Last night I happened to catch a few minutes of the Late Show with Conan O’Brien at about halfway through the show after watching a recording on my dvr, and what I heard about 2 minutes after I started watching just cracked me up. I decided I’d share it here on my blog. To start off Conan had an animal expert on the show and the “expert” was showing off a vulture to Conan. Conan asks the “expert” about the coat of feathers around the vulture’s neck. The animal “expert’s” reply was what caught me as ironically funny. Here is the transcription of the dialog and the video clip beginning just before the incident transcribed.

Conan: “So that beak could crush..uh–”
Expert: “Right through your fingers–”
Conan: “–Okay, again you’re obsessed with that”
Laughter…
Conan: “Look at the–I love the–Does it serve any purpose that it’s wearing like kind of a uh…a scarf around it’s neck? Is there any reason for that in nature?”
Expert: “No…that’s just the way they’re designed, I mean. I guess evolution’s brought ‘em to that point.”
Conan(Talking at the same time): “It was God’s will, yes!”
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Apparently this animal expert doesn’t have a clue the difference between design and chance, or the difference between Creation(design) and Evolution(chance). I think someone is really clueless, namely the animal trainer expert that was a guest on the show. Or, maybe he believes in some nonsensical muddled mixing of the two “theories” as some people do even though the thought is completely ridiculous.  The two ideas are in complete opposition to each other, complete opposites at opposing ends of the spectrum and to suggest that both could occur is completely incomprehensible. I did think this was funny that anyone would suggest such a thing on national television. Then again we’re talking about Hollywood so maybe I really shouldn’t be so surprised.

Anyway here is the clip. I hope someone else besides myself and my wife finds this at least a bit funny.

I recently watched a video series by Mike Riddle on Evolution and Creation models of our existence, and I think Mike explains both models in the simplest way. He makes it very clear using the Evolutionists own theory to disprove it. I think Darwin himself said it best in his book Origin of Species (6th edition, 1872 p. 413).

“Why is not every geological formation and every stratum full of such intermediate links? Geology assuredly does not reveal any such finely graduated organic chain; and this is the most obvious and serious objection which can be urged against the theory.”

Darwin essentially tells us straight out that there is absolutely no evidence to support his theory. Now many evolutionists will argue otherwise that they have found these supposed links and they will refer to “lucy” and other controversial fossils that really have no basis. One could only raise one question, where are the thousands upon thousands of links that there must be to support this theory? They don’t exist!

Well you watch the video series for yourself. Any logical person can see the fallacy of the evolutionary model if they are willing to open their eyes. Those who refuse to open their eyes do so because they know what the light will do when they open their eyes; it will reveal to them what they/we all really are: full of sin. (John 3:19-21) This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God.”

Due to Javascript I cannot link directly to the video itself. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and it’s the last video series on the page.

The Fossil Record by Mike Riddle.

Recently I found a great article that is an appeal to Christians to believe what Jesus believed. A call to Christians who believe in the “Gap Theory” or those who do not believe certain pieces of scripture as being historical fact. I strongly recommend that any Christian who has any doubt about some of the miraculous events in the bible or the account of the biblical creation, read this article and succeeding links.

Believing What Jesus Believed

by Kyle Butt, M.A.

It has become increasingly popular to accept certain parts of the Bible and to reject other parts. Such amazing events as the miracle of Creation, Jonah’s being swallowed by a sea creature, and the Flood of Noah often are brushed aside as mere myth, while more “credible” things such as the teachings of Jesus are accepted as fact. Although this line of reasoning might have some initial appeal to our “enlightened” society that rejects biblical miracles off hand, it contains a major flaw. When the teachings of Jesus are analyzed, it can be shown that Jesus Himself believed and taught the Old Testament stories that some label as myth.

For instance, the story of Jonah has come under attack due to its extraordinary details. According to the Old Testament Scriptures, God’s prophet Jonah disobeyed the Lord and was swallowed by a great sea creature. For three days, he dwelt as a damp denizen of that creature’s belly, until finally he was vomited onto the land and given another chance to obey God. To certain scholars, the story of Jonah finds a place in the Scriptures, not as a factual narrative of a specific historical account, but as a myth or allegory. What did Jesus believe about the story of Jonah? His sentiments in this regard were emphatically stated.

