Quotable Quotations ~ Creation vs. Evolution

Thought for the day …    

Ken Ham: Darwinian evolution is inherently a racist philosophy as this quote from Darwin’s “Descent of Man” clearly shows. Why aren’t the secularists calling for banning Darwin from libraries and schools? It’s because Darwin is the high priest of their atheistic religion.

They are brainwashing generations of kids through the education system and much of the media. Evolution and millions of years is the pagan religion of today to try and explain the universe without God. Secularists, acting as if they are a god, are fervent in preaching their failed atheist religion.

The Spirit Of Antichrist In Recent History

History reveals the tremendous damage that godless people can do in our nation and/or throughout the world.  No ideology has ever eclipsed evolution as a mindset that completely rules God out of His own universe, and crowns man as his own god.  Because mankind has submitted to this theory for over a century, sinful man has made a plethora of laws that are totally contrary to God’s will for our lives, hence the meltdown we observe in the world today.  In Christ, Pastor Steve  <><

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A message from Terri “There is a lot of information that will shock you!”

Prophecy in the News

When you think back on history, there have been few people that have changed our way of thinking as a whole society. I am sorry to say, it was not always been for the better. The one person that always comes to my mind, that has influenced America so greatly, is Madalyn Murray O’Hair.

She as an American activist supporting atheism and the separation of church and state. She is best known for her “Murray v. Curlett” lawsuit, which challenged the policy of mandatory prayers and Bible reading in the Baltimore public schools. In 1963, her case was heard by the United States Supreme Court, which ruled that official Bible-reading in American public schools was unconstitutional. Prayer was removed from our schools and today we are seeing the devastating results in our culture, as a result of the actions of one woman. O’Hair was the founder of “American Atheists” and the “American Atheist Magazine.” One woman, so destructive, and we as a nation didn’t care enough to realize it.

There is yet one man that did this kind of destruction on a global scale and his name was Charles Darwin. He not only changed the world in bringing doubt of the mere existence of God, but his ideas of millions of years infiltrated the Christian community. Vast ages of time were needed to accommodate evolutionary development and Darwin certainly influenced the way many view the chronology of the Bible. Though Christians believe in God and that God created mankind, beginning with Adam, they found it necessary to take the millions of years, taught in the evolutionary cycle, and insert them directly into the Word of God. Rather than accepting the verses of Scripture that humanity has existed since the beginning of the creation (Mark 10:6; Romans 1:20), the biblical text is manipulated to facilitate eons of time.

When Charles Darwin’s book, “Origin of Species By Means Of Natural Selection” was first issued from the presses on November 24, 1859, it marked a history-changing event. Unfortunately, the world has never been the same. Notice the subtitle of the book, “Or The Preservation Of Favoured Races In The Struggle For Life.”
Charles Darwin didn’t invent the idea of things evolving through millions of years, but he certainly has become the icon for this theory. In the world of religion and Christianity, the idea of the earth evolving through millions of years have been taught through theories such as the Gap Theory (billions of years between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2), the Multi-Gap Theory (long ages between the days of the creation week), and the Day-Age Theory (each “day” of the initial week representing millions of years). These concepts are false and those, however, who have chosen to accept them, whether in part or as a whole, are perhaps unaware of the influences that spawned them.

In the world of Bible prophecy, we whole-heartedly preach against the anti-Christ and the influences that this destructive person will have upon the world, but it seems we have had a taste of a type of anti-Christ in the past, and sadly, many Christians have fallen for it, hook, line and sinker. You see, Satan has a way of dangling that poisonous apple in front of Christians, and making it look so delicious. And when you take that bite, unlike Eve, you don’t even realize it. It is called deception on a grand scale!

Charles Robert Darwin, born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, on February 12, 1809, was the fifth of six children born to a wealthy society doctor and financier Robert Darwin and his wife, Susannah Darwin.
His grandfather, Erasmus Darwin, a prominent abolitionist, had already written extensively on the ideas of organic evolution. Even though Charles denied his influence from his grandfather, it seems obvious that he was strongly impacted by his grandfather’s writings.

He not only influenced the world, but famous people such as Karl Marx (co-author with Friedreich Engels, a German philosopher, communist and social scientist) of the Communist Manifesto in 1848. They both accepted evolution almost immediately after Darwin published “The Origin of Species” and Engels wrote to Marx on December 12, 1859, “Darwin, whom I am just now reading, is splendid.”
Evolution, of course, was just what the founders of communism needed to explain how mankind could have come into being without the intervention of any supernatural force, and consequently, it could be used to bolster the foundations of their materialistic philosophy. As a result, the scientist could explain the organic world in materialistic terms, eliminating God.

