Answers in Genesis: Upholding the Authority of the Bible from the Very First Verse

Hardly a day goes by that the creation/evolution issue isn’t a news item somewhere—often a number of items per day! This just continues to illustrate how vital an issue this really is and how emotional a topic it can be. The secularists know that it is a foundational issue—it’s a shame much of the church doesn’t understand this yet. AiG continues to challenge the church (and culture) concerning this vital topic. Here are just a few (of the many) recent news items to give you a flavor for the sorts of things that appear almost daily:

1. Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Teachers say covering evolution can be a trial–Some students burst into tears when a high school biology teacher told them they’d be studying evolution. Another teacher said some students repeatedly screamed “no” when he began talking about it. Other teachers said students demanded to know whether they pray and questioned why they had to learn about evolution if it was just a theory. About 60 public high school teachers from the Atlanta area were at Emory University last week, swapping stories about the challenges they face when teaching evolution.

http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/printedition/2008/10/27/evolution.html

2. Website of the Central New York Skeptics

A Virtual Tour of the Creation Museum: Cheaper Than the Real Thing and Far More Educational

This presentation casts a skeptical eye toward the “science” taught at the Creation Museum, a 27-million-dollar (and counting) attraction located on the Kentucky side of the Cincinnati, OH, metropolitan area. You will see dinosaurs living peacefully alongside humans and hear how “Creation Scientists” explain that the Earth is only about 6,000 years old. Of course, science tells us that the Earth is around 4-and-a-half billion years old and that dinosaurs were extinct long before humans evolved, but then, little, if any, of what the Creation Museum teaches is supported by science.

http://cnyskeptics.org/2008/10/332/

3. Fox News

Humans are evolved to be acutely sensitive to our reputations as do-gooders in our social groups because this promotes strong cooperative bonds that help the species. . . . There are people who make the argument that altruism and prosocial behavior evolutionarily preceded the development of religion for a long time. You can see evidence of altruistic behavior in humans dating back for a long time.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,444392,00.html

4. Washington Post

Three books on how religion and evolution can coexist.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/23/AR2008102302668_2.html?sid=ST2008102401668&s_pos=

Is the Lord’s Prayer Relevant in Australia?

Well, the Australian Parliament back in my homeland is discussing that very issue. It is also a reminder of how secularized (as this report states) our once-very-Christianized Western nations have become:

The speaker of Australia’s Parliament has called for a public debate about whether the country’s lawmakers should end the practice of starting each session with the Lord’s Prayer. Lawmakers have started every day of Parliament with the Christian prayer for more than a century—a tradition inherited from Britain during colonial rule. But some are now questioning whether a prayer adopted by the first Australian Parliament in 1901 remains relevant in an increasingly secular and religiously diverse nation.

You can read the full report at:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,444217,00.html

Devotion

Whole hearted

(Psalm 119:9–10) Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word. With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments.

Half-heartedness is the disease that causes us to wander from the Lord Jesus Christ; the way back is open through whole-hearted repentance & devotion.

Thanks for stopping by and thanks for praying,

Ken

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