Then certain of the scribes and Pharisees answered him, saying, Teacher, we would see a sign from thee. But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given it but the sign of Jonah the prophet: for as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the whale; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. The men of Nineveh shall stand up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold, a greater than Jonah is here (Matthew 12:38-41).

Quite clearly, Jesus accepted the story of Jonah as an accurate description of a real, historical event. He included not only the fact that Jonah spent three days in the belly of the fish, but also affirmed that the city of Nineveh repented at the preaching of Jonah. If the story of Jonah were simply an allegory or myth, Jesus’ entire point about being in the belly of the Earth for as long as Jonah was in the belly of the fish would be weakened to the point of ridiculousness. For, if Jonah wasn’t ever really in the belly of the fish, then what would that say about the Son of Man actually being in the belly of the Earth?

Another story endorsed by Christ is the formation of man and woman at the beginning of Creation. Some scholars, in an attempt to find a compromise between the Bible and organic evolution, have postulated that the Creation account of Genesis need not be taken literally, and that room can be found in Genesis to accommodate the idea that humans evolved gradually in Earth’s recent past. What did Jesus say about this idea?

During His earthly sojourn, Christ spoke explicitly regarding Creation. In Mark 10:6, for example, He declared: “But from the beginning of the creation, male and female made he them.” Note these three paramount truths: (1) The first couple was “made”; they were not biological accidents. Interestingly, the verb “made” in the Greek is in the aorist tense, implying point action, rather than progressive development (which would be characteristic of evolutionary activity). W.E. Vine made this very observation with reference to the composition of the human body in his comments on 1 Corinthians 12:18 (1951, p. 173). (2) The original pair was fashioned “male and female”; they were not initially an asexual “blob” that eventually experienced sexual diversion. (3) Adam and Eve existed “from the beginning of the creation.” The Greek word for “beginning” is arché, and is used of “absolute, denoting the beginning of the world and of its history, the beginning of creation.” The Greek word for “creation” is ktiseos, and denotes the “sum-total of what God has created” (Cremer, 1962, pp. 113,114,381, emp. in orig.). Christ certainly did not subscribe to the notion that the Earth is millions or billions of years older than humanity.

Accepting the testimony of Jesus Christ further demands that the global Flood of Noah be taken as a literal, historic event. The Lord Himself addressed the topic of the great Flood in Luke 17:26-30 (cf. Matthew 24:39) when He drew the following parallel:

And as it came to pass in the days of Noah, even so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. They ate, they drank, they married, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all. Likewise even as it came to pass in the days of Lot; they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; but in the day that Lot went out from Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all: after the same manner shall it be in the day that the Son of man is revealed (emp. added).

The Lord depicted an impending doom that was to befall the Jews of His day who would not heed the Word of God. For the purpose of this article, however, note the context in which Jesus discussed the Flood destruction of Genesis 6-8. He placed the Flood alongside the destruction of Sodom, and He also placed it alongside the destruction of the ungodly at His Second Coming. John Whitcomb correctly noted that the word “all” must refer to the totality of people on the entire Earth in Noah’s day, and in Sodom during Lot’s time. Jesus’ argument would be weakened considerably if some of the people on the Earth, besides Noah’s family, escaped the Flood, or if certain Sodomites survived the fiery destruction sent from Heaven (1973, pp. 21-22). It is evident from the text that Jesus affirmed that the same number of ungodly sinners who escaped the Flood will be the same number of disobedient people who escape destruction at His Second Coming—none. From His remarks, one can clearly see that Jesus accepted the Genesis account of a global flood as a historical fact.

The sayings of Jesus contain numerous references to some of the Old Testament’s most extraordinary events. A person cannot consistently maintain a belief in Jesus and His teachings, while denying the details of the accounts that He endorsed as factual. The testimony of Jesus and the factual accuracy of the stories He commended stand together.

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