace throughout the world the savage races. At the same time the anthropomorphous apes…will no doubt be exterminated. The break will then be rendered wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilized state, as we may hope than the Caucasian, and some ape as low as a baboon, instead of as at present between the negro or Australian [aborigines] and the gorilla."

Summary
The Tasmanian extermination is another example of the harm caused by racist ideas, both Darwinian and pre-Darwinian. The long record of causing harm to humanity is still being rectified. Fortunately, the scientific community is finally, albeit slowly, attempting to come to terms with this horrid past." 

CEH

IN the NEWS - Racial Segregation ALIVE and well in America

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? Jeremiah 17:9

"Boston Mayor Michelle Wu (D) proudly posted a photo from her no-whites-allowed holiday party amid backlash over the exclusionary event.

Wu, the city’s first Asian-American mayor, posted an image to her Instagram account Friday, showing a group of smiling colleagues at the dinner party. No white people, including Wu’s white husband, were pictured.

The segregated party, which took place Wednesday, came under fire when emails leaked showing how white elected officials were accidentally invited, then uninvited from the “of color” only gathering." Breitbart

What I've Noticed

....and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. 

Revelation 13:15

I’ve noticed over the Last Decade that I don’t recognize my country

anymore with all this woke poisonous censorship. 

I’ve also had several other fellow Gen xer’s comment the same to me. When we go to our grave we will be the last generation on our death beds with a flicker of a memory of what free speech once was in America.

But if one thinks about it—the government has 3 MECHANISMS to punish you: 

1) Fine you (take some of your income) 

2) Jail you (take away part of your life) and 

3) Execute you (take your life).

The anti-free speech zealots are already doing the first two (such as in California where you can be fined or jailed for mis-pronouning).
Q: How long before they move to option 3? — 20 years ago if I told you one day on American soil you could be fined or jailed for the WRONG PRONOUN– you would never believe me. Well, here we are. 

Q: So how long before option 3?

* Now picture these MECHANISMS in the hands of the BEAST Globally over the End Times Controversy.

The stage is being set. The Public in Western Democracies are being numbed to loss of Freedom.

IN the NEWS - Eccl. 7:5 Advice UNHEEDED

Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: 

for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. 

Ecclesiastes 7:5

"A 4-year-old boy was fatally shot in front of his parents in what Southern California authorities described as an "unimaginable" road rage incident involving two suspects who allegedly chased down the

victim's family and unleashed a barrage of gunfire on their vehicle.

The fatal shooting occurred Friday night in Los Angeles County after the assailants allegedly cut off the family's car on a highway in Lancaster, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.

A 29-year-old man and a 27-year-old woman were arrested and booked at the Los Angeles County Jail on suspicion of murder, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said.

While being pursued by the suspects, the victim driver slowed his vehicle, at which time the suspect driver pulled up along the passenger side of the victim's car and began shooting.

A bullet was fired into the family's car and hit the child, who was in the backseat, in the torso, authorities said.

His father and mother, who were in the vehicle, immediately transported him to a local hospital where he was pronounced deceased." ABC

Creation Moment 12/18/2023 - IF you were a "bewildered ape"

It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought: Ezekiel 38:10

"Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all. 

If you are merely a sceptic, you must sooner or later ask..., 

Q: 'Why should anything go right; even observation and deduction? Why should not good logic be as misleading as bad logic? 

Q: They are both movements in the brain of a bewildered ape?' 

The young sceptic says, 'I have a right to think for myself.' 

But the older sceptic, the complete sceptic, says, 'I have no right to think for myself; I have no right to think at all." 

G. K. Chesterton

IN the NEWS - Car Free Sunday has arrived on American Shores

BENDINING THE KNEE -- 

TO MOTHER EARTH AND ROME
I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: Galatians 1:6

"Fifth Avenue in New York City is considered iconic and is renowned as one of the most prestigious and upscale streets in the world.

Fifth Avenue runs through the heart of Manhattan and is home to

some of the city’s most famous landmarks and high-end retail stores, including St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Rockefeller Center, Central Park, Trump Tower, the Empire State Building, Tiffany & Co., and many others. Fifth Avenue has become a symbol of luxury, wealth, architecture, and commercial significance.

