O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:<\/i><\/p>\n
\u2014I Tim. 6:20<\/i><\/p>\n
1435<\/b> The Evolution Theory<\/b><\/p>\n
As taught in our public schools today, the Organic Theory of Evolution accounts for the origin of mankind as follows:<\/p>\n
\u201cLife on this planet originated several billion years ago, when electrical disturbances caused reactions to occur in the chemicals of the primeval ocean, and these reactions produced amino acids, and these amino acids organized themselves into living cells. As time went on, more chemical reactions caused the descen dants of these one-celled organisms to mutate and develop into a variety of types of multi-celled plants and animals. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe process continued, and as each new variety of organism appeared, natural selection would result in its being either better or less suited to the environment, and therefore it would either flourish or disappear. In the long run, then, species of plants and animals better and better suited to their respective environments appeared and developed. <\/p>\n
\u201cMan is the highest product of this development. He is immediately descended from the same ancestors as the apes; more remotely, from the same ancestors as all mammals. He is himself still developing; that process is stalled by our present lifestyle, but biologically it is inevitable.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014The Bible Friend<\/i><\/p>\n
1436<\/b> Three-Million-Year-Old Man<\/b><\/p>\n
Tokyo (AFP)\u2014A Japanese anthropologist said the fossil remains found in East Africa by Mrs. Mary Leakey must indeed be the earliest Hominid (man\u2019s ancestors) fossils. <\/p>\n
The ones discovered by the late Dr. Richard Leakey, son of Mrs. Leakey, in Northern Kenya in 1968 had previously been the earliest\u20142,900,000 years old\u2014so that the radioisotope reading of Mrs. Leakey\u2019s fossils as 3,350,000\u20133,750,000 years old date them as the earliest yet found. <\/p>\n
Commenting on the new finds, Dr. Takashi Suzuki, head of the anthropological research department of the National Museum of Science, said that the Leakey family is world-famous for their research on man\u2019s ancestors. <\/p>\n
The late Dr. Louis Leakey, husband of Mrs. Mary Leakey, found hominid fossils for the first time in Olduval Valley, Tanzania. <\/p>\n
1437<\/b> \u201cBig Bang\u201d Theory<\/b><\/p>\n
London (UPI)\u2014Scientists have listened with radio telescopes to the unimaginable explosion that gave birth 10 billion years ago to the planet earth and the rest of the universe, Sir Bernard Lovell said in an address to the British Association for the Advancement of Science. <\/p>\n
As far as he is concerned, he makes clear in his address in Guildord Cathedral, the \u201ccontinuous creation\u201d theory of the origin of the universe\u2014that it has always existed as it is now\u2014has been disproved in favor of the \u201cbig bang\u201d theory that a condensate of infinite density shattered into what we now live on and see in the heavens. <\/p>\n
Lovell said the shape of the universe and the fact there is life on earth and perhaps elsewhere in the cosmos were probably determined by events that took place in the first second of time. <\/p>\n
1438<\/b> New Theory On Universe<\/b><\/p>\n
San Francisco (UPI)\u2014A new theory on the creation of the solar system that includes a tremendous explosion by a giant star, the core of which slammed backwards into our sun and reversed the direction of its rotation, was presented (in 1975). <\/p>\n
Among other things this theory explains, said its originator, Judd Boynton of Geophysics Labs and Research in Berkeley, California, is \u201cthe origin of the chemical elements above hydrogen in the planets.\u201d<\/p>\n
Boynton theorized that the creative process started about four-and-a-half billion years ago when an iron-rich companion star, five to 10 times more massive than the sun, exploded as a consequence of \u201crun-away\u201d internally-generated nuclear fusion. <\/p>\n
The blast blew more than 99.9 percent of the mass forever outwards into space. The residue eventually was pulled together to form the planets of the sun, their moons and the asteroids, he said. <\/p>\n
Implosion of this event formed a dwarfed companion to our sun, which was blown backwards in relation to its original orbit and spiraled ever closer to the sun. <\/p>\n
Finally this dwarf entered the sun, skimming the surface at orbital velocity and reversing the sun\u2019s original rotation, Boynton said. <\/p>\n
