Creation Moment 1/26/2024 - When Fraudsters Take Over The Lab

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

declare, if thou hast understanding.
Job 38:4

"The “Enlightenment” disdained Biblical authority. 

By the late 18th century, philosophers and naturalists like Comte du Buffon were portraying an eternal, evolving universe, where life

emerged on a vastly old Earth with no providence or divine supervision. ‘Who needs a divine father figure to tell us what to do?’, the materialists mocked.

This line of thinking sped past the God-fearing natural philosophers without remorse. The materialist view led directly to Darwin.

Academic leaders need some Ten Commandments, but deny a Creator God who can write them on tablets of stone. There have always been evildoers, even in Christian Europe of Galileo’s day, 

Q: but who can punish purveyors of fraud who are just acting out the evolutionary history of their selfish genes? 

Q: What if fraudsters take over the lab? Who can stop them and shout, “Thou shalt not!”? By whose authority?" 

CEH

The World Violating the 1st Commandment

Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Exodus 20:3

"The ancient goddess Gaia is the embodiment of the earth (Terra being the Roman equivalent) who brought forth Uranus and then the Titans and others through various means. 

And that idea persists today, especially in the neo-pagan ideas of Western culture seeking to save the planet from the scourge of man-made climate change. 

Placards at Earth Day marches and various environmental causes make a plea to “Love Your Mother,” and those who have sought to revive forms of goddess worship from European paganism continue that type of worship. 

The modern green movement has adopted Mother Earth as their goddess, and her sacraments and offerings are clear in their worship." 

AIG

Creation Moment 1/25/2024 - Your "Internet Search Engine"

"In addition to DNA methylation and histone modifications, scientists have discovered a powerful epigenetic system that operates on top of the genetic code in a very different way from being chemically attached to the chromatin itself. (DNA complexed with histones is called chromatin.) 

This amazing epigenetic paradigm is associated with very small

RNA molecules that are heritable and that profoundly and adaptively affect the development of an organism’s offspring.

One of the best ways to describe how small RNAs work in the cell is to use the analogy of an internet search engine. When a search engine is pulled up in your web browser, you can type in a small bit of text, hit enter, and then get a hit wherever the text matches up. For example, you could enter “for God so loved the world,” and it would immediately pull up the Bible verse John 3:16." 

ICR

What is the vine tree more than any tree?

Son of man, 

What is the vine tree more than any tree, 

or than a branch which is among the trees of the forest? 

Ezekiel 15:2

"THESE words are for the humbling of God's people; they are called God's vine, 

Q: but what are they by nature more than others? 

A: They, by God's goodness, have become fruitful, having been planted in a good soil; the Lord hath trained them upon the walls of the sanctuary, and they bring forth fruit to His glory; 

Q: but what are they without their God? 

Q: What are they without the continual influence of the Spirit, begetting fruitfulness in them? 

*O believer, learn to reject pride, seeing that thou hast no ground for it. Whatever thou art, thou hast nothing to make thee proud. 

The more thou hast, the more thou art in debt to God; 

and thou shouldst not be proud 

of that which renders thee a debtor.

---Consider thine origin; 

look back to what thou wast. 

Consider what thou wouldst have been but for divine grace. 

Look upon thyself as thou art now. 

Q: Doth not thy conscience reproach thee? 

O thou who art valiant for truth, thou wouldst have been as valiant for error if grace had not laid hold upon thee. 

Oh! strange infatuation, that thou, who hast borrowed everything, shouldst think of exalting thyself; a poor dependent pensioner upon the bounty of thy Savior, one who hath a life which dies without fresh streams of life from Jesus, and yet proud! Fie on thee, O silly heart!" Charles Spurgeon

From Pagan Rome to Papal Rome

"The reigns and skills of government were handed down by a dying empire to a virile Papacy. 

---The lost power of the broken sword was re-won by the magic of the consoling word. 

