Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created… Evolution is almost an accepted fact in the schools of ‘higher’ learning but is it a fact?
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Psalm 19:1 “The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.”
‘A recent article on a popular science website featured the Andromeda Galaxy – a neighboring galaxy to our own Milky Way, and a source of fascination to me since I was a child. The article accused the Andromeda Galaxy of cannibalism, saying that it had eaten a number of other galaxies and was now heading our way, ready to devour the Milky Way.
One researcher explained, “The Milky Way is on a collision course with Andromeda in about four billion years. So knowing what kind of a monster our galaxy is up against is useful in finding out the Milky Way’s ultimate fate. Andromeda has a much bigger and more complex stellar halo than the Milky Way, which indicates that it has cannibalised many more galaxies, possibly larger ones.”
Now, before you start panicking, even evolutionary astrophysicists are not heading for underground shelters just yet. They think that the galactic collision will take place in about 4 billion years. Now, a lot happens in 4 billion years to a deep-time cosmologist. They believe that Earth was formed 4.5 billion years ago.
And herein lies the problem with their hysteria. Their observation of Andromeda’s stellar halo is very interesting, but their interpretation of future events is based on incorrect presuppositions of the past. The Bible tells us that “the heavens declare the glory of God”, and that presupposition increases our wonder at God’s creation. The Universe will end when God says so – not a day early or a day late!’https://creationmoments.com/sermons/galactic-warning/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=galactic-warning&mc_cid=7cd6ef3b28&mc_eid=00c1dcff3c
‘Dogs don’t read the words on a page. Neither did Coco, the famous gorilla that learned to communicate using simple hand signs. So what affords humans the unique ability to read and write, and why do we do it? These kinds of questions drive Zeynep Saygin’s research at Ohio State. Her team’s recent discovery sets the stage for some answers.
Brain experts already knew about the visual cortex—an area of the brain where neurons fire as we interpret faces, shapes, and words. But Saygin’s group seeks to understand what happens in our brains as we learn to read.
The team compared functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data sets from 40 newborns to similar scans of 40 adults. fMRI shows neuron activity within the brain, so the comparison would indicate if baby brains come into the world already equipped with the wiring necessary to perceive and process letters later in life.
Literate adults have close connections between the part of the brain that processes the sight of letters, called the visual word form area (VWFA), and the brain’s nearby language network. The researchers discovered that newborn brains come prewired with similarly tight connections between the two areas.
They published their discovery in Scientific Reports.1
Saygin, the senior author of the study, told Ohio State News, “Even at birth, the VWFA is more connected functionally to the language network of the brain than it is to other areas. It is an incredibly exciting finding.”2
Lead author Jin Li said, “It’s interesting to think about how and why our brains develop functional modules that are sensitive to specific things like faces, objects, and words.”2
Why indeed?
From a Darwinian perspective, our brains’ functional modules would have incrementally developed over eons for our survival. But in what scenario would our ancestors have been forced to read or die? For that matter, how could such pressures reach into and rewire our brains?
On the other hand, if humans came from supernatural creation instead of mere nature, then the possibility opens for God to have intentionally prewired our brains “to see words.”2 And why would a Creator do that?
Reading is the key to understanding the most important information for time and eternity found in the Bible. Scripture says we were created for God, that our sins have driven a wedge between us and God, but that God sent His Son to take our sins upon Himself in order to restore our relationship with Him.
So, it makes sense that a God who has invested so much into us would also have endowed us with the prewiring needed to see letters. That way each can learn to read, take up the Bible, and discover the way back to Him.
References
1. Li, J. et al. 2020. Innate connectivity patterns drive the development of the visual word form area. Scientific Reports. 10: 18039.
2. Grabmeier, J. Humans are born with brains ‘prewired’ to see words. Ohio State News. Posted on news.osu.edu October 22, 2020.
*Dr. Brian Thomas is Research Associate at the Institute for Creation Research and earned his Ph.D. in paleobiochemistry from the University of Liverpool.‘https://www.icr.org/article/baby-brains-arrive-ready-to-read/?utm_source=phplist9212&utm_medium=email&utm_content=HTML&utm_campaign=Merry+Christmas+from+ICR%2C+Babies+Are+Born+Ready+to+Read%2C+and+More%21
“And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.” (Genesis 2:9)
‘It is significant that the first reference to “science” in the Bible is in connection with the tree of the “science” of good and evil. The English word “science” comes from the Latin scientia, meaning “knowledge.” In both Old and New Testaments, “science” and “knowledge” translate the same Greek and Hebrew words respectively. Science—properly speaking—is what we know, not naturalistic speculation (as in evolutionary “science”). Adam and Eve knew a great deal about God and His creation, and all of it was “very good” (Genesis 1:31); they did not need to have a knowledge of evil, and God warned them against it (2:17).
But they partook of the evil tree anyway, and therewith evil knowledge entered the hearts and minds of mankind. Throughout the long ages since, true science has been of great good in the world and false science has wrought great harm. The apostle Paul has warned us against it: “Keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called” (1 Timothy 6:20). In the context of the times, Paul was specifically warning against the evolutionary pantheism of the gnostic philosophers.
In contrast, the final climactic reference in the Bible to knowledge is Peter’s exhortation to “grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ” (2 Peter 3:18). “The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge” (Proverbs 1:7), and in Jesus Christ “are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge” (Colossians 2:3). Therefore, let us resolve to eschew the knowledge of evil and grow in the knowledge of Christ!’https://www.icr.org/article/12501/?utm_source=phplist9187&utm_medium=email&utm_content=HTML&utm_campaign=December+19+-+Science–True+and+False
Genesis 1:25
“And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.”
‘The okapi is a fascinating animal. It is much shorter than a giraffe, being five feet tall, compared with 18 feet for the giraffe. It is placed by zoologists in the family Giraffidae as the only other extant genus, along with the giraffe. Evolutionists believe that giraffes and okapis have a common ancestor. Creationists consider that, in most cases, the evolutionary family is pretty much equivalent to the created kind, or baramin. So creationists also group giraffes and okapis within the same baramin. Different species are usually identified as being in the same baramin by their ability to hybridize. However, a search of the literature does not reveal any hybridization data. We assume they are in the same baramin by cognitum – i.e., they share so many of the same features by human cognitive senses.
Both animals have the same shaped head. Their teeth are very similar, having the same number and properties. They have the same unusual almost black tongues with which they remove leaves from trees to consume them. But the necks of the okapis are not long. Yet, they stretch their necks in order to reach leaves as high as possible, but only reaching lower branches. One could challenge evolutionists on why okapis did not also evolve longer necks for the same reason as the giraffes did, as they would have increased their food sources. The existence of the okapi is a considerable difficulty for evolutionists to explain.’https://creationmoments.com/sermons/the-giraffe-of-the-forest/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-giraffe-of-the-forest&mc_cid=043349151c&mc_eid=00c1dcff3c
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