All categories - 15 July 2006

YES I KNO PPL SAY ITS IMPOSSIBLE BUT I RELE JUST WANNA LOSE ABOUT 10 PONUDS CAN I DO IT?
PLZ NO SHITTY ANSWERS!!!!!!!!!!

2006-07-15 16:48:20 · 13 answers · asked by yasmine_horton 2 in Diet & Fitness

2006-07-15 16:48:16 · 9 answers · asked by Raphael A 3 in Other - Society & Culture

my daughter is married to a dirty state trooper and we have tried talking to police and they said he is a police he wouldn't do that and they even laughed at us. we tried to have him investagated but they just act like it isn't true how do you stop a dirty cop when him and his father has money to buy him out of everything and the police don't believe you.Please i need help. he has already destoried my daughters life and told her child and she has tried to hide from him because of his threats. he stood in my living room and told me that he could kill her and get away with it and no one would ever know and never find her then he moved her and it took me over 2 years to find her and by then he has did everything and anything you can think of to her. he once stood in thier living room nake talking on the phone to the woman that lived next to my daughter and wanted to know if she wish she was there with him. he made sure my daughter couldn't get to any of her family .I beg you PLEASE help

2006-07-15 16:47:59 · 9 answers · asked by donna29374 1 in Law Enforcement & Police

wen they move across somethng or rub aganst something but goeas away?

2006-07-15 16:47:55 · 5 answers · asked by sweetandlovely247 2 in Women's Health

2006-07-15 16:47:53 · 18 answers · asked by Lusty God 2 in Polls & Surveys

For example if you had a realy bad itch in your nose and you did'nt have hands.......

2006-07-15 16:47:52 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Beauty & Style

well?

2006-07-15 16:47:37 · 3 answers · asked by sdgfdsfg 1 in Philosophy

Does he think another man will finally hold him close and kiss him ever so gently if he could only build up enough points to get to level 3?

Doesnt he know that no matter how many points he earns he will still be a short, limp dicked douchebag?

2006-07-15 16:47:29 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Psychology

I was reading a DVD discussion forum, and I noticed people saying "Disc" and "Disk." Beyond the spelling, is there a difference between those two things? If so, what is it? Thanks!

2006-07-15 16:47:28 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Home Theater

What was your favorite SNL sketch ever? Mine had to be the Phillip sketch with Mike Myers and Nicole Kidman

2006-07-15 16:47:26 · 12 answers · asked by L 3 in Television

he seems to have pain in his hip and i wonder if it would help?

2006-07-15 16:47:20 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Cats

i read this book awhile back but cant seem to remember everything? i have to do any essay so does anyone have a summary on this book or have a site on this book?

2006-07-15 16:47:07 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Homework Help

mine is Deja Vu by Beyonce' f/ Jay-Z

2006-07-15 16:46:59 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Music

what is favorite brand of of smokes are you fav and what style EX(marlboro lights).mines marlboro reds or 27's

2006-07-15 16:46:55 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Health

i was sick last month but now it's just that feeling at night

2006-07-15 16:46:45 · 10 answers · asked by czrl 2 in Other - General Health Care

2006-07-15 16:46:40 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Garden & Landscape

it is to be sang at my husbands funeral. how do I find the music download and then the lyrics

2006-07-15 16:46:35 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Music

I was going to sign up with Netflix and check out the original Transformers series. Half the seasons say "save" instead of "add", and it says that saves will be added to your queue when they become available. So my question is, are all the saves available, but just all of them are checked out? Or could it be that Netflix doesn't even have the discs, but is still listing it?

2006-07-15 16:46:30 · 5 answers · asked by skellington1313 2 in Movies

2006-07-15 16:46:27 · 6 answers · asked by *~♥h0lliiwo0d♥~* 2 in Skin & Body

attractive person youve ever seen in your life that you would sleep with, how rich would you be. Be honest
I would say 1 thousand dollars

2006-07-15 16:46:24 · 4 answers · asked by See ya later aligator 4 in Other - Social Science

What is the other name for a man that has more than one wife other than a morman. They have several different wifes and familys.

