Culture

You could call it unscientific, but encounters with God often occur when we enter into a place of pure beauty and solitude with nothing but silent still waters and the wildlife surrounding us. Such times yield moments of pure joy, and as we allow God to speak to us through His creation, we become renewed. We reflect on our past experiences where we seize the moments when we encounter beautiful views, serene moments and inspirational observations. For Doug it was a garden of E

Doug and Rich recount events in their lives where accounts of the supernatural impacted their lives negatively, causing fear and doubt. But when they encountered Christ in their lives and received explanations for the supernatural, that fear dissipated with the realization that God is powerful enough to defeat these supernatural forces. Fascination with the occult pervades our society and it starts innocently even with children’s stories, but in many cases overcomes a person

A funny song aired on the radio expressed how much the singer’s life would be better after he’s had his operation. Often people think God has made a mistake and the cure is surgery to “improve” the human body. We know that surgeries are needed to help get our body rid of a disease, but it isn’t possible to add new features or correct what some perceive as design flaws in the body. We can also ask that question about other living systems. Can we put wings on a dolphin? Can we

Sometimes, the bigger the lie, the easier it is to miss. That was the case with the Piltdown Man, where a human skull cap was matched with an ape’s jaw and planted for someone to find. That fooled experts for 40 years. The Miller-Urey experiment was the big headline that suggested that life could be created in the test tube. But the experiment was a failure. These lies can be perpetuated by having a headline that says one thing but the details of a study show exactly the oppo

It seems like adopting theistic evolution as a Christian worldview is the ideal way to be accepted in the scientific world as well as being able to embrace Christianity. However, the problems with doing so become apparent when both the science and theology involved are examined more closely.

Dan Janzen, as a missionary in South Sudan, observes that non-government agencies such as relief organizations, however well-intentioned, can intensify problems in a developing country by giving handouts. They believe that trying to improve the environment will result in a natural tendency toward the good. The opposite is true, people become dependent upon the relief efforts and become lazy, unable to extricate themselves out of theis dependent mode. This is another evolution

During the Little Ice Age in the 1600’s and 1700’s the population of Germany was looking to the Prince Bishops who presided over Bamberg and Wurzburg for answers why disease famine and crop failure was occurring. They finally decided that witchcraft was responsible, and demanded that they do something. This created a mass hysteria where people were tortured to confess to witchcraft and told to name others who were involved. Almost 1,000 people in these two cities were torture

Beauty is a spiritual quality, and it is something that is difficult to measure and define scientifically. Some of the limitations of science are in the areas where the spiritual is dominant such as in the fruits of the Holy Spirit: love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness and temperance. Beauty is often measured using the Golden Ratio where the porportion of sizes seem to fit a pattern. Symmetry, perspective, color also appeal to the eye, but mo

In 1970, a little tract was published by Inter-Varsity Press called the Western Book of the Dead. It was a parody of postmodern culture brought about by the assumptions of evolution where nothing became something, life came from chemicals and that man resulted. It also assumed that the rumor of God and His son was an invention of man. The results are that love becomes meaningless and culture dies. Man ceases to be man, and instead becomes the most terrifying animal on the fac

A visit to a modern art museum in Arizona prompts a reaction from Doug. Where’s the art? The entrance is like descending into a dungeon, and it was difficult to differentiate between what was art or a political statement. This is a reflection of a lost postmodern culture that has no reference to beauty, truth, purpose and meaning. You can trace this back to the “enlightenment” and the rejection of the bible as authority. Modern art today is contaminated with Darwinian bloodst

Upon realizing that the arguments about abiogenesis that creationists are making are effective, and that it is not possible for life to come from non-life, an atheist asks the question: “There are a thousand gods to choose from. Which one do you choose?” Origin of life experiements lead to deism. But beyond that, what is there that leads you to Christ specifically? These answers are crystal clear from the Bible.

Carl Kerby has a ministry called Reasons for Hope, and he also has his testimony in the book Persuaded by the Evidence. Carl relates his story how he spent years in church but never understood the plan of salvation. Finally, after attending a Lowell Lundstrom crusade, he received a simple gospel message and his life was radically transformed. He is traveling the United States delivering short lively DeBunked messages in his DeBunked VW van and on the Internet. This one is abo

A Christian posted this question on his FaceBook site wondering, with all of the evil in the world, and with abortion causing lives to cease right at the start, if for many it might be better if they had never been born. That raises questions why God would create or allow such a condition to exist in this world.

Censoring the Darwin Skeptics is the third book in a series of book that talk about discrimination against those who challenge the mainline Darwinian point of view taught in the universities and promoted in the government schools. Censorship occurs in libraries, bookstores and publishing. Academia enforces the Darwinian doctrine with denying a forum, using media control, denial of tenure, grants, research results and internet usage. Dr. Bergman documents specific cases where

Eating well, thinking well and moving well are all part of what creates good health. 50% of that in my mind is thinking well. If we harbor bitterness, unforgiveness, envy, jealousy, and fear, our negative thoughts affect our emotions and our health. The reverse placebo effect is where if you believe something is bad for you, it may cause a reaction consistent with your beliefs. When we interviewed Dr. John Sanford and talked with him afterward, he thinks that many allergies t

The Origins Truth Conference at North Carolina State on 11/10/2018 featured Dr. John Sanford, inventor of the gene gun, giving talks about Genetic Entropy and Contested Bones. Also Dr. D. Russell Humphreys gave a talk about Planetary Magnetic Fields and Peter Borger talked about the Illusion of Natural Selection and Baranomes. The hosts were Helmut Welke of Creation Summit and Dan Reynolds of the Triangle Association of Science and Creation.

Derek Marshall and Jeff Conklin share their personal stories what led them to the Creationist point of view and the evidence that God provided them that helped them to come to faith in Christ.

The RAE Adventure to the Creation Museum and Ark Encounter inspires many observations about how we view the events of Noah’s flood, the pre-flood world, and how Noah built a ship that was able to preserve life in that cataclysm. Sue Langham shares her experiences and how to visit the two museums.

Doug Sharp visited Europe on a Viking River Cruise from Amsterdam to Budapest. Kerby Rials is a former missionary to Belgium, and they discuss the trappings of the state church and why many of the customs and traditions of that institution were left behind when the Pilgrims came to America. The church in Europe is asleep and almost dead and the reasons why are discussed.

Science suffers from a definition problem, and many times people cannot tell the difference between empirical science and forensic science. Empirical science is where you set up the conditions in the present where you can control all of the starting assumptions. But with forensic science, everything happened in the past and you are left with clues as to what happened, but you cannot control those starting parameters. That is where evolution has a problem.