gods and religions are created in the imaginations of man.

On Friday, November 13, 2015 at 8:05:31 AM UTC-6, Travis wrote:
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> Stephen Hawking: There is no God and science has ‘a more convincing 
> explanation’ for the origin of life <http://endoftheamericandream.com> 
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> Stephen Hawking: There is no God and science has ‘a more convincing 
> explanation’ for the origin of life 
> <http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/stephen-hawking-im-an-atheist-and-science-offers-a-more-convincing-explanation-for-the-origin-of-life>
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> Posted: 12 Nov 2015 03:06 PM PST
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> [image: Stephen Hawking - Public Domain] <http://amzn.to/20PFq4E>For 
> someone that is supposedly so “brilliant”, Stephen Hawking really doesn’t 
> have a clue.  In a recent interview with Spain’s El Mundo, Hawking publicly 
> declared that God doesn’t exist, that he is an atheist, and that science 
> provides a better explanation of where the universe came from than the 
> Bible does.  While I certainly respect much of the great work that Hawking 
> has done throughout the years, I don’t think that he has thought through 
> these issues very clearly.  As you will see below, it takes a ridiculous 
> amount of blind faith to believe that the theory of evolution is true, and 
> the cold, hard evidence clearly points to a Creator.  Unfortunately, to be 
> a respected member of the scientific establishment today one must fully 
> embrace an evolutionary model for the origin of life, and at this point 
> Stephen Hawking has left no doubt as to where he stands.
>
> Somehow most of us have become convinced that it is not “intellectual” to 
> believe that God created all things.  And a big reason for this is due to 
> the public pronouncements of big name scientists such as Hawking.  The 
> following excerpt comes from an article that was posted on cnet.com 
> <http://www.cnet.com/news/stephen-hawking-makes-it-clear-there-is-no-god/>, 
> and I was very disappointed when I first read this…
>
> He gave an interview to Spain’s El Mundo 
> <http://www.elmundo.es/ciencia/2014/09/21/541dbc12ca474104078b4577.html> 
> in which he expressed his firm belief that el mundo was the work of 
> scientifically explainable phenomena, not of a supreme being.
>
> Hawking said: “*Before we understand science, it is natural to believe 
> that God created the universe. But now science offers a more convincing 
> explanation*.”
>
> I’m not sure whether there was a specific moment in which science overtook 
> the deistic explanation of existence. However, El Mundo pressed him on the 
> suggestion in “A Brief History of Time <http://amzn.to/1MqCwcZ>” that a 
> unifying theory of science would help mankind “know the mind of God.”
>
> Hawking now explained: “What I meant by ‘we would know the mind of God’ 
> is, we would know everything that God would know, if there were a God. *Which 
> there isn’t. I’m an atheist*.”
>
> He added: “Religion believes in miracles, but these aren’t compatible with 
> science.”
>
> In the end, Hawking can believe whatever he wants to believe, but he 
> should at least be honest about the fact that he is making a faith choice 
> as well.
>
> You see, the truth is that the theory of evolution is not backed up by 
> hard science.  I will go into this much more below.  In fact, when you 
> choose to “believe” in evolution, you are doing so in spite of the evidence.
>
> So why would anyone do this?
>
> Why would anyone believe something as ridiculous as the theory of 
> evolution?
>
> Well, in my experience most people believe exactly what they want to 
> believe.  And what Stephen Hawking apparently wants to believe is that 
> there is no God and that our existence is some sort of great cosmic 
> accident.
>
> Recently someone asked Coach Dave Daubenmire if he “believed” in 
> evolution, and after reflecting on that question for a while he wrote an 
> entire article <http://www.newswithviews.com/Daubenmire/dave444.htm> in 
> which he shared his thoughts on the matter.  The following excerpt is the 
> part that I enjoyed the most…
>
> Why did he ask me if I “believed” in evolution? I thought evolution was, 
> ahem, settled science. Science, I had always been taught, was based on the 
> scientific method and the veracity of the topic was no longer in doubt. 
