Dee Vincent March 18th, 2011

This was very interesting- thank you. I believe that we can duplicate "life" as far as making unicellular organisms go, but we will never be able to breathe into it the breath of life. The only breath that can do that is the Breath of the Almighty. The thought of scientists' ability to produce self replicating cells holds a lot of promise. It means that there is a possibility of eventually building replicators like on the Enterprise, that make food to order that tastes exactly like the original. Instead of scrounging for leftovers in the middle of the night, we can order a steak dinner and presto, it's done! (oh yeah, it's Friday, better wait till after midnnight for the steak) Have a blessed weekend everybody! : )

Bruce Szwast March 19th, 2011

I watched a good flick the other day, 'The Four Feathers'. A 1939 movie that really tickled my imagination about history and British or European style colonialism. The movie was about a man who asked the question 'why are we going to war with the Fuzzy Wuzzies and Dervishes'? (some poetic license here). A term that demonstrated a secular view of peoples that were originally meant to be civilized and converted to Christianity.

The movie did not mention the forgotten missionary aspect, maybe the original book did, and maybe some of the historical participants did, but 'that's showbiz', and 'that's secular history'. Instead the movie projected the question: 'are we going to war for the sake of 'the war', or tradition, or to exact revenge for the fall of Khartoum some 10 years earlier'?

The movie had a happy ending and the man gave back the four cowardly feathers, but the movie did not answer the question: why are we going to war, and what are the true goals? We will always have war, and we do have to remember who our friends are and who our enemies are.

I am sure glad to hear Fuzz clear up some of my concerns for me about Reasons. Stating a scientific opposition to any macroevolution, which is becoming less and less provable, scored a lot of points with me.

But I do have to ask about 'stellar macroevolution' because I am a young earth creationist. It is just a matter of time until 6000+ years is proven to be a rational reality. Then what?

Maybe our war over the meaning of the word 'day' will end and we can forget the emotional outbreaks and imaginary victories that accompany our memory of disagreements. Indigestion is terrible.

And the program today, well it did not answer the question that Erik posed: are we marginalizing our defenses by not standing for what we all know is true about Genesis 1. It well may be that the 'margin of victory' is Genesis 1. Time will tell.

And I think Erik has the right idea. The more Christians we produce, the more we can out vote those who scoff (like the poor, always with us), and raise up politicians and judges and scientists who are devoted to God and His purposes of bringing civilization and Christianity to all peoples. Fuzzy and otherwise.

Mark Graham March 20th, 2011

These are really stimulating. I remember one where the reasons guys talked about how people have built machines, like the piston, that replicated cell-like thingies (my term for small biological things I don't remember) in their own body. which led to the idea of as we are mad in Gods image – we make things in our image. And then another one where they had the guy who invented the laser…I REALLY wish I could find that in archives here or something. I read a creation scientist once (real scientist) who postulated that the asteroid belt is really just chunks of earth blown into space by the flood – offered real evidence. I walked my dog that night and looked up to the moon. Suddenly I wondered…those crators there – were they maybe just riddled from the explosion of the flood? I have not read that anywhere – so probably not