Two Views

by Terry Wane Benton The Biblical View God created us and gets to make the rules. He made two genders: male and female and expects us to act like men if we are men and women if we are women. God does not approve of us changing the natural genders and gender roles as it…

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Evolution’s Missing Fossils

by Jon Gary Williams The idea of an evolving scale of life has been around for more than two thousand years — from the time of Thales, Anaximander, and Empedocles. Yet it was not until the days of Charles Darwin that the idea began to take on any essence of science. Men such as Jean-Baptiste…

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Creation and Resurrection

by Matthew W. Bassford The primary objection to the resurrection accounts of the Bible is philosophical. It is based on the theory of naturalism. This theory holds that all events have causes rooted in the natural laws of the universe. In the universe, dead people don’t naturally come back to life, so Jesus, if dead,…

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An Admission that the Evolutionary Theory Doesn’t Work

Source: Stephen Buranyi, “Do we need a new theory of evolution?” The Guardian, 28 June 2022. “… scientists still do not know the answers to some of the most basic questions about how life on Earth evolved.” “Take eyes, for instance. Where do they come from, exactly? The usual explanation of how we got these stupendously…

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The Universe — How and When?

by Dennis Abernathy Stephen Hawkins, (now deceased) the theoretical physicist and cosmologist, and director of research at the University of Cambridge, and Leonard Mlodinow, physicist and screenwriter, in their book The Grand Design, explored the questions: “When and how did the universe begin?” “Why are we here?” “Is the apparent grand design of our universe…

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The Scoffer’s Starting Error

by Terry Wane Benton “For this they willfully forget: that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of water and in the water” (II Peter 3:5). Peter is countering the scoffer’s argument that “all things continue the same from creation.” Peter shows that the creation saw a…

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Let God Be True

by Terry Wane Benton Romans 3:4 gives us this principle: “Let God be true but every man a liar.” What does this mean? It means that God is always far more dependable than man. God cannot lie (Hebrews 6:12). Man often lies, misunderstands, gets things mixed up, is easily deceived, etc. Therefore, when it comes…

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More Purposes Found for So-Called Junk DNA

Source: “Caltech Finds Amazing Role for Noncoding DNA,” Evolutionary News, 3 December 2021. “Scientists at Caltech may have sounded the final death knell for the “junk DNA” myth.” For years evolutionists have pointed to sections of the DNA and RNA strands that are not directly involved in the encoding of proteins as leftovers produced as…

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“Junk DNA” Refuted

Source: “Oxford Journal: ‘The Days of ‘Junk DNA’ Are Over’ ,” Evolution News and Science Today, 6 October 2021. Source: Casey McGarth, “‘Junk DNA’ No More: Repetitive Elements as Vital Sources of Flatworm Variation,” Genome Biology & Evolution, Oxford University Press, October 2021. Genome Biology & Evolution, published by Oxford University Press, stated in an article…

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Firearms and Teaching Children

by Matthew W. Bassford In 2010 and 2011, I became the father of two extremely inquisitive children. In 2019, I also became the owner of a firearm. Naturally, I gave some thought to how these two areas of my life should interact. Should I keep my gun locked away from my kids and forbid them…

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Mitochondrial DNA Differences Indicate a 6,000 Year Old Human Race

Source: Nathaniel T. Jeanson, “On the Origin of Human Mitochondrial DNA Differences, New Generation Time Data Both Suggest a Unified Young-Earth Creation Model and Challenge the Evolutionary Out-of-Africa Model,” Answers Research Journal, September 2016. “Previously, I predicted that a constant rate of mutation over 6000 years would result in 20 to 79 mitochondrial genome-wide nucleotide differences.…

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Your Belief about Origins and Your Children’s Behavior

by Alan Smith PBS film critic and columnist Michael Medved shared this anecdote out of his Jewish heritage: “A few years ago, Rabbi Jacob Karmenetky made a trip to Israel accompanied by his teenage grandson. Ironically, these two deeply religious people were seated In the airplane next to a prominent Israeli socialist leader and outspoken…

