Month: July 2020

Browsing through some old files on my computer, I came across the following story. It’s so good that I’d like to share it here…

On the morning of his 42nd birthday, Bill Jones awoke to a ball of thunder. Glancing out the window he saw written in fiery letters across the sky: 

SOMEONE IS TRYING TO KILL YOU BILL JONES!

With shaking hands, Bill lit his first cigarette of the day.

He didn’t question the message. His only question was “Who?”
   At breakfast, while spreading margarine and marmalade over his toast, he told his wife Sally,   
   “Someone is trying to kill me.”
   “Who?” she asked in horror. Bill slowly stirred the cream and sugar into his coffee, and shook his head. “I don’t know!” he said.
   On his way to the office, Bill tried to think of a way to outwit his would-be-murderer. But the frustration of making up time by beating traffic lights and switching lanes, occupied him wholly.    Nor, once behind his desk, could he find a moment to resolve the mystery. What, with jangling phones, urgency memos, and the problems and decisions piling up as they did every day, it wasn’t until his second beer during his lunch hour that the full terror of his position struck him. It was all he could do to finish his Lasagne Milanese.
   “I can’t panic,” he said to himself, while lighting another cigarette. “I simply must live my life as usual.”
   So he worked until late as usual. Drove home as fast as usual. Ate a hearty cooked dinner as usual. Had a few more beers as usual, and sat in front of the TV until bed time as usual. He took his usual two seconal capsules in order to get his usual six hours sleep.
   The days passed, and Bill manfully stuck to his routine. His pride grew as he managed to go on living for years. But, as it must to all men, death came at last to Bill Jones.
   It came at his desk on a particularly busy day. He was 53.
   His grief stricken widow demanded a full autopsy. But it showed only emphysema, arteriosclerosis, duodenal ulcers, cirrhosis of the liver, cardiac neurosis, a cerebrovascular aneurism, pulmonary oedema, obesity, circulatory inefficiency, and a touch of cancer.
   “How glad Bill would have been”, said the widow, smiling proudly through her tears, “to know that he died of natural causes.”

_{– Original author unknown}

The first question to ask yourself is, what foundation does your worldview rest upon?

Your worldview shapes every choice you make.

If life is merely the product of random evolution, then your morality has no fixed anchor. As a result, your decisions and life choices will reflect that instability. But, if you are anchored to your creator, then every action gains purpose because it’s rooted in truth, and is aligned with the source of real blessing.

Mainstream media never explains this, and modern education totally fails to teach it.

The universe rests on a purposeful, divine foundation, and understanding it properly can change your life.

The box below shows the fallacy of evolution, written for hard core scientists, then the rest of the page is for everyone else, in clearer language.

1. The Fine-Tuning of the Universe (The Anthropic Principle)
Physics shows that the universe is governed by a set of fundamental constants (like the strength of gravity, the electromagnetic force, and the mass of electrons). 
The Evidence: If any of these constants were altered by even an unfathomably microscopic fraction, stars could not have formed, atoms would fly apart, and life would be completely impossible. The universe appears precisely "tuned" to allow for existence. 
Science struggles to explain why these numbers are so perfect. The current secular hypothesis is the "Multiverse"—the idea that there are infinite universes, and we just happen to be in the lucky one. To a neutral observer, believing in an infinite number of unprovable, invisible universes requires just as much faith as believing in a single, intelligent Designer who set the dials.

2. Abiogenesis (The Origin of Life)
Evolution purports to explain how life diversified after it started, but scientists admit they cannot explain how the very first living cell arose from dead chemicals. Fred Hoyle published a probability estimate of 1 in 10⁴⁰,⁰⁰⁰ for the chance of obtaining all of life’s enzymes by random assembly. This figure appears in his book The Intelligent Universe. Even if evolution works step‑by‑step, Hoyle’s point still bites: the odds of even one functional enzyme forming by blind chemistry (about 1 in 10⁴⁰,⁰⁰⁰) are so extreme that invoking gradual selection doesn’t answer the real question of how the first selectable molecule ever appeared.
The Evidence: Even the simplest hypothetical single-celled organism requires a massive, complex network of DNA, RNA, and proteins to work together. DNA holds the instructions to make proteins, but you need proteins to read the DNA. It is a biological catch-22. 
Decades of laboratory experiments have failed to create life from non-life. The sheer mathematical improbability of amino acids randomly arranging themselves into a self-replicating, functioning cell is a massive hurdle for physical science. This is where the concept of information comes in: CODE (like DNA) demands a CODER.

3. The "Hard Problem" of Consciousness
This is a massive blind spot in materialist science.
The Evidence: Science can map the brain's electrical signals and chemicals, but it cannot explain the subjective, personal experience of being alive. Why does electrical activity in the brain result in the sensation of seeing the color red, feeling grief, or appreciating a poem? 
If we are just random products of matter and motion, our thoughts are nothing more than chemical accidents. If thoughts are accidents, we can't trust our own logic to be "true." A worldview where consciousness is primary —because it stems from an eternal, conscious God— provides a much cleaner logical foundation for why human beings possess self-awareness, morality, and a search for meaning.

