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Evolutionists say they have found an important missing link between humans and the lower forms of life that we supposedly evolved from.

Scientists have discovered an exquisitely preserved ancient primate fossil that they believe forms a crucial “missing link” between our own evolutionary branch of life and the rest of the animal kingdom.

The 47m-year-old primate – named Ida – has been hailed as the fossil equivalent of a “Rosetta Stone” for understanding the critical early stages of primate evolution.

The top-level international research team, who have studied her in secret for the past two years, believe she is the most complete and best preserved primate fossil ever uncovered. The skeleton is 95% complete and thanks to the unique location where she died, it is possible to see individual hairs covering her body and even the make-up of her final meal – a last vegetarian snack.

There are at least three problems here. First, nothing is 47,000,000 years old. There is not a shred of evidence supporting that kind of age.

Second, the gradual buildup of sediment over millions of years espoused by evolutionists does nothing to explain how a fossil could have been so well preserved. According to evolutionary theory, the fossil would have been exposed to the elements for hundreds of thousands of years, if not millions of years, and could not possibly have been kept in such clean shape. The only logical explanation for such a near-perfect state of preservation is rapid sedimentation resulting from a catstrophic flood.

Third, there is no proof that Ida’s fellow mates ever “evolved” into any higher form of life.

Fossil Ida: extraordinary find is ‘missing link’ human evolution | Science | guardian.co.uk.

A group of Darwinists have found big squishy blobs on the ocean floor, and, by golly, it’s more proof of evolution. The big squishy blobs supposedly date back hundreds of millions of years, even though they don’t have a shred of evidence that anything is that old. I’m telling you, it takes far more faith to believe in evolution than creation.

Yet as they cruised above the seafloor, the team was distracted by hundreds of bizarre, sediment-coated balls the size of grapes. Each sat at the end of a sinuous track in the seafloor ooze. Indeed, the balls appeared to have made the tracks; some even seemed to have rolled upslope.

The team collected specimens and identified the creatures as giant protozoans, Gromia sphaerica, each one a single large cell with an organic shell, or “test.” When cleaned of sediment, the test feels like grape skin, but squishier, Matz says.

Surprisingly, the tracks on the Bahamian seafloor resemble grooves found in sedimentary rocks formed as long as 1.8 billion years ago. The ancient grooves, bisected by a low ridge, had constituted the only evidence that multicellular, bilaterally symmetrical animals, such as worms, might have evolved so early in Earth’s history.

Big Blobs Change View of Evolution.

Nearly two years after opening, Right Minded finally made it to the Creation Museum (near Cincinnati) on Saturday. The Roses spent more than 4 hours there, and could easily have stayed longer. The one thing that jumped out immediately is that, even though we were squarely on the creationists’ turf, they still present evolution vs. creation side-by-side on a lot of their displays. This is something you NEVER see from evolutionists. In fact, Darwinists go out of their way to ban the creation point-of-view from science textbooks, whereas we creationists are not afraid to present our case side-by-side with evolution.

Of course, those who follow the Biblical model are on the side of truth, and when you are on the same side as God, there is no reason to fear a fabrication such as evolution. Darwinists, on the other hand, live in stark fear of competition, because when your life is dedicated to advancing a lie, the worst enemy you have is the truth. So, evolutionists have no recourse but to ban the truth of Genesis whenever and wherever they can.

Rather than upload my photographs to WordPress as I usually do, I opened up a Flickr account because there are several images that I wanted to display in high resolution, so go on over there to see the slideshow.

Creation Museum

Last Thursday, Darwinists marked the 200th birthday of their deity, Charles Darwin. And this year also marks the 150th anniversary of his famous publication, “On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.”

According to the Associated Press, some 974 churches marked the event with “Evolution Weekend” with the common endeavor of “blend[ing] theories in a way that helps today’s faithful reconcile their modern world with Biblical teachings.”

In other words, they are trying to tell us that Darwinism can be made compatible with the Word of God.

According to Rev. Gerald Kersey of Atlanta, “Faith is related to one’s belief system … science, on the other hand, is in a different domain. … I’m presenting the idea that science or evolution is compatible with faith.”

I beg to differ.

