Cosmology and creation - audio lecture by Keith Ward (online at Gresham college)

Quotes and comments;

1. Ward defines creation (one wonders how he knows this) as ''the dependence of all things in space and time on something beyond space and time.''
- he doesn't tell us how he knows this. This seems clearly to be a 'secularized' version of what we read in Genesis. (Which Ward, as a liberal among liberals, would in no way see as being authoritative.)

2. 'Creation is not the beginning of the universe,' he tells us in serious tones.
- I can't follow what he's getting at here, but he says we mustn't think of god as some person who decided one day to make a universe. (How he could know this I don't know... ) This is totally false he says.

3. Ward talks (seemingly with approval) of the idea Martin Rees enjoys espousing; that of many universes. (I'd like to know how Rees knows this :=) I hope people aren't fooled by such nonsense. This bizarre notion reminds me of the verse in the psalms; ''where shall I go to flee from thee...?" and it gives many places. It seems Rees wants to flee into another universe. (This would be a great way to escape bail I guess :=)
- I might add that this idea of something existing outside the universe (which at one point used to be defined as all there is) seems to come from the biblical view of god existing outside time and space. (Though I'm sure no credit will be given; as usual.)

4. It seems to me that when materialists (atheists) get so desperate to come up with naturalistic explanations for the universe they wander off into the silly land of multiverses they have given the game away. i.e. if there are many universes there is no reason why some being/s could not have created our universe. I don't see how they can get around this; in their dishonest attempts to escape the implications of a finely tuned universe they have in fact made way for a creator.
- If multiple universes exist apart from the one were sitting in, then we can't deny the fact some entity outside this universe might have in fact created it. The argument is simple; once you allow that something exists outside the universe you can't rule out the idea that something might be a creator of some kind. This is a deistic argument; or better a defense of the generic idea of theism or at least creation. (This is not an attempt at proving God.)

5. Ward says, of ideas about many universes; 'these are very serious speculations...'
- Gee; how does he know this? I think they're totally absurd. But let's ignore my views... how could any such thing be tested? W. admits, ''this will be difficult..."
- but; since Rees is now a Lord it should at least in principle be possible :=)

Charles Darwin - The Truth? This is long essay or short book on Charles Darwin and his book 'Origins' by Andrew Bradbury

Quotes and comments;
- the basic premise is that Darwin plagiarized the ideas of one Edward Blyth.
- the essay includes fascinating biographical material on Darwin.
- a good introduction to Darwin; the book to read after this is the biography by Desmond and Moore; 'The life of a tormented evolutionist.'
- in my opinion Darwin was the most dishonest and corrupt scientist we know anything about. His whole life is a fraud.

Life before birth - video lecture by Dr. Gary Parker

Quotes and comments;
- scroll down the page to find this presentation on biblical creation.

1. Darwin declared there were 180 useless organs in the body. He had no evidence for this great discovery, and based it on his own (nearly bottomless) ignorance. ie. if I can't understand x it means this is a 'vestigial' organ. (One of the stupidest ideas in science by the way.) This is 'science' at its absolute worst. To even call this kind of daydreaming, science is intellectual fraud. Darwin had NO idea what he was talking about. In my opinion this is evolutionism in a nutshell; it's metaphysical speculation based on ignorance.
- We now know that the idea of vestigial organs is fallacious. So I ask you; what explanation of these organs is most accurate? that they're 'vestigial' or that they were created for a purpose? In other words; what's more scientific... evolution or creation? (If science means the search for truth, the answer is obvious.)

Inherently wind; a Hollywood history of the Scopes trial - audio lecture by David Menton

Quotes and comments;
- in the lecture he's referring to the Spencer Tracy movie.
- the music at times is deliberately off key; the worst renditions of 'old time religion' I've ever heard...
- I've seen this movie and in my opinion it's totally fallacious; no different than what the soviets did... soviet style propaganda... at its worst.

1. Scopes claimed he never taught the kids evolution... he claimed the kids were coached by the lawyers.. (he only taught 2 weeks of a biology course... when the regular teacher got sick...)

2. The textbook scopes was using was racist to the core.... ie. whites are vastly superior.... (this is what the great liberals of the time were defending.)

3. Nothing in this movie is true... it's almost 100 percent false... soviet propaganda at its worst.... (the makers of this movie were total liars and hypocrites)
- why you would anyone believe anything evolutionists say when they produced such a total lie as this movie? The theory of evolution is as factual as this movie.

4. - in a 1925 cartoon Bryan is shown throwing over a cliff all these great things; animal husbandry, navigation, the whole of agriculture, the law of gravity, mathematics, mechanical engineering, medicine, x-ray technology... and other things.. all for doubting darwin. (And evolutionists are even more lying and deceitful in our day. The very same garbage goes on constantly; just recently some clown claimed creationism would stop all progress in medicine and science. The lies never end; even if they are cartoonish lies... Who in the e. community protests against this slander? Know anyone?

5. In my experience evolutionists are about as honest as this movie. Try to find one that's spoken out against this movie... try to find even one, in all these decades! They've been tarred by their own brush; as this vast silence condemns them.

