Health Note - Corrupt Hearts at the American Diabetes Association

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

"The sadistic biomedical profiteers over at the American Diabetes

Association, who benefit greatly (in fact, base their entire career on it) from increasing diabetes rather than solving it, have a recipe for “sweet and sour cucumbers” that contain 60 (!) grams of added processed sugar.
Diabetics should all, without exception, in perpetuity until their metabolic dysfunction is resolved and insulin sensitivity restored, be on either ketogenic or extremely low-carb diets. 

To the metabolically compromised, 

sugar is poison, 

and all the more so when it’s processed 

and unfiltered through fiber.

**The liberating and inconvenient truth —  — is that there is no physiological reason why type II diabetes can’t be fully reversed with the right information and a modicum of self-discipline.
**But then, if diabetics suddenly discovered their own power to heal themselves, the executives over at the ADA who make a killing off of the proliferation of disease might be forced to do an honest day’s work." 

TDB/ZeroHedge

Creation Moment 1/9/2024 - Where’s the evidence?

And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, ... Genesis 1:21

"Numerous ideas have been proposed as to why [according to the theory of evolution] aquatic creatures with backbones evolved from the sea up onto the land. 

Some say that fish first hauled themselves onto dry land to escape predators; another suggestion is that it allowed them to scavenge stranded fish.
The latest idea is that fish dragged themselves out of tropical Devonian waters ‘365 million years ago’ in order to bask in the sun. 

It is claimed this gave the fish an energy boost that made them more agile in the water, and it was ‘the evolutionary milestone that heralded the rise of all land vertebrates, including us’.
New Scientist, 31 July 2004, p. 13.
Great storytelling—Q: but where’s the evidence?" 

CMI

Treasures in the Word of God

Their line is gone through all the earth, 

and their words to the end of the world. 

In them hath He set a tabernacle for the sun, 

which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, 

and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race. 

Psalm 19:4,5

"The lovely things of the natural world are not seen until the sun,

dispelling the darkness, floods them with its light. 

So the treasures in the Word of God are not appreciated until they are revealed by the bright beams of the Sun of Righteousness.... 

As we study the Scriptures, we should pray for the light of God's Holy Spirit to shine upon the Word, that we may see and appreciate its treasures." 

E.G.W.

The "Really" File - (Today's Pastors)

Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will require my flock at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the flock; neither shall the shepherds feed themselves any more; for I will deliver my flock from their mouth, that they may not be meat for them. Ezekiel 34:10

"A North Carolina pastor was arrested after reportedly attacking a worker at a McDonald’s where his wife was training to be a manager.
According to a police report, the wife of 57-year-old Dwayne Waden called him to the fast-food restaurant in High Point on Thursday, Dec. 28, because her co-worker was “disrespecting” her.

Waden allegedly went inside the McDonald’s and wrapped his hands around the co-worker’s neck, pushing his head toward a deep fryer. The report also states that Waden repeatedly punched the victim in the face.
It took several employees to pull Waden off the victim, who had a “large contusion” on his forehead and right eye, as well as scratches on his neck, according to the report.
EMS checked out the victim at the scene, but his family drove him to a hospital for treatment.
The High Point Police Department said officers saw surveillance video of the incident and charged Waden with assault and battery.
Waden is the pastor of Elevated Life International Ministries in High Point.
The McDonald’s franchise confirmed that Gladney no longer works

From the "Really" File

there.
“The safety and security of our employees and customers is our top priority, and I was appalled by this act of violence in my restaurant last week,” the restaurant said in a statement. “Law enforcement was called immediately when this incident occurred, and we will continue to cooperate with the authorities on this matter.”
Waden’s court date is scheduled for Jan. 22." FOX59

REALLY?

Creation Moment 1/8/2024 - A “holey” fitness landscape

He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.
Psalm 2:4

"Sewall Wright concocted one of those metaphors in science that lingers long past its “best by” date. 

In 1932, he coined the term “the fitness landscape.” 

He envisioned a mythical land of peaks and valleys, with the peaks indicating higher fitness, and valleys populated by evolving organisms starting out on their journeys toward progressively higher fitness levels. 

