Evolution & Abortion

From the answers update magazine, volume 18, issue 10.

Did you know there's a connection between evolution and abortion? The growing influence of evolutionary ideas and an increasing acceptance of abortion have gone hand in hand. Now, some people have unfortunately misunderstood our beliefs as we link evolution with abortion, suggesting that Answers in Genesis is arguing that evolution is the cause of abortion. Not at all. (In an ultimate sense, sin is the cause.)

At the same time, there is a connection between evolution and abortion. If people believe the Bible isn't the absolute authority in all matters--and if they think they're just animals in evolutionary history and are not made in God's image, and are accountable to no one but themselves-- the more they will justify anything they want. That includes killing a baby in its mother's womb.

If a person believes he is just an animal in an evolutionary struggle for survival, then in that person's mind a developing baby is also an animal. Just as some people get rid of stray animals by killing them, people might also say: why not also get rid of spare children through abortion?

While evolution isn't the cause of abortion, the more we see people reject the teaching of God's Word and accept evolution, the more they can justify abortion.

Adapted from the October 10, 2011 broadcast of the Answers . . . with Ken Ham radio program.

Scenes of Spring

The Creation Museum

I loved going through the Museum again! I especially enjoyed watching the girls' reactions to the various exhibits. Moriah was scared half the time and begged to be held especially during the dark parts and where the dinosaurs moved and roared. The other half of the time she wanted to go back through it and really take it in. Lily did very well to hold Mommy's hand throughout. Lily especially loved watching the live animals move around. She was almost like a statue watching them. :-) Shiphrah slept through the whole thing in my Sleepy Wrap. (Yay!) She did awake when we got to the gift shop/bookstore at the end, just to tell me to buy something. :-) I'm so glad that we have lifetime passes that we can take them back as often as we want to make the drive. :-) I know they'll appreciate it more when they're older.

AIG Materials for Our Homeschool

Here are a few materials that Jeramy purchased to add to our homeschooling collection. More than a year ago (around the time Moriah was 12 months) he bought some flash cards of numbers, letters, picture words and direction words. We've also been showing the girls some of the Answers in Genesis Creation Museum DVD collection: Life and Dinosaurs & Dragon Legends. The girls will sit the entire 30 minutes for the Life DVD oftentimes without stirring from their chairs. They love watching all the pictures of animals, people and the outdoors.

The books, A is for Adam and D is for Dinosaur, are more than just rhyming alphabet books that give children a Biblical perspective, it's also a more thorough resource material as the children get older. There are pages that direct Bible school lessons and xerox pages that they can color. The Creation Bible has a CD of music by Buddy Davis that sings through the entire book in about 7 minutes! Dinosaurs, Genesis & The Gospel is a good resource where Ken Ham is giving an interactive talk with Buddy Davis to children from 5 to 12 year olds. The girls have really enjoyed this new set of materials and hopefully they are learning a lot.

Creation Seminar in Garland, TX

A couple of weeks ago, Jeramy went to a church in TX to give a creation vs. evolution seminar. The pastor had been advertising for weeks and there was a great turn out, considering the size of the church. There were also some un-believing atheists in attendance! There was one particularly, extremely foolish man to come and try to steal the show - a real heckler. Jeramy kept his cool and even some of the little old ladies in the church yelled at him saying something like, "Sir, this is not your seminar! Sit down!"

Anyway, Jeramy recorded his seminars and was able to edit out that crazed heckler for our benefit. I am excited to hear it soon. Check it out. There are four sessions with the notes and audio on his blog. His talks cover a lot of ground from worldview positions, intelligent design, the Flood and dating methods up to racism. There is also a link to it in my top left sidebar.

The Meaning of Life

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness;

and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."

Genesis 1:1 & 26

He answered: "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind': and, 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'"

Luke 10:27

The chief end of man is to glorify God by enjoying Him forever.