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Genuine Faith

by Jefferson David Tant The topic of “faith” is often discussed and often misunderstood. Skeptics accuse Christians of having “blind faith,” or taking a “leap of faith,” meaning that there is no basis for what we believe. Thus our faith in God’s existence is no different than what I have encountered in South Africa, i.e.…

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Closing the Door on the Non-Human Neanderthal Myth

by Joshua Gurtler Modified slightly from the original publication in Biblical Insights Magazine, April 2015. It was once assumed that Neanderthal man was a missing link in human evolution. Now that evolutionists themselves have thoroughly debunked that idea, public schools continue to teach our most vulnerable young minds that Neanderthal man was an unintelligent, non-human, caveman,…

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Evidence of God: Information

by Jeffrey W. Hamilton When you look at some object, how do you know it is natural or man-made? What if you were walking through the woods and you saw a mark on a tree? It is dark from moss, like the other patches on the trunk, but you immediately say that it is man-made.…

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Darwin — the Father of Evolution, Racism, and Abortion

by Jefferson David Tant The world has changed since Charles Darwin concocted the idea that we have all evolved from the slime in a primeval swamp. In many ways, the development of scientific achievements has been a great blessing to us in the way of the comfort of living and other advances. But there is…

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Well, I’ll be a Monkey’s Uncle

by Jefferson David Tant The above title is an old saying expressing complete surprise or amazement. While that saying has a humorous side, in another sense, it could be used by one claiming to be somebody’s great-great-great-uncle today from many ages ago. I like Carson’s response to the fellow who felt he was an ignoramus…

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The Wonder of Sight

by Whit Sasser God’s design of sight is such a wonder of the human body and our eyes in particular. The hearing ear and the seeing eye, the Lord has made them both (Proverbs 20:12). Charles Darwin struggled with the problem of an organ so complex as the eye evolving via naturalistic processes. In The…

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Evidence of a Creator

https://www.lavistachurchofchrist.org/cms/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Evidence-of-a-Creator.mp3 by Jeffrey W. Hamilton Text: Romans 1:18-22   I.         There are so many hints present in this world that it is surprising that they are often overlooked.             A.        But people have this tendency to only see what they expect to see             B.        And we have a school system that pushes agendas instead of teaching students to analyze…

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Nested Coding in DNA is Evidence of Design

Source: “BioEssays Editor: “‘Junk’ DNA… Full of Information!” Including Genome-Sized “Genomic Code”,” Evolution News & Science Today, 18 November 2019. “The paper finds that our DNA contains overlapping layered “’dual-function’ pieces of information,” including a “genomic code” that spans virtually the entire genome in order to “defin[e] the shape and compaction of DNA into the highly-condensed…

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Does It Matter?

https://www.lavistachurchofchrist.org/cms/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Does-It-Matter.mp3 by Jeffrey W. Hamilton Text: Genesis 1   I.         The teaching of evolution has made significant inroads in the beliefs of common man             A.        In 1999 Gallup found                         1.         47% believed in a recent, special creation                         2.         40% believed in a God-directed form of evolution                         3.         9% believe a strictly natural-caused evolution             B.        In 2019 Gallup found                         1.         40% believe in…

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How does the caveman fit in with the human race?

Question: How does the cave man fit in with the human race?  I do not believe in the theory of evolution, but I have always wondered how the cave man fits with what the Holy Bible says. Answer: You need to remember that no one has actually observed cavemen in the past. Rather cavemen are…

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Evidence that 90% of Earth’s Species Developed at the Same Time

by Jeffrey W. Hamilton An analysis of the mitochondrial DNA in 100,000 species showed that there were fewer neutral mutations (variations that have no impact) than expected and that the number of neutral mutations in the various species is basically the same, indicating that these species all began at roughly the same time. The authors’…

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The Faith of an Atheist

by William J. Stewart Some time ago, I had the opportunity to talk with a self-proclaimed Atheist. I found it to be a rather interesting conversation. He discussed several things which he found to be adequate evidence to discount the existence of God, none of which stood to any measure of inspection. Yet, he vehemently…

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Why are evolutionists so ignorant?