1439<\/b> Darwin\u2019s Grandson: No Need For God<\/b><\/p>\n
A brilliant array of scholars responded to beckonings of the University of Chicago for its Darwin Centennial Celebration, November 24\u201328, and the resulting galaxy was perhaps the most memorable feature of the gathering. Numbered among approximately 2,500 attendants from 27 countries was another Charles Darwin (grandson of evolution\u2019s bright light), who dolefully predicted that overpopulation and resulting complications would cause a return to hard conditions of life and the diminishing of human intelligence. <\/p>\n
But it was another grandson of a famous British scientist who ran off with the headline, and he did it with an old, old story. Sir Julian Huxley, scion of Thomas Huxley, predicted the disappearance of religion\u2014a product of evolution like everything else\u2014from earth, through \u201ccompetition with other, truer, and more embracing thought organizations.\u201d He saw no \u201cneed or room \u2026 in the evolutionary pattern of thought \u2026 for supernatural beings capable of affecting the course of events.\u201d<\/p>\n
REFUTATIONS OF THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION<\/p>\n
1440<\/b> Darwin Converted? <\/b><\/p>\n
Shortly before his death, Charles Darwin, with whom began the theory of organic evolution, said, \u201cI was a young man with unformed ideas. I threw out queries and suggestions. To my astonishment, they took like wildfire!\u201d Later, he suggested to a Christian friend that she speak to the servants, tenants and neighbors. \u201cWhat shall I speak about?\u201d \u201cChrist Jesus,\u201d replied Darwin. <\/p>\n
\u2014The Watchman-Examiner<\/i><\/p>\n
1441<\/b> Darwin\u2019s Last Hours<\/b><\/p>\n
From reliable testimony, it may be assumed that Charles Darwin returned to the faith of his early manhood. <\/p>\n
Lady Hope visited him one afternoon in England. He was almost bedridden for some months before he died. And sitting up in bed, he held an open Bible. \u201cWhat are you reading?\u201d asked Lady Hope. \u201cThe Royal Book, I call it. Isn\u2019t it grand?\u201d Darwin answered. Lady Hope mentioned about creation and the early chapters of Genesis. Darwin seemed greatly distressed and a look of agony came over his face as he said: \u201cI was a young man with unformed ideas. I threw out queries, suggestions, wondering all the time over everything, and to my astonishment the ideas took like wildfire. People made a religion out of them.\u201d<\/p>\n
Then he added: \u201cI have a summerhouse in the garden. I want you to speak to the people there tomorrow afternoon.\u201d \u201cWhat shall I speak about?\u201d Lady Hope asked. \u201cChrist Jesus,\u201d he replied in a clear emphatic voice, adding in a lower tone, \u201cand His salvation. Is not that the best theme? And then I want you to sing some hymns with them.\u201d Then he added in farewell: \u201cIf you take the meeting at three o\u2019clock, this window will be open and you will know that I am joining in with the singing.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014C. W. Hale Amos in The Bible Friend<\/i><\/p>\n
1442<\/b> \u201cIt Appears That,\u201d Etc. <\/b><\/p>\n
The theory of the evolution of man is based on suppositions and inferences. As an example, the first chapter of Charles Darwin\u2019s book The Descent of Man<\/i> contains within a few pages, 20 expressions of uncertainty, such as \u201cseemed,\u201d \u201cit appears,\u201d \u201ctake for granted,\u201d \u201cmay,\u201d and \u201cimplies.\u201d The concluding chapter of 14 pages has more than 50 such expressions. Within 30 years after publication the book was changed in 87 places. <\/p>\n
\u2014Elizabeth A. Schroeter<\/p>\n
1443<\/b> Darwin\u2019s Reversed Significance<\/b><\/p>\n
In 1859 appeared Charles Darwin\u2019s Origin of Species<\/i>. It has been called the most significant book of the nineteenth century. If so, it was not because it set forth the theory of organic evolution\u2014this had been done before. Its importance was in Darwin\u2019s explanation of the \u201chow\u201d of organic evolution\u2014natural selection. Evolution has survived into the middle of the twentieth century, but Darwin\u2019s explanation of it has been largely rejected by modern evolutionists. In other words, the feature of the Origin of Species most significant in 1859 (natural selection) seems to be least significant in 1980s while the feature least significant in 1800s (organic evolution) seems to be most significant in the present. <\/p>\n
1444<\/b> Piltdown Man: Greatest Hoax<\/b><\/p>\n