6. As just a small example of the movie's dishonesty; in the film Scopes is put in jai... but not in real life. (Bryan dies on the courtroom floor as another example; of which the movie replete from beginning to end. Bryan is asked if he's ever read the 'Origins' by Darwin; he says no, he doesn't need to read stuff like that. In fact Bryan had read Origins many years earlier. And on and on it goes.)

7. In my own opinion this is the most blasphemous movie the americans have ever produced. (As Henry Miller referred to his own work; 'it's a gob of spit in the face of God.)

8. H. L. Mencken (in his obituary of b.) said of Bryan; "he was filled with an almost pathological hatred of all learning..." (Bryan was a highly educated man; and this shows you the kind of price you pay for denying the lunacy of darwinism.)

9. Highly recommended. Christians need to realize evolutionists are lying through their teeth when they promote darwinism as a fact... and that they will go to any lengths to spread lies about both evolution and creation.

10. As more evidence of how phoney this movie is (and the evolutionists who made it) in today's society teachers are forbidden to offer any critiques of evolution. (Check the resources below.)

Resources;
a. Summer for the gods: the Scopes trial and America’s continuing debate over science and religion by Edward J. Larson - reviewed by Carl Wieland

b. The origins of life. In this interview Dean Kenyon talks about being forbidden to offer critiques of darwinism in the college courses he teaches. Here.

Sign of the prophet Jonah - audio lecture by A. E. Wilder-Smith

Quotes and comments;
- scroll down the page a bit.
- he spends the first 30 mins. or so relating some incredible features of the large whales.
- you can find a short biograhpy of A.E. Wilder-Smith here.

George Washington Carver - a short biography online

Quotes and comments;
- you might have to scroll down the page.
- George Washington Carver: 1864 - 1943 (A great scientist, inventor, creationist and christian.)
- an inspiring story for young and old.

1. 'As he would tell the story later, he went out to pray (as was his daily practice), and asked God why He made the universe. The Lord replied that was a mighty big question for a puny man. Carver tried a smaller question, why did you make man? As God kept narrowing the scope of his inquiry, he finally tried, “Mr. Creator, why did you make the peanut?” With that, the Lord was satisfied, and told him to go into his lab and find out.'
- and he discovered and invented about 300 ways to use the peanut. (And this was just one of the plants he eventually worked with.)
- I think too many of us spend too much time asking the huge questions, and ignoring the smaller questions.

Evolution: Possible? or Impossible? - an online book by James Coppedge

Quotes and comments;
- many evolutionists like to claim there are no strictly scientific critiques of evoltionary theory. There are in fact many such books and this is one of them.
- 10 of 14 chapters of the book are available online.
- the book applies the laws of probablity reasoning to molecular biology. In my view it conclusively shows that chance could never have 'created' the universe.

1. "To the student of protein structure the spontaneous formation of such an atomic arrangement in the protein molecule would seem as improbable as would the accidental origin of the text of Virgil’s “Aeneid” from scattered letter type." - A. I. Oparin

Strengths and weakness of Darwinism - audio lecture by Philip Johnson

Quotes and comments;
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1. Richard Dawkins claims that if we ever encountered aliens the first thing they would ask us is, "do you know about evolution?"

2. Hitler's breeding program ideas came directly from darwin; via E. Haeckel...

3. Freudianism was a great failure in the reductionist program...

4. Francis Crick wrote a book called 'The astounding hypothesis' - the idea 'all your thoughts are merely neurons firing in your brain.' (If that's the case we can all ignore his book :=)

5. Darwin admitted the fossil record didn't validate his theory; so he claimed the fossil record was incomplete! (He later admitted the total failure of the record to validate the theory.)

The turtle god's handiwork - audio lecture by A. E. Wilder-Smith

Quotes and comments;
- scroll down the page.
- the late Dr. W-S was one of my favorite creationist authors and christian speakers.
- in this lecture you'll learn about turtles, but learn more about their Creator. (The more we learn about the creation the less plausible materialism becomes.)

The Baloney Detector - a guide to clear thinking.

Quotes and comments;
- David Coppedge uses the evolution/creation debate to teach people how to think critically. Highly recommended.

1. Eddington’s Theory; The number of different hypotheses erected to explain a given biological phenomenon is inversely proportional to the available knowledge.
- this is one of many interesting 'laws' he has posted in a sidebar.

The Grand Canyon and God's word - audio lecture by Dr. Gary Parker

Quotes and comments;

1. Evolutionists admit that all the oil on earth 'should have' leaked to the surface in less than 200,000 years.... this means the earth is far less old than this.

2. At Mt. St. Helen's we saw that a rock layer could be formed in minutes...

3. a spark plug was found in some fossil corral...

Evolution vs. Science - audio lecture by George Pearce

Quotes and comments;

1. 'In the Galapugos islands a sign somewhere says of the local Finches, "there is no better evidence for evolution."
- and what amazing bit of evidence is there? Obviously it has to be incredible, right? Well, it appears beak length varies at times (during arid periods to wet) as much as a millimetre.
- this isn't evolution of course; it's merely a minute variation within a kind. (That this should be presented to school children as evidence of evolution is intellectual and ethical fraud.)