In October of 1838, Charles Darwin said he read a paper on “Population” by Robert Thomas Malthus (1766-1834) concerning environmental pressure on food supply for animals that are considered to have given him his seed idea for the doctrine of natural selection. Darwin stated, “it at once struck me that under these circumstances favorable variations would be preserved, and unfavorable ones destroyed…Here then I had, at last, got a theory by which to work.” In Malthus essay entitled An Essay on the Principles of Population as it Affects the Future Improvement of Society, Malthus rejected his father’s ideas that mankind was perfectible and set forth his own ideas about man. In this essay, he proposed the idea that plants and animals reproduce and expand only arithmetically, a progression in which a constant is always added. He said human beings reproduce and expand in a geometric progression, a progression that is exponential or that has a constant multiplier. For this, he reasoned that since geometric growth is so much faster than arithmetic growth. He concluded that mankind will not progress towards a perfect state but will be kept in check by “misery, vice, and moral restraint.” This would lead to great rivalry and intense competition for available resources and to a “struggle for survival.” Through this idea, Darwin founded his ideas and expanded upon them. It was the idea of survival as a victorious consequence of struggle that most appealed to Darwin and later to his eager followers. Darwin adopted Herbert Spencer’s coined expression “survival of the fittest” to replace his former idea of natural selection as the mechanism for evolution. In this single phrase, mankind found the scientific license to validate their selfish extremes and a motivation that only survivors were winners.
To men who choose to reject the Creator, this phrase provided an effective means to their ends, meaning the less fit did not survive and the elite in political power, saw to it that it didn’t! This attitude was not in harmony with the teachings of the Bible as well as the attitude of America’s Founders. Matthew 5:44 is an example where Jesus taught that His followers should love their enemies, bless those who have cursed them, and more. This mindset of selfism that is fostered by the application of Darwinian evolutionism, rules our world today. All from just one man’s influence. A type of anti-Christ.

Why am I telling you this about Darwin?
Because Adolph Hitler (1889-1945), the leader of the National Socialists and Nazi party, was greatly influenced by Darwin’s idea of “struggle for survival.” Unlike Karl Marx who felt that struggle would improve the environment and thus bring positive change, Hitler, on the other hand, believed that struggle was necessary to rid the land of inferior races. It is written about Hitler that he believed in struggle as a Darwinian principle of human life that forced every people to try to dominate all others; without struggle, they would rot and perish. Adolph Hitler was among several Nazi leaders that worshiped evolution. Around 6 million Jews died in the Holocaust, all because of the beginning influence of Darwinism.

I’d have to say that Charles Darwin is probably the most dangerous man to have ever influenced the human race, yet we still see Christians, Christian ministries, Christians colleges, pastors and churches, still teaching the need to accept the evolutionary concept of millions of years and inserting it in the Bible. Men that glorify the millions of years in the “Gap Theory.” That mortifies me, to say the least!

I have just begun to expose the effects of Darwinism and how the Christian community has embraced this theory. As a Christian, if you believe that God recreated the earth a second time, and God’s first creation was in the “Gap Theory,” through my articles, you will discover the deep roots in Darwinism. Don’t miss the September magazine for my expanded article.
There is a lot of information that will shock you!
By the way, baby Charles Darwin was baptized on November 1809 in the Anglican St. Chad’s Church in Shrewsbury. His roots run deep within the church!
Terri McInnis
Communications Director/Prophecy in the News

Dinosaurs And Dragons Lived Along Side Ancient Man

The disciples of Darwin argue negatively, contending that dinosaurs faded from the “geologic column” some sixty-five million years before humankind evolved from a lower form of life.
Unfortunately, many within the world community of “Christendom” have been heavily influenced by the evolutionary ideology of Charles Darwin (1809-82). Hence while attempting to preserve some level of regard for the Bible, they deny that humans and dinosaurs co-inhabited the early earth. They have “solved” the problem, at least to their own satisfaction, by manipulating the text of Genesis so as to force it into the mold of evolutionary chronology; hence they would separate man and the “terrible lizards” by millions of years.
These teachings, known as the “Gap Theory,” “The Ruin and Restoration Theory,” the “Day-Age Theory,” and the “Old Earth Theory” are being proven by scientist and archaeologist to be false teachings.
The Bible is very simple!
Don’t let the false teachings of Bible theologians steer you wrong!

