The argument made by atheists and anti-creationists is that as scientists solves problems, our God gets smaller. This has never been an impressive argument, as my observation is that when one question is answered, six more unsolved mysteries appear. For scientists to make the god-of-the-gaps argument, they need to have knowledge about everything and be omnipotent, even to be able to time travel into the past. This argument is a fallacy. Divine intervention is used to explain phenomena currently missing a scientific cause. While critics suggest that increasing knowledge eliminates the need for a creator, Jerry Bergman points out that modern discoveries reveal greater complexities that naturalism cannot explain. Scientific progress has exposed vast new questions in fields such as cellular biology and cosmology, suggesting that they are better explained by intelligent design than by materialistic evolution by mutations and natural selection. Evolutionists rely upon their own evolution-of-the-gaps by using speculative theories to bridge missing links in the fossil record. Intelligent design triumphs over materialism. Chemical evolution experiments fail to produce all 20 amino acids used in life, and int the laboratory they are produced in racemic mixtures with both left-handed and right-handed conformations. Chemistry in the laboratory is unable to replicate the conditions needed to remove the water molecule when forming peptide bonds. Life uses a complicated mechanism that codes for the formation of proteins using only left-handed amino acids. A naturalistic explanation is not possible. To claim that scientific progress will answer all questions will need no role left for God fails miserably. If naturalistic explanations are wrong, how does it eliminate the possibility that God did it, especially if God really did do it?

The Lewiston Area Historical Society hosts ragtime pianist Steve Spracklen in concert at the museum. The Lewiston Area Historical Society maintains several buildings full of artifacts of the lumbering era which took place between 1891 and 1910. After the lumbering operation was over, the town survived with farming and tourism. Lewiston is a playground for hunters and fishermen, and there is a great effort by the residents to preserve their heritage. Timberfest is their celebration of the lumber heritage with community music, food and talent, like axe throwing and wood carving.

A news release by the American Association for the Advancement of Science tells a research project by Julia Zeh, Ph.D. studying a link between the structure of a humpback whale's song and the whale's movement throguh the water. Despite decades of research into what these songs sound like, scientists have had far less insight into what the whales are physically doing while they sing. Understanding that connection could reveal how singing affects a whale’s energy use, oxygen management and vulnerability to underwater noise and vessel strikes. The article suggests that this study will offer a new window into the biology and evolution of one of the animal kingdom's most elaborate acoustic displays. Dr. Jerry Bergman has written a book "Whale Evolution is a Whale of a Tail". He disputes whale evolution, analyzing each of the purported intermediate fossils and it's impossible evolutionary journey from a fictional dog-like mammal on land gradually losing its feet and limbs and developing flippers, a fluke, and fins. In 1967, Doug observed the ongoing study at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute and the results of attempting to understand the whale's communication method hasn't progress much further despite 60 years of study.

Dr. Jerry Bergman joins us to discuss how peer pressure causes people to make wrong choices about their spiritual life. Standing up for the truth can be difficult and it is tragic that church leaders cave in to accept and teach unscientific theories with poor theological scholarship because it gives the illusion of being tolerant and accepting. Theistic evolution is just that, a worldview that has evolutionary roots with a thin veneer of spirituality. Jerry Bergman documents victims of persecution of Christian believers who are withheld degrees, fired or denied tenure because they openly acknowledge a Christian or creationist worldview. Creationist articles have rarely been accepted for publication in secular refereed journals. Because of this, most creation scientists do not submit them any more. And creationist journals are unavailable in most public and college libraries. Because of all this, it is very unlikely that an outspoken creationist could get through the system intact. Christians often take on 'protective coloration' by accepting scientific orthodoxy but adding a Christian footnote to it. This is no threat to their peers because it fits the prevailing cultural idea that something can be 'true for you, but not for me'.