Lincoln, Luther, and King

Just when human arrogance has reached its height, and mankind's darkness of mind (the belief in evolution as our creator) has all but erased away any acknowledgment of the ingenious works of Jesus the true creator, science produces a new empirical observation that shocks us out of our drunken stupor with such intensity that we must again wrestle with the undeniable fact that we live in a world that was designed. In this case, it's an octopus. An octopus whose eyes are color-blind. An octopus whose eyesight isn't very sharp, even though its eyes are not "backwards" like the eyes of you reading this blog (Hmmm if you can read this blog, then "backwards" eyes must be a pretty good design, right? I'm a mechanical engineer, and my definition of a good design is a design that is functional.) But somehow, this feeble-eyed, color-blind octopus possesses a technology that the U.S. Military would pay billions to have: The ability to change shape, textu...

Evolutionary theory (specifically, the idea that life arose from non-living matter through purely natural, unintelligent causes) is surely the poster child of optimism. Second only to the belief that a government can mend all of a society's ills, little tends to suspend critical thought than the belief that life's ubiquitous and tenacious nature is evidence that life would almost certainly arise spontaneously given the right conditions (Read: "Just add water"). Corollary to this belief is the almost universal feeling that the conditions for life to exist are in plentiful supply throughout our bleak universe, and that many habitable planets must exist. Today it has been reported that a 'Goldilocks' planet has been found; that is, a planet where conditions are "just right" to support life. Are scientists basing this conclusion on empirical data, or has unbounded evolutionary optimism crept into this latest proclamation by scientific journalism? Has f...

An internet blog comment yesterday reads: I am now making the offer of 100 gazillionmilliontrillion dollars and a steak to one single person or group to definitively prove the existence of a creator God or creation at all. The ground: - Must be physical proof that science will never be able to refute. - Must be proof that logic cannot defy. - Must have God itself present said proof. By 8bithero on October 14, 2008 8:33 PM At first glance, it sounds like an innocent question. But this is like saying, "I will only believe in God if he exists on a playing field of my own definition. Here's the playing field: Referencing only physical proof, prove the supernatural exists." But the logic is skewed. The logic problem is clearly seen when posing the same argument in the other direction: "Referencing only the supernatural, prove the physical universe exists." Essentially we've carefully padded our challenge against failure by insisting up front that all e...

Over the past few years I've read portions of a monster 1500 page standard college textbook titled "Molecular Biology of The Cell - 4th Edition". Commonly referred to by the acronym MBOC, the fourth edition was published in 2002, and the fifth edition is now out - due in part to the rapid increase (explosion) of knowledge in our current times, one of the two signs that Daniel the prophet was told would characterize the last days (Daniel 21:4). The authors are, to my knowledge, strict evolutionists. Yet these guys use all the descriptions you'd use for the greatest of engineered systems. This smacks of design! Here’s some of the phrases they use to describe the systems and processes that run life at the molecular level: "precisely engineered""with remarkable efficiency" "a highly regulated process" "requires the cooperation of many [other parts]" "self-correcting" "so efficient that there is no possibili...

Subclassing and instantiation are features of modern object-oriented computer programming languages. The efficiency of this methodology allows the programmer to reuse common code to define new objects. When defining a new object, instead of reinventing the wheel, the new object can inherit properties from an existing object, leaving the programmer only to define the new object's unique aspects. For example: Basic Object: House Its properties: Square feet # of bedrooms House style (ranch/bungalow/colonial) Address Year built Detailed Object: Rental House Its properties: Inherit all the properties of a house (sq ft, # of bedrooms, etc) Monthly rent Lease start date Lease expire date Instantiation is the act of taking one of these definitions and applying it to a specific instance (such as describing a specific rental house). Subclassing and instantiations are truly the brainchild of God. These ingenious features are...

Stunning new animation has been developed that visualizes the automated molecular machinery which Jesus Christ has created, and on which your life depends. Do you want scientific evidence for the existence of God? Well, first you must be honest with yourself about the information you observe, instead of artifically imposing naturalistic limits on the origin of information-rich systems. Limiting our explanatory powers to such naturalistic causes cannot account for the existence of a PC or Ford F-150, because these systems required intelligent designers to produce them. In the same way, we must not presume that an explanation that invokes intelligent design cannot account for the similarly sophisticated systems found in molecular biology. Besides, there is no empirical scientific evidence proving that life  did not have a designer. So keep your mind open to the possibility as you watch this video, and ask yourself if the existence of th...

We're all familiar with the caveman myth. You know, the idea that the earliest humans all lived in caves, carried clubs, wore animal skins hung on one shoulder, and grunted back and forth to each other with intelligence only a bit higher than apes. The ancients were smarter than a lot of folks give them credit for being. Not every ancient man lived in a cave and scratched his flea-infested armpit with hairy, dung-covered fingers - it just so happens that other homes the ancients lived in didn't last as long as the caves. So if the oldest human habitations we discover are caves, then all I can say is...duh! Do you expect an 5,000-yr-old straw house or animal-skin tent to still be standing in Mesopotamia? (Or a wood boat on Mt. Ararat?)