The dominant worldview in the West—promoted by mainstream media and education—is that life arose through millions of years of gradual evolution. But even the classic “chicken or egg” question exposes the cracks.

Here’s The Same Problem Explained In Plain Language

If you don’t know which came first, the chicken or the egg, you’ve already been fooled!

It should be obvious that neither chickens nor eggs could have gradually evolved. Both had to work perfectly the very first time, or the entire line would have died out immediately. A half‑formed bird in a half‑formed egg is not a viable creature. Evolutionists may say this oversimplifies the issue. I agree—but the problem is not that the explanation is too simple. The problem is that no explanation works.

Now consider a far more striking example: butterflies.

A butterfly’s life cycle has four stages:

1. egg
2. caterpillar
3. chrysalis
4. adult butterfly

For butterflies to exist at all, this entire cycle had to function perfectly on the first attempt. A caterpillar liquefies inside a chrysalis and re‑forms into a butterfly. Why doesn’t it emerge as a grasshopper, or a cockroach, or something else entirely? Because the chrysalis contains precise encoded information. But who put that information there?

And reproduction creates an even bigger problem for evolution. Butterflies don’t mate with caterpillars. Only adult butterflies reproduce. That means at least two caterpillars had to mutate into fully formed, fully functional, opposite‑sex butterflies at roughly the same time. Both had to:

• begin as mutated eggs
• hatch as caterpillars
• form chrysalises
• emerge as reproductively complete butterflies

If even one stage failed, the entire species would never have existed. Evolution requires gradual development, but reproduction requires a complete cycle from the start. Eggs don’t mate. Caterpillars don’t mate. Chrysalises don’t mate. Only butterflies do. So how did two butterflies reach the final stage without the earlier stages already being in place?

They didn’t. They couldn’t.

Either butterflies don’t exist, or they were created fully formed.

Evolution faces many other fatal flaws. No one has ever observed one animal kind evolving into another. “Missing links” are speculation at best and fraud at worst. Radiometric dating is unreliable (See this offsite link). Consciousness remains unexplained.

Or how about irreducible complexity? That puts a spanner in the works for evolution, because accidental incremental evolution makes no sense, as thousands of successive small modifications of very complicated biological systems would have no purpose without an advanced design in mind in the first place, and less complicated systems could not function!

Which came first, the heart, or blood vessels?

How could either one of these, without the other, possibly evolve?

Animals need a heart, or they don’t.

A half-evolved heart won’t do the job at all!

If your instinct is to defend evolution, that’s a sign of how deeply the narrative has shaped your thinking.

You know from experience that nothing complex assembles itself—not a model airplane, not a garden shed, not a piece of IKEA furniture. How much more impossible is it for the universe, life, and consciousness to assemble themselves?

Eyesight, reproduction, and biological systems could never have gradually evolved by chance. Evolution is a belief system for those trying to escape the implications of a Creator.

Disprove one essential component—like the butterfly cycle—and the entire evolutionary house of cards collapses.

You’ve been fooled. By now the scales should be falling from your eyes.

The Bible answers the chicken‑and‑egg question by implication: The chicken came first, fully formed with a well designed reproductive system already built into it. God also created a fully formed man first, not an embryo first. God created all creatures fully formed to start with, using this same principle, including birds, chickens and butterflies.

Repeating the logic, so you get the point

Please explain how these creatures gradually evolved with only partially formed, and therefore NON-FUNCTIONING, abilities for reproduction.

You can’t explain it because it didn’t happen.

Realise that if it didn’t happen perfectly with at least two butterflies of the opposite sex evolving at the same time the very first time, with both containing a blueprint within them for the next generation of butterflies to continue – if this didn’t happen they would NOT have kept on keeping on.

A butterfly cannot come into existence without the previous stages, going back to eggs. Nor can the eggs develop into future stages over a long period because A COMPLETE CYCLE MUST BE PRESENT TO PRODUCE THE NEXT GENERATION. 
 
Without all stages there can be no future eggs. 
- Eggs don't mate in order to reproduce. 
- Caterpillars don't mate in order to reproduce. 
- Chrysalis don't mate in order to reproduce.
  Only the butterfly mates in order to reproduce. 
Any two butterflies ready for reproduction cannot have developed up to this stage in a single generation because the amount of mutation needed to go from egg to butterfly in a single generation is impossible. Progressive stages of evolution would require a complete reproductive cycle, but the gap between egg to butterfly does not allow for progressive evolution. Remember
- Eggs don't mate. 
- Caterpillars don't mate. 
- Chrysalis don't mate. 
  Only the end product - the butterfly, does. So how did TWO individual butterflies get to the last stage without going through the previous stages, and then mate? 
How did they achieve it in only one generation? 
Therefore,
either butterflies don't exist, or they were created without evolution.

There are many things science cannot explain. Consciousness for example. Where does that come from? I don’t remember them even touching that subject in my science evolution class at school.

Accidental incremental evolution makes no sense, as thousands of successive small modifications of very complicated biological systems would have no purpose without an advanced design in mind in the first place, and less complicated systems could not function!

COMPLEX human or animal abilities like eyesight or reproduction could never have gradually evolved by chance.

Did a blind organism just somehow know in advance that if it kept adding certain eyesight components to its body, thousands of years later it would eventually develop eyes and see?

This is nonsense!

Evolution theory is a faith based religion

It’s for people trying to run away from God.

You really only need to disprove one thing 100% (as I’ve done with butterflies) and the whole evolution ‘house of cards’ collapses.

Have you been fooled by so-called, false science?

How great a genius would you be if YOU created everything? Now, how impossible is it for NOTHING to create everything?

Evolution demands more blind faith than it admits — and deep down, most honest thinkers sense that. This is not meant as an insult, but don’t be a mental caterpillar. Transform your thinking, and learn to fly instead!

Here’s a poem I wrote. You may not like poetry, but check it out!

Tiny Wing

How pretty, is a butterfly
On pastel powder wings,
It flutters through the scented air
Unlike lower mortal things

How beautiful, a butterfly
It doesn’t have to wait,
It flutters past oblivious
To worry fear and hate

How perfect, is a butterfly
Such a lovely, wondrous thing!
What a complex marvel of creation
In just one tiny wing

How transient, a butterfly
Painted flower on the breeze,
It flutters past unnoticed
It dies, and no one sees.

–Rob Binnion

Now that we’ve opened the door of truth, remember what Jesus said: He is that door. Step through the door, and you will learn to fly! (John 10:7, 10:9; John 14:6)

To open the door wider, continue to the next page, and prove for yourself that the Bible is TRUE! (John 17:17)

CLICK HERE.

Chicken photo by Pixaboy from Pexels

I hope you enjoy these quotes as much as I do. Drink them in. If any of them revive you, stir you to action, or motivate you, then reading this will be worth it.

As I begin writing this article, I don’t know how it will turn out, but I’m having fun making illustrations, and…
You can’t expect to hit the jackpot if you don’t put a few nickels in the machine — Flip Wilson

I’ll see if I can apply the advice from each quote as I write this article. So far, I’ve written a few sentences and it’s just like putting nickels in the machine.

So now, I simply need to keep on going!

All things come to him who goes after them — Unknown

Hey, writing this article is easier than I thought!

“But what about scary obstacles” I hear you cry. Well, no worries.

These quotes have it covered:

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be removed — Samuel Johnson

A ship in harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built for — William G. T. Shedd

Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to fly in — Confucius, I think. (If it’s Chinese, this saying adds context to the junk pictured above.)

Those who know how to think need no teachers – Mahatma Gandhi

The future depends on what you do today – Mahatma Gandhi

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread – Mahatma Gandhi

One of my favourite quotes actually rides on top of another quote from Isaac Newton, who said:

If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants

Here’s the corollary:

If I have NOT seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on MY shoulders

— Hal Abelson

So, what to do? Forget the Giants! Boldly go where no man has gone before.

Sorry.

That’s a Star Trek quote I actually didn’t mean to include here.

Consider it a bonus!

These are in no particular order.

It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so. – Mark Twain (i.e. Samuel Clemens)

Shoot for the moon. If you miss, you’re still high. For those who are truly committed to a vision, the dream is never over — Steven K. Scott

There are no mistakes, just happy little accidents — Bob Ross

(Yes, it’s me in the photo)

(Make sure you don’t misread the above quote. It says adversity, NOT advertising!)

Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good you’ll have to ram them down people’s throats — Howard Aiken

Do just once what others say you can’t do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again — James R. Cook

A Vietnamese proverb says “So long as a man has not his head cut off, nothing is definitely lost for him!”

“I’m stuck here in a cycle and I am getting older but I am not growing up and my heart is getting soft dark spots on it like a fruit that has gone bad or is soft because too many hands have squeezed it but then put it back down not because I am not ready but because they were not ready for my type of fruity flesh.” – Jenny Slate

“If you never bump into the devil, it’s because you’re going in the same direction.” – Andrew Wommack

‘Every adversity, every failure, every heartbreak, carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.’ – Napoleon Hill

Those who chase two rabbits at the same time catch none.

This one really resonated with me. Sometimes you just have to do whatever you have to do, but…

When people go to work, they shouldn’t have to leave their hearts at home — Betty Bender

Nevertheless, never give up hope:

In the hour of adversity be not without hope, for crystal rain falls from black clouds — Nizami Ganjavi

Every action has an equal and opposite criticism. (Ignore it.) – Unknown

It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning — The Bible, Lamentations 3:22-23

The worshippers of false gods have given up their only hope. — The Bible, Jonah 2:8, BBE version.

(It’s me in the photo, not James Dean.)

A fool’s voice is known by a multitude of words. Ecclesiastes 5

Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is elephant. – Charlie Chaplin

I’ll stop here, although perhaps I should include one more:

UNWRITTEN LAW:
Most people do ALMOST enough to win — A. L. Williams

All right, perhaps a couple more?

The beautiful part of a good idea is that it’s self-financing. A good idea must give you leverage on your time, your efforts, or your money — Joe Karbo

I’ve saved the best one for last:

Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It’s like having a little pet for your face. — Anita Wiseman

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