My boss, on young-earth vs. old-earth ...

"There is no Old-Earth
Creationist position --
there is a Biblical position
and an evolutionary position."

Dr. G. Thomas Sharp, founder/president Creation Truth Foundation

Chromosome Fusion reader question

Dr. Jackson,
I am curious about the claim of chromosome 2 fusion in humans (from a supposed common ancestor with apes, resulting in the human chromosome number of 46 from the 48 in other primates). I know this was a big evo claim a while back, but I am wondering what the truth of the matter is. Obviously, if this were true, then it would require a fusion in at least two primates that would then reproduce, considering they were even fertile following the fusion. The probability of that has to be very small. I am wondering if there are things the evolutionists don't mention about the fusion or if it is another instance of trying to make something look like something it is not (e.g. pharyngeal "gill" slits!). Thanks for your help in presenting the truth.
Yours in Christ, Stephen

Yeah Stephen, the problem with this simian 12/13 fusion to become human chromosome 2 ... is that there is no proof that these two chromosomes have ever fused in any monkey-kind -- ever -- at all -- in all of the history of their genome.
Of course, unless you -- already believe -- in Darwin anyway!
See, human chromosomes almost all do really look like monkey chromosomes -- no big surprise to the creationist, since God made us both look very much alike on the outside, too.
But... most all humans do have this chromosome 2 that looks very much like it used to be two separate chromosomes at one time in the human genetic past.
Big deal.
The problem -- for the evolutionist -- is this.
All humans show this fusion.
No monkeys do.
This is not evidence that we --are-- genetically related to the same heredity line of monkeys.
It is clearly evidence that -- we are not related.
None of them show the fusion. All of us do.
That is logical. We have always been separate from them and any changes in our genetic line would not ever show up in theirs ... like this fusion. Amen. DrJ

Pre-Adamites?

I have recently had a discussion with a Christian who has the belief of the existence of Pre-Adamites, a race of people that were created and wiped out before Adam. I don't know what his exact beliefs on the matter are.

He is very hard to have discussions with though since he has a doctorate in Theology and is fluent in Greek and Hebrew and says that he takes all of his ideas from the original text of the Bible.

I know a lot of the idea is stemmed from the fossil layer that supposedly dates back before the time of Adam and has human remnants within it.

I was wondering if you have any material discussing this belief system or have any response to this.
Thank You for you time,
Michael

on Doctrinal Positions

"The Bible, the whole Bible,
and nothing but the Bible, so help me God."

DrJ, director of college ministries, Creation Truth Foundation

Young-Earth / Old-Earth

"There is no Old-Earth Creationist position --
there is a Biblical position
and an evolutionary position."

Dr. G. Thomas Sharp, founder/president Creation Truth Foundation

Casual Christmas?

There was a time in the 1970's when it was "cool" to be a born-again Jesus-person ... it lasted about a year. There were the hit songs "Going up to the Spirit in the Sky" and "Jesus is Just Alright with Me" and "The Lord's Prayer." Those were high times for us. And you didn't suffer so much for being a Christian. And many Christians had just a "loose faith" that didn't have to make up its mind about too many things, in order to exist and to survive. Not now. Not this year.
This Christmas finds Jesus-people at a point in history where -- there is no such thing as the casual Christian. The prophetic desire of Jesus is coming true "I would that you were hot or cold ... but you are lukewarm ... I will spew you out of my mouth."
There are quickly become only two kinds of Christians -- fake and real.
Are you playing Christian as much as you are playing Christmas this year?
Take advantage of the great opportunity to rave about singers springing the "Hallelujah Chorus" on shoppers. Say "Merry Christmas" and keep Jesus in it.
But once the holi-days are over ... take a look in the mirror and decide whether you are one of the fakes or the reals.
If you're a fake, you have an easy choice -- get real.
If you're a real, then you have a harder choice.
Does your stand mean that you believe the whole Bible or not?
Do you believe the anti-sense anti-logic presupposition-based time scales of the evo-atheists?
Or do you believe the history-based written record of the time scale found in the Bible?
Is Earth 4.6 billion years old, or is it 6014 years old?
This is an important question.
If you choose the world's time scale, be warned. It is inevitable -- your compromise will creep throughout your soul this Christmas like a blood poisoning. By the end of it's doing -- all of the vital organs of your faith-life will have been affected until you are useless.
Nearly every church or Christian group we go to ... has some leadership that contends for the worldly secular history -- against the Bible time-scale. It is a plague. Examine yourself for the symptoms.
Is there power in your walk?
Do you have the faith to pray the "desperate prayers" with the confidence of Hebrews 11:1?
Are people meeting Jesus when they meet you?
Are people getting saved?
Are you bearing the full fruit of the Spirit found in Galatians 5:22?
These are just a few of the many symptoms that a real Christian has become a useless one, through the selling of the power of God found in the Gospel (of which we must not be ashamed) in exchange for the acceptance of men (whose spirit strives always against the Kingdom of God).
As Billy Graham said, every hour is "The Hour of Decision." Make yours.
Happy Christmas. Keep thinking. Dr Jackson