With respect to our origins, we have a certain amount of evidence to work with: the arrangement of the universe, layers of rock here on Earth, fossils, the layout of the continents, etc. A scientist with a secular worldview will most likely look at the evidence and proclaim evolution and gradual geologic changes over billions of years. A scientist with a Christian worldview will most likely look at the same evidence and proclaim creation and rapid geologic changes caused by a catastrophic flood. In other words, it’s not just science which leads to theories about our origins, but an individual’s worldview. Scientists are people, too, and have biases just like everyone else.

Evolutionists have been far craftier than creationists in weaving their theories into mainstream science textbooks — not because their science is valid, but because they have convinced a large number of people over the years that their theories, by “consensus,” are accepted science, and that creation is merely religious dogma that has no scientific basis. But evolution is no less scientific than creationism, and creationism is no more religious than evolution. Evolution is simply the “creation story” for those who have little or no belief in God. Those who do not believe in the God of the Bible, especially atheists, require an explanation for our origins that does not involve God. Evolution gives that avenue by providing answers to unavoidable questions without challenging godless religious faiths. And, believe me, atheism is a religion.

Unfortunately, a great deal of Christians have accepted all or portions of evolution, and even try to weave evolutionary theories into Genesis, such as there was no literal six-day creation, but a series of geological eons lasting for billions of years. For some reason, some Christians posess the need to appear sophisticated, because, let’s face it, that six-day creation story is sort of like believing in Santa Claus, right?

But believing in a literal translation of Genesis is no less “sophisticated” than believing in the dogma of evolution. Simply because a supposed “consensus” of scientists agree on evolution does not establish it as scientific fact. Keep in mind, evolution has never been observed, and cannot be duplicated in laboratories. Even though evolutionists claim that the formula of time plus matter plus chance created life out of nothing and into what it is today, time plus chance plus matter has yet to produce any sort of written document explaining how all of this took place.

But God was there in the beginning. And God, working divinely through select individuals in the past, did produce a written document explaining how everything took place, and it spells out creation.

True, believing in evolution by itself doesn’t necessarily keep a person out of heaven. But if we write off the creation story as mere symbolism or allegory, then what about the concept of sin? The original sin of Adam and Eve is presented with the creation story, and if we undermine the creation story, then why not undermine the concept of sin? If we undermine the concept of sin, we also undermine the need for forgiveness of sin. When that happens, we then undermine the need for a Savior, and Jesus Christ then becomes immaterial. And when Jesus Christ becomes immaterial, the entire Christian faith then collapses.

Therefore, those who would sell out their Christian faith to evolutionists in order to impress them, or to give the appearance of intellectual sophistication, are instead doing great harm to their own faith. It should matter more what God thinks of us than our fellow man. If we sign on to evolution, we are claiming that we know better than God what happened in the beginning, despite the fact that God is the only one who was actually present in the beginning. What arrogance.

Darwinists are celebrating the 200th birthday of their deity.

US churches to discuss evolution vs creation.

The Knoxville News Sentinel ran a story on November 23 about Michael Dowd, author of the book “Thank God for Evolution.” Reverend Dowd is a member of the United Church of Christ, one of the most liberal Christian denominations in the U.S., and we’re using the word “Christian” loosely here, since I question whether they are truly Christian or not. The UCC is the same denomination that gave us Jeremiah Wright, and also Barry Lynn, who heads Americans United for Separation of Church and State. Lynn has made it his life’s work to eradicate God from American culture, and has made the “religious right” his favorite whipping boy. When he’s not scouring the landscape looking for Crosses to uproot and Ten Commandments plaques to take down, he’s intimidating evangelical churches into staying silent on political issues. So it’s no wonder Reverend Dowd would belong to the same denomination.

Over the years, I’ve done considerable writing on Creation/evolution, so I don’t necessarily want to create the wheel here, but there are several quotes of his I must address.

Dowd: “God didn’t stop revealing truths vital to human well-being back when people believed the world was flat and religious insights were recorded on animal skin. God is still revealing today through the worldwide, self-correcting scientific process.”

I actually agree with this statement. However, Dowd incorrectly assumes that legitimate scientific inquiry into our origins is the exclusive domain of evolutionists. This is not the case. There is also a burgeoning discipline in Creation science. One of the most prominent organizations dedicated to Creation science is the invaluable Answers in Genesis, which publishes the Answers Research Journal and Answers Magazine.

