“Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. ” (Luke 12:24-30)
One of the greatest and simplest demonstrations of the Creator’s design is that of the simple seed.
Whether it is the seed of a weed or a tree or a flower, in every case, there is simply no explanation for the origin of a seed.
There is no “natural selection” process that has taken place here. Nor is there any “will” of a plant to survive which could ever explain where all the information came from that is locked into every seed upon the earth.
There is no reason for a seed to try to “improve” upon itself. Which the evolutionist wishfully dreams must drive such simple organisms to ascend up the evolutionary scale.
How could anyone ever make sense of the miracle that a simple seed could “evolve” into a beautiful rose?
Or even attempt to answer that great mystery: Which came first? The seed or the flower?!
Those who deny the existence of God or His special acts of Creation are fools.
There is simply no excusing such men or women. Yet the world is filled with them.
They would rather believe in the idea that all that we see is the result of random chance. Or of “the will” of the creature. Or of the triumph of nature.
Or of some incredible nonsense like that.
Information that Had to Come from Somewhere
Yet, in thinking of the seed, where did the information to make a tree or a flower come from? How did such a hard, simple, miniscule object contain all the organized, programmed, and precisely-timed data to create the the lillies of the field? Or the stupendous cedar trees of Sequoia or Kings Canyon National Parks?
Not to mention the countless fruits that grow all over the world. Each designed to grow, in very specific climates and soil types.
And not just one seed to produce one plant, mind you; but a seed that consistently produces the same plant over and over and over again.
A specific seed that is programmed to produce a specific flower or tree or fruit – even with more seeds within that fruit. So that the process can continue.
Information is the “Kiss of Death” for the Evolutionist
Consider that life on earth could not exist without these plants. And also that each of the organisms in the supposed evolutionary chain would require their own special diet. Everything timed to appear exactly when and where it was needed. Timed to meet a specific need at a specific moment in a specific place over the supposed, “countless eons” of time.
How could that timing have taken place? Even just once?
With all the water, air, sunlight, soil types, different nutrients needed for growth, and every one of the seemingly infinite considerations required for plant growth.
After all, I can easily kill off my favorite fern if I don’t water it properly. Too much or too little, too cold or too hot, too much sun or too much shade, and my little green fern is toast.
But what happens to the odds when we start calculating “chance”?
When we start calculating the odds for all the infinitely different sequences of events necessary in order for a seed to germinate and grow and reach maturity?
It’s ridiculous to say this about even one plant. Let alone about a whole garden full of them? Or a whole planet filled with them?!
Information is the “kiss of death” for the atheist, for the old-earth creationist, and for any who claim to believe in biblical inerrancy while also holding to evolution as God’s means of creation.
Because this is all about information on an infinite scale programmed into all these organisms.
Each designed to grow at precisely the right time, in precisely the right way, and in precisely the right place. And to predictably continue to grow over and over again to feed the struggling, little, evolutionary slime beings; yearning to grow up to someday become an unbelieving, intellectual fool.
The Lord is the Great Programmer
The Lord Jesus Christ, the Creator, did all this.
He made the seed and brought it to maturity overnight.
In order to feed the man He created from the dust of the earth. And not from the dust of death – filled with the molecular debris of a billion years of evolution.
He created a single man, in maturity, in a single day, whom He named Adam. One man alone and not some dude singled-out from a supposed 1000+ club of less-than-man hominids.
Adam was created to live in a perfect world without physical or spiritual death. In order to have endless, unbroken fellowship with Adam. The first of his race.
Because the Lord didn’t need to use some the bogus, limited, and flawed processes of evolution to do it.
He did it by the word of His power and by the breath of His mouth.
He spoke . . . and it was done.
HAPPY EASTER!!
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March 28, 2024 at 9:39 am
Another perfect example of how a christian has no clue what evolutionary theory says and attacks a strawman. It’s a shame how they choose to remain ignorant and lie. Unsurprisngly, “information” is not a “kiss of death” at all. That’s a common lie from creationists, who have nothing to show their god merely exists, much less which of the various forms of creationism is the right one.
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March 29, 2024 at 8:32 pm
Hello clubschadenfreude,
To your point that Christians are all over the place on what “form of creationism” they believe, I agree. This is due mostly because Christians are too prone to bow the knee to public opinion. Meaning that they are unwilling to clearly stand upon what the Bible plainly says about the Creation. But they choose the respect of the culture rather than belief in the plain record of God’s wordl
That’s not to say that Creationists are unintelligent or bury their heads in the sand; quite to the contrary. Even in a Christian college I studied evolution. Just as I did in the public schools. And I probably know more about the evolutionary position than the vast majority of all those who claim to actually believe in it.
