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“At what chapter in the book of Genesis does the Bible begin to be true?”

This is a question we find ourselves repeating more and more often as we participate in discussions on Facebook and other social media websites. Obviously, we’re not asking atheists this question; after all, they don’t believe the Bible is true at any point. We are asking this question to Christians of various denominations who attack us for our belief in a literal six-day creation and the global flood of Noah’s time.

Many of these people appear to have a high regard for the Bible, sprinkling Bible verses into their online postings. They even seem to accept the miracles recorded in the pages of Scripture - especially the miracles recorded in the New Testament. But when it comes to the creation account given in the first chapters of the Bible - and the worldwide flood just a few chapters later - they wriggle and squirm and try to explain it away.

Such is the deadly stranglehold of Darwinism on the modern mind - even on the minds of Christians. Many people have been so indoctrinated with evolutionary dogma all their lives, they have a difficult time discarding it after they become Christians. Sadly, some of them end up as “theistic evolutionists” - believing that God created through the means of evolution.

On the positive side, however, some of these people are able to accept as true the early chapters of Genesis when they are shown the inconsistency of their position. So the next time you run into one of these people - either online, in the workplace or even in your church - challenge them to think about their position. Ask the question at the beginning of this blog posting or this one: “If you don’t believe what the Bible says about how we got here, how can you believe what it says about where we’re going?”

Imagine for a moment that you’re a student who wants to watch a video about God creating the heavens and the earth. You go to YouTube, enter the search term “creationism” and click the SEARCH button.

As you look at the first page of results, you discover that ALL of the videos are attacks on creationism. Apparently, atheists and Darwinists are busy with their evangelistic efforts. And they’re effective, judging from the fact that some of their videos have been viewed by over a million people. You see nearly 40 different videos under the headings “Foundational Falsehoods of Creationism” and “Evidence for Evolution and Against Creationism.” You also find a multi-part series titled “Why Do People Laugh at Creationists?” as well as videos with such titles as “Creationist Junk Debunked.” Where are the creationism videos?

So you enter a new search term: “anti-evolution.” Do you find creationism videos there? Nope. (more…)

Recently a friend of Creation Moments wisely observed: “Sadly, most Christians are not interested in the creation vs. evolution issue. Atheists, on the other hand, know what is at stake, so they invest a lot of time in defending their religion.”

Are the people in your church aware that evolution is, in fact, a “religion” that promotes atheism? If not, perhaps God is calling on YOU to wake them up to its dangers. After all, you know what is at stake, and the Lord may be asking you to sound the alarm. (more…)

We find it very interesting that President Obama’s inaugural address today included the words: “All men are equal.” Notice anything missing? Obviously he was quoting the best-known phrase in any of America’s political documents, the Declaration of Independence, in which Thomas Jefferson penned these immortal words: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal…”

This phrase was so powerful, Abraham Lincoln used it in what is arguably the most well-written speech ever delivered by a US President - the Gettysburg Address. Notice that he used the phrase exactly as it appeared in the Declaration of Independence: “Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”

Even Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. used the phrase in his most famous and enduring speech: “I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.’”

So why, we ask, did President Obama leave out the word “created”? Was it an accidental omission? No, it was deliberate. For a speech as important as an inaugural address, every word is carefully chosen. What this clearly means is that our new head of state believes that God as Creator is an antiquated belief and must be ignored.

Creation Moments is not affiliated with and does not endorse any political party. The sole intent of the Momentum blog is to speak out on issues and current events related to biblical creation and the biblical worldview.

How very clever that environmentalists have changed “global warming” to “climate change.” This way, they can count on receiving taxpayer money even if the earth is found to be cooling down. As Barack Obama is sworn into office today, we expect that more taxpayer money will be spent to control climate change.

After all, he has selected key advisers who believe strong action is needed to address climate change. In addition to Steven Chu (a climate-change technology advocate) as the next secretary of Energy, he selected Harvard’s John Holdren (a climate and energy expert) as his science adviser and marine biologist Jane Lubchenco to head up the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

We also expect that more taxpayer money will be spent to teach evolution to our kids. As this blog reported previously, Obama believes that evolution alone should be taught in public schools. He told the York Daily Record last August, “I think it’s a mistake to try to cloud the teaching of science with theories that frankly don’t hold up to scientific inquiry.”

So as our new president places his hand on the Bible today and takes the oath of office, we will certainly heed the Bible’s instruction to pray for him. However, we will also be praying specifically that President Obama discovers he’s on the wrong side of both climate change and evolution.

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?

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?

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When we started to read The Evolution Handbook, we figured we’d just skip through all the superfluous material and read the “good stuff.” After all, who has time to read a 992-page book from cover to cover?

We soon discovered, however, that every chapter was just as interesting – and informative – as the chapter before it. Before we knew it, we had read all 992 pages and had underlined hundreds of passages for future reference. Yes, that’s how good it is.

We were delighted to find dozens of fascinating examples of design seen in the animal kingdom – remarkably similar to those we bring you in our “Creation Moments” radio program.

The chapters on fossils, mutations, ancient man and the global flood were particularly informative. So, too, were the thousands of scientific facts that refute evolution, the dozens of evidences that the earth is only a few thousand years old, and the hundreds of quotes from evolutionists that are remarkably frank … and damaging to the cause of evolution!

That’s why Creation Moments is offering The Evolution Handbook for a donation of any amount. We’re offering it through the end of October or while supplies last, so request your copy by calling 1-800-422-4253 or by making a donation online.