> Examples began to rumble through my head.
>
> Why has no one ever asked me if I “believed” in gravity? Do you “believe” 
> in darkness? Does one “believe” in grass? Do you “believe” in the wind? 
> Does one “believe” in fire?” Of course not. Seeing is believing, they tell 
> us. Fire proves itself. So does gravity, and wind, and grass. If 
> macro-evolution is true, why did my friend ask me if I “believed” in it?
>
> We are taught that it takes faith to “believe” in God, or angels, or your 
> spouse. But the truth is; faith is required in order to ‘believe” anything. 
> Christianity is a religion that requires faith to believe. So are Hinduism, 
> Buddhism, Wicca, Islam, and Santa Claus.
>
> But evolution and climate change are religions as well. Macro-evolution is 
> a faith-based belief system regarding the origins of the species. Global 
> warming is a faith-based system regarding the ebb and flow of the climate. 
> Macro-evolution and climate change are far less fact-based than a belief in 
> Jesus.
>
> But these days, many prominent religious leaders are caving in to the 
> immense pressure from the scientific community to accept the theory of 
> evolution.  For example, Pope Francis has made headlines all over the globe 
> for publicly embracing the Big Bang and the theory of evolution.  The 
> following are some of the Pope’s statements that have appeared in 
> newspapers worldwide 
> <http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/pope-francis-declares-evolution-and-big-bang-theory-are-right-and-god-isnt-a-magician-with-a-magic-wand-9822514.html>
> …
>
> -“When we read about Creation in Genesis, we run the risk of imagining God 
> was a magician, with a magic wand able to do everything. But that is not 
> so.”
>
> -“The Big Bang, which today we hold to be the origin of the world, does 
> not contradict the intervention of the divine creator but, rather, requires 
> it.”
>
> -“Evolution in nature is not inconsistent with the notion of creation, 
> because evolution requires the creation of beings that evolve.”
>
> In 2015, most people consider the Pope to be the number one representative 
> of the Christian faith on the entire planet, and so it is quite alarming 
> that he is making statements such as these.
>
> Other prominent members of the Catholic clergy are making even stronger 
> statements.
>
> For instance, the head of the Vatican Observatory says that a belief in 
> young earth creationism is “almost blasphemous theology” 
> <http://christiannews.net/2014/10/27/pope-refutes-genesis-account-of-creation-argues-god-and-evolution-are-compatible/>
> …
>
> As previously reported 
> <http://christiannews.net/2014/10/20/catholic-astronomer-calls-young-earth-creation-beliefs-almost-blasphemous/>,
>  
> earlier this month, Guy Consolmagno with the Vatican Observatory 
> told Australia’s Fairfax Media that young earth creation beliefs are nearly 
> tantamount to blasphemy.
>
> “It’s almost blasphemous theology,” Consolmagno alleged, according to the 
> Brisbane Times. “It’s certainly not the tradition of Catholicism and never 
> has been and it misunderstands what the Bible is and it misunderstands what 
> science is.”
>
> Really?
>
> I simply do not understand how anyone can look at the evidence and come to 
> that sort of conclusion.
>
> Just look at our DNA.  It is a self-replicating information system that 
> utilizes a code that is so incredibly complex that we are only just now 
> starting to understand it a little bit.  The amount of information that 
> would be contained in just one pinhead of DNA would completely fill a stack 
> of books that could stretch from our planet to the moon about *500 times*.
>
> So where did such a complex and remarkably efficient information system 
> come from?
>
> DNA is both a code and a language, and the truth is that codes and 
> languages don’t just pop into existence out of nothing.  There is always an 
> intellect behind every code and every language.
>
> So where did DNA come from, and who designed it?
>
> This is just one of the exceedingly important questions that evolutionists 
> do not have an answer for.
