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Thursday, 23 November 2023
Tuesday, 21 November 2023
Chemistry did not beget biology?
Proteins Are Rare and Isolated — And Thus, Cannot Evolve
On the Darwinian establishment's KGB.
Mimesis and Identifying the Intelligent Designer
Monday, 20 November 2023
John Chapter 1 The Bible in Living English
1.1 At the first there was the Word, and the Word was where God was, and the Word was God.
2 He was at the first where God was. 3 Everything was made by his agency, and not a thing that was made was made without his agency.
4 In him there was life, and the life was the light of men; 5 and the light is shining in the darkness, and the darkness has not taken it in.
6 There was a man sent from God whose name was John. 7 This man came for testimony, to testify about the light, that all might believe through him. 8 He was not the light but to testify about the light. 9 There was coming into the world the true light that lights every man. 10 He was in the world, and the world was made by his agency, and the world did not know him; 11 he came to what belonged to him, and those who belonged to him did not receive him. 12 But to as many as accepted him he gave the chance to become children of God, to those who believe in his name, 13 who were born not from blood nor from will of flesh nor from will of man, but from God.
14* And the Word became flesh and abode among us and we saw his glory, glory such as that of an only son from the Father, full of grace and truth. 15 John testifies of him and shouts “This was the one I spoke of when I said ‘He who is coming behind me has got ahead of me,’ because he was before I was,” 16 because out of his fullness all of us have had portions, and grace for grace. 17 For the law was given through Moses, grace and truth came in through Jesus Christ. 18* Nobody ever has seen God; an Only Born God, he who is in the Father’s bosom, he gave the account of him.
19 And this is John’s testimony, when the Jews sent priests and Levites to him from Jerusalem to ask him “Who are you?” 20 and he answered and made no denial. And he said “I am not the Messiah.” 21 And they asked him “Then what? are you Elijah?” and he said “I am not.” “Are you the prophet?” and he answered “No.” 22 So they said to him “Who are you? that we may give those who sent us an answer, what you say about yourself.” 23 He said “I am the voice of one calling out in the wilderness ‘Straighten out the Lord’s road,’ as the prophet Isaiah said.” 24 And they were sent from the Pharisees; 25 and they asked him “Then why do you baptize if you are not the Messiah nor Elijah nor the prophet?” 26 John answered “I baptize in water; in your midst stands he whom you do not know, 27 he who is coming behind me, whose shoestring I am not worthy to untie.”
28 This happened in Bethany beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing. 29 The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said “There is God’s lamb that takes away the world’s sin. 30 That is the one about whom I said ‘There is coming behind me a man who has got ahead of me,’ because he was before I was. 31 And I did not know him, but it was to have him disclosed to Israel that I came baptizing in water.” 32 And John testified “I have seen the Spirit coming down like a dove out of the sky, and it rested on him. 33 And I did not know him; but he who sent me to baptize in water, he said to me ‘The one on whom you see the Spirit come down and rest on him, he is the one that baptizes in Holy Spirit’; 34 and I have seen and have testified that this is the Son of God.”
35* The next day John was standing there again, and two of his disciples, 36 and he looked at Jesus walking along and said “There is God’s lamb”; 37 and the two disciples heard him speak, and followed Jesus. 38 And Jesus turned and saw them following him and said to them “What do you want?” and they said to him “Rabbi (which translated means Teacher), where are you staying?” 39 He said to them “Come and you shall see.” So they came and saw where he was staying, and stayed with him that day; it was about four o’clock.
40 Simon Peter’s brother Andrew was one of the two that heard from John and followed him; 41 he found his own brother Simon first and said to him “We have found the Messiah” (which means Anointed; translated into Greek it is Christ). 42 He brought him to Jesus; Jesus looked at him and said “You are Simon the son of John, you shall be called Cephas” (which means a rock; translated into Greek, the name is Peter). 43 The next day he wanted to go out to Galilee, and found Philip, and said to him “Follow me.” 44 And Philip was from Bethsaida, Andrew and Peter’s city.
45 Philip found Nathanael and said to him “We have found the one that Moses wrote of in the Law, and that the prophets wrote of, Jesus the son of Joseph from Nazareth”; 46 and Nathanael said to him “Can there be anything good out of Nazareth?” Philip said to him “Come and see.” 47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him and said of him “Here comes a genuine Israelite with no adulteration.” 48 Nathanael said to him “What have you known about me?” Jesus replied “Before Philip called you I saw you when you were under the fig-tree.” 49 Nathanael answered “Rabbi, you are the son of God, you are the king of Israel.” 50 Jesus replied “Because I said to you I saw you under the fig-tree do you believe? you shall see greater things than these,” 51 and said to him “Verily, verily I tell you, you and the rest shall see the heavens standing open and God’s angels going up and coming down to the Son of Man.”
Thank you JEHOVAH.
My blessed heavenly father has granted me more kindnesses than I can count . But today ,by means of this post, I would like to thank the Lord JEHOVAH for freeing me from having to do the grim arithmetic of discriminating between the greater and lesser evils among this world's contending elites.
Thanks to my noble God I am free to choose his unalloyed righteousness instead.
File under "Well said" CIV
"Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him. "
James chapter 1 verse 12 English Standard Version
Sunday, 19 November 2023
Malachi Chapter 2 American Standard Version.
2.1 And now, O ye priests, this commandment is for you. 2If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith JEHOVAH of hosts, then will I send the curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings; yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay it to heart. 3Behold, I will rebuke your seed, and will spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your feasts; and ye shall be taken away with it. 4And ye shall know that I have sent this commandment unto you, that my covenant may be with Levi, saith JEHOVAH of hosts. 5My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him that he might fear; and he feared me, and stood in awe of my name. 6The law of truth was in his mouth, and unrighteousness was not found in his lips: he walked with me in peace and uprightness, and turned many away from iniquity. 7For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of JEHOVAH of hosts. 8But ye are turned aside out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble in the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith JEHOVAH of hosts. 9Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have had respect of persons in the law.
10Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, profaning the covenant of our fathers? 11Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of JEHOVAH which he loveth, and hath married the daughter of a foreign god. 12JEHOVAH will cut off, to the man that doeth this, him that waketh and him that answereth, out of the tents of Jacob, and him that offereth an offering unto JEHOVAH of hosts.
13And this again ye do: ye cover the altar of JEHOVAH with tears, with weeping, and with sighing, insomuch that he regardeth not the offering any more, neither receiveth it with good will at your hand. 14Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because JEHOVAH hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously, though she is thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant. 15And did he not make one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? And wherefore one? He sought a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth. 16For I hate putting away, saith JEHOVAH, the God of Israel, and him that covereth his garment with violence, saith JEHOVAH of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.
17Ye have wearied JEHOVAH with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? In that ye say, Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of JEHOVAH and he delighteth in them; or where is the God of justice?
Romans Chapter 4 the Bible in Living English
Then what shall we say that Abraham, our forefather in the way of flesh, had found? 2* For if Abraham was justified as the outcome of deeds, he does have something to boast of. But not to God, 3 for what does the text say? “And Abraham believed God, and it was counted righteousness for him.” 4 But one who works does not have the pay counted to him in the way of grace but of debt; 5 but one who does not work but puts faith in him who justifies an impious man has his faith counted for righteousness, 6 in the same way as David tells of the happy state of the man to whom God counts righteousness apart from works: 7 “Happy they whose wickednesses are forgiven and whose sins are covered up; 8 happy a man for whom the Lord does not count sin.” 9 Is this happy state, then, pronounced upon circumcision, or upon uncircumcision too? for we are saying “Faith was counted righteousness for Abraham.” 10 How was it counted then, when he was in circumcision or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision but in uncircumcision; 11 and he got the token of circumcision as a seal of his righteousness of faith in uncircumcision, so that he should be father of all who believe while uncircumcised so that righteousness should be counted to them, 12 and father of circumcision for those who are not of circumcision only but who also walk in the tracks of the faith our father Abraham had during uncircumcision. 13 For it is not through the law that there is the promise to Abraham or to his descendants, that he is to be heir of the world, but through righteousness of faith. 14 For if those who are on the basis of law are heirs, faith is nullified and the promise is superseded; 15 for the law evolves anger, and where there is not law there is not violation either. 16 Hence, on the basis of faith in order to be in the way of grace, so that the promise may be securely settled to all the descendants, not only the line which is based on the law but also that which is based on Abraham’s faith, his who is father of all of us 17 (as it is written “I have made you father of many nations”) before the God whom he believed, him who brings the dead to life and calls what does not exist as though it did; 18* his who in a hopeless case had the hopefulness to believe, so as to become father of many nations in accordance with what it says, “Such shall your descendants be,” 19* and did not weaken in faith as he observed his own body gone dead, he being a hundred years or so old, and the deadening of Sarah’s womb; 20 but he did not unbelievingly doubt at God’s promise, but had his faith invigorated, giving glory to God 21* and feeling convinced that what he has promised he is able to go on and do; 22 which is why it was counted for righteousness to him. 23 And it was not written on his account only that it was counted to him, 24 but on ours too, to whom it is going to be counted, us who believe on the one that raised from the dead our Lord Jesus, 25 who was handed over to death on account of our offenses and was raised on account of our justification.