For more than forty years the Piltdown man was an honored member of the society of \u201cearliest humans.\u201d Then a startling discovery proved him to be an enormous fraud. <\/p>\n
In early 1912 fossil hunter Charles Dawson brought the first finds of the Piltdown man to the British Museum. Immediately the finder became famous, and soon other fragments of the \u201cMissing link\u201d began coming in from Dawson. The find was even named \u201cEoanthropus dawsone\u2014Dawson\u2019s Dawn Man.\u201d<\/p>\n
However, forty years later scientists found that Dawson had deceived them. The jaw had come from a modern ape, with the faker \u201cfossilizing\u201d it by staining it mahogany with iron salt and bichro mate. An oil paint, probably red sienna, had stained the chewing surfaces of the teeth. Further tests revealed every fragment of the Piltdown a forgery. It was probably the greatest hoax perpetrated on the scientific community in history. <\/p>\n
\u2014C. R. Hembree<\/p>\n
1445<\/b> Minnesota Ice Man: Hoax<\/b><\/p>\n
A news release from the Bible-Science Association informs us that the \u201cMinnesota Ice Man,\u201d hailed as the missing link, has turned out to be a hoax. Personnel of the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D. C., received a call from the operator of a wax museum in California who admitted this Ice Man was the creation of five of his technicians who had fashioned the figure from the combination of rubber and hair. <\/p>\n
Ivan T. Sanderson, science editor of the Argosy Magazine<\/i>, viewed this creature in a remote mountain home and was convinced that it was genuine. It was inside a 6,000-pound chunk of ice and supposed it had been discovered in this condition in Hongkong and sold to several Americans who for two years exhibited the creature in carnivals. Only later was it thought to have scientific value, and a study began. <\/p>\n
Bernard Heuvelmans of the University of Brussels, specialist on the so-called abominable snowmen, claimed it as genuine. Agreeing with this opinion were Dr. Carlton S. Coon of Harvard, Dr. John R. Napier of the Smithsonian Institute, Prof. W. C. Osman-Hill of Emory University in Atlanta, and Prof. George A. Agogino of the Paleo-Indian Institute at Eastern New Mexico University at Portales. <\/p>\n
1446<\/b> Dilemma Among Scientists<\/b><\/p>\n
Dallas, Texas (UPI)\u2014Three scientists have reported hard-to-refute geologic evidence suggesting man lived in North America 250,000 years ago\u2014a finding they agreed seems archaeologically unreasonable. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re confronted with a dilemma in which we have apparently found geological data that lead to a head-on confrontation with apparently sound archaeological data,\u201d said Dr. Ronald Fryxwell, of Washington State University. <\/p>\n
Decades of archaeological study have shown that man first migrated to the Western hemisphere about 12,000 years ago over a then-existent land bridge between Siberia and Alaska. No generally accepted evidence of a significantly earlier existence of man in the new world has been found. <\/p>\n
Fryxwell, Dr. Harold E. Malde and Virginia Steen-McIntyre, both of the U. S. geological survey in Denver, Colorado, told the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America they have found relatively sophisticated stone tools in an ancient Mexican stream bed which they dated by several techniques as about 250,000 years old. <\/p>\n
The main problem with that finding, the geologists said, was that the tools are considerably more advanced than the tools used in Europe and Asia 250,000 years ago. Malde said in an interview that the least sophisticated of the tools found at the Mexican site are of a type that were used in the old world 35,000\u201340,000 years ago. The artifacts were found in hard consolidated deposits at a site called Hueyatlaco, few miles south of Puebla, Mexico. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe are painfully aware that these results deepen the dilemma already recognized that so great an age for man in the new world is archaeologically unreasonable, especially for artifacts of such sophisticated workmanship,<\/i>\u201d Malde said. <\/p>\n
\u201cAt present, an impasse exists. We think the geologic evidence is better and better and the archaeologists say no.\u201d<\/p>\n
1447<\/b> World Population Count<\/b><\/p>\n