Arsenic-based "alien" life -- not

POINTS OF ORIGINS with Dr. Jackson

Creation Truth Foundation www.CreationTruth.com

https://webmail.liberty.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=d4f875837bab4a9d903b65b35e508ec4&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.politicsdaily.com%2f2010%2f12%2f04%2fdoes-a-new-life-form-mean-god-is-dead%2f%3ficid%3dmain%7cverizon%7cdl1%7csec1_lnk1%7c188214

Thanks Bonita, for the link from the LU source.

http://scienceblogs.com/webeasties/2010/12/guest_post_arsenate-based_dna.php

Thanks Ian, for this rebuttal source within the secular science community.

Ian Juby points out, the "new" DNA did not dissolve in water. If Arsenic (As) were in the backbone, it would have (instead of Phosphorus).

Even evo-stih PZ Myers says that the case for implications against religion in this matter is way "overstated."

This is of no concern nor import. Even if Arsenic in the DNA backbone were verified, it wouldn't proved evolution of life (just modification of it)

and it wouldn't prove extraterrestrial life (unless assuming that it didn't come from Earth is valid, even though we found it on Earth). Keep thinking. DrJ

"Sickle Cell Advantage?" from recent TX debate

Watch this 3-min installment from this semester's debate at SFA Univ in Nacogdoches TX at:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qldd8brWW-0

"Sickle Cell Advantage?"

Watch and see how this student has been mis-educated... and believes it.
Evo's teach students that the deadly mutation of a normal red blood-cell gene... is actually some kind of a "gift" to mankind, from the "bounty of evolution." It is not.
Sickle-cell Anemia is an accidental damage to the RBC gene.
People who have it are sick and can die.
They are born with this gene or are not born with it.
If they are homozygous (got it from both parents) it is practically a death sentence.
There is no new genetic information involved in Sickle-cell Anemia. It is an anemic condition resulting from the crashing of a normal gene. This has nothing to do with bacteria changing into people or any other such nonsense.
The deformed cells do make it difficult for the person to contract malaria... which is the only reason these individuals have any survival-of-the-fittest going for them... malaria-infested regions.
If destroying genes is all evolution is... then I believe (ha).
If that's all it is then... why don't all bacteria destroy all of their genes and rise up and become a superior species, more powerful than humans?
Sickle-cell as onward-and-upward evolution... is a profoundly stupid thing to teach to our college and high school science students.
As Nanny MacPhee would say, "Sad really. But there it is."
God bless. Keep thinking! Dr Jackson

You can learn more about Sickle Cell Anemia at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sickle-cell_disease

Points of Origins sites this week...

POINTS OF ORIGINS with Dr. Jackson Creation Truth Foundation www.CreationTruth.com
This week on DrJ's web-communities -- Nov 29 - Dec 4, 2010:

summary: (all the sites have a "new look" this week -- check'em out)
-- ask God's opinion
-- Euthanasia
-- false teachers
-- Nylonase bacterial "evolution"?
-- Dogs and Kinds
-- Pre-Adamite heresy
-- awesome "350 mill yr-old" shrimp found !!

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Points of Origins - The Journal of Crustacean Biology and also PhysOrg.com reports 350 Mill Yr-Old Shrimp Meat has been found in a fossil shrimp from Oklahoma. This news is BIGGER than the 2005 finding of t-rex red blood cells! Read about it now at:
www.DrJ-PointsOfOrigins.blogspot.com
Note: many PO posts may also be found on the Creation Truth Foundation website at:
http://www.CreationTruth.com/index.php?option=com_wrapper&view=wrapper&Itemid=148

The Apprentice Creationist - DrJ video-answers a question about the common heresy of the theory of a Pre-Adam Human Race at:
www.TheApprenticeCreationist.blogspot.com

The Jedi Creationist - DrJ video-responds to a reader question, in Part 2 of this 4-part series on Baraminology (study of "Kinds") at:
www.TheJediCreationist.blogspot.com

The Christian College Student - This week continues Part 4 of a four-part series in response to student reports of what Religion profs are telling students about the Bible at:
www.TheChristianCollegeStudent.blogspot.com

The Gift of Christian Young Manhood - DrJ gives some Spiritual Advice for the holiday at:
www.TheGiftofChristianYoungManhood.blogspot.com

The Creationist Crossroads - DrJ answers a student question about the Nylonase Enzyme as a suggested example of "directed mutation" in bacteria at:
www.TheCreationistCrossroads.blogspot.com

The Jedi Christian - Greg Oxford answers a young man's question on Euthanasia, at:
www.TheJediChristian.blogspot.com

The Jedi Youth Pastor - DrJ's article on "The Problems are the Same -- Just Worse" may be found at:
www.TheJediYouthPastor.blogspot.com

The Gift of Christian Young Womanhood - DrJ's article on "Good Guys and Bad Guys" may be found at:
www.TheGiftofChristianYoungWomanhood.blogspot.com
(RSS feeds to the blogsites of Sabrina Miller and Lindsey Anderson)

Dinosaurs, Part 5 of 5

New YouTube Post!