Dowd: “The primary way that reality is revealed is in facts – facts are God’s native tongue. Now, when I see a new Hubble space photo or learn of a new fossil form, I don’t think to myself as I used to, ‘Oh no, how does this fit with Genesis?’ I instead think, ‘Look, how cool – look what God is revealing to us today.”

That’s a shame, because any minister who professes to be Christian ought to look at everything through the prism of the Scriptures. Credible Creation scientists do ask “How does this fit with Genesis?” And, believe me, the evidence we have fits nicely with Genesis. How one interprets that evidence is a matter of one’s worldview. Christians place the word of God above the word of man, and are therefore able to make intelligent, cogent conclusions about our origins that are consistent with Genesis. Darwinists look at the same evidence, and because they place the word of man above the word of God, they require an explanation for our origins that either does not include God, or includes a perverted version of God inconsistent with Scripture.

Dowd: “I would say lack of integrity is the primary cause of suffering in the world, and this lack is evident in corporations, families, and states. Integrity is what religious people might call being right with God, or being aligned with reality as it is and not as we wish it was. I keep coming back to the issue that evolution theology is a call of integrity at all levels.”

Obviously, anyone who would pervert the Word of God, placing Darwinian theory above the plain truth that is explicit in Scripture is supremely arrogant and knows little about integrity.

Dowd: “As long as people think they can praise God and trash the environment or treat others in a disrespectful way, they’re out of touch with reality.”

And here Dowd’s liberalism shines right on through. He probably buys into global warming — another perversion of science.

Dowd: “We as human animals will go somewhere to find what inspires us, that which calls us to greater integrity, care, compassion, love. Until we can offer an interpretation (of science) that is inspiring, people are going to reject it. Most people have never been exposed to a deeply inspiring, religious way of interpreting the history of the Earth. Conservatives should continue to reject evolution until they encounter something that calls to them.”

Science has nothing to do with inspring people. Science is science, whether people reject it or not. The facts are what they are, and evolution is woefully short on facts, and long on fantasy. Those of us who are invested in the truth of Scripture are plenty inspired by it, and that is our true calling.

Thank you to the reader who passed along this gem. Massimo Pigliucci, blogging for Live Science wonders whether Sarah Palin is a Creationist. Invoking the condescention that is the hallmark of Darwinists, Pigliucci opines “Sarah Palin, John McCain’s choice for Vice President should he win the November elections, is a worrisome character from the point of view of science education.”

And therein lies the problem: exactly what are Republicans committed to when it comes to science and education? To raise a nation of ignorant bigots whose understanding of the world is no better than that of a tribe of ancient middle eastern people wandering around the desert thousands of years ago? To allow individual states to decide just how misinformed about science their citizens can be? That way if you are from Alaska, Alabama, Mississippi or a variety of other places along the Ignorance Belt you can keep falling behind in quality of life and ability to compete in a world where science plays an increasingly central role in our lives. Now, there’s a platform worthy of LaHaye and his readers.

And this, folks, is how your average liberal views conservative Christians, especially those who live in the South. The sad thing is, this guy is a glittering jewel of colossal ignorance, but probably thinks he’s the smartest guy on the planet.

What a snob.

Actor Ben Stein tells us:

Intelligent design theory, or ID, is opening new doors of scientific research, particularly in cancer and other disease research, according to its adherents, but a new movie, “Expelled” starring Ben Stein explores how an “elitist scientific establishment” is apparently muzzling and smearing scientists who publicly discuss ID.

The First Amendment is under brutal attack in the scientific community, Ben Stein, a former presidential speechwriter-turned-actor and commentator, says in the film, which opens in theaters on Feb. 12.

“I always assumed scientists were free to ask any question, pursue any line of inquiry without fear or reprisal,” he says. “But recently, I’ve been alarmed to discover that this is not the case.”

In an exclusive interview with Cybercast News Service – with audio clips below – Stein contends that rigid Darwinists are silencing their critics in academia, which the film explores, and discusses how ID ideas are helping in cancer research and similar work.

Yet the ID research that could potentially produce medical breakthroughs, says Stein, is also being undermined by Darwinian scientists who don’t want ID research viewed as legitimate.