That is called “intellectual honesty”. Which is almost universally absent in those who are evolutionists that claim they are more intelligent than we “simple, ignorant, superstitious, anti-science, anti-intellectual Bible thumpers”.
But the simple fact is that evolution is not science. It is a theory. Always has been. Its purpose was simply, with Darwin’s own purpose as an example, to try to come up with an explanation for the origin of man that was devoid of a god or God. Period. That was what Darwin set out to do; even as others before him had tried to do. He carefully constructed his evolutionary theory around his predetermined, anti-biblical bias.
What we have today is a world that has made “science” its god. As if science will give them all the answers. If one will only approach the question of the origin of man with pure intellect, pure reason, non-religious thinking. Based only on cold, hard facts. But much of what is called science today is simply a popular consensus among those who sit in prestigious academic positions. A popular consensus of how the origin of man occurred based on the views of those who know how to get along in the world. How to be thought of as intelligent and wise.
The observational and practical sciences, by the way, are entirely different things. Theory is also an entirely different thing from science. Regardless how popular any theory may be.
Neither you nor I could create life in a test tube. Life out of nothing. We could not duplicate a molecule in its complexity. Nor could we program the information into it that would allow it to function. We might create a machine, with the help of experts and specialists to mimic such a thing on a very limited scale. But not an organism that could function and then do all that a molecule does. Absolutely no way.
Same thing with life itself. Or of any organism, for that matter. There is no explanation as to how things were designed. And how they were each able to appear in perfect, symbiotic relationships. Not just on the plant level but on every other level supplying the needs of all the organisms depending upon them.
And, if one of these millions of components failed, the whole process would have failed. Doomed to start over. Waiting another Trillion years for the slim possibility that a few of the components might occur again and work.
Time does not solve the issue. A belief in natural selection or any other of the mechanics of evolution simply cannot answer the hard questions. Instead, we have prestigious museums that create a fairy-tale progression of “lower” organisms ascending upwards to man. The only thing to learn from such a common form of teaching evolution is to wonder at the skill of the artist to create such an effective form of propaganda.
We know that God created all things. We know the order He did it in. We know the time frame He did it in.
And we know He did it by His own power and by His own word. And that He reveals Himself in everything we see around us. If only we are wise enough to see Him there.
Doug
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March 30, 2024 at 11:16 am
AMEN!
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April 1, 2024 at 10:21 am
Hello Doug,
You can call me Vel, if you like. Christians don’t’ agree amonst themselves and your blaming “public opinion” doesn’t work. Christians don’t agree if the bible’s claims are litearlly true or are just metaphors, and can’t agree on what those metaphors “really” mean. So blaming other Christians for not agreeing with you isn’t about the public but how Christians can’t agree on their religion.
Creationists are unintelligent and bury their heads in the sand. They lie about evolutionary theory, abiogenesis and the big bang theory. And I very much doubt that you know more about evolutionary theory than the scientists who study it. You certainly don’t demonstrate that in your blog post.
Christians have little intellectual honesty, unable to support their claims about scientists and science. Unsurprisingly, Those of us who accept the fact of evolution have simply pointed out how you can’t support your claims. You are antiscience, and you are hypocrites when you reject the same science that makes you comfy when it shows your religion is wrong.
It’s great when someone like you tries to lie and claim that evolutionary theory somehow isn’t science, when it is. It is a scientific theory, which is not a theory in the common use of the term. A scientific theory is based on repeatable observation and experimentation, and your typical ignorance of the difference underlines how your religion requires you to be willfully ignorant.
You also are ignorant about Darwin and his reasons for researching why organisms change with pressure from the environment. There is nothing at all about him wanting a reason to replace your imaginary friend. It’s a shame that Christians find they must lie about others.
Then you make the false claim that the “world’ has science at its god. Nope, it doesn’t. The “world” trusts science since it has shown that it is trustworthy. Not so much for the dozens of gods humans worship. Yep, no need for religious thinking since it cannot show that its claims are true.
It’s typical for you to have nothing at all to support your nonsense of science being only “popular consensus” when it is not. You simply lie. You seem to be simply a theist who is upset that people dare not to agree with his baseless claims.