Impelled by the struggle for existence, organisms would climb higher till reaching a peak. One difficulty with this picture appeared soon after the metaphor gained popularity: to get to a higher peak, an organism would have to climb down, lowering its fitness on the way to a neighboring peak. Some workarounds were concocted, but the evocative metaphor lent itself to 3-D graphs and formulas of positive selection, giving evolutionary biologists hopes of empirical rigor as they measured their research organism’s progress up the landscape.

Unwarranted assumptions are the bugaboo of clever models like this. One is the stability of the landscape. 

Q: Does the hypothetical landscape undulate over time, such that a peak at one epoch becomes a valley in another? 

After all, the dynamic environment is oblivious to the needs of organisms. 

Q: How quickly does a given habitat change? 

Q: How can evolutionists be sure that fitness for a savannah does not become a detriment if the population finds itself in a habitat undergoing desertification? 

For reasons like this, Mustonen and Lässig in 2009 dubbed it a fitness “seascape” instead of a landscape.

Another of Wright’s assumptions was that the fitness landscape follows Gaussian curves consisting of smooth lines without discontinuities. Even if some of those Gaussian curves rose steeply like a cliff, Darwin defenders like Richard Dawkins could get their organisms up to the summit of Mount Improbable by envisioning a gradual staircase from another direction, allowing natural selection to maintain Darwin’s narrative of the accumulation of small, incremental steps.

Q: But what if the Gaussian assumption is wrong? 

Q: What if, instead, the structure of the landscape is like a block of

Swiss cheese, flat and riddled with holes that a blind watchmaker cannot foresee? 

The probability of a “holey” fitness landscape becomes credible when considering dependent traits. These “quantitative traits” are made up of components that must cooperate to work. Without all of them emerging simultaneously, no organism can ascend to higher levels. 

With dependent traits in operation, such as in the case of powered flight, a mutation or defect in one can send the organism to immediate extinction — as if, as in the old board game, a trapdoor opened underneath it.

Sergey Gavrilets thought of this back in 1997 and raised it again in 2004. Now, worries about a “holey landscape” have been given new emphasis in a paper in PNAS — “Drift on holey landscapes as a dominant evolutionary process.”

"Our understanding of selection has been strongly shaped by Sewall Wright’s conceptualization of an evolutionary landscape, with populations moving from areas of low fitness to areas of higher fitness. While the one- and two-trait landscapes Wright originally described have been criticized as unrealistic, including by Wright himself, the general metaphor has nonetheless guided much of evolutionary thought.....Holey landscapes are high-dimensional evolutionary landscapes that consist of trait combinations that are either of average fitness or that are inviable. This results in flat landscapes with holes at inviable or low fitness phenotypes."

Q: Can neo-Darwinism recover from the neglected view of holey landscapes? 

The authors do not offer any hope, other than to wish that better landscape models may be forthcoming. Even with that concession, they remain pessimistic.

"Our implementation of Wright’s metaphor represents only one of many possible evolutionary models. It is possible that unmodeled alternative landscapes may produce populations for which variation is distributed in a manner similar to holey landscapes and empirical estimates…. Importantly, and as mentioned previously, much of the exploration of evolution of quantitative traits has focused on simple landscapes like we have implemented here. Thus, it also is an open question what different models of selection “look” like when implemented for higher-dimensional phenotypes. For example, rugged landscapes of high dimensionality may give rise to holey landscapes as peaks average out and valleys are inviable…. Nonetheless, the close correspondence between empirical data and populations simulated as evolving on holey landscapes suggest that our understanding of quantitative trait evolution remains incomplete."

Q: Science is supposed to be about observable, quantitative data, isn’t it? 

---If observations do not fit Wright’s convenient metaphor, the metaphor must be revised or discarded. 

Intelligent design is consistent with flat optima and built-in mechanisms to detect and avoid holes (e.g., DNA error correction, immune systems, blood clotting). 

Once again, design with its emphasis on engineering specifications trumps Darwinism in the real world." 

EN&V/DavidCoppedge

The Identity of Familiar Spirits

Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: Leviticus 19:31

"Q: Who are these familiar spirits?