This, of course, is strikingly similar to stem-cell research. Adult stem-cell (ASC) research is getting all the results in the medical field, but liberals keep pushing embryonic stem-cell (ESC) research. Private money for ESC research is drying up because of its lack of results, and so the left is pushing hard for taxpayer funding of ESC research. Why? It’s all about abortion. Darwinism is the religion of the left. It’s the creation story for the godless. And abortion is the sacrament. The number one objective of the Democrat Party is to keep abortion legal at all cost. The most effective way to do that is to continue to deny the humanity of the unborn. And ESC research, which involves carving up human embryos, enables that denial of humanity.

Ken Ham, the museum’s mastermind, wrote on his blog recently that “A group of 16 naturalists with the Kentucky State Parks system toured the museum — the group’s leader said that many of our museum guests have been visiting Kentucky’s state parks…and have been asking questions of the park rangers about evolution and millions of years. Our museum guests have been so inquisitive that the park service wanted to have some of its staff visit the Creation Museum and see what is being presented here. The secular media…have taken notice of the visit. As they were leaving, one of the park employees remarked to our staff that the museum ‘is a very impressive place.’”

With respect to our origins, we have a certain amount of evidence to work with: the arrangement of the universe, layers of rock here on Earth, fossils, the layout of the continents, etc. A scientist with a secular worldview will most likely look at the evidence and proclaim evolution and gradual geologic changes over billions of years. A scientist with a Christian worldview will most likely look at the same evidence and proclaim creation and rapid geologic changes caused by a catastrophic flood. In other words, it’s not just science which leads to theories about our origins, but an individual’s worldview. Scientists are people, too, and have biases just like everyone else.

Evolutionists have been far craftier than creationists in weaving their theories into mainstream science textbooks — not because their science is valid, but because they have convinced a large number of people over the years that their theories, by “consensus,” are accepted science, and that creation is merely religious dogma that has no scientific basis. But evolution is no less scientific than creationism, and creationism is no more religious than evolution. Evolution is simply the “creation story,” if you will, for those who have little or no belief in God. Those who do not believe in the God of the Bible, especially atheists, require an explanation for our origins that does not involve God. Evolution gives that avenue by providing answers to unavoidable questions without challenging godless religious faiths. And, believe me, atheism is a religion.

Unfortunately, a great deal of Christians have accepted all or portions of evolution, and even try to weave evolutionary theories into Genesis, such as there was no literal six-day creation, but a series of geological eons lasting for billions of years. I’m not sure why Christians would do this, other than the need to appear sophisticated, because, let’s face it, that six-day creation story is sort of like believing in Santa Claus, right?

But believing in a literal translation of Genesis is no less “sophisticated” than believing in the dogma of evolution. Simply because a supposed “consensus” of scientists agree on evolution does not establish it as scientific fact. Keep in mind, evolution has never been observed, and cannot be duplicated in laboratories. Even though evolutionists claim that the formula of time plus matter plus chance created life out of nothing and into what it is today, time plus chance plus matter has yet to produce any sort of written document explaining how all of this took place.

But God was there in the beginning. He is the only one who was there in the beginning. And God, working divinely through select individuals in the past, did produce a written document explaining how everything took place, and it spells out creation.

True, believing in evolution by itself doesn’t necessarily keep a person out of heaven. The Gospels clearly explain that believing in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior is the pathway to heaven. But once you allow the shadow of evolution to creep into Christian doctrine, you open the door for doubt to spread to other areas of Scripture. To undermine the book of Genesis is to undermine the basis of the Christian faith. If we write off the creation story as mere symbolism or allegory, then what about the concept of sin? The original sin of Adam and Eve is right there with the creation story, and if we undermine the creation story, then why not undermine the concept of sin? If we undermine the concept of sin, we also undermine the need for forgiveness of sin. When that happens, we then undermine the need for a Savior, and Jesus Christ then becomes immaterial. And when Jesus Christ becomes immaterial, the entire Christian faith then collapses.

Therefore, those who would sell out their Christian faith to evolutionists in order to impress them, or to give the appearance of intellectual superiority, are instead doing great harm to their own faith. It should matter more what God thinks of us than our fellow man. If we sign on to evolution, we are claiming that we know better than God what happened in the beginning, despite the fact that God is the only one who was actually present in the beginning. What arrogance.