New Genetic Information ??

(the newest installment of the SFAU debate on biological diversity)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5P1fey3H_8

DrJ owns SFA bio prof in debate!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eE4a1wQwjQI

You all have just got to go back to the YouTube post "The Node" from the SFAU evo-debate -- it's been improved with annotations that will help you to see how the evo's deal in debate. More clips coming soon! God bless. DrJ

Dinosaurs, Part 3a of 5

https://humanexperience.stanford.edu/feature-dragons


DrJ, I've wondered if the relative absence of dinosaurs post-flood could be because Nimrod and his friends hunted most to extinction. Regards, Ron in MI

Dinosaurs, Part 3b of 5

DrJ, I've wondered if the relative absence of dinosaurs post-flood could be because Nimrod and his friends hunted most to extinction. Regards, Ron in MI

Dinosaurs, Part 4 of 5

DrJ, I've wondered if the relative absence of
dinosaurs post-flood could be because Nimrod
and his friends hunted most to extinction.
Regards, Ron in MI





DrJ, I've wondered if the relative absence of
dinosaurs post-flood could be because Nimrod
and his friends hunted most to extinction.
Regards, Ron in MI

Dinosaurs, Part 2a of 5

DrJ, I've wondered if the relative absence of dinosaurs post-flood could be because Nimrod and his friends hunted most to extinction. Regards, Ron in MI

Dinosaurs, Part 2b of 5

DrJ, I've wondered if the relative absence of dinosaurs post-flood could be because Nimrod and his friends hunted most to extinction.
Regards, Ron in MI

Dinosaurs, Part 2c of 5

DrJ, I've wondered if the relative absence of dinosaurs post-flood could be because Nimrod and his friends hunted most to extinction. Regards, Ron in MI

"The Node"

Y'all have jes' --gotta-- see this first snippet from the 1.5 hr debate between me and Brent Burt, evo-prof at SFA Univ in Nacogdoches TX. He is one of the "science advisors" for Eugenie Scott's NCSE (National Center for Science Education, Incorporated) "Clergy Letter Project" which recruits hundreds of pastors to preach "Darwin is OK" from their pulpits annually on the Sunday nearest Darwin's birthday (Feb 12). This is a very significant defeat for the evo's, clearly. We'll be posting more snips from the debate next week. Let's get this thing to ... how do you all say it? ... GO VIRAL -- ha! Luvya'll, DrJ

check out this first installment at the link below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eE4a1wQwjQI&feature=youtube_gdata

New "Oldest" Life Evidence Found!

POINTS OF ORIGINS with Dr. Jackson

Creation Truth Foundation www.CreationTruth.com

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/01/multicellular-cookie-foss_n_632799.html

also in Science News, 7/31/10, p17

"Evidence for earlier multicellular life"

The 7/1/10 issue of Nature reports of "what could even be the earliest known eukaryotes." By "earliest" they mean these fossils were found in rock layers deep enough to convince them these fossils are 1.5 billion years older than the time when evo's thought that multicellular life first "evolved." Of course "deep" usually means "older" but only in a relative sense -- not in the absolute age-ranking sense that an evolutionist believes.

In any case, the new find is giving the evo's more troubles than before -- just like every new scientific discovery does! Don't forget -- every time they have to "push back" the origin of anything -- they are getting closer to the Biblical truth that --everything-- started all in the same week!

These things are not just blobs of bacteria. "They have collected more than 250 specimens ranging in size from 0.7 to 12 centimeters [about 4.5 inches] ... flat, oblong, soft bodies, with slits around the edges and complex, patterned folds inside." That word "complex" is what's going to keep most evo's up late at night staring in fear at their ceilings! According to all the evo textbooks -- 2 bill yrs ago was when bacteria were just getting started -- not four-inch sea-slug things! So, as usual ... it's another evo-problem.

