Bill Gaither’s new album Happy Rhythm, is described as “bounce, croon, boogie woogie, and worship” (www.hallels.com, Mar. 13, 2015). Boogie woogie and worship are incompatible. One celebrates the flesh, the other the Spirit. One is of the world, the other of heaven. One is of the devil, the other of God. What confusion! Few men have done more to break down the walls between the “church” and the world than Bill Gaither. As far back as 1980, a firsthand report of the Gaither’s appearance at the Southern Baptist Convention in St. Louis said, “The Bill Gaither Trio entertained 15,000 Southern Baptists on Sunday evening with a musical program worldly enough to make any true believer weep” (Robert S. Reynolds, Foundation, Volume VI, Issue 1, 1985, p. 9). Gaither has increasingly used every type of rock rhythm in his music. During the disco craze in the late 1980s, the Gaither Trio even recorded a disco album (Calvary Contender, August 15, 1989). Gaither is helping to build the one-world “church” with his ecumenical philosophy. In his autobiography It’s More Than the Music, Gaither stated that one of the benefits of playing concerts in “neutral, non-church environments” was that people from “all church denominations” attended. “Before long, Baptists, Methodists, Presbyterians, charismatics, Catholics, and Pentecostals were all praising the Lord together. Subtly, the walls between denominations began to crumble...” (It’s More Than the Music, p. 115). Gaither’s Hymns for the Family of God was purposefully “nondenominational” and included devotional readings from a wide variety of Christians, including heretics such as Deitrich Bonhoeffer (one of the fathers of Neo-orthodoxy), Malcolm Muggeridge (a Roman Catholic who did not believe in Christ’s virgin birth or bodily resurrection), and Robert Schuller, who redefined the gospel in terms of his self-esteem heresy. The Gaithers provided the music one evening at Indianapolis ‘90, a large ecumenical charismatic gathering I attended with press credentials. One-half of the 25,000 participants were Roman Catholic. A Catholic mass was held each morning, and Catholic priest Tom Forrest from Rome brought the closing message. At New Orleans ’87, which’ I also attended with media credentials, Forrest said that purgatory is necessary for salvation. The Gaithers were perfectly at home in this unscriptural gathering and entertained the mixed multitude with their jazzy music. For more about the Gaithers see The Directory of Contemporary Worship Musicians, available in print or as a free eBook from www.wayoflife.org.

(Friday Church News Notes, March 27, 2015, www.wayoflife.org, [email protected], 866-295-4143)

Psalm 45:8
"All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad."

Until recently it was commonly thought that humans can smell approximately 10,000 different odors. But that's no longer thought to be true. So how many different odors can that nose in the middle of your face detect?

Scientists at Rockefeller University in New York set out to test the idea of 10,000 different odors. The number dates back to 1927, but it was never scientifically investigated. So they asked 26 people to identify a scent from three samples containing 128 molecules – two that were the same and one that was different. From this, they were able to tell how many different scents the average person would be able to distinguish if they were presented with all the possible mixtures that could be made from the 128 molecules.

So what was the official number? One trillion different odors – and even this, they say, is most likely an underestimate! Now, why would our Creator endow us with such an amazing sense of smell? Could He have been showing us how much He loves us? After all, the sense of smell enables us to appreciate the delightful aroma of flowers and food. In fact, we couldn't enjoy the food we eat if it weren't for our ability to smell.

Our sense of smell is one example of what is called God's common grace. He has given this gift to everyone, believers and unbelievers alike. But only believers can appreciate this as a gift from God and not an evolutionary accident of nature.