Question: Hello Jeffrey, I hope all is well! Thanks for always using scriptures! I do have a question: Why are evolutionists so ignorant? I was reading about explanations of how 80 whale fossils ended up in the desert and also how the world’s largest shark went extinct due to “an unknown global destructive event”. They…

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The Myth of the Flat Earth

by Jeffrey W. Hamilton I ran across an article, from Newsweek of all places, that pointed out that humanity as a whole never really believed in the concept of a flat earth. [Douglas Main, “Even in the Middle Ages, People Didn’t Think the Earth Was Flat,” Newsweek, 16 January 2016]. “A round Earth appears at…

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The Bible and Dinosaurs

by Don Martin The word dinosaur, as such, is not found in the Bible. We must remember that man has named many of the animals today. The word dinosaur is associated with the Greek “dino,” meaning terrible. There are animals named in the Bible concerning which we have no definite knowledge or identity (see “greyhound,”…

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Arguing with Atheists

by Casey Head Via The King’s Way at Queen Way I work at a university. That’s something I thought I’d never say. I guess I’d better clarify. I’m not a professor, a graduate student getting paid to do research, a university official…or even a janitor or landscaper. I’m actually just an evangelist who happens to carry…

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Does the Higgs Boson’s existence prove the Big Bang theory?

Question: Okay, so my chemistry teacher told us today that the Higgs Boson or the God particle proves the big bang. What is this Higgs Boson thing? Every day I’m getting some weird information. It’s all so confusing. Answer: Science has been trying to figure out how the world works for a long time. Part…

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Are ring species evidence of evolution?

Question: I read an e-mail exchange where you were answering a question posed by an ex-Christian, where you stated: Daily Evolution? “If you have evidence of evolution taking place daily, I know a lot of scientist who would like to talk to you. What is usually touted as “evidence” is variation within a species. The existence…

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How Did the Elephant Get Its Long Trunk?

by Bryan Sharp How did the elephant get its long trunk? In his fairy tale, “The Elephant’s Child,” Rudyard Kipling fictionally describes how the elephant got its long trunk. Originally, we are told, elephants had short noses, but one day a young elephant got too close to the river and was attacked by a crocodile.…

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A Natural Defense

by Jeffrey W. Hamilton LA Times I found yet another interesting article in the paper today. Bed bugs have been making a comeback and scientists are looking for solutions that don’t involve chemicals. A traditional defense against bed bugs in eastern Europe is to spread kidney bean leaves on the floor and to the scientists’…

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Is Australia’s unique wildlife evidence for evolution?

Question: This guy in my school is using Australia’s unique wildlife as evidence for evolution because they are separated from other continents, thus making them evolve into completely different animals. How do I explain that he is wrong? He insists on converting me into an atheist. Also, this is irrelevant to the prior topic, but…

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You Expect Me to Believe That?

by Phil Grear In the beginning, there was nothing. And suddenly for no reason, nothing exploded and created everything. You expect me to believe that? At some point, by chance, the right chemicals happened to float together at just the right moment to be struck by an electrical charge and become life. You expect me…

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God Created

https://www.lavistachurchofchrist.org/cms/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/GodCreated.mp3 Text: Isaiah 45:9-13   I.         The ancient language of Hebrew contains two words for making something:             A.        The word ‘asah refers to what we do with our talents. We make things from what already exists.             B.        But there is another word, bara, that is used in connection with God. It is the creation of something from nothing,…

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Are body hair, ear wiggling, and such things proof of evolution?

Question: I was watching a video, and on it, it showed that there was a remnant of another eyelid on humans or something like that, and then said that it could have been used for sweeping dirt out of the eyes (or something like that). I think they were saying that that would have been…

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Do the appendix, wisdom teeth, and tailbone show we evolved?

Question: Why do we have an appendix? Or wisdom teeth? My teacher said we don’t need them. Also, why do we have a tailbone? Doesn’t that show we evolved? Answer: Vestigial organs and structures are a classical example of the arrogance of some people. It has long been assumed that if a part of the…

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Is the biblical account of Creation not meant to be taken literally?

Question: I actually once wrote an article my junior year of high school titled “Creationism vs. Evolution”, and my entire paper was about how Creationism was right and Evolution was wrong. However, over the years I’ve come across so much evidence arguing for the sake of evolution in the world. I also have come to…

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