>
> For those that are interested in learning more, I would like to share a 
> list of 44 points about the creation vs. evolution debate that I included 
> in a previous article 
> <http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/the-popes-embrace-of-evolution-brings-us-one-step-closer-to-a-one-world-religion>.
>   
> Unless you have really looked into these things on your own, you may have 
> never encountered some of these points before.  The next time that someone 
> tries to convince you that evolution isn’t just a fairy tale for adults, 
> share this list with them…
>
> *#1* If the theory of evolution was true, we should have discovered 
> millions upon millions of transitional fossils that show the development of 
> one species into another species. Instead, we have zero.
>
> *#2* When Charles Darwin came up with his theory, he admitted that no 
> transitional forms had been found at that time, but he believed that huge 
> numbers certainly existed and would eventually be discovered 
> <http://deeptruths.com/articles/big_lie_exposed.html>…
>
> “Lastly, looking not to any one time, but to all time, if my theory be 
> true, numberless intermediate varieties, linking closely together all the 
> species of the same group, must assuredly have existed. But, as by this 
> theory, innumerable transitional forms must have existed, *why do we not 
> find them* embedded in countless numbers in the crust of the earth?”
>
> *#3* Even some of the most famous evolutionists in the world acknowledge 
> the complete absence of transitional fossils in the fossil record. For 
> example, Dr. Colin Patterson, former senior paleontologist of the British 
> Museum of Natural History and author of “Evolution” once wrote the 
> following 
> <http://creation.com/that-quote-about-the-missing-transitional-fossils>…
>
> “I fully agree with your comments about the lack of direct illustration of 
> evolutionary transitions in my book. If I knew of any, fossil or living, I 
> would certainly have included them …. I will lay it on the line – *there 
> is not one such fossil* for which one could make a watertight argument.”
>
> *#4* Stephen Jay Gould, Professor of Geology and Paleontology at Harvard 
> University, once wrote the following 
> <http://creation.com/gould-grumbles-about-creationist-hijacking> about 
> the lack of transitional forms…
>
> “The absence of fossil evidence for intermediary stages between major 
> transitions in organic design, indeed our inability, *even in our 
> imagination*, to construct functional intermediates in many cases, has 
> been a persistent and nagging problem for gradualistic accounts of 
> evolution.”
>
> *#5* Evolutionist Stephen M. Stanley of Johns Hopkins University has also 
> commented 
> <http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/ReferencesandNotes21.html> on 
> the stunning lack of transitional forms in the fossil record…
>
> “In fact, the fossil record does not convincingly document *a single 
> transition* from one species to another.”
>
> *#6* If “evolution” was happening right now, there would be millions of 
> creatures out there with partially developed features and organs.  But 
> instead there are none.
>
> *#7* If the theory of evolution was true, we should not see a sudden 
> explosion of fully formed complex life in the fossil record. Instead, that 
> is precisely what we find.
>
> *#8* Paleontologist Mark Czarnecki, an evolutionist, once commented 
> <http://www.genesispark.com/exhibits/fossils/missing-links/abrupt/> on 
> the fact that complex life appears very suddenly in the fossil record…
>
> “A major problem in proving the theory has been the fossil record; the 
> imprints of vanished species preserved in the Earth’s geological 
> formations. This record has never revealed traces of Darwin’s hypothetical 
> intermediate variants – *instead species appear and disappear abruptly*, 
> and this anomaly has fueled the creationist argument that each species was 
> created by God.”
>
> *#9* The sudden appearance of complex life in the fossil record is so 
> undeniable that even Richard Dawkins 
> <http://www.bible.ca/tracks/fossil-record.htm> has been forced to admit 
> it…
>
> “It is as though they [fossils] were just planted there, *without any 
> evolutionary history*. Needless to say this appearance of sudden planting 
> has delighted creationists. Both schools of thought (Punctuationists and 
> Gradualists) despise so-called scientific creationists equally, and both 
> agree that the major gaps are real, that they are true imperfections in the 
> fossil record. The only alternative explanation of the sudden appearance of 
> so many complex animal types in the Cambrian era is divine creation and 
> both reject this alternative.”
