Darn right we are!

Excuse me, but did anybody else just happen to notice what he's really saying there? I'll give you a hint: he's attacking some very cherished in American liberties...

Now I'm going to come right out and say for those who failed to catch my drift: Obama just attacked our first and second amendment rights. This alone should disqualify him from ever entering public office again. Why? Because the sacred duty of all government offices is to GUARD and DEFEND our most basic freedoms and what sort of freedom do we have if we cannot act according to our religious beliefs (and vote accordingly too) or not be able to defend ourselves from violence or a tyrannical government (which is why that amendment was instituted in the first place)?

Doesn't anyone see what Obama's pushing? Sure, he wraps his package in pretty words and tops it with the bow of his charisma (all successful liars have mastered charisma- otherwise everyone will see them for what they are at face value) but in the end he's pushing for the end of America according to its founding documents- he's pushing for America to become another sucker socialist state and follow that with either brutal attacks from foreign enemies or deploding from within.

NO THANKS.

Last I checked, Obama himself "claims" to be a Christian. Well guess what- lots of losers in history have done the very same thing. It's time we checked out his fruits. And his fruits smell of rotten liar. What do you do with rotten fruit? I throw it away- (or for those savvy gardeners, toss it in the mulch pile). If we elect this Obummer, we will be tossing away the good fruit of all our most cherished values in exchange for rotten fruit. That makes NO sense whatsoever to me.

When a candidate must reduce himself to atacking the basic rights this nation was founded for in the first place, that speaks very clearly to me that he is no friend of the American people. Look past his pretty smile, look past his articulate speeches. Look at his voting record, look at how obscure his personal history is to the public eye, look at how he says one thing in one speech then turns around and says nearly the opposite in the next. He's no good. I don't trust him or his wife (did anyone else notice how she turned herself into a Stepford wife for her speech when anybody knows she is anything but???) they're just saying whatever they can to capture the public eye to get elected. I don't want these paltroons within a 100 miles of the White House. Not because they're black, not because they're Democrats, not because I want to elect McCain. I don't want them in a position to destroy America. EVER.

I value the rights of the American people too much to let someone in office who will underhandedly take those rights away. Thanks but no thanks, Obummer, I will cling to my guns and my religion- and America will be the better for it- you wait and see.

I got this in my email this morning. This is a letter from the niece of a friend at church who lived in the very town that Palin served as mayor, and obviously can speak from experience among the electorate in Alaska as to what kind of a job she does in office. We should seriously be asking the Alaskans what they think of their governor- if their response is anything like this one, McCain really did pick a good one. Keep in mind, the following is not my words but the words of an Alaskan:

But Abigail likes to watch The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and everytime I end up all choked up with tears over little Bailey dying from leukemia. Perhaps it just kills me to think of losing one of my own precious babies to something like that... And, yes, I know there's no sense in getting all worked up over it or worrying about things I ultimately cannot forsee, let alone prevent. All the same, for two little squirts that drive me crazy half the time, they've managed to steal my heart and I cannot imagine life without them....

And that's enough from sleep deprived me before I start blathering over nonsense... to bed, me!!!

That's right, folks. I was there today in Dayton, OH at the Nutter Auditorium. I saw McCain with my own two eyes from the standing room only balcony at the back of the stadium and I was there when he stunned the world with his VP pic- Sarah Palin and I cannot tell you how happy I am!!!! She's got more experience not only in reform but also in for running office than the Democratic pic for prez! If there's any such thing as the embodiment of a conservative female breaking the glass ceiling- she is it. I know the liberal media is going to attack her- but in doing so, they attack everything they pretend to stand for- a successful mother who also happens to be successful in her occupation- she has her cake and eats it, too. Is that not the message feminism sends to American women? She's done it- and the only reason they hate her is because she's done it as a Christian, pro-family, pro-gun rights who actually loves her husband and truly lives what she believes- heck, her youngest child is a Downs baby and she chose to give that beautiful baby life and risk the chagrin of the media rather than the convenience of aborting him. And I know the liberal media is going to attack her for it and it's only going to expose the true ugliness behind the liberal mindset- they don't value life, they don't value women, and they certainly don't value women who are pro-life. Mark my words- they're going to be vicious toward Palin because of her son and thus I believe all true conservatives, all life-loving Christians should back her and pray for her and be as vocal about our support as the media will be in its attacks. I think she's truly helped balance the scales and the Obama party knows it. Even the Hillary supporters are beginning to rally to her support. It's beginning to look very possible for McCain and Palin to pull it off, and God Bless them, I hope they do.