This find is "edging back the fossil record toward the Great Oxidation Event 2.5 billion years ago, when oxygen began accumulating in the atmosphere." Hmm ... keep a watch on this. I'll bet they'll soon have to admit -- Earth began with oxygen in the air -- just like the Bible says! Evo's think the plants -- not God -- put the oxygen in the air we breathe. Hmm ... just like the ancient pagans worshipping trees for giving them life -- idolatry again. Sigh. "There is nothing new under the sun." really is true, then isn't it. God bless. Keep thinking. DrJ

Dinosaurs, Part 1 of 5

DrJ, I've wondered if the relative absence of dinosaurs post-flood could be because Nimrod and his friends hunted most to extinction. Regards, Ron in MI

Koala Bears & Noah's Ark

Dr. Jackson,

1 - In the Bible there is no mention of any boats until Noah
builds the ark.
2 - If this is so, the only way Noah could
have gotten animals such as kangaroos, and Koalas,
which are indigenous to Australia, on the boat is if
Pangea actually existed before the flood.
3 - How did animals like the Kangaroo and Koala get
back to Australia, and why aren't they perhaps living
where the ark landed.

Payden in OK

Humans Living All Together

POINTS OF ORIGINS with Dr. Jackson Creation Truth Foundation www.CreationTruth.com
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11618814 26 October 2010 Thanks to Daniel for this link.
Famous evo-expert on Neanderthals Erik Trinkhaus (Washington U in StLouis MO) reports in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on a modern human chin bone found in China in the same layer as Neander bones. "Previous evidence for co-existence [of Neanders and moderns was found in] Europe, Western Asia and Africa, but this suggests the range of co-existence spread all the way across Asia, which is an enormous difference. This is the first evidence for that." The Biblical history of humans says that all tribes dispersed to the far corners of the earth at the time of the Tower of Babel -- over 100 yrs after Noah's Flood. "It is interesting because we get the persistence of archaic humans, pre-modern humans, further north across all of Eurasia." Erik, that's because all of them -- Neanders, Cro-Magnons, Heidelbergs, Sapiens -- were all descended from Noah, who was descended from Adam, who was created in God's image! These were all people -- not "monkey-people!" Keep thinking, readers. DrJ

Big Bang Question

Dr. J,
What exactly is your view on the Big Bang?
I am doing a video study featuring Steven C. Myer
and he made a compelling case for the Big Bang stating
that it isn't a "causal theory".
He said that the Big Bang Theory only further proves
that the universe was made in an instant.
Which would coincide with Biblical Creation.
Thanks! Cory

Oldest Galaxy "maybe baby" only!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101020/ap_on_sc/us_sci_oldest_galaxy Thanks Steven for this link.

http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1041/ Thanks GW for this link.

In the new study, researchers focused on a single galaxy analysis of hydrogen's light, pinpointing the age, Says the Paris Observatory in the Oct 20 Nature online report. "A redshift of 8.6 corresponds to a galaxy seen just 600 million years after the Big Bang." That's if you are sure that the speed and distance away from us really tells us time--and if Big Bang is true. It has very little of the carbon or metal that we see in more mature stars and is full of young, blue massive stars. If they really are going by BB and "stellar evo" theory, then "young" stars should not have any metals at all in them, until they are near going supernova--"late in life" only."This is the first time we know for sure that we are looking at one of the galaxies that cleared out the fog which had filled the early Universe." The "fog" of left-over pre-star hydrogen--would only be expected to be there--if BB were true. Why isn't it there? One of the surprising things about this is that UDFy-38135539 seems not strong enough to clear out the hydrogen fog. “There must be other galaxies, fainter and nearby companions, which helped. Oh--that's convenient--they're too dim to see--but they "must be" there ... since the "fog" should be ... since the BB process must be true! I see alotta faithin' goin' on right here! Without this the light from the galaxy would have been trapped in the surrounding hydrogen fog and we would not have been able to detect it” Or----there never was any "fog" to begin with. Why didn't they even think about that possibility? Well, because--- What's most interesting is that this fits with theories about when the first stars and galaxies were born. Hmm ... "there have been other claims about the age of distant space objects that have not held up to scrutiny. And some experts have questions about this one." Well, I guess that makes DrJ "some expert" -- 'cuz I'm waitin' for the rest of this story, too. Keep thinking. DrJ

L-Amino's Part 4 (end)

Dr. Jackson, I recently noticed an article in an electronic "science" magazine titled "Ancestral Eve' crystal may explain origin of life's left-handedness" A short version can be found at this link:
http://www.physorg.com/news191072608.html
I was curious if there is a Biblical/Creationist explanation to the left-handed orientation of life. Respectfully, Dan in IA

L-Amino's Part 3

Dr. Jackson, I recently noticed an article in an electronic "science" magazine titled "Ancestral Eve' crystal may explain origin of life's left-handedness" A short version can be found at this link: http://www.physorg.com/news191072608.html
I was curious if there is a Biblical/Creationist explanation to the left-handed orientation of life. Respectfully, Dan in IA