Notes: "Nose can detect one trillion odours," BBC News Health, 3/20/14.
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In an interview with AARP magazine, 60s rock icon Bob Dylan praised Billy Graham. He said, “Billy Graham was the greatest preacher and evangelist of my time--that guy could save souls and did. I went to two or three of his rallies in the ’50s or ’60s. This guy was like rock ’n’ roll personified--volatile, explosive. He had the hair, the tone, the elocution--when he spoke, he brought the storm down. Clouds parted. Souls got saved, sometimes 30- or 40,000 of them. If you ever went to a Billy Graham rally back then, you were changed forever. There’s never been a preacher like him. He could fill football stadiums before anybody. ... Long before Mick Jagger sang his first note or Bruce strapped on his first guitar--that’s some of the part of rock ’n’ roll that I retained. I had to. I saw Billy Graham in the flesh and heard him loud and clear” (“Looking Deeper into Dylan,” AARP the magazine, Feb.-Mar. 2015). This is a strange statement. Dylan was changed forever in the 1950s and 1960s by Graham’s preaching? Dylan, the drug user who taught the 1960s generation that there are no answers to life’s mysteries (e.g., “Blowin’ in the Wind”), who included Tarot cards and Buddhas on his album covers, who made a profession of faith in Christ in the 1980s only to repudiate it? Even rock historian Steve Turner, who has attempted to justify Dylan’s apostasy, admits: “The womanizing and drunkenness that Dylan once saw as evidence of the old life have apparently continued almost uninterrupted” (Turner, “Watered Down Love,” Christianity Today, May 21, 2001). An article in the San Luis Obispo (California) Register for March 16, 1983, quoted Dylan as saying: “Whoever said I was Christian? Like Gandhi, I’m Christian, I’m Jewish, I’m a Moslem, I’m a Hindu. I am a humanist.” Actually, Bob Dylan well represents a large percentage of Billy Graham’s converts. Multitudes of people professed faith in Christ, but biblical evidence of the new birth was rare. Graham helped Christianize America, but it was a house built on sand.

(Friday Church News Notes, March 27, 2015, www.wayoflife.org, [email protected], 866-295-4143)

Isaiah 43:20
"The beast of the field shall honour me, the dragons and the owls: because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen."

Previously Creation Moments has reported on the surprising discovery of soft tissue, collagen, blood and even DNA in dinosaur bones. Researchers now claim they have discovered how such tissues can be found in bones that are supposedly millions of years old. A team of researchers, using Carbon-14 dating on multiple samples of bone from eight dinosaurs, revealed that the bones are only 22,000 to 39,000 years old!

The 10-member research team presented their findings at the 2012 Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting in Singapore. After the applause died down and the conference came to a close, the report was quietly removed from the conference website by two chairmen who refused to accept the findings! Rather than challenge the data openly, they erased the report from public view without a word to the authors. Frankly, we're not surprised.

As John Michael Fischer of NewGeology puts it, "Carbon-14 dates in the range of 22,000 to 39,000 years before present, combined with the discovery of soft tissue in dinosaur bones, indicate that something is wrong with the conventional wisdom about dinosaurs."

Creation Moments couldn't agree more! Once again, we see how scientists are led astray by their preconceptions that dinosaurs lived millions of years ago. Since Carbon-14 dating is only used to date bones thought to be less than 50,000 years old, scientists never thought of using C-14 dating to determine the age of dinosaur bones. Or perhaps they were afraid of what they would find!

Notes: newgeology.us/presentation48.html. Presentation video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbdH3l1UjPQ.
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Speaking at J Street’s fifth annual conference, Denis McDonough, the White House Chief of Staff, called Israel’s control of the West Bank “an occupation” that “must end” (“Obama’s Chief of Staff Fires up J Street,” Breitbart.com, Mar. 23, 2015). J Street “was founded to disrupt the close U.S.-Israel alliance and to serve as an alternative to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the powerful pro-Israel group.” Israel won control over West Bank and east Jerusalem during the 1967 Six Day War, though it has withdrawn from most Palestinian towns and returned control of the Temple Mount to the Muslims. Those who consider Israel an illegal “occupier” of any part of that land don’t believe God’s eternal promise to Abraham and his seed, and the fact that Israel is willing to bargain any part of the Promised Land for peace is evidence of her continued apostasy. “And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward: For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever” (Gen. 13:14-15). “In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates” (Gen. 15:18). “And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God” (Gen. 17:8).