---The armies of the state were replaced by the missionaries of the church, moving in all directions along the Roman roads, and the revolted provinces, accepting Christianity, again acknowledged the sovereignty of Rome. 

---The church, with the shadow of the ancient authority behind it, was the only symbol left of imperial Rome. 

---Its bishop, the pope of Rome, was the city’s only recourse for leadership and protection. The Roman Empire in Europe would be replaced by the spiritual empire, which came to be temporal as well, whose reigning seigneur was the bishop of Rome” (Caesar and Christ, page 672).

The Roman Empire’s transformation from a world military power into the world’s most dominant religion of its time is undeniable. Daniel foretold the actions of the transformed colossus: 

“And he shall speak great words against the most High and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time”
(Daniel 7:25).

John the Revelator takes up the sacred baton of prophetic utterance and adds significantly more detail to Daniel’s predictions. He prophesied of this enormous church-state leviathan losing its position of almost universal dominance. 

However, he also foretold that it would emerge at the very end of earth’s history to forge a regime more sinister and ruthless than any the world has ever seen. 

John predicts that as it resurfaces, it will join forces with the most powerful military apparatus to advance its agenda of world domination: 

“And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon … And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed…And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men. And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live…And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed…And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name” (Revelation 13:11-17)."

AubreyDuncan/AdventMessenger

Creation Moment 1/24/2024 - Darwinians Caught in a Web

He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: 

the Lord shall have them in derision. 

Psalm 2:4

"Two brothers, Jamie and Jonathan Hiscocks, found what is claimed

to be the world’s oldest spider’s web, supposedly spun in the dinosaur era 140 million years ago. They found the web encased in amber on a beach at Bexhill, East Sussex. As the cliff erodes, the fossils fall from the rocks and lie on the beach, waiting to be collected. The fossils are at least as old as the cliff strata.

Early images, taken by a paleobiologist at Oxford University, show that the threads in the amber resemble silk spun by modern spiders. Scientists expressed surprise that spider webs have stayed the same for 140 million years. 

---What is more amazing 

is that they don’t question the tangled web 

of millions-of-years when caught by spider evidence like this." 

CMI

Sabbath Keeper vs. Sabbath Violator

"The story is told of a certain godless man who found special delight in flaunting his disobedience of the Sabbath command. 

He lived in a locality where the other farmers near him were devout Sabbath keepers. 

When October came and he harvested his crop, he found that he had even more in his barn than his neighbors. Meeting the Sabbath keeping minister on the street one day, he gloatingly mentioned this fact. The minister's only reply was: “God does not always make a full settlement in October.”

No better answer could have been given.

The faithful Sabbath keeper awaits the day of final judgment to receive his full reward for obedience to God, the Creator of the whole earth. 

And likewise, the Sabbath violator must await that last great day of accounting in order to receive the final reward for his failure to obey the explicit command of God. 

The violation of the law of God is sin, the Scriptures inform us (Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law. John 3:4), and the wages of sin is death (For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. . 6:23)." 

F.D. Nichol/F7

IN the NEWS - Lucifer's Family Values

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

"Hamas terrorist organization released a report Sunday into its October 7 attack on Israel, claiming its fighters were committed to “Islamic values” ....

In its first public report on the killing spree that began the war, Hamas said the incursion – referred to as “Operation Al Aqsa Flood” – was a “necessary step” against Israel’.
This resulted in the deaths of about 1,140 people, mostly civilians, based on official Israeli figures.
Some 360 people were mowed down at the music festival, entire families were burned alive in their homes, parents were shot in front of their children and children and babies were killed or taken captive."  
In its first public report on the killing spree that began the war, Hamas said the incursion – referred to as “Operation Al Aqsa Flood” – was a “necessary step” against Israel’.
This resulted in the deaths of about 1,140 people, mostly civilians, based on official Israeli figures.
Some 360 people were mowed down at the music festival, 

---entire families were burned alive in their homes, 

---parents were shot in front of their children 

---and children and babies were killed or taken captive."  
Breitbart

Creation Moment 1/23/2024 - Saturn's Titan's Methane

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

"Furthermore, solar radiation is eroding the methane space blanket. 