1. They are the spirits of our dead friends.
2. They are the fallen angels who imitate or counterfeit them.
---One of these answers must be true; both of them cannot be; 

Q: which, therefore, shall we accept as the truth? 

If we could believe the familiar spirits themselves, the first answer must be true; for they profess to be the spirits of the dead, and they claim to bring up any of the dead who are called for. 

But there are some reasons for distrusting their testimony. 

1. In the case which the Bible gives at length, as a specimen of their

works, the familiar spirit which consorted with the witch of Endor professed to bring up the dead at pleasure, and to enable them to speak; yet we have found this to be a false pretense; for the familiar spirit did all the speaking, and dead Samuel had nothing to say. 

2. The Bible warns us against them all as wicked and deceitful.

Their testimony as to their own personality, therefore, is entitled to no weight. 

But the doctrine that the familiar spirits are the spirits of the dead, in ancient times rested upon the following propositions: 

1. That the spirits of the dead are now in a state of conscious existence. 

2. That they are now endowed with superior intelligence. 

3. That they inhabit a region within the earth itself. 

In modern times, however, the same doctrine is supported thus: 

1. That the souls of men are immortal. 

2. That death is the gate to endless joy. 

3. That they enter upon their reward at death. 

4. That they are in death endowed with superior intelligence. 

5. That they are ministering spirits to the living, having their abode, either in Heaven or upon earth, at pleasure.

The modern doctrine is an improvement upon the theology of the days of Saul. But the Bible sweeps away this cunningly-devised fable of ancient days, and with it the doctrine that dead men can hold converse with the living. 

Thus, that sacred volume teaches us: 

1. That God made man of the dust of the ground, and gave him life

from His own breath. 

2. That He warned him that for transgression he should be deprived of life, and turned again into dust.

3. That all men are now under the sentence of death, and are both mortal and corruptible.

4. That those who seek immortality shall receive it at the resurrection, from Him who is its only source.

5. That death came into the world by sin; that it is the last enemy; that Satan has had the power of it; and that death and Satan shall both be destroyed in the lake of fire.

6. That in death there is no remembrance of God.

7. That in the day of death the thoughts perish.

8. That the dead know not anything; and that their love, and envy, and hatred, is now perished.

9. That the dead do not praise God.

10. That sheol, or hades, the under-ground abode of the dead, is a place where there is no work, device, knowledge, nor wisdom; a place of silence, secrecy, darkness, corruption, and death.
11. That the righteous are not to be with Christ till He comes back after them.

12. That men are neither rewarded nor punished till they have first been judged.

13. That the dead, both righteous and wicked, are now asleep.

14. That the keys of death and hades are not in the hands of familiar spirits, but in those of our Lord Jesus Christ.

These facts are certainly sufficient to show that the familiar spirits do not come from the dead themselves, and that they do not, and cannot, bring up any of the dead. 

Q: Who, then, are the familiar spirits?

A: That the familiar spirits are the fallen angels will appear from the following facts: 

1. The Scriptures inform us that Satan, who was once an obedient

servant of the God of Heaven, long since raised the standard of revolt against Him.

2. That a large body of the angels joined in this revolt.

3. That these wicked spirits are not now in torment, but they await the day of Judgment, when with wicked men they shall be sent into everlasting fire.

4. That this vast body of fallen angels have been engaged during the whole history of our race in the most mighty efforts to involve mankind in ruin.

5. That hypocrisy, deception, and fraud, have been the chief of the ways in which they have ruined mankind.

6. The Old Testament plainly teaches that the work of the familiar spirits is false, deceitful, and ruinous. 

The New Testament shows who they are that deceive, seduce, and ruin, mankind. It is the fallen angels, with Satan at their head. 

We cannot, therefore, avoid the conclusion that the familiar spirits of the Old Testament are the fallen angels of the New. 

And hence it is that the “seducing spirits” of Paul, and the “unclean spirits” of John, are called devils, or spirits of devils.

We need not, therefore, think it strange that the Scriptures warn us so faithfully against seeking knowledge at their hands." 

J.N. Andrews

Creation Moment 1/7/2024 - Y chromosome says.......

