This is a broadcast from ICR’s Science Scripture and Salvation radio programme.
Does one have to be a trained paleontologist to know if millions and millions of years is true or not when it comes to the study of fossils? For instance, in the Land Magazine online article, the 20 million and 250 million years are thrown out as though they are true! However, are those years correct? Think about it, who says those millions of years are true? In the end, these millions of years are only an assumption dependant on the person’s worldview. Anyway, what does the article say?
‘An amateur fossil hunter’s life work has exposed ancient impressions in stone that open a window in time when the world was inventive. This place in time is Nymboida, in the Clarence Valley, where thin coal seams come close to the surface and where pale coal shale lying above hides exquisite imprints of fossilised ferns.
Retired North Coast dairy farmer Keith Holmes scientifically recorded his findings, 
which show evolution returning from the dead after an epic holocaust which decimated the entire world. After all, this a time 20 million years after the disastrous global extinction event of 250 million years ago.
Together, with his wife Heidi, the pair have rigorously published 10 scientific papers describing more than 100 different species of fossil plants, many of them never previously named. They include liverworts, ferns, seed-ferns (now extinct), cycads, ginkgo (ancestor of the Maiden Hair Tree) and various conifers. All the named and illustrated specimens are housed in the fossil collections of the Australian Museum in Sydney.’ https://www.theland.com.au/story/5452172/step-back-in-time-at-nymboida/?src=rss
Now, I am not a paleontologist and neither are the two mentioned in the above article. Where did they go for their millions and millions of years to accommodate evolution? Well, I too depend on others. However, having become a born-again Christian I go to those who believe the Bible is the very Word and Words of the living God. How one views the past is determined by the historical glasses they wear. Here are some websites I would visit to determine if the above article has any truth in it or not.
https://answersingenesis.org/?sitehist=1529883578131
1Peter 5:8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
‘Dark Mofo’s dark and downward trajectory continues.
For those unfamiliar with the event, Dark Mofo (don’t look up the clearly offensive meaning of MOFO) is an offshoot of Hobart’s MONA Museum (Museum of Old and New
Art).
The museum was set up by millionaire art collector and professional gambler David Walsh as a ‘secular temple’ and ‘subversive adult Disneyland’ with its central themes of sex and death.
David Walsh
Unsurprisingly it is renowned for its controversial exhibits.
The Dark Mofo event each June is aimed to revitalise an otherwise dreary Tassie winter through ‘celebrating the dark’ of the winter solstice.
Last year one of MONA’s curators revealed in a media interview that their aim was to change the culture of Hobart over 10 years. The goal, he said, has been achieved ahead of time so now they are looking northward. Why do I get the feeling he was talking about more than just art?
And who gets to say what culture should look like anyway? Government? Artists? Business Tycoons? The Church?
Jesus made it pretty clear about Christians’ role in being salt (enhancing/preserving) and light (purifying and enlightening). It is obvious we have some stiff competition. As someone has rightly said, whoever wants the next generation the most will get them.
Since the first event in 2013 Dark Mofo has been increasingly characterised by satanic content. Last year’s programme included blood sacrifices, mock crucifixions and blood drinking – all in the name of art. This year one of the headline metal bands has as its advertising caption; ‘Lucifer I summon thee to my black mass.’
With all this in mind we come to this year’s major controversy – the issue of upside down crosses.
Some have suggested we should be interpreting these positively as the deeply symbolic and meaningful cross of St Peter (Google it if you want to know more).
In context however, this is obviously not the intention. They’re clearly aimed to provoke and offend. Tasmanian Anglican Bishop Richard Condie’s description of ‘state-sanctioned blasphemy’ sums them up succinctly.
This should not surprise anyone – there is an obvious anti-Christian sentiment, some would even say a blatant mocking, behind much of what MONA conveys.
David Walsh himself has a carparking sign at MONA stating he is ‘GOD’ and his wife ‘GOD’S MISTRESS.’ 
How should we respond when such events, either deliberately or unwittingly, are opening the community to potential harm?
Yes, we live in a secular culture, but does that mean we blindly ignore spiritual realities and dangers? ‘We wrestle not against flesh and blood…’ Can we dabble in the demonic without being devoured?
Yes, we all value free speech but how far is too far in the name of art?
Is this really what we want Tasmania to be known for?
Encouragingly, various Christian groups in Hobart are deliberately programming ‘light-shedding’ events at this time each year: ‘…even the darkness is not dark to You’
Sadly though, most leaders in the community appear to be too afraid to speak negatively against the sacred (cash) cow that is MONA. Tasmania’s tourism boom has been clearly linked to MONA’s success.
Tasmania’s Premier Will Hodgman, who is also the Tourism Minister, would have had his fair share of anti-Dark Mofo’s correspondence. As yet though he appears happy to continue publicly supporting the event as well as giving $2 million per year of taxpayer’s money to ensure its success.
There are numerous questions that remain unanswered or unasked by the media that have been actively promoting MOFO (a number of major media outlets are actually event partners).
Would it be acceptable to mock other religions in the way this event mocks Christianity?
How dark is too dark for our state government?
Is the government’s duty to pursue peace and the common good being upheld with this enthusiastic re-embracing of paganism?’ https://www.acl.org.au/hobart_s_dark_mofo_s_dark_and_downward_trajectory?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=eNews%2019%20June%202018&utm_content=eNews%2019%20June%202018+CID_5d8994437f397bcb0e31def86ed2d152&utm_source=CreateSend&utm_term=Read%20more
peace,” was changed to “contempt of court.” Apparently, the former offense would not constitute a violation of the terms of Robinson’s suspended sentence from last year and thereby justify immediate imprisonment. But by declaring Robinson guilty of “contempt of court,” the judge was able to ship him straightaway to prison.“Muslims should be able in Muslim countries, if they wish, to adopt laws based on the Qur’an (Islamism) just as Christians until the last century adhered closely to the Ten Commandments in their national laws.” http://www.amust.com.au/2017/09/isis-is-neither-islamic-nor-islamist/
When does a nation become a Muslim nation?
Hmmm, I wonder what those who are pushing for more Muslim immigration think the result will be when more Muslims are elected to public office?
The world has been going mad since the day Adam and Eve disobeyed the Creator. That disobedience ultimately leads to physical death but until death, there are physical and mental issues to deal with.
For example, six thousand years later the world is confronted with ‘GO RAINBOW’ day! What in the world is GO RAINBOW day? Go Rainbow day is an ‘event celebrating
International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Intersexism and Transphobia (IDAHOBIT)’ and occurs on May 17th. Why May 17th? That is ‘the day in 1990 when the World Health Organisation removed the classification of homosexuality as a mental disorder.’ https://www.dailyliberal.com.au/story/5406885/community-heeds-go-rainbow-message-at-idahobit-afternoon-tea/?cs=112
Those who believe the WHO was correct in this are an example of the result of that first transgression to the Creator’s command in Genesis 2:16 and 17. For in the very beginning God had made ‘them male and female’ and told them to ‘Be fruitful, and multiply’. This command is certainly not possible with same-sex sex!
This same-sex issue and all the other sexual deviancy that goes with it is simply a continuation of that event that occurred around 3874BC (date according to James Ussher’s Annals of the World). It is simply a disregard for and disobedience to the God of Creation.
That one act by Adam and Eve has brought society to what Paul spoke of in Romans 1:26-31 that ‘For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: 27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet. 28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; 29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, 30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, 31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful‘.
Now, be honest, you must see some resemblance of today’s society in that list? However, the God of Creation never left humankind without hope and here it is; Romans 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