But on three Sundays in December 2023, for the first time in 50 years, cars will be prohibited by law, according to a partnership between the New York City Department of Transportation, City Hall, the New York City Police Department, and the Fifth Avenue Association. NBC News reported the following on December 1, 2023:
• “On Dec. 3, 10, and 17, from noon until 6 p.m., a stretch of Fifth Avenue will only be open to pedestrians.”

*And for city officials to shut down all traffic on Sunday and designate this day as something special in one of the most influential cities, it takes a great deal of work, preparation, and cooperation.

Since the major churches already view Sunday as a day of rest and worship, there is no doubt that they will accept and support any and all restrictions on the day. 

However, what is even more concerning is seeing the NYPD impose these restrictions that directly force people to honor Sunday, a religious tradition."
 AdventMessenger

IN the NEWS - This is Your Government: A Sodom & Gomorrah

 And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. Genesis 6:5

"The Congressional staffer who appeared in a gay pornographic video filmed in a Senate hearing room has been fired.
Senator Ben Cardin’s (D-MD) office released a statement that Aidan Maese-Czeropski is no longer employed by the U.S. Senate.

The graphic video that led to the firing, first released in a bombshell report from the Daily Caller, sent shockwaves throughout Washington. The leaked video footage shows a congressional staffer, later identified as Maese-Czeropski, having anal sex with an unknown man on a table in the Senate hearing room, where senators often sit to ask questions during hearings.
Before his firing was made public, Maese-Czeropski posted a statement on his LinkedIn profile.
“This has been a difficult time for me, as I have been attacked for who I love to pursue a political agenda,” he remarkably claimed." Breitbart

And who can forget this past summer?
"Photos have emerged of cocaine that was found last summer at the White House — before the Secret Service executed a quick investigation into the matter without arresting a suspect.

A small baggy containing roughly one gram of the white, powdery substance is visible in locker No. 50 near the White House’s West Executive entrance, according to photos the Daily Mail received after filing a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the protective agency.
The Secret Service concluded its probe just 11 days after the cocaine was discovered by an agent sweeping the West Wing on the night of Sunday, July 2, forcing a brief evacuation and a response by a hazmat team before the substance could be identified. President Biden and first lady Jill Biden had departed the White House two days before the drug’s discovery to spend a long weekend at Camp David.
The couple were accompanied by first son Hunter Biden, who has admitted to a history of crack cocaine addiction." NYP

Creation Moment 12/17/2023 - LHS 3154 just broke the law

Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God... Hebrews 11:3

"Astronomers are baffled again. A new exoplanet is so big in

comparison to its host star, it’s throwing prevailing theories about planet formation into the trash can. 

Planets are thought to form as clumps in dust disks circling young stars, but planets as big as Neptune are not allowed to form around dwarf stars. LHS 3154b just broke the law.

This ‘forbidden’ exoplanet is way too massive for its star (Space.com, 30 Nov 2023). Robert Lea says the ratio between this star and its planet is 100 times that of the sun and Earth. It’s illegal. Stop existing!

“This discovery really drives home the point of just how little we know about the universe. We wouldn’t expect a planet this heavy around such a low-mass star to exist.”

With a planet having more material than thought possible, it challenges two theories: planet formation and star formation.

"Thus, the discovery of this particular exoplanet also raises questions about the formation of stars. This is because the ratios of the dust-to-mass and dust-to-gas content of LHS 3154’s original protoplanetary disk would have had to be ten times higher than predictions in order to birth a Neptune-like world 

as massive as LHS 3154 b."

“Astronomers have discovered a massive extrasolar planet, or ‘exoplanet,’ orbiting an ultracool dwarf star that is way too small to host such a world, challenging scientists’ models of how planets and planetary systems are born.” —Space.com.

Tiny star found harbouring a huge planet that shouldn’t exist (New Scientist, 30 Nov 2023). Astronomers keep imagining things that they can’t see (like dark matter), and finding things that they can’t imagine. Science writer Leah Crane expresses the latest conundrum in typical Tontological form, sweeping everyone into the grand fallacy with royal “we” pronouns.