John Piper

Married Without Children

Feminism, secular and evangelical, has deceived many men and women into claiming more egalitarian androgynous roles which God did not intend before the Fall. Voddie Baucham has said, "We [our Western culture] are not raising women. We are raising men who are biologically capable of bearing children."

The selfish and self-centered ideals of feminism have created a super-structure in which women determine, apart from a Biblical worldview, their own destinies. Our society, and even the Church, has rejected what has been clearly revealed in the Text.

Now I have seen, and experienced myself (while attending a secular university), a generation of women who desire marriage but have no desire for children and are even content not to bear a single one. But this is not just a mere contentment, it borders more along the lines of unwanted scorn. This idea is not new and should not surprise us. This is one of the off-shoots from the abortion Culture of Death - just don't bear any.

Scripture is very clear that the offices of wife and mother were never intended to be separated. The desire to get married is the same as the desire to have a family. When a man and woman are united together in the covenant relationship of marriage, they create a new family (Genesis 2:24) which includes children (Genesis 1:27-28). There is nothing wrong with having the desire to marry and it is certainly a gift of the Spirit to be content with singleness (1 Corinthians 7). There are many passages that talk about the blessing of children and family life.

Besides the undeniable reality of the union between marriage and family, having its roots in Creation, specifically Biblical Womanhood, dictates that the offices of wife and mother are connected in such a way that they were not intended to be separated (Genesis 1:28 & 3:20, Titus 2:3-5). Of course women marry without the possibility to bear children, but the nurturing qualities which are divine in origin have been communicated to us as God's image-bearers (Genesis 1:27). Within the institution of marriage, we all must be willing to "multiply" as God has commanded us through biological or adoptive means. It is imperative not an option.

All women, especially blood-bought, Christ-redeemed women, must embrace Biblical Womanhood. Passages from Genesis 1-3, 1 Peter 3, Titus 2, Ephesians 5 and the like guide us to joyfully accept the greater glory of the purpose for which God created both genders in His image and how we can reflect that best, as His people.

The emphasis is reclaiming and living in an attitude of pre-Fall existence waiting eagerly for the redemption of all things (Rom 8:19-23, Revelation 21).

If we do not accept our Biblical mandates for God-created, God-intended, Manhood and Womanhood, then the Gospel we preach through words and deeds is a false one.

A Sober Taste of Mortality

Last night we saw a lightening storm over Duluth and Lawrenceville as we were driving home from the Northchase Apartments. The clouds were dark and threatening. Sudden bright, pure white flashes of light would randomly (more like sovereignly) light up a cloud here and there. It was awesome to watch! Whenever I watch or hear lightening I think of mortality and how much we are utterly dependent on God for our very breath.

Lightening really sobers my thoughts concerning my trust in the Lord and His sovereign will. It forces me to accept God's sovereign will because I have no control over whether or not I'm hit with the next bolt. I've learned to "make peace" with God when I'm caught in a lightening storm, because it could be my last moment. I think this because my house back in VA was struck by lightening 3 times in 5 years!

The first time lightening struck our house, it was a perfectly calm night in the summer, no rain to be heard at about 11:00 pm. I sat in the den watching TV when suddenly what sounded like cannon fire and drums blasted loud in my right ear, the window-lined sunroom next to me was all ablaze with the most brilliant white light I've ever seen! My heart skipped a beat. And just as quickly as it had come, it was gone. And all our house was awakened. My Dad sat straight up in bed from having been asleep next to my Mother and he, Mom and I began wandering around the house bewildered. Then Mom noticed the faintest brush of smoke flying across the ceiling upstairs and sought the phone to call for help. When the line malfunctioned, she ventured across the street to make the call. It turns out that a large bolt of lightening forked and struck our TV antennae and the tree next to our house, causing a fire in the attic immediately above my bedroom.

After the wonderful men in red exterminated the flames, insurance kicked in, and I lived in the basement that summer while the repairs were completed. Needless to say, we got a lightening rod to ground our house. And lightening has since and always caused me to wonder at the awesome power of God and be mindful of my own frail existence.

By the word of the LORD the heavens were made,

And by the breath of His mouth all their host.

He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap;

He lays up the deeps in storehouses.

Let all the earth fear the LORD;

Let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of Him.

For He spoke, and it was done;

He commanded, and it stood fast.

Psalm 33:6-9

When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers,

The moon and stars, which You have ordained;

What is man that You are mindful of him,

And the son of man that You care for him?

Psalm 8:3-4

Funny Friday: Creation vs Evolution

I liked this clip. Give it a whirl.





Check out Answers in Genesis! Also see Worldwide Flood's website and Creation Ministries International.

Creation Ministry

Going to church as I was growing up, I knew basic Bible stories, could locate passages in Scripture, listened to Sunday School lessons and sermons all of which taught that God created the heavens and the earth. All of this instruction I received in about 3-4 hours per week. None of those teachers presented any scientific evidence on which to base the Creation account.

However, going to public school, I heard a very different version. God was taken completely out of the picture and I was taught that all of life began rather spontaneously out of nothing: water, electricity, various debris, etc. and that life started as bacteria which evolved over billions of years into everything we see today by random genetic mutations and natural selection. This atheist Darwinian evolution was being reinforced repeatedly over more than 40 hours per week.

In my young mind, I didn't think anything of it. I knew that for school I had to repeat what was taught on tests to make good grades and I knew that the same applied in church to win favor and pridefully show off what I could recall.

In high school I fell in love with a few things, biology being one of them. Shortly after I became a believer at 17, I began to rationalize a marriage between these two schools of thought: creation and evolution. Perhaps one day was as a thousand years or an age (The Day/Age Theory). Or maybe there was a gap between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2 where the dinosaurs lived and died (The Gap Theory). Somehow, I knew that God had created the world and everything in it, but as to the method with which He used, I had no clue and just accepted it by faith, still regurgitating information to make good grades in public school.

I continued with this shallow view of creation (Deistic Evolution), until I met my wonderful husband, Jeramy, who was very much "The Creation Guy". He introduced me to Answers in Genesis and told me about their Creation Museum. Completely intrigued, I willingly watched creation media which explains in scientific detail the presuppositions behind the "billions of years" and radioisotope dating methods. Other videos I've seen explain irreducibly complex systems (like all the individual components for reproduction, for example) which testify to a Creator and present a strong case against evolution and natural selection.

Well, now I'm convinced that Darwinian evolution scientists are the ones really accepting their belief system and presuppositions by faith. They hold onto it so tightly, they deceive themselves. If Biblical authority in Genesis is compromised then the rest of the Bible means nothing. If you can't believe what is written in the first 10 pages, then what grounds would anyone have to accept what comes after that? If God didn't create the universe, physical and spiritual, in 6 days then maybe Christ wasn't born of a virgin, maybe Christ didn't even rise from the dead! As believers our reading and understanding of the truth of Scripture must remain consistent if we're going to live and evangelize the Gospel.

I encourage you to check out the Answers in Genesis website in my link list and find the answers to the questions you have about Creation, the Flood, people groups, etc. See this snippet of Ken Ham, founder of AiG, give a lesson. (Note the video is provided by cynical evolutionists.)

Also, my friend Erin at A Full Heart is conducting a DVD giveaway which includes some of their material provided by Vision Forum. Check out her popular, encouraging blog also. (Vision Forum DVD giveaway) My husband, Jeramy, has a wonderfully, educational blog that engages the issues of our postmodern era at The Jeramy Anderson Evangelistic Association also in my link list on the right sidebar.

Family Fun at Stone Mountain

For thus says the LORD, who created the heavens - He is the God who formed the earth and made it, He established it and did not create it a waste place, but formed it to be inhabited
Isaiah 45:18