Bruce's Musings
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The world seems to be becoming more polarized, more sharply divided in their thinking. At one time virtually everyone shared more or less the same general values, the same ideas, for instance, as to how kids should be raised. But that seems to be a thing of the past. Why is this? This article provides some insight into this question.
The textbooks claim that these fossils were in the lineage of humankind. But they don't tell you about the problems and assumptions, and sometimes even fraudulent claims, that are associated with them.
According to current theory our universe started with a Big Bang about 13.8 billion years ago. When it happened, equal amounts of matter and antimatter should have been produced.
Is there life out there somewhere? This question has fascinated mankind for ages, but especially in recent years. Our culture has been primed for belief in extraterrestrials by two popular ideas: that evolution is true, and intergalactic space travel is possible with sufficiently advanced technology.
Fossil remains of over 1000 different types of dinosaurs have been discovered. Each new discovery heightens the interest in these incredible creatures, and seems to raise more questions than are answered. What were dinosaurs like? How do they fit in with the Bible?
Fourteen scientific reasons that speak against the possibility of evolution ever happening.
How did non-life become life? Evolutionists have been trying to come up with a plausible scenario for many years, but are no closer today than when experiments that were heralded as creating life in a test tube were first performed.
On Sunday morning, May 18, 1980 at 8:32 AM a magnitude 5.1 earthquake under Mt. St. Helens triggered the largest landslide in recorded history, followed by a lateral blast that leveled 230 square miles of timber in 6 to 8 minutes.
Although there may be a very few on the fringe who believe in a flat earth, virtually all creationists know the earth is spherical. Yet those who disagree with the dogma of Darwinism are often called “ignorant flat-earthers” whenever the creation-evolution controversy comes up. Where did the story of people believing that the earth is flat originate?
REVISITING THE GALILEO CONTROVERSY
Since before the time of Darwin, intellectuals have accused Christianity of hindering science. They love to point to the conflict between Galileo and the Roman Catholic Church. Copernicus and Galileo are pictured as brave inquirers who single handedly stood up against religious superstition and dogmatism. The dogma defended by the Church was supposedly based on Bible teaching that the earth is at the center of the universe, with the sun and planets revolving around it.
Darwin popularized the idea of evolution to a world that had been primed to accept his ideas. He supplied the means for a new religion of evolutionary humanism based upon science.
What difference does it make what we believe? After all, we're here by whatever means, and we just need to learn to get along, right? Actually, what we believe about creation or evolution affects our whole outlook on Christianity, and life.
Can life become more complex through random processes? The Second Law of Thermodynamics says no!
Strictly speaking, neither creation nor evolution can be classified as scientific theories, because they are past history, which is not testable or repeatable. A more accurate approach is to set up models of each for comparison.
“Are we alone in the universe?” The idea of discovering alien civilizations "out there" somewhere has fascinated people for a long time. But it turns out that the odds of finding another Earth-like planet are very small.
Throughout the ages philosophers have tackled the question of why there's so much pain and suffering the world, if there's a good God. This short anecdote sheds light on the question.