An enormous planet orbiting a tiny star may break our ideas about planet formation. Astronomers have found a world more than 13 times as massive as Earth orbiting a star nine times less massive than the sun, and our best predictions of how planets form say that such a world should not exist….

"Generally, we think that planets form in one of two ways: either the protoplanetary disc of dust and gas surrounding a young star rapidly collapses under its own gravity to form clumps of material, or large rocks in the disc slowly accrete many smaller ones over a long time. The researchers performed hundreds of simulations of small stars with discs similar to ones that have been observed, and none of them formed a single world that was anything like LHS 3154b."

A Neptune-mass exoplanet in close orbit around a very low-mass star challenges formation models (Stefánsson et al., Science, 30 Nov 2023). This is the research paper. Nearly 30 astronomers band together in this cry fest about the demise of theory.

"Theories of planet formation predict that low-mass stars should rarely host exoplanets with masses exceeding that of Neptune. We used radial velocity observations to detect a Neptune-mass exoplanet orbiting LHS 3154, a star that is nine times less massive than the Sun. The exoplanet’s orbital period is 3.7 days, and its minimum mass is 13.2 Earth masses. We used simulations to show that the high planet-to-star mass ratio (>3.5 × 10−4) is not an expected outcome of either the core accretion or gravitational instability theories of planet formation. In the core-accretion simulations, we show that close-in Neptune-mass planets are only formed if the dust mass of the protoplanetary disk is an order of magnitude greater than typically observed around very low-mass stars."

*If these measurements hold up, it’s back to square one. The disk instability theory was concocted to rescue the core accretion theory. Now, both theories need rescuing, because up till now, “Giant planets have not been observed on close orbits around very low-mass dwarfs.” Yet this one exists. “LHS 3154b is difficult to explain with core-accretion models.” But disk instability models are worse:

"Although we cannot rule out the gravitational instability mechanism, if LHS 3154b formed through gravitational instability followed by inward migration, it would require even greater protoplanetary disk masses than we considered above for the core-accretion scenario."

Actually, both were in trouble before. Core accretion doesn’t work, because particles don’t stick together: they bounce. Disk instability doesn’t work, because it is nonphysical." 

CEH 

Remembering the SABBATH......

"Sabbath observance therefore involves the affirmation that God is Creator and Sustainer of the world. 

To "remember the Sabbath" (Exodus 20:8) identified the seven-day-

a-week rhythm of life as belonging to the Creator. 

*Sabbath contravenes any pride that may accompany human mastery and manipulation of God's creation. 

*In ceasing from labor one is reminded of one's true status as a dependent being, of the God who cares for and sustains all his creatures, and of the world as a reality belonging ultimately to God." 

B.S.T.

Creation Moment 12/16/2023 - How can anyone trust a “science” that gets rewritten every time a new bone turns up?

"The 2023 discoveries that made us rethink the story of human evolution (New Scientist, 13 Dec 2023). 

Q: How can anyone trust a “science” that gets rewritten every time a

new bone turns up? 

Reporter Michael Marshall, who believes humans evolved from apes, doesn’t know what to think any more. Read his embarrassing opening sentences:

At this point it’s a truism that the story of human evolution is being rethought. Discoveries in recent years have forced us to rethink many crucial points, such as how old our species is – about 300,000 years old as opposed to 200,000 – and what extinct hominins like the Neanderthals were really like.

2023 was equally dizzying: discoveries continued to come thick and fast. But because there are so many species and eras involved, it’s hard to discern the common threads linking them – at least, beyond “we found out some more stuff”.

Stuff happens, he says, and it happened in the past; we know because stuff got found. Those ending sentences betray a long-standing problem in evolutionary anthropology: it is constantly being rethought. 

That has become a “truism” that continued into “dizzying” 2023. A truism is a “self-evident, obvious truth”—in this case, that human evolution is constantly being rethought. If thoughts don’t stick, they must not be very good thoughts." 