--When enough methane has been depleted, the atmosphere will

collapse, because the temperature will fall enough to condense out the nitrogen, carrying it and all the other ingredients down to the surface. Dr. Atreya put 100 million years as an upper limit on the sustainability of Titan’s atmosphere – only about one fiftieth of the assumed age of the solar system. 

He had no explanation for why Titan has such a dense atmosphere today, other than perhaps it formed recently by some unknown mechanism, and we are lucky to see it. 

--When the reporter remarked that such an answer sounded like the same one the ring scientists give for why we see Saturn’s rings (which are also very short lived), he agreed, with a grin of chagrin.

100 million years is the upper limit; it could be far less. Whenever you are told the earth and universe are billions of years old, don’t just swallow it: ask questions. 

That “the earth is 4.5 billion years old” is one of those truisms that everybody knows because the Discovery Channel says so, 

Q: but what is the evidence? 

Here is another case of a phenomenon that doesn’t fit. It’s not that scientists can’t find a way to fit anomalies into the timeline; the important lesson is that the timeline does not come from the data, but from the assumptions." 

CEH

Papal Notes - Francis the Marxist.....

Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; 

2 Thessalonians 2:3

"Pope Francis received a small delegation from the DIALOP group. DIALOP, according to its own website, is a “project of dialogue

between Socialists/Marxists and Christians, involving intellectuals, academics, politicians, activists and students from several European Countries.”

Pope Francis told the communists, “Don’t back off”:

"Today, in a world divided by war and polarization, we run the risk of losing the ability to dream. We Argentines say, “no te arrugues,” meaning “don’t back off.” This is my invitation to you as well: Don’t back off, don’t give up, and don’t stop dreaming of a better world."

In his remarks to the communist DIALOP group, Francis failed to

mention Christ, Christianity, or the Catholic Church’s consistent condemnation of communism and socialism." 

Fulcrum7

SDA News - SDA Facing 3 Years in Ukranian Prison

And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; John 14:16

"Ukrainian Seventh-day Adventist Dmytro Zelinsky is serving his three-year jail term for refusing to take up arms in Ukraine's fight against Russia. 

“The Recruitment Office rejected Zelinsky's written request to be exempted from mobilization on grounds of conscience or to be assigned to alternative civilian service 'due to the fact that such replacement is not provided for by the current legislation,' according to the subsequent court decision,”...An official of Kremenets District Recruitment Office – who did not give his name – refused to explain why it refused Zelinsky's application for alternative civilian service. Zelinsky is preparing a Supreme Court appeal. Courts have handed conscientious objectors three prison sentences (two of them later overturned), nine suspended prison terms, and two acquittals (which prosecutors are challenging). Seven criminal trials continue." 

Forum18

The "Really" File - (Fly United?)

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

"Taking time off from wandering in the Gadarenes, Scott Kirby, the CEO of United Airlines is facing backlash after a video of himdancing as a drag queen surfaced on social media.
Kirby's statements from his now-viral 2021 interview drew heavy criticism from netizens. In the video, he asserted that his company was committed to ensuring that 50 percent of their hires should be women or people of color.
Scott Kirby’s other hits,
Incorporating DIE into United Airlines, and lamenting that there are too many white males in the airline industry.

From the "Really" File

Under Kirby’s ‘leadership’, United is now being sued for their draconian vax mandates. 

The suit alleges the CEO attempted to institute a “purge of religious orthodoxy,” “mocked and shamed” people who didn’t want to get vaxed and expressed animosity towards those with religious exemptions. As previously reported, the CEO who is also a drag queen said he hires based on diversity quotas." F7

REALLY?