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The Temple Institute has announced the completion of an altar of burnt sacrifice intended for the Third Temple (Breaking Israel News, Mar. 9, 2015). Founded in 1986, the Temple Institute’s objective is “to see Israel rebuild the Holy Temple on Mount Moriah in Jerusalem.” The founder of the Institute, Rabbi Yisrael Ariel, was a member of the paratrooper unit that liberated the Temple Mount in 1967 at the end of the Six Day War. At much expense (tens of millions of dollars have been donated) and based on extensive research, they have fashioned priestly garments, the high priest’s golden crown costing $30,000, the high priest’s breastplate with its 12 precious stones inscribed with the names of the tribes of Israel, a copper laver, an incense altar, silver trumpets, gold- and silver-plated shofars, harps, and many other things. Of special interest is the large menorah that was fashioned from 95 pounds of pure gold, valued at about $2.5 million. The altar of burnt sacrifice, completed last December, is made of bricks fired at roughly 1,000 degrees Celsius (1,832 degrees Fahrenheit). It can be disassembled and reassembled quickly. In July 2012, the Temple Institute published a video entitled “The Children Are Ready,” depicting children building a model of the Third Temple on an Israeli beach. In Jewish tradition, the rebuilding of the Temple is associated with the coming of the Messiah. According to Maimonides (also called Rambam), the highest rabbinical authority, any Jew that starts rebuilding the Temple is a potential Messiah. Shimon ben Kosiba was considered a Messiah in the second century when he led a revolt to recapture Jerusalem and rebuild the Temple. He was named Bar Kokhba (“Son of the Star”) based on the Messianic prophecy of Numbers 24:17, and a coin was struck depicting the Temple with the Ark of the Covenant inside and the Messianic star on the roof. By this tradition, it is simple to see how the Antichrist will be looked upon as the Messiah. (For more see The Future According to the Bible, available in print and eBook editions from www.wayoflife.org.)

(Friday Church News Notes, March 27, 2015, www.wayoflife.org, [email protected], 866-295-4143)

Evolution is elastic and is never refuted in the eyes of convinced Darwinists. They have an answer for everything. If it is demonstrated that evolution is not occurring today, Darwinists run to mind-boggling eons past. If it is demonstrated that blind processes cannot create, Darwinists protest that the processes are not really blind. If it is demonstrated that natural selection cannot account for the formation of new organs and creatures, they run to genetic mutations. If it is demonstrated that mutations are not creative mechanisms, Darwinists run to the mysteries of unknown genetic processes. If it is demonstrated that the fossil record does not display constant change, Darwinists run to hopeful monsters and punctuated equilibrium. If it is demonstrated that no naturalistic process can explain the origin of life, Darwinists run to extra-terrestrials and multiverses. Because of this, refuting evolution can be like nailing Jell-O to a wall. Even some evolutionists have complained that Darwinism cannot be “falsified.”

(Friday Church News Notes, March 20, 2015, www.wayoflife.org, [email protected], 866-295-4143)

Matthew 24:4
"And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you."

On a previous broadcast, we told you about the IPCC report designed to frighten people with dire warnings about the destruction of our planet if the world's governments don't take serious measures now to combat man-made global warming.

On the same day that the IPCC released its report, another report was released that you probably haven't heard about. The 1,068-page report was produced by the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change, a group founded in 2003 by distinguished atmospheric physicist S. Fred Singer. The report looks at each claim made in the IPCC report and refutes it thoroughly, using real climate data that was either ignored or misrepresented by the IPCC.

Joseph L. Bast, publisher of the Climate Change Reconsidered series, wrote: "We know the authors of the IPCC's reports have financial conflicts of interest, since the government bureaucracies that select them and the UN that oversees and edits the final reports stand to profit from public alarm over the possibility that global warming will be harmful."

Creation Moments sees many parallels between climate change and evolution. Both are fueled by financial gain and faulty worldviews. Both attempt to silence the opposition by claiming they are dealing with "settled science." Both ridicule those who disagree with them. Both ignore data that doesn't support their claims. When you remove all the smoke, mirrors and shoddy science, both are intended to deceive. Thankfully, God has given His people eyes that can detect lies. Use them!

Notes: "The IPCC's Latest Report Deliberately Excludes And Misrepresents Important Climate Science," Forbes, 3/31/14.
Photo: Courtesy of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change. Their report is available for free at climatechangereconsidered.org/.
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Genesis 8:22
"While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease."