2006-07-15 16:46:21 · 21 answers · asked by welder 1 in Family

Now that I got your attention, people wanted to know my real question when I told them that nobody answers the real questions. Adobe Acrobat Professional: can I use it to save filled out forms that are set up where they can't be saved?
In other words, with acrobat reader, I have a form I can fill out, but I must print it and I cannot save the form filled out. If I open it with Acrobat Professional, can I change the settings of someone else's form so that I can save them filled out? It seems like I could, since the pro version creates the forms.

2006-07-15 16:46:21 · 10 answers · asked by pikachuflatulates 5 in Singles & Dating

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That's a picture of them...I bought some and i was wondering if they are legally allowed to be on cars.

2006-07-15 16:46:20 · 9 answers · asked by boppyduffduff1990 3 in Maintenance & Repairs

2006-07-15 16:46:10 · 8 answers · asked by don_vvvvito 6 in Current Events

Creation Archive > Volume 20 Issue 3 > Is there really a God? How would you answer?


First published:
Creation 20(3):32–34
June 1998
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Is there really a God? How would you answer?
Far from being a blind faith, Christianity can be logically defended.
by Ken Ham

In our everyday experience, just about everything seems to have a beginning. In fact, the laws of science show that even things which look the same through our lifetime, like the sun and other stars, are running down. The sun is using up its fuel at millions of tonnes each second—since, therefore, it cannot last forever, it had to have a beginning. The same can be shown to be true for the entire universe.

So when Christians claim that the God of the Bible created the entire universe, some will ask what seems a logical question, namely ‘Where did God come from?’

The Bible makes it clear in many places that God is outside of time. He is eternal, with no beginning or end—He is infinite! He also knows all things, being infinitely intelligent.1

Is this logical? Can modern science allow for such a notion? And how could you recognize the evidence for an intelligent Creator?

Recognizing intelligence
For more information, visit Q&A: God

Scientists get excited about finding stone tools in a cave because these speak of intelligence—a tool maker. They could not have designed themselves. Neither would anyone believe that the carved Presidents’ heads on Mt Rushmore were the product of millions of years of chance erosion. We can recognize design—the evidence of the outworkings of intelligence—in the man-made objects all around us.

Similarly, in William Paley’s famous argument, a watch implies a watchmaker.2 Today, however, a large proportion of people, including many leading scientists, believe that all plants and animals, including the incredibly complex brains of the people who make watches, motor cars, etc., were not designed by an intelligent God but rather came from an unintelligent evolutionary process. But is this a defensible position?

Design in living things
Molecular biologist Dr Michael Denton, writing as an agnostic, concluded:

‘Alongside the level of ingenuity and complexity exhibited by the molecular machinery of life, even our most advanced [twentieth century technology appears] clumsy … . It would be an illusion to think that what we are aware of at present is any more than a fraction of the full extent of biological design. In practically every field of fundamental biological research ever-increasing levels of design and complexity are being revealed at an ever-accelerating rate.’3

The world-renowned crusader for Darwinism and atheism, Prof. Richard Dawkins, states:

‘We have seen that living things are too improbable and too beautifully “designed” to have come into existence by chance.’4

Thus, even the most ardent atheist concedes that design is all around us. To a Christian, the design we see all around us is totally consistent with the Bible’s explanation that God created all.

However, evolutionists like Dawkins reject the idea of a Designer. He comments (emphasis added):

‘All appearance to the contrary, the only watchmaker in nature is the blind forces of physics, albeit deployed in a very special way. A true watchmaker has foresight: he designs his cogs and springs, and plans their interconnections, with future purpose in his mind’s eye. Natural selection, the blind, unconscious, automatic process which Darwin discovered, and which we now know is the explanation for the existence and apparently purposeful form of all life, has no purpose in mind … . It has no mind … . It does not plan for the future … it is the blind watchmaker.’5

Selection and design
Life is built on information, contained in that molecule of heredity, DNA. Dawkins believes that natural selection6 and mutations (blind, purposeless copying mistakes in this DNA) together provide the mechanism for producing the vast amounts of information responsible for the design in living things.7

Natural selection is a logical process that can be observed. However, selection can only operate on the information already contained in genes—it does not produce new information.8 Actually, this is consistent with the Bible’s account of origins; God created distinct kinds of animals and plants, each to reproduce after its own kind.