 

Thought for the day …

1,000 Scientists Publicly Sign ‘Dissent From Darwinism’ Statement (VIDEO) February 13 2019

Evolution:  When “scientists” made monkeys of themselves.   Pastor Steve  <><

1,000 Scientists Publicly Sign ‘Dissent From Darwinism’ Statement (VIDEO)
February 13 2019

Earlier this month, an online petition voicing scientific opposition to Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution reached more than 1,000 signatures, pointing to an increased consensus among the scientific community.
The statement, “A Scientific Dissent From Darwinism,” is a short statement that reads: “We are skeptical of claims for the ability of random mutation and natural selection to account for the complexity of life. Careful examination of the evidence for Darwinian theory should be encouraged.”

“There are 1,043 scientists on the ‘A Scientific Dissent from Darwinism’ list. It passed the 1,000 mark this month,” said Sarah Chaffee, a program officer for the Discovery Institute, according to The College Fix.
The statement, released by the Discovery Institute in 2001 by those who question Neo-Darwinism, has been signed by scientists from “the US National Academy of Sciences, Russian, Hungarian and Czech National Academies, as well as from universities such as Yale, Princeton, Stanford, MIT, UC Berkeley, UCLA, and others.”

The statement has specific requirements for signatures. In order to sign the document, one must obtain a “Ph.D. in a scientific field such as biology, chemistry, mathematics, engineering, computer science, or one of the other natural sciences; or they must hold an M.D. and serve as a professor of medicine,” in addition to agreeing with the assertions it makes.

The website explains that it is important for there to be such a statement because of the mass media effort to force the belief in Darwinism as truth.

“The Scientific Dissent From Darwinism statement exists to correct the public record by showing that there are scientists who support an open examination of the evidence relating to modern Darwinian theory and who question whether Neo-Darwinism can satisfactorily explain the complexity and diversity of the natural world,” it notes.
“In recent years there has been a concerted effort on the part of some supporters of modern Darwinian theory to deny the existence of scientific critics of Neo-Darwinism and to discourage open discussion of the scientific evidence for and against Neo-Darwinism,” explains the FAQ page.

David Klinghoffer, a Discovery Institute Senior Fellow, said that the signers “have all risked their careers or reputations in signing” the statement.
“Such is the power of groupthink,” he wrote in an Evolution News article. “The scientific mainstream will punish you if they can, and the media is wedded to its narrative that ‘the scientists’ are all in agreement and only ‘poets,’ ‘lawyers,’ and other ‘daft rubes’ doubt Darwinian theory. In fact, I’m currently seeking to place an awesome manuscript by a scientist at an Ivy League university with the guts to give his reasons for rejecting Darwinism. The problem is that, as yet, nobody has the guts to publish it.”

It’s also crucial to point out that the signing of the document does not necessarily mean the scientists believe in “alternative theories such as self-organization, structuralism, or intelligent design,” but simply points towards “skepticism about modern Darwinian theories central claim that natural selection acting on random mutations is the driving force behind the complexity of life.”

If you want to learn more about the “Scientific Dissent From Darwinism” list you can find more information here.

Reported by: Lindsay Elizabeth – Faithwire. com

By Prophecy in the News|February 13th, 2019|Tags: Bible Prophecy, Charles Darwin, Christian News, Darwinism, Evolution, Neo-Darwinism, Prophecy News, Science

Darwin: Parson or Pagan?

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Somewhere in the last 200 years, it became popular thinking that Charles Darwin was an atheist. His entire life of research has been discarded by some groups who have labeled the scientist as being anti-God, while in actuality, his academic pursuits at Cambridge University began at Christ’s College, where he was studying for the clergy. When Capt. Robert FitzRoy invited Charles Darwin to join the second South American tour of the H.M.S. Beagle, Darwin’s father and sisters feared this would disrupt his career plans in the church. Reluctantly, Darwin’s father was persuaded to let him go on the voyage and the result would change the direction of his life.

Looking back at the culture of the times in the early 1800’s, the clergy was a respectable path for a gentleman with an interest in natural history. His father feared that Darwin’s broad fascination with geology and natural studies would lead him down the path of an idle gentleman, so he encouraged Charles to align these interests with those of God and pursue a life as a country parson, where he could enjoy a quiet life of ministry, all while studying the flora and fauna. Darwin pursued the clergy path despite the influence of his grandfathers, Erasmus Darwin and Josiah Wedgewood, who were both free thinking rationalists and humanists, challenging popular thought on philosophy, politics, religion and science. Passages from Erasmus Darwin’s Zoonomia. ..or the Laws of Organic Life are recorded throughout the younger Darwin’s journals over the years. He entered into his studies as he had his whole life, asking questions.

