Evolutionists are a part of the crowd of whom Paul speaks in Romans 1:22 ‘Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools’.
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2Kings 6:17 And Elisha prayed, and said, LORD, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the LORD opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.
Pslm 94:9 He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see?
Sometimes it doesn’t take much to get a little irritated, does it? The weather bureau said no rain for at least the next 6 days so we put our faith in the weather person and applied the first coat of three coats of sealer on our deck yesterday. Well, the climate scammers spout they can guarantee what the climate will be in ten or so years if society doesn’t do certain things BUT the weather bureau cannot tell us with 80 to 95% accuracy the weather for the next two days! Unbelievable! Well, it rained the day after we put the first coat of sealer on so we are now waiting for that dry day to apply the second coat of sealer. THANKS weather bureau.
Now, that I have that off my chest the real purpose for today’s blog is the story below. It is Unbelievable; or is it? The Western world has gone crazy with this gender bending hysteria. Here’s the story out of the UK.
‘A Christian doctor who refused to refer to a biological man as a woman has lost his court case, with a British court ruling that belief in the Bible is “incompatible with human dignity.”
Dr David Mackereth, a doctor with over two decades experience with the National 
Health Service, was dismissed by the Department for Work and Pensions on the grounds that refusing to call a patient by their preferred pronoun was “harassment” under the UK’s Equality Act.
Dr Mackareth has previously said that “Christians must be able to hold and express their faith in private and public and to uphold Biblical and scientific truths without fear of losing their livelihoods”.
But a British court ruled against the doctor.
“Belief in Genesis 1:27, lack of belief in transgenderism and conscientious objection to transgenderism in our judgment are incompatible with human dignity and conflict with the fundamental rights of others, specifically here, transgender individuals”, said the court.
The court went on to say that “in so far as those beliefs form part of his wider faith, his wider faith also does not satisfy the requirement of being worthy of respect in a democratic society, not incompatible with human dignity and not in conflict with the fundamental rights of others.”
Dr Mackarth said he was not alone in being disturbed by the court’s decision.
“Staff in the NHS, even those who do not share my Christian convictions, are also disturbed as they see their own freedom of thought and speech being undermined by the judges’ ruling.
“No doctor, or researcher, or philosopher, can demonstrate or prove that a person can change sex.
“Without intellectual and moral integrity, medicine cannot function and my 30 years as a doctor are now considered irrelevant compared to the risk that someone else might be offended”, he added.
Andrea Williams, the chief executive of the Christian Legal Centre, said that “it is deeply disturbing that this is the first time in the history of English law that a judge has ruled that free citizens must engage in compelled speech”.
Dr Mackereth says he will appeal the decision.
“I believe that I have to appeal in order to fight for the freedom of Christians – and any other NHS member of staff – to speak the truth.
“If they cannot, then freedom of speech has died in this country, with serious ramifications for the practice of medicine in the UK,” he said.’ https://familyvoice.org.au/news/british-court-rules-belief-in-bible-is-incompatible-with-human-dignity
That story of Dr. Mackereth is going to be repeated here in Australia. A few years ago the Australian public voted in favour of same sex marriage. Today, the Federal government is seeking to work out a so-called Religious Discrimination Bill! Watch this space!!
Scientists that are Christians and Biblical creationists have a habit of making some evolutionists really mad. One person in replying to one of my videos said ‘If you can’t understand that you are attempting to disprove something you have concocted in your own mind, and which has NOTHING to do with evolution, then there is no further point to me wasting my time on you. I am not a psychologist and I have no interest in addressing an obvious psychological defect.’ Hmm, I wonder what they would make of the following article?
‘The archaic human species Homo erectus has been portrayed as an important ape-to-man transitional link. However, these fossils don’t provide any real evidence of evolution. Many paleontologists and a majority of creationists think their unusual features are nothing more than variants of human traits and not transitional at all. Even more, some of them have been found in remote isolated island locations far from Africa and dated by secular calculations at up to 1.9 million years old. This completely derails the evolutionary story that humans migrated out of Africa just a few hundred thousand years ago. A biblical model of human origins provides a much better fit for the data.
How Homo erectus Got Going
Java Man Homo erectus
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The first Homo erectus finds were given the names Java Man and Peking Man.1,2 Eugène Dubois, a Dutch medical doctor and anatomist, made his famous discovery in 1891 on the island of Java and originally called it Pithecanthropus erectus. His Java Man consisted of just a skullcap, a thigh bone, and a molar tooth found separately in the same layer of volcanic ash. In fact, the skull and thigh bone were about 50 feet apart, but Dubois concluded they belonged to the same individual. An ardent evolutionist and Darwin fan, he immediately claimed he’d found a transitional form. His argument was based primarily on the skullcap’s pronounced brow ridge and size. It was smaller than the average modern human but still well within the known variation for humans. The thigh bone was identical to modern humans.
Specimens of Peking Man, also known as Homo erectus pekinensis (formerly Sinanthropus pekinensis), were discovered between 1923 and 1937 during excavations near Beijing.1,2 These fossils have been given evolutionary dates ranging from 680,000 to 780,000 years old.3,4 The sum fossil total from this work includes six nearly complete crania, 15 partial crania, 11 mandibles (jaws), many teeth, some skeletal bones, and a large number of stone tools.1,2 Modern human fossils were also found in an upper cave at the same site in 1933.
Turkana Boy Homo erectus
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After these initial discoveries in Asia, similar fossil skulls were found throughout eastern Africa. First promoted under the name Homo ergaster, it’s now widely accepted that H. ergaster is the African form of H. erectus. The most complete H. erectus fossil was discovered in 1984 near Lake Turkana in Kenya.5 Known as Turkana Boy, this fossil’s skull features were similar to H. erectus, but its body was essentially identical to modern humans. Most researchers now agree the skeleton was from a juvenile of about 10 to 12 years of age who would have achieved a normal human height of close to six feet at maturity. The generally accepted evolutionary age of this fossil is about 1.6 million years—slightly younger than the Java Man fossils.
The other major group of H. erectus fossils was discovered between 1991 and 2005 in archaeological excavations near the city of Dmanisi, Georgia, northwest of Turkey and situated between the Black and Caspian Seas. According to evolutionary dating, the five crania and four mandibles are about 1.8 million years old.2,6 Although the fossils have been placed in the H. erectus category, the extreme size and shape variation of the skulls has caused controversy. In fact, evolutionists note that due to this variability, if the skulls hadn’t been found close to one another and in the same rock layer, they would have been placed in different species categories. Several of the skulls look as though there may have been some sort of disease pathology at work.
What Makes a Homo erectus a Homo erectus?
The entire story of H. erectus is essentially built on about 300 very fragmentary fossils. The majority of these are nothing more than partial skulls, teeth, and broken bones. The only nearly complete H. erectus fossil is Turkana Boy, whose post-cranial skeleton was found to be nearly identical to modern humans.
Based on the diverse skull fragments and a few nearly complete crania, the defining features of H. erectus are a prominent brow ridge, a sloping forehead, reduced chin, more constricted temples than typical humans, larger teeth, forward-projecting jaw (prognathism), and cranial capacities on the lower end of the normal human-size spectrum.2 In fact, one could say that H. erectus skulls are shaped similarly to Neanderthal craniums except that instead of being larger compared to modern humans, their heads were on average generally smaller. However, H. erectus cranial volume is still within the same range as modern humans. Research has shown that, in general, human or animal intelligence is not based on brain size but on creature-specific organizational properties.2
Recent Homo erectus in Australia and China?