McCain and Palin for Prez and VPrez '08!!!!

My 3rd xanga versary is coming up here on the 30th so I'm just heating my party lamps:) I'm sorry I'm just putting up articles today but I felt they were worth mentioning. More real stuff from me here soon... including pics...

10 dangers of theistic evolution

Creation Archive > Volume 17 Issue 4 > 10 dangers of theistic evolution

	First published: Creation 17(4):49–51 September 1995 Browse this issue

by Werner Gitt

The atheistic formula for evolution is:

Evolution = matter + evolutionary factors (chance and necessity + mutation + selection + isolation + death) + very long time periods.

In the theistic evolutionary view, God is added:

Theistic evolution = matter + evolutionary factors (chance and necessity + mutation + selection + isolation + death) + very long time periods + God.

In this system God is not the omnipotent Lord of all things, whose Word has to be taken seriously by all men, but He is integrated into the evolutionary philosophy. This leads to 10 dangers for Christians.¹

Danger no. 1: Misrepresentation of the Nature of God

The Bible reveals God to us as our Father in Heaven, who is absolutely perfect (Matthew 5:48), holy (Isaiah 6:3), and omnipotent (Jeremiah 32:17). The Apostle John tells us that ‘God is love’, ‘light’, and ‘life’ (1 John 4:16; 1:5; 1:1-2). When this God creates something, His work is described as ‘very good’ (Genesis 1:31) and ‘perfect’ (Deuteronomy 32:4).

Theistic evolution gives a false representation of the nature of God because death and ghastliness are ascribed to the Creator as principles of creation. (Progressive creationism, likewise, allows for millions of years of death and horror before sin.)

Danger no. 2: God becomes a God of the Gaps

The Bible states that God is the Prime Cause of all things. ‘But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things … and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by Him’ (1 Corinthians 8:6).

However, in theistic evolution the only workspace allotted to God is that part of nature which evolution cannot ‘explain’ with the means presently at its disposal. In this way He is reduced to being a ‘god of the gaps’ for those phenomena about which there are doubts. This leads to the view that ‘God is therefore not absolute, but He Himself has evolved—He is evolution’.²

Danger no. 3: Denial of Central Biblical Teachings

The entire Bible bears witness that we are dealing with a source of truth authored by God (2 Timothy 3:16), with the Old Testament as the indispensable ‘ramp’ leading to the New Testament, like an access road leads to a motor freeway (John 5:39). The biblical creation account should not be regarded as a myth, a parable, or an allegory, but as a historical report, because:

• Biological, astronomical and anthropological facts are given in didactic [teaching] form.
• In the Ten Commandments God bases the six working days and one day of rest on the same time-span as that described in the creation account (Exodus 20:8-11).
• In the New Testament Jesus referred to facts of the creation (e.g. Matthew 19:4-5).
• Nowhere in the Bible are there any indications that the creation account should be understood in any other way than as a factual report.

The doctrine of theistic evolution undermines this basic way of reading the Bible, as vouched for by Jesus, the prophets and the Apostles. Events reported in the Bible are reduced to mythical imagery, and an understanding of the message of the Bible as being true in word and meaning is lost.

Danger no. 4: Loss of the Way for Finding God

The Bible describes man as being completely ensnared by sin after Adam’s fall (Romans 7:18-19). Only those persons who realize that they are sinful and lost will seek the Saviour who ‘came to save that which was lost’ (Luke 19:10).

However, evolution knows no sin in the biblical sense of missing one’s purpose (in relation to God). Sin is made meaningless, and that is exactly the opposite of what the Holy Spirit does—He declares sin to be sinful. If sin is seen as a harmless evolutionary factor, then one has lost the key for finding God, which is not resolved by adding ‘God’ to the evolutionary scenario.

Danger no. 5: The Doctrine of God’s Incarnation is Undermined

The incarnation of God through His Son Jesus Christ is one of the basic teachings of the Bible. The Bible states that ‘The Word was made flesh and dwelt among us’ (John 1:14), ‘Christ Jesus … was made in the likeness of men (Philippians 2:5-7).

Danger no. 6: The Biblical Basis of Jesus’ Work of Redemption Is Mythologized

The Bible teaches that the first man’s fall into sin was a real event and that this was the direct cause of sin in the world. ‘Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned’ (Romans 5:12).

Theistic evolution does not acknowledge Adam as the first man, nor that he was created directly from ‘the dust of the ground’ by God (Genesis 2:17). Most theistic evolutionists regard the creation account as being merely a mythical tale, albeit with some spiritual significance. However, the sinner Adam and the Saviour Jesus are linked together in the Bible—Romans 5:16-18. Thus any theological view which mythologizes Adam undermines the biblical basis of Jesus’ work of redemption.

Danger no. 7: Loss of Biblical Chronology

The Bible provides us with a time-scale for history and this underlies a proper understanding of the Bible. This time-scale includes:

• The time-scale cannot be extended indefinitely into the past, nor into the future. There is a well-defined beginning in Genesis 1:1, as well as a moment when physical time will end (Matthew 24:14).
• The total duration of creation was six days (Exodus 20:11).
• The age of the universe may be estimated in terms of the genealogies recorded in the Bible (but note that it cannot be calculated exactly). It is of the order of several thousand years, not billions.
• Galatians 4:4 points out the most outstanding event in the world’s history: ‘But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth His Son.’ This happened nearly 2,000 years ago.
• The return of Christ in power and glory is the greatest expected future event.

Supporters of theistic evolution (and progressive creation) disregard the biblically given measures of time in favour of evolutionist time-scales involving billions of years both past and future (for which there are no convincing physical grounds). This can lead to two errors:

1. Not all statements of the Bible are to be taken seriously.
2. Vigilance concerning the second coming of Jesus may be lost.

Danger no. 8: Loss of Creation Concepts

Certain essential creation concepts are taught in the Bible. These include:

• God created matter without using any available material.
• God created the earth first, and on the fourth day He added the moon, the solar system, our local galaxy, and all other star systems. This sequence conflicts with all ideas of ‘cosmic evolution’, such as the ‘big bang’ cosmology.

Theistic evolution ignores all such biblical creation principles and replaces them with evolutionary notions, thereby contradicting and opposing God’s omnipotent acts of creation.

Danger no. 9: Misrepresentation of Reality

The Bible carries the seal of truth, and all its pronouncements are authoritative—whether they deal with questions of faith and salvation, daily living, or matters of scientific importance.

Evolutionists brush all this aside, e.g. Richard Dawkins says, ‘Nearly all peoples have developed their own creation myth, and the Genesis story is just the one that happened to have been adopted by one particular tribe of Middle Eastern herders. It has no more special status than the belief of a particular West African tribe that the world was created from the excrement of ants’.⁴

If evolution is false, then numerous sciences have embraced false testimony. Whenever these sciences conform to evolutionary views, they misrepresent reality. How much more then a theology which departs from what the Bible says and embraces evolution!

Danger no. 10: Missing the Purpose

In no other historical book do we find so many and such valuable statements of purpose for man, as in the Bible. For example:

1. Man is God’s purpose in creation (Genesis 1:27-28).
2. Man is the purpose of God’s plan of redemption (Isaiah 53:5).
3. Man is the purpose of the mission of God’s Son (1 John 4:9).
4. We are the purpose of God’s inheritance (Titus 3:7).
5. Heaven is our destination (1 Peter 1:4).

However, the very thought of purposefulness is anathema to evolutionists. ‘Evolutionary adaptations never follow a purposeful program, they thus cannot be regarded as teleonomical.’⁵ Thus a belief system such as theistic evolution that marries purposefulness with non-purposefulness is a contradiction in terms.

Conclusion

The doctrines of creation and evolution are so strongly divergent that reconciliation is totally impossible. Theistic evolutionists attempt to integrate the two doctrines, however such syncretism reduces the message of the Bible to insignificance. The conclusion is inevitable: There is no support for theistic evolution in the Bible.

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References

1. This article has been adapted from chapter 8 ‘The Consequences of Theistic Evolution’, from Prof. Dr Werner Gitt’s book, Did God use Evolution?, Christliche Literatur-Verbreitung e.V., Postfach 11 01 35 . 33661, Bielefeld, Germany.
2. E. Jantsch, Die Selbstorganisation des Universums, München, 1979, p. 412.
3. Hoimar von Ditfurth, Wir sind nicht nur von dieser Welt, München, 1984, pp. 21-22.
4. Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker, Penguin Books, London, 1986, p. 316.
5. H. Penzlin, Das Teleologie-Problem in der Biologie, Biologische Rundschau, 25 (1987), S.7-26, p. 19.

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