Dr. Henry Zuill:

“As we look at the broad picture of biodiversity, it is clear that just as a body depends upon division of labor among cells, so an ecosystem depends upon division of labor provided by biodiversity.”

“Different organisms, with different enzyme systems, are essential links in these ecochemical pathways.”

“When we look at a species in terms of both the services it provides and those it requires, we are essentially referring to the “ecological niche,” generally defined as the role of a species in its environment.”

“Since no two occupied niches can be identical, or redundant, without one of the two species being competitively excluded, it appears reasonable to say that two species cannot provide and require identical ecological services.”

“Biodiversity, redundancy and resiliency permit an ecosystem to recover from severe damage and even ecosystem destruction.”

“…ecological complexity is built on layer upon layer of complexity, going all the way down through different hierarchical structural and organizational levels to the cell and even lower.”

“..ecological relationships are essential.”

“If biodiversity is as necessary for normal ecosystem operation it suggests that these services, and organisms providing them, had to have been simultaneously present right from the beginning.”

“If these ecological interrelationships are really indispensable, then there is no easy evolutionary explanation.”

“Complexity of the cell is now just too daunting to flippantly assert biochemical evolution to explain it, unless you close your mind and press on blindly and boldly.”

“It has now become quite a feat to think about cells originating through biochemical evolution. And if cells could not originate naturally, then nothing else could.”

“Since ecology is built upon so much underlying multispecies complexity, trying to explain the origin of ecology by chance events painfully stretches one’s credulity.”

“..coevolution appears to be no answer for understanding the origin of ecology.”

“There seems to be no adequate evolutionary way to explain how multiple organisms have once lived independently of services they now require.”

“…life on earth actually makes life on earth possible. That is, life on earth makes it possible for life on earth to continue. It is saying that the whole system had to be present for life to go on existing. If this is true, there is no room for gradually unfolding ecology.”

“Biodiversity does not specify a six-day creation, it is not that finely focused, but it strongly supports such a possibility.”

“Biodiversity studies, involving cross-species ecological integration, may be among the few scientific pursuits that have the potential for supporting what Scripture emphatically states.”

Dr. Henry Zuill is a emeritus professor at the Union College in Lincoln, Nebraska and is the curator of the Joshua C. Turner Arboretum of the Nebraska Statewide Arboretum. He has his B.A. in biology from Atlantic Union College, M.A., and a Ph.D. in biology from Loma Linda University, California. He is now currently retired from Union College.

For those just joining me on this journey of my look at scientists who do believe in the Genesis account the point is that scientists as in ALL scientists do not hold an evolutionist view or even a theistic evolution point of view. Indeed there are not a few legitimate, well studied, well reviewed scientists who do believe God was able to make this universe we live in in six 24ish-hour days not long ago.

See also:

No more sweeping statements by scientists on the origin of life, evolution and old earth creationism

12 more insights of young earth creation (YEC) scientist - Jerry Bergman, PhD, 2 of 2

12 more insights of young earth creation (YEC) scientist - Jeremy Walter, PhD, part 2 of 2

16 insights of young earth creation (YEC) scientist - John K. G. Kramer, PhD

Lasciviousness

Lasciviousness is one of those five syllable words in the King James Version of the Bible that everyone needs a dictionary for to check the meaning.

It is also one of the words perhaps that caused folk to think, “Hey we need another translation of the BOOK, one that people can understand.”

The NIV doesn’t help using the word debauchery in its place. The NASB calls it simply sensuality.

Practicing it will definitely keep you out of heaven.

The Mercury News gives an all too clear of example:

A 27-year old fellow found the lost dog of a teenager and tried to extort cash or sex before he would return the dog.

The man is locked up and prosecutors are planning to ask for $170,000 in bail.

There really are some serious perverts. Be sure to protect your kids.

There are those folk who would like to appease both camps, the evolutionists and the creationists. They are, of course, the theistic evolutionists = God pushed evolution along or stepped in at critical times to make sure things happened as they should. (a bit of an oversimplification perhaps.)

Indeed you cannot have it both ways.

Paul and Timothy of the New Testament seem to have a very different opinion on the matter.

Of course, if you don’t put any credence in the Bible, you can stop reading now.

These thoughts are for Bible believing Christians who want to believe in evolution, too.

You can’t have it both ways.

1 Timothy 2:13 says - “For Adam was formed first, then Eve.”

This is in keeping with Genesis 2.

I don’t know about you, but it is the simple explanation that seems the most reasonable to me. Simple, by the way, does not equal stupid.

How is that the theistic evolutionist explains this verse? I wonder.

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See also:

No more sweeping statements by scientists on the origin of life, evolution and old earth creationism

12 more insights of young earth creation (YEC) scientist - Jerry Bergman, PhD, 2 of 2

12 more insights of young earth creation (YEC) scientist - Jeremy Walter, PhD, part 2 of 2

16 insights of young earth creation (YEC) scientist - John K. G. Kramer, PhD

Question: What is a Christian Worldview?

Answer: A Christian Worldview is the lense, preconceptions, the mindset, the attitude from which a Christian looks at the world and the goings on in the world. It’s what the Christian thinks about when they read of a plane crash, a celebrity dying, a treasure being found or an injustice in the world.

I often touche on current events. Yeah, I read the news, too.

Instead of shaking my head at the news and thinking, “Yup, there s/he, it goes again.” I wonder to myself, “what does this happening remind me of in the Bible? What does the Bible have to say about this kind of event? What Biblical lesson can I learn here?”

My mind goes there a lot. It’s the way I look at things. I am a Christian. It is my worldview.

I don’t presume that all Christians will see or think about world events the way I do. And I welcome a different take than mine. Let me know.

Still the Bible is on my mind.

Deuteronomy 11:18-19 - “Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Teach them to your children, talking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.”

What do you think about when you read the news?

What is your worldview?

“One of the most compelling evidences in support of the instantaneous creation world view is the daily observation that information does not come about by chance and if left to itself, disorder usually soon results.”

“Complexity and information are compelling evidence that some outside intelligence (which in the case of archeologist’s findings was another human) has applied design skills.”

“Products produced by the nonliving world (such as smooth stones polished by moving water) could never produce either plant or animal life because all life is based on information, and the parts produced by that information must be assembled according to a designed plan.”

“Time, the chief escape that naturalism must rely on to support its theory, is thus a false god. Complex ordered structures of any kind (of which billions must exist in the body for it to work) cannot happen except by design and intelligence, and they must have occurred simultaneously for the unit to function. Scientists recognize this problem.”

“Evolutionists have not even been able to posit a mechanistic “first” coincidence, only the assumption that each step must have had a survival advantage and only by this means could evolution from simple to complex have occurred.”

“The probability of naturalistic evolution is essentially zero.”

“Researchers do not yet know all of the factors necessary for life ‘to live.’”

“The concept that life could produce itself if the proper circumstances existed is no longer accepted as possible by secular scientists.”

“This principle of science that life only comes from life is called the “law of biogenesis.”

“Scientists have demonstrated that the belief that “life” could come from “nonlife,” even if millions of years were available, is untenable.”

“There is not a shred of objective evidence to support the hypothesis that life began in an organic soup here on the earth.”

“All of the extant evidence reveals that there is nothing living on earth, either animal or plant, that did not receive its life from previous life, its sexual or asexual parent.”

Psalm 36:9 applies - “For with you is the fountain of life.”

Ask your gut, which makes more sense. Something from nothing or something from something. That’s the answer.

Jerry Bergman, PhD is a young earth creation (YEC) scientist. He holds two PhDs, one in sociology from Bowling Green State and one in human biology from Columbia Pacific University. He has been a consultant for more than 20 years on science text books.

See also:

12 more insights of young earth creation (YEC) scientist - Jeremy Walter, PhD, 2 of 2

and

12 insights of young earth creation (YEC) scientist - Jeremy Walter, PhD, (1 of 2)

and

12 insights of young earth creation (YEC) scientist - Jerry Bergman, PhD, part 1 of 2

The entire essay can be found here.

Michael Jackson spent the last night of his life performing, in rehearsals at the Staples Center, running through a slate of songs for his upcoming 50-concert London, flanked by friends and colleagues.

“He was just glowing, and you could see it, that he was finally seeing it all come together.”

MJ left rehearsals right before midnight and headed off to attend yet more meetings. He died 12 hours later.

Jesus spent the night before his death encouraging his friends/disciples over dinner, then in prayer, then on trial (a very different kind of meeting) before he was flogged and finally crucified. Big difference. Matthew 26-27 Yet, similar.

Both Michael Jackson and Jesus got to spend their last moments with friends.

Everyone should be surrounded by friends and family when the end is coming.

To be fair, Michael Jackson didn’t know it was his last day. Jesus did.

Governor Mark Sanford

It has been etched in stone (literally) for nearly 3,500 years. Written by the hand of God.

