A ROW OF DUCKS - PIGS MIGHT FLY !!

Evolution is generally accepted and taught in schools today as an established and unchallenged fact. Although there is much evidence to support it, there are also some disturbing loose ends that seem to be conveniently ignored. One such issue is blood clotting.

According to the theory of evolution, animals with circulating blood gradually evolved. But blood clotting is absolutely essential for any animal with circulating blood to survive. Without effective blood clotting, any animal with circulating blood will simply bleed to death internally or externally, after even quite minor cuts or impacts. However in order for new types of animal with circulating blood to have evolved, the very first of these animals must have somehow appeared with an effective system of blood clotting already in full working order. If not, how else did they manage to survive long enough to breed and become established?

In a Yale lock, each and every pin needs to be in exactly the correct position at the same time for the key to work. Either it works or it dosnt. In the same way, blood clotting requires several different factors to be precisely right all at the same time in order for it to work. For example, it is possible for blood temperature, viscosity and several different proteins to each vary over a very wide range. Each and every one of these several factors needs to fall precisely into very narrow ranges of acceptability all at the same time or the blood just will not clot. Any new type of animal with circulating blood that had only one of these factors wrong simply could not have survived and evolved.

Imagine a hunter telling you that he was able to kill 6 flying ducks with a single shot because, by chance, they all “just happened” to be lined up one behind the other at the same time. There is about as much chance of that happening as finding that your front door key “just happens” to fit the house next door to you. The sheer improbability of successful blood clotting coming about by chance in just one single animal of a new type with circulating blood is very large indeed. 

There are also many other vital-to-life biochemical processes going on within every animal that similarly rely on the hugely unlikely requirement for “all the ducks to line up in a row” by chance at exactly the same time. Evolutionist Loren Eiseley wrote of the complexity of the "simple" cell, saying, “To grasp in detail the physicochemical organisation of the simplest cell is far beyond our capacity. Intensified efforts have revealed that even the supposedly simple amoeba is a complex, self-operating chemical factory. The notion that it is a simple blob, the discovery of whose chemical composition would enable us to set the life process in motion is at best a monstrous caricature of the truth.” We now know that a single so-called simple cell has so much inter-dependant biochemical activity going on inside it that it is more complex than everything that is happening in New York City.

The beginning zoological textbook typically takes the unwary reader by a hop, skip, and jump from the little steaming pond or the beneficent chemical crucible of the sea, into the lower world of life with such sureness and rapidity that it is easy to assume that there is no mystery about this matter at all, or if there is, that it is a very little one. The supporters of evolution usually allow for no other factors such as outside or intelligent intervention or management. They are seeming determined to prove that the present huge intereacting complexity of life originated here on this planet from the starting point of simple chemical compounds.

However, some leading biologists will now admit that that they are “constantly plagued by the thought that the number of ways in which even a single enzyme could be wrongly constructed (so that it dosnt work) calculates to a number greater than the number of all the atoms in the universe” It seems that even the entire universe is not big enough to make the sheer improbability of evolutionary theory conceivable.

For a scientist to openly cast doubt on the sacred cow of evolution is to flirt with professional suicide and to elicit howls of contempt and abuse. Yet some are now starting to put their heads above the parapet. Sir Fred Hoyle the astrophysicist was initially an atheist until he discovered that the probability of significant amounts of carbon forming in stars by random chance was utterly miniscule. This realization led him to be "greatly shaken", and he then converted to being a Christian. He compared the random emergence of even the simplest cell to the likelihood that "a tornado sweeping through a junk-yard might assemble a Boeing 747 from the materials therein." He also compared the chance of obtaining even a single functioning protein by chance combination of amino acids to a solar system full of blind men solving Rubik's Cube simultaneously. . . . "Taking the view, palatable to most ordinary folk but exceedingly unpalatable to scientists, that there is an enormous intelligence abroad in the universe, . . .a common sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics, as well as with chemistry and biology, and that there are no blind forces worth speaking about in nature.

It appears that Professor Steven Hawking has also changed his position in recent years (see http://youtube.com/watch?v=GO2l7ziEIuk) and he no longer supports theories of random chance and organic evolution. He has written to the National Council for Science Education (which is opposed to creationism) asking them to remove his name from their list of supporters..  

The history of science clearly shows that enormous advances are often made when radical new concepts are entertained long enough to be carefully explored. “And yet it moves” said Galileo under his breath when the inquisition forced him to publicly renounce his discovery that the earth revolved around the sun instead of vica-versa. Why is it so important to evolutionists that they want to make a “religion” out of Darwinism to the extent that no other explanations can be countenanced? 

Many people adopt the classic ostrich “head in the sand” attitude when encountering the difficulties of the evolutionary theory. The reason for this is that if mankind did not evolve or did not evolve on this planet, the alternatives are too radical for them to contemplate. If we reject or have reservations about evolution, what are the alternatives? Either there is a creator, or life somehow got here from another planet.  The choice is stark- it’s either angels or UFO’s !

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On 25 August 1844 Parley P. Pratt published a little story in the New York Herald entitled "Joe Smith and the Devil." In this story the devil happens upon Joseph, and they have a pleasant conversation. The devil is insisting to the Prophet that he, the devil, is happy to support all creeds, systems, and forms of Christianity, of whatever name or nature; so long as they leave out that abominable doctrine, which caused me so much trouble in former times, and which, after slumbering for ages, you have again revived; I mean the doctrine of  . . . . . .(can you guess?) . . . . .  direct personal communion with God, by new revelation.

"The Great Man was always as lightning out of Heaven; the rest of men waited for him like fuel, and then they too would flame." (Thomas Carlyle) Joseph Smith ignited something in thousands of men and women that connects them to God and to each other in powerful ways. The god revealed by Joseph Smith was not a threat to human potential but was a being who gloried in that potential and whose work it was to bring it to fruition. That was why Joseph's message resonated and caught hold like a burning fire.

But his message also flamed forth because millions of men and women have freely chosen to believe. They carefully assayed (weighed) the opinions of doubters, and they gave a hearing to the critics. Like Brigham Young, they knew Joseph was human and subject to err, but they sampled his words and agreed that they tasted like honey. They weighed the beauty of a god and of human origins and of a human future unlike anything that had been before imagined. They found reason to doubt, and they found reason to believe. They chose to believe. (Terryl Givens)

There are some things that a cynical person will never ever know. There are some things that a sceptical person will never ever know To come to know the things of God there first needs to be a suspension of disbelief. We need to ask ourselves "I wonder if this just might be true". (Robert Millet)

"If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties." Sir Francis Bacon

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Butterflies

Butterflies are

• Beautiful
• Fragile
• Harmless

In Mexico, Monarch butterflies are preparing to migrate to Canada. In March of each year they gather together and whole mountainsides are covered with many millions, possibly billions, of the Monarch butterflies.

Not one of them has ever before made the journey across the entire USA.

Not one of them knows the way.

They just realize that they are not in the place they are supposed to be and they have an epic journey to make.

They navigate by the sun.

Church members are also Beautiful, Fragile and Harmless.

They also realize that they are not where they are supposed to be, and that they have an epic journey to make.

The places where they gather together are the Stakes and the Temples.

They don’t know the way either, but He is the Way.

They have to navigate by the Son.

The journey they are making is to their home, the celestial kingdom.

"Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows?" (Isa. 60:8.)

The scriptures tell us that the Creation bears witness of the Creator and that in nature there are many types and shadows of our Saviour Jesus Christ and his Gospel.

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Malachi 3:3 says: "He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver." This
verse puzzled some women in a Bible study and they wondered what this
statement meant about the character and nature of God.  One of the women
offered to find out the process of refining silver and get back to the group
at their next Bible Study.

That week, the woman called a silversmith and made an appointment to watch him at work. She didn't mention anything about the reason for her interest beyond her curiosity about the process of refining silver. As she watched the silversmith, he held a piece of silver over the fire and let it heat up. He explained that in refining silver, one needed to hold the silver in the middle of the fire where the flames were hottest as to burn away all the impurities The woman thought about God
holding us in such a hot spot; then she thought again about the verse that says:  "He sits as a refiner and purifier of silver."  She asked the silversmith if it was true that he had to sit there in front of the fire the whole time the silver was being refined. The man answered that yes, he not
only had to sit there holding the silver, but he had to keep his eyes on the silver the entire time it was in the fire. If the silver was left a moment too long in the flames, it would be destroyed  The woman was silent for a moment. Then she asked the silversmith,

"How do you know when the silver is fully  refined?" He smiled at her and
answered, "Oh, that's easy -- when I see my image in it."

If today you are feeling the heat of the fire, remember that God has his eye on you and will
keep watching you until He sees His image in you.

Do you know anybody that needs to know that God is watching over them, or
that would otherwise appreciate this?. And whatever they're going through,
they'll be a better person in the end.

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