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Wayne Hollyoak on January 6th, 2009
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There are 2 big motivators that drive us to hold on to our beliefs. “Faith” has to do with having a certain level of confidence in something, an idea, a theory, writings, etc. It may have a lot to do with evidence, or it may not. It may hang on the reputations of others we trust that show great confidence in it. But, above all it will parallel our perception of “reality”.
If our perception of “reality” is skewed, we will have a problem with nagging fears whenever that “reality” is questioned or placed in doubt. Why is this? It’s really important to us that we maintain a grip on “reality” whatever we perceive it to be.
For the first half of my life, i perceived myself as a highly evolved primate. An animal that came to be by a more or less undirected process. I saw myself as living is a society of the same that was encouraging me to do my own thing, get drunk, get high, party.
All the time, deep down inside, i knew there was something wrong with that picture and i couldn’t put my finger on what it was. Brainwashing is a process designed to reshape a persons perception of reality. My perception of “reality” had been skewed by my deep interest in “science”. What we call, “science” today is really a society of people who are trying to unravel the mysteries of “reality”. A “reality” shaped by their own faith system, or “assumptions”.
But, as more and more of its assumptions are in error, the picture it presents of reality becomes more and more warped. Till today, it has taken on a sort of “black hole” relation to learning as a whole. Taking the light of the truth and sucking the all of the light of reality out of us. Now there are entire organizations dedicated to pushing ID and any mention of a Creator out of the educational system worldwide. Why, is it “intellectual honesty” they are protecting? That’s the excuse, but its really fear. Fear that students may not accept their faith, their perception of reality. They might become something they despise- a creationist perhaps.
Why is there only one major organization trying to advance intelligent design education and awareness? The Discovery Institute seems to be the only such organization. At least a few people in science still have a heart to stand against the tide! But, i for one am not too worried about the final outcome. Reality is not subject to black holes.
Wayne Hollyoak
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Wayne Hollyoak on December 17th, 2008
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Was curious about what Judge Jones had to say about his decision in the case brought against the Dover board of education. The Dover Board was trying to include teaching materials friendly to intelligent design in their public classrooms. A few parents objected filed the complaint.
Oddly, he had nothing to say about the evidence that the defence presented. But, he had lots to say about their “preparation” and “delivery” in court. So, because the prosecution was “on top of their game” as they say, judge Jones decided the way he did. I wonder if he even cared at all about the evidence they presented.
God deals with people very differently. He could care less about a person’s credentials, or their education. He doesn’t care about someone’s prestige or position in the community. He deals with each of us as individuals at the same level of humanity.
He looks at the evidence of our faith in Him. Why, is He an egotist or something? Absolutely not! He designed us, our world, the universe and everything in it! He knows what He’s doing! To have faith in Him as our Creator is to acknowledge reality.
From what i can tell, the Dover School Board was found guilty of showing evidence of their faith in their God and their commitment to the children in their district.
Because judge Jones was impressed more by presecutors’ performance, the Dover Board was required to shell out nearly 2 million dollars in “court costs” and forbidden to use any teaching materials that mentioned intelligent design in any way, shape, or form. So, our high courts are going American Idol. What a shame!
Wayne Hollyoak
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Wayne Hollyoak on December 6th, 2008
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Evolution is surely a doctorine of the faith of evolutionism, but has it ever really been tested scientifically? What would it take to really do so?
How about genetics? We use genetic testing to settle questions in criminal investigations. Shouldn’t genetics support common ancestory and such, if it exists?
That would be nice, but there’s a problem. Many supposedly closely related species have their genetic material bundled quite differently. That is, the number of chromosomes do not match. The fox appears to be very similar to dogs and the wolf which both have 78 chromosomes. But, the fox only has 35-39. So, it would appear that these two animals could not possibly be related at all.
In fact there is a diversity of chromosomal numbers within the group we call mammals.
MAMMALIA: Platypus, 70 / Opossum, 17-22 / Hedgehogs, 48 / Shrews, 23 / Hares, 36-46 / Deer Mice, 48, 52 / Voles, 42, 46, 50 / Mice, 40, 44 / Rats, 46, 62 / Cats, 35, 38 / Cattle, 16, 20, 60 / Goats, 60 / Sheep, 33, 48, 54, 60 / Pigs, 18, 38, 40 / Horses, 60, 66 / Rhesus Monkeys, 42, 48.