SDA News - SDA's Kicked Out Of WEF

They have heard that I sigh: there is none to comfort me: all mine enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that thou hast done it: Lamentations 1:21

"Rebel News is on the ground in Davos, Switzerland, asking questions to some of the most influential VIPs in the world. Today, the team

witnessed a group of Christians (Adventists) being detained for handing out Christian material.
They were passing out Great Controversy’s and other Christian literature warning about liberty of conscience being threatened. Heavily armed (riot) police were dispatched to remove these Adventists from the World Economic Forum promenade." 

Fulcrum7

Creation Moment 1/22/2024 - Pattern set at Creation

For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy. Exodus 20:11

"Some people want to make the Bible fit the ‘big bang’ idea, so they

say that maybe ‘six days’ means ‘six long periods of time’. 

But we know that when the creation story says “day”, it means “day”! When God gave Israel the 10 Commandments in Exodus 20, He told the Israelites to work for six days and rest for one, because that’s how He created the world! 

God didn’t rest on the seventh day because He was tired, 

but so that we would have a good pattern to follow." 

CMI

Can't Drive on Both Sides of the Road.....

Like Christ said....
No servant can serve two masters: 

for either he will hate the one, and love the other; 

or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. 

Luke 16:13

Or as Elijah put it.....
And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, 

Q: How long halt ye between two opinions? 

if the LORD be God, follow Him: 

but if Baal, then follow him. 

1 Kings 18:21

Creation Moment 1/21/2024 -Altruism poses a problem for Darwinism

For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, 

that we should love one another. 

1 John 3:1

"Altruism is at cross purposes with the selfish reproductive drive of evolution, getting “more of me” into subsequent generations. a frankness seldom found, W.D. Hamilton, who set out the foundation for a full theory of kin selection noted:

“With very few exceptions, the only parts of the theory of natural

selection which have been supported by mathematical models admit no possibility of the evolution of any characters which are on average to the disadvantage of the individuals possessing them. If natural selection followed the classical models exclusively, species would not show any behavior more positively social than the coming together of the sexes and parental care.”

Thus, the problem of altruism crystallizes: 

Q: how is this type of behavior, which appears to have a detrimental impact upon an individual’s survival and reproductive capacity, fixed and spread in a population?" 

CEH

IN the NEWS - WEF calls in the Witch Doctors

.....and used enchantments, and used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
2 Chronicles 33:6

"Witchcraft was on full display on January 18, 2024, at the World Economic Forum (WEF), as a witch doctor used demon incantations to guide attendees into the spirit world. After the spirits were invoked, a witch breathed upon the panel at the WEF, imparting a demonic blessing.
BNN News reported the following:
• “In an unprecedented moment at the renowned World Economic

Forum (WEF) in Davos, an unusual spectacle unfolded as a traditional witch doctor took center stage, performing incantations and engaging attendees in a spiritual experience distinct from the forum’s typical business and political undertakings.”
• “The witch doctor’s performance was a departure from the usual discussions focused on economic forecasts, innovations, and political trends. This divergence marked a significant shift, showcasing the forum’s broad-mindedness and acceptance of diverse perspectives and practices.”

This is pure witchcraft. A witch breathed an unholy spirit on them. The WEF is giving spiritualism a global platform to be highlighted and celebrated.
In Genesis 3:1, Adam and Eve faced the lying serpent; in Exodus 7:10–12, Moses encountered sorcery in Pharaoh’s court; in Acts 13:8–13, Paul had to reprove witchcraft that was impeding God’s work; and in the last days, God’s people must resist and oppose, not join, the same demonic powers." 

AdventMessenger

IN the NEWS - 429 Sheep Starved by False Shepherd

If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink: Proverbs 25:21
Q: If you are to feed your enemy if they are hungry---how much more your fellow Christians if they are hungry?
God never told this FRAUD to let his people go hungry---especially to the point of DEATH. Christians need to start reading their Bible to be able to identify False Shepherds that lead them....


