Thursday, June 23, 2011

ANTI-CREATIONIST MYTHS THAT KEEP RETURNING

This is lifted whole hog from the Dr. Dino creation evangelism page. Go over

there and read a lot more good stuff!


ANTI-CREATIONIST MYTHS THAT KEEP RETURNING

Our Facebook page recently contained a number of common challenges to the creation position. These sorts of questions are mostly copied and pasted from other forums, as the people who ask such questions are generally not interested in a logical response.
Nevertheless, it might be instructive to include these as part of an article, in order to demonstrate that all such questions have a logical response.
Why are “99%” of the public figures, speakers, evangelists of the Young Earth Movement white males? Where are the women? Where are the Asians, African Americans, etc.?
99% of all statistics are made up on the spur of the moment. That is the case with this statistic. A majority of any public figures or speakers, Christian or otherwise, appear to be white and male.
However, there are both women and African Americans who speak on this issue. Georgia Purdom, Sylvia Baker and Nancy Darrell are three women who spring to mind. Charles Ware and Voddie Baucham would be two African Americans who frequently address this issue.
Why do all Biblical Literalists with science training testify they became a Literalist before their “science” confirmed their position? For example, why are no Young Earth geologists stating, “I came to believe in a young Earth because my data kept returning an age of less than 10,000 years but I didn’t change my religious position until later”? In other words, why does the religious conversion always occur before the “science”?
This is not my experience. A large number of people often tell me that they first became convinced of creation through their studies, and then were saved later. I have not done a survey to determine percentages. But the premise of the above question is not correct.
Why don’t Young Earth Creationist websites (e.g. AIG, ICR) provide links to mainstream museums, science publications or general science knowledge?
Why should they? They don’t link to ours! Evolutionary museums are well-known and easy to find. A link from our website to such an institution could imply and endorsement of their beliefs.
Why are the major Young Earth Creationist organizations (ICR, AIG) based in the United States of America?
This is incorrect. This question simply reveals an America-centric bias of the questioner, not of creationists. The world’s two largest creationist organizations both began in Australia. The world’s oldest creationist organization was founded and is based in England. The UK has a large number of creationist ministries, as do Germany, Netherlands, Denmark, several other European countries, South Africa, India, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. And I could go on!
Why is there no attempt at discovering the actual process of Creation by followers of Creation Science? Does this reluctance make the phrase Creation Science an oxymoron?
This is incorrect. Read the various peer-reviewed scientific journals within creationism, such as the Journal of Creation (www.creation.com), the Answers Research Journal(www.answersingenesis.org) or the Creation Research Society Quarterly(www.creationresearch.org). When listing these on forums in the past, I have sometimes had the reply that these are not “real” peer-reviewed scientific journals. This is, of course, an illogical statement, falling foul of the so-called “No True Scotsman” logical fallacy.
Why do those Young Earth Creationist organizations which claim to be applying science (ICR, AIG) demand members sign contracts with the (sic) clauses like, “By definition, no apparent, perceived, or claimed evidence in any field, including history and chronology, can be valid if it contradicts the Scriptural record.”
That is because these are faith-based organizations, and it is to prevent entryism. Yet if anyone found such scientific evidence, you can be sure that someone would hear about it. The statement is also self-evident, because no actual knowledge is possible without this presupposition. This was recognized by earlier scientists of the modern era, such as Kepler, Newton, Lister, Boyle, Kelvin, Faraday, Pasteur, etc.
It will also be noted that secular peer-reviewed journals have a similar presupposition against the existence of God. They do not refer to it as a presupposition, but rather as a convention. It is not only creationists who have been unable to publish in secular peer-reviewed scientific journals, because of the journals’ bias. Similar problems have also been encountered, for example, by so-called Climate Change Skeptics, and Big-Bang Skeptics.
Why are there no companies listed on a stock exchange which use Young Earth geology to explore for oil and gas?
This is incorrect. I am aware of a number of geologists involved in exploratory companies who hold a biblical creationist position. I am also aware of a number of scientists in research establishments, who do recognize that there is no evidence for evolution or millions of years, but who are afraid to say so publicly because of the treatment they know they would receive.
Here is my challenge to the creationists, the one’s (sic) that think it’s a valid scientific theory anyway. (I did ask this a couple of blogs back and no one answered me). It’s all very well trying to prove and give possible ways of disproving God by trying to prove the Earth is young. Even if the evidence pointed to the Earth being young, it still wouldn’t be concrete evidence for an Intelligent Designer or God, God/Intelligent Designer would still be faith/belief based. How would you disprove God/Intelligent Designer? A repeatable experiment would be helpful.
I’m afraid I have to disappoint. Not everything is susceptible to scientific analysis. Peer-reviewed scientific experiments are for experiments repeatable in the present, not one-off events in the past. The concept of God as Creator is not a hypothesis, it is a presupposition.
In the same way, I would not expect evolutionists to attempt to repeat abiogenesis in the laboratory — though some have claimed, erroneously, to have done so. Indeed, it would not be valid, because even if an abiogenesis simulation actually produced a new living cell, one would have to take into account the intelligent design of the experimenter. Therefore, evolution, which is based on a presupposition that no outside intelligence created life, is also unprovable. Evolution is not a hypothesis – it is a presupposition.
The presupposition that the Creator made everything is the more logical. Its corollaries make more sense of the laws of physics and the laws of logic, and indeed the origin of these. The laws of logic, for example, require an absolute Creator in order to function. Without the presupposition of God, there is no basis for logic and, ultimately, no basis for any knowledge. The questioner requires “concrete evidence.” I am tempted to ask what evidence would be acceptable. But the request is self-defeating. If there is no God, then there are no absolutes. So, concrete evidence cannot be provided. The requirement for concrete evidence presupposes the existence of the Creator.