Kow Swamp Homo erectus
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In 1972, the fossil remains of about 50 Aboriginal humans were discovered at a burial site in the Kow Swamp region of Northern Victoria, Australia.2,7 The researchers who reported the discovery described a distinct set of so-called archaic human traits “not seen in recent Aboriginal crania” that closely paralleled the traits of classic H. erectus. These included prominent brow ridges, sloping foreheads, prognathism, large teeth, and a minimal chin. But most importantly, along with the reported “archaic” features, the researchers claimed a very recent date by evolutionary standards for these fossils. The scientists in the report stated, “Analysis of the cranial morphology of more than thirty individuals reveals the survival of Homo erectus features in Australia until as recently as 10,000 years ago.”7
In a 2006 finding in Mongolia, researchers reported a skullcap whose “analysis shows similarities with Neanderthals, Chinese Homo erectus, and West/Far East archaic Homo sapiens.”8 Just like the Kow Swamp fossils, the evolutionary dates don’t fall within the range of typical H. erectus. The most recent study of the Mongolian fossil now lists it at about 34,000 years old—a time considered very recent in the human evolutionary spectrum and on par with the Kow Swamp fossils.
The problem with both of these fossil discoveries is that evolutionarily speaking they have been put in the same age range as very recent anatomically modern humans. Had they been dated at one to two million years, they would have been considered bona fide H. erectus because they would then fit the evolutionary narrative. As things stand, they are considered mere anomalies to be swept under the rug to maintain the evolutionary myth that so-called archaic human traits disappeared long ago.
Archaic Traits Are Still Alive and Well
Secular scientists have discovered a human skull from Jebel Irhoud, Morocco, defined as having “anatomically modern” features and dated at over 300,000 years old.9 This, combined with the fact of very “recent” humans with archaic features (the Kow Swamp and Mongolian fossils), highlights severe inconsistencies in the human evolution story.
If one wants to accept the evolutionary timeline, then H. erectus-like humans with archaic features and humans with anatomically modern features have hung out together on Earth for a long time, even up to the very recent past. But it gets even worse for the evolutionary picture because so-called archaic traits like prominent brow ridges, sloping foreheads, prognathism, and small craniums can still be found in living humans.10
Advanced Culture and Behavior of Homo erectus
Not only is there strong anatomical evidence that H. erectus fossils are just a variant of the human kind, there is also copious archaeological evidence that they were highly intelligent and exhibited a broad range of human behaviors. The condensed list below is based on an extensive scientific literature survey published in 2017.2
- Watercraft construction and seafaring navigation
- Language and communication skills
- Jewelry manufacture
- Cordage and knot-making
- Manufacture and use of stone and bone tools
- Controlled usage of fire and cooking
- Catching and processing fish
- Development of organized living and occupational spaces
- Art (petroglyphs, figurines, red ochre paint)
- Woodworking
- Coordinated large-game hunting and processing
- Development of clothing from animal skins
- Development of fibers and resins
- Social and family structure
- Care for the elderly and weak
Homo erectus and the Out-of-Africa Myth
The H. erectus fossil presence in China and southeast Asia, particularly on remote islands like Java, causes major problems for the reigning human evolutionary migration paradigm. First of all, it’s obvious that intelligent seafaring humans made the journey over long stretches of open ocean to reach these islands. And if we accept the deep-time dating of H. erectus at up to two million years in remote places like this, then there are severe evolutionary time frame discrepancies.
For one thing, the supposed initial phase of human evolution is represented by the ape-like Australopithecus, which overlaps significantly in time with H. erectus. If they coexisted, how could one have been the evolutionary predecessor of the other? Even worse is the problem it presents for the current out-of-Africa model. This model proposes that humans migrated from Africa only about 100,000 to 200,000 years ago. But if that is the case, then how could they have existed on remote southeast Asian islands two million years before that?
Homo erectus Was Human After All
Not only is the H. erectus fossil record fragmentary and incomplete, but the bulk of the data indicates this category is simply a variant of the human kind. As mentioned above, so-called archaic H. erectus traits can still be found in humans today. Even many evolutionists recognize this. A recent article stated, “If you bumped into a Homo erectus in the street you might not recognise [sic] them as being very different from you.”11
So, if H. erectus was fully human and the evolutionary narratives and timelines don’t make sense even within a secular worldview, how does this fit with the Bible? First of all, the Scriptures are quite clear that God created an ancestral human couple uniquely in His image on the sixth day of the creation week. We also know that death, sin, and corruption entered the picture when Adam and Eve rebelled (Genesis 3). As the human population grew, people became so wicked that God destroyed the world in a global flood. It’s possible that some of the H. erectus fossils may have been humans buried in the highest sedimentary layers of Flood rock, exactly where we would expect them.
