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A brief report on the Creation Super Conference held at Muskoka Bible Centre (MBC) in August 2014
updated 10 years ago
00:00 Intro
1:23 It's a Gospel issue but not a salvation issue
2:31 What you need to believe to be saved
2:56 What don't you need to fully grasp to be saved
5:36 The Burgess Shale supports Noah's flood
7:40 Salvation and doctrines
9:30 4 connections between the Gospel and the age of the earth
16:46 An old earth destroys the Gospel
19:05 Natural selection is not evolution
20:45 An old earth = death before sin
22:52 Old earth leads people away from Christ
25:16 Noah's flood is the key to understanding the age of the earth
25:48 Summary
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A biblical and scientific approach to climate change (https://creation.com/climate-change)
0:00 Intro
1:03 97% of scientists agree?
3:30 Manipulated data
6:19 Blame Christianity for climate change?
7:41 More failed climate predictions
8:54 Oldest fossils refute evolution
10:30 Rising sea levels
14:21 Climate alarmism hurts kids
15:10 Coral reefs dying due to climate change?
16:32 Ocean acidification
18:13 Other environmental threats
20:16 CO2 is plant food
21:01 Much more CO2 is earth's past
21:30 Earth's magnetic field flipped fast
23:09 Other factors affecting global temperature
25:28 Summary
Continued in Part 2:
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—a biblical and scientific approach to climate change https://creation.com/climate-change
0:00 Intro
2:07 Reactions to climate change are affected by one's worldview
3:57 Noah's flood and climate change
4:49 The Ice Age and climate change
5:05 Climate: designed to be stable
5:19 Climate instability?
8:19 The epigenetic code
9:48 Limitations of science
13:37 CO2 levels over time
14:03 Warming over time
15:01 Less than 5% of CO2 from burning of fossil fuels
15:39 Water vapour: a more powerful greenhouse gas
16:39 Marxism/humanism connections to climate change
18:24 What about China and India?
19:40 Evolving fish?
21:33 'Hockey stick graph' problems
23:26 Failed climate predictions
25:09 Why panic? Temperature is rising very slowly
25:53 Predicting future temperature is difficult
26:18 Climate models fail to predict actual temperature data
Does this mean that the Bible’s history regarding thorns is wrong? No, the problem is that conventional geology ignores how the global flood of Noah profoundly affected earth’s sedimentary rock record. Such a cataclysm would have laid down vast sedimentary layers, including the ones deep in the fossil record containing thorns, after the Fall.
The fossil record, therefore, is not a record of evolutionary earth history, but is mostly the result of the biblical flood and its aftermath. Therefore, the Bible is correct when it tells us that thorns arose after the Fall.
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One of the key machines involved is the ribosome. According to the world’s leading science journal Nature: “The ribosome, together with its accessories, is probably the most sophisticated machine ever made. All of its components are active and moving, and it is environmentally friendly…”
Ribosomes, however, are not just stunning examples of nanotechnology—they also seriously undermine the idea that life arose spontaneously. Life is not possible without ribosomes, so if a hypothetical first living cell arose spontaneously, this means ribosomes must have arisen spontaneously also. Call me a skeptic if you like, but the idea that sophisticated machines can arise without a designer sounds like a fairy tale.
Some have suggested an ancient river might have carried the boulders, but calculations suggest the water would need to have been over 60 metres deep and travelling faster than 100 km per hour. This suggests a geological catastrophe far exceeding a local flash flood.
So how did the boulders get there? The Bible provides a compelling answer. During the recessive stage of the flood, tremendous currents would have scoured the continents, transporting many boulders vast distances. This also explains why many of these boulders have marks testifying to violent collisions during transportation. Thus the Bible provides the answer to a geological mystery.
The strata exposed in the walls of the Grand Canyon provide another example. Some of these sedimentary formations extend thousands of kilometres across North America. Such vast sedimentary layers suggest that geological processes must have occurred in the past that we don’t observe today. Sedimentary deposits forming today are localised and confined to river deltas, lakebeds and along narrow strips of coastline.
Sedimentary blankets covering vast areas are exactly what we would expect if the global flood recorded in the Bible actually occurred.
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These results seriously undermine the evolutionary story of long ages of earth history. However, they fit nicely with Biblical history, whereby dinosaurs lived only thousands of years ago, with their fossils forming from animals buried during Noah’s Flood.
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Since the 1960s, the scientific literature has reported the presence of pollen and spores within a rock layer called the Roraima Formation in South America. This formation is supposedly over 550 million years old, yet according to evolutionary theory, flowering plants that produce pollen didn't evolve for another 390 million years!
So why do we find pollen in the fossil record so long before the first flowering plants appear? The simplest explanation is that the fossil record doesn't represent the evolution of life on this planet over eons of time, but is better explained as a consequence of the year-long global flood of Noah and its aftermath. This is recorded in the book of Genesis, chapters 6, 7, and 8. To find out more from Creation Ministries International visit our website CREATION.com
Indeed, these footprints are so significant that they have prompted some scientists to say: "we thought we'd pinned down the origin of limbed tetrapods. We have to rethink the whole thing."