Half a century ago, Professor Williams of Franklin College, Ohio, published a book demonstrating The Evolution of Man Mathematically Disproved. He showed by the most careful calculation that if the first human pair had lived 100,000 years ago\u2014some evolutionist say 2,000,000 years ago, or longer\u2014the present population of the world (at only one-tenth the rate of present net increase) would now be 4,660, 210,253, 138,204,000; or two-and-one- half billion times as many people as at present! <\/p>\n
1448<\/b> Mathematical Impossibility<\/b><\/p>\n
There have been a number of serious mathematical computations which have to do with evolution, and improbable to the vanishing point. Probably the best known case is the symposium on the Mathematical Challenge to the Neo-Darwinian Interpretation of Evolution, held at the Wistar Institute in Philadelphia in 1966. It was there that a French mathematician told that when a computer was programmed to give the probability of an evolutionary advance, it jammed. <\/p>\n
The interpretation of this was that the probability was less than one chance in ten to the one thousandth power! In his closing remarks this man said, \u201cThus, to conclude, we believe that there is a considerable gap in the neo-Darwinian theory of evolution, and we believe this gap to be of such a nature that it cannot be bridged within the current biology.\u201d<\/p>\n
Probability is expressed as a fraction and hence certainty is 1 and impossibility is 0. On this basis to be helpful to the evolutionists, the author assumed that the probability of evolution being true (if there were no gaps in the fossil record) as .999, which then makes the probability of creation the difference between this and 1, or .001. But there are at least 13 well-documented gaps in the fossil record, and actually there are very many more. But again favoring the evolutionists by using this very conservative figure of 13, and putting these numbers in the formula, the result is that the probability of evolution being true is about one chance in 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. <\/p>\n
Thus, even if assumptions are made favoring the position of the evolutionists, they cannot complain if it still comes out in favor of creation, which it does. <\/p>\n
\u2014Christianity Victory<\/i><\/p>\n
1449<\/b> Getting Up To 4 Billion<\/b><\/p>\n
Some feel that great antiquity of men is necessary to produce the present population of over 4 billion. This apparently is not the case. <\/p>\n
If the flood did occur 4,300 years ago (and it was probably much earlier), and if only the people in the ark survived on the whole earth, there would still be sufficient time to produce the present population. Even if each two people produced, on the average, only 2.6 children in their lifetime the population of the earth would then double each one hundred years. <\/p>\n
Doubling the population each one hundred years for 4,300 years would produce a population of 10,000,000,000,000. This is 3,000 times our present population. No, the population of the earth alone does not require a great antiquity of men. <\/p>\n
1450<\/b> \u201cInvincible Proof\u201d? <\/b><\/p>\n
In the year 1798 Bonaparte, with his army, entered the Town of Denderah, in Central Egypt. There he found two interesting and seemingly ancient temples. From one of them the roof, carved with certain figures, was carefully taken down and carried to Paris. <\/p>\n
When examined there by learned men, it was found to be what is technically termed a zodiac, and from certain marks they inferred that it was at least seventeen thousand years old. Soon after this discovery, and under its influence, a professor in the University of Breslau wrote a book with the title, An Invincible Proof that the world is at least Ten Times Older than Moses supposed when he wrote the book of Genesis<\/i>. Many believers in the Bible were very much startled by this discovery, and for a time they were in much fear of mind. <\/p>\n
But some time later Champollion discovered the method of reading such inscriptions as were found on this zodiac; when he carefully examined it he discovered, among other things, the name of Augustus Caesar inscribed upon it, proving that it was no older than the Christian era. <\/p>\n
\u2014Walter Baxendale<\/p>\n
1451<\/b> A Mis-Step In Glen Rose? <\/b><\/p>\n
Human footprints had been found associated with dinosaur tracks along Paluxy River near Glen Rose, Texas. This was reported in the book, The Genesis Flood<\/i> by Whitcomb and Morris. It was reported photographically in the National Geographic Magazine<\/i> of May 1954, but nothing was said about the human footprints. The footprints of both man and dinosaurs give evidence that they lived contemporaneously. <\/p>\n