I have yet to carry on a discussion with an evolutionist who wasn’t condescending, as though they know more, or are more “scientific” than creationists. This is what happens when you confront the godless with the truth about God. Their hostility is rooted in the need to protect the false religion of evolution from the truth of the Scriptures.

I got turned onto Ken Ham last year during a Wednesday evening church service. I had never heard of him, but I certainly liked what he had to say. Ken Ham is a young-Earth creationist who started Answers in Genesis, the organization that spearheaded the new Creation Museum near Cincinnati.

I began listening to Ken Ham’s daily podcast, reading his blog, subscribed to Answers Magazine, and I am now nearing the end of Ham’s book, The Lie: Evolution.

I thought I was well-versed in the creation vs. evolution debate, but I have learned a great deal from Ken Ham and his organization just this past year.

To begin, we have a certain amount of evidence to work with: the arrangement of the universe, layers of rock here on Earth, fossils, the layout of the continents, etc. A scientist with a secular worldview will most likely look at the evidence and proclaim evolution and gradual geologic changes over billions of years. A scientist with a Christian worldview will most likely look at the same evidence and proclaim creation and rapid geologic changes caused by a cataclysmic flood. In other words, it’s not science which produces theories about our origins, but an individual’s worldview.

I have to admit that evolutionists have been far craftier than creationists in weaving their theories into mainstream science textbooks — not because their science is valid, but because they have convinced a large number of people over the years that their theories, by “consensus,” are accepted science, and that creation is merely religious dogma that has no scientific basis. But evolution is no less scientific than creationism, and creationism is no more religious than evolution. Evolution is simply the “creation story,” if you will, for those who have little or no belief in God. Those who do not believe in the God of the Bible, especially atheists, require an explanation for our origins that does not involve God. Evolution provides that avenue. It provides answers to unavoidable questions without challenging their own religious faith. And, believe me, atheism is a religion.

Unfortunately, a great deal of Christians have accepted all or portions of evolution, and even try to weave evolutionary theories into Genesis, such as there was no literal six-day creation, but a series of geological eons lasting for billions of years. I’m not sure why Christians would do this, other than the need to appear sophisticated, because, let’s face it, that six-day creation story is sort of like believing in Santa Claus, right?

But believing in a literal translation of Genesis is no less “sophisticated” than believing in the dogma of evolution. Simply because a supposed “consensus” of scientists agree on evolution does not establish it as scientific fact. Keep in mind, evolution has never been observed, and cannot be duplicated in laboratories. Even though evolutionists claim that the formula of time plus matter plus chance created life out of nothing and into what it is today, time plus chance plus matter has yet to produce any sort of written document explaining how all of this took place.

But God was there in the beginning. He is the only one who was there in the beginning. And God, working divinely through select individuals in the past, did produce a written document explaining how everything took place, and it spells out creation.

But, Mark, you say. Believing in evolution by itself doesn’t necessarily keep a person out of heaven. The Gospels clearly explain that believing in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior is the pathway to heaven. This is true. But once you allow the shadow of evolution to creep into Christian doctrine, you open the door for doubt to spread to other areas of Scripture. To undermine the book of Genesis is to undermine the basis of the Christian faith. If we write off the creation story as mere symbolism or allegory, then what about the concept of sin? The original sin of Adam and Eve is right there with the creation story, and if we undermine the creation story, then why not undermine the concept of sin? If we undermine sin, we undermine the fact that there is a standard of right and wrong for all time. If we undermine the concept of sin, we also undermine the need for forgiveness of sins. When that happens, we then undermine the need for a Savior, and Jesus Christ then becomes immaterial. And when Jesus Christ becomes immaterial, the entire Christian faith then collapses.

Therefore, those who would sell out their Christian faith to evolutionists in order to impress them, or to give the appearance of intellectual superiority, are instead doing great harm to their own faith. It should matter more what God thinks of us than our fellow man. If we sign on to evolution, we are claiming that we know better than God what happened in the beginning, despite the fact that God is the only one who was actually present in the beginning. What arrogance on our part.

I have yet to carry on a discussion with an evolutionist who wasn’t condescending toward me, as though they know more than I do, or are more “scientific” than I am. This is what happens when you confront the godless with the truth about God. Evolutionists don’t know any more regarding our origins than the rest of us. Their hostility is rooted in the need to protect the false religion of evolution from the truth of the Scriptures.