Monday, June 20, 2011

Chris Christie Claims Fox News Honcho Roger Ailes is Confidential Adviser

http://tinyurl.com/42jlsnw 

Chris Christie Claims Fox News Honcho Roger Ailes is Confidential Adviser

Gawker breaks the story that union-busting, climate-change-denying, small-government-loving New Jersey governor Chris Christie refused to release emails between himself and Fox News chairman Roger Ailes, claiming executive privilege.
In other words, he claims that Ailes is a political adviser whose communications are confidential, and that he doesn't have to release them in response to Gawker's open records request. 

Sunday, June 19, 2011

Isaiah 48:12-16 Old Testament Validation of The Trinity NOTICE VERSE 16

"12Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; 
I am he; I am the first, I also am the last.
 13Mine hand also hath laid the foundation of the 
earth, and my right hand hath spanned the 
heavens: when I call unto them, they stand up 
together.
 14All ye, assemble yourselves, and hear; which 
among them hath declared these things? The LORD 
hath loved him: he will do his pleasure on Babylon, 
and his arm shall be on the Chaldeans.
 15I, even I, have spoken; yea, I have called him: 
I have brought him, and he shall make his way 
prosperous.

 16Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; I have 
not spoken in secret from the beginning; from 
the time that it was, there am I: and now the 
Lord GOD, and his Spirit, hath sent me."


notice that all the foregoing cannot be said by 
a mere human, Isaiah himself, even at the last, 
the speaker says, "...from the beginning;
from the time that it was, there am I"

YHWH is I AM or The Eternal Self Existent One, 
but further, we see "and now the Lord YHWH, 
AND HIS SPIRIT, has sent me."

Now, if this were Isaiah speaking, you still have 
a duality within YHWH you have The Father and 
His Spirit, Who are Both active in sending the 
speaker. ACTION and WILL are not something 
that a mere force does, The Holy Spirit is not a 
mere energy of The Father, because an energy 
is sent, and may trigger other things, but it does 
not send, like an initiator of action. It does not
act, like a person acts.

But to say that Isaiah speaking regarding himself 
says "from the beginning," etc. is to accuse him 
of blasphemy. So the speaker Isaiah quotes, is
YHWH, Who says He is SENT by YHWH and SENT 
by YHWH's SPIRIT.

So we have three YHWHs. But they are all one, 
beyond human comprehension. This idea offends
the sinful pride of the JWs and other heretics,
who do not want to think that anything can be
beyond the reach of human reason. Yet remember,
precisely this line of though has been used to
eliminate the idea of God existing at all, though
it required a lot of irrationality and non-pursuit
of questions of origin beyond some outstanding
point itself still physical and without explanation
for itself, other than, it just is. At that point you
might as well ascribe intelligence, choice, will
etc. to this primordial physical or semi physical
mass, except you can't, all such things incl.
"the physical medium itself" as certain people
are calling the world soul as Plato and hermetists
called it, is manipulatable, and may have some
nature with inclinations, but is not intelligent and
in control. Obviously it cannot be Creator, only
a creature out of which God made everything else.

The word "mystery" is denounced by JWs as pagan,
but the word's usage had to do with rituals and so
forth whose purpose was little understood but
involved a participation in some entity or other,
its more limited sense in English, a great puzzle
you can't figure out much of which, was not the
meaning in "the Mysteries."