Alternatively, some H. erectus fossils may have been from specific people groups that dispersed from the Tower of Babel after the Flood. The Kow Swamp burial site would be a good example. When human languages were confused at Babel, the resulting isolated groups would have led to a large number of genetic bottlenecks and lineages of humans with unique suites of trait variations such as skin color, skeletal sizes, and skull shape variations. Some creation scientists also speculate that genetic abnormalities would have surfaced more rapidly in small, isolated, inbred populations, which may explain some of the unusual variations seen in H. erectus skulls.2
Clearly, the biblical account of human creation and Earth history offers a much more satisfying framework in which to place human fossil discoveries than the scientifically flawed evolutionary narrative.
References
- Lubenow, M. 2004. Bones of Contention. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books.
- Rupe, C. and J. Sanford. 2017. Contested Bones. Waterloo, NY: FMS Publications.
- Shen, G. et al. 2009. Age of Zhoukoudian Homo erectus determined with 26Al/10Be burial dating. Nature. 458: 198-200.
- Devièse, T. et al. 2019. Compound-specific radiocarbon dating and mitochondrial DNA analysis of the Pleistocene hominin from Salkhit Mongolia. Nature Communications. 10: 274.
- Brown, F. et al. 1985. Early Homo erectus skeleton from west Lake Turkana, Kenya. Nature. 316 (6031): 788-792.
- Schwartz, J. H., I. Tattersall, and Z. Chi. 2014. Comment on “A Complete Skull from Dmanisi, Georgia, and the Evolutionary Biology of Early Homo.” Science. 344 (6182): 360.
- Thorne, A. G. and P. G. Macumber. 1972. Discoveries of Late Pleistocene Man at Kow Swamp, Australia. Nature. 238: 316-319.
- Coppens, Y. et al. 2008. Discovery of an archaic Homo sapiens skullcap in Northeast Mongolia. Comptes Rendus Palevol. 7 (1): 51-60.
- Hublin, J.-J. et al. 2017. New fossils from Jebel Irhoud, Morocco and the pan-African origin of Homo sapiens. Nature. 546: 289-292.
- Tomkins, J. P. 2019. Recent Humans with Archaic Features Upend Evolution. Acts & Facts. 48 (4): 15.
- Moffat, I. A snapshot of our mysterious ancestor Homo erectus. Phys.org. Posted January 29, 2019, accessed August 12, 2019.’ https://www.icr.org/article/11538
If you question Darwinian evolution you may be interested to know there are many others just like you. Below is a pdf of those who say “We are skeptical of claims for the ability of random mutations and natural selection to account for the complexity of life. Careful examination of the evidence for Darwinian theory should be encouraged.”
You just may find this interesting. ‘On the same day that Greta Thunberg gave her impassioned speech to the UN, a group of more than 500 prominent climate scientists and professionals submitted a letter to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, stating “there is no climate emergency, and therefore, no cause for panic and alarm.”
The group, led by Professor Guus Berkhout, co-founder of the Climate Intelligence Foundation (CLINTEL) sent the European Climate Declaration along with a registered letter to the UN’s António Guterres, warning the “general-circulation models of climate on which international policy is at present founded are unfit for their purpose,” and “therefore, it is cruel as well as imprudent to advocate the squandering of trillions of dollars on the basis of results from such immature models.”
The letter goes on to warn, the “current climate policies pointlessly and grievously undermine the economic system, putting lives at risk in countries denied access to affordable, reliable electrical energy.”
The Secretary-General was then urged to “follow a climate policy based on sound science, realistic economics and genuine concern for those harmed by costly but unnecessary attempts at mitigation.”