On the last day of March, 2014, the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued a report warning that the effects of climate change are already occurring on all continents. They went on to predict that mankind would face catastrophic consequences if we don't take drastic measures right now. But as you'll see in a moment, the report was released one day too early.

Why do we say that? Because April 1st would have been a far more suitable date for a foolish announcement with no substance to back it up. The announcement was a brash attempt to "sell" climate change by stressing the sheer number of "experts" who prepared the report.

Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the IPCC, stressed that "none of this [the report] would be possible without the dedication of the Co-Chairs of Working Group II and the hundreds of scientists and experts who volunteered their time to produce this report, as well as the more than 1,700 expert reviewers worldwide who contributed their invaluable oversight."

After the IPCC was caught cooking the books in November of 2009, in 2011 and on other occasions, Creation Moments can't help but be skeptical of any report that tries to convince us it is true by citing the number of scientists who participated in its preparation. The truth is, there are thousands of scientists who are skeptical of man-made climate change. But like creationists, they are ignored and ridiculed.

Notes: www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/03/140331100633.htm.
Photo: Smog in New York City as viewed from the World Trade Center in 1988.
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“The American Baptist College is defending its invitation to an openly lesbian United Church of Christ minister, asserting that Christians are making an ‘idol’ of the Bible. ‘It’s sad that people use religion and idolatry of the Bible to demoralize same-gender-loving people,’ American Baptist College President Forrest Harris told The Tennessean on Wednesday. The publication then asked that he clarify his use of the phrase ‘idolatry of the Bible.’ ‘When people say [the Bible] is synonymous with God and the truth,’ Harris responded. ‘We can’t be guided and dictated by a first-century world view.’ The college had invited Yvette Flunder, a bishop at the City of Refuge United Church of Christ in Oakland, Calif., to speak at its Garnett-Nabrit lecture series next week, which focuses on Christian leadership. The theme is ‘Ministry in Motion: Living Faith, Doing Justice.’ ... But after word of the invitation reached other pastors in Nashville, several denounced college administrators for their actions. Randy G. Vaughn of Mt. Sinai Baptist Church told local television station KMBT that he and other Baptist pastors from across the country will be present to protest Flunder’s appearance next week. ... ‘We don’t feel you have the right to live any way [you want] and be respected in the congregation of our faith. There is nothing holy about lesbianism as there is nothing holy about heterosexual adultery.’”

Christian News, Mar. 12, 2015

Psalm 22:6
"But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people."

What creature lives deep underground, has a dark purple head and a blue-grey body, can grow up to nine feet in length and sounds like a bathtub draining of water? It's the Giant Gippsland earthworm of Australia, of course!

As these incredible creatures make their way through the soil, they shorten in length and then stretch their body to as long as fourteen feet. Despite their size, it is very difficult to study these giant earthworms because they never come to the surface unless flushed out by heavy rains. They prefer to spend their lives deep underground where they won't be cut to pieces by farmers tilling the ground.

"Burrows that are occupied by giant Gippsland earthworms have very wet walls," said Beverley D. Van Praagh, a biologist who has studied the creatures for over 20 years. "When the earthworms move quickly within their burrows, it makes a gurgling sound that is quite loud and can be heard above ground. The sound is a bit like water draining out of a bath and has been known to terrify the uninitiated."

Though most of us look at such creatures with disgust, nothing that God has made is without purpose. Earthworms perform a very valuable service in making the soil fertile. Life on earth would not exist without the lowly earthworm! Eternal life, too, wouldn't exist were it not for Jesus, who is called a worm and was despised by the people He came to save.

Notes: Wired online, 3/28/14.
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1 Thessalonians 5:21
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good."

Meet Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig, a brilliant scientist who worked at the Max-Planck Institute until his retirement. Though he has written four books on the subject of evolution, he has infuriated evolutionists everywhere by daring to challenge Neo-Darwinism on scientific grounds.

He told the Diplomacy Post in March 2014: "A scientific hypothesis should be potentially falsifiable.... However," he added, "the idea of slow evolution by 'infinitesimally small inherited variations' etc. has been falsified by the findings of palaeontology... as well [as] genetics. Yet its adherents principally reject any scientific proof against Neo-Darwinism," he said, "so that, in fact, their theory has become a non-falsifiable worldview, to which people stick in spite of all contrary evidence."

Scientists continue to support evolution despite the evidence that actually falsified evolution because "without Darwinism, philosophic materialism has lost its battle against an intelligent origin of the world."

But Wolf had more to say. "According to Neo-Darwinism, all important problems of the origin of species are, at least in principle, solved. Further questions on the validity of evolutionary theory are thus basically superfluous. However, such a dogmatic attitude stops further investigations and hinders fruitful research in science."

Though Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig has stopped short of giving recognition to God as the Intelligent Designer, we applaud his work for showing that evolution doesn't even deserve to be called scientific.

Notes: "Lönnig: Complex systems in nature point to an intelligent origin for life", Diplomacy Post, 3/22/14.
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“On Thursday, the European Parliament voted to approve its ‘Annual Report on Human Rights and Democracy in the World 2013 and the European Union’s policy on the matter,’ which declares both same-sex marriage and abortion to be fundamental human rights. The Parliament, which enjoys freedom from voter accountability, continues its legislative activism, pushing member states toward more liberal positions on virtually every social issue, and slinging loose language such as ‘homophobia.’ The report says it is ‘regrettable’ that women and girls’ bodies ‘still remain an ideological battleground,’ and calls for the EU and its member states to recognize the inalienable rights of women, including ‘the right to access voluntary family planning and safe and legal abortion.’ ... In the area of sexual orientation, the report urges the Commission ‘to raise the issue of LGBTI rights in political and human rights dialogues with third countries and multilateral forums’ and enjoins its policy-working group, the European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights (EIDHR) to ‘support organizations defending LGBTI rights by empowering them to challenge homophobic and transphobic laws and discrimination against LGBTI people.’ The report applauds the legalization of same-sex marriage in an increasing number of countries (17 to date), and encourages the EU institutions and the member states to frame ‘the recognition of same-sex marriage or same-sex civil union as a political, social and human and civil rights issue.’”

Breitbart.com, Mar. 13, 2015

Genesis 1:3
"And God said, Let there be light: and there was light."

In March of 2014 a team of scientists headed by astronomer John M. Kovac of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics announced that they had finally found the evidence they were seeking to support the theory that the universe had a beginning.

This news about the Big Bang caused physics professor Nathan Aviezer of Bar Ilan University to say: "One thing the announcement does do is make it clear that the universe had a definite starting point – a creation – as described in the book of Genesis."

He went on to say, "The Torah quotes God as saying 'let there be light,' and science tells us that this light came into existence, exploding to create the universe as we know it. … At this point I think we can say that creation is a scientific fact. Without addressing who or what caused it, the mechanics of the creation process in the Big Bang match the Genesis story perfectly," he said. "If I had to make up a theory to match the first passages in Genesis, the Big Bang theory would be it."

Let us not forget, however, that the Big Bang theory is still just that – a theory – and there are many scientists who reject it. In fact, we will talk more about Big-Bang-denying scientists in a future broadcast. But for now we'll simply say that Big Bang or not, we rejoice that some scientists are coming to realize that the concept of a Creator is not anti-science.