>
> *#10* Nobody has ever observed macroevolution take place in the 
> laboratory or in nature.  In other words, nobody has ever observed one kind 
> of creature turn into another kind of creature.  The entire theory of 
> evolution is based on blind faith.
>
> *#11* Evolutionist Jeffrey Schwartz, a professor of anthropology at the 
> University of Pittsburgh, openly admits that “the formation of a new 
> species, by any mechanism, *has never been observed*. 
> <http://www.icr.org/home/resources/resources_tracts_scientificcaseagainstevolution/>
> ”
>
> *#12* Even evolutionist Stephen J. Gould of Harvard University has 
> admitted that the record shows that species do not change. The following is 
> how he put it during a lecture at Hobart & William Smith College 
> <http://www.bible.ca/tracks/dp-fosilrecord.htm>…
>
> “Every paleontologist *knows that most species don’t change*. That’s 
> bothersome….brings terrible distress. ….They may get a little bigger or 
> bumpier but they remain the same species and that’s not due to imperfection 
> and gaps but stasis. And yet this remarkable stasis has generally been 
> ignored as no data. If they don’t change, its not evolution so you don’t 
> talk about it.”
>
> *#13* Anyone that believes that the theory of evolution has “scientific 
> origins” is fooling themselves.  It is actually a deeply pagan religious 
> philosophy <http://creation.com/evolution-ancient-pagan-idea> that can be 
> traced back for thousands of years.
>
> *#14* Anything that we dig up that is supposedly more than 250,000 years 
> old should have absolutely no detectable radiocarbon in it whatsoever.  But 
> instead, we find it in *everything* that we dig up – even dinosaur 
> bones.  This is clear evidence that the “millions of years” theory is simply 
> a bunch of nonsense 
> <http://creation.mobi/rate-group-reveals-exciting-breakthroughs>…
>
> It’s long been known that radiocarbon (which should disappear in only a 
> few tens of thousands of years at the most) keeps popping up reliably in 
> samples (like coal, oil, gas, etc.) which are supposed to be ‘millions of 
> years’ old. For instance, CMI has over the years commissioned and funded 
> the radiocarbon testing of a number of wood samples from ‘old’ sites (e.g. 
> with Jurassic fossils, inside Triassic sandstone, burnt by Tertiary basalt) 
> and these were published (by then staff geologist Dr Andrew Snelling) in 
> *Creation 
> <http://creation.mobi/article/3871>* magazine and *Journal of Creation 
> <http://creation.mobi/article/24>*. In each case, with contamination 
> eliminated, the result has been in the thousands of years, i.e. C-14 was 
> present when it ‘shouldn’t have been’. These results encouraged the rest of 
> the RATE team to investigate C-14 further, building on the literature 
> reviews of creationist M.D. Dr Paul Giem.
>
> In another very important paper presented at this year’s ICC, scientists 
> from the RATE group summarized the pertinent facts and presented further 
> experimental data. The bottom line is that virtually all biological 
> specimens, no matter how ‘old’ they are supposed to be, show measurable 
> C-14 levels. This effectively limits the age of all buried biota to less 
> than (at most) 250,000 years.
>
> *#15* The odds of even a single sell “assembling itself” by chance are so 
> low that they aren’t even worth talking about.  The following is an excerpt 
> from Jonathan Gray’s book entitled “The Forbidden Secret 
> <http://amzn.to/1kQqHFG>“…
>
> Even the simplest cell you can conceive of would require no less than 
> 100,000 DNA base pairs and a minimum of about 10,000 amino acids, to form 
> the essential protein chain. Not to mention the other things that would 
> also be necessary for the first cell.
>
> Bear in mind that every single base pair in the DNA chain has to have the 
> same molecular orientation (“left-hand” or “right hand”)? As well as that, 
> virtually all the amino acids must have the opposite orientation. And every 
> one must be without error.