In the letter, which can be viewed here, it’s argued:
Natural as well as anthropogenic factors cause warming
The geological archive reveals that Earth’s climate has varied as long as the planet has existed, with natural cold and warm phases. The Little Ice Age ended as recently as 1850. Therefore, it is no surprise that we now are experiencing a period of warming.Warming is far slower than predicted
The world has warmed at less than half the originally-predicted rate, and at less than half the rate to be expected on the basis of net anthropogenic forcing and radiative imbalance. It tells us that we are far from understanding climate change.Climate policy relies on inadequate models
Climate models have many shortcomings and are not remotely plausible as policy tools. Moreover, they most likely exaggerate the effect of greenhouse gases such as CO2. In addition, they ignore the fact that enriching the atmosphere with CO2 is beneficial.CO2 is plant food, the basis of all life on Earth
CO2 is not a pollutant. It is essential to all life on Earth. Photosynthesis is a blessing. More CO2 is beneficial for nature, greening the Earth: additional CO2 in the air has promoted growth in global plant biomass. It is also good for agriculture, increasing the yields of crops worldwide.Global warming has not increased natural disasters
There is no statistical evidence that global warming is intensifying hurricanes, floods, droughts and suchlike natural disasters, or making them more frequent. However, CO2-mitigation measures are as damaging as they are costly. For instance, wind turbines kill birds and bats, and palm-oil plantations destroy the biodiversity of the rainforests.Climate policy must respect scientific and economic realities
There is no climate emergency. Therefore, there is no cause for panic and alarm. We strongly oppose the harmful and unrealistic net-zero CO2 policy proposed for 2050. If better approaches emerge, we will have ample time to reflect and adapt. The aim of international policy should be to provide reliable and affordable energy at all times, and throughout the world.
A CLINTEL press release states: “The Declaration adds that the models, which have predicted far more warming than they should ‘are not remotely plausible as policy tools’, in that ‘they… exaggerate the effect of greenhouse gases such as CO2’ and ‘ignore the fact that enriching the atmosphere with CO2 is beneficial.’”
Professor Berkhout said the Declaration is so popular with scientists and researchers worldwide that “signatories are flooding in, not only from within Europe, but also from other countries such as the United States and Canada, Australia and New Zealand.”
The group has invited the Secretary-General to work with the global network to organize a constructive, high-level meeting between world-class scientists on both sides of the climate debate early next year.’ https://caldronpool.com/over-500-scientists-say-there-is-no-climate-emergency/
I don’t know what you are going through but the Lord does. Perhaps this devotion will help you through whatever you are experiencing.
“Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herds in the stalls: Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation.” (Habakkuk 3:17-18)
‘It is easy to be happy and cheerful in times of prosperity, when one has all the comforts of an affluent lifestyle and everything seems to be going well. The testing times come, however, when these material comforts are somehow taken away, and one feels defeated and all alone.
Except for God! Whatever else may fail, God “will never leave thee, nor forsake thee” (Hebrews 13:5). Since we still have the Lord (assuming we have trusted Him for forgiveness and salvation through Christ), we can always “rejoice in the LORD, . . . in the God of my salvation.”
Job, for example, lost all his possessions, then his children, finally his health, and even his wife turned against him. Yet he could say: “The LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD” (Job 1:21).
God has commanded the Christian: “In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you” (1 Thessalonians 5:18). Not for everything, but in everything!
This has always been one of the greatest testimonies a Christian can give to an unbeliever—the testimony of a life rejoicing in God’s salvation even in the midst of trouble. This was the example of Christ Himself, “who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God” (Hebrews 12:2). “For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory” (2 Corinthians 4:17). HMM’ https://www.icr.org/article/11475
Here’s something to think about!
‘These five words printed in plain text on an A4 leaf and duck-taped to a signpost constitute what is possibly the most powerful, and important, meme of 2019.
“Islam is RIGHT about women” has sparked what anyone with an IQ above 130 would have immediately predicted upon reading these words: “confusion and anger” from the NPC class of Homo sapiens sapiens. At least that’s what they call it. We player characters (men and women of agency) call it cognitive dissonance.
You see, to come out and decry this poster as an attack on women is to acknowledge that Islam subjugates women, which is in direct conflict with the feminist egalitarian ideals of the West. But to come out and call this an attack on Islam, through the irony of saying the religion is “right”, is to (again) highlight the incompatibility of the Islamic patriarchy with the Western feminarchy. In five simple words, this meme destroys the narrative of inclusivity and diversity.