No, observational and practical sciences are not “entirely different things”. That is a lie invented by theists to try to find a gap for their god to fit into. Again, scientific theories are not theories in the commonly used sense. You fail again.
Your arguments are typical god of the gaps nonsense, with your baseless declaration that no one can create life in a test tube. We don’t know if that is possible or not *yet*. We can indeed create very complex molecules, so you fail on that one in your ignorance. And no information is “programed” into life by anything. It is a matter of the laws of physics, not your imaginary friend. And no reason to think that we could create a machine in a “limited scale”. All of your excuses fail since we don’t know what the future holds.
There is plenty of explanation on how molecules, etc came to be, e.g. the laws of physics. There is no “design” and creationists have yet to show this to be true. If you wish to claim “design” then you have to explain if your god was just stupid, or malicious, to create our sun to give us cancer, DNA to fail often and horribly, and the human body to guarantee that thousands will choke to death every year. Can you do that, Doug?
Symbiosis came about through time and the organization that we see from the laws of physics. It didn’t magically happen suddenly. You are typically ignorant again.
If any of the millions of components failed, we’d just have a different result, no “doom” or “failure”. And poor dear, no “trillion” of years needed. You are ignorant as always.
Time does solve the issue, and you are simply to ignorant to accept that. You have a presupposition that you must make work no matter what ignorance you must have to do so. And thus willful ignorance is what your religion requires. Unsurprsingly, not a single creationists can show that evolutionary theory is a “fairy tale”. If they could, they’d win the Nobel prize. Curious how not a single one of these failures has been able to do that. And yes, I know, you’ll invent lies about some conspiracy to excuse their failure.
Nope, “we” don’t know your imaginary friend created anything at all, nor is there any evidence it merely exists. Each religion makes the same baseless claims as yours does, that their god reveals itself in everything around us, and they all fail, like yours does. All you have is an ignorant set of books that even christianis can’t agree on, and not one of you can show that your version is any better than the rest.
What I have is evidence that not one of the bible stories can be shown to have happened. Not the creation (either of the contradictory versions), not the flood, not the exodus, not some certain day where there was a major earthquake, the sky darkened and dead jews wandered around the streets of roman-occupied Jerusalem. No one has to be wise to be in your religion, just gullible and ignorant.
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April 1, 2024 at 9:38 pm
Hi Vel,
Well, you have covered about 25 different things here. Which I will have to cover in the future as I can. If I haven’t already in many of my past posts over the years.
But just a couple notes. It seems like you are just repeating back my language to me. As well as calling me ignorant over and over again. And, by the way, I am not a scientist; nor do I pretend to be one. Yet, in my experience, few of the people who actually believe in evolution really seem to understand anything about it. That was my point.
But I have engaged many people in my life over this issue and have always been willing to go back and research what people say. To see if they are right or wrong. I do not find that to be a common practice on the part of those who are atheists especially. Which is what I am referring to when I speak of intellectual honesty. I am a generally curious guy and have read deeply and widely over the years and am not afraid of an idea. But wisdom and time forces me to make choices about what is really going to make a difference to me in this life and the next. So, I am not deeply into the “scientific” journals as you undoubtedly must be.
As far as Christians who deny the literal accuracy of Genesis and the rest of the Bible, I find myself disgusted with them. They have no basis for not accepting the clear and plain reading of Genesis. The practice of interpreting Genesis as a metaphor is an old issue. Some of the supposed Ancient “fathers”, such as Origen, started much of that metaphor crap and it has carried on today with groups like BioLogos; who deny the historicity of Genesis and are seeking to cause the church to accept evolution as God’s method of creation. But why? Is it because they think it will make them more respectable to the culture and to the scientific community?
So, let me ask you a question. And this is just out of pure curiosity. Do you think more of those Christians who accept evolution and / or believe in an old-earth creation? Are you more likely to believe their gospel because they are more respectable to your view of science?
Science doesn’t have all the answers. And it never will. It cannot tell you why you are here? It cannot tell you how to find true peace in life. And it cannot give you comfort as you breathe your last breath. And you won’t be able to blame science when you stand before a holy God that died for you so that you could live for eternity and discover fulfillment of every hope and longing that went unmet down here.
“For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse.: (Romans 1:20)
Doug
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April 2, 2024 at 9:44 am
Oh dear, 25 different things. Take your time. You don’t have to answer any or all.