>
> “Now,” explained Larry, “to randomly obtain those correct orientations, do 
> you know your chances? It would be 1 chance in 2110,000, or 1 chance in 
> 1033,113!
>
> “To put it another way, if you attempted a trillion, trillion, trillion 
> combinations every second for 15 billion years, the odds you would achieve 
> all the correct orientations would still only be one chance in a trillion, 
> trillion, trillion, trillion … and the trillions would continue 2755 times!
>
> “It would be like winning more than 4700 state lotteries in a row with a 
> single ticket purchased for each. In other words…impossible.”
>
> *#16* How did life learn to reproduce itself?  This is a question that 
> evolutionists do not have an answer for.
>
> *#17* In 2007, fishermen caught a very rare creature 
> <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6925784.stm> known as a 
> Coelacanth.  Evolutionists originally told us that this “living fossil” had 
> gone extinct 70 million years ago.  It turns out that they were only off by 
> 70 million years.
>
> *#18* According to evolutionists, the Ancient Greenling Damselfly last 
> showed up in the fossil record about 300 million years ago 
> <http://www.icr.org/article/5160/>.  But it still exists today.  So why 
> hasn’t it evolved at all over that time frame?
>
> *#19* Darwinists believe that the human brain developed without the 
> assistance of any designer.  This is so laughable it is amazing that there 
> are any people out there that still believe this stuff.  The truth is that 
> the human brain is amazingly complex.  The following is how a PBS 
> documentary described the complexity of the human brain 
> <http://www.remnantofgod.org/creation.htm>: “It contains over *100 
> billion cells*, each with over *50,000 neuron connections* to other brain 
> cells.”
>
> *#20* The following is how one evolutionist 
> <http://www.icr.org/home/resources/resources_tracts_scientificcaseagainstevolution/>
>  
> pessimistically assessed the lack of evidence for the evolution of humanity…
>
> “Even with DNA sequence data, we have no direct access to the processes of 
> evolution, so objective reconstruction of the vanished past can be achieved 
> only by *creative imagination*.”
>
> *#21* Perhaps the most famous fossil in the history of the theory of 
> evolution, “Piltdown Man”, turned out to be *a giant hoax 
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piltdown_Man>*.
>
> *#22* If the neutron were not about 1.001 times the mass of the proton, 
> all protons would have decayed into neutrons or all neutrons would have 
> decayed into protons, and therefore life would not be possible. How can we 
> account for this?
>
> *#23* If gravity was stronger or weaker by the slimmest of margins, then 
> life sustaining stars like the sun could not exist. This would also make 
> life impossible. How can we account for this?
>
> *#24* Why did evolutionist Dr. Lyall Watson make the following statement 
> <http://www.icr.org/article/788/>?…
>
> “The fossils that decorate our family tree are so scarce that there are 
> still more scientists than specimens. The remarkable fact is that all of 
> the physical evidence we have for human evolution can still be placed, with 
> room to spare, inside *a single coffin*!”
>
> *#25* Apes and humans are very different genetically.  As 
> DarwinConspiracy.com <http://www.darwinconspiracy.com/> explains, “the 
> human Y chromosome has twice as many genes as the chimpanzee Y chromosome 
> and the chromosome structures are not at all similar.”
>
> *#26* How can we explain the creation of new information that is required 
> for one animal to turn into another animal?  No evolutionary process has 
> ever been shown to be able to create new biological information.  One 
> scientist described the incredible amount of new information that would be 
> required to transform microbes into men this way 
> <http://creation.com/refuting-evolution-2-chapter-3-argument-evolution-is-true-science-not-just-a-theory>
> …
>
> “The key issue is the type of change required — to change microbes into 
> men requires changes that increase the genetic information content, from 
> over half a million DNA ‘letters’ of even the ‘simplest’ self-reproducing 
> organism to three billion ‘letters’ (stored in each human cell nucleus).”
