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For evolutionists, 2009 is a special year of celebration. Not only does 2009 mark the 200th birthday of Charles Darwin, it represents the 150th anniversary of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species. It’s important to remember, though, that this is not just about science. As the science establishment celebrates the life and achievements of Darwin, they are also rejoicing because they believe that evolution delivered the death-blow to God.

Though most evolutionists fully understand this, many Christians still don’t realize that Darwinism and atheism are inextricably intertwined. One of our website visitors summed up the issue quite well in the following e-mail:

“I was struck by your desperate efforts to involve the bible in the debate as if it had some kind of relevance to historical fact and theory. The bible was written by men partly to explain his own origins - now that we’re smarter, we don’t need to refer back to a less knowledgeable time. Please, think for yourselves by looking at and understanding the world around you - we don’t need a god.”

That’s why the battle between creation and evolution is so important and why a ministry like Creation Moments is so vital at a time like this. As the Year of Darwin gets underway, get ready to be bombarded with new TV specials and magazine articles praising the name of Darwin. Help your kids learn how to resist the evolutionary indoctrination they’ll receive at school. And bookmark our website, so you and your family can see where the scientific and historical evidence really points.

The Associated Press reported today the discovery of the world’s oldest spider web. The web was found encased in a prehistoric piece of amber considered to be 140 million years old.

Now if you’re a card-carrying evolutionist - like any scientist funded by the National Science Foundation - you’d expect the web to be considerably different than the spider webs produced by modern spiders. After all, spiders have had 140 million years to evolve, right? Surely after all that time they would now be producing better spider webs than they did in the ancient past.

Oxford University paleobiologist Martin Brasier said, however, that the strands were linked to each other in the roughly circular pattern familiar to gardeners the world over. “You can match the details of the spider’s web with the spider’s web in my garden,” Brasier said.

In other words, this latest bit of scientific evidence does not point to evolution. Rather, it points to an all-wise Creator. But will evolutionists shrug their shoulders and give up? Don’t bet on it! They’ll keep on using your tax dollars to keep on spinning their webs of mass deception.

Those are our views. What are yours?

“It is absolutely safe to say that if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid or insane (or wicked, but I’d rather not consider that).” - Richard Dawkins (The Blind Watchmaker)

This famous quote from one of the world’s leading atheists makes a lot more sense with a few words changed: “It is absolutely safe to say that if you meet somebody who claims to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid or insane (or wicked, and that’s the most likely explanation).”

Are evolutionists ignorant, stupid or insane? Many are ignorant because they’ve never examined the evidence in favor of creationism and contrary to evolution. Others must be stupid because they’ve never actually thought about the scientific flaws of evolution. And still others show signs of being insane when they look at the complexities of DNA or the eye or the process involved in the clotting of blood and just keep repeating over and over, “It only appears to be designed. It only appears to be designed.”

But the main reason why so many atheists like Dawkins believe in evolution is because they are just plain wicked … or, as the Bible calls them, unrighteous. Romans 1:18-19: “For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness, suppress the truth. For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them.”

Those are our thoughts. What are yours?

Today’s Creation Moment - “The World’s Smallest Computer” - reminds us of the two men who discovered the “DNA computer” back in 1953. When James Watson and Francis Crick discovered the double-helix DNA molecule, it was the best of times and the worst of times for Dr. Crick. Though he enjoyed his worldwide celebrity status, how was he to explain the incredible amount of information encoded in the strands of DNA? A self-described agnostic with “a strong inclination towards atheism,” it was inconceivable to Crick that an intelligent Creator had anything to do with it.

So he resurrected a nifty little idea from the eighteenth century called “panspermia” - a hypothesis that seeds of life exist all over the universe. He postulated that one or more of those seeds hitchhiked a ride to earth on a comet, giving rise to life on our planet. (No, we’re not making this up.)

Of course, panspermia doesn’t even begin to explain how those seeds of life came to be. It just enabled Crick to sidestep the issue and avoid the obvious - that information-laden DNA molecules are far too complex to have arisen by chance and undirected processes.

No “seeds” have ever been found anywhere in the universe. Though panspermia is nothing but pure speculation, Crick’s belief in it underscores the fact that so many scientists today - including evolutionary biologists with their “goo to you” just-so stories - are willing to believe in anything … anything other than God.

Those are our thoughts. What are yours?

CNN reported today that NASA is thinking about funding the SETI Institute so it can continue its Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence in the universe. Frankly, we question the wisdom of using taxpayer money to support an organization whose mission is to “explore, understand and explain the origin, nature and prevalence of life in the universe.”

First of all, what makes them think that life is prevalent - or widespread - in the universe? SETI began its search for extraterrestrial intelligence 24 years ago. The only extraterrestrial life they’ve ever found was in the movie Contact - a fictional screenplay by Carl Sagan, who came face to face with highly intelligent extraterrestrial life when he died in 1996. (more…)