In the evolutionary geological time scale man is supposed to have appeared in the Pliocene period one million years ago, while dinosaurs are supposed to have become extinct with the end of the Cretaceous period a supposed 125 million years before man. But the footprints of both man and dinosaur are in the Cretaceous period along Paluxy River. <\/p>\n
Actually, human footprints keep showing up in the various strata, and a human skull has been found in the coal measures of the Carboniferous period, which is guessed to be 250 million years before man was supposed to have appeared. <\/p>\n
1452<\/b> \u201cGive Us Time\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n
In the last letter Charles Darwin is known to have written, three weeks before he died, he predicted that the time would come when scientists would postulate that all life on earth came originally from non-living matter through natural processes. This prediction has been fulfilled, for scientists now do postulate this and they are working to find an explanation of how it could have happened. This also is in accord with another prediction and boast of the scientists: \u201cGive us time and we will explain everything.\u201d<\/p>\n
1453<\/b> Only Partial Support From Fossils<\/b><\/p>\n
Darwin realized that the fossil record did not support his evolutionary speculations, but he had faith that subsequent finds would fill the gaps. However, more than a century has passed and the hoped-for evidence has not turned up. <\/p>\n
In the book Darwin\u2019s Biological Work<\/i>, first published in 1959 and again in 1970, geologist John Challinor, an evolutionist, admits that the fossil record only \u201cpartially supports evolution,\u201d and significantly adds that it also supports \u201cseparate and independent creation.\u201d<\/p>\n
1454<\/b> Amazing Changes In South Seas<\/b><\/p>\n
In 1833 Charles Darwin went to the South Sea Islands looking for the so-called \u201cmissing link.\u201d As he studied the cannibals who lived there, he concluded that no creatures anywhere were more primitive, and he was convinced that nothing on earth could possibly lift them to a higher level. He thought he had indeed found a lower stratum of humanity that would fit his theory of evolution. <\/p>\n
Thirty-four years later he returned to the same islands. To his amazement he discovered churches, schools, and homes occupied by some of those former cannibals. In fact, many of them wore clothes and frequently gathered to sing hymns. The reason was soon learned: Missionary John G. Paton had been there proclaiming the truths of salvation! Darwin was so moved by their transformation that he made a generous contribution to the London Missionary Society. Darwin\u2019s \u201cmissing link\u201d thus remained missing. <\/p>\n
\u2014Henry G. Bosch<\/p>\n
1455<\/b> Story Of Three Monkeys<\/b><\/p>\n
Have you read the humorous story of the three monkeys discussing the theory of evolution? Sitting in a tree, one says to the others, \u201cListen, you two. There\u2019s rumor going around that can\u2019t be true\u2014that man descended from our noble race. Why, the very idea is a dire disgrace!\u201d Then, listing things monkeys don\u2019t do, he continued, \u201cYou\u2019ll never see a monkey build a fence around a coconut tree and then let all the coconuts go to waste, forbidding all others a taste. Here\u2019s another thing a monkey won\u2019t do: go out at night and get on a stew, or use a gun or a knife to take another monkey\u2019s life. Yes, man descended\u2014that ornery cuss. But brothers, he didn\u2019t descend from us!\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Ray O. Jones<\/p>\n
1456<\/b> It\u2019s Also A Fact<\/b><\/p>\n
It\u2019s a fact \u2026 that the unearthed remains of plants and animals, called fossils, are often found in a graduating scale of complexity, with the simpler organisms being deepest in the rock strata. This fact has been used by evolutionists as evidence of the slow development and great changes in life over long ages of time. <\/p>\n
It\u2019s also a fact \u2026 that fossils of all major branches of the animal kingdom have been found in the Cambrian system of rocks, reputedly the second-oldest. This shouldn\u2019t have happened, if organic evolution is true, and the evolutionists admit it is a problem. <\/p>\n
\u2014Power<\/i><\/p>\n
1457<\/b> Creation: The Easier View<\/b><\/p>\n