Isn't it amazing how just a little bit of new evidence can completely undermine a neat evolutionary story? To find out more from Creation Ministries International visit our website CREATION.com
An answer comes from basic genetics. Unlike other traits that are controlled by multiple genes, the A, B, and O blood types are controlled by a single gene. However, this gene comes in three slightly different versions, known as alleles, and that is why we have these three possible major blood types.
When God created Adam and Eve, He could have created them with great genetic variety. This means Adam and Eve could have possessed all three alleles between them. However, blood type O appears to be due to a mutated or damaged version of blood type A allele, which suggests it arose later in human history. This means Adam and Eve would only need to possess the A and B alleles between them. So the origin of blood types is consistent with the Bible’s history.
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However, recent genetic research shows that modern humans and Neandertals interbred, suggesting that Neandertals and people living today should be classified as the same species.
After sequencing the Neandertal genome, the world's leading authority on 'ancient' DNA, Svante Paäbo, concluded:
"Many would say that a species is a group of organisms that can produce fertile offspring with each other and cannot do so with members of other groups. From that perspective we had shown that Neandertals and modern humans were the same species."
Neandertals were humans, not ape-men, contrary to 150 years of story-telling. To find out more from Creation Ministries International visit our website Creation.com
However, did you know that the secular geologists have identified seven other mass extinctions in the portion of the geological record that contains complex plant and animal life? This shows that scientists are increasingly recognising the catastrophic nature of the geologic record. This goes against old ideas of only slow-and-gradual processes being responsible for all the rocks and fossils.
These new perspectives are much more in line with a Biblical view of earth history, whereby Noah’s flood wiped out all air-breathing land animals not on the Ark. No, there were not eight mass extinctions in earth history—but there certainly was one massive extinction event!
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However, even though this story is often repeated as fact, many scientists don’t believe it.
For instance, in their book The Great Dinosaur Extinction Controversy, two evolutionary scientists explain how the meteorite idea has become a new dogma that has outstripped the evidence. They expose many problems with the theory. For instance, how did some organisms that require daily sunlight inexplicably manage to survive an event that supposedly blacked out the sun and caused 50% of species on earth to go extinct!
So, it appears that even the best evolutionary theory of dinosaur extinction can’t see the light of day!
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Chapters
0:00 Intro
1:09 DNA compared with software
2:02 Darwin's theory destroyed
5:43 DNA needs to be translated
8:38 Miller-Urey experiment: evidence against abiogenesis
10:17 The impossibility of ape to human evolution
11:00 Haldane's Dilemma
13:24 'Junk DNA' to the rescue?
17:28 DNA: way more complex than software
18:05 1st dimension of the human genome
18:18 2nd dimension of the human genome
20:03 3rd dimension of the human genome
22:27 4th dimension of the human genome
24:16 Results of 10-year "Genotype Expression Project"
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However, far from supporting microbes-to-man evolution, these mutant fish have actually devolved, not evolved! That's because the fish have become resistant through a loss of genetic information.
Non-resistant fish have special proteins in their cells that allow the poisons to bind. However, due to a genetic mutation, the proteins of resistant fish cannot bind the poisons as readily. So, 'corrupted' proteins have made the fish resistant. And in the poison-rich environment of the Hudson River, it's no wonder that the mutated gene facilitating resistance has quickly spread through the tomcod population. It is misleading to call these changes 'evolution', because evolution requires the addition of new genetic information, but these resistant fish have only demonstrated information loss. To find out more from Creation Ministries International visit our website CREATION.com
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This has significant implications for the dating of rocks using radioactive decay. That’s because helium is formed when some radioisotopes decay, and therefore lots of helium suggests lots of decay has occurred. Moreover, if lots of decay has occurred, it also suggests that the rock is very old. However, Nuclear Physicist Dr Russell Humphreys realised that lots of helium trapped in the rock crystals that had not had time to diffuse out means that the rocks were actually young. Dr Humphreys concluded that nuclear decay rates must have been dramatically faster in the recent past, and that is why rocks that are actually only thousands of years old are commonly wrongly dated using radioisotope decay as millions or billions of years old. To find out more from Creation Ministries International visit our website CREATION.com
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The Grand Canyon, with its distinctive layers exposed in the canyon walls, has been carved through a high plateau. However, if we follow the layers into the eastern part of Arizona, we see the same rock units about a mile lower in elevation. In this area, we see significant folding of the layers.
According to conventional geology, this uplift and folding occurred long after the sediments had hardened into rock, so it should have caused significant fracturing of the rocks. But this is not what we find. Instead, it appears that the layers—which supposedly represent 300 million years of earth history—have undergone plastic deformation, without fracturing. This suggests the sediments were soft and unconsolidated when they bent. This contradicts evolutionary earth history, but it fits nicely with the layers forming during the Biblical Flood and being bent before they had become hard rock. To find out more from Creation Ministries International visit our website CREATION.com
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This video features clips from 1 hour of content on climate change from these 4 videos:
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0:00 CO2 levels are increasing
0:49 Temperature increase not due entirely to CO2 levels
1:47 Human CO2 contributions are small
2:23 Focus in biggest CO2 contributors?