One can observe great variation in a kind, and see the results of natural selection. For instance, dingoes, wolves, and coyotes have developed over time as a result of natural selection operating on the information in the genes of the wolf/dog kind.

But no new information was produced—these varieties have resulted from rearrangement, and sorting out, of the information in the original dog kind. One kind has never been observed to change into a totally different kind with new information that previously did not exist!

Without a way to increase information, natural selection will not work as a mechanism for evolution. Evolutionists agree with this, but they believe that mutations somehow provide the new information for natural selection to act upon.

Can mutations produce new information?
Actually, it is now clear that the answer is no! Dr Lee Spetner, a highly qualified scientist who taught information and communication theory at Johns Hopkins University, makes this abundantly clear in his recent book:

‘In this chapter I’ll bring several examples of evolution, [i.e., instances alleged to be examples of evolution] particularly mutations, and show that information is not increased … But in all the reading I’ve done in the life-sciences literature, I’ve never found a mutation that added information.9

‘All point mutations that have been studied on the molecular level turn out to reduce the genetic information and not to increase it.10

‘The NDT [neo-Darwinian theory] is supposed to explain how the information of life has been built up by evolution. The essential biological difference between a human and a bacterium is in the information they contain. All other biological differences follow from that. The human genome has much more information than does the bacterial genome. Information cannot be built up by mutations that lose it. A business can’t make money by losing it a little at a time.’11

Evolutionary scientists have no way around the conclusions that many scientists, including Dr Spetner, have come to. Mutations do not work as a mechanism to fuel the evolutionary process.

More problems!
Scientists have found that within the cell, there are thousands of what can be called ‘biochemical machines.’ All of their parts have to be in place simultaneously or the cell can’t function. Things which were thought to be simple mechanisms, such as being able to sense light and turn it into electrical impulses, are in fact highly complicated.

Since life is built on these ‘machines,’ the idea that natural processes could have made a living system is untenable. Biochemist Dr Michael Behe (see The mousetrap man) uses the term ‘irreducible complexity’ in describing such biochemical ‘machines.’

‘… systems of horrendous, irreducible complexity inhabit the cell. The resulting realization that life was designed by an intelligence is a shock to us in the twentieth century who have gotten used to thinking of life as the result of simple natural laws. But other centuries have had their shocks, and there is no reason to suppose that we should escape them.’12

Richard Dawkins recognizes this problem of needing ‘machinery’ to start with when he states:

‘The theory of the blind watchmaker is extremely powerful given that we are allowed to assume replication and hence cumulative selection. But if replication needs complex machinery, since the only way we know for complex machinery ultimately to come into existence is cumulative selection, we have a problem.’13

A problem indeed! The more we look into the workings of life, the more complicated it gets, and the more we see that life could not arise by itself. Not only is a source of information needed, but the complex ‘machines’ of the chemistry of life need to be in existence right from the start!

A greater problem still!
Some still try to insist that the machinery of the first cell could have arisen by pure chance. For instance, they say, by randomly drawing alphabet letters in sequence from a hat, sometimes you will get a simple word like ‘BAT.’14 So given long time periods, why couldn’t even more complex information arise by chance?

However, what would the word ‘BAT’ mean to a German or Chinese speaker? The point is that an order of letters is meaningless unless there is a language convention and a translation system in place which makes it meaningful!

In a cell, there is such a system (other molecules) that makes the order on the DNA meaningful. DNA without the language/translation system is meaningless, and these systems without the DNA wouldn’t work either.

The other complication is that the translation machinery which reads the order of the ‘letters’ in the DNA is itself specified by the DNA! This is another one of those ‘machines’ that needs to be fully-formed or life won’t work.