The British Broadcasting Company once carried a symposium on the Origin of Life. All the speakers took the view that life had in some way arisen spontaneously from non-living matter at a remote epoch in time. But in his summation, Dr. J. D. Bernal, who was in the chair, and who is well-known for his materialistic views, made a striking statement. \u201cIt would be much easier,\u201d he said, \u201cto discuss how life didn\u2019t originate than how it did.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Robert E. D. Clark<\/p>\n
1458<\/b> Miracles Also In Evolution<\/b><\/p>\n
Harry Emerson Fosdick wrote that the biologists tell us that if a man has eyes, it is because the light waves beat on the skin and the eyes came out in answer; that if he has ears, it is because the sound waves were there first, and the ears came out to hear. He says that evolutionists assert that all the powers of man have come in response to an environment; that if there had been no water, there would have been no fins; if there had been no air, there would have been no wings; if there had been no land, there would have been no legs. <\/p>\n
Dr. Fosdick can believe this, but he cannot believe the miracles! <\/p>\n
\u2014William Jennings Bryan<\/p>\n
1459<\/b> Teacher Fired For Adam<\/b><\/p>\n
A row flared up in England in 1977 over the firing of a religious education teacher who believed in Adam and Eve. David Watson, 56, told his pupils so, was subsequently dismissed, and had his appeal rejected by Hertfordshire County Council. Watson, said the verdict, \u201chad refused the reasonable request of headmaster and governors to conform to the requirements of the agreed syllabus.\u201d<\/p>\n
The syllabus, which dated back to 1954, said: \u201cThe Genesis stories of creation, read as their writers intended them to be and not as literalist interpreters have read them, do not conflict with evolutionary theories. They are, of course, only part of the collection of the myths and legends\u2014Hebrew religious folklore\u2014which make up the first 11 chapters of Genesis and they should be seen in that setting.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014J. D. Douglas<\/p>\n
1460<\/b> Evolution As A Religion<\/b><\/p>\n
A non-Christian biologist who himself accepts the concept of evolution, G. A. Kerkut, observed that candidates he examined for the Ph.D. in biological science did not even know there are scientific arguments against evolution, and were equally unaware that in accepting naturalistic basis, with no divine Mind guiding it one also accepts a number of far-reaching implications that cannot be proved but are of philosophical or religious nature. <\/p>\n
\u2014Christianity Today<\/i><\/p>\n
1461<\/b> Textbook Changes<\/b><\/p>\n
The state of Idaho has adopted a series of creation science books for the eight elementary grades of their public schools. A high school biology textbook has been adopted. <\/p>\n
Numerous states are considering the adoption of the creation science textbooks, but Idaho and Georgia are the only states that are using them thus far. <\/p>\n
1462<\/b> Mississippi Law Overturned<\/b><\/p>\n
Mississippi\u2019s law against the teaching of evolution\u2014the last such state law in the nation\u2014was overturned by state\u2019s supreme court in 1970 as being in violation of the first and fourth amendments to the Constitution. <\/p>\n
BELIEF IN CREATION BY GOD<\/p>\n
1463<\/b> In The Beginning, God<\/b><\/p>\n
The ancient Egyptians believed that a flat world rested on four pillars of stone and the ancient Hindus believed that a flat world rested on the back of a huge elephant, the elephant stood on the back of an enormous turtle, and the turtle stood on an immense coiled snake! <\/p>\n
Instead of promulgating such puerile theories, Moses, who was educated in Egyptian schools, but who was inspired by God to write the creation account in Genesis, gave us the true, God-breathed account, in words of grand simplicity, matchless beauty and exquisite accuracy: \u201cIn the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Fred J. Meldan<\/p>\n
1464<\/b> A Machine\u2019s Final Reply<\/b><\/p>\n
Sometime ago I came across a fictitious story about a group of men who set out to find an answer to the question, \u201cWhere did the earth come from?\u201d They compiled much data covering many areas of investigation and then fed it into the mammoth computer. When they had completed their work and had given the machine all the information, they pushed the \u201canswer\u201d button and waited expectantly for the results. Lights flashed! Bells rang! Buzzers sounded! When the great moment arrived, this printed message emerged: \u201cSee Genesis 1:1.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Our Daily Bread<\/i><\/p>\n
1465<\/b> Literal Interpretation of Gen. 1<\/b><\/p>\n
