Today is the Fourth of July, Independence Day in the United States of America.
Here is a portion of the Declaration of Independence:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty [...]
This is one of my favorite Bible verses:
"… Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have …" 1 Peter 3:15
The reason for the hope that I have is my faith in God. But, more than that, the reason [...]
One of my favorite books of all time is: Darwin’s Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution by Michael J. Behe: The “Black Box’ is the cell. This book describes the inner workings of the cell. The cell is compared to a major city, with food delivery and trash pickup services. Another one of my favorite books of all time is The Case for a Creator: A Journalist Investigates Scientific Evidence That Points Toward God by Lee Strobel Lee Strobel was an atheist journalist. His wife became a Christian and it blew his mind. Afterwards, he went all over the USA and interviewed scientists about why they believed in God. After interviewing many people who gave scientific evidence for their faith, he became convinced that God exists. Michael Behe is one of the scientists that Lee Strobel interviewed. The Case for a Creator follows Strobel’s journey as the evidence stacks up against evolution and convinces him that God exists. The video below has some of the information that convinced Lee Strobel that life required a creator, and thus there is a God. As you will see in the video, there is an amazing piece of machinery called the bacterial flagellum in some cells. When Michael Behe, biochemist, Lehigh University first saw the bacterial flagellum, he said “this is an outboard motor”: As Behe says in the video: Darwinism was a lot more plausible when we were thinking of globs of protoplasm than it is when we are thinking of molecular machines. Bacteria is said, by mainstream science, to be among the first life-forms to evolve. Bacteria is called “simple life”. Is it really simple? Watch the video and see for yourself. Another concept Behe talks about in his book and in this video is what he calls “Irreducible Complexity”. Irreducible Complexity is where all of the parts have to be together in the beginning for anything to work. His famous example is a mousetrap. He talks about this concept in the video. Charles Darwin said: in chapter six of Origin of Species: “If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down.” Is evolution really a fact? Watch this video. You may be surprised. X [...]
I’ll bet nobody posts in this blog entry to disagree with that statement. It is a fairy tale.
But, I believe that “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth” (Genesis 1:1). I’m told that is a fairy tale too. But, these two “fairy tales” are treated differently…
I am asked time [...]
I just was surfing the internet, reading some things about Bill Gates, and I came across this quote:
We have all had teachers who made a difference. I had a great chemistry teacher in high school who made his subject immensely interesting. Chemistry seemed enthralling compared to biology. In biology, we were dissecting frogs [...]