His curious nature led him into the interest of two men at Cambridge who had the greatest impact on the course of his life. Darwin’s private tutor in math and theology, Rev. John D. Henslow encouraged Darwin as a man of great potential and strongly influenced his hire on the Beagle voyage, agreeing with Professor Adam Sedgwick, a renowned geologist who had tutored Darwin in geological exploration in an 1831 tour of North Wales. Darwin’s tutelage under these two experts had a profound influence upon his confidence as a scientist and the impact of his discoveries on the Beagle voyage. Two books further instilled in Darwin a thirst for science: Sir John Herschel’s Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy and Alexander von Humbolt’s Personal Narrative of the Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America During the Years 1799-1804.

When he set out on the Beagle after his graduation from Cambridge at the age of 22, there was one additional book that became the rudder for every observation he made on the journey. Charles Lyell’s Principles of Geology, a gift from Beagle’s Capt. FitzRoy, proposed a uniformitarian point of view that sought, in Lyell’s language, “to free science from Moses.” In the church, Darwin was taught that God made the world exactly the way we see it now without taking adaptation into account; however, the changes in species over time that Darwin observed on his voyage proved the church’s point of view to be wrong. If the account of creation in Genesis ran counter to his theory, how could the rest of the Bible be true?

When the H.M.S. Beagle journey began, Darwin’s religious orientation was clearly from a biblical point of view. By the end of his journey, though, he viewed the events of the Bible as more allegory than history. No one can be certain what caused his beliefs to evolve over the course of his journey. Some thought his exposure to the cruelties of slavery on the voyage caused him to question how God could allow such suffering. Others speculated that his observations about adaptation conflicted with the church’s view of the fixity of the human species as God’s perfect creation to a degree that he had to choose sides. His commitment to becoming a parson faded away.

While it is true that his research caused him to question God’s role in the origin of life, at the time he wrote Origin of the Species his belief in the concept of God remained in an intelligent “first cause” of life. It was later in life, following the death of three of his children (he was especially close to his children for a father in his day), that he started calling himself an agnostic. Is it possible that a misguided view of absolute truth led him to discard his faith altogether? Or was his faith in science stronger than his faith in God. Are the two mutually exclusive?

A new film called Darwin: The Voyage that Shook the World examines Darwin’s noted discoveries on board The Beagle in the light of new research in the span of time since that voyage. One hundred and fifty years after The Origin of Species was published, scientists have made discoveries that would cause Darwin to once again stop and ask questions.

Punta Alta
In 1833, Darwin discovered the fossil remains of nine species that he believed to have died elsewhere, transported to the region by water. Giant fossil footprints discovered recently by South American geologist Dr. Emil Silvestru, suggest that animals already living in the region died trying to escape something happening in that flood plain. With this information, would Darwin still believe that the changes in the region took place over a period of centuries?

Puerto Santa Cruz
Darwin thought he found remains of an ancient sea channel in Argentina formed by the ocean rising and lowering over eons, cutting a wide river valley through the continent, from coast to coast. He convinced the ship’s team to travel upstream, only to be cut off 140 miles into their journey. If he had reached the river’s source, Darwin would have discovered the Perito Moreno Glacier. The 97-square mile ice formation was many times its current size during the great Patagonian glaciations and capable of releasing enough melted water to cut a valley like the Santa Cruz channel, 200 miles wide, in a single event. Darwin’s views of geology changing over time did not leave much room for such catastrophes. How would his theory respond to this possibility if he could fly over the Perito Moreno today?

Tiera Del Fuego
Professor Stuart Burges of Bristol University poses that any scientist interpreting empirical data looks at that data with preconceived ideas, assumptions and world views that impact the conclusion. In 1834, Europeans were growing suspicious that non-white races did not possess the moral or mental ability to be elevated to civilized status. Of course, today, this would be interpreted as racism, but in Darwin’s time it was serious science. On Darwin’s voyage, he befriended Jimmy Button, an indigenous Fuegian who traveled to England to become “civilized” and was transported back to Tiera Del Fuego to teach his people the benefits of civilization. When Darwin later visited his old friend, he found they had reverted to “savagery.” Nothing of the English gentleman remained. This observation caused Darwin to question the biblical view that all people descended from Adam and Eve. In his mind, these people had fallen back to a lower state of species. Today, this point of view would be easily refuted, but in Darwin’s day it was a serious scientific conclusion that certain people were “stuck” at an earlier state of evolution.