The world's greatest creation scientists - an online book

Quotes and comments;
- this book is a wonderful introduction to science from a bibical perspective. It would be a great resource for homeschoolers.
- there are a great many links to other online materials.
-it begins with the period around 1000 A.D.

The "Baby Doctor," Benjamin Spock, On Darwin and Morality an article by Jerry Bergman

Quotes and comments;

1. 'In his classic work, Baby and Child Care, under the subheading, "They're repeating the whole history of the human race," Spock wrote that watching a baby grow is "full of meaning" because,
"the development of each individual child retraces the whole history of the human race, physically and spiritually, step by step."
- this is the kind of nonsense evolutionism has given the world. It has nothing to do with science, but is merely darwinian myth making. The theory (passed off for generations as science) is based on fake drawings by the Nazi evolutionist E. Haeckel.
Evolutionists have long known it's a bogus idea but keep using it to deceive the public with. (In the last year of his life Carl Sagan even used it to defend abortion.)

2. "Weeks later, as they lie in the amniotic fluid in the womb, they have gills like fish."
- how sad it is to think this was the reading of tens of millions of expectant mothers. This is another evolutionary fairy tale; utterly false.
- if this weren't a serious matter it would merely be comical.

3. "Toward the end of the first year of life, when they learn to clamber to their feet, they're celebrating that period millions of years ago when our ancestors got up off all fours."
- does this sound like science to anyone?

4. Evolutionists like to claim the theory of evolution is as certain a fact as the earth orbiting the sun. Not even close. It's as certain as the drawings of E. Haeckel.

Recent Rapid Uplift of Today's Mountains - an article by John Baumgardner

Quotes and comments;
- people have been told so often that 'mountains are obviously very, very old...' that they just accept the idea without thinking. But are mountains really old? It's clear that you can't tell just by looking at them.

1. "An ongoing enigma for the standard geological community is why all the high mountain ranges of the world—including the Himalayas, the Alps, the Andes, and the Rockies—experienced most of the uplift to their present elevations in what amounts to a blink of the eye, relative to the standard geological time scale. In terms of this time scale, these mountain ranges have all undergone several kilometers of vertical uplift since the beginning of the Pliocene about five million years ago."
- even if you accept current e. dating methods this 'result' clearly demolishes the idea of Uniformitarianism.
- you wonder how many times the 'theory' will have to be refuted (by the evidence) before evolutionists abandon it.

Twilight of evolution - audio lecture by Henry Morris

Quotes and comments;
- this seems to be a lecture given in the 1970's; but I still found it interesting. (He talks quite a bit about the Darwin centennial conference held in Chicago.)
- I had a great admiration for the late Dr. Morris. He was not a great lecturer; but he gradually gets over his nerves and delivers an excellent lecture.
- one thing I always admired about Dr. Morris was his christian spirit. (I only wish I had something close to his ability to deal with opponents without losing his cool :=)

Amazing complexity and design in life - audio lecture by David DArmond


Quotes and comments;
- although directed at a popular audience, the talk is excellent. (Some background noise. Is that someone practicing the organ upstairs :-)
- there are six more lectures in the series

1. Even though everything about scales and feathers are different, many evolutionists (most notably the popular science magazines) are still promoting the fanciful speculation that feathers 'evolved' from scales. It could never have happened; as any who has studied the subject knows very well. (As the bible says; ''all men know god...")

Creation - Evolution headlines: A geat website (loaded with information) that allows you to keep up with the creation/evolution debate.

Quotes and comments;
- the site is updated on an almost daily basis.
- someone adds great commentary to the stories as well.

Thermodynamic Arguments for Creation - audio lecture by Thomas Kindell

Quotes and comments;

"This lecture describes why the second law of thermodynamics stands as an insurmountable barrier to a naturalistic origin of life. It also examines common evolutionists rebuttal arguments and demonstrates their utter bankruptcy."

1. "The traditional definition of science was 'the search for truth whatever it might be..." The modern (secular) definition of science is naturalism; the empirical search for material facts.

Creation or evolution? - audio lecture by A. E. Wilder-Smith

Quotes and comments;
- scroll down page

1. In the Huxley-Wilberforce debate, Huxley used the typewriter example (just invented) of apes typing for infinity... The claim he made was that sooner or later they will produce something intelligent. (I think the example was the 23rd Psalm.) This is in fact a worthless analogy. In the real world there are 'typewriters' no 'letters' no code, etc.
- W. claims wilberforce was crushed by not being able to answer the above argument. This is surpising because the fallacy at the heart of it looks obvious. A typewriter has intelligence built into it; this makes the huxley argument nonsensical, as there is no intelligence in his wview (ie. materialism) A 'typewriter' has information built into it (by its designer). And this is precisely what the materialist can't account for. This being the case he has no right to start off with information.
- Richard Dawkins uses the same argument even today; or at least he did until very recently.
- interestingly enough, Wilder-Smith debated Dawkins in the very same place the Huxley Wilberforce debate took place. (Unfortunately, I don't believe any tapes were made.) Dawkins (and others) later bragged about winning the debate by a landslide, when in fact the vote was only marginally in Dawkins' favor.