Can information arise from non-information?
Dr Werner Gitt, Director and Professor at the German Federal Institute of Physics and Technology, makes it clear that one of the things we know absolutely for sure from science, is that information cannot arise from disorder by chance. It always takes (greater) information to produce information, and ultimately information is the result of intelligence:

‘A code system is always the result of a mental process (it requires an intelligent origin or inventor) … It should be emphasized that matter as such is unable to generate any code. All experiences indicate that a thinking being voluntarily exercising his own free will, cognition, and creativity, is required.15

‘There is no known natural law through which matter can give rise to information, neither is any physical process or material phenomenon known that can do this.’16

What is the source of the information?
We can therefore deduce that the huge amount of information in living things must originally have come from an intelligence, which had to have been far superior to ours, as scientists are revealing every day. But then, some will say that such a source would have to be caused by something with even greater information/intelligence.

However, if they reason like this, one could ask where this greater information/intelligence came from? And then where did that one come from … one could extrapolate to infinity, for ever, unless …

Unless there was a source of infinite intelligence, beyond our finite understanding. But isn’t this what the Bible indicates when we read, ‘In the beginning God …’? The God of the Bible is an infinite being not bound by limitations of time, space, knowledge, or anything else.

So which is the logically defensible position?—that matter eternally existed (or came into existence by itself for no reason), and then by itself arranged itself into information systems against everything observed in real science? Or that a being with infinite intelligence,17 created information systems for life to exist, agreeing with real science?

The answer seems obvious, so why don’t all intelligent scientists accept this? Michael Behe answers:

‘Many people, including many important and well-respected scientists, just don’t want there to be anything beyond nature. They don’t want a supernatural being to affect nature, no matter how brief or constructive the interaction may have been. In other words … they bring an a priori philosophical commitment to their science that restricts what kinds of explanations they will accept about the physical world. Sometimes this leads to rather odd behavior.’18

The crux of the matter is this: If one accepts there is a God who created us, then that God also owns us. He thus has a right to set the rules by which we must live. In the Bible, He has revealed to us that we are in rebellion against our Creator. Because of this rebellion called sin, our physical bodies are sentenced to death—but we will live on, either with God, or without Him in a place of judgment.

But the good news is that our Creator provided, through the cross of Jesus Christ, a means of deliverance for our sin of rebellion, so that those who come to Him in faith, in repentance for their sin, can receive the forgiveness of a Holy God and spend forever with their Lord.

So who created God?
By definition, an infinite, eternal being has always existed—no one created God. He is the self-existing one—the great ‘I am’ of the Bible.19 He is outside of time—in fact, He created time.

You might say, ‘But that means I have to accept this by faith, as I can’t understand it.’

We read in the book of Hebrews, ‘But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him’ (Hebrews 11:6).

But this is not blind faith, as some think. In fact, the evolutionists who deny God have a blind faith—they have to believe something that is against real science—namely, that information can arise from disorder by chance.

The Christian faith is not a blind faith—it is a logically defensible faith. This is why the Bible makes it clear that anyone who does not believe in God is without excuse:

‘For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse’ (Romans 1:20).

2006-07-15 16:46:09 · 19 answers · asked by John in AZ 4 in Other - Science

2006-07-15 16:46:04 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Movies

find the difference in the pics
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2006-07-15 16:45:59 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Entertainment

I"ve developed anxiety, on lowest dose. of med. this is the problem. My mind is always running, i feel so out of control. any advice? has any one had this problem before. I'm at a lose here!

2006-07-15 16:45:57 · 16 answers · asked by RAINBOW 3 in Mental Health

Why is USA ranked higher than Mexico? USA is #14 and Mexico is #18, correct me if i'm wrong but didn't Mexico advance further than the USA? the only explanation i can think of is that the USA was given more credit cause it played a tie game with the eventual World Cup champs (Italy) any way can anyone explain this? don't get me wrong i'm very happy that the USA is still ranked as high as it is, i'm just curious how this happened.

2006-07-15 16:45:57 · 26 answers · asked by G.O.A.T. 6 in FIFA World Cup (TM)