Notes: www.wnd.com/2014/03/physicist-big-bang-breakthrough-confirms-creation/#QbfYzKEROZZwR94k.99.
Graphic: This detailed, all-sky picture of the infant universe was created from nine years of WMAP (Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe) data. It was published in 2012. Courtesy of NASA.
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“Thousands of Americans, including former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and famed evangelist Franklin Graham, have come to the defense of a chaplain who could be thrown out of the Navy because of his Christian faith. Lt. Cmdr. Wes Modder has been accused of failing to show ‘tolerance and respect’ in private counseling sessions regarding issues pertaining to faith, marriage and sexuality--specifically homosexuality. Modder, who is endorsed by the Assemblies of God, has also been accused of being unable to ‘function in the diverse and pluralistic environment’ of the Naval Nuclear Power Training Command in Goose Creek, S.C. The highly decorated, 19-year military veteran previously served in the Marine Corps and has had several high-profile assignments--including being named force chaplain of the Navy SEALs. Just a few months ago, Modder’s commander called him ‘the best of the best’ and a ‘consummate professional leader’ worthy of an early promotion. But all that changed after Modder’s assistant, a married gay officer at the base who was upset about the minister’s views on same-sex relationships and homosexuality, filed a complaint against the chaplain. The young officer had been working for the chaplain only for about a month when he began peppering him with questions about homosexuality. ... Michael Berry, an attorney at Liberty Institute, a law firm that specializes in religious liberty cases, told me his client categorically denies making any such statements. He said the chaplain is the victim of a setup. ... Mike Huckabee, a potential candidate for the White House in 2016, wonders if it is ‘becoming illegal to be a Christian’ in the military. ‘Today’s military planners seem to think there should be nothing but atheists in foxholes, and that includes chaplains,’ he told me. ... Rep. Doug Collins (R-Ga.), a Southern Baptist Air Force Reserve chaplain, told me he plans to raise the issue of Chaplain Modder with the Pentagon. ‘The religious liberty issue in the military needs to stop,’ Collins said. ‘The rulings are clear. As a chaplain we are provided to stay within the tenets of our faith. You cannot force me to counsel or to provide service outside the tenets of my faith.’”

Fox News, Mar. 12, 2015

“The Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham wants to ‘blow up your White House, Big Ben, and the Eiffel Tower,’ its official spokesman said in an audio message Thursday that claimed the ultra-violent extremist group had expanded its reach into West Africa. In his first speech in two months, Abu Muhammad al-Adnani accepted a pledge of allegiance from the Nigerian terrorist group Boko Haram and listed the cities ‘we want,’ from Paris and Rome to Jerusalem and Kabul. The 28-minute Arabic-language audio, translated by the SITE Intelligence Group, appeared to be an attempt to rally ISIS fighters and intimidate international audiences amid setbacks in Iraq. Al-Adnani was also capitalizing on the recent decision of Boko Haram, notorious for its indiscriminate bombings and kidnappings of girls, to align itself with ISIS. He called it ‘a new door opened by Allah’ and directed jihadists to West Africa.”

“ISIS wants to blow up White House, Big Ben, and Eiffel Tower,”National Post, Canada, Mar. 12, 2015

Job 40:18
"His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron."

Graphene may be the most unusual material that will ever be discovered. It has already revolutionized the world of physics and won the 2010 Nobel Prize in physics for physicist Andre Geim and his colleague, Kostya Novoselow.

What's so unusual about graphene? Geim told CNN Tech, "It's the thinnest material you can get – it's only one atom thick. It's the strongest material we are aware of because you can't slice it any further. You can't get any material that is thinner than one atom, or it wouldn't count as a material anymore."

Geim went on to say, "Graphene is stronger than diamond; it shows extraordinary heat conductance; it conducts electricity a thousand times better than copper – the list goes on. Another surprise is that you can just about see it with the naked eye, even though it's only one atom thick!"

Geim added, "We live in a 3-dimensional world. My physics intuition, developed over the last thirty years, told me that this material shouldn't exist. And if you had asked 99.9% of scientists around the world, they would have said the idea of a 2D material was rubbish and that graphene shouldn't exist."

How true that is! Scientists have been mistaken about a number of things, even when 99.9% of them were in agreement. Vestigial organs in humans, for example. Cosmic ether, for another. Then there's the fire-like element called phlogiston and the mistaken notion of epicycles. But the biggest mistake that scientists continue to make is evolution.

Notes: www.cnn.com/2013/10/02/tech/innovation/graphene-quest-for-first-ever-2d-material/.
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Deuteronomy 6:5
"And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might."

The heart is an amazingly complex organ consisting of muscle tissue. And what do muscles do? They contract when stimulated by electric pulses. Though the human heart will beat 2-3 billion times in a person's lifetime, heart disease is one of the most common causes of death. That's why researchers have been looking for a way to produce artificial heart tissue. Have they finally succeeded?

Lei Yang and his team of researchers at the University of Pittsburgh reported that they were able to transform human skin into lab-grown "heart muscle cells" that contracted spontaneously in a dish.