Many on the Right will notice this cognitive dissonance, and find it amusing. But few will be brave enough to go a layer deeper and point to what this meme truthfully predicts for women.
THE WEST MUST CHOOSE:
Everyone who isn’t completely ignorant of the difficulties we are facing in the West today will recognise that Islam is stronger, growing faster, and maintaining its local hegemony in the Middle East far better than Western Civilisation is managing in its own geographic centres. The Islamic population in the West steadily grows, by both immigration and procreation, while our own birth rates continue to decline, and we don’t seem to be migrating into Islamic nations at all. It’s not hard to work out where this goes, even at current rates, with a bit of time passing.
Islam is objectively stronger in the West than Christianity right now.
No, I’m not saying that I’d like to live in an Islamic nation, or under Sharia Law, or within a global Caliphate. That would be disastrous, especially when one considers the peripheral drawbacks to the Islamic world, and the social ramifications of their religious superstitions.
But the fact remains that Western Christianity has failed to stop the globohomo spread through our societies, media, and schools. We have failed to prevent the mass-slaughter of innocent babies in abortion clinics. We have failed to maintain basic Christian morality, which is the very foundation of what makes the West the most desirable place for human beings to reside on the planet. The Western lifestyle won’t be so desirable for much longer, if things don’t change.’
The full article may be read at https://rationalrise.com/blog/islam-is-right-about-women/
Genesis 1:11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
‘Does it seem to you that climate change alarmism, like evolutionism years ago, is making its big push to become the one and only acceptable theory in official circles? I think it is!
With the end of a hot summer, all the news about hurricane Dorian and the election cycle heating up, climate change alarmism is being pushed to new heights of hysteria. There is less tolerance than ever for any disagreement that climate change is “the greatest existential threat” to mankind.
Is there an agenda to try to push the science in one direction? With evolution, the agenda of those who are pushing this pseudo-science is for sinful mankind to eliminate God and to eliminate man’s moral accountability to his Maker. As Richard Dawkins famously put it: “Evolution is intellectual justification for atheism,”
With climate change alarmism, there is another, though similar, agenda behind the so-called “science”.
What is interesting is that in the midst of all the climate alarmist rhetoric, a great deal of data suggests otherwise. For example, an ongoing record from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has noted that there has been no warming since their improved data stations began measuring temperatures in 2005. NOAA said at the outset of this century that many of the temperature-measuring data stations have been influenced by local effects such as airport runways or by being in cities where temperatures are artificially inflated (a local “micro-climate”). American population has grown and so have American cities with local micro-climates influenced by asphalt, machinery, concrete, etc.
And so, in 2005, NOAA established the US Climate Reference Network (USCRN) of 114 pristinely maintained and monitored temperature stations spaced relatively uniformly across the lower 48 states. From the raw temperature readings, there is good reason to believe that US temperatures are the same now as in the 1930s! Any asserted US warming is the product of controversial adjustments, sloppy measurement and bias to the raw data.
It must be noted that there has been a short-term increase in the number and intensity of hurricanes, as shown in the historical data since the 1960s. But that was when weather satellites began documenting hurricanes. As scientists look further back in time through 100 years, they saw a natural cycle for hurricanes. NOAA’s Hurricane Research Division has carefully reanalyzed the original records of all hurricanes affecting North America up to 1960. Its HURDAT database shows that no increase in the frequency of hurricanes or major hurricanes (Category 3 and over) has taken place since 1851!
The record year for hurricanes was 1886, when seven hurricanes made landfall. Only three Category 5 hurricanes have actually hit the US mainland: the Labor Day hurricane in 1935, Camille in 1969 and Andrew in 1992.
But to listen to the constant barrage of climate alarmism, you would not know any of this! Let’s see now, what’s the old adage attributed to Hitler’s propagandist Joseph Goebbels? – “If you tell a lie big enough and often enough, people will come to believe it.”