"Paul Nthenge Mackenzie, leader of the

Good News International Church, and 94 of his associates were charged in Kenyan court on Thursday with terrorism-related crimes over the starvation deaths of 429 of his followers.
Mackenzie was accused of ordering his followers to starve themselves so they could enter Heaven before the destruction of the world." Breitbart

Creation Moment 1/20/2024 - Question......

And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good....And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so. Genesis 1:21,24

"..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. 

Q: 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 Neil Thomas, Evolution News June 10, 2022, Evolution News June 10, 2022

Revelation 18:4 in Proper Perspective

"Let not the unbeliever rejoice over the fallen state of the church, for it is an omen of no good to the world. 

Q: If the truth has lost its power upon its professed friends, what can its enemies hope for? 

*Let God's people return from their captivity and be saved; 

--for, while we admit the fact that the churches, as bodies, have become sadly degenerate, 

--yet we firmly believe there are many true-hearted Christians in the different denominations, who mourn over the desolations of Zion. 

*Such, we doubt not, will heed the call, "Come out of her, My people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. Rev. 18:4." 

M.E.Cornell

The "Really" File - (Jezza Belle)

For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with Thee. Psalm 5:4

"A drag queen performer who goes by the name “Jeza Belle” has published a Christian devotional book in which he details his

Christian faith while also attacking evangelicals, saying drag queens are being unfairly ostracized.

Jeza’s Jesus Juice: A Drag Queen’s Christian Devotional, which was published in December, provides a personal history of the author’s religious beliefs and morality.
The book includes chapters on gender identity, “Pride,” and “radical inclusivity.” 

Other chapters tackle forgiveness, guilt, and God’s love.
“LGBTQ+ people are under constant attack, especially by those who claim the mantle of Christ,” the book’s official site states.

From The "Really" File

The site goes on to say: "This devotional provides personal stories, biblical apologetics, and damning indictments of today’s evangelical movement, all served up frothy over ice by one of America’s premier and unique drag talents.”
The drag queen known as “Flamy Grant” recently spoke out against the Grammy Awards, claiminng that the “religious gatekeeping” from within the Recording Academy — specifically from the committee that oversees the contemporary Christian category — sought to block his album from eligibility." Breitbart

REALLY?

Creation Moment 1/19/2024 - Creator vs. anti-human humans

"The Nazis were keen on creating a superhuman race with unsurpassable physical, intellectual, and (ironically) moral qualities. White supremacy, anti-Semitism, and radical medical practices like abortion, assisted suicide, and surrogacy all flirt with, or fully

applaud, the idea that “some people are worth more than others.” Whether it involves a person’s skin color, cultural and religious heritage, or the vulnerability of the elderly, disabled, and unborn, there is a resurgence of anti-humanism. 

Strangely enough, such anti-humanism comes to us in the name of humanity, in the name of “compassion.” Transhumanism, with its emphasis on technological power, tends to regard the human body and its mortality as a problem to be overcome instead of a gift from God to be accepted.
Human beings, precious simply for being human, are desecrated."
PeterBiles/EN&V

Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of His saints. 

Psalm 116:15

Simple Question about the SABBATH

And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made. Genesis 2:3

"Q: How could the Sabbath have been given only to the Jews, when it was made at creation, which was long before the days of Abraham, father of the Jewish race?"
F.D. Nichol/F7

Creation Moment 1/18/2024 - Putting Darwin in Perspective

Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. Genesis 2:1

"The curious thing, however, was that within a few decades, and in

defiance of each and every scientific imprecation, Darwin’s Origin achieved the acceptance initially denied it by the scientific community. Such a puzzling reversal of fortunes clearly cries out for explanation since, on the face of it, it seems as counterintuitive as if, say, a Broadway production panned by the critics were later to receive a “Greatest Show on Earth” award." 

