Creation Revolution

Monthly Archives: December 2011

• Genesis 3:15 Questions

  Genesis 3:15 Questions   After posting What Does Jesus Birth have to do with Creation?, we received a couple of questions concerning the posting.  I pray this helps to answer their questions and yours. From: Bernie J After reading your … Continue reading →

  

• Responding to Common Atheistic Arguments

  This latest feedback deals with responding to common atheistic arguments. CMI’s Dr Jonathan Sarfati and Dr Robert Carter respond. Matthew F. from the United States writes: I’d like to go ahead and say that your website has helped me strengthen my Christian faith greatly … Continue reading →

  

• Shermer Opines: It’s Wrong to Force Theory on Children

  Michael Shermer is a well-known advocate of Darwin’s theory of evolution. In 2006 he published a book titled Why Darwin Matters. In that book he attempted to discredit the idea of intelligent design and bolster the faltering theory of evolution. He was … Continue reading →

  

• Cells Optimize Their Tasks

  The key to design in manufacturing is optimization – hitting the “sweet spot” between competing interests.  It’s not always possible to have all the elements of a product be ideal.  A laptop computer, for instance, can’t have an extra-large monitor … Continue reading →

  

• Memory Is Malleable, but the Bible Is Not

  If someone witnessed an event firsthand, chances are that person would remember it pretty clearly, right? Not according to a recent psychological study, in which almost half of those tested disbelieved their own experience in favor of a faked video … Continue reading →

  

• Daily Devotional: The Beginning, Middle, and End

  December 31   By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible.  Hebrews 11:3     No creature can assist in its own … Continue reading →

  

• Daily Reading

  Read Through the Bible in a Year   We would like to encourage everyone with families to sit down and read the Bible together every day.  Daily Readings will provide you with a daily guide to allow you and your … Continue reading →

  

• Troglodytes

  I love to ask young people what troglodytes are and then wait for their responses.  The answer I hear the most is that it is some kind of monster from a science fiction movie.  Rarely do I hear the right … Continue reading →

  

• The Census of Quirinius

  Did Luke get it wrong? During the traditional Christmas season, millions of Christians read the nativity accounts of Matthew and Luke. Luke, great historian as he was, provides information of the timing and circumstances around Jesus’ birth. This connects with … Continue reading →

  

• Legends of the Flood

  Anthropologists who study legends and folktales from different geographical locations and cultures consistently have reported one particular group of legends that is common to practically every civilization. Legends have surfaced in hundreds of cultures throughout the world that tell of … Continue reading →

  

• Dino Expert Plays Chicken

  Jack Horner, the dinosaur hunter who was science advisor to the Jurassic Park movies, wants to create a real dinosaur.  He won’t use the movie method, trying to extract blood from Jurassic amber, because “DNA degrades too quickly,” he said.  … Continue reading →

  

• A New Year’s Resolution

  “For I determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ, and Him crucified”(I Corinthians 2:2). When Paul first entered the Greek city of Corinth, he had just come from nearby Athens and his encounter with its humanistic philosophers at … Continue reading →

  

• Daily Devotional: Numbering Our Days

  December 30   So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.  Psalm 90:12   Until I realized how seriously and urgently Moses prayed in this passage, I didn’t understand that we should ask … Continue reading →

  

• Daily Reading

  Read Through the Bible in a Year   We would like to encourage everyone with families to sit down and read the Bible together every day.  Daily Readings will provide you with a daily guide to allow you and your … Continue reading →

  

• Chinese Fossil Supposed to Prove Evolution From Single Cell Ancestor

  All life evolved from a single-celled universal common ancestor, and at various times in Earth history, single-celled organisms threw their lot in with each other to become larger and multicellular, resulting, for instance, in the riotous diversity of animals.  This … Continue reading →

  

• Light, Life and the Glory of God

  In Genesis 1:3–5 we read: “And God said, ‘Let there be light.’ And there was light. And God saw the light that it was good. And God divided between the light and the darkness. And God called the light, Day. And He called … Continue reading →

  

• Exorcism, Demons, Witchcraft, and Astrology

  Many theories have been advanced to account for the origin of demons. Some say demons are the offspring of angels cohabiting with women (Genesis 6:1-4). But angels are sexless beings who apparently are incapable of such unions (Matthew 20:30). Instead, … Continue reading →

  

• Snowflake Designers

  Could any “useless” natural object composed of simple materials exceed the beauty of a snow crystal?  As you wish for a white Christmas, think about two snowflake designers: one who makes them in a lab, and one who makes them … Continue reading →

  

• Defending a ‘Fact’

  The public is overwhelmed with claims that evolution is a fact—from the classrooms to the courts and clergy. The late S. J. Gould even likened evolution to gravity: Facts do not go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain … Continue reading →

  

• Daily Devotional: Using What God Has Provided

  December 29   And being warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they departed to their own country by another way.  Luke 2:12   Why does God warn the wise men not to return to Herod?  Even if Herod … Continue reading →