{"id":5623,"date":"2016-08-16T03:47:09","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T08:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/artificial-creation-flops\/"},"modified":"2016-08-16T03:47:09","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T08:47:09","slug":"artificial-creation-flops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/artificial-creation-flops\/","title":{"rendered":"ARTIFICIAL\n  CREATION FLOPS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>Topics:<\/b> Creation; Creator; Evidence for God; God\u2019s Wisdom<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>Reference:<\/b> Genesis 1:1<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>The experimental Biosphere 2 was an isolated living environment created to supply all the factors necessary for sustaining life. It was a self-contained microcosm of life on earth, containing soil, air, water, plants, and animals. It was an airtight enclosure covering 3.15 acres in Arizona.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Despite an investment of about $200 million from 1984 to 1991, a multimillion-dollar operating budget, almost unlimited technological support, and heroic effort, the Biosphere proved impossible to sustain eight human beings with adequate food, water, and air for two years.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Just fifteen months after the unit was enclosed in 1991, oxygen had to be added from the outside. Nineteen of twenty-five vertebrate species placed in the unit became extinct. All the species that could pollinate the plants became extinct, as did most insects. Water and air pollution became acute, and temperature control was a problem.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Think of it: Biosphere 2 didn\u2019t work, yet the wonderfully integrated ecosystems of Earth supposedly just happened without intelligent design.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:right;line-height:normal'>\u2014\u201cLessons from Biosphere 2,\u201d <i>Creation Ex Nihilo<\/i> (June 1997)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Topics: Creation; Creator; Evidence for God; God\u2019s Wisdom Reference: Genesis 1:1 The experimental Biosphere 2 was an isolated living environment created to supply all the factors necessary for sustaining life. It was a self-contained microcosm of life on earth, containing soil, air, water, plants, and animals. It was an airtight enclosure covering 3.15 acres in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/artificial-creation-flops\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;ARTIFICIAL<br \/>\n  CREATION FLOPS&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}