The \u201crecent creation\u201d view of Genesis 1, we think, has the strongest merits. It has the following foundational observations:<\/p>\n
(1) Heaven and earth were created in six literal days. There is no interval between Gen. 1:1 and 1:2. <\/p>\n
(2) The earth was created \u201cempty and void\u201d in the sense that no life and no outstanding features, such as hills, valleys, were visible. <\/p>\n
(3) Satan\u2019s fall occurred after the creation of Adam and Eve. Gen. 1:31; Rom. 5:12. <\/p>\n
(4) Fossils came into existence at the time of Noah\u2019s Flood. Gen. 6\u20139 recorded an universal catastrophe. <\/p>\n
(5) Earth is probably not older than 10,000 years. Rocks and earth-materials were created \u201cof age.\u201d Man and animals were not millions of years in origin but of relatively similar years. <\/p>\n
1466<\/b> Deathbed Comfort<\/b><\/p>\n
When Mr. Charles Simeon of Cambridge, that great evangelical scholar, was on his deathbed, his biographer relates that, \u201cafter a short pause, he looked round with one of his bright smiles and asked, \u2019What do you think especially gives me comfort at this time? The creation! Did Jehovah create the world, or did I? I think He did; now if He made the world, He can sufficiently take care of me!\u201d<\/p>\n
1467<\/b> \u201cNobody Made It\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n
Sir Isaac Newton had a replica of our solar system made in miniature. In the center was the sun with its retinue of planets revolving around it. A scientist entered Newton\u2019s study one day, and exclaimed, \u201cMy! what an exquisite thing this is! Who made it?\u201d \u201cNobody!\u201d replied Newton to the questioner who was an unbeliever. \u201cYou must think I am a fool. Of course somebody made it, and he is a genius.\u201d<\/p>\n
Laying his book aside, Newton arose and laid a hand on his friend\u2019s shoulder and said: \u201cThis thing is but a puny imitation of a much grander system whose laws you and I know, and I am not able to convince you that this mere toy is without a designer and maker; yet you profess to believe that the great original from which the design is taken has come into being without either designer or maker. Now tell me, by what sort of reasoning do you reach such incongruous conclusions?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014W. G. Polack<\/p>\n
1468<\/b> Creation Out Of Nothing<\/b><\/p>\n
Frederick the Great needed a new court chaplain. He decided to base his selection on the way in which applicants would deliver an extemporaneous sermon. The text, in a sealed envelope, was to be handed to each applicant as he entered the pulpit. <\/p>\n
In church, on the appointed day, a courtier handed one of the ministers a sealed envelope. Opening it, the minister found a blank sheet of paper. He held up one side and exclaimed: \u201cMy brethren, here is nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Then he held up the other side, and added: \u201cAnd here is nothing. It was out of nothing God created all things.\u201d<\/p>\n
He then proceeded to deliver a dynamic discourse on the power and wonders of creation. He received the appointment. <\/p>\n
1469<\/b> Astronauts Read Genesis 1<\/b><\/p>\n
THE MOON (EP)\u2014On Christmas Eve, somewhere above the forbidding landscape of the moon, the voices of Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders carried to earth dwellers the story of creation as found in Genesis 1:1\u201310. <\/p>\n
\u201cIn the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth,\u201d intoned Anders in Apollo 8\u2019s unannounced litany broadcast as the astronauts\u2019 TV camera flashed back a remarkable picture of the deeply-shadowed lunar landscape. <\/p>\n
Borman closed the lunar telecast with these words: \u201cGood night, good luck, a Merry Christmas, and God bless all of you upon the good earth.\u201d<\/p>\n
The trio then closed the moonship\u2019s fourth telecast and began preparations for the successful blast out of lunar orbit to return to the \u201cgrand oasis in the vastness of space, earth.\u201d<\/p>\n
1470<\/b> Complete Bible On The Moon<\/b><\/p>\n
And then on February 5, 1970, a microfilm packet containing Genesis 1:1 in sixteen languages and a complete RSV Bible were deposited on the Moon by Apollo 14 LEM Commander Edgar Mitchell. <\/p>\n
1471<\/b> \u201cLet There Be Light\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n
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See also:<\/b> Atheists ; II Pet. 3:3, 4 Rev. 14:7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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