“Ultimate Proof of Creation”?

Is There an “Ultimate Proof of Creation”?

by Dr. Jason Lisle, AiG–U.S.

Many creationists are searching for a “magic bullet”—a proof of creation so powerful that there can be no true rebuttal. But is there such a proof? In our brand-new book The Ultimate Proof of Creation we find that there is!

When many people think of “proof,” they often think of a particular piece of scientific evidence that they believe supports their position. They might be thinking of a particular fossil series or a specific rock or a DNA sequence. The problem with such evidences is that there is always another way to understand them.

An evolutionist looking at a fossil series is thinking in terms of common descent, whereas a creationist is thinking in terms of variation within a kind. An evolutionist looks at the similarities in DNA and concludes that there is a common ancestor. But a creationist, looking at those same similarities, sees evidence that there is a common Creator.

We all have access to the same physical evidence. But creationists and evolutionists interpret that evidence differently because we each have a different view of history. We have two distinctly different views of the world that constrain how we understand the evidence. So, there simply is no “magic bullet” if we are thinking in terms of specific scientific evidences. Nevertheless, there is a proof of creation.

Competing Worldviews

The debate is really a matter of competing worldviews. So, we need to ask, “Which worldview (way of interpreting) is the correct way to understand the evidence?” The Ultimate Proof of Creation demonstrates that it is the Christian worldview alone that makes science and reasoning possible. The methods and procedures of science require a universe that is orderly and logical: a universe that obeys relatively simple mathematical relationships that human beings can understand and use.

But if the universe were really the result of a chance big bang and if the human mind were simply the accidental result of billions of mutations, then there would be no reason to think that the mind could understand the universe. Why should one accident be able to understand another accident? If creation were not true, how would science make sense? So, we do not have to look for a specific scientific evidence to prove the Bible. Rather, the fact that science is possible at all demonstrates that the Christian worldview is true.

Is “More Evidence” the Answer? ...continue reading at

http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/2009/06/15/is-there-an-ultimate-proof-of-creation

Is There a God? Does God Exist?
http://www.everystudent.com/features/isthere.html?gclid=CLOz146qoJsCFQq3sgodDS1XBw

GOD BELIEVES IN YOU When you start to doubt if you exist God believes in you Confounded by the evidence God believes in you When your chances seem so slim When your light burns so dim And you swear you don't believe in him God believes in you When you rise up just to fall again God believes in you Deserted by your closest friends God believes in you When you're betrayed with a kiss Turn your cheek to another fist It doesn't have to end like this God believes in you Everything matters if anything matters at all Everything matters No matter how big No matter how small When you're so ashamed that you could die God believes in you And you can't do right even though you try God believes in you Blessed are the ones who grieve The ones who mourn, the ones who bleed In sorrow you sow But in joy, you'll reap God believes in you Oh, God believes in you --Pierce Pettis Pierce Pettis ©1997, Polygram Music Publishing/ Universal Music Publishing (ASCAP)

STEP BY STEP thy Lord is leading thee

As Thou Goest, Step by Step,
I Will Open Up the Way Before Thee
Proverbs 4:12 Hebrew Translation
From the notebook of Arthur E. Ritchie

Child of My love, fear not the unknown morrow,
Dread not the new demand life makes of thee;
Thy ignorance doth hold no cause for sorrow
Since what thou knowest not is known of Me.

Thou canst not see the hidden meaning
Of My command, but thou the light shall gain;
Walk on in faith, upon My promise leaning,
And AS THOU GOEST, all shall be made plain.

One step thou seest -- then go forward boldly,
One step is far enough for faith to see;
Take that, and thy next duty shall be told thee,
For STEP BY STEP thy Lord is leading thee.

Stand not in fear thy adversaries counting,
Dare every peril, save to disobey;
Thou shalt march on, all obstacles surmounting,
for I the Strong, WILL OPEN UP THE WAY.

Wherefore go gladly to the task assigned thee,
Having My promise, needing nothing more
Than just to know, wher'er the future find thee,
In all thy journeying I go BEFORE.

I first read this while enjoying "a little piece of heaven" at the Emmanuel's Children's home on Cape Cod with our hostess Genie Lombard

Better to trust God than enjoy life

Tuesday, June 2, 2009
It is far better for us to learn to trust God than to enjoy life
"We are troubled on every side." (2 Cor. 7:5.)

Why should God have to lead us thus, and allow the pressure to be so hard and constant? Well, in the first place, it shows His all-sufficient strength and grace much better than if we were exempt from pressure and trial. "The treasure is in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us."

It makes us more conscious of our dependence upon Him. God is constantly trying to teach us our dependence, and to hold us absolutely in His hand and hanging upon His care. This was the place where Jesus Himself stood and where He wants us to stand, not with self-constituted strength, but with a hand ever leaning upon His, and a trust that dare not take one step alone. It teaches us trust.

There is no way of learning faith except by trial. It is God's school of faith, and it is far better for us to learn to trust God than to enjoy life.
The lesson of faith once learned, is an everlasting acquisition and an eternal fortune made; and without the trust even riches will leave us poor.
-Days of Heaven upon Earth.

Wednesday, May 20, 2009
The Discipline of Faith
"All things are possible to him that believeth." (Mark 9:23.)

The "all things" do not always come simply for the asking, for the reason that God is ever seeking to teach us the way of faith, and in our training in the faith life there must be room for the trial of faith, the discipline of faith, the patience of faith, the courage of faith, and often many stages are passed before we really realize what is the end of faith, namely, the victory of faith.

Real moral fibre is developed through discipline of faith. You have made your request to God, but the answer does not come. What are you to do?

Keep on believing God’s Word; never be moved away from it by what you see or feel, and thus as you stand steady, enlarged power and experience is being developed. The fact of looking at the apparent contradiction as to God’s Word and being unmoved from your position of faith make you stronger on every other line.

Often God delays purposely, and the delay is just as much an answer to your prayer as is the fulfillment when it comes.

In the lives of all the great Bible characters, God worked thus. Abraham, Moses and Elijah were not great in the beginning, but were made great through the discipline of their faith, and only thus were they fitted for the positions to which God had called them.
For example, in the case of Joseph whom the Lord was training for the throne of Egypt, we read in the Psalms:

"The word of the Lord tried him.” It was not the prison life with its hard beds or poor food that tried him, but it was the word God had spoken into his heart in the early years concerning elevation and honor which were greater than his brethren were to receive; it was this which was ever before him, when ever step in his career made it seem more and more impossible of fulfillment, until he was there imprisoned, and all in innocency, while others who were perhaps justly incarcerated, were released, and he was left to languish alone.

These were hours that tried his soul, but hours of spiritual growth and development that, “when his word came” (the word of release), found him fitted for the delicate task of dealing with his wayward brethren, with a love and patience only surpassed by God Himself.

No amount of persecution tries like such experiences as these. When God has spoken of His purpose to do, and yet the days go on and He does not do it, that is truly hard; but it is a discipline of faith that will bring us into a knowledge of God which would otherwise be impossible.
-from Streams in the Desert

Get more truth to cling to from Cari’s blog: “Life is pain Highness” at www.youmockmypain.blogspot.com

O to grace how great a debtor
Daily I’m constrained to be!
Let Thy goodness, like a fetter,
Bind my wandering heart to Thee.
Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it,
Prone to leave the God I love;
Here’s my heart, O take and seal it,
Seal it for Thy courts above.
from the hymn "Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing"