Baptist KJV Fellowship with StMatthew!!!

[Phil413]

:wave:Good afternoon Matt and friends, hope everyone is enjoying their weekend thus far.

[newbeliever02072005]

Hi Phil

Yea been a good weekend so far. Last night we had a "Popcorn and Sing" Nice fellowship and music. This morning had the women's bible study (Beth Moore's Breaking Freeing, Making Liberity in Christ a Reality in Life"). Then came home to enjoy the kids sledding in the snow. Tomorrow is church so that always ends the weekend perfectly or is it start the week perfectly?? :D

[StMatthew2429]

Hello there friends!!!:wave:

Thanks for stopping by!!!!

What a busy weekend indeed!:D

I hope you all had a wonderful couple days as well...

I am curently as I type watching the Broncos beat the Patriots!!!
What a great game!!!:clap:

Im praying and got my hopes way up that the Broncos will be victorious!!!:prayer:

GODD Bless!!!:groupray:

[BLUEEYEANGEL]

good night matt.

[StMatthew2429]

good night matt.

:wave:good night...and sleep tight my friend...
:sleep:

:D

Have a wonderful sunday for the Lord sister!:clap:

GOD BLESS YOU!:groupray:

[angelwind]

Good Sunday morning to everyone...http://www.mindspring.com/~we2dogs/images/AHUGSANDKISSES.jpg

[MyLilyintheValley]

Good Sunday morning to everyone...http://www.mindspring.com/~we2dogs/images/AHUGSANDKISSES.jpg
Same here Angelwind. Greetings to all. :hug: :kiss:

[MatthewPoole]

Howdy All,

Hope everyone is enjoying thier Sunday.

From the Fundy your momma warned you about!

MP
:preach:

[angelwind]

Hello there friends!!!:wave:

Thanks for stopping by!!!!

What a busy weekend indeed!:D

I hope you all had a wonderful couple days as well...

I am curently as I type watching the Broncos beat the Patriots!!!
What a great game!!!:clap:

Im praying and got my hopes way up that the Broncos will be victorious!!!:prayer:

GODD Bless!!!:groupray:

We are NASCAR fans here...our season starts again next month...hope your team wins.

[newbeliever02072005]

http://www.goodtimes2.com/JesusPray.jpg
Happy Moments - Praise God

Difficult Moments - Seek God

Quiet Moments - Worship God

Painful Moments - Trust God

Every Moment - Thank God
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[StMatthew2429]

:wave:Good morning Everybody!:wave:

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what a weekend...thanks for stoppin by yall:D

You are all such wonderful beautiful spirits of the Lord!

God bless and Peace to you all!:groupray:

[StMatthew2429]

Here is todays BIBLE Study!...ENJOY!!!

Monday, January 16 2006

Landmark

A landmark is a durable object used as a legal reference point between properties, whether on a relatively minor scale, such as adjoining fields between farms, to boundaries between nations, or territories within nations. Known from the most ancient times (and throughout Bible History (http://www.keyway.ca/htm2002/biblhist.htm) - see text below) right to the present (the photo shows a landmark on the national border between Canada and the United States), landmarks very often were a stone, hence the reason that landmarks were also often known as boundary stones. Moving or violating a landmark is a high crime in the eyes of God, not only because it is a violation of the Commandment against theft, but also because it is an arrogant attack on God's sovereignty i.e. "for all the earth is Mine" (Exodus 19:5 KJV) and "Thou hast set all the borders of the earth" (Psalm 74:17 KJV). "Remove not the old landmark ... For their Redeemer is mighty"

Property law was codified by God very early. Violating a property or border landmark has always been very easy - the difficulty, the lethal wrath, begins from the homeland defenders, and from God, after the criminal crosses the line i.e. "Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour's landmark" (see below).

http://www.keyway.ca/jpg/boundary.jpg

"Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's landmark, which they of old time have set in thine inheritance" (Deuteronomy 19:14 KJV) "Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set" (Proverbs 22:28 KJV)

"Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour's landmark" (Deuteronomy 27:17 KJV)

When the Israelites entered their physical promised land, they were not taking the property of the people who had been living there (i.e. Amorites, Canaanites, Jebusites - references to "their land" meant simply that the Amorites, Canaanites, Jebusites were occupying the land, not the God-decreed owners of it). All of the earth has belonged to The Lord right from the time that He created it. As the sole ultimate Owner, He granted that particular territory to the Israelite descendants of Abraham centuries before they arrived to claim it after the Exodus. The Israelites were already the prescribed owners long before they arrived.



"The Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates" (Genesis 15:18 KJV) Nevertheless, when The Lord decreed the boundaries of Israel, He was not merely protecting the rights of the people of Israel; He was also protecting the property rights of the other nations across the borders from Israel. If that were not the case, The Lord would not have decreed borders for Israel at all. With The Lord with them, the Israelites were invincible, they could have over-run the world like a cancer - with the same devastating result as a cancer (as lustful and covetous humans have been doing throughout history - see Ancient Empires - Assyria (http://www.keyway.ca/htm2002/ancassy.htm), Ancient Empires - Babylon (http://www.keyway.ca/htm2000/20000214.htm), Ancient Empires - Greece (http://www.keyway.ca/htm2002/greekemp.htm), Ancient Empires - Persia (http://www.keyway.ca/htm2002/persia.htm) and Ancient Empires - Rome (http://www.keyway.ca/htm2002/emprome.htm)).

But unlike the foreign policy of man, God's "foreign policy" is not a malignancy toward the rest of humanity, the rest of God's children. An example, when The Lord protected the property rights of the people of Esau and the Moabites, among all others across the boundaries of Israel, from invasion by the Israelites:



"Meddle not with them; for I will not give you of their land, no, not so much as a foot breadth; because I have given mount Seir unto Esau for a possession" (Deuteronomy 2:5 KJV) "The Lord said unto me, Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle: for I will not give thee of their land for a possession" (Deuteronomy 2:9 KJV)

Fact Finder: Even within Israel itself, did The Lord decree legal territorial allotments for each of the tribes of Israel?
See Tribal Lands (http://www.keyway.ca/htm2002/tribland.htm)


This Day In History, January 16

27 BC: The accession of Augustus, the first Roman emperor, (reigned 31 BC - 14 AD). He was emperor at the time of the birth of Jesus Christ (Luke 2:1) (see Caesar Augustus (http://www.keyway.ca/htm2000/20000503.htm))

1547: Ivan IV (Ivan the Terrible) became the first Russian Czar.

1556: Charles I of Spain was succeeded by his son, Philip II.

1581: The English parliament passed legislation against Catholicism.

1604: At the Hampton Court Conference in England, a motion was presented to King James I that a new translation of the Bible be made. It led to the publication of the "Authorized" version of the Bible in 1611 (see The King James Bible (http://www.keyway.ca/htm2002/kingjame.htm)).

1756: The Treaty of Westminster was signed by King George II of England and Frederick of Prussia, providing Hanover's neutrality during the Anglo-French wars.

1780: The British under Admiral George Rodney defeated a Spanish squadron at Cape St. Vincent, thus relieving Gibraltar.

1786: The Council of Virginia guaranteed religious freedom.

1794: Edward Gibbon, author of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, died.

1809: The British army under Sir John Moore defeated a superior French force at the battle of Corunna, but Moore was killed in the fighting.

1920: Prohibition in the United States began, outlawing the sale or manufacture of alcohol.

1945: Adolf Hitler returned to his Berlin bunker where he would remain for the few remaining months of his life. This date is also regarded as the end of the failed German Ardennes offensive, known as the Battle of The Bulge.

1950: Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg recognized Israel de jure.

1956: The Egyptian government made Islam the state religion.

1979: The Shah of Iran was forced into exile by Ayatollah Khomeini.

1982: Britain established full diplomatic relations with the Vatican.

1991: The Iraq war ("Operation Desert Storm") began with the massive bombing of targets in Iraq and occupied Kuwait

http://www.keyway.ca/htm2006/20060116.htm

[StMatthew2429]

This Weeks BIBLE QUIZ...ENJOY!!!


1. How many people were there on Noah's ark during The Flood (http://www.keyway.ca/htm2002/flood.htm)?

2. Which did Noah send out first, a raven or a dove?

3. What is the name of the mountain where the ark came to rest?

4. What did God tell Noah about what the rainbow meant?

5. Which of Noah's sons had a name that began with an "S"?

6. Which of Noah's sons had a name that began with an "H"?

7. Which of Noah's sons had a name that began with an "J"?

8. True or false: No one knows the name of Noah's wife.

9. Did Jesus Christ (http://www.keyway.ca/htm2002/christ.htm) ever mention Noah?

10. Was Noah's ark much smaller or much larger than a modern-day Boeing 747 airliner?

[StMatthew2429]

Daily Glory of GOD photo for Jan 16, 2006

"The heavens declare the glory of God"
~~Psalms 19:1

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|"The Center of Centaurus A"

[angelwind]

Good morning friends...http://www.mindspring.com/~we2dogs/Coffeebear.gif

[StMatthew2429]

Good morning friends...

Good morning angelwind...:wave::hug:

How you doing today sister?

Did ya get over that virus yet?:scratch:

Im diggin the hair...:thumbsup:

[newbeliever02072005]

2. Which did Noah send out first, a raven or a dove? Raven

5. Which of Noah's sons had a name that began with an "S"? Shem

6. Which of Noah's sons had a name that began with an "H"? Ham

7. Which of Noah's sons had a name that began with an "J"? Japheth

8. True or false: No one knows the name of Noah's wife. True

[MyLilyintheValley]

Good morning friends...http://www.mindspring.com/~we2dogs/Coffeebear.gif
Cute good morning picture, angelwind.:thumbsup:
Good morning Matt and friends. Hope you all are having a great day.:wave:

[angelwind]

Good morning angelwind...:wave::hug:

How you doing today sister?

Did ya get over that virus yet?:scratch:

Im diggin the hair...:thumbsup:


You always make me chuckle Matthew...this flaming red hair is "good"...but you like red hair too.

Hello newbeliever and mylily....I am off to a regular dr.s appointment today...I think I am sort of better...sort of LOl...may not go as often for treatments. I am thru with the worst of that virus...:bow: :bow: :bow: :clap: :clap: :clap:

[angelwind]

2. Which did Noah send out first, a raven or a dove? Raven

5. Which of Noah's sons had a name that began with an "S"? Shem

6. Which of Noah's sons had a name that began with an "H"? Ham

7. Which of Noah's sons had a name that began with an "J"? Japheth

8. True or false: No one knows the name of Noah's wife. True


I think it is fun to answer these questions...:hug:

[StMatthew2429]

8. True or false: No one knows the name of Noah's wife. True

nice job newbeliever...:thumbsup:

I have read that Noah at 498 years takes Naamah at 580 years for a wife. She is the sister of his grandfather Methuselah and daughter of Enoch.

...but its technically not in the Bible, so I can't believe it.
:D

[StMatthew2429]

You always make me chuckle Matthew...this flaming red hair is "good"...but you like red hair too.

Right back at ya friend!:D

I am off to a regular dr.s appointment today...I think I am sort of better...sort of LOl...may not go as often for treatments. I am thru with the worst of that virus...

AMEN Sister!!!:clap:

See that? Praise the Lord!!!!:bow::angel:

[StMatthew2429]

Good morning Matt and friends. Hope you all are having a great day.:wave:

I know I am sister..Thanks!:thumbsup:

you too!!!!:D

[shakingthedustoffmyfeet]

Good afternoon, St. Matt.
Saw that shirt you posted and it gave me a laugh. I had some of those, too, but did not know what they were called. Stretchy polyester....

[StMatthew2429]

Good afternoon, St. Matt.
Saw that shirt you posted and it gave me a laugh. I had some of those, too, but did not know what they were called. Stretchy polyester....

Thanks friend...

yes...Nik Nik Shirts...:D

http://www.ballyhoovintage.com/miva/images/69781.jpg

you gotta love em!:thumbsup:

[StMatthew2429]

:wave:Good Evening everybody...

I hope everyone is feeling well tonight...

Just stoppin in for my 5000TH POST!!!

:clap:HOORAY!!!:clap:

I would just like to thank all of you for being such great friends. You are all such special people, and Im honered to be apart of such a special place for GODs children.:)

Thanks everybody!:hug:

[newbeliever02072005]

Good Evening everybody...

I hope everyone is feeling well tonight...

Just stoppin in for my 5000TH POST!!!

HOORAY!!!

I would just like to thank all of you for being such great friends. You are all such special people, and Im honered to be apart of such a special place for GODs children.

Thanks everybody!


congratulations matthew!!!

Here are some balloons to celebrate with!

http://www.iflorist.com/en/images/items/if_5000al.jpg

Looking forward to continuing to fellowship with you......God Bless!!!

[angelwind]

:wave:Good Evening everybody...

I hope everyone is feeling well tonight...

Just stoppin in for my 5000TH POST!!!

:clap:HOORAY!!!:clap:

I would just like to thank all of you for being such great friends. You are all such special people, and Im honered to be apart of such a special place for GODs children.:)

Thanks everybody!:hug:



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:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :hug: :wave: :angel:

[JPPT1974]

Hello Matthew
God bless you
Keep up the good work
Doing fine which is the good news
Bad news now
My Colts lost :cry:
But hey there's always next year
I am now hoping for the Broncos to defeat the Steelers
And the Seahawks to go to the Super Bowl since they have never been in it.
:hug: :kiss:

[BLUEEYEANGEL]

5000 post
congrats




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thanks 4 the pics u2

[StMatthew2429]

Wow..thanks everybody....yall know how to make a guy feel good.:D

Hey JPPT I know how ya feel sister. What a game that was! I thought for sure they would have pulled it out in the end. Thats ok. There is allways next year.
We must share the same football brain cause Im right with you...down with Steelers, go Broncos and Seahawks!:pray:

Thanks so much for the pics and stuff everybody!:thumbsup:

GOD BLESS!:groupray:

[StMatthew2429]

Here is todays BIBLE Study..ENJOY!!!

Tuesday, January 17 2006

The Only True Gospel

Gospel is one of the most well-known words to Christian-professing people, and yet, as with so many other things, there is a vast difference in its accepted meaning in the minds of people, all of whom claim to be Christian. There is "gospel music," there's the "social gospel," and many more that people have invented for themselves. Gospel literally means good news, but good news of what? The books of Matthew (http://www.keyway.ca/htm2002/matthew.htm), Mark (http://www.keyway.ca/htm2002/markbook.htm), Luke (http://www.keyway.ca/htm2002/lukebook.htm) and John (http://www.keyway.ca/htm2002/johnbook.htm) are called "the Gospels," but Gospels of what? In the words of Jesus Christ, "He said unto them, I must preach the Kingdom of God" (Luke 4:43 KJV)

The Truth From The Beginning

The only true Gospel was already known to God's people in the Old Testament. Hebrews 11:9-10 states that Abraham "sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise: for he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God," see The City To Come (http://www.keyway.ca/htm2002/20020212.htm) and When Did Faith Begin? (http://www.keyway.ca/htm2004/20040929.htm)), but from a New Testament perspective, the true Gospel began with Jesus Christ (http://www.keyway.ca/htm2002/christ.htm), after John the Baptist had prepared the way:

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"In those days came John the Baptist [see The Elijahs (http://www.keyway.ca/htm2001/20010526.htm)], preaching in the wilderness of Judaea, And saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight." (Matthew 3:1-3 KJV) "Now when Jesus had heard that John was cast into prison [see John's Last Days (http://www.keyway.ca/htm2003/20030827.htm)], He departed into Galilee; And leaving Nazareth, He came and dwelt in Capernaum, which is upon the sea coast, in the borders of Zabulon and Nephthalim: That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, The land of Zabulon, and the land of Nephthalim, by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles; The people which sat in darkness saw great light (http://www.keyway.ca/htm2004/20041016.htm); and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up. From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand ... And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people." (Matthew 4:12-17,23 KJV)

From Whom Did The True Gospel Originate?

The true Gospel came from God, and was delivered by Jesus Christ exactly as God commanded Him. Jesus Christ was not at liberty to invent His own "gospel" - and neither is anyone else.



"For I have not spoken of Myself; but the Father which sent Me, He gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak. And I know that His commandment is life everlasting: whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I speak." (John 12:49-50 KJV) "Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love Me, he will keep my words [see Do You Know Him? (http://www.keyway.ca/htm2002/20021013.htm)]: and My Father will love him, and We will come unto him, and make our abode with him. He that loveth Me not keepeth not My sayings: and the word which ye hear is not Mine, but the Father's which sent Me." (John 14:23-24 KJV)

God's Gospel About The Kingdom Of God

The true Gospel is about the coming Kingdom of God:



"He said to them, "I must preach the good news of the Kingdom of God to the other cities also; for I was sent for this purpose." (Luke 4:43 RSV) "Pray then like this: Our Father Who art in heaven, Hallowed be Thy Name. Thy Kingdom come..." (Matthew 6:9-10 RSV)

When Does The Kingdom Of God Begin?

One of the most spectacular prophecies of the Bible involves the establishment of The Kingdom of God (http://www.keyway.ca/htm2002/kingdom.htm) at The Return Of Jesus Christ (http://www.keyway.ca/htm2002/theretrn.htm). If the Kingdom of God were here now, the world would not be the Satanic mess that it still is now (see Who Still Rules The World Today? (http://www.keyway.ca/htm2001/20010504.htm)), with so many nations being misled by "slag" politicians (see What Rises To The Top? (http://www.keyway.ca/htm2004/20041008.htm)), many of whom are going to attempt to fight the Messiah when He returns to rule i.e. "These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings" (Revelation 17:14 KJV). When the Kingdom of God is here (and this surely does not apply anywhere on earth now) "they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more" (Micah 4:3 KJV):



"And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever. Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold [see Daniel's Statue (http://www.keyway.ca/htm2002/danstat.htm)]; the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure." (Daniel 2:44-45 KJV) Fact Finder: What did the apostle Paul warn those who preached any different "gospel" than the true Gospel of coming Kingdom of God?
Galatians 1:6-9


This Day In History, January 17

395: Upon the death of Emperor Theodosius I, the Roman Empire was no longer ruled by a single leader. Theodosius had divided the empire into western and eastern portions, thereby creating the prophesied "two legs" of Daniel's Statue (http://www.keyway.ca/htm2002/danstat.htm).

1377: Pope Gregory XI restored the papacy to Rome from Avignon, France, where it had resided for 72 years. It had been moved there by French Pope Clement V in 1305, to escape the political turmoil in Italy at the time.

1562: The Edict of St. Germain took effect by which the Huguenots (French Protestants) were recognized in France. On the same day, the Duke of Guise and the Cardinal of Lorraine formed a union to block the edict.

1601: The Treaty of Lyons was signed between France, Spain and Savoy under which Henry IV gained Bresse, Bugey, Gex and Valromey.

1773: The Resolution, under Captain James Cook, became the first ship to enter Antarctic waters.

1775: 9 women in Kalisk, Poland were burnt as witches, accused of causing bad harvests.

1893: Rutherford Hayes, the 19th U.S. president, died.

1912: Captain Robert Scott's expedition reached the South Pole, a month after Roald Amundsen of Norway.

1939: The Nazi government in Germany prohibited Jews from working as dentists, veterinarians and chemists.

1945: The Soviet Red Army liberated and occupied Warsaw, Poland, from German forces.

1950: Brink's headquarters in Boston was robbed of $2 million.

1966: A U.S. B-52 bomber collided in mid-air with a refueling tanker over Spain. 8 people were killed, and the bomber released its H-bomb into the Atlantic.

1977: Double-murderer Gary Gilmore became the first person to be executed in the U.S. since the reintroduction of the death penalty. He chose a firing squad.

1994: An earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter scale struck Los Angeles, killing 61 people and causing extensive damage.

1995: More than 6,000 people were killed after a strong earthquake struck central Japan. Measuring 7.2 on the Richter scale, the earthquake, centered around the port of Kobe, was the biggest quake to hit Japan in half a century.


http://www.keyway.ca/htm2006/20060117.htm

[StMatthew2429]

Daily Glory of GOD photo for Jan 17, 2006

"The heavens declare the glory of God"
~~Psalms 19:1

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0411/aurora_venhaus_big.jpg

" Aurora Over Wisconsin"

[angelwind]

Good morning...good morning to everyone...:wave: http://www.mindspring.com/~we2dogs/images/sword.bmp

[CaptainMercy]

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[MyLilyintheValley]

Good afternoon Matt and friends. God bless.

[StMatthew2429]

:wave:Good afternoon angel, BV, and MyLily!:wave:

hope yall are havin a great day!:D

GOD bless!:angel:

:groupray:

[Phil413]

Good afternoon everyone...:wave:

[shakingthedustoffmyfeet]

Good evening, Saint Matt.

[StMatthew2429]

Good morning Everybody!:wave:

http://www.ritman.co.za/images/sunrise/large/sunrise04_normal.jpg

The mornings are the inspiration to an adventurous day and for those who get up early you are certainly going to see Gods paintings of a new day.

[StMatthew2429]

Here is todays BIBLE Study...ENJOY!!!

Wednesday, January 18 2006

Many Antichrists?

The well-known term antichrist is from the Greek word (pronounced) an-tee-kris-toess. It means opposition to the Messiah (Christ is the Greek (http://www.keyway.ca/htm2002/greekal.htm) version of the Hebrew (http://www.keyway.ca/htm2002/hebrewal.htm) Messiah). "Antichrist" is specifically found only five times in the Holy Scriptures, four times as "antichrist" and once as "antichrists." It was used only by the apostle John, and only in two of his Epistles (http://www.keyway.ca/htm2000/20000714.htm) to the church in which he was speaking, not of pagans or people of other religions who opposed Christianity, but of people who had fallen away from true Christianity because they had been led astray by the "spirit of antichrist." They alone were not antichrist, but by their apostasy had become among those who were also antichrist. Antichrist was a hostile force, not a specific person i.e. "antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists" (1 John 2:18 KJV) "antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists"

John never spoke exclusively of "the antichrist," but of antichrist as an opposing attitude toward the true Messiah. John's first reference to antichrist speaks of people who had fallen away from the church and became antichrist by their rejection of the Truth:

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"Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time. They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us." (1 John 2:18-19 KJV) Who is antichrist? Logically, as John plainly states, "he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ." Can they deny that Jesus is the Christ if they never knew of Jesus the Christ? Not according to John, who pleaded with the Christian recipients of his letters to continue in the Truth, so as to not become antichrist:



"Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son. Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: but he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also. Let that therefore abide in you, which ye have heard from the beginning. If that which ye have heard from the beginning shall remain in you, ye also shall continue in the Son, and in the Father." (1 John 2:22-24 KJV) Here John plainly contrasts the Holy Spirit of God with "that spirit of antichrist," an attitude of opposing the reality of Christ, Who Christ is, What Christ is. The antichrists that John speaks of were not people on the outside, but people who had "gone out into the world":



"Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ (http://www.keyway.ca/htm2002/christ.htm) is come in the flesh is of God: And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world. Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world" (1 John 4:1-4 KJV) Again and again, John speaks of "antichrist" as a falling away:



"And this is love, that we walk after His Commandments. This is the Commandment, that, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it. For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist. Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward." (2 John 1:6-8 KJV) Who Will Be "The" Antichrist?

As stated, the apostle John, who outlived the other apostles by many years (John was the only one to reach old age; he died in the 90s AD, in his 90s, when he was given to write the Apocalypse (http://www.keyway.ca/htm2003/20031008.htm), while the other apostles were all martyred through the 30s to the 60s AD as young to middle-aged men, see What Happened To The Apostles? (http://www.keyway.ca/htm2002/whatapos.htm)) was the only one who used the Greek word "antichrist," but does that mean that the other apostles, and Jesus Christ himself, didn't speak of the "spirit of antichrist"? No, it doesn't. They all knew it, knew of it, and were constantly faced with it, as did Jesus Christ. By definition, it was the "spirit of antichrist" that got the Christ rejected and killed (which ironically, by His death and resurrection, made and proved Him to be the Christ), and it was, as John described, the "spirit of antichrist" that constantly opposed the true Gospel, as it still does today.

The apostle Paul spoke of antichrist, not using that word, but what he was describing was exactly the same as John. Paul's reference to it was however more prophetic; Paul spoke of the age-old antichrist movement that will be led, in the time just before Christ's return, by "the lawless one," an individual that has often been referred to as "the antichrist" because the antichrist movement will reach its peak under his leadership and control. He can, for that reason, be accurately and correctly called "the antichrist," but there will be many antichrists then, just as there have always been.

But chillingly, "the antichrist" that Paul speaks of, as John did, is someone who has "fallen away," someone who knew the Truth, who lived the Truth, but who not only falls away from the Truth, he becomes a deadly enemy of the Truth. He won't be a life-long pagan, he will be someone who was once a brother, who through a "falling away" will become a wicked traitor to the Truth. He will commit treason, not to a country, but to God. And there is nothing more politically or religiously despicable than a traitor, a man who turns on his own people.

The "antichrist" is described as a product of "a falling away," not a heresy (i.e. "any opinion or doctrine at variance with the official or orthodox position"), but an outright apostasy (i.e. a state of having rejected and abandoned a religious belief"). In the end, upon Christ's return, he will be "cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone" (Revelation 19:20 KJV).



"Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto Him [see "To Meet The Lord In The Air" (http://www.keyway.ca/htm2004/20040503.htm)], That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God." "Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things? And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time. For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of His mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of His coming: Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness."

"But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth: Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ." (2 Thessalonians 2:1-14 KJV)

Fact Finder: What does the Bible say about hundreds of other well-known subjects of Bible prophecy, such as the two witnesses, great earthquakes, the "666" and the return of Jesus Christ?
See Prophecy (http://www.keyway.ca/htm2002/prophecy.htm)


This Day In History, January 18

1486: Henry VII of England married Elizabeth, daughter of Edward IV, uniting the houses of Lancaster and York.

1535: Francisco Pizarro founded Lima, Peru.

1644: The first recorded UFO sighting in North America, by Pilgrims in Boston.

1701: Frederick III, the elector of Brandenburg, became the king of Prussia.

1778: Captain James Cook discovered the Hawaiian Islands. They were initially called the Sandwich Islands, after the First Lord of the Admiralty, Lord Sandwich (ironically, Captain Cook was killed and eaten by the natives of the Sandwich Islands, as was his girlfriend, Ann Butchers).

1871: The proclamation of the Second German Reich (empire). Otto von Bismarck named King Wilhelm I of Prussia as German emperor ("Deutscher Kaiser") in The Hall of Mirrors at Versailles, near Paris. North and south Germany were united. Bismarck consolidated Germany under the (Protestant) Prussian Hohenzollerns, assumed the office of Reich Chancellor and was made a prince. The Second Reich lasted for 47 years, until the end of World War 1 in 1918. Adolf Hitler called his regime the Third Reich. See Ein Volk! Ein Reich! Ein Euro! (http://www.keyway.ca/htm2002/20020717.htm)

1919: 2 months after the First World War ended, the Versailles Peace Conference in Paris opened with Woodrow Wilson of U.S., David Lloyd-George of Britain, and George Clemencea of France. Kaiser Wilhelm had abdicated and departed for exile in Netherlands where the Dutch refused to extradite him for trial as a promoter of the war. The Weimar Republic was established.

1974: Israel and Egypt signed peace agreements to officially end the Yom Kippur War which had began on the previous October 6. See United States, Britain and Israel (http://www.keyway.ca/htm2000/20000603.htm)

1977: At least 80 people were killed in Sydney when a locomotive rammed a bridge bringing it crashing down on to a commuter train. It was Australia's worst rail crash.

1991: Iraq fired at least eight missiles at Israel in a bid to drag the Jewish state into the Gulf War the day after the allies had launched Operation Desert Storm.

1995: The European Parliament endorsed the new 20-strong European Commission, marking the Strasbourg-based assembly's political birth.


http://www.keyway.ca/htm2006/20060118.htm

[StMatthew2429]

Daily Glory of GOD photo for Jan 18, 2006

"The heavens declare the glory of God"
~~Psalms 19:1

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0301/abell1689_hstacs_c1.jpg

" Galaxy Cluster Abell 1689 Warps Space"

[CaptainMercy]

Evermore, I will love Him!
Evermore, I will serve Him!
Evermore, I will glorify the Name of the Lord!
Evermore, I'll adore Him!
Evermore, bow before Him!
I will praise His Name for evermore! http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/11/11_12_16.gif (http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb001_ZNxmk762DHUS) http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/11/11_12_16.gif (http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb001_ZNxmk762DHUS) http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/11/11_12_16.gif (http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb001_ZNxmk762DHUS) http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/11/11_8_7.gif (http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb001_ZNxmk762DHUS)

[StMatthew2429]

bless you brother Blessedvaley...:)

bless you indeed!:thumbsup:

:angel:

:hug:

:groupray:

[StMatthew2429]

Hey BV..Im diggin the avatar man!!!:thumbsup:

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NICE!!!!:clap:

[angelwind]

Hello friends...((((((((hugs)))))))) http://www.mindspring.com/~we2dogs/images/Angelwinks.gif

[MyLilyintheValley]

Hello friends...((((((((hugs)))))))) http://www.mindspring.com/~we2dogs/images/Angelwinks.gif
Hi to you, Angelwind.
Hello Matt and BV and everyone. God bless you all. :prayer: :wave:

[Savedsis]

Hello Matt...God bless

[StMatthew2429]

Hello there angelwind, MyLily, and Savedsis:wave:

I trust you are all having a fine spiritual day today?:clap:

Enjoy worship tonight if you can make it!
:bow::angel:

GOD bless friends!!!
:groupray:

[angelwind]

Just passing thru...need to be reading for a while next, have been talking to a good friend on the phone this morning http://www.mindspring.com/~we2dogs/danctomato.gif...http://www.mindspring.com/~we2dogs/danctomato.gif...http://www.mindspring.com/~we2dogs/danctomato.gif

[JPPT1974]

Hello Matthew
God bless you
Have a great night
And a good Thursday
Weekend is coming! :thumbsup:

[BLUEEYEANGEL]

HI THERE BROTHER MATT,:wave:

[StMatthew2429]

Hello there JPPT and BLUEEYEANGEL:wave:

I hope you all enjoyed worship tonight if ya went...:thumbsup:

yes JPPT, the weekend is coming. And that means the Championship games!:D

GO SEAHAWKS!!!!:clap:

GOD BLESS YOU MY SISTERS!!!!:groupray:

[ChristianCandy]

Just popping in to say HELLOOOOO! :wave:
God bless you all tonight & see you safely through the night. :hug:

[StMatthew2429]

Just popping in to say HELLOOOOO!
God bless you all tonight & see you safely through the night.

Wow...Hey there Candy!:wave:

Good to see ya again sister.:clap:

Hope everything has been going well on your end!:thumbsup:

GOD Bless you as well friend!:angel:

:groupray:

[StMatthew2429]

Here is todays BIBLE Study....ENJOY!!!

Thursday, January 19 2006

A Ringleader of The Nazarene Sect

"But when Herod [see Herod The Great (http://www.keyway.ca/htm2002/herod.htm)] was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord appeareth in a dream to Joseph (http://www.keyway.ca/htm2002/joseph.htm) in Egypt, Saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother [see Mary (http://www.keyway.ca/htm2002/mary.htm)], and go into the land of Israel: for they are dead which sought the young child's life. And he arose, and took the young child and his mother, and came into the land of Israel. But when he heard that Archelaus did reign in Judea (http://www.keyway.ca/htm2000/20000217.htm) in the room of his father Herod [see The Herods (http://www.keyway.ca/htm2002/herods.htm)], he was afraid to go thither: notwithstanding, being warned of God in a dream, he turned aside into the parts of Galilee (http://www.keyway.ca/htm2002/galilee.htm): And he came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth (http://www.keyway.ca/htm2002/nazareth.htm): that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Prophets (http://www.keyway.ca/htm2002/prophets.htm), He shall be called a Nazarene." (Matthew 2:19-23 KJV) "a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes"

Some of the Christian terms that are generally regarded as positive in meaning today came about from words that were sometimes originally used in a negative way, at least by unbelievers. "Nazarene" is one of them ("Christian" itself is another - see the Fact Finder question below). Jesus Christ and/or the apostles were accused of being "a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes" (see below) by a world that hated the truth that they preached.

http://www.keyway.ca/jpg/nazareth.jpg The original Hebrew word, pronounced nay-tser, translated into English as shoot, literally means a sprout, or branch, and figuratively a descendant. The name Nazareth is thought to be derived from the same original word, which would indicate that God either named the city Himself, or chose it to be the home town of the Messiah because of its name. The "that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Prophets" in the above quote from Matthew is believed by some to be a reference to Isaiah 11:1, "And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots"

Jesus Christ (http://www.keyway.ca/htm2002/christ.htm) was often referred to as a Nazarene, or Jesus of Nazareth, in both a complimentary way, by Himself and those who believed in Him, and in a derogatory manner, by those who didn't.

By Believers (http://www.keyway.ca/htm2002/20020807.htm):



"I am Jesus of Nazareth" (Acts 22:8 KJV) (see Paul's Ministry (http://www.keyway.ca/htm2004/20040116.htm)) "And when He was come into Jerusalem, all the city was moved, saying, Who is this? And the multitude said, This is Jesus the prophet of Nazareth of Galilee." (Matthew 21:10-11 KJV)

"And they said unto him, Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, which was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people" (Luke 24:19 KJV)

"Then Peter said, Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I thee: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk. And he took him by the right hand, and lifted him up: and immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength. And he leaping up stood, and walked, and entered with them into the Temple [see "My Father's House" (http://www.keyway.ca/htm2000/20001127.htm)], walking, and leaping, and praising God" (Acts 3:6-8 KJV)

By unbelievers, or those who were about to become believers:



"And Nathanael said unto him, Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth? Philip saith unto him, Come and see" (John 1:46 KJV) "And as Peter was beneath in the palace, there cometh one of the maids of the high priest [see Caiaphas (http://www.keyway.ca/htm2002/caiaphas.htm)]: And when she saw Peter warming himself, she looked upon him, and said, And thou also wast with Jesus of Nazareth." (Mark 14:66-67 KJV)

"For we have found this man a pestilent fellow, and a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes" (Acts 24:5 KJV)

Fact Finder: How is it that "Christian" was originally used by many people as a negative term?
See Christianos (http://www.keyway.ca/htm2003/20030104.htm)


This Day In History, January 19

1419: In the Hundred Years War between England and France, the French city of Rouen surrendered to Henry V, completing his conquest of Normandy.

1523: In Switzerland, Ulrich Zwingli published his 67 Articles, the first manifesto of the Zurich Reformation which attacked the authority of the Pope.

1563: The Heidelberg Catechism was first published in Germany. Written by Peter Ursinus and Caspar Olevianus, it comprised a balanced statement of Calvinist tradition, and was soon after accepted by nearly all of the Reformed churches in Europe.

1568: Miles Coverdale died at age 80. He published the first printed English Bible. He completed the translation of The Old Testament which William Tyndale had left unfinished at his death in 1536.

1783: William Pitt became the youngest-ever Prime Minister of England at age 24.

1889: The Salvation Army split, as one faction within the denomination renounced allegiance to founder William Booth. Booth's son Ballington and his wife Maud led the American splinter group, which in 1896 incorporated itself as a separate denomination known as the Volunteers of America.

1899: Britain and Egypt established joint control over Sudan.

1915: The first casualties to result from an air raid over Britain occurred when a Zeppelin dropped 6 bombs on Yarmouth. 2 people died and 3 were injured.

1919: A "tidal wave" of molasses 45 feet high and 75 feet wide killed dozens in Boston.

1921: Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador signed the Pact of Union.

1937: Howard Hughes set a transcontinental air record from Los Angeles to New York of 7 hours, 28 minutes.

1966: Indira Gandhi was elected prime minister of India in succession to Lal Shastri who had died on January 11. Shastri had succeeded Gandhi's father, Jawaharlal Nehru.

1971: The Beatles song "Helter Skelter" was played at the Charles Manson murder trial. http://www.maebrussell.com/Mae%20Brussell%20Articles/Operation%20Chaos.html


1975: 20 people were injured at the airport in Paris, France, after Arab terrorists attempted a grenade attack on an El Al jumbo jet and then seized three hostages.

1983: Klaus Barbie, notorious SS chief of Lyon in Nazi-occupied France, was arrested in Bolivia.

1991: During the Kuwait War, Iraq's Saddam Hussein began launching "Scud" missiles on Haifa and Tel Aviv the day after allied forces began bombing Iraq. Hussein's intention was to provoke an Israeli entry into the war and thereby cause the Arab allied forces to quit the war against Iraq. The Israelis did not take the bait, and suffered 13 dead, 200 wounded, 4,000 buildings damaged.

http://www.keyway.ca/htm2006/20060119.htm

[StMatthew2429]

Daily Glory of GOD photo for Jan 19, 2006

"The heavens declare the glory of God"
~~Psalms 19:1

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0601/m42_hst_c45.jpg

"Orion Nebula: The Hubble View"

[MyLilyintheValley]

A beautiful picture Matt. God bless you. Hope everyone has a nice day. :clap:

[StMatthew2429]

A beautiful picture Matt. God bless you. Hope everyone has a nice day.

Good Morning sister!:wave:

:hug::hug::hug:

:groupray:

[angelwind]

Well, from these pictures..."space" is not empty...the Lord has filled His whole creation with beauty...imagine...He can do it again...create a new heaven and a new earth.

[StMatthew2429]

Well, from these pictures..."space" is not empty...the Lord has filled His whole creation with beauty...imagine...He can do it again...create a new heaven and a new earth.

Thats right sister..he can and he will!:thumbsup:

on a lighter note...you make me laugh with your outfits angel!!!^_^^_^

Kudos for the entire thing....:D

God bless you sister indeed!:angel:

[CaptainMercy]

Good morning my brother! Hope you and all are having a wonderful day in the Lord! God bless! http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/36/36_1_39.gif (http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb001_ZNxmk762DHUS) http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/36/36_9_1.gif (http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb001_ZNxmk762DHUS) http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/11/11_12_16.gif (http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb001_ZNxmk762DHUS) http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/11/11_12_16.gif (http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb001_ZNxmk762DHUS) http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/11/11_12_16.gif (http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb001_ZNxmk762DHUS)

[angelwind]

Thats right sister..he can and he will!:thumbsup:

on a lighter note...you make me laugh with your outfits angel!!!^_^^_^

Kudos for the entire thing....:D

God bless you sister indeed!:angel:(((((hug!))))) http://www.mindspring.com/~we2dogs/images/Ola.gif

[StMatthew2429]

Strange Planets

Many undisputed observations contradict current theories on how the solar system evolved.a (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes44.html#wp1077006) One theory says planets formed when a star, passing near our Sun, tore matter from the Sun. More popular theories hold that the solar system formed from a cloud of swirling gas, dust, or larger particles. If the planets and their 139 known moons evolved from the same material, they should have many similarities. After several decades of planetary exploration, this expectation is now recognized as false.b (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes44.html#wp1013818) [See Figure 21 (http://www.creationscience.com/AstroPhysicalSciences.html#wp1812548).] According to these evolutionary theories:

Backward-Spinning Planets. All planets should spin in the same direction, but Venus, Uranus, and Pluto rotate backwards.c (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes44.html#wp1013841)

Backward Orbits. All 139 moons in the solar system should orbit their planets in the same sense, but more than 30 have backward orbits.d (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes44.html#wp1013845) Furthermore, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune have moons orbiting in both directions.

Tipped Orbits. The orbit of each of these 139 moons should lie in the equatorial plane of the planet it orbits, but many, including the Earth’s moon, are in highly inclined orbits.e (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes44.html#wp1144227)

Angular Momentum. The Sun should have about 700 times more angular momentum than all the planets combined. Instead, the planets have 50 times more angular momentum than the Sun.f (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes44.html#wp1013858)


Saturn has 33 known moons. One of them, named Phoebe, has an orbit almost perpendicular to Saturn’s equator. This is difficult for evolutionists to explain.

Earth: The Water Planet

The amount of water on Earth greatly exceeds that known on or within any other planet in the solar system. Liquid water, which is essential for life and has unique and amazing properties, covers 70% of Earth’s surface. Where did all Earth’s water come from?

If the Earth and solar system evolved from a swirling cloud of dust and gas, practically no water would reside near Earth’s present orbit. Any water (liquid or ice) that close to the Sun would vaporize and be blown by solar wind to the outer reaches of the solar system,a (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes45.html#wp1084098) as we see happening with water vapor in the tails of comets.

Did comets or meteorites deliver Earth’s water? Comets, which are about 38% water (by mass), could not have brought much water to Earth, because comets contain too much heavy hydrogen, relatively rare in Earth’s oceans. Comets also contain too much argon. If comets were the source of only 1% of Earth’s water, then, using evolutionists’ assumptions, our atmosphere would contain 400 times more argon than it does.b (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes45.html#wp1084159) The few types of meteorites that contain considerable water also have too much heavy hydrogen.c (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes45.html#wp1084100)

These observations have caused some to conclude that water was transported from the outer solar system to Earth by objects that no longer exist.d (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes45.html#wp1084103) If so, many of these “water tankers” should have collided with the other inner planets (Mercury, Venus, and Mars), producing water characteristics similar to those of Earth. In fact, their water characteristics are not like those on Earth.e (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes45.html#wp1084105) Instead of imagining “water tankers” that all disappeared, perhaps we should ask if the Earth was created with its water already present.


Molten Earth?

For decades, textbooks have taught that the early Earth was molten, because it formed by meteoritic bombardment. If so, the heat released by the impacts would have melted the entire Earth for hundreds of millions of years.a (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes46.html#wp1094545) Had Earth ever been molten, dense, nonreactive chemical elements such as gold would have sunk to Earth’s core. Gold is 70% denser than lead, yet is found at the Earth’s surface.b (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes46.html#wp1077556) Therefore, the entire Earth was never molten and did not form by meteoritic bombardment.

Radioactive dating of certain zircon minerals also contradicts a molten Earth. Trace elements within those zircons show that the zircons formed on a cold Earth (less than 212°F).c (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes46.html#wp1363700) However, according to radioactive dating, those zircons formed on an extremely young Earth, when, according to evolutionists, it should have been molten (exceeding 1,800°F)—an obvious contradiction. Either the molten Earth idea or the radioactive dating method is wrong; perhaps both ideas are wrong.

Meteorites contain much more of the element xenon than Earth’s surface rocks, relative to other noble (inert) gases such as helium, neon, and argon. Had Earth formed by meteoritic bombardment, Earth’s surface rocks would have a different composition, and our atmosphere would contain up to ten times more xenon than it has.d (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes46.html#wp1033173) If Earth did not evolve by meteoritic bombardment, it may have begun as one large body.


Evolving Planets?

Contrary to popular opinion, planets should not form from just the mutual gravitational attraction of particles orbiting the Sun.a (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes47.html#wp1013894) Orbiting particles are much more likely to be scattered or expelled by their gravitational attraction than they are to be permanently pulled together. Experiments have shown that colliding particles almost always fragment rather than stick together.b (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes47.html#wp1033703) (Similar difficulties exist in trying to form a moon from particles orbiting a planet.)

Despite these problems, let us assume that pebble-size to moon-size particles somehow evolved. “Growing a planet” by many small collisions will produce an almost nonspinning planet, because spins imparted by impacts will be largely self-canceling.c (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes47.html#wp1013899)

The growth of a large, gaseous planet (such as Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, or Neptune) far from the central star is especially difficult for evolutionists to explain for several reasons.d (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes47.html#wp1013934)

a. Gases dissipate rapidly in the vacuum of outer space, especially the lightest two gases—hydrogen and helium, which comprise most of the mass of the giant planets.

b. Because gas molecules orbiting a star do not gravitationally pull in (or merge with) other gas molecules in the orbiting ring, a rocky planet, about ten times larger than Earth, must first form to attract all the gas gravitationally. This must happen very quickly, before the gas dissipates.e (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes47.html#wp1013938) (Jupiter’s hydrogen and helium is 300 times more massive than the entire Earth.)

c. Stars like our Sun—even those which evolutionists say are young—do not have enough orbiting hydrogen or helium to form one Jupiter.f (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes47.html#wp1013947)

Computer simulations show that Uranus and Neptune could not evolve anywhere near their present locations.g (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes47.html#wp1059588) The planets that are found outside our solar system also contradict the theories for how planets supposedly evolve.

Based on demonstrable science, gaseous planets and the rest of the solar system did not evolve.


Planetary Rings

Planetary rings have long been associated with claims that planets evolved. Supposedly, after planets formed from a swirling dust cloud, rings remained, as seen around Saturn, Uranus, Jupiter, and Neptune.a (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes48.html#wp1020053) [See Figure 23 (http://www.creationscience.com/AstroPhysicalSciences7.html#wp1100062).] Therefore, some believe that because we see rings, planets must have evolved.b (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes48.html#wp1020127)

Actually, rings have nothing to do with a planet’s origin. When comets and meteorites hit a tiny moon orbiting a planet, they kick up debris. Some debris (including, in a few cases, volcanic debrisc (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes48.html#wp1351986)) escapes the moon because of its weak gravity and the giant planet’s gigantic gravity. The debris then orbits the planet as a ring.d (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes48.html#wp1022886) If these rings were not periodically replenished, they would be dispersed in less than 10,000 years.e (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes48.html#wp1020023) Because a planet’s gravity pulls escaped particles away from its moons, particles orbiting a planet could never form moons—as evolutionists assert.


Planetary Rings. The rings of Saturn, Uranus, and Jupiter are rapidly breaking up, showing that the rings formed recently.


Origin of the Moon

Evolutionary theories for the origin of the Moon are highly speculative and completely inadequate.a (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes49.html#wp1212689) The Moon could not have spun off from Earth, nor could it have formed from the same material as Earth, because its orbital plane is too highly inclined. Furthermore, the relative abundances of its elements are too dissimilar from those of Earth.b (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes49.html#wp1013966) The Moon’s nearly circular orbit is also strong evidence that it was never torn from nor captured by Earth.c (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes49.html#wp1013970)

Some claim that the Moon formed from debris splashed from Earth by a Mars-size impactor. If so, many small moons should have formed.d (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes49.html#wp1058071) Even if only one moon formed, the impactor’s glancing-blow would either be too slight to form our large Moon, or the impact would be so violent that Earth would end up spinning too fast.e (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes49.html#wp1024081) If the Moon formed from particles orbiting Earth, other particles should be easily visible inside the Moon’s orbit; none are. These explanations have many other problems. Understanding them caused one expert to joke, “The best explanation [for the Moon] was observational error—the Moon does not exist.”f (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes49.html#wp1017968) Similar difficulties exist for evolutionary explanations of the other 138 moons in the solar system.

But the Moon does exist. If it was not pulled or splashed from Earth, was not built up from smaller particles near its present orbit, and was not captured from outside its present orbit, only one hypothesis remains: the Moon was created in its present orbit.


Evolution of the Solar System?

Evolutionists claim the solar system condensed out of a vast cloud of swirling dust about 4,600,000,000 years ago. If so, many particles that were not swept up as part of a planet should now be spiraling in toward the Sun. Colliding asteroids also would create dust particles that, over millions of years, would spiral in toward the Sun. Particles should still be falling into the Sun’s upper atmosphere, burning up, and giving off an easily measured, infrared glow. Measurements taken during the solar eclipse of 11 July 1991 showed no such glow.a (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes50.html#wp1015565) So the assumed “millions of years” and this explanation for the solar system’s origin are probably wrong.

Disks of gas and dust sometimes surround stars. That does not mean planets are forming in those disks. Some disks formed from matter suddenly expelled from the star.b (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes50.html#wp1314008) Other disks formed (via gravity and the laws of physics) from impact debris or other matter near the star. Early astronomers called the disks planetary nebula, because they mistakenly thought they contained evolving planets.

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Faint Young Sun

If, as evolutionists teach, the solar system evolved from a spinning dust and gas cloud 4.6 billion years ago, the slowly condensing Sun would have radiated 25–30% less heat during the next 600 million years than it radiates today.a (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes51.html#wp1020145) (A drop in the Sun’s radiation of only a few percent would freeze all our oceans.) Had this happened anytime in the past, let alone for 600 million years, the ice’s mirrorlike surfaces would have reflected more of the Sun’s radiation into outer space, cooling Earth even more in a permanent, runaway deep-freeze. If so, all agree that life could not have evolved.

Evolutionists first tried to solve this “faint young Sun” problem by assuming Earth’s atmosphere once had up to a thousand times more heat-trapping carbon dioxide than today. No evidence supports this and much opposes it.b (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes51.html#wp1020151) Actually, large amounts of carbon dioxide on a cool Earth would have produced “carbon dioxide ice clouds high in the atmosphere, reflecting the Sun’s radiation into outer space and locking Earth into a permanent ice age.”c (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes51.html#wp1020398)

A second approach assumes Earth’s atmosphere had a thousand times more ammonia and methane, other heat-trapping gases. Unfortunately, sunlight quickly destroys both gases. Besides, ammonia would readily dissolve in water, making oceans toxic.d (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes51.html#wp1058079)

A third approach assumes Earth had no continents, had much more carbon dioxide in its atmosphere, and rotated once every 14 hours, so most clouds were concentrated at the equator. With liquid water covering the entire Earth, more of the Sun’s radiation would be absorbed, raising Earth’s temperature slightly. All three assumptions are questionable.

Evolutionists have never explained in any of these approaches how such drastic changes could occur in almost perfect step with the slow increase in the Sun’s radiation. Until some evidence supports such “special pleadings,” it does not appear the Sun evolved.e (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes51.html#wp1059002)

If the Sun, a typical and well-studied star, did not evolve, then why presume that all other stars did?

Space, Time, and Matter

No scientific theory exists to explain the origin of space, time, or matter. Because each is intimately related to or even defined in terms of the others, a satisfactory explanation for the origin of one must also explain the origin of the others.a (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes53.html#wp1014011) Naturalistic explanations have completely failed.


A Beginning

Heat always flows from a hot body to a cold body. If the universe were infinitely old, everything should have the same temperature. Because temperatures vary, the universe is not infinitely old. Therefore, the universe had a beginning. (A beginning suggests a Creator.)

First Law of Thermodynamics

The first law of thermodynamics states that the total energy in the universe, or in any isolated part of it, remains constant. In other words, energy (or its mass equivalent) is not now being created or destroyed; it simply changes form. Countless experiments have verified this. A corollary of the first law is that natural processes cannot create energy. Consequently, energy must have been created in the past by some agency or power outside and independent of the natural universe. Furthermore, if natural processes cannot produce mass and energy—the relatively simple inorganic portion of the universe—then it is even less likely that natural processes can produce the much more complex organic (or living) portion of the universe.


Second Law of Thermodynamics

If the entire universe is an isolated system, then, according to the second law of thermodynamics, the energy in the universe available for useful work has always been decreasing. However, as one goes back in time, the energy available for useful work would eventually exceed the total energy in the universe, which, according to the first law of thermodynamics, remains constant. This is an impossible condition, implying the universe had a beginning.a (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes55.html#wp1014019)

A further consequence of the second law is that when the universe began, it was more organized and complex than it is today—not in a highly disorganized and random state as assumed by evolutionists and proponents of the big bang theory.b (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes55.html#wp1014027)

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Big Bang?

The big bang theory, now known to be seriously flawed,a (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes56.html#wp1018128) was based on three observations: the redshift of light from distant stars, the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation, and the amount of helium in the universe. All three have been poorly understood.

Redshift. The redshift of starlight is usually interpreted as a Doppler effect;b (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes56.html#wp1113535) that is, stars and galaxies are moving away from Earth, stretching out (or reddening) the wavelengths of light they emit. Space itself supposedly expands—so the total potential energy of stars, galaxies, and other matter increases today with no corresponding loss of energy elsewhere.c (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes56.html#wp1018139) Thus, the big bang violates the law of conservation of energy, probably the most important of all scientific laws.

Conservation of energy is violated in another important way. If there was a big bang, distant galaxies should not just be receding from us, they should be decelerating. Measurements show the opposite; they are accelerating from us. [See sidebar titled “Dark Thoughts.”]

Many objects with high redshifts seem connected, or associated, with other objects of low redshifts. They could not be traveling at such different velocities and remain connected for long. [See “Connected Galaxies” (http://www.creationscience.com/AstroPhysicalSciences54.html#wp1641911)and “Galaxy Clusters” (http://www.creationscience.com/AstroPhysicalSciences56.html#wp1261057)on page 37 (http://www.creationscience.com/AstroPhysicalSciences54.html#wp1641911).] For example, many quasars have very high redshifts, and yet they statistically cluster with galaxies having low redshifts.d (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes56.html#wp1065139) Sometimes, quasars seem to be connected to galaxies by threads of gas.e (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes56.html#wp1058088) Many quasar redshifts are so great that the massive quasars would need to have formed too soon after the big bang—a contradiction of the theory.f (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes56.html#wp1066650)

Finally, redshifted light from galaxies has some strange features inconsistent with the Doppler effect. If redshifts are from objects moving away from Earth, one would expect redshifts to have continuous values. Instead, redshifts tend to cluster at specific, evenly-spaced values.g (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes56.html#wp1077940) Much remains to be learned about redshifts.

CMB. All matter radiates heat, regardless of its temperature. Astronomers can detect an extremely uniform radiation, called cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation, coming from all directions. It appears to come from perfectly radiating matter whose temperature is 2.73 K—nearly absolute zero. Many incorrectly believe that the big bang theory predicted this radiation.h (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes56.html#wp1077943)

Matter in the universe is highly concentrated into galaxies, galaxy clusters, and superclusters—as far as the most powerful telescopes can see.i (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes56.html#wp1014065) Because the CMB is so uniform, many thought it came from evenly spread matter soon after a big bang. But such uniformly distributed matter would hardly gravitate in any direction; even after tens of billions of years, galaxies and much larger structures would not evolve. In other words, the big bang did not generate the CMB.j (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes56.html#wp1017888) [See pages 274 (http://www.creationscience.com/FAQ112.html#wp1885554)–276 (http://www.creationscience.com/FAQ116.html#wp1885691).]

Helium. Contrary to what is commonly taught, the big bang theory does not explain the amount of helium in the universe; the theory was adjusted to fit the amount of helium.n (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes56.html#wp1014107) Ironically, the lack of helium in certain types of stars (B type stars)o (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes56.html#wp1014109) and the presence of boron and beryllium in “older” starsp (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes56.html#wp1014114) contradicts the big bang theory.

A big bang, for all practical purposes, would produce only hydrogen and helium, so the first generation of stars to somehow form after a big bang should consist of only hydrogen and helium. Some of these stars should still exist, but despite extensive searches, none has been found.q (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes56.html#wp1119475)

Other Problems. If the big bang occurred, we should not see massive galaxies at such great distances, but such galaxies are seen. [See “Distant Galaxies” on page 271 (http://www.creationscience.com/FAQ19.html#wp1937808).] A big bang should not produce highly concentratedr (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes56.html#wp1014137) or rotating bodies.s (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes56.html#wp1014144) Galaxies are examples of both. Nor should a big bang produce galaxies with the spacings among them that are actually observed.t (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes56.html#wp1099156) Also, a large volume of the universe should not be—but evidently is—moving sideways, almost perpendicular to the direction of apparent expansion.u (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes56.html#wp1014147)

If a big bang occurred, equal amounts of matter and antimatter should have been made. For every charged particle in the universe, the big bang should have produced an identical particle but with the opposite electrical charge.v (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes56.html#wp1119498) (For example, the negatively charged electron’s antiparticle is the positively charged positron.) Only trivial amounts of antimatter have ever been detected, even in other galaxies.w (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes56.html#wp1119517)

Dark Thoughts

For decades, big bang theorists said that the amount of mass in a rapidly expanding universe must be enough to prevent all matter from flying apart; otherwise, matter could not come together to form stars and galaxies. Estimates of the universe’s actual mass always fell far short of that minimum amount. This “missing mass” is often called “dark matter,” because no one could see it or even detect it. Actually, “missing mass” had to be “created” to preserve the big bang theory. [See “Missing Mass” (http://www.creationscience.com/AstroPhysicalSciences17.html#wp1011854)on page 28 (http://www.creationscience.com/AstroPhysicalSciences17.html#wp1011854).] The media’s frequent reference to “dark matter” enshrined it in the public’s consciousness, much like the supposed “missing link” between apes and man.

The big bang has struck again. The big bang theory also predicts that the universe’s expansion must be slowing, just as a ball thrown up must slow as it moves away from the Earth. For decades, cosmologists tried to measure this deceleration. The shocking result is now in—and the answer has been rechecked in many ways. The universe’s expansion is not decelerating; it is accelerating!k (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes56.html#wp1141703) To preserve the theory, something must again be invented. Some energy source that overcomes gravity must continuously accelerate stars and galaxies away from each other. This energy, naturally enough, is called “dark energy.”

Neither “dark matter” (created to hold the universe together) nor “dark energy” (created to push the universe apart) can be seen, measured, or tested.l (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes56.html#wp1141716) We are told that “most of the universe is composed of invisible dark matter and dark energy.”m (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes56.html#wp1141723) Few realize that both mystical concepts were devised to preserve the big bang theory.

Rather than cluttering textbooks and the public’s imagination with statements about things for which no objective evidence exists, wouldn’t it be better to admit that the big bang is faulty? Of course. But big bang theorists want to preserve their reputations, careers, and world view. If the big bang is discarded, only one credible explanation remains for the origin of the universe and everything in it. That thought sends shudders down the spines of many evolutionists. (Pages 274 (http://www.creationscience.com/FAQ112.html#wp1885554)–276 (http://www.creationscience.com/FAQ116.html#wp1885691) give an explanation for the expansion, or “stretching out,” of the universe.)




If a big bang occurred, what caused the bang? Stars with enough mass become black holes, so not even light can escape their enormous gravity. How then could anything escape trillions upon trillions of times greater gravity caused by concentrating all the universe’s mass in a “cosmic egg” that existed before a big bang?x (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes56.html#wp1014177)

If the big bang theory is correct, one can calculate the age of the universe. This age turns out to be younger than objects in the universe whose ages were based on other evolutionary theories. Because this is logically impossible, one or both sets of theories must be incorrect.y (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes56.html#wp1014181) All these observations make it doubtful that a big bang occurred.z (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes56.html#wp1119546)

Missing Mass

Imagine seeing several rocks in outer space, moving radially away from Earth. If the rocks were simultaneously blasted away from Earth, their masses, changing velocities, and distances from Earth would have a very precise mathematical relationship with each other. When a similar relationship is checked for billions of observable galaxies, an obvious conclusion is that these galaxies did not explode from a common point in a huge “big bang.”a (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes57.html#wp1084712) It is even more obvious that if such an explosion occurred, it must have been much, much less than billions of years ago.

Evolutionists try to fix this problem in two ways. They assume the universe is filled with at least ten times as much matter as can be seen. This is maintained even though three decades of searching for this “missing mass” have turned up nothing other than the conclusion that it does not exist.b (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes57.html#wp1014206)

A second “fix attempt” assumes that the rocks (or, in the real problem, all particles in the universe) were briefly, almost magically, accelerated away from some point. This process, called “inflation,” supposedly reached speeds billions of trillions of times faster than the speed of light. An instant later, and for no apparent reason, inflation stopped. All this happened by an unknown, untestable phenomenon—not by a blast. Then this matter became controlled by gravity after it reached just the right speed to give the universe an age (based on one set of assumptions) of about 13.7 billion years.c (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes57.html#wp1014230) Such flights of imagination and speculation are common in the field of cosmology.


Heavy Elements

Evolutionists historically have had difficulty explaining the origin of heavy elements. (A big bang would produce only hydrogen, helium, and lithium.) The other 100+ elements supposedly formed deep inside stars and during stellar explosions. This theory is hard to verify, because stellar interiors and explosions cannot be carefully analyzed. However, a vast region of gas containing the mass of 300,000,000,000,000 suns has been found that is quite rich in iron and other heavy elements. The number of nearby visible stars is a thousand times too small to account for the heavy elements in that huge region.a (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes58.html#wp1017758) Heavy elements are even abundant in nearly empty regions of space that are farthest from stars and galaxies.b (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes58.html#wp1059150)

Most hydrogen atoms weigh one atomic mass unit, but some, called heavy hydrogen, weigh two units. If everything in the universe came from a big bang or a swirling gas cloud, heavy hydrogen should be uniformly mixed with normal hydrogen. It is not.c (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes58.html#wp1024062) Comets have twice the concentration of heavy hydrogen as oceans. Oceans have 10–50 times the concentration as the solar system and interstellar matter.


Interstellar Gas

Detailed analyses have long indicated that neither stars nor planets could form from interstellar gas clouds.a (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes59.html#wp1014268) To do so, either by first forming dust particlesb (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes59.html#wp1014275) or by direct gravitational collapse of the gas,c (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes59.html#wp1014281) would require vastly more time than the alleged age of the universe. An obvious alternative is that stars and planets were created.

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Fast Binaries

In our galaxy, about 60% of all stars are grouped in closely spaced pairs called “binaries.” Fortunately, our Sun does not have a binary partner. If it did, temperatures on Earth would vary too much to support life. The mutual gravitational attraction between stars in a binary pair causes them to orbit each other, just as the Moon orbits Earth. The closer paired stars are to each other, the faster they orbit. Their orbits do not change appreciably, even over long periods of time.

Two particular stars are so close that they orbit each other every 11 minutes! This implies their centers are about 80,000 miles apart.a (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes60.html#wp1014296) By way of comparison, our Sun, a typical star, is more than 800,000 miles in diameter. Other close binaries are also known.b (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes60.html#wp1014302)

The theory of stellar evolution was developed by arranging (on paper) different types of stars in a sequence according to brightness and color. Stellar evolutionists believe stars slowly change from one type to another. However, scientists have never observed such changes, and many stars do not fit this pattern. According to stellar evolution, a star’s volume, late in its lifetime, expands to about a million times that of our Sun and finally collapses to become a small star about the size of Earth (a white dwarf) or even smaller (a neutron star).

Only such tiny stars could have their centers 80,000 miles apart and still orbit each other. Obviously, these fast binary stars did not evolve from larger stars, because larger stars orbiting so closely would collide. If two stars cannot evolve into a condition that has them orbiting each other every 11 minutes, one wonders whether stars evolve at all.

Star Births? Stellar Evolution?

Evolutionists claim that stars form from swirling clouds of dust and gas. For this to happen, vast amounts of energy, angular momentum, and residual magnetism must be removed from each cloud. This is not observed today, and astronomers and physicists have been unable to explain, in an experimentally verifiable way, how it could happen.a (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes61.html#wp1142149)

The most luminous stars in our galaxy (so-called “O” stars) are “burning fuel” hundreds of thousands of times more rapidly than our Sun. This is so rapid that they must be quite young on an evolutionary time scale. If these stars evolved, they should show easily measurable characteristics such as extremely high rates of rotation and enormous magnetic fields. Because these characteristics are not observed, it seems quite likely these stars did not evolve.

If stars evolve, star births should about equal star deaths. Within our Milky Way Galaxy alone, about one star dies each year and becomes an expanding cloud of gas and dust.b (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes61.html#wp1142334) Deaths of more massive stars are much brighter, more violent explosions called “supernovas.” Star births, on the other hand, would be accompanied by the appearance of new starlight not present on the many photographic plates made decades earlier. Instruments which could detect dust falling into and forming supposedly new stars have not done so.c (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes61.html#wp1014311) Actually, stars that some astronomers believe are very new are expelling matter. We have seen hundreds of stars die, but we have never seen a star born.d (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes61.html#wp1142360)

Also, stars are found where astronomers agree they could not evolve, near the center of our galaxy. These short-lived stars orbit a massive black hole, where gravity is so strong that gas and dust clouds could never evolve into a star. Instead, the black hole’s massive gravity would pull such clouds (supposedly evolving stars) apart.e (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes61.html#wp1142185)

Nor could stars have evolved in globular clusters, where up to a million stars occupy a relatively small volume of space. [See Figure 143 (http://www.creationscience.com/FAQ117.html#wp1868203) on page 277 (http://www.creationscience.com/FAQ117.html#wp1868203).] Wind and radiation pressure from the first star in the cluster to evolve would have blown away most of the gas needed to form subsequent stars in the cluster.f (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes61.html#wp1140359) In other words, if stars evolved, we should not see globular clusters, yet our galaxy has about 200 globular clusters. For so many stars to be packed so tightly together requires that they all came into existence at about the same time.

Poor logic is involved in arguing for stellar evolution, which is assumed in estimating the age of stars. These ages are then used to establish a framework for stellar evolution. That is circular reasoning.g (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes61.html#wp1140352)

In summary, there is no evidence that stars evolve, there is much evidence that stars did not evolve, and there are no experimentally verifiable explanations for how they could evolve and seemingly defy the laws of physics.h (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes61.html#wp1212699)

Stellar Nursery, or Is the Emperor Naked?

The popular media frequently claim that stars are actually seen evolving and that pictures of these stellar nurseries prove it. Impressive pictures of the Eagle Nebula (Figure 25 (http://www.creationscience.com/AstroPhysicalSciences21.html#wp1813022)) are usually shown. Many people accept the claim without asking themselves, “Do the pictures contain anything that shows stars evolving?” Of course not. If stars were evolving, other physical measurements could confirm it. Where are those measurements? Silence.

This willingness to accept what others tell us reminds one of the tale in which citizens told their naked emperor he was nicely dressed. Rather than believing or reporting what their eyes clearly told them, people preferred to accept what others said—or at least not object. Better not disagree or even ask questions; it could be embarrassing.

Why do some astronomers say stars are evolving? Until recently, the atmosphere prevented astronomers from seeing infrared radiations from space. Then in the late 1960s, satellites outside the atmosphere made infrared sky surveys that showed some surprisingly warm clouds of dust and gas in our galaxy. Several things could cause this heating. Perhaps a dim star (a brown dwarf) is behind the cloud, or maybe something nearby exploded. Those who struggled to understand how stars evolved had a different interpretation: “Gravity is collapsing the cloud, raising its temperature. In thousands of years, it will become a star.” Still other interpretations are possible.

NASA’s claim in 1995 that these pictures (Figure 25 (http://www.creationscience.com/AstroPhysicalSciences21.html#wp1813022)) showed hundreds to thousands of stars forming was based on the speculative “EGG-star formation theory.” It has recently been tested independently with two infrared detectors that can see inside the dusty pillars. Few stars were there, and 85% of the pillars had too little dust and gas to support star formation. “The new findings also highlight how much astronomers still have to learn about star formation.” [Ron Cowen, “Rethinking an Astronomical Icon: The Eagle’s EGG, Not So Fertile,” Science News, Vol. 161, 16 March 2002, pp. 171–172.]

What prevents stellar evolution? Just as the Sun’s gravity does not pull planets into the Sun, gravity does not automatically pull gas and dust into a tight ball that then ignites as a star. Each cloud of dust and gas in space has a specific amount of kinetic and potential energy, angular momentum, and magnetic energy that must be removed for even a slight collapse. Evidence of that removal is missing. Furthermore, any collapse would only increase the cloud’s temperature and pressure, which, in turn, would expand the cloud. For more details on these processes, see “Interstellar Gas,” “Star Births?, Stellar Evolution” beginning on page 29 (http://www.creationscience.com/AstroPhysicalSciences19.html#wp1257361), and especially all related endnotes starting on page 86 (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes59.html#wp1014267).

If someone tells you that the emperor is well dressed, ask questions and insist on seeing real evidence.

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Figure 25: Gas and Dust Clouds in the Eagle Nebula.

Galaxies

Evolutionists now admit that galaxies cannot evolve from one type to another.a (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes62.html#wp1065370) There are also good reasons natural processes cannot form galaxies.b (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes62.html#wp1212721) Furthermore, if spiral galaxies were billions of years old, their arms or bars would be severely twisted.c (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes62.html#wp1014407) [See Figure 141 on page 266 (http://www.creationscience.com/FAQ15.html#wp1846484).] Because they have maintained their shape, either galaxies are young, or unknown physical phenomena are occurring within galaxies.d (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes62.html#wp1014410) Even structures composed of galaxies are now known to be so amazingly large, and yet relatively thin, they could not have formed by slow gravitational attraction.e (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes62.html#wp1014414) If slow, natural processes cannot form such huge galactic structures, then rapid, supernatural processes may have.




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Figure 26: Spiral Galaxies.

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Corals and Caves

Estimated old ages for the Earth are frequently based on “clocks” that today are ticking at extremely slow rates. For example, coral growth rates were thought to have always been very slow, implying that some coral reefs must be hundreds of thousands of years old. More accurate measurements of these rates under favorable growth conditions now show that no known coral formation need be older than 3,400 years.a (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes63.html#wp1026431) A similar comment can be made for growth rates of stalactites and stalagmites in caves.b (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes63.html#wp1014442)



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Figure 27: Stalagmites. Water from an underground spring was channeled to this spot on a river bank for only one year. In that time, limestone built up around sticks lying on the bank. Limestone deposits can form rapidly if the ground water’s chemistry is favorable. Just because stalactites and stalagmites are growing slowly today does not mean they must be millions of years old. As we will see in Part II, conditions after the flood provided the ideal chemistry for rapidly forming such features.


Index Fossils

In the early 1800s, some observers in Western Europe noticed that certain fossils are usually preserved in sedimentary rock layers that, when traced laterally, typically lie above other types of fossils. Decades later, after the theory of evolution was proposed, many concluded that the lower organism must have evolved before the upper organism. These early geologists did not realize that a hydrodynamic mechanism, liquefaction, helped sort organisms in that order during the flood. [For an explanation, see pages 158 (http://www.creationscience.com/Liquefaction2.html#wp1100074)–168 (http://www.creationscience.com/Liquefaction8.html#wp1092180).]

Geologic ages were then associated with each of these “index fossils.” Those ages were extended to other animals and plants buried in the layer of the index fossil. For example, a coelacanth fossil, an index fossil, dates its layer at 70,000,000 to 400,000,000 years old. [See Figure 28 (http://www.creationscience.com/AstroPhysicalSciences26.html#wp1438323).] Today, geologic formations are almost always dated by their fossil contenta (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes65.html#wp1066491)—which, as stated above, assumes evolution. Yet, evolution is supposedly shown by the sequence of fossils. Because this reasoning is circular,b (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes65.html#wp1066486) many discoveries, such as living coelacanths,c (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes65.html#wp1065434)–e (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes65.html#wp1397871) were unexpected.
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Figure 28: 70,000,000-Year-Old Fish? Thought to be extinct for 70,000,000 years, the coelacanth [SEE la kanth] was first caught in 1938, deep in the Indian Ocean, northwest of Madagascar. Rewards were then offered for coelacanths, so hundreds were caught and sold. In 1998, they were also found off the coast of Indonesia.c (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes65.html#wp1065434) How could two groups of coelacanths, separated by 6,000 miles, survive for 70,000,000 years but leave no fossils?

Before coelacanths were caught, evolutionists incorrectly believed the coelacanth had lungs, a large brain, and four bottom fins about to evolve into legs.d (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes65.html#wp1177953) Evolutionists reasoned that the coelacanth, or a similar fish, crawled out of a shallow sea and filled its lungs with air, becoming the first four-legged, land animal. Millions of students have been erroneously taught that this fish was the ancestor of all amphibians, reptiles, dinosaurs, birds, and mammals, including people. (Was your ancestor a fish?)

J. L. B. Smith, a well-known fish expert from South Africa who studied the first two captured coelacanths, nicknamed the coelacanth “Old Fourlegs” and wrote a book by that title in 1956. However, in 1987, a German team filmed six coelacanths in their natural habitat. Were they crawling on all fours in a shallow sea? Did they have lungs and a large brain? Not at all.e (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes65.html#wp1397871)

Before 1938, evolutionists dated any rock containing a coelacanth fossil as at least 70,000,000 years old. It was an index fossil. Today, evolutionists frequently express amazement that coelacanth fossils look so much like captured coelacanths—despite more than 70,000,000 years of evolution.f (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes65.html#wp1024358) If that age is correct, billions of coelacanths would have lived and died. Some should have been fossilized in younger rock and be displayed in museums. Their absence implies that coelacanths have not lived for 70,000,000 years.


Humanlike Footprints

Humanlike footprints, supposedly 150–600 million years old, have been found in rock formations in Utah,a (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes66.html#wp1177910) Kentucky,b (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes66.html#wp1177918) Missouri,c (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes66.html#wp1177922) and possibly Pennsylvania.d (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes66.html#wp1177925) At Laetoli, in the east African country of Tanzania, a team headed by Mary Leakey found a sequence of humanlike footprints.e (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes66.html#wp1177928) They were dated at 3.7 million years. If human feet made any of these prints, then evolutionary chronology is drastically wrong.

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Figure 29: Humanlike Footprints with Trilobite. In 1968, 43 miles northwest of Delta, Utah, William J. Meister found these and other apparent human shoe prints inside a 2-inch-thick slab of rock. Also in that slab were obvious trilobite fossils, one of which was squashed under the “heel.” The 10-inch-long shoe print is at the left, and its rock mold is to its right. According to evolutionists, trilobites became extinct 240 million years before humans evolved. Notice how the back of the heel is worn, just as most of our shoes wear today. The heel was indented in the rock about an eighth of an inch deeper than the sole. Others have since made similar discoveries at this location, although this is the only fossil where a trilobite was inside an apparent shoe print.


Geologic Column

Practically nowhere on Earth can one find the so-called “geologic column.”a (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes67.html#wp1212737) Most “geologic periods” are missing at most continental locations. Only 15–20% of Earth’s land surface has even one-third of these periods in the correct order.b (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes67.html#wp1058213) Even within the Grand Canyon, 150 million years of this imaginary column are missing. Using the assumed geologic column to date fossils and rocks is fallacious.

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Old DNA, Bacteria, and Proteins?

DNA. When an animal or plant dies, its DNA begins decomposing.a (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes68.html#wp1014582) Before 1990, almost no one believed DNA could last 10,000 years.b (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes68.html#wp1014586) This limit was based on measuring DNA disintegration rates in well-preserved specimens of known age such as Egyptian mummies. DNA has now been reported in supposedly 17-million-year-old magnolia leavesc (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes68.html#wp1014593) and 11–425-million-year-old salt crystals.d (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes68.html#wp1100698) Dozens of plants and animals have left their DNA in sediments claimed to be 30,000–400,000-years-old.e (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes68.html#wp1110896) DNA fragments are also said to be in alleged 80-million-year-old dinosaur bones buried in a coal bedf and in the scales of a 200-million-year-old fossilized fish.g (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes68.html#wp1014612) DNA is frequently reported in insects and plants encased in amber, both assumed to be 25–120 million years old.h (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes68.html#wp1014619)

These discoveries have forced evolutionists to reexamine the 10,000-year limit.i (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes68.html#wp1142493) They now claim DNA can be preserved longer if conditions are dryer, colder, and freer of oxygen, bacteria, and background radiation. However, measured disintegration rates of DNA, under these more ideal conditions, do not support this.j (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes68.html#wp1060712)

Bacteria. Even living bacterial spores have been recovered, cultured, and identified in intestines of bees preserved in supposedly 25–40-million-year-old amber.k (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes68.html#wp1060719) The same bacteria, Bacillus, are found alive in rocks allegedly 250 million and 650 million years old.l (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes68.html#wp1066242) Italian scientists have recovered 78 different types of dormant, but living, bacteria in two meteorites that are presumed to be 4.5 billion years old.m (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes68.html#wp1179710) If one accepts these old ages for rocks, then they must also accept that some bacteria are practically immortal—an obviously absurd conclusion. (Because these “old” bacteria and the various DNA specimens closely match those of today, little evolution has occurred.)

Proteins. Evolutionists face similar contradictions with proteinsn (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes68.html#wp1014664) and soft tissueo (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes68.html#wp1275771) preserved in dinosaur bones. As with DNA, no proteins or tissue should last 70–150 million years, as is claimed for those bones. All this should discredit these old ages.


Human Artifacts

At various times and places, man-made objects have been found encased in coal. Examples include a thimble,a (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes69.html#wp1014674) an iron pot,b (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes69.html#wp1014676) an iron instrument,c (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes69.html#wp1014678) an 8-karat gold chain,d (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes69.html#wp1014680) three throwing-spears,e (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes69.html#wp1014682) and a metallic vessel inlaid with silver.f (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes69.html#wp1014685) Other “out-of-place artifacts” have been found inside deeply buried rocks: nails,g (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes69.html#wp1014687) a screw,h (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes69.html#wp1014690) a strange coin,i (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes69.html#wp1014693) a tiny ceramic doll,j (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes69.html#wp1014695) and other objects of obvious human manufacture.k (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes69.html#wp1014699) By evolutionary dating techniques, these objects would be hundreds of millions of years older than man. Again, something is wrong.


Parallel Layers

Because no worldwide or even continental unconformity exists in Earth’s sedimentary layers, those layers must have been deposited rapidly. (An unconformity represents a time break of unknown duration—for example, an erosional surface between two adjacent strata.) Parallel layers (called conformities) imply continuous, relatively rapid deposition. Because unconformities are simply local phenomena,a (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes70.html#wp1014742) one can trace continuous paths, which sometimes move horizontally, from the bottom to the top of the stratigraphic record that avoid these time breaks. The sedimentary layers along those paths must have been deposited rapidly and continuously as a unit.b (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes70.html#wp1028761)

Frequently, two adjacent and parallel sedimentary layers contain such different index fossils that evolutionists conclude they were deposited hundreds of millions of years apart. However, because the adjacent layers are conformable, they must have been deposited without interruption or erosion. [For an explanation of how conformable layers can have such different fossils, see pages 158 (http://www.creationscience.com/Liquefaction2.html#wp1100074)–168 (http://www.creationscience.com/Liquefaction8.html#wp1092180).] Often, in sequences showing no sign of disturbance, the layer considered older by evolutionists is on top! [See “Out-of-Place Fossils” on page 12 (http://www.creationscience.com/LifeSciences29.html#wp1055073).] Evolutionary dating rules are self-contradictory.c (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes70.html#wp1014743)


Most Scientific Dating Techniques Indicate That the Earth, Solar System, and Universe Are Young.

For the last 150 years, the age of the Earth, as assumed by evolutionists, has been doubling at roughly a rate of once every 15 years. In fact, since 1900 this age has multiplied by a factor of 100!

Evolution requires an old Earth, an old solar system, and an old universe. Nearly all informed evolutionists will admit that without billions of years their theory is dead. Yet, hiding the “origins question” behind a vast veil of time makes the unsolvable problems of evolution difficult for scientists to see and laymen to imagine. Our media and textbooks have implied for over a century that these almost unimaginable ages are correct. Rarely do people examine the shaky assumptions and growing body of contrary evidence. Therefore, most people today almost instinctively believe the Earth and universe are billions of years old. Sometimes, these people are disturbed, at least initially, when they see the evidence.

Actually, most dating techniques indicate that the Earth and solar system are young—possibly less than 10,000 years old. Here are some of these points of evidence.


Helium

One product of radioactive decay within rocks is helium, a light gas. Helium then enters the atmosphere—at a much faster rate than it escapes the atmosphere. (Large amounts of helium should not escape into outer space, even when considering helium’s low atomic weight.) Radioactive decay of only uranium and thorium would produce all the atmosphere’s helium in only 40,000 years. Therefore, the atmosphere appears to be young.a (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes71.html#wp1014756)


Lead and Helium Diffusion

Lead diffuses (or leaks) from zircon crystals at known rates that increase with temperature. Because these crystals are found at different depths in the Earth, those at greater depths and temperatures should have less lead. If the Earth’s crust is just a fraction of the age claimed by evolutionists, measurable differences in the lead content of zircons should exist in the top 4,000 meters. Instead, no measurable difference is found.a (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes72.html#wp1014773) Similar conclusions are reached based on the helium content in these same zircon crystals.b (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes72.html#wp1083153) Because helium escapes so rapidly and so much helium is still in zircons, they (and the Earth’s crust) must be less than 10,000 years old.c (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes72.html#wp1110920)


Excess Fluid Pressure

Abnormally high oil, gas, and water pressures exist within relatively permeable rock.a (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes73.html#wp1014792) If these fluids had been trapped more than 10,000 to 100,000 years ago, leakage would have dropped these pressures far below what they are today. This oil, gas, and water must have been trapped suddenly and recently.b (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes73.html#wp1212775)


Volcanic Debris

Volcanoes eject almost a cubic mile of material into the atmosphere each year, on average. At this rapid rate, about 10 times the entire volume of Earth’s sedimentary rock should be produced in 4.6 billion years. Actually, only about 25% of Earth’s sediments are of volcanic origin, and much greater volcanic activity existed in the past. No means have been proposed for removing or transforming all the missing volcanic sediments. Therefore, Earth’s sediments seem to be much younger than 4.6 billion years.a (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes74.html#wp1014807)


River Sediments

More than 27 billion tons of river sediments enter the oceans each year. Probably the rate of sediment transport was much greater in the past as the looser topsoil was removed and as erosion smoothed out Earth’s terrain. Even if erosion has been constant, the sediments now on the ocean floor would have accumulated in only 30 million years. No process has been proposed which can remove 27 billion tons of ocean sediments each year. So the oceans cannot be hundreds of millions of years old.a (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes75.html#wp1014818)


Continental Erosion

The continents are eroding at a rate that would level them in much less than 25 million years.a (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes76.html#wp1014827) However, evolutionists believe fossils of animals and plants at high elevations have somehow avoided this erosion for more than 300 million years. Something is wrong.


Dissolved Metals

Rivers are carrying dissolved elements such as copper, gold, lead, mercury, nickel, silicon, sodium, tin, and uranium into the oceans at very rapid rates when compared with the small quantities of these elements already in the oceans. In other words, far fewer metals are dissolved in the oceans than one would expect if a million years had been available for them to enter solution.a (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes77.html#wp1143636) There is no known means by which large amounts of these elements can come out of solution. Therefore, the oceans must be much younger than a million years.

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Shallow Meteorites

Meteorites are steadily falling onto Earth. This rate was probably much greater in the past, because planets have swept from the solar system much of the original meteoritic material. Therefore, experts have, expressed surprise that meteorites are almost always found in young sediments, very near Earth’s surface.a (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes78.html#wp1014840) Even meteoritic particles in ocean sediments are concentrated in the topmost layers.b (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes78.html#wp1018210) If Earth’s sediments, which average about a mile in thickness on the continents, were deposited over hundreds of millions of years, as evolutionists believe, we would expect to find many deeply buried iron meteorites. Because this is not the case, the sediments were probably deposited rapidly, followed by “geologically recent” meteorite impacts. Also, because no meteorites are found immediately above the basement rocks on which these sediments rest, these basement rocks were not exposed to meteoritic bombardment for any great length of time.

Similar observations can be made concerning ancient rock slides. Rock slides are frequently found on Earth’s surface, but are generally absent from supposedly old rock.c (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes78.html#wp1014879)


Meteoritic Dust

Meteoritic dust is accumulating on Earth so fast that, after 4 billion years (at today’s low and diminishing rate), the equivalent of more than 16 feet of this dust should have accumulated. Because this dust is high in nickel, Earth’s crust should have abundant nickel. No such concentration has been found on land or in the oceans. Therefore, Earth appears to be young.a (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes79.html#wp1014888)


Magnetic Decay

Over the past 140 years, direct measurements of Earth’s magnetic field show its steady and rapid decline in strength. This decay pattern is consistent with the theoretical view that a decaying electrical current inside Earth produces the magnetic field. If this is correct, then just 20,000 years ago the electrical current would have been so vast that Earth’s structure could not have survived the heat produced. This implies Earth could not be older than 20,000 years.a (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes80.html#wp1014897)


Rapid Cooling

If Earth had initially been molten, it would have cooled to its present condition in much less than 4.6 billion years. This conclusion holds even if one makes liberal assumptions about the amount of heat generated by radioactive decay within Earth.a (http://www.creationscience.com/ReferencesandNotes81.html#wp1014906) The known temperature pattern inside Earth is consistent only with a young Earth.


Moon Recession

As tidal friction gradually slows Earth’s spin, the laws of physics require the Moon to recede from Earth. (Edmond Halley fir