“You shall not commit adultery.” Exodus 20:14

The Creator said long ago, “Don’t go there!”

Still Governor Mark Sanford went there, apparently with more than one woman. According “to him he ‘crossed lines’ with a handful of women other than his mistress — but never had sex with them. The governor says he ‘never crossed the ultimate line’ with anyone but Maria Belen Chapur.”

Yeah, and Bill Clinton didn’t inhale.

More details here.

What happens when folk like Governor Sanford commit adultery is families are broken, trust is lost even from those you are closest to, kids lives are severly damaged even into future generations, lies are told and retold, careers are destroyed and more.

What happens to governors is the same thing that happens to anyone who ‘crosses lines’ whether the ‘ultimate line’ or not.

Adultery - don’t go there. It’s not worth the momentary pleasures. It is not real love.

Still there is forgiveness to be found. Adultery is NOT the unforgiveable sin. But, it hurts you and those around you for a long time.

Detroit Shooting

Of course…a person can’t sit in those little rooms all week long, now can they? Or can they?

A group of teenagers waiting at a bus stop near a Detroit school were fired upon by 2 people passing by in a green van. Seven  of the kids were wounded and three are in critical condition.

The kids had just left Cody Ninth Grade Academy. They had been taking summer classes.

The teenagers are four boys and three girls and their ages are from 14 to 17 years old.

More details here.

Question: Where is the safest place in the United States? Where is the one place where someone is least likely to get shot?

Answer: Sunday school.

The parable of the Good Samaritan.

Police are saying that a New York man running to the aid of another motorist fell to his death from a bridge.

It seems the fellow, 44-year old Kevin Ryan, didn’t know there was a large gap between the lanes.

Ryan was traveling on Route 23 in the town of Catskill, 30 miles south of Albany, at around 10:45 p.m. on Sunday evening.

Ryan noticed a vehicle overturned in the opposite lane. He then jumped over a concrete barrier not knowing there was a 17-foot wide gap between the eastbound and westbound lanes of the bridge.

Police say he fell nearly 50 feet to the rocks and concrete below. He was already dead when he got to the hospital.

There is no word about the passenger of the other car.

John Kramer, PhD. has a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Biochemistry from the University of Manitoba and a Ph.D. in Biochemistry with a minor in Organic Chemistry from the University of Minnesota.

He is a former Hormel Fellow at the Hormel Institute, Austin, MN (1968-70) and an NRC Fellow (1970-71) at the University of Ottawa.

He is a member of Agriculture Canada in Ottawa as a Research Scientist (1970-present).

He received the Government of Canada Merit Award (1983), the CSP Canola Research Award (1984), and the Dutton Research Award (1999).

Dr. Kramer has published over 147 refereed papers, 40 miscellaneous papers, 55 abstracts, 2 books and 11 chapters.

The scientist, John Kramer, PhD in biochemistry, says about young earth creation -

“It was obvious to me that life could not form or be sustained in either a reducing or oxidizing atmosphere, never mind the unlikely association of inanimate molecules to form highly ordered structures containing information, fragile biological cells, and processes where several parts all need to be working together simultaneously.”

“It would be easier to believe in a Creator who made it all, than in favorable conditions acting on inanimate matter over time.”

“I came to the firm conclusion that evolution lacked evidence to make it credible.”

“I became very disillusioned with evolutionists who managed to give good science followed by irrational conclusions that complex systems and processes just happened by some unexplained evolutionary mechanism plus time. No evidence. No logic. Just wishful dreaming.”

“It also became evident to me that both (creation and evolution) views were strictly a matter of belief. To me the creation scenario appeared more logical than an explosion followed by self-propelled organization of matter which does not possess these properties.”

“No one has ever demonstrated macroevolutionary changes on a molecular level, yet many people readily speculate evolutionary links between bacteria, plants, animals and man.”

“The changes (mutations) observed on a molecular level, such as DNA, are predominantly disruptive, and always with loss of, not gain in, information and complexity.”

Quoting Lee Spence, “‘Whoever thinks macroevolution can be made by mutations that lose information is like the merchant who lost a little money on every sale but thought he could make it up on volume.’”

“…to view thermophilic and halophilic bacteria as earlier and simpler forms of life is totally misrepresenting their complexity.”

” …to give these complex lipid structures common names containing the prefix ‘archae,’ to denote their evolutionary hierarchy, does not provide scientific evidence. It states one’s belief, but adds no scientific knowledge.”