3:02 Problems with the 'hockey stick' graph
3:56 Noah's flood and CO2
4:48 CO2 is plant food - more CO2 needed
The global flood recorded in the Bible provides a compelling answer. As the waters rose during Noah’s Flood, various mechanisms—such as tidal movements of the water—caused flood-laid sediments to be briefly exposed. This allowed dinosaurs that had previously been caught up in the currents, to make tracks on the freshly-laid sediments, before the sediments were inundated again.
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The evidence for these reversals is rock solid, because when molten rock cools, certain mineral grains align with the earth’s magnetic field, thus recording the direction of Earth’s magnetic field at the time, in the solidified rock.
Previously, most geologists thought that a single reversal would take many thousands of years. However, creationist physicist, Dr Russell Humphreys, reasoned they must have happened quickly to fit within the biblical timescale.
So Dr Humphreys made a prediction that quickly-cooling thin lava flows would be found that recorded fast changes in the direction of the magnetic field.
This prediction was later proven correct. Scientists were shocked to find major magnetic field changes had occurred within weeks in a single lava flow. They published this in the regular scientific literature. Thus yet another scientific prediction, based on biblical history, proved to be correct. To find out more from Creation Ministries International visit our website creation.com
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Noah’s flood was a worldwide catastrophe that deposited much of earth’s fossil-bearing rocks. However, within these rocks, we find what appear to be dropstones. This is often interpreted as evidence of previous ice ages. And since you can’t have ice ages occurring during the flood, this has prompted some to claim that dropstones disprove Noah’s flood.
However, dropstones can be formed by mechanisms that don’t involve icebergs. For example, floating tree stumps can have rocks entangled within them, which are then dropped on the ocean floor. Moreover, recent research in the journal “Marine Geology” has shown that a large seaweed known as kelp has a surprising ability to carry and drop sizeable rocks. So dropstones don’t disprove Noah’s flood. To find out more from Creation Ministries International visit our website creation.com
However, many boundaries don’t show any evidence of elapsed time. The Grand Canyon provides startling examples. One is where the Coconino Sandstone overlies the Hermit Shale. The surface between these rock layers is remarkably flat and smooth—a ‘flat gap’. Yet according to conventional geology, there is a 6 million year gap between these rock layers. The underlying shale is a soft rock, so it should have eroded a lot if exposed for this time. But the Hermit Shale doesn’t show this erosion. This shows that the upper sandstone was deposited on the lower shale so quickly that there was not time for erosion of the shale. Something is obviously wrong with the conventional geological timescale. To find out more from Creation Ministries International visit our website creation.com
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0:00 Intro
2:11 The 2-year-old test
2:43 Humans at different stages from conception
4:17 Secular arguments against abortion
4:46 Biologists: Life begins at conception
6:53 Why murder is wrong
7:47 Newborn less valuable than a pig?
9:11 Feminists against abortion
10:25 Abort disabled babies?
11:34 Roe V Wade overturned
13:52 The Bible on abortion
17:08 'Famous violinist' argument
19:52 Abortion justified in rape cases?
20:57 Abortion to save the mother?
23:00 Pro-life arguments refuted?
27:27 No one has the right to murder babies
Epigenetics poses new problems for evolution. For instance, a group of animals with a camouflaged coat colour might be favoured in a particular environment, but if this coat colour is due to epigenetics and not the actual DNA code, then the non-camouflaged animals would be selected against in vain. When the epigenetic modification is reset by a diet change, natural selection is sent back to square one.
The field of epigenetics, therefore, creates problems for evolution and strongly points to a master programmer who invented the DNA and epigenetic codes.
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However, this argument is far from ‘rock solid’, because true mud cracks are easy to confuse with cracks formed by other mechanisms that don’t involve a period of drying out. For instance, it is well known that structures resembling mud cracks can form underwater. Moreover, research suggests that true mud cracks could develop within hours. So flood sediments, briefly exposed with tidal movements as the waters rose, could shrink and crack very quickly.
Thus cracks in mud don’t disprove the flood! To find out more from Creation Ministries International visit our website creation.com
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DNA is a fragile molecule, and so it breaks down quickly. Measurements of DNA stability suggest it could last thousands of years, at best, under the likely conditions.
But 80 million years was just too incredible for other skeptical scientists. Eventually, these skeptics were vindicated—as it became apparent that the original researchers had sequenced contaminating human DNA, not dinosaur DNA.
However, in 2012 a different group of researchers published new results supporting the discovery of actual dinosaur DNA. These new results appear much harder to disprove, with the researchers applying multiple checks against contamination from non-dinosaur sources.
The preservation of dinosaur DNA doesn’t make sense from an evolutionary perspective. But it fits biblical history, whereby dinosaurs lived thousands of years ago, not millions of years ago. To find out more from Creation Ministries International visit our website creation.com
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