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In another thread made me think about one the things this universe does is reveals what type of people we are, honest, loyal, hateful, unforgiving, greedy, loving and so on. How we interact, it and the Word shows it all.

Curious what people think.

We couch our discussions about creation and evolution in terms of deep or very short time. Both groups say what they believe can account for all that we see today in how they define how things work and why. Suppose you are an old-universe Theist or Atheist evolutionist. In that case, deep time can answer all the complex issues surrounding life, while a young universe Creationist says God did it, so it means all the complex issues are done due to his design. For questions unanswered, it is either God of the gaps or evolution of the gaps, which can be a blanket comment on the unknown. Neither statement helps move the needle; it only irritates the side directed at. I looked it up and saw that the human body has about 30 trillion cells, about 200 different types. This is a huge number of cells, and if you are a common ancestor evolutionist, you need to account for each one due to mutations. For a thought exercise, I'd like to know how many mutations it would take to reach the 30 trillion cells in the human body today. I have done the math already, but I think it would be better if you did it yourself. It would be more meaningful. Every mutation is considered good, and all move towards life; a best-case scenario for getting the job done is what it looks like practically per year. This exercise assumes abiogenesis occurred, evolution from a common ancestor is true, and every mutation correctly leads to human life, so there is no justification for age, abiogenesis, or evolutionary mutations. They are all accepted as true, and we only want to know how many per year from the starting point of life per year and how many mutations it takes to reach 30 trillion. I've asked these other places, and people have either ignored it or come up with issues like cancer, longevity, and so on, but today they never actually touched the question. This is simply a find X, the number of mutations per year to reach 30 trillion. If we know 30 trillion is the goal, we need to know the start date to determine how many years are needed to find X.

Information: The lack of uncertainty, the more possibilities against something, the lower the probability it will happen; therefore, the greater the specific information.  A coin flip is 50/50, so the uncertainty is 1/2, and a six-sided die is 1/6. What is proposed in an undirected evolutionary process is that random chance will, in the end, produce a very specified information-driven process.  An impossibility as soon as predictable outcomes are present, we have left the world of random.  As long as random outcomes are the driving force, they will remain random, unspecified, and unpredictable. Only something with a nature that can produce predictability can create anything with specified outcomes; an agent is required for designed outcomes.  We need not even concern ourselves with only the biological odds, since information-directing processes drive them; only something capable of directing those things could produce life. It takes an author to write a book.

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Do complex instructions come from minds, or could mindless processes write them? The difficulty of the instructions is a huge part of the question, but the medium in which they were written adds to the question. If they were carved in stone, painted on a cave wall, written with a pin or pencil, found in digital code, or set up in biological systems, what would that add to mindlessness being able to pull it off, or do all of them suggest a mind was at work?

One of my great pet peeves is that many times and almost without exception when a talk, lecture, or debates occur, what happens here and elsewhere, instead of the things that they have said come under scrutiny, the speakers are examined instead. I invite everyone to both examine the topics and how they are covered looking at the things that are said without attempting to deep dive in the person speaking. The other thing I would love to see in our talks is for everyone to post links that support their points of view that they are willing to defend with questions concerning what is said, NOT the people saying them. So debates, lectures, even sermons I don't care, if the talk supports one view over the other let the subject, not the person be where we go, is that possible, or does who someone is mean more to you than what they say?

Compare the power usage of a home and a EV power station?

Although it does matter how much time was involved, it becomes a meaningless question with God, because the length of time would not put any burden on God who is transcendent to time, space, and so on in our universe. Where the real questions come into place is without an agent with an agenda could any of this occur through any other means? We are transcendent beings in this universe, we can produce meaning by arranging the material in the universe so that it is recognizable to others.That leaves but two possible causes for the arrangement in the universe itself and life was an agent involved? I am telling you how much time doesn't matter, when you write a paragraph and I can read it does it matter that it took you 4 minutes to write it or 4 years? The fact meaningful words were arraigned in any medium in the material world speaks to an agent with a mind.

Nervous, Respiratory, circulatory, digestive, and Endocrine systems, plus all of the start-stop, level-checking, and error-checking going on in life, on top of all of the other things requiring information to be translated and processed, how is a mind not responsible for these things? The level of functional systematic complexity is so high we don't grasp it all, yet under a rock some where life started and evolved into what we see today through an indifferent, pitiless, mindless process?

I have been bringing this up in a couple of places, mainly because I hear people say things like evolution is a natural explanation for life. So before we can actually accept that shouldn’t the meaning of the phrase “natural” be clearly defined to avoid circular reasoning? If we get to say natural is whatever we want it to be, then only those things that agree with us will be acceptable. Afterwards no matter what is seen, identified, validated or invalidated, contrary to logic, the natural will keep everything off the table for that reason alone.

There have been numerous dates offered for the crucifixion. Over time these have been whittled down to a few possibilities 27 AD, 30 AD, & 33 AD. In the 1990s, two Oxford scientists made a strong case that was published in the most prestigious scientific journal in the world, no less (Nature) that showed the most likely date for Jesus's crucifixion was Passover, Friday 3, 33 AD. They showed how the Bible, prophecy, and additional historical sources, and science all coincide with each other. A key witness for this was Peter's speech on the Day of Pentecost when he said these things were in fulfillment of Joel: People wonder when the sun turned to darkness and the moon to blood, and it seems Peter was referring to the day of the crucifixion. The sun was darkened for three hours (many think this was a khamsin desert dust storm) But what about the moon turning to blood? This is was a common way to describe a lunar eclipse in ancient times. In addition, later second to third century Christian accounts also reference a lunar eclipse occurring during the crucifixion. So, the scientists reconstructed the astronomical history and discovered that there was indeed a lunar eclipse visible from Jerusalem around 6 pm (*the only lunar eclipse on a Passover that ever occurred during that time period). Around the time of Christ's death and start of Passover sacrifices in the temple. Lunar eclipses were also seen as a omen, and sign of (God's) wrath. "Before the great and glorious day of the Lord" (resurrection). A beautiful testimony to the most important events in history. The redemptive work of Christ's death, the resurrection, and the Day of Pentecost (the birth of the early church and outpouring of the Holy Spirit), all connected!

An interesting article about how historical evidence, archaeological evidence, and scientific evidence (specifically geomagnetism reported in a recent science publication) accord with biblical accounts of conquests. When military conquests included burning 🔥 cities the temperatures would sometimes get hot enough to burn the bricks and reset the magnetic minerals in the bricks which would then realign and reorient with the earth's magnetic field at that point in time, allowing scientists to confirm the accuracy of biblical dates. The burned bricks are like snapshot photos of the time on a clock ⏰️ when a battle happened so scientists can precisely determine the date of these battles recorded in the Bible. Pretty cool support and agreement with the Bible

Antigenesis: You believe in Christ, but you don't believe the Genesis account. Creation:You believe the whole Bible, including Genesis Evolution:You don't believe in Christ or Creation SSSincerely, Snake(I am a Creationist)