God foresaw all of this. In 2 Peter 2, the Lord prophesied the coming of false teachers who would seek to undermine the Scripture.

¹ But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.

² And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.

³ And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.

⁴ For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;

⁵ And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;

⁶ And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;

⁷ And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:

⁸ (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)

⁹ The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:

¹⁰ But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.

¹¹ Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord.

¹² But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;

¹³ And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;

¹⁴ Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: a heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:

¹⁵ Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;

¹⁶ But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man’s voice forbad the madness of the prophet.

¹⁷ These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.

¹⁸ For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.

¹⁹ While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.

²⁰ For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.

²¹ For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.

²² But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.

The Creation Museum near Cincinnati, which opened earlier this year, is enjoying greater than expected attendance thus far.

Halfway into its first year, it is on the verge of surpassing its projected yearlong attendance goal of 250,000. Officials now expect nearly 400,000 people to pass through the doors by year’s end.

You know this just has to frost the evolutionists.

So far, attendance at the Creation Museum is larger than expected.

John Lofton has a terrific op/ed about Ken Ham and the Creation Museum.

Pro-evolutionists are up in arms over the newly-opened Creation Museum near Cincinnati, which is the brainchild of Ken Ham of Answers in Genesis. I’m amazed that there are people who are taking the time to actually protest the museum, like that’s going to do any good. These are people who pretend to be at war with Ken Ham and Christian “fundamentalists.” In reality, I must argue, their war is not with man, but with God.

Ken Ham discusses all the media attention his new Creation Museum is generating. Naturally, not all the attention is positive.

Far-Left DefCon America has launched a campaign against a northern Kentucky museum dedicated to a biblical presentation of science and world history. The Creation Museum, a project of Answers in Genesis, will open its 76,000-square-foot facility May 28.

DefCon is telling people the project would “undermine” science and “confuse” children. On its Web site, DefCon is described as “an online grassroots movement combating the growing power of the religious right” and fighting for “the separation of church and state…while respecting people of faith and their right to express their beliefs.”

According to Ken Ham, president and co-founder of Answers in Genesis (AiG), DefCon is demanding tolerance of all beliefs, but will not tolerate anyone who believes the Bible.

It’s perfectly understandable that evolutionists would feel threatened by something that generates so much interest in the Biblical Creation. After all, when you subscribe to an explanation of our origins that is built upon a mountain of lies, it is only natural that you would greet the truth with great hostility. I’m sure Ken Ham is used to it.

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All the recent posting and subsequent debating on Creation vs. evolution has had me thinking about the Biblical case for Creation. The great thing about Scripture is that not only is the Creation story described in the opening passages of Genesis, it is reiterated throughout the remainder of the Bible. In other words, you can make a Biblical case for Creation without even citing Genesis.

I love it that the Gospel writers, inspired by God, included instances where Jesus Christ either directly quoted from or at least referenced passages that are in the Old Testament, because it really validates the Old Testament. Know that Christ never once refuted anything in the Old Testament, but always affirmed it. You cannot take the new without the old.

Even though there are several passages scattered throughout the New Testament that affirm the literal Creation, I am going to cite three that were spoken directly by Christ.

In Matthew 25:34 (NKJV), Christ states “Then the king will say to those on His right hand, ‘Come, you blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world….’”

In Mark 10:6, Christ notes “But from the beginning of the creation, God ‘made them male and female.’”

And in John 17:24, during his prayer in Gethsemene on the night he was betrayed, Christ pleads “Father, I desire that they also whom You gave Me may be with Me where I am, that they may behold my glory which You have given Me; for you loved Me before the foundation of the world.”

Therefore, to deny the Creation story described in Genesis is to call Jesus a liar. Once cannot claim devotion to Christ and simultaneously believe in Darwinism. You can believe one or the other, but not both.

A second case for Creation comes in the person of Jesus Christ. I refer you to the famous verse, John 3:16, which begins “For God so loved the world….” Indeed, the Lord has such a deep love for us created human beings, and has such a desire for us to be united with Him in Heaven, that he sent his son Jesus Christ into the world specifically as a sacrifice for the sins of man and to provide us with that path to heaven. It is inconceivable that God would have exhibited such unconditional love for a species that evolved by the process of chance and genetic mutation described by Darwin. God could only show that kind of love for human beings that He specifically created.