Unlocking the Mysteries of Evolution

• The roots of evolutionary faith

• Fallacy #1 - It all started with a big bang

• Fallacy #2 - Time: the magic factor

• Fallacy #3 - Random chances result in all the complexity of living things

• Fallacy #4 - Non-living mater produced life

• Fallacy #5 - Simple forms develop into complex forms of life over time

• Does the fossil record show a gradual transition?

• Evolution opposes Christianity: There is no compromise!

• Exploring the design and perfection of the creation

Unlocking the Mysteries of Original Man

• Why do people believe that humans evolved from animals?

• Where are the missing links?

• Are cavemen our ancestors?

• The discovery that rattled all the other bones

• How long has man truly been human?

• Is there evidence of humans buried by the Great Flood?

• Discovering dinosaurs -- the mysterious vanished giants

• Could Job have seen dinosaurs?

• Footprints frozen in stone

• Where do dragon legends come from?

• Could some dinosaurs still be living?

Unlocking the Mysteries of Ancient Civilizations

• The truth about man's "primitive past"

• What were the capacities of original man?

• Is technology a modern invention?

• How early in man's history did he build cities?

• What are some Genesis examples of early technology?

• Why search out the former age?

• Imagine the accumulation of ancient wisdom over the generations?

• What about the spiritual insight of the ancients?

• The heavens declare the glory of God!

• When did civilization begin?

• Do artifacts of pre-flood technology exist?

• China's forgotten connection to Genesis

• Ancient sea travel

• Why are ancient pyramids a worldwide phenomena?

• How can massive stone blocks be moved?

• China's incredible find

• Nothing new under the sun!

• Come see the Awesome Works of God!

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Dennis Petersen

A Brief introduction to
UNLOCKING THE MYSTERIES OF CREATION
by Dennis Petersen, President of the Creation Resource Foundation

"Always Be Ready To Give An Answer (Defense) To Everyone Who Asks You A Reason For The Hope That Is In You..."

The Apostle Peter (quoted above from 1 Peter 3:15) must have had to address untold thousands of questions in his time, raised by honest skeptics as well as cunning adversaries. Today, the subject matter may be more diverse, but the need to provide salty, thought-provoking answers is just as needed as ever. Our children and grandchildren are flooded with secular teaching, designed to intimidate even the most faithful Christians. More than ever we need to be equipped with answers that urge people to think critically about the issues.

God is the one who endorsed the sacred invitation to "let us reason together" (Isaiah 1:18). The irony today is that many Christians feel so unsettled when confronted by seemingly educated people who have been trained to rationalize against the authority of the Bible. So, our goal is to provide answers. Answers from simple observations... answers from profound questions... answers that reach deep into the motives of the human heart and open the channel to God. Consider the challenge of the Hebrew Psalmist:

"We will not hide them from their children, telling to the generation to come the praises of the Lord, and His strength and His wonderful works that He has done. For He established a testimony... that the generation to come might know them... that they may arise and declare them to their children, that they may set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep His commandments..." Psalm 78:4-7

God Formed The Earth... To Be Inhabited

The more we learn about our earth and the harsh realities of other planets, gives us cause to thank our Creator for His special care in making our planetary home such a wonderful world.

Even secular (non God-fearing) scientists have often recognized and pondered the many unique features of our planet that seem to have been coincidentally designed to facilitate human life so providently. How many can you think of?

Earth has just the right atmosphere to allow easy breathing. No other planet comes even close.
Earth has ideal gravity, ideal air pressure, ideal temperature, and ideal global size. As no place in the universe, earth alone has life sustaining liquid water in abundance. Earth has a day and night cycle perfect for adequate human work and rest. The delicate balance of nature provides astounding reliability for human life.

This marvelous display of design has been called the "Anthropic" principle in science; things just seem to be built to satisfy the needs of man. Can you imagine if horses got no larger than sheep? What if dogs were as big as cows? Wagging tails and slobbering tongues could do us in. And what would life be like for cat lovers without our affectionate feline friends? And look at the food we have. Imagine if grain had husks as hard as walnut shells. If watermelons had thin skins. If bananas were as big as banana squash!! Yes, it's easy to see the marks of an ingenious Designer. Indeed, He has created the earth TO BE INHABITED!

What Was The Very Good Earth Really Like?

When God completed the creation and declared it was all "very good," we may be prone to look around us and wonder if He could really mean what He says. What we may be forgetting is that we live in the remnants of a devastated paradise. Since the creation of a perfect earth, man's willful disobedience to his Creator has brought not only a curse that has plagued the world ever since, but ultimately the world shattering flood and other devastating catastrophes that left few survivors.