"In a new study being reported, a large group of researchers have produced complete end-to-end DNA sequences of the Y chromosome for a human and the great apes (chimpanzee, gorilla, and orangutan). The researchers also included a gibbon Y chromosome as a primate outgroup. 

----Shockingly, when the new chimp Y chromosome was compared to the human Y chromosome, it was only 26% similar! 

Since the Y chromosome is the most non-variable chromosome in the mammalian genome due to a lack of recombination with a homologous chromosome, it should be less evolved than the others. But instead of being most similar, it is the most different from that of chimp compared to the other chromosomes. 

These data directly point to humans being genetically unique and debunk the whole human-ape evolution myth.

That study reported that 50% of the human genes had their alleged counterparts missing in chimp genes and that the regions that did have some similarity were located in completely different patterns. This huge evolutionary discrepancy prompted the researchers to say, “Indeed, at 6 million years of [evolutionary time] separation, the difference in MSY gene content in chimpanzee and human is more comparable to the difference in autosomal gene content in chicken and human, at 310 million years of separation.” 

In other words, the human Y chromosome looks just as different from a chimp as the other human chromosomes do from a chicken.

Another very interesting angle that came out of this new 2023 report is that each great ape Y chromosome was unique from that of other ape kinds. For example, chimpanzee compared to gorilla and orangutan was only 19.8% and 21.1% similar, respectively. Gorilla compared to human was only 25.1% similar, and orangutan compared to human was only 23.1% similar. As a whole, not only was human-ape evolution refuted, but great ape evolution in general met its demise.

From a Genesis-based interpretation of these new data, it is quite clear that the results fully support the Biblical claim that humans are created uniquely in God’s image (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) and did not evolve from an ape-like ancestor." ICR

The Historical Narrative of Genesis Points Toward A Literal 7th Day Sabbath

"Q: What is the nature of the book of Genesis? 

A: It is plainly, from beginning to end, a book of history. 

It sets forth a narrative, in chronological order, of events from the creation through the death of Joseph. Therefore, in the absence of

clear evidence to the contrary, we should consider the various parts of it, the accounts of what men said and did, and likewise the accounts of what God said and did, as being historical incidents occurring at the time indicated in the narrative. 

The account of God's resting on the seventh day of creation week and blessing and sanctifying it fits as naturally into the historical sequence as do any other incidents mentioned in Genesis. There is nothing in the context to suggest otherwise.

Note the four verbs, all in the past tense: “made,” “rested,” “blessed,” and “hallowed.” 

The rationale, the basis, for the Fourth Commandment in Exodus 20:8-11 is what happened during the creation week. This is why the history of the creation week is being recited in Exodus 20." 

F.D. Nichol/F7

Creation Moment 1/6/2024 -Ever Wondered Why The Universe Is Comprehensible?

Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding. Job 38:4

"To speak of a “Darwinian” process of selection among culturally

transmitted ideas, whether scientific theories or memes, is at best only a loose analogy with highly misleading implications. 

It easily becomes an interpretive blank check, permitting speculation that seems to explain any describable human trait... at best they help a little in explaining why we human beings are capable of comprehending the universe — but they still say nothing about why the universe itself is comprehensible. "
Austin L. Hughes, The New Atlantis, Fall 2012

Psalm 1:1-3 Lessons

"Psalm 1:1,2 Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. His delight is in the law of the Lord; and in His law does he meditate day and night. 

HIS is something that is very much neglected,

 to the detriment of the individual soul, 

and of society as well. 

It is common for people to allow the press of work in business to

crowd out meditation; they think they “have no time for it.” 

That is a short-sighted policy; they might as well say that they have no time to eat. It is the man who meditates, not merely occasionally, but “day and night,” who has prosperity in whatever he undertakes. Christians are in danger of adopting the world’s methods, and the world’s standard of success.

Psalm 1:3 He shall be like a tree. 

Constant growth is one of the characteristics of a tree. 

If it lives a thousand years, it grows every year. 

Each year of its life will see a circle added to it. 

It does not lose this year all that it gained last year, but it keeps all that it gains, and adds more. 

Only such growth as that is Christian growth. The true Christian life is continual advancement." 