Historical data shows that Atlantic hurricanes, particularly major ones, were much more common between about 1930 and 1960 than in the following three decades. Since 1990, the numbers have returned to the earlier levels. It has generally been accepted that this pattern is linked to the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO), a natural reoccurring cycle of temperature changes in the sea surface temperatures. The database for worldwide hurricanes has only been kept reliably since 1970, and its information is also affected by the AMO cycle, which requires a longer cycling of data.
So why would the climate change alarmists want to shut down debate about all this? It’s like the salesman who pressures you to “buy now before it’s too late!” If you are like me, you get suspicious.
As we discussed in a letter earlier this year, climate change alarmism is an excuse for more government control and less freedom for we, the people. It is also a driver for Socialism. Climate change alarmism plays to people’s fears. And it plays to an evolutionary view that the actions of evolving species (such as ourselves) can bring about a fragile evolving Earth, finely tuned and balanced only by chance. If it were to slip “out of balance”, it would destroy us. It plays to unbelief in God.
So let’s look at the lies we are being told: “Evolution is true”; “Climate change is going to kill us off”; “Socialism is necessary to bring justice and to save us from disaster.” And there are other big and constantly repeated lies. Among them: “Marriage can be between people of the same sex,” and “I can change my sex if I don’t like the way I was born.” Hmmm.
We’re told to forget the actual data on all these lies and get on board the bandwagon! And let’s not discuss any of this because we might cause some controversy. After all, it’s not nice to go against world opinion, hurt somebody’s feelings, get stuck in some old-fashioned tradition that fails to advance our species, or fail to save the planet by taking too long to act!
Fortunately, truth prevails. Even Joseph Goebbels’ recognized the power of truth, writing a key guideline for fascists, socialists and other totalitarian ideologues that it “is vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”
We need to continue being people of the Word. Jesus said, “If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free” (John 8:31-32). Christianity has paved the way for freedom – freedom within ourselves and freedom in society as well.
P.S. In many ways, climate change alarmists behave just like evolutionists. They are poisoning the minds of millions with lies, supported by pseudo-science, frauds and failed predictions.’ https://creationmoments.com/newsletter/the-devils-deceit-is-not-science/?mc_cid=0d1acbd940&mc_eid=00c1dcff3c
Barnaby Joyce is a Federal Politician from northern New South Wales, Australia and has been very vocal against the present fight to kill the unborn. Below is a recent email he sent out bringing us up to date on what has occurred in the New South Wales Parliament. 
‘I commend the parliamentarians who fought so hard to stop the arbitrary classification of a section of humanity to be without human rights. I want to thank those state politicians who fought for a person to be respected with the rights they have by reason of being alive.
Most importantly, I would like to thank you so much for putting your shoulder to the wheel and not sitting, saying and doing nothing.
Tragically, the overwhelming disgrace of this bill has passed through the NSW Parliament, though with the mollified amendment that abortions after 22 weeks can be carried out only if there is serious danger to a woman’s physical or mental health. This is the current law; the status quo for a person after 22 weeks – so it poses the question: what was wider purpose of the other changes and their motivations?
Prior to 22 weeks of life, pets covered by the RSPCA have more rights than a person. It would be safer place to be a dog in a yard than the protections this new legislation allows. (Emphasis added)
I am so bitterly disappointed that we are now saying it is OK to kill a person in the month they would otherwise be born and walk this beautiful world like you or me. I believe it is barbaric that a person can be mutilated without pain relief because delivering that child would acknowledge that they are a person.
This bill does what it was designed to do – sanitise the perverse logic that someone is subhuman.
They will now try and cover this disgrace with the distraction that this was merely about decriminalising abortion – which has in fact been legal for decades.
The reality of what they have just done is to take, by all intents and purposes, a large step to the removal of any prohibition on the killing of a person to full term. A person inside another person is not a person under this new legislation.
Now however, they will try and rid you from the public forum. You spoil their story and you inspire guilt with your advocacy of the truth of this matter.
They will try and say it never happened, they were never there, they couldn’t make it, it was not their business.
More than anything else, they will try and make you forget this day where a vote in favour of legislation by one group in a building on Macquarie Street allowed a person who could of been born to be killed.
But we will fight on.
Kind regards,
Barnaby Joyce MP,
The Nationals Member for New England’
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