>
> *#27* Evolutionists would have us believe that there are nice, neat 
> fossil layers with older fossils being found in the deepest layers and 
> newer fossils being found in the newest layers.  This simply is not true 
> at all <http://www.creationworldview.org/articles_view.asp?id=31>…
>
> The fossil layers are not found in the ground in the nice neat clean order 
> that evolutionists illustrate them to be in their textbooks. There is not 
> one place on the surface of the earth where you may dig straight down and 
> pass through the fossil layers in the order shown in the textbooks. The 
> neat order of one layer upon another does not exist in nature. The fossil 
> bearing layers are actually found out of order, upside down (backwards 
> according to evolutionary theory), missing (from where evolutionists would 
> expect them to be) or interlaced (“younger” and “older” layers found in 
> repeating sequences). “Out of place” fossils are the rule and not the 
> exception throughout the fossil record.
>
> *#28* Evolutionists believe that the ancestors of birds developed hollow 
> bones over thousands of generations so that they would eventually be light 
> enough to fly.  This makes absolutely no sense and is beyond ridiculous.
>
> *#29* If dinosaurs really are tens of millions of years old, why have 
> scientists found dinosaur bones *with soft tissue still in them*?  The 
> following is from an NBC News report 
> <http://www.nbcnews.com/id/7285683/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/scientists-recover-t-rex-soft-tissue/#.Us3cl7SmbF0>
>  
> about one of these discoveries…
>
> For more than a century, the study of dinosaurs has been limited to 
> fossilized bones. Now, researchers have recovered 70 million-year-old soft 
> tissue, including what may be blood vessels and cells, from a Tyrannosaurus 
> rex.
>
> *#30* Which evolved first: blood, the heart, or the blood vessels for the 
> blood to travel through?
>
> *#31* Which evolved first: the mouth, the stomach, the digestive fluids, 
> or the ability to poop?
>
> *#32* Which evolved first: the windpipe, the lungs, or the ability of the 
> body to use oxygen?
>
> *#33* Which evolved first: the bones, ligaments, tendons, blood supply, 
> or the muscles to move the bones?
>
> *#34* In order for blood to clot, more than 20 complex steps 
> <http://www.doesgodexist.org/NovDec98/IrreducibleComplexityBloodClotting.html>
>  
> need to successfully be completed. How in the world did that process 
> possibly evolve?
>
> *#35* DNA is so incredibly complex 
> <http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/am/v3/n3/dna> that it is 
> absolutely absurd to suggest that such a language system could have 
> “evolved” all by itself by accident…
>
> When it comes to storing massive amounts of information, nothing comes 
> close to the efficiency of DNA. A single strand of DNA is thousands of 
> times thinner than a strand of human hair. One pinhead of DNA could hold 
> enough information to fill a stack of books stretching from the earth to 
> the moon 500 times.
>
> Although DNA is wound into tight coils, your cells can quickly access, 
> copy, and translate the information stored in DNA. DNA even has a built-in 
> proofreader and spell-checker that ensure precise copying. Only about one 
> mistake slips through for every 10 billion nucleotides that are copied.
>
> *#36* Can you solve the following riddle by Perry Marshall?…
>
> 1) DNA is not merely a molecule with a pattern; it is a code, a language, 
> and an information storage mechanism.
>
> 2) All codes are created by a conscious mind; there is no natural process 
> known to science that creates coded information.
>
> 3) Therefore DNA was designed by a mind.
>
> If you can provide an empirical example of a code or language that occurs 
> naturally, you’ve toppled my proof. All you need is one.
>
> *#37* Evolutionists simply cannot explain why our planet is so perfectly 
> suited 
> <http://www.apologeticspress.org/APContent.aspx?category=9&article=2624> 
> to support life.
>
> *#38* Shells from living snails have been “carbon dated” to be 27,000 
> years old <http://www.creationworldview.org/articles_view.asp?id=6>.