Yet The Father is the ground of being of the Other
Two. The Son ETERNALLY without a time before
which He was not, is begotten of The Father.
The All Holy Spirit is ETERNALLY without a time
before which He was not, spirated from The Father.
There is a special mystery regarding The All Holy
Spirit, Whose actions always of The Father and
declaring of the things of The Son, is often so
hidden that He might be mistaken for a force or
energy or action of The Father, but He is in fact
a PERSON, as shown by even the NWT the
Jehovah's Witnesses love so much, which calls
Him "that one" and ascribes action to him.

 "26 When the helper arrives that I will send you from 
the Father, the spirit of the truth, which proceeds from
the Father, that one will bear witness about me;"
http://www.watchtower.org/e/bible/joh/chapter_015.htm
" 7 Nevertheless, I am telling you the truth, It is for 
your benefit I am going away. For if I do not go away, 
the helper will by no means come to you; but if I do go 
my way, I will send him to you.

 8 And when that one arrives he will give the world 
convincing evidence concerning sin and 
concerning righteousness and concerning judgment:" 
"3 However, when that one arrives, the spirit of the 
truth, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not 
speak of his own impulse, but what things he hears 
he will speak, and he will declare to you the things 
coming. 14 That one will glorify me, because he will 
receive from what is mine and will declare it to you. "


You see? THAT ONE, HE WILL DECLARE, HE
WILL GUIDE, HE HEARS and WILL SPEAK, 
this is said only of a person, not a force. 

The NWT mistranslators failed to tweak this
as well as they tweaked the famous "was God" 
into the infamous "was A god." Perhaps because
it takes more work than just adding something
that wasn't there and going on, it needs such 
a rewrite it couldn't be done without raising 
a red flag that a rewrite had been done.

Justina

9-11 SEC Report drops the ball

"We have not developed any evidence suggesting that  those who had
advance knowledge of  the September 11  attacks traded on the  basis of
that infonnation.  In every instance where we  noticed unusual trading
before the attack, we were able to determine -- either through direct
 communication with those responsible for the trading or a review of
trading records -- that the trading was consistent with a legitimate trading
strategy. " 9-11 SEC Report: Pre-September 11, 2001 Trading Review
http://www.paperlessarchives.com/FreeTitles/9-11SECReport.pdf

note, EITHER through direct communication OR a review of trading
records.

when one is clever, and such people would be, they can lie real good
(so direct communication is worthless), and they can rig their patterns
to accomplish what they did without looking too bad.

Further, a trading pattern that predated by more than a few days, would
be consistent with such protective efforts, and also would be consistent
with advance knowledge, since one can put such trade orders in much
earlier, and any such after would simply take advantage of continued
loss of share value.

Sunday, June 12, 2011

A Newer Video of The Holy Light in Jerusalem, Old Calendar Pascha

http://oodegr.com/english/ekklisia/holylight.htm

this was only thought to be fraud, after it refused to come for
the Crusader installed bishop. The Patriarch and the Holy
Tomb are searched for anything that could make fire, and
The Holy Light comes not only in The Holy Tomb, but
outside for all to see, and lights candles and for the first
33 minutes, the fire burns only a wick, nothing else, you
can wash your face in it and it doesn't burn or singe your
hair or anything.

Long ago, the Armenian Patriarch bribed the Turkish
authorities who ruled there, to lock out the Greek Jerusalem
Patriarch, and he conducted the prayers outside and The
Holy Light did not appear in The Tomb and light the tapers
of the Armenian Patriarch, but crashed through a pillar and
lit the tapers of the Orthodox (Chalcedonian Christology)
Patriarch! A Turk named Tounoum saw this, confessed
Christ as the true God, and was thrown headlong to his
death by the other Turks there. The split and singe on the
pillar is there to this day.

Glory to God!

Tuesday, June 7, 2011

An Idea About Israel's Borders

Looking at the information on the Stratfor free weekly newsletter, two
issues, and the map, this is what I think would solve most of the
Palestinian demands, AND solve Israel's security issues.

It would also address the problem of Christians from the Arab section
getting to Holy Sites in Jerusalem, one writer having complained of
needing permits and other problems.

(1) Keep Jerusalem, let all Christian Arabs in without permits, just
check ID, these papers should show the person is a Christian, if they
do not do so now, this should be corrected.

(2) Keep part of the West Bank, on a north south line, from Nablus or
east of Nablus, through Hebron.