To accomplish this extraordinary feat, the researchers first changed skin cells into stem cells and then treated them with growth factors. Then they added the cells to the structural shell of a mouse heart that had been stripped of its own cells. The human cells transformed the shell into tissue that pulsed at 40 to 50 beats per minute.

Evolutionists, no doubt, will look at this achievement as making headway in man's quest to create artificial life. But let us remind them that the cells were produced using already-existing skin cells and growth factors. Besides, the "heart cells" were not a product of purposeless chance or mutations but the result of considerable effort by an intelligent team of scientists ... a reminder that life itself is the work of an intelligent, purposeful and all-wise Creator.

Notes: Science News, Web Edition 8/15/13. J. Shugart, "Lab-grown heart has rhythm." Nature Communications 4, Article #2307. "Repopulation of decellularized mouse heart with human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiovascular progenitor cells." 8/13/13.
Photo: The University of Pittsburgh is also where Jonas Salk developed the first polio vaccine.
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“For every black murder victim in 2011 there were 19 blacks killed by abortion, according to data from the FBI and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). 2011 is the latest year for which the data is available. The CDC’s Abortion Surveillance Report for 2011 shows that 117,293 black babies were aborted that year in the 32 states and the District of Columbia that report abortion numbers to the CDC. The FBI’s Uniform Crime Report for 2011, shows that 6,329 blacks were murder victims that year (5,416 males, 910 females, and 3 unknown gender). In other words, for every black American killed by homicide in 2011, there were 19 (18.5)  blacks killed by abortion--and that’s just in the jurisdictions that report their abortion data. (See Table 13 in CDC report.) Also, the 117,293 aborted babies is 1,753% higher than the 6,329 black murder victims.”

“Abortion Killed,” CNSNews.com, Jan. 23, 2015

Genesis 2:1
"Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them."

Has Darwin's dilemma finally been solved? Darwin's dilemma has been vexing evolutionists for more than 150 years. Charles Darwin, you see, was unable to explain the sudden arrival in Cambrian rock of most of the phyla we have today when no fossil evidence of their ancestors can be found in pre-Cambrian rock.

Not surprisingly, creationists frequently mention Darwin's dilemma – another name for what is called the "Cambrian explosion" – when challenging the Darwinian view of the gradual origin of species. So evolutionists have been struggling to find a plausible answer.

Such an answer was recently proposed by researchers at South Australia's University of Adelaide. They try to get around the dilemma by estimating that the rate of evolution during the "Cambrian explosion" was five times faster than it is today.

The evolutionary website ScienceDaily states with great confidence, "The findings ... resolve 'Darwin's dilemma': the sudden appearance of a plethora of modern animal groups in the fossil record during the early Cambrian period."

Is the assertion that evolution happened five times faster than today really reasonable? No, it isn't. In fact, it only creates another dilemma for evolutionists who have always insisted on uniformitarianism – that the rates of natural processes do not change over time. Darwin's dilemma remains unsolved for evolutionists. But there is no dilemma at all for creationists who know that God created all living creatures on days five and six of Creation Week.

Notes: Michael S.Y. Lee, Julien Soubrier, Gregory D. Edgecombe. "Rates of Phenotypic and Genomic Evolution during the Cambrian Explosion", Current Biology, 2013 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2013.07.055. "Darwin's dilemma resolved: Evolution's 'big bang' explained by five times faster rates of evolution", ScienceDaily, 9/12/13.
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Two prominent scientists have publicly debunked “man-made climate change” in recent months. In October, John Coleman, co-founder of the Weather Channel, said “climate change is nothing but a lie” (“Top Meteorologist,” Breitbart, Oct. 23, 2014). Coleman pointed to such things as the hiatus in rising temperatures and the increase of polar ice and polar bears. Coleman said. “I have studied this topic seriously for years. It has become a political and environment agenda item, but the science is not valid.” Coleman said, “There has been no warming over 18 years.” And in January, Richard Lindzen, MIT Professor Emeritus of meteorology, called global-warming alarmists a “cult.” Lindzen said, “As with any cult, once the mythology of the cult begins falling apart, instead of saying, oh, we were wrong, they get more and more fanatical. I think that’s what’s happening here” (“MIT Climate Scientist,” Breitbart.com. Jan. 21, 2015). After government agencies, including NASA, proclaimed recently that 2014 was the hottest year in recorded history, the same agencies backtracked, stating that there’s only a 38% chance that this is true and even if it is, it was only true by two-100ths of a degree, which is basically nothing. “Lindzen said he was fortunate to have gained tenure just as the ‘climate change’ movement was beginning, because now non-believers are often ostracized in academia.” Lindzen says the climate-change alarmists’ solutions will reduce people’s standard of living and impoverish people, “But,” he says, “the environment movement has never cared about that.”