If genetic similarity is truly the “smoking gun” test of ancestory as it is often claimed, then evolution has a serious problem here. This alone SHOULD completely refute the theory, but for some reason “evolution science” persists.
To really PROVE even one single instance of evolution, or a completely new creature emerging solely by the “natural design” efforts of evolution it would take a bit of footwork to be sure.
First, you will need to isolate a confirmed example of a completely new creature developing in the first place. This should be the easy part since all of the known million or so species on earth are supposed to by evolving as we speak. So there ought to be perhaps hundreds of new species emerging every day. And a new genera popping up every month or so! Well, at least one a year wouldn’t you say… (I wouldn’t suggest crocodiles as a test case)
The next part is a little trickier and that is to determine how the new characteristics that sets the new creature apart came about. Normal genetic variation doesn’t count since evolution claims to infuse new genetic “cards”, not just simply shuffling the genetic cards that already exist.
You would need to have at your disposal examples of every POSSIBLE genetic variants from the original deck of genetic cards for comparison not only genetically, but physically. Otherwise, how could you reasonably say that your “new” creature wasn’t simply a different combination of the species’ existing genetic material.
Finally, a long term study of the “new creature’s” viability in the wild would need to be conducted. Unless the new creature can compete for food and reproduce successfully AT LEAST at the same level as it’s ancestral type, such a creature cannot be considered PROOF of evolution.
Do i have all the answers for the wonderful diversity of living things? No way! But, evolution theory presents an enormous uphill battle if anyone really wants to support the claim that it is in any way “proven”. At least from the standpoint of documenting it in action.
Using adaptations from existing genetic possibility doesn’t qualify so you have to rule them out. Natural design (evolution) depends solely on genetic mutation to supply all the new traits that make such a new creature unique.
Wayne Hollyoak
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Wayne Hollyoak on December 2nd, 2008
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I laugh whenever i hear people say that there’s no evidence of intelligent design in nature. Most of them really have no idea how living things work. Every living thing that we know of is full of tiny mechanical marvels we call nano machines. Nano machines are so tiny that they are invisible to the naked eye. They operate at the molecular level where the tolerances are always ZERO.
Men are just starting to play with trying to fabricate nano machines. To build them requires electron microscopy and an obsurd amount of process control. One ATOM out of place can shut one down in many cases.
Yet, these perfect/nanomachines run constantly and flawlessly in every cell of our bodies. Every cell may contain thousands of them. They are constantly being built and dismantled and the materials reused to make others. We can look at them and hope to understand what each one does, but never hope to reproduce one.
Yes, each and every nano machine that exists in nature is proof (not just evidence) that we were all created by the wisest Person imaginable.
Wayne Hollyoak
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Wayne Hollyoak on October 27th, 2008
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The answer won’t be found in the “god particle”. But, that’s one of the goals of desperate scientists these days. They’ve built the most collosal machine ever in the hopes that their “Hadron Particle Collidor” will enable them to smash a few protons to bits and reveal their inner workings.
For years men have been trying to use mathematics to figure out how things work in the universe. Einstein realized that there was an enormous amount of potential energy stored inside of every atom. If this energy could be released, the energy could be harnessed and used in various ways. The result was the atom bomb and Nuclear power plants and Nuclear powered ships and submarines.
But math could only take them so far in their quest to understand how matter works. Many things could not be easily put into mathematical equations and formulae. The tiny particles that make up atoms are much more complicated than originally thought.
I appears that it will take massive machines and the energy of entire citys to probe deeper into this mystery. The mystery that manifests itself as the minute entity we call the, “atom” or the substance we call, “matter”.
Maybe they hope to determine what the primal essance of the universe was at it’s beginning. Is that what they refer to as the, “god particle”?
The reality is that man’s wisdom will always lead us AWAY from God and not towards Him. The only way we can ever come to the Creator of us and the universe we live in is to do so on His terms. His terms are readily available for our information and guidance in the Holy Scriptures which have been compiled under His direction by His Spirit.
Without His direction, we will always end up lost and confused. No amount of research or money can change that. How did the universe begin??