E.J. Waggoner

IN the NEWS - Wickedness Creeping Next Door from Far Away

As saith the proverb of the ancients, 

Wickedness proceedeth from the wicked: 

1 Samuel 24:13

WICKEDNESS right next door in Wells County, as some Losers drive all the way from South Dakota to snatch an 11 year old up and away.....

"A girl from Indiana abducted on Saturday was found with her captors over 300 miles away, after being spotted at a gas station in Wisconsin hours later.

Natalia “Jasper” Connett, 11, was reported missing Dec. 30 from the Stoney Creek trailer park in Zanesville, Indiana and a "silver alert" was issued by Wells County Sheriff's Office.
Then in Iowa County in Wisconsin, the local sheriff's office got a call that the suspects' vehicle was at a Kwik Trip in Barneveld, with the suspects potentially armed.
While deputies were on their way, the car set off again into the Township of Dodgeville. Local police joined the chase and both offices carried out a traffic stop on the vehicle with the girl inside.
Officers arrested three people, all from South Dakota, in connection with the incident.
Zachary Delozier, 27 of Edgemont, Sara Gaudino, 23 of Rapid City and Isaiah Schryvers, 24 of Rapid City, were all detained on suspicion of kidnapping a minor.
"As lowa County Sheriff, I can't thank everyone enough," Sheriff Michael W. Peterson said in a press release." 

Messenger

IN the NEWS - Wickedness was Creeping Right Here Too.....

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
Wickedness abounds everywhere....

"Anthony Castleman, 37, is facing a murder charge in the death of his grandmother, Bernice Eubank, 72, who was found dead on Nov. 12, 2023, outside her home in Huntington County, Indiana. 

Castleman was arrested after about six weeks on the lam.
The man who allegedly stabbed his grandmother to death and hid her body under some carpet and several pieces of lattice in the backyard of her Indiana home has been captured after about six weeks on the run, authorities said.

Huntington County Sheriff Chris Newton announced earlier this week that the U.S. Marshals arrested 37-year-old Anthony Castleman in Georgia, but did not provide further details.
Citing an arrest report, local affiliate WTPA said Castleman had been living with his grandmother. Eubank’s daughter went to the home and found a rug with a piece cut out. She called deputies, and they found her mother’s body outside near a barn under a carpet and lattice. An investigation revealed Castleman went to his cousin’s house the day before the body was found and asked for bleach to clean up a mess, saying he was “going to prison for a long time,” the documents reportedly said. He arrived at the cousin’s house in Eubank’s car and was using her cellphone.
The Huntington County Coroner determined her cause of death to be from multiple sharp force injuries and the manner as a homicide. Detectives quickly identified Castleman as the suspect.
According to her obituary , Eubank graduated from Wabash High School in 1969 and later worked for more than 30 years at the Caylor-Nickel Clinic as a receptionist." 

Law&Crime

Creation Moment 1/4/2024 - An "Engineered System"

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

"In 2017, professor of engineering Gregory T. Reeves and engineer Curtis E. Hrischuk published an open access paper in Journal of Bioinformatics, Computational and Systems Biology titled “The Cell Embodies Standard Engineering Principles.” They explained how the cell fulfills different sets of standard engineering principles (SEPs).

The presence of engineering principles within the cell implies that

SEPs can be used as starting point to formulate hypotheses about how a cell operates and behaves. In other words, we should pragmatically approach the cell as an engineered system and use that point of view to predict (hypothesize) the expected behavior of biological systems. We call this approach the Engineering Principle Expectation (EPE).

In the paper, several categories of SEPs are examined: general engineering principles (GEPs), hardware/software codesign principles (CDEPs), and robotic engineering principles (REPs). For each of these categories, the authors give specific examples of how the cell conforms to the set of SEPs.

The comparison between cellular systems and engineered systems has strong implications for intelligent design. The reality that cells abide by the same engineering principles discovered in human design is highly significant. 

----This finding is much better predicted on the hypothesis that biological systems have been intelligently designed than the alternate theory of a blind neo-Darwinian process giving rise to living systems." 