>
> *#39* If humans have been around for so long, where are all of the bones 
> and all of the graves?  The following is an excerpt from an article by 
> Don Batten <http://creation.com/where-are-all-the-people>…
>
> Evolutionists also claim there was a ‘Stone Age’ of about 100,000 years 
> when between one million and 10 million people lived on Earth. Fossil 
> evidence shows that people buried their dead, often with 
> artefacts—cremation was not practised until relatively recent times (in 
> evolutionary thinking). If there were just one million people alive during 
> that time, with an average generation time of 25 years, they should have 
> buried 4 billion bodies, and many artefacts. If there were 10 million 
> people, it would mean 40 billion bodies buried in the earth. If the 
> evolutionary timescale were correct, then we would expect the skeletons of 
> the buried bodies to be largely still present after 100,000 years, because 
> many ordinary bones claimed to be much older have been found. However, even 
> if the bodies had disintegrated, lots of artefacts should still be found.
>
> *#40* Evolutionists claim that just because it looks like we were 
> designed that does not mean that we actually were.  They often speak of the 
> “illusion of design”, but that is kind of like saying that it is an 
> “illusion” that a 747 airplane or an Apple iPhone were designed.  And of 
> course the human body is far more complex that a 747 or an iPhone.
>
> *#41* If you want to be part of the “scientific community” today, you 
> must accept the theory of evolution no matter how absurd it may seem to 
> you.  Richard Lewontin of Harvard once made the following comment 
> <http://www.icr.org/home/resources/resources_tracts_scientificcaseagainstevolution/>
>  
> regarding this harsh reality…
>
> We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of 
> its constructs, . . . in spite of the tolerance of the scientific community 
> for unsubstantiated commitment to materialism. . . . we are forced by our a 
> priori adherence to material causes to create an apparatus of investigation 
> and set of concepts that produce material explanations, no matter how 
> counterintuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated. Moreover, 
> that materialism is absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door.
>
> *#42* Time Magazine once made the following statement 
> <http://www.icr.org/article/human-evolution-update/> about the lack of 
> evidence for the theory of evolution…
>
> “Yet despite more than a century of digging, the fossil record remains 
> maddeningly sparse. With so few clues, even a single bone that doesn’t fit 
> into the picture can upset everything. Virtually every major discovery has 
> put deep cracks in the conventional wisdom and forced scientists to concoct 
> new theories, amid furious debate.”
>
> *#43* Malcolm Muggeridge, the world famous journalist and philosopher, 
> once made the following statement 
> <http://creation.com/muggeridge-evolution-greatest-joke> about the 
> absurdity of the theory of evolution…
>
> “I myself am convinced that the theory of evolution, especially the extent 
> to which it’s been applied, will be one of the great jokes in the history 
> books of the future. Posterity will marvel that so very flimsy and dubious 
> an hypothesis could be accepted with the incredible credulity that it has.”
>
> *#44* In order to believe the theory of evolution, you must have enough 
> blind faith to believe that life just popped into existence from non-life, 
> and that such life just happened to have the ability to take in the 
> nourishment it needed, to expel waste, and to reproduce itself, all the 
> while having everything it needed to survive in the environment in which it 
> suddenly found itself. Do you have that much blind faith?
>
> So what do you believe about the origin of life?
