Genesis 4:8 Today on Creation Moments we bring you a rather bizarre story. Its seems that scientists used the arms and hands of corpses in an attempt to show that human hands evolved for fighting. True story. In fact, it was reported in the Journal of Experimental Biology. The scientists did this to see if a clenched fist is more effective at protecting the metacarpal bones of human hands when we punch something … or someone. Not surprisingly, they found that humans can safely strike with 55 percent more force with a clenched fist rather than slapping someone with the thumb extended and loosely folded fingers. This is pretty obvious when you think about it. What's not so obvious is how the researchers concluded that evolution had anything to do with it. All they could really conclude is that even the earliest of men had a violent streak. This should not surprise us at all because the Bible tells us that Adam and Eve's son Cain struck his brother and killed him … and there is no record of him breaking his metacarpals. Obviously, we have always had the innate tendency to clench our fists for fighting. And as history has taught us, we've done that way too often. While the fall of Adam is responsible for man's violent streak, Jesus Christ teaches us to love all men, even our enemies. Rather than forming our hands into fists, let us use them to do good unto believers and unbelievers alike. Notes: "Dead Man Punching Sheds Light on Fist Evolution," Discovery News, 10/21/15. Creation Moments, Inc., P.O. Box 839, Foley, MN 56329 www.creationmoments.com Please note that we do not agree with McDurmon’s covenant theology. “The façade of Christianity: simply put ... it will never do to have the name of Christ written on the surface of things if the substance does not honor His Law. It will never do to have the Ten Commandments posted in the court house if those laws are not in the law books. It will not do to have ‘In God We Trust’ on currency that is not honest money, but instead is left to elite bankers to devalue continually at whim. It will not do to have prayer in schools that are founded on compulsion and coercive taxation, an unbiblical socialistic model. It will not do to put the name ‘God’ in a national Pledge that does not honor biblical social and political theory. It will not do to have ‘our Lord’ written on the very Constitution when that document empowers government to confiscate private property, take eminent domain, if it decides it is profitable for the State to do so. It will not do in a thousand instances for us to place the name of Christ upon a system of unbiblical laws and morals. Not only will it not do, it is blasphemy, and it will be our undoing. ... We are prone, sometimes, to worship not God Himself but instead the phrase ‘God bless America.’ But only God is sacred, the phrase is not, nor is the country per se. We only receive God’s blessing when He gives us grace and we humble ourselves before Him. There is no other reason.” Joel McDurmon, “Christian in Name Only,” The American Vision, Sept. 20, 2012 Genesis 9:1 True or false? When the population of lemmings grows too large, they get into a frenzied state, and huge groups of the furry rodents commit suicide by hurling themselves into the nearest body of water. Many people believe this is true, but it is really nothing but a, well, rural legend that might have got its start from a news report that came out of Norway in 1868. A steamer there reportedly sailed for 15 minutes through a swarm of swimming and drowning lemmings. According to the report, the swarm was two-to-three miles wide. Actually, lemmings really do throw themselves into the water – but not to commit suicide. They are simply migrating after depleting food supplies in their area. During a mass migration, many lemmings do, in fact, die from drowning. But more lemmings are eaten by predators. Today there is another overpopulation legend that far too many people are believing. It's the notion that mankind is overpopulating the planet. Some environmentalists have called for reduction of world population to just two billion – a reduction of over two-thirds of the world population. Others would like to see only a half billion people on our planet. And many think it's permissible to kill humans in large numbers to avoid running out of food and other vital resources. No, overpopulation is not the problem. The real problem is that man, in his pride, thinks he knows more than God knows about what is best for the planet that He created. Notes: "Leaping lemmings," Secrets of the Natural World, p.70 (Readers Digest/Dorling Kindersley, 1993). Creation Moments, Inc., P.O. Box 839, Foley, MN 56329 www.creationmoments.com Many prominent rockers have described the essence of rock & roll as sex and rebellion. Rock’s “god” is the god of this world, and it is spiritual insanity to use this music in the worship of the God whose characteristics are the exact opposite of rock’s. When David Byrne of Talking Heads inducted the androgynous David Bowie into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1996, he described rock & roll as follows: “When David Bowie came along, well, rock and roll needed a shot in the arm and when I first saw him it was a shock, and yet it was very familiar. ... And like all rock and roll, it was tasteless, it was glamorous, it was PERVERSE, it was fun, it was CRASS, it was SEXY, it was CONFUSING. ... IT WAS ABOUT SEX AND DRUGS, it was about combining literature with rock and roll, with art, with anything you could name. It was about SEX as an idea, and SEX as a reality, and SEX as a liberating force. It was about REBELLION, it was about REBELLION as a cliché, it was REBELLION as an idea. It was about REBELLION as a billboard, as an advertisement. ... It was about SEXUAL politics, SEXUAL theater” (rockhall.com). (For more quotes such as this see What Every Christian Should Know about Rock Music, available from Way of Life in print and free eBook editions.) (Friday Church News Notes, February 26, 2016, www.wayoflife.org, [email protected], 866-295-4143) |
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