EN&V

From Baal to Baal

"The International Sunday-school lesson for July 17, 1898, was “Elijah on Carmel.”
In this Lesson Paper, concerning “Elijah on Carmel” we find the following, which we copy exactly as it was there printed:

CATECHISM LESSON
Question 81.—What is the fourth commandment?
Answer.—The fourth commandment is: “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work; but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God; in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy man servant, nor thy maid servant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day; wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it.”
Ques. 82.—What does the fourth commandment forbid?
Ans.—The fourth commandment forbids us to work on the Sabbath day.
Ques. 83.—What day is the Sabbath?
Ans.—Sunday is the Sabbath.

That is precisely the way that the Baalites talked and taught in Elijah’s time. See here:

CATECHISM LESSON
Question.—What is the first commandment?
Answer.—The first commandment is: “I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other gods before me.”
Ques.—What does the first commandment forbid?
Ans.—The first commandment forbids us to have any god but the true God.
Ques.—What God is the true God.
Ans.—Baal is the true God.

That is a catechism lesson such as was taught by the priests of Baal in Elijah’s time. And no man can fairly deny that it is parallel in every respect with the catechism lesson here quoted bodily from the Lesson Paper of the M. E. Church South.

Setting Up a False God:
The word of God in the fourth commandment, as printed in this

catechism lesson of July 17, A.D. 1898, says, plainly, “The seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God.” Yet directly in the face of this word, a man, or a set of men, sets up the word, “Sunday is the Sabbath;” while these men themselves know that Sunday is the first day, and not the seventh day at all.

Just so in the lesson of July 17, B.C. 1898; the word of God in the first commandment said plainly that the true God was he who had brought the children of Israel “out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.” 

---Yet directly in the face of this word of God, men set up the word, “Baal is God;” while these men themselves knew that Baal was not he who had brought them out of Egypt.

Oh, yes, we know full well that those who got up this catechism lesson of July 17, A.D. 1898, say that the Sabbath has been changed from the seventh day to Sunday; this, too, in the face of the plain word of God, and of their own contradictory action in printing, in that very lesson, this: “the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God.”

True, those who got up this catechism lesson of July 17, A.D. 1898, can and do cite the “Fathers,” and the “saints” of the apostate church to sustain their contradiction of the word of God that “the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God.”

Just so those who got up the catechism lesson of July 17, B.C. 1898, could cite the chief father of their apostasy to sustain them in their contradictions of the word of God. Jeroboam was the chief in that apostasy; and when he began it with the setting up of the golden calves, he said to all the people,
“Behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.”
This itself was a form of sun-worship; but when Jezebel came in, she gave the apostasy a further and fuller turn to sun-worship in making the sun in Baal the chief god.

And the priests of the apostasy in Elijah’s day could cite, 

against the first commandment, the chief father of that apostasy, just as readily and as truly as the priests of the apostasy in our day can cite, against the fourth commandment, 

the chief Fathers of the later apostasy." 

A.T. Jones

Creation Moment 1/4/2024 - YOU are NOT an Animal

And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
Genesis 1:26

"The Bible clearly distinguishes between man and beast—something evolution does not do.

As Christians, we should already know that chimps deserve ethical treatment because Proverbs 12:10 tells us that “a righteous man regards the life of his animal.” 

But we must be very clear that only human beings, not chimpanzees, are made in the image of God.
As a visible way to buttress evolutionary claims, the London Zoo has three men and five women displayed next to (but separated by a fence from) their “primate relatives.” 

When cultures accept the belief that man is but another animal and just another primate, the consequences will be far greater than what might appear in a zoo." 

AIG

Underlying Lesson of the Book of Job

Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, 

Doth Job fear God for nought? 

Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, 

and about all that he hath on every side? 

thou hast blessed the work of his hands, 

and his substance is increased in the land. 

But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, 

and he will curse thee to thy face. 

And the LORD said unto Satan, 

Behold, all that he hath is in thy power; 

only upon himself put not forth thine hand. 

                                     And Satan answered the LORD, and said, 

Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.

But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, 

and he will curse thee to thy face. 

And the LORD said unto Satan, 

Behold, he is in thine hand; but save his life.