Neil Thomas; author of Taking Leave of Darwin

IN the NEWS - CASE STUDY: Why the Secular Left HATES Christians in Politics (Iowa Caucus Reaction)

CASE STUDY: 

Why the Secular Left 

HATES Christians in Politics 

(Iowa Caucus Reaction)

The Secular Left, that for years has been BASHING CHRISTIANS in the Political and Public Arena, has been on a kick to Bash Christians who vote for Trump.

btw, this post isn't about promoting Trump. It's about highlighting why the Secular Left really HATES Christians and uses Trump as a rod to beat up Christians. (DISCLAIMER: I'm not voting myself for Trump in the Primary-I'm voting for DeSantis).

I. "In the lead-up to Monday’s Iowa Caucus returns on MSNBC, network host Joy Reid attacked so-called white Christians as former

President Donald Trump was on the verge of an overwhelming win in the Hawkeye State. Reid deemed Iowa to be “overrepresented” by white Christians and blamed their motivations for Trump’s success.“This is a state that is overrepresented by white Christians that are going participate in the caucuses, especially tonight.” Breitbart

II. "Former Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean claimed Tuesday on MSNBC’s “The Beat” that Christians who voted for former President Donald Trump “have abandoned any pretense of being ethical.” 

Breitbart

III. "Hollywood filmmaker-actor Rob Reiner is taking aim at Christians who support former President Donald Trump....."
Breitbart

First, Romans 1 tells us the 3 steps humans took in turning from God. 1) They began to disbelieve.
2) They began to worship the creation rather than the Creator.
3) They began to lust after the same gender.

Second, the reason the Secular Left HATES Christians is because Christians oppose snuffing out beating hearts that haven't yet sinned

(abortion), oppose the advancement in the public arena, especially in the schools, of sexual perversion and mutilation of minors (LGBT/transgenderism), are criticized by the Left for being the largest group to oppose their climate cult in polls (with the oft repeated attack that Christians are of the mindset that God is going to destroy this earth so the saving if the planet doesn't appeal to them due to some old book written thousands of years ago) and finally because they reject that we are related to common beasts of the field and rather are created in the Image of God (opposition to Darwinian Evolution and long Age Chronology).

Third, you see, 

--the Secular Left hangs their hat of Darwinian storytelling in order to then reject any authority in one's worldview of the Biblical God, 

--hence they can engage in or celebrate or promote LGBT. 

--And as a result of rejecting God they replace the Father God with the Mother Earth. 

--And finally, as their decadent minds are left to their own devices, as they sear their conscious, they stoop to sacrificing their unborn children on and to the ALTAR OF SELF via abortion.

So yeah, they have always Hated Christians in Politics.

Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
Romans 1:21

Creation Moment 1/17/2024 - Darwinian Drunk Theory of Brain

Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: 

and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
Proverbs 20:1

"Fermentation technology as a driver of human brain expansion (Bryant, Hansen and Hecht, Communications Biology, 23 Nov 2023). This is the official just-so story paper. It is full of the e-word “evolution” in the body of the article and in the references: 69 mentions in all.

The Darwinos try to soften their theory a bit by distinguishing

between internal fermentation (performed by some gut bacteria) and external fermentation, when the human ancestors accidentally discovered that fermented fruit is good for food, a delight to the eyes, and to be desired to make one wise. 

Soon, they were developing “fermentation technology” to get more wisdom (burp!).

"Fermentation allows for the proliferation of non-harmful or beneficial strains which out-compete harmful strains. For example, by-products of fermentation include alcohol and acid, which inhibit further microbial growth, effectively preserving the food. There are other food storage techniques whose effective timescales are within that of fermentation, such as smoking, drying, freezing, and salting (notably, often used in combination with fermentation). However, compared to these other methods, we propose that fermentation may have been accomplishable more easily, across a wider range of environments, and by earlier, smaller-brained, less cognitively-complex ancestors."

Even a dumb brute could get good at moonshine “technology,” they suggest. Funny that chimps never tried it.