CEH

IN the NEWS - Proof the "anti-natalist movement" an offshoot of the Climate CULT

"The New Yorker published a review of two books, The Quickening and The Parenthood Dilemma, both of which “consider the ethics of procreation in the age of man-made climate change.” Indeed, the review was titled “The Morality of Having Kids in a Burning, Drowning World.” Here are just a few quotes from the fairly lengthy article:

“Should I have a child, their greenhouse gas emissions will cause roughly fifty square meters of sea ice to melt every year that they are alive,” Rush writes. “Just by existing, they will make the world a little less livable for everyone, themselves included.”

. . . a growing body of commentary that debates the morality and ethics of procreation in this burning, drowning world. “It seems increasingly clear,” Crist continues, “that we are living in a time of radical destabilisation of life on Earth which complicates the act of bearing children in ways that society has yet to grapple with.”

Perhaps having a child under any circumstances, given the unimaginably high emotional, financial, ecological, and existential stakes, is an act of outrageous presumption.

Across the West, birth rates are plunging, dropping to new lows every year. Now, despite all the hype about the supposed climate and population crises, the book review notes, “In a 2021 Pew survey of

childless adults who say they likely will not have children, only five per cent specifically named climate change as the crucial factor, with an additional nine per cent citing ‘the state of the world.’” So only a small percentage of childless adults are likely to remain childless because of the environment. But, interestingly, a 2023 Morning Consult poll of parents in five countries found “among people who already have kids, more than half say that climate anxiety does influence how many children they plan to have.”

But should we be anxious about the climate and not have children (or have fewer children) in an effort to keep the world “livable for everyone”? No! Twice, God has commanded mankind to be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.
Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it. 

(Genesis 1:28)
And you, be fruitful and multiply, increase greatly on the earth and multiply in it.

(Genesis 9:7)

And Scripture teaches that children are a blessing from the Lord—they are a good thing! Really, the whole anti-natalist movement is motivated by pride. In his arrogance, mankind assumes he knows enough about our extremely complex climate (even when past predictions have been wrong over and over again) to control the climate and that he knows better than God and therefore not only doesn’t but shouldn’t obey God’s command to “be fruitful and multiply.” AIG

Creation Moment 12/16/2023 - Evolution and "Gift Giving"

"There used to be a term called “epistemic modesty” that described how scientists valued restricting themselves to evidence. No longer. The Big Science Blob has swallowed everything in its path, including philosophy, theology, ethics, origins, and eschatology. Watch the speculators engage in reckless gambling with unobservable possibilities out of their own imaginations.

What’s the point of giving gifts? An anthropologist explains this ancient part of being human (The Conversation, 12 Dec 2023). An evolutionary anthropologist (trigger warning: speculation ahead) gets coal in his stocking for this deconstruction of charity. 

You don’t give out of love, respect, or charity, says Chip Colwell at UC Denver. Evolution has taught you that you give because you are selfish: you expect something in return. ‘You’ don’t even enter the equation. Your selfish genes are manipulating you. It seems counterintuitive to explain gift-giving by evolution, but his “ancient habit” only makes “evolutionary sense” when you put on Darwin glasses and see all human behavior as the result of genetic influences in the unobservable past that were selected somehow without witnesses. But did Colwell ever consider that “evolutionary sense” is a sophoxymoronic phrase?

Jesus taught, “Love your enemies and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return; and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High; for He Himself is kind to ungrateful and evil people” (Luke 6:35). 

That is so opposite the evolutionary mindset! 

Evolutionists, please read the teachings of Jesus this Christmas. 

He said, don’t be like your ancestors, whose every intent of the thoughts of their hearts was only evil continually (Genesis 6:5). Instead, be like your Maker, who exercised sacrificial love to rebellious creatures by coming to earth to rescue us from our sin (Romans 5:6-11)." CEH

Key Question for those who say the Law is not in effect

What shall we say then? 

Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? 

God forbid. 

 Romans 6:1,2

"And when men thus see their spiritual defects, and become conscious
of their uncleanness, they are in a frame of mind to listen to a message that offers cleansing from their defilement.
Q: If sinful man is unable to keep the law, and when he becomes a Christian he need not keep it, pray tell why was the law of God ever given?"
F.D. Nichol/F7