“For by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy. For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross. Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of your evil behavior. But now he has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death to present you holy in his sight, without blemish and free from accusation–if you continue in your faith, established and firm, not moved from the hope held out in the gospel. This is the gospel that you heard and that has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven, and of which I, Paul, have become a servant.”
(Colossians chapter 1:16-23)
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Wayne Hollyoak on October 14th, 2008
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It has just dawned on me that one of the most mysterious and dreadful prophesies of the Bible is being fulfilled in our time. This prophesy concerns an “abomination that makes desolate”
What is an “abomination”? It’s something that God views as grotesquely blasphemous. In the Bible we read about Israel often falling into the sin of idolatry. These grotesque idols were sometimes refered to as “abominations”. They were blasphemous because they made the living Creator to resemble some animal or a man, or even human genetalia. Grotesque because they cause the faithful to sense dread and horror in the way they disfigure God’s glory and majesty.
Christian leaders around the world are wrestling with the growing concern about intelligent design. Strangely, not the fear that it’s truth is being questioned. But, the fear that they may be seen somehow as in support of it’s teaching. Pretty soon modern christian leaders will reveal their true colors. It will make plain the extent of the encroachment of evolutionism on the christian church.
Christian, or followers of Jesus, will be looking to their leaders for guidance and teaching. I will be looking to my pastor to help guide me in my christian experience. I’m hoping that he will take a clear stand for intelligent design and teach our congregation that God did indeed DESIGN us and CREATE us and the universe.
If it does turn out that there is a widespread concensus amoung church leaders and pastors against the teaching of intelligent design, how will the Creator see this? How many christians will become disillusioned with their faith in their Creator as a result? Will this become the “abomination that makes desolate”?
To teach that God is just some mystical force or a fabrication of human culture qualifies truly as an abomination. To say that all of creation created itself by some feeble process called, “natural selection” is even more abominable to a believer in Jesus.
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Wayne Hollyoak on October 2nd, 2008
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Will you be saved? Will I be saved? Will anyone be saved? Does it matter?
One day you will find yourself living in a very different world. All of the people who are making the world a safe and free place to live will be gone. All those godly people who believe in Jesus will dissappear off the face of the earth. There’ll be no warning except the ones in the Bible.
The economy will fail, men’s hearts will fail, people still here will suddenly realize that they were duped into turning from God and are doomed to pay the price. Classrooms, workplaces, highways, parks, etc. will become war zones. Many people who have placed all their bets on the claims of science and really believed that we just evolved and there is no creator will find themselves frightened and confused.
Others will be enraged at God. So sure that they were good enough and why were they left behind. Do you have respect for Jesus, who died to buy our salvation? If not, you won’t have a chance. The question God asks is will He find faith when he returns? Not just any faith! Faith that Jesus is the Savior and that He is who He says He is. According to the teaching of the Bible, not your opinion or mine.
When will this all happen? When we least expect it, He’ll come like a thief in the night. In the blink of an eye…
Jesus said,
“Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away. No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.
As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left. Two women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be taken and the other left. Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come. But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into. So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.”
“Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom the master has put in charge of the servants in his household to give them their food at the proper time? It will be good for that servant whose master finds him doing so when he returns. I tell you the truth, he will put him in charge of all his possessions. But suppose that servant is wicked and says to himself, ‘My master is staying away a long time,’ and he then begins to beat his fellow servants and to eat and drink with drunkards. The master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he is not aware of. He will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
(Matt. 24: 35-51)
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Wayne Hollyoak on September 15th, 2008
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First of all, evolution is not just a “theory of science”. Evolution has become a religious faith in itself. What started out as Darwin’s observations of the adaptability of living things has been transformed into the “official” creation story of the “science establishment”.
One of the problems that has plagued science, is the ability of so many folks to write well. I’m obviously not one of them. But, it’s better to show others what’s what with simple and less colorful english than fool them with ideas that are distorted but made to sound profound and “elegantly scientific” let’s say.
So, i’ll put it simply. Evolution has become the religious faith of most of the world’s “leading” scientists. This is what i refer to as the religion of “evolutionism”. That is, the faith that evolution created the universe and everything in it including you and me. In other words, nature created itself.
This is in total opposition to the fundamental beliefs of the christian faith. Which can be summarized:
1. We were created by the God who is spoken of throughout the Bible.
2. This same God was given human birth by a jewish virgin by the power of His Spirit and named, Jesus(english for ”Yeshua”).