It cannot be discounted that early fully-human created beings discovered a taste for ethyl alcohol, and may have learned to like it. Some of the earliest cuneiform tablets from Sumeria give recipes for beer. 

The crazy part of the Darwino hypothesis, though, is that alcohol drove hominid ancestors to evolve big brains, and as a consequence, cognitive complexity and semantic language emerged as by-products.

If that were true, alcoholics should have huge brains like aliens in some movies and be teaching relativity theory. They should be curing cancer and writing AI programs about How to Find the Missing Socks.

Q: Do these Darwinos have any evidence to back up their Fermentation Hypothesis? 

A: Yes! Why just look at all the people who like alcohol. A taste for liquor, therefore, must have evolved! And for proof, look—they all have big brains, too!

"If our hypothesis is correct, then we might expect to find evolved innate preferences for beneficial fermentation products or evolved innate aversions to dangerous byproducts of “off” fermentation.

Interestingly, it appears that many of the most disparately-regarded foods—seen by some as prized delicacies, and by others as supremely unappetizing—are fermented: for example, thousand-year eggs, natto, and Limburger cheese. These preferences appear to be highly culturally specific, which might be adaptive given the high cultural diversity of fermentation practices and the risks of consuming a ferment gone awry. The same flavors or odors which might signal “good” food in one culture could emanate from “off” ferments in another."

There you have it. “External fermentation [was] a driver of early hominin brain expansion.” Our ancestors couldn’t help themselves. Evolution drove them to drink.

Hey, it’s just a hypothesis, they admit. 

--Being Darwinians, the authors don’t need to prove it. Someone will work on this in the land of Futureware: (Tomorrowland). Meanwhile, their just-so story passed peer review, didn’t it? And Nature published it, didn’t they? Stop criticizing. This is Darwinian “research.”

"Future research could address the extent to which preferences for fermented products are innate, cultural, or may be the product of

gene-culture coevolution. For example, sour taste abilities have been proposed to have co-evolved with the production of fermented foods. Notably, preferences for sour or acidic foods are relatively rare in the animal kingdom. Human food preferences are highly variable across individuals and cultures and are culturally learned, a phenomenon which may be adaptive. Are preferences for fermented foods more susceptible to cultural learning than other food preferences? Are they more sensitive to experience in a developmental critical period, and/or less flexible after this period closes? Are they heritable, either genetically or epigenetically?"

They don’t know, and they don’t have to know. Darwinian just-so stories pass peer review no matter how lame. Why? Critics are kept out of sight in a soundproof booth behind one-way glass." 

CEH

The Participants in the 2nd Advent SIMPLIFIED

"Christ's coming 

*will be personal and visible. 

"This same Jesus which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven. Acts 1:9-11; Matt.24:30; Mark 13:26; 14:62; John 14:3; 1Thess.4:16; 2Thess.1:7; Titus 2:13; 1John 3:2; Rev.1:7. 

*At Christ's second coming the sinners, then living will be destroyed. "And then shall tha brightness of his coming." 2Thess.2:7,8; 1:7-10; Matt.13:24-30,37-43; 3:12; Luke 17:26-80. 

*The dead in Christ will be raised, and the living saints will be changed at his coming. 

"Behold, I show you a mystery; we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye at the last trump; for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed." 1Cor.15:51,52; 1Thess.4:16,17; 1John 3:2. 

*The immortal saints will then ascend up to heaven with their Lord, to the Father's house, or New Jerusalem. 

"Let not your heart be troubled, ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also." John 14:1-3; 7:33; 13:33,36; 1Pet.1:3-5. 

*The earth will be left desolate. "

Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger to lay the land desolate;t wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the and he shall destroy the sinners 6 thereof out of it." Isa.13:9; 6:8-11; 24:1-3; 34:1-15; 28:21,22; Jer.4:20,27; 25:32-38; Zeph.1:2,3,7-18; 3:6-8." 

Uriah Smith