“… to suppose the eye with all of its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberrations could have been formed by natural selection seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree possible.”
Charles Darwin The Origins of Species by Means of Natural Selection
Fourteen years, 2,300 scientists from 40 countries and some US$5 billion later…
Scientists in Connecticut and around the world will be watching closely today when their colleagues in Switzerland flip the switch on what is being touted as the world’s grandest experiment in particle physics.
If all goes according to plan, the Large Hadron Collider, a gigantic particle accelerator underground near Geneva, could re-create the very moment 13 billion years ago when scientists believe a tremendous explosion known as the “big bang” created the universe. (Source)
Sharing a few interesting bits of news from around the world:
Masab, son of West Bank Hamas leader Sheikh Hassan Yousef, is now a Christian and calls himself Joseph. (Haaretz)
British Newspaper Readers Vote To Keep Todd Bentley out of UK. At least it’s not all bad in the UK! (End Times Prophetic)
Ken Silva was on Crosstalk Radio filling listeners in on what has been happening to him and his site since the threat of a lawsuit from Richard Abanes. (Crosstalk Radio)
My good brother, Yong Chun, writing on City Harvest Church, has a great sermon-by-sermon MP3 comparison of how the same parable — The Sower — has been badly mangled and interpreted by three pastors of the church. (All of Grace)
If you have ever tried evangelizing to atheists/evolutionists, one particular argument that always comes up is “show me God then I’ll believe in Him”. When you tell them that the evidence of God is in His design of every mountain, tree, and living thing they see in nature they scoff at that, but when you point out that the building you are next to must have an architect who designed it they never disagree.
So, then, while these folks are ready to admit that a building that’s less complicated than living creatures has a designer, they believe that all living creatures which have millions of cells and are so very complicated in the ways each part works came by chance?!
I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Wonderful are your works;
my soul knows it very well.
My frame was not hidden from you,
when I was being made in secret,
intricately woven in the depths of the earth.
Your eyes saw my unformed substance;
in your book were written, every one of them,
the days that were formed for me,
when as yet there was none of them.
Psalm 139:14-16
How right he was!
I have watched this video over and over again, just marveling at how much of what’s going in our bodies are miracles in themselves. The presenter called them ‘amazing’ but they are more than ‘amazing’ for me; they are miracles!
Unfortunately, I don’t have much time today to actually write the post that I had planned to, it being the second day of the Chinese Lunar New Year so there’s visiting to be done.
In light of that, I thought I’d leave you with some interesting bits that I’ve come across in the past 24 hours.
Secular TV Series Reveals Emergent/Post-Modern Deathbed Evangelism
This is really funny, but very sad at the same time. Whatever happened to telling people the truth in the Bible as it is where it pertains to their eternal state?!
Alright, I need to catch this movie when it’s released, and I do hope that it makes its way to Singapore.
The film is by Ben Stein who “…realizes that he has been ‘Expelled’, and that educators and scientists are being ridiculed, denied tenure and even fired for the ‘crime’ of merely believing that there might be evidence of ‘design’ in nature, and that perhaps life is not just the result of accidental, random chance.”
You can find out more about the movie at its official website.
It made me think — if I were a science teacher and had to teach whatever is mandated in the textbooks knowing that it is wrong, i.e. evolution, what should my position be?
Hmm… I think I shall try finding out from some Christian friends of mine who are themselves teachers in public schools here.
P-P-Pastor’s Wife?!
I have never paid much attention to the singer Ho Yeow Sun (Ho is her surname, Chinese names are written last name, first name), who is also the wife of pastor Kong Hee, and ‘was the music pastor’ at City Harvest Church.
Until some days ago when I took a look at a forum post that linked to what I wrote on teachings at the church and saw this video which left me flabbergasted.
I am not going to link to the official video of the song which I think is quite risque, but you can do a search for ‘China Wine’ on YouTube if you’re interested.
From what I understand, she used to teach young people at the church against listening to secular music and dressing up to titillate. I wonder what happened to all that, or do those lessons not apply to her good self?
I also wonder if she is aware of, or concerned with, the fact that she’s the wife of a pastor with a flock of 23,000 or more, and probably a role model of said congregation, a majority of whom are young impressionable people?
Before anyone accuses me of being legalistic, let me just say that I believe that those in leadership capacities or were in leadership capacities should be careful to not do anything that might cause others to stumble.
Would you want to see your children’s teacher smoking in front of them, or a respected ex-teacher suddenly featured as a centerfold in an adult-only publication?
I heard this over BBC Radio last evening and had a chuckle.
According to the scientist (I think) on the program, the reason why there are so many obese people in developed and even in developing counties is because humans have not evolved from our primal needs for food.
Where once our ancestors hunted animals for food, and therefore needed the high carbohydrates, salt and sugar levels to keep up a good level of energy to do so, we have not evolved from those dietary needs and are therefore getting fatter.
I’d like to first apologize for the silence over the past few days. Everything’s fine, but I’ve run into one of the worst walls a blogger can bang into, i.e. blogger’s block.
It’s not like I’ve got nothing to blog about — there’s tons of material I’ve got in reserve, but my brain can’t seem to juice out anything good in terms of a coherent sentence or paragraph. So, rather than waste your precious time reading bad posts, I thought it better not to post at all.
I’m sure you’ll agree that’s a rather wise decision, eh?
Fourteen years, 2,300 scientists from 40 countries and some US$5 billion later…
I’d like to first apologize for the silence over the past few days. Everything’s fine, but I’ve run into one of the worst walls a blogger can bang into, i.e. blogger’s block.
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