>
> Please feel free to join the debate by posting a comment below…
>
> <http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/endoftheamericandream/OFri?a=KAHgKyt8GQw:0q_qsVBlReA:yIl2AUoC8zA>
>  
> <http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/endoftheamericandream/OFri?a=KAHgKyt8GQw:0q_qsVBlReA:gIN9vFwOqvQ>
>  
> <http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/endoftheamericandream/OFri?a=KAHgKyt8GQw:0q_qsVBlReA:qj6IDK7rITs>
>  
> <http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/endoftheamericandream/OFri?a=KAHgKyt8GQw:0q_qsVBlReA:V_sGLiPBpWU>
>  
> <http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/endoftheamericandream/OFri?a=KAHgKyt8GQw:0q_qsVBlReA:l6gmwiTKsz0>
>  
>
> Earth Changes Accelerate As 12 Major Earthquakes Hit Chile Within The Last 
> 24 Hours 
> <http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/earth-changes-accelerate-as-12-major-earthquakes-hit-chile-within-the-last-24-hours>
>  
>
> Posted: 11 Nov 2015 05:33 PM PST
>
> [image: Earth Globe Water Fire - Public Domain] 
> <http://amzn.to/1WNxsJW>Something 
> strange is happening to our planet.  Over the past 30 days, there seems to 
> have been much more “shaking” than normal, and this is particularly true 
> along 
> the Ring of Fire 
> <http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/violent-shaking-along-the-ring-of-fire-continues-a-progression-of-disasters-that-began-in-september>.
>   
> This afternoon I visited the official website of the U.S. Geological 
> Survey <http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/index.php>, and I 
> discovered that Chile had been hit with 12 major earthquakes within the 
> last 24 hours alone.  The smallest was of magnitude 4.4, and the two 
> largest both measured magnitude 6.9.  We have also seen dozens of 
> volcanoes <http://www.volcanodiscovery.com/erupting_volcanoes.html> erupt 
> recently, including the incredibly dangerous Mt. Popocatepetl 
> <http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/one-of-the-most-dangerous-volcanoes-in-north-america-is-roaring-to-life>
>  
> in Mexico.  Fortunately we have not seen a major disaster that kills 
> thousands of people yet, but many believe that all of this shaking is 
> leading up to one.  In addition, the weather all over the world continues 
> to get freakier and freakier.  Just today, Yemen was hit by a second major 
> tropical cyclone in less than a week 
> <https://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/2015/11/11/unprecedented-second-freak-tropical-cyclone-to-strike-yemen-in-the-same-week-cyclone-megh-kills-13-on-socotra-island/>.
>   
> Any one of these strange disasters in isolation may not seem like that big 
> of a deal, but when you start putting all of the pieces together it starts 
> to become clear that something really significant is taking place.
>
> So why are all of these things happening?  Well, some experts point to the 
> sun.  In recent years there has been a tremendous amount of hype about 
> “global warming”, but the truth is that evidence is starting to emerge that 
> indicates that our sun might be heading into a period of “hibernation” 
> <http://www.nationmultimedia.com/opinion/Cold-sun-rising-30272650.html>…
>
> *The sun will go into “hibernation” mode around 2030, and it has already 
> started to get sleepy*. At the Royal Astronomical Society’s annual 
> meeting in July, Professor Valentina Zharkova of Northumbria University in 
> the UK confirmed it – the sun will begin its Maunder Minimum (Grand Solar 
> Minimum) in 15 years. Other scientists had suggested years ago that this 
> change was imminent, but Zharkova’s model *is said to have near-perfect 
> accuracy*.
>
> And what did we see last winter?  It was a very cold, bitter winter that 
> set new all-time records all over the planet.  Here is more from that 
> same article 
> <http://www.nationmultimedia.com/opinion/Cold-sun-rising-30272650.html>…
>
> Solar cycle 24 – two cycles prior the cycle that’s expected to bottom out 
> into a Maunder Minimum – was weak. In 2013-14 it reached its maximum far 
> below average. Meanwhile extreme cold-weather anomalies have occurred 
> around the world. Last year “polar vortices” slammed into the central US 
> and Siberia as a third hovered over the Atlantic. *All 50 US states, 
> including Hawaii, had temperatures below freezing for the first time in 
> recorded history. Snowfall records were broken in cities in the US, Canada, 
> Italy, New Zealand, Australia, Japan and elsewhere. Southern American 
> states and central Mexico, where snow is rare, got heavy snow, as did the 
> Middle East*.
>
> This past summer the cold didn’t let up, with mor
>
> ...

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