3. Jesus taught the way we must be saved, by believing Him and receiving His gift of salvation.
4. Jesus allowed himself to be wrongly killed to pay the price of our sins and, as God, arose from the dead to again govern the universe which He has created and owns.
You can find all the details for yourself by reading the Bible.
If you beleive in evolutionism, you see Jesus as a man and an animal like the rest of us. Evolutionism teaches that there is no salvation, no hope and no human purpose. It turns the truth of God into little more than a fairy tale.
Evolution is a cruel hoax. It makes no logical or rational sense to me and i studied science and biology for years. It has never been proven , not tested scientifically. All the enormous wealth of design and efficiency that exists in the world of living things and mindless and heartless people want y0u to accept that it all got here without outside help.
Go figure…
Wayne Hollyoak
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Wayne Hollyoak on August 27th, 2008
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30 years ago, my answer would have been a quick, “of course!” Science to me was mankind’s highest goal and aspiration.- full of honesty and integrity, hope and wisdom. People involved in science were my heros, dedicated to lifting mankind from ignorance and curing all our diseases.
So, when i was accepted into college, i wanted to learn all i could about the sciences. I even joined the biology club and went on all sorts of trips with the other science student and the profs. All the while the head of the bio department was hitting up on the anthropology prof. Both were already married and so the image of science changed suddenly. I learned later after my graduation that that same head of the biology department barricaded himself into one of the campus buildings and held police at bay for hours with a shotgun.
To my surprise, i learned that people in science were no better than anyone else. In fact there seemed to be a higher percentage of kooks in their ranks than in the general population! Some even claimed that there was no God, which scared the begeebers outta me! In fact, as time went on, i learned that a large percentage of scientists had trouble believing in God!
What i didn’t realize then, was that there was a high level of contept towards “religious people” in “science”. My cousin who held a phD in herpetology and was the founder of the Dallas Paleontological Society, was well know in our family to not want any association with any sort of religion. It saddens me to think that he may have still felt that way when he died during a scuba diving accident years ago.
It’s no secret anymore that “science” has become a wedge between may in it’s ranks against their faith in God. How many devout christians have gone to college and became persuaded to turn their back on God and their faith. I was aware of the pressure, the ridicule, the belittleing, the mockery and contempt toward God-fearing people.
Central to this antichristian conviction among the “people of science” and higher education in general was the concept of “evolution”. If Darwin hadn’t come up with the notion that “biological adaptation” could be a basis for a new creation story, one that didn’t need a “guiding hand”. Then, atheists and antichristian people still would be viewed as crazy and insane, and even dangerous.
Today, science has become an institution that welcomes those that openly discriminates against devout christians. Those that respect the scriptures and those that believe in a real Creator who is responsible for life on earth are viewed with contempt and suspision.
How long will “science” be able to continue diluding itself and the masses? Is mankind being tested to see how easily it can be persuaded to abandon the obvious fact of our deliberate creation and this Creator’s wonderful care for us. My guess is that “science” is heading for disaster. Whether or not “science” will maintain credibility for the remainder of this century will hing on it’s willingness to abandon the strange “evolution” creation story and accept respect “people of faith”.
Wayne Hollyoak
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Wayne Hollyoak on August 15th, 2008
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The litmus test of science is the reaction to intelligent design. Litmus paper is used in chemistry to tell if a liquid is an acid or a base. Intelligent design IS THE FOUNDATION of any quest for knowledge. Knowledge is just a sum total of everything you “know”. Science claims to increase the amount of knowledge available to mankind.
But, how can you tell if this thing we refer to as, “science” is on track at all? One thing that “Chaos” theory in science has proven is that “chaos” is a fabrication that has no reality. Yet, this is the greatest assumption of modern science and it’s greatest failure.
Intelligent design “theory” smacks down “science” reveals it’s real essence. Modern science has become a substitute for faith. If you have a problem with ID, you NEED science as a coping mechanism. ID is to biology, what quantum theory is to physics. Both are acknowledgements that man’s theories at their very best are ultra simplistic.
Heb 11:6
And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.
(NIV)
Do you want to gain knowledge? This is where one MUST begin.
Wayne Hollyoak