{"id":1868,"date":"2013-03-21T14:45:47","date_gmt":"2013-03-21T21:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newearthcommunity.org\/?page_id=1868"},"modified":"2023-07-19T23:03:27","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T06:03:27","slug":"biblical-creationism-vs-secular-creationism-by-evolution-and-chance","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.newearthcommunity.org\/?page_id=1868","title":{"rendered":"V: 1c. Biblical Creationism vs. Secular Creationism by Evolution and Chance"},"content":{"rendered":"
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From the email broadcast I sent to hundreds of Christians around the World:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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18<\/span>.03.13<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Dear Christian Friend around the World,<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

In this email broadcast to many people around the world, I would like you to reexamine your viewpoint of origins. Where did we come from? <\/span>In Australia where I come from, David Attenborough has been greatly featured on national TV. His program was: Galapagos Episode<\/b> 2 7.30 pm Sun 17 Mar ABC. The outline said: When this breathtaking new series continues, Sir David Attenborough explores the evolutionary history of the Galapagos and its life forms.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

You look through many popular magazines, see other TV programs or go to a museum, you frequently come across many articles or viewpoints with an evolutionary basis. This viewpoint is often <\/span><\/span><\/span>very well articulated into very rational reasons and evidence that we are here having originated through evolutionary origins of blind chances over vast periods of time. We are here by an original coming together of the right chemicals to make amino acids ….. the basic building blocks of protein which are the foundations of all livings things.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Then natural selection went further and selected out the best combinations of those proteins to make the first living organisms. Then natural selection went even further and began to select out new combinations (mutations) of all living organisms including us as people.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

This viewpoint i<\/span>n a general way is responsible for the Materialistic Outlook in our Western World. This Worldview assumes that this material world is all we have and is one of the most powerful conditioning forces. This viewpoint is foundational in most of the University educational systems of the world, in much of what we read in magazines, books, and what we see on TV. All spirituality is seen as a product of the human psyche. The world and universe is a material entity. It can therefore be explored by the mind in a purely rational scientific manner. All living things are simply complexes of material organic molecules arranged through purely material means ie. materialistic evolution. All consciousness and mind are the same as the material world ie. there is nothing outside a materialistic worldview.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The one basic flaw in this foundational viewpoint is that there is no evidence for it actually working in the actual world. The driving force of natural selection on mutations for the very best doesn’t actually work. Mutations do not give better combinations but always result in the opposite effect of the lessening of life possibilities.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

In contrast to this viewpoint, <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong>is <\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span>an understanding that you and all things around you are here by a Special Creator who is the Infinite Personal God<\/span><\/span><\/span>. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong>A Christian Spirituality is based on what God has revealed initially through His transcendent Word …. the Bible. This tells of how Man (This is a nongender description and includes male and female person-hood)\u00a0 was created from the earth ….. of the ground. This first earth man was breathed on by the breath (Spirit) of God and was formed in God’s image or likeness. This combination of Earth Man and Spirit Man made this Man into a living being or living soul of mind, will, and emotions. He didn’t have an Eternal Soul that went endlessly through reincarnations into one material form after another. He became a Living Soul through a combination of Earth and Spirit coming together.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The whole of this creation and the creation of the first man was seen as absolutely having great value. It was VERY GOOD. This great sense of value underlies the transcendent Word from beginning to the end from the Special Creator. The first man and woman were placed in a special Garden to be stewards of all the Creator had created. They had a very special identity as they represented the Creator to all of His creation. This first Man and Woman were instructed to multiply and fill the earth as with the rest of the Creation. They had continual special contact with their Creator. There was a real sense of community with their Creator with the rest of the Creation. It was all for the common good.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The Biblical record tells of how a disruption came between the first people in the Garden and their Creator. They disobeyed what their Creator had said to them through what is called sin in the Biblical record. The consequence of their disobedience is in that they had to leave their special home in the Garden. Their future progeny began to see themselves as either of the earth only like the rest of the creation or they saw themselves as God as Eternal Souls that went endlessly through reincarnations into one material form after another. The Infinite Personal God came to be seen as the Infinite\u00a0 Impersonal God tying all the physical universe together ie. Pantheism. The promise of the Infinite Personal God to the first people was that He would bring about the special restoration of His Creation in a new future Restoration.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

In May last year, I heard at a Brisbane Church<\/span><\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>Dr. Johnathan Sarfati <\/span><\/span>from Creation Ministries International in America. He spoke at length on the topic: ‘<\/span><\/span><\/span>The Greatest Hoax on Earth?’\u00a0 refuting <\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em>Dawkins on Evolution.<\/b><\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span> Richard Dawkins is probably the most famous evolutionist, anti-creationist and atheist today, and a staunch admirer of Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1882). He wrote the book: <\/span><\/span><\/span>‘<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span>The Greatest Show on Earth<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em>‘. <\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span>Has Dawkins overreached himself? Could his challenge be a huge opportunity for Christians?<\/span><\/span>The Greatest Hoax on Earth?<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0meets Dawkins\u00a0<\/span><\/span>The Greatest Show on Earth<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/strong> head-on. Dr. Sarfati firmly and comprehensively answers Dawkins challenge, chapter after chapter, covering a vast range of disciplines in his trademark crisp, clear style. He convincingly shows, for those with ears to hear, that to believe the Bible’s account of the Creation\/Fall\/Redemption straightforwardly not only does not commit intellectual suicide, but it is also if anything the intellectually superior position.<\/span>
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In the process, he also ably exposes the types of deceitful tactics utilized in many anti-creation arguments. (Hence the hoax in the Sarfati books title; CMI of course does not claim that people teach and promote evolution while disbelieving it.)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Harriet, my wife, brought Dr. Johnathan’s book for me as a birthday present. I read it avidly, it is so well written. (I have read it three