Job 9-12/2:4-6

1) Job's friends blamed Job. They thought he ticked off God.......
Eliphaz- Thy words have upholden him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees.But now it is come upon thee,

and thou faintest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off? Job 4:4,5,7
Bildad- Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, neither will he help the evil doers: Job 8:20
Zophar- If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles. Job 11:14

2) Jobs servants and wife thought it was God's doing......
Servants- The fire of God is fallen from heaven, and hath burned

up the sheep. Job 1:6
Wife- And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes.Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die. Job 2:8,9

***But it was Lucifer who was behind it all......

So went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD, 

and smote Job 

with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.

Job 2:7

SUMMARY: 

1) We bring evil upon ourselves by our choices: Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. Galatians 6:7 or 

2) Lucifer does: So went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote Job. Job 2:7

Creation Moment 1/3/2024 - Fog foggy for Science

Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? 

declare, if thou hast understanding. 

Job 38:4

"Of the world's various weather phenomena, fog is perhaps the most

mysterious, forming and dissipating near the ground with fluctuations in air temperature and humidity interacting with the terrain itself.
While fog presents a major hazard to transportation safety, meteorologists have yet to figure out how to forecast it with the precision they have achieved for precipitation, wind and other stormy events.
This is because the physical processes resulting in fog formation are extremely complex.

Now, in a recent paper published by the American Meteorological

Society, Pu and her colleagues have reported their findings from the Cold Fog Amongst Complex Terrain (CFACT) project, conceived to investigate the life cycle of cold fog in mountain valleys.
"Fog involves a lot of physics processes so it requires a computer model that can better represent all these processes," Pu said. "Because fog is clouds near the ground, it requires a high-resolution model to resolve it, so we need models at a very fine scale, which are computationally very expensive. The current models (relatively coarser in resolution) are not capable of resolving the fog processes, and we need to improve the models for better fog prediction."

The Heber Valley project homed in on cold-air fog which forms in

freezing temperatures below zero degrees Celsius, according to Pu. However by observing how these varying kinds of fog form and dissipate, the researchers are continuing to learn about the meteorological conditions and physical processes governing the formation of fog.
Besides fog IOPs, the variety of non-fog IOPs provided valuable observations for understanding near-surface inversion, ice crystal formation, moisture advection and transportation, and stable boundary layers over complex terrain, all of which are essential factors related to fog formation. Comprehensive studies are ongoing for an improved understanding of cold fog over complex terrain."
ScienceDaily

Those Animals on the Ark

"Many skeptics assert that the Bible must be wrong, because they claim that the Ark could not possibly have carried all the different types of animals.

Genesis 6:19–20:
‘And of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every sort into the ark to keep them alive with you. They shall be male and female. Of the birds according to their kinds, and of the animals according to their kinds, of every creeping thing of the ground, according to its kind, two of every sort shall come in to you to keep them alive.’
Genesis 7:2–3:
‘Take with you seven pairs of all clean animals, the male and his mate, and a pair of the animals that are not clean, the male and his mate, and seven pairs of the birds of the heavens also, male and female, to keep their offspring alive on the face of all the earth.’

Q: What is a ‘kind’? 

A: God created a number of different types of animals with much

capacity for variation within limits. The descendants of each of these different kinds, apart from humans, would today mostly be represented by a larger grouping than what is called a species. In most cases, those species descended from a particular original kind would be grouped today within what modern taxonomists (biologists who classify living things) call a genus (plural genera).

For example, 

---horses, zebras and donkeys are probably descended from an equine

(horse-like) kind, since they can interbreed, although the offspring are sterile. 

---Dogs, wolves, coyotes and jackals are probably from a canine (dog-like) kind. 

---All different types of domestic cattle (which are clean animals) are descended from the Aurochs, so there were probably at most seven (or fourteen) domestic cattle aboard. The Aurochs itself may have been descended from a cattle kind including bisons and water buffaloes. We know that tigers and lions can produce hybrids called tigons and ligers, so it is likely that they are descended from the same original kind.

The space, feeding and excretory requirements were adequate even if the animals had normal day/night sleeping cycles. But hibernation is a possibility which would reduce these requirements even more.

Some skeptics argue that food taken on board rules out hibernation, but this is not so. Hibernating animals do not sleep all winter, despite popular portrayals, so they would still need food occasionally." 

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