Yep, I do call you ignorant since you and your religion are. You make claims about science and yep, I do definitely know you aren’t a scientist or know about what you attack. You have no evidence for your baseless claims that “few of the people who actually believe in evolution really seem to understand anything about it.” You’ve demonstrated you know nothing about it, and you hve not demonstrated you have ever researched that which you claim is wrong, so your claim you have seems to be less than true.
It shows a lack of wisdom to ignore reality and claim that imaginary thigns you can’t show existing makes a difference in reality. All theists claim this and not one can show their claims to be true. It’s also notable that you try to use scare quotes around “scientific” in regards to journals, so you again reveal your ignorance. Sorry, they really are scientific journals, and unsurprisingly, Christians can’t show their claims wrong.
Yep, I’m sure you are disgusted with Christians who dare not agree with your version, and I’m sure they are disgusted with you too. You all claim to have some truth, and not one of you can show your claims are true nor can you even convince each other. There is plenty of basis to not accept the nonsense in your bible. Stars aren’t little lights in a dome that can be knocked off. Humans will see that shown yet again as nonsense thanks to the eclipse happening next week. There are two contradictory stories in genesis, and my favorite is the second where this god is too ignorant to realize that the animals already created can’t be a mate for Adam. Unsurprisngly, no evidence to support either version, be it young earth, old earth, theistic evolution, etc.
It’s also notable that Christians can’t agree on what to believe since I see you don’t agree with the early Christians and have invented your own version.
Ask what you’d like. Nope, I find all Christians with their baseless nonsense are simply ignorant cultists who have nothing to support their many many versions of Christianity. You are all frauds. Unsurprisingly, not a single self-professed Christian can do what jesus promises to his true followers per the bible.
Yep, science doesn’t have all of the answers *yet*. It may never get all of the answers since evidence has long since been destroyed. Still no evidence for any of the many versions of the Christian god or any other god. Various worldviews, not dependent on genocidal ignorant gods, can tell humans how to have peace and meaning and purpose in their lives. And why care why humans are here? It matters not one whit. Those worldviews can and do give comfort as one dies, and no ignorant blood thirsty god needed at all.
Happily, your sadistic little fantasies will never come true. 2000+ years of abject failure and impotent threats aren’t impressive. Heaven is such a pathetically childish bit of nonsense. Christians can’t even agree on what it is.
Romans 1 is what all cults claim and not one of you can show your god merely exists much less does anything.
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April 2, 2024 at 11:11 am
Hello Vel,
Life is a series of choices. I pray you have not made your final choice about Jesus Christ. We are each given a limited amount of time. And with no guarantee of tomorrow. If you have a real question or a real concern, that’s why I’m here.
Doug
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April 3, 2024 at 9:24 am
Per the bible, life isn’t a series of choices, since this god supposedly has a “plan” that must come true. So you fail there.
I have certainly made my final choice about your imaginary god/messiah. Pray as hard as you want, Doug. I’ve literally had hundreds of christians praying for me to agree with them, and despite the many promises made by jesus in the bible, every single prayer has failed.
What’s the problem? Is it that your god loves me as I am? Your god doesn’t think you are a true believer? or is it that your god is imaginary?
Your typical, and impotent threats are amusing but that’s it. The sadistic fantasies of your religion will never come true. I have asked real questions and shown real concerns. It’s always fun when a christian tries to lie and claim I have not, so they have an excuse why they can’t answer.
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April 4, 2024 at 12:44 pm
Hello Vel, you have a free will to choose. We all do. We each choose our reality. And I am not lying to you or trying to deceive you; despite your claims.
Each of us chooses our “authority”. Whether that is God or whatever you think science is or some other god, etc.
Look at the world around us. A person chooses to believe he is a cat or a dog. And we are not supposed to tell him that he is not. That is the state we are in. So, how do you come to your decision about what is real or true? Is it based on your own self confidence? Or your faith in your own superior intelligence? How do you have all the answers? How do you know for sure?
And what then is your purpose? Why are you even here? And will everything that you are, have ever thought or felt or experienced be forever gone when you die? Seriously. Where is your hope? Do you have nothing to fear? Do you have no sin? Or have you rejected the idea of sin altogether? Will you simply go blindly in death thinking that the hopes and dreams you have will go unfulfilled?
There is no glory or joy in that. NOONE will care that someone died as an atheist. There is no value that is somehow carried over into the cosmos that someone died for the glory of science. Science or the scientific community will not care. Will the intellectuals of the world praise a person who died to prove his cold, hard “logic”?
