Why is the world upside down and backwards? Jonathan Sarfati and his books will help us begin the Noahic Flood and YEC series...first, why do scientists BECOME creationists? Evidence!
«« The Second Law of Thermodynamics states that all energy systems run down like a clock and never rewind themselves. But life not only 'runs up,' converting low energy sea-water, sunlight and air into high-energy chemicals, it keeps multiplying itself into more and better clocks that keep 'running up' faster and faster.
Why, for example, should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen struggle for billions of years to organize themselves into a professor of chemistry? What's the motive?
If we leave a chemistry professor out on a rock in the sun long enough the forces of nature will convert him into simple compounds of carbon, oxygen, hydrogen and nitrogen, calcium, phosphorus, and small amounts of other minerals. It's a one-way reaction. No matter what kind of chemistry professor we use and no matter what process we use we can't turn these compounds back into a chemistry professor.
Chemistry professors are unstable mixtures of predominantly unstable compounds which, in the exclusive presence of the sun's heat, decay irreversibly into simpler organic and inorganic compounds. That's a scientific fact.
The question is: Then why does nature reverse this process? What on earth causes the inorganic compounds to go the other way? It isn't the sun's energy. We just saw what the sun's energy did. It has to be something else. What is it? »»
| Robert M. Pirsig, "Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals," Bantam: London, 1991, pp.144-145. |
Yes, perhaps you took the time to check it out? I read a wide variety of authors back then, Castenada, Tolkien, Skinner, Rand...history books, the Koran (until the utter boredom and terrible writing put me off), the Boo-Hoo Bible, reams of light reading as well. I did classwork and played sports and worked and partied. Sometimes I tried to figure it all out and sometimes I just said heck with it and got drunk or high. But I have to admit that the Pirsig book was interesting, more interesting than the hallucinogenic ramblings of a Richard Brautigan, more plausible than the magic world of Carlos Castenada.
Even a guy like Pirsig, having studied the world with passion for many years, realized that Evolution was upside down. He had difficulty putting his finger on it because he didn't actually have years invested into investigating the alternatives. But he rather succinctly stated the dilemma that Darwinists face today. Perhaps not in public and perhaps not always among each other, but alone and when thinking carefully about the evidence? A rational Darwinist who is not completely lacking in incredulity such as Dawkins or completely lacking in a moral compass such as Hawking will sit and stare out the window at the problem and see no answer coming down the lane.
You see, there is no natural explanation for a beginning of anything, let alone a sustaining force for everything. Not one basic need for the Universe and for life can be explained with a natural cause.
Creationists are honest enough to ascribe their miracles to a God capable of accomplishing them.
Darwinists wave their hands and vaguely mumble things about chance and lucky breaks and completely drop the ball on the entire set of questions while pretending they have answers. This is why a brilliant guy like Jonathan Sarfati became a Creationist and a Christian. It was evidence!!!
Now a Creationist
Dr Jonathan Sarfati
CMI Ph.D. scientist and author explains to an outside website what turned him to biblical creation
Published: 12 May 2009(GMT+10)
(First published on Boundless.org, 23 January 2009)
How does someone with an essentially secular upbringing and secular education become a staunch supporter of biblical creation? (See also previous Boundless article A Theory of Creation). There was no single reason, but many pieces of evidence that accumulated into an overwhelming case.
Missing links
One of the first holes I found in the evolutionary story was in my introductory geology class. The Geology professor, a paleontologist, said explicitly, ‘The fossil record does not support Darwinian evolution! Rather, it seems to support a series of divine creations.’ He went on to assure the large class in the lecture theatre, ‘I am not a divine creationist’, then explained away the problem, or it certainly seemed at the time to be special pleading. Later studies have confirmed that the links are still missing, just as Darwin realized in his day.2
Real chemistry vs chemical evolution
In my organic chemistry classes, the real chemistry learned there seemed to pose enormous problems for theories of the origin of life from non-living chemicals (chemical evolution or abiogenesis). And if evolution couldn’t start in the first place, then it couldn’t have got going. It would be like a race with all runners dead on the starting blocks.
For example, we studied a type of reaction vital for life and chemical industry called condensation polymerization. This is where lots of small molecules (monomers) are combined to form big molecules (polymers), releasing water molecules at every step. Such reactions can go the other way, a process called hydrolysis: water plus polymer produces monomers. A basic chemical law tells us that water is the last place we would want to try condensation reactions; rather, it would help break up big molecules. Yet the text books told us that life began in a primordial soup, which contains rather a lot of water!
You can read the rest here.
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How, indeed, can anyone see the evidence and NOT believe?
Jonathan is certainly NOT the Lone Ranger here...hat tip to Cowboy Bob for this article...
The things that are not
Meet a scientist whose work involves high-precision photographic enlargements of a microscopic world we seldom see … Mark Armitage talks with Tas Walker about ‘the things that are not’.
‘I distinctly remember when I was infected with the microscope bug’, recalls research scientist Mark Armitage. ‘I was 16 and had spent my summer vacation at a marine science station, examining tiny planktonic algae.’ After that, microscopes and the microscopic world became his life passion.
Over the years, he has worked for world-famous microscope manufacturers: Zeiss of Germany, Olympus of Japan, and Reichert of Austria. For the last 18 years, he has run his own microscope/consulting company, Micro Specialist, in Los Angeles.
The rest of the article is here.
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Real Science brings people to God. Darwinist lies cannot withstand scrutiny, which is why they have built mighty defensive walls - propaganda, censorship, ending careers and denying tenure to anyone who dares stray from their Dogmatic Ungodly creed and fighting as hard as they can to keep evidence away from any students at any level lest they see the truth and turn from the Darwinist Fairy Tales...regurgitated Pagan mythology with the patina of science upheld by lies and BS!