“I have found that scientists do not maintain a strictly evolutionary approach in the biochemistry-nutrition area. I am delighted to see that scientists are becoming brave and pointing out the inconsistency of evolutionary thought.”

“…authors (scientists) who clearly demonstrate the inconsistency of evolution, leave the reader in a vacuum.”

“I believe the sum total of many facts would lead a person to reasonably conclude that the Genesis record may be the most plausible scenario.”

“Numerous pieces of evidence fit a young earth. To mention a few: the historical records, the population growth, the helium content in this world, the missing neutrinos from the sun [please see recent findings on this topic], the oscillation period of the sun, the decline of the earth’s magnetic field, the limited number of supernovas, radioactive halos, the mitochondrial DNA pointing to one mother, and the increase in genetic diseases.”

“Archeologists have no problem identifying man-made objects. Why then do we have problems identifying a Creator-made world?”

“He (God) established a blueprint for our life, six days of work and one day of rest (Exod. 20:8). It must have been painstaking for God to slow down to our pace, to six days. It would have been more His nature to create everything instantly.”

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The rest of the essay and references can be found here.

See also:

No more sweeping statements by scientists on the origin of life, evolution and old earth creationism

12 more insights of young earth creation (YEC) scientist - Jerry Bergman, PhD, 2 of 2

12 more insights of young earth creation (YEC) scientist - Jeremy Walter, PhD, part 2 of 2

Some 12 insights from Dr. Bergman.

“The origin of life could not have occurred by a gradual process but must have been instantaneous.”

“That life requires a certain minimum of parts is well documented and the only debate is how many millions of funcionally integrated parts are necessary.”

“Viruses are below the complexity level of needed for life and for this reason they must live as parasites that require complex cells in order to reproduce.” The question of where the viruses come from is an ‘enduring mystery’ in evolution.

“The problem for evolution caused by the enormous complexity required for life is quite well recognized and none of the proposals to overcome it are even remotely satisfactory.”

“Only an instantaneous creation of all the necessary parts as a functioning unit can produce life. No compelling evidence has ever been produced to disprove this conclusion, and much evidence exists for the instantaneous creation requirement.”

“The half-lives of many of the basic building blocks of life ‘are too short to allow for the adequate accumulation of these compounds.”

“A cell can develop into a complex organism only because of all the parts and instructions are in the original cell produced from conception.”

“The evolution of cells without organelles into cells with them is an ‘enduring mystery of evolution. There are no intermediate stages between the two.”

“To exist as a living organism, the human body had to be created fully formed. If blood was not already circulating when the first man was formed, he would die.”

“It is a logical inference tha the stars were created moving in their orbits and with their light in transit.”

“Nobel Laureate George Wald - the universe was designed for life.”

“No other method appears to exist to produce life other than creating instantaneously a fully functioning complete organism.”

This is the first half of insights from this scientist. And this is just the second scientist that I have written about. More to come.

Jerry Bergman, PhD is a young earth creation (YEC) scientist. He holds two PhDs, one in sociology from Bowling Green State and one in human biology from Columbia Pacific University. He has been a consultant for more than 20 years on science text books.

See also:

12 more insights of young earth creation (YEC) scientist - Jeremy Walter, PhD, 2 of 2

and

12 insights of young earth creation (YEC) scientist - Jeremy Walter, PhD, (1 of 2)

Revelation 4:11 applies - You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they were created and have their being.”

The entire essay can be found here.

No more sweeping statements such as “scientists say…” from folks who are smarter about some things than I am.

No more intimidation from folk who know words I can’t spell.

No more “I am smarter than you because you don’t understand what I am saying” attitude.

That’s it for me.

I am confident I can speak in languages and use words that many scientists don’t know.

Folk are no longer permitted to say “Scientists say…” as if all the scientists were in their pocket and make some all encompassing statement about the origin of life, evolution (micro or macro) old earth creationism or theistic evolution.

There are not a few, make that a LOT of scientists who are equally qualified and just as confident in the young earth creation world view of the beginning of things not to mention the latter have Bible writers on their side.

Statements such as “Some scientists believe…” are permissibile with ‘believe’ being the operative word.

But no more “Scientists say…” and pushing me or any/all other Christians into a corner.

No more.

Here’s just a few places to start to find scientists who can support their view of young earth creationism (YEC) with their research.

Institute for Creation Research

Answers in Genesis

Creationism

Discovery Institute

Creation Research

No, that’s not all there is.