Coquimbo Region, Chile
By the time the Beagle reached Chile, Darwin’s devotion to Lyell’s theories was seriously challenged. He had started to compare Lyell’s conclusions with his own and rate them. Was he going to follow the idea or the evidence? Lyell believed in the fixity of continents, which required a slow vertical movement. Geologists say that in order to explain the folds and buckling of high mountain regions, you need lateral movement. Today, according to plate tectonics there is a process known as underplating, where there is an injection of magma from the mantle lifting the continents quickly, like earthquakes, creating sudden jolts. Darwin’s firsthand experience of an earthquake in Chile revealed a marked difference between shifts on the islands and shifts on the mainland. That evidence ran counter to his model, so he decided not to use the idea that earthquakes could be the cause of regional uplift. Ocean floor fossils found 150 feet above sea level by current day explorers should be fossilized or decomposed according to Lyell’s theory. This evidence shows the land that was at the bottom of the sea had been uplifted. What would Darwin conclude if he could hold one of those seashells in his hand today?

Uspallata, Argentina
By the time the Beagle had reached Uspallata, Darwin had read three volumes of Lyell and the deep time theory affected his whole thinking. He found the cast of a fossilized tree that he believed to have grown there, buried as the land sank into the ocean. Recent expeditions in the same region unveiled one fossil showing the lower end of a tree. If the tree had grown in that region, there should have been a thick layer of soil and a sign of roots that have rotted over time. The rootless fossil suggests the tree was broken and carried by moving water and sunk rapidly, fossilized by a rapid, catastrophic event.

Galapagos
Darwin spent the last five weeks of his research on the Galapagos Islands, where he collected samples and species from the various islands. Contrary to popular thought, Darwin’s theory of natural selection was not developed on the islands, but largely as a result of the evidence he collected on the islands and took home to England for examination. Because he was locked in the point of view that certain species were created in certain fixed places, he missed vital information. Darwin didn’t record which islands the specimens were collected from. It was on discussions arising from this evidence that Darwin was allowed his first theoretical viewpoint.

A belief in Noah’s ark requires the belief that species can disperse and adapt, which Darwin was seeing all over the Galapagos based on variations in mockingbirds. Yet in his mind, creation was proven wrong because of the church’s fixation at the time that all of creation was fixed and unchanging. The Bible teaching of the day was that God made the world exactly as it is with no variation. This, coupled with a popular intellectual disdain for miracles led Darwin to arrive at the conclusion that if a creator God did exist, a world of suffering and cruelty was proof that He must have abandoned His creation. His attempt to join Lyell in freeing science from the Bible led to the study of hybridization. The definition of a new species is one that will not breed or mate with another species. Darwin had concluded that different types of ground finches have hybridized, but recent research has revealed the hybridization of a land iguana and a marine iguana, each with unique habitats and habits. Darwin’s theory calls for small changes that happen over time, but the population explosion of marine iguanas on the Galapagos suggest that the islands might be younger than estimated, in the realm of thousands of years.

Life Devoted to Research
At home in England while he was away, Darwin’s observations on the Beagle’s voyage were being published and widely distributed. He came home a hero, married, and settled into a life of writing and research in defense of this radical theory that man was not created in God’s image, but descendants of animals. His theory, built on his observations overseas and at home upon the death of three of his children, was built on the fact that the unfit would die and the strong would survive. His own grief and the stress of disputing opponents of his ideas held him back from publishing any conclusions, until an essay on natural selection by Charles Russell Wallace ignited a response. Fifteen months later, On the Origin of Species was published. A lot of his book phrases his discoveries as an invitation to view things another way, but despite much controversy, Darwin spent the rest of his life defending his theory.

What factors in his life – the influence of his freethinking grandfathers, his mother’s Unitarian faith, the Church of England and culture of the time, the personal trauma of losing three children – affected his view of God (and the biblical account of creation) as he was drawing the major conclusions of his theory? What factors of his human nature spurred Darwin to accelerate his conclusions prematurely because of Wallace’s competitive essay? If Charles Darwin held a microscope today, if he could see the structure and complexity of a cell, if he could examine a strand of DNA, how would that affect his belief in random events? These questions, what evolutionists today call “research problems,” are stacking up. Darwin’s defenders would say his evidence is stacking up quite well on its own. But there remains one question: What about the origin of life itself? In the end, Darwin’s efforts to free science from the bible have only proved that they are inseparably linked. Is Darwin’s life’s research really about the evolution of man or the existence of God?

This article is drawn from the facts presented in the DVD, “DARWIN – The Voyage That Shook The World”, released by Exploration Films.

In this expansive documentary the HMS Beagle once again sets sail as it retraces Charles Darwin’s voyage in lavish detail, examining his findings and remarkable conclusions and their implications in the light of modern knowledge.

Filmed in South America, United Kingdom, North America, Australia and Europe, Darwin – The Voyage That Shoot The World features dramatic period recreations and stunning nature cinematography, all interwoven with scholars, scientists and Darwin experts who share differing perspectives on the man and the controversy he stirred.

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