What if God has got the climate under control? 

God made a promise after the universal Flood back about 4,400 years ago. He was fed up with the acts of violence and rebellion by the people he had created. After that catastrophic event, he declared:

“Never again will I curse the ground because of humans, even though every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done.
[22] “As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat,
summer and winter, day and night will never cease.”

Genesis 8:21 (NIV) (http://www.laridian.com)

God sustains all things. As his created humans, we have been given the responsibility of looking after them to the best of our ability. This includes nature, the environment, as well as each other.

We are also told that the earth “will wear out”…

Lift up your eyes to the heavens, look at the earth beneath;

the heavens will vanish like smoke, the earth will wear out like a garment and its inhabitants die like flies.

But my salvation will last forever, my righteousness will never fail.

Isaiah 51:6 (NIV) (http://www.laridian.com)

That will be the time when the God of the universe creates a new earth where he will dwell with those who love him, accept him, and are happy to obey him…

But in keeping with his promise, we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth, where righteousness dwells.
2 Peter 3:13 (NIV) (http://www.laridian.com)

What are your thoughts about all of this?

Dinos on Noah’s ark? 

There only needed to be a male and a female from each ‘kind’ after all. The largest would have fitted in, not as fully-grown adults, but as young dinosaurs, later to mature and mate. Then, over time, natural selection would have diversified them into many more varieties, just as with dogs, cats, livestock etc.

Naval architects calculate that the capacity of the ark was enormous, at about 15,000 tonnes, so lots of room for fodder and the various animal ‘kinds’ as described in the Bible. That will be another Post…

Blood cells still present in a T Rex bone?

One of my most fascinating reads some years ago was from the prestigious ‘Science’ journal in 2005. Dr Mary Schweitzer, a palaeontologist from the US, presented pictorial proof of what she was astounded to find when she cut open a T Rex femur bone many times – soft tissue in which there were blood cells, blood vessels and soft elastic tissue. That is incredible! Realistically, the T Rex could only have died some few thousand years ago, and definitely not 65 million!

Bible’s mention of a couple of dinosaur-like creatures.

One of these is in Job 40:15 and is  called ‘behemoth’ (‘beast of beasts’) and the description could easily fit a sauropod herbivorous dinosaur. Its tail ‘sways like a cedar’, and its ‘bones are tubes of bronze’.

People like me who believe in Intelligent Design and the universal flood in the days of Noah are convinced that dinosaur graveyards are the result of that catastrophic flood not so many thousands of years ago. That’s why dino fossils have been found alongside ordinary objects like turtle shells, willow leaves, figs, crocodile bones and redwood cones etc.

You might like to check out these sites for more possibilities.

https://creation.com/

https://www.untoldsecretsofplanetearth.com/store/dire-dragons/#/

https://www.biblestudytools.com/esv/job/40.html

The voting board here from my day at the Market shows what those present thought of my question…

Origins of life

If we don’t know where we’ve come from, won’t it be much harder to know where we are going?

We’ve all been wising up to Evolution, and with it the ‘Big Bang’, since our early school years, right through till now.

However, have you ever stopped to think about whether this ‘hypothesis’ is correct?

Just a few questions…

Did everything really come from nothing? Did life really come from non-life? Did order really come from chaos?
Really? Take any other scientific experiment, and you will find that each one of those claims is non-scientific, non-observable, and non-reproducible at any laboratory level. When applied to the origins of life, they are a claim to a miracle or at least big-time magic.

I think we would all agree that, according to the natural world now:

Something never comes from nothing; life never comes from non-life; order never comes from disorder; information never comes from inanimate matter.

Natural selection

As amazing and powerful as it is, natural selection is not the whole of Evolution, even if it seems to be promoted that way. It follows on from the origins of life, and does not act until there is life for it to be acting on. It actually is more of a culling force, rather than a creative force. That’s why it is called ‘Microevolution’, and is very much a real and ongoing part of all life that is already living.

The cart is usually put before the horse

Macroevolution should come first, the claimed actual origins of life. After that, should come Microevolution, the true action of natural selection on the origins of life onwards to today.

Another key word in the discussion is mutation. This also is used incorrectly, as if it is a creating force, just like natural selection. However, it should be kept in mind that almost all mutations are negative, in that they cause a loss of genetic information, rather than a gain.