NO.
Or will a person live and die for the glory of their own independent will or “identity”? That person will not be pitied, mourned, or remembered. But he Will go on into existence. Despite all his protesting and denials to the contrary. What lies ahead for someone, and for all of us for that matter, is an eternity of existence.
Because we Have to live Somewhere Forever.
And, by the way, I don’t care if you agree with me. I only care that you know Christ. You can hate me, if you will, I’m not running for office.
Doug
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March 30, 2024 at 3:14 pm
Those who are Born-again of and by His Holy Spirit, live by His Holy Spirit inspired Word, why? Because Only those shall know and will believe that HE is the Author and creator of all Life which exists.
You desire to think that there be no One True God, so that you are a god unto yourself and will believe what feeds you in that belief!
Your unbelief of the Lord and all of The Beauty of His Holiness is due to your sin of Self, and there be no other god, but Yourself!
All fall short of the Glory of God, due to the Sin which abides within the heart, soul and mind of a human. Until God’s Grace is revealed to you, you will not believe no matter what we say.
So I do pray that the Lord will come to you and reveal your need for the forgiveness of your sins so that you will see the Beauty of His Holiness and all that encompasses! Because there is no other God that is able to grant you Eternal life, and to share in that most Wonderous Eternal Love, and live in Him, and He in you……
For it is only in Him to Grant life or death, darkness or light, for He is able to save you to His Utmost All for His Glory which is due unto His Name!
There is no other who will be the Lover of your soul, as I know for the past 46 years, He has caused me to say “I’m Sick of Love” towards Him, because He first Loved me, unto death rising again in Righteousness…..
The Lord’s Word has the final say in ALL things, and not One human being can make His Word null & void.
The Lord bless you…….
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April 1, 2024 at 10:20 am
Thanks for the support, Cctechm7!
In our culture, men and women place this incredible faith in “science;” which some have called “scientism”. Because everyone has to have faith in something. As you said. They always play the “intelligence” card to make themselves feel more superior. As if those of us who believe the scriptures are stupid. And most of the church today is being influenced to appease that crowd. Even many very famous leaders have done this in buying in to the old-earth ideas. Their compromises have been eroding the faith of so many.
Thank you for your words. As you say, we are trying to bring people to Christ. And all we’ve got is His word to show them the way. So, we either believe it is accurate and true or we don’t.
Doug
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April 1, 2024 at 12:43 pm
Amen!
We as brethren are to stand for the truth, and it is a blessing to get to know one another, because I find it so disappointingly despairing that their are fewer and fewer who are like minded in representing the Truth of the Lord and His Apostles as written.
However the Lord has always made sure there is a Remnant, whom He has reserved that will Glorify Him in Truth and His Righteousness, as a witness for Himself to all the Earth.
This the Lord has always done throughout the Centuries as witnessed in the Old Testament, and New Testament.
I thank the Lord He is Faithful to Himself, and to those of us who are His!
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April 1, 2024 at 9:39 pm
Thank you for your stand on Truth as well!
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March 30, 2024 at 11:32 am
Excellent presentation of the truth.
I believe, because the Lord’s Word states it, that the various plants, trees were created by the Word of His Mouth, then when the fruit of the various plants, trees etc….then the seeds were formed, it’s the same for the animals, then humans. They were created in full form first, fully matured, then were commanded to propagate, (1. To continue or multiply the kind by generation or successive production; applied to animals and plants; as, to propagate a breed of horses or sheep; to propagate any species of fruit tree.) and bring forth after their own kind. So the plants, the chickens all came first, then their seeds, the egg, and the human!
Our God is a Creative God, one of Order, not chaos, the sinful man, brings forth chaos, because the author of it is of the Devil due to sin, therefore our Lord God has the FINAL WORD!
And no human can make that null or void
Praise His Most Glorious NAME, which is above ALL NAMES!
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March 30, 2024 at 2:24 pm
Hi Cctechm7, Thanks for your thoughts. It just was reinforced to me that for even one flower or one blade of grass to grow was a miracle in itself. But there had to be a whole region full at the exact same moment. All this stuff in tandem. All exactly the right kind of stuff. All in massive abundance at the same time. Calculating the odds of one blade of grass springing up all by itself is boggling beyond imagination. But a whole garden full should bring every evolutionist to his knees. Along with all the rest of us; in seeing the infinite display of God’s Person and Power. And His infinite personal care for all who will trust in Him.
Doug
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