(Friday Church News Notes, March 13, 2015, www.wayoflife.org, [email protected], 866-295-4143)

Psalm 147:16-17
"He giveth snow like wool: he scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes. He casteth forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before his cold?"

Would you believe that life on planet Earth was the result of icy comets striking the Earth's surface long, long ago? We didn't think so. But a team of researchers from three distinguished institutions would disagree with you.

To understand the effect of a comet hitting a planet, the researchers fired ice projectiles through a high-speed gun at targets that were icy mixtures that they said had compounds similar to those found on comets. When the ice chips stopped flying, they discovered that the impacts had created some amino acids.

One researcher wrote that "this process demonstrates a very simple mechanism whereby we can go from a mix of simple molecules, such as water and carbon-dioxide ice, to a more complicated molecule, such as an amino acid. This," he wrote, "is the first step towards life. The next step is to work out how to go from an amino acid to even more complex molecules such as proteins." 
 
Good luck with that! Scientists have been attempting to do that since 1953, when Stanley Miller and Harold Urey at the University of Chicago produced amino acids by shooting bolts of simulated lightning into a concoction of chemicals. Proteins – the real building blocks of life – are light-years away from amino acids.

How sad that scientists are wasting so much time looking for answers to how life began. If only they believed the Bible's account of origins, they could dedicate their skills to pursuing real scientific achievements that benefit mankind.

Notes: "Comets Hitting Planets May Help Build Life, Study Finds", Nature World News, 9/16/13.
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“Recently returning from Hungary, where she has been serving as a missionary since 2002, one Christian missionary testified that the degree of ‘political correctness’ in America has risen exponentially over the 12 years since she left to spread the gospel in Eastern Europe. After interviewing the missionary, identified as ‘Melanie,’ author Andrée Seu Peterson realized the United States is indeed a different place than it was just over a decade ago. She agreed with Melanie that fears over speaking about numerous politically correct issues back in 2002 were nothing compared to today--on topics from gender or ethnic groups to homosexual behavior to abortion. ... Peterson then pointed out how universities have over-sensitized students to the point where they are warned to shield their eyes and ears to ideas, concepts, and material that they might find the least bit disturbing or inconsistent with campus politics. ‘The teaching of English today is a mandate to get rid of language that hurts people’s sensibilities,’ Peterson continued. ‘At the University of California in Santa Barbara, course syllabi are required to come with “trigger warnings” alerting students to content that may hurt their feelings. Like that contemptible Huckleberry Finn book.’ Peterson discovered an entirely new evolution of terms that have been used in America for generations. ‘The National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) guidelines bristle with examples to “provide inclusionary alternatives to specific exclusionary wording,”’ Peterson informed. “Exclusionary forms, those to be flushed out of the culture, include: man, mankind, man’s achievements, the best man for the job, man the controls, man the ticket booth.” ... Peterson noted how the simplest innocuous sentences have been henpecked by modern-day grammarians in the state-run education system who are striving to replace the way Americans speak with a new politically correct vernacular that is no respecter of sexes. ‘The teachers council is happy to oblige with sample sentences,’ Peterson explained. ‘Maria is a career woman’ is retired for ‘Maria is a professional.’ ‘You guys go ahead’ is more properly ‘You students/class/third graders go ahead.’ ‘Dear Mothers, please bake cookies for your class party’ becomes in this brave new world, ‘Dear Families, please bake cookies for your class party.’”

“Political Correctness,” OneNewsNow.com, Jan. 21, 2015