Saturday, 18 November 2023
The ministry of truth is a thing.
Mimetic Behavior in the Scientific Community
File under "well said" CIII
" It is far easier to concentrate power than to concentrate knowledge. That is why so much social engineering backfires and why so many despots have led their countries into disasters."
Thomas Sowell
On the Darwin of the gaps?
An Argument from Ignorance?
Friday, 17 November 2023
The Cambrian explosion was nuclear?
Fossil Friday: Protists Add to the Cambrian Explosion
The argument from common sense?
Bill Dembski Reflects on the Origins of a Classic
Thursday, 16 November 2023
Chance and necessity can be counted out?
Dembski Won the Argument with His Critics; New Edition of The Design Inference Shows How
Wednesday, 15 November 2023
On giving up Darwin.
Wisdom Wednesday: Yale Polymath David Gelernter’s Farewell to Darwinism
Micah Chapter 3 New World Translation (2013 edition)
3.1 I said: “Hear, please, you heads of Jacob
And you commanders of the house of Israel.+
Should you not know what is just?
2 But you hate what is good+ and love what is bad;+
You tear off the skin from my people and the flesh from their bones.+
3 You also eat the flesh of my people+
And strip off their skin,
Smashing their bones, crushing them to pieces,+
Like what is cooked in a pot,* like meat in a cooking pot.
4 At that time they will call to JEHOVAH for help,
But he will not answer them.
He will hide his face from them at that time,+
Because of their wicked deeds.+
5 This is what JEHOVAH says against the prophets who are leading my people astray,+
Who proclaim ‘Peace!’+ while they bite* with their teeth+
But who declare* war against him who puts nothing into their mouths:
6 ‘You will have night;+ there will be no vision;+
There will only be darkness for you, no divination.
The sun will set on the prophets,
And the day will turn dark for them.+
7 The visionaries will be put to shame,+
And the diviners will be disappointed.
All of them will have to cover over the mustache,*
For there is no answer from God.’”
8 As for me, I am filled with power by the spirit of JEHOVAH,
And with justice and might,
To tell to Jacob his revolt and to Israel his sin.
9 Hear this, please, you heads of the house of Jacob
And you commanders of the house of Israel,+
Who detest justice and who make crooked all that is straight,+
10 Who build Zion with bloodshed and Jerusalem with unrighteousness.+
11 Her leaders* judge for a bribe,+
Her priests instruct for a price,+
And her prophets practice divination for money.*+
And yet they lean on JEHOVAH,* saying:
“Is not JEHOVAH with us?+
No calamity will come upon us.”+
12 So because of you,
Zion will be plowed up as a field,
Jerusalem will become heaps of ruins,+
And the mountain of the House* will become like high places in a forest.*+
Tuesday, 14 November 2023
A functional protein ab initio would necessitate a miracle?
To Create Functional Proteins, Evolution Would Need a Miracle
How about we just stick to the plain reading of the text?
1John ch.4:12NIV"No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us."
John Ch.6:46NIV"No one has seen the Father except the one who is from God; only he has seen the Father."
Exodus Ch.33:20NIV"But,” he said, “you cannot see my face, for no one may see me and live.”"
Colossians Ch.1:15NIV"The Son is the image of the INVISIBLE God(Not merely father), the firstborn over all creation. "