To adequately make sense of the observable world around us we must understand two absolute truths that God invites us to investigate: #1. The world was created perfectly by God, and #2. The world has suffered terrible upheavals of judgment because of mankind's gross wickedness. No doubt this is why Peter warns us that in the last days, men will have a wholesale disregard for the truth of creation and the reality of the global flood, as well as the inevitability of coming judgment by fire (see 2 Peter 3:3-7).

"Speak to the earth and it shall teach thee," said Job 4,000 years ago, encouraging a scientific investigation of our environment. And what shall we learn? Job answered, implying it would be patently obvious, that "the hand of the Lord has made this" (Job 12:8-9).

It's impossible for us to imagine a perfect world with no death, but just try to imagine the world before the flood with people living for hundreds of years! For that kind of longevity many conditions must have been much more ideal than today. Could there have been a healthier level of oxygen in the atmosphere? We know oxygen is a natural enemy to harmful disease germs as well as the restorer of overall health. But too much oxygen would be dangerous, so what's the ideal? Curiously, a few years ago the content of some bubbles trapped in ancient tree sap were analyzed. These chunks of AMBER contained fossilized insects and were buried beneath layers of flood deposited sedimentary rock strata. They certainly lived in a very different world than ours. Could the great deluge have been the agent of their entombment? Amazingly, the analysis of the gas in the bubbles had oxygen content of almost 25%! If that means the atmosphere on earth once had almost 25% more oxygen than what we now depend on, what would that contribute to reducing disease and increasing overall vitality?

The giant sizes of animals, insects and sea creatures that are commonly found in the fossil bearing sedimentary strata certainly cause us to wonder what other conditions were different in the "very good" earth of long ago. Much evidence in the geological world provides clues to "the world that perished" at the time of Noah.

Come See The Awesome Works of God

Providence is simply an acknowledgment of God's care and orchestration in His creation. There must be untold myriad examples of God's providential care. Consider the wonder of water. How many benefits can you list to be grateful for water? Not only is it the universal solvent making up 75% of our bodies, it is such a rarity in the universe we should marvel as we would at a miracle. A virtual liquid mineral, water is exceptional for its habit of expanding when it freezes, enabling it to float. If it didn't do that, the lakes would freeze solid in the winter and kill most marine life. Yet it also vaporizes at an ideally low temperature, permitting millions of tons of water to float in the sky as clouds, offering welcome shade and a refreshing shower on a hot afternoon, not to mention the maintenance of earth's river systems to refresh and feed our planet.

Few things are so needed and yet so taken for granted, and even ignored, as water. Recent medical research indicates that much of the disease and chronic illness today could be avoided if people routinely drank 8 to 10 glasses of pure water a day. In a future article we will dig into some of the details. But how does water fit into the plan of creation?

According to Genesis, water existed at the dawn of creation. The first time water is mentioned in the Bible, we learn that God's Spirit moved (or brooded) over the surface of the waters. Isn't it interesting that God correlates His Spirit with physical water? Just as liquid water is absolutely essential for physical life to exist so God's Spirit is absolutely essential for spiritual life to exist. The fact that Jesus said "it is the spirit that quickeneth (makes alive)" and that "the words I speak unto you are spirit and life" heightens our respect for His life-giving Word (John 6:63).

The waters of creation were divided on the second day by the firmament. The apparent global protective canopy thus created gives the inquiring mind many exciting ideas to explore. A recommended introduction to the study is found in the course, UNLOCKING THE MYSTERIES OF CREATION. For starters, just imagine the physical benefits of a high atmospheric ceiling of water to filter out harmful cosmic, gamma and x-rays. Purifying the environment on that scale would certainly enable creatures to live longer. Put that together with the fact that there was no rain on earth before the flood! That's right. Genesis 2:5-6 explains that God designed an ideal watering system to assure moisture on the face of the whole earth. No deserts, no storms, and no frozen wastelands...just a "very good earth," with waters rising as fountains (or mists as in the King James version) to irrigate the ideal soil He also created. That brings up another topic of interest: the replenishment of soil minerals that are vital to make vegetation the nutrition by which God designed all His creatures to thrive. As we can see, there's no end to the fascinating topics to be explored in future articles.

Questions That Point People Toward God

If you don't believe the eternal Creator God miraculously designed the tangible world, how do you propose that natural elements existed forever and organized themselves with no external plan?

“Who does not know that the hand of the Lord has made all this?”

Since DNA is a most complicated molecule inside living cells and essential to orchestrate the development of life, how could living cells originate through any natural process before the DNA existed?

Things that are made declare God’s awesome power and nature!
If genetic information is required to compose complex living systems, how could simple chemical elements (which amounts to less information) randomly create complex integrated systems in even a single cell, let alone the extraordinary complexity of the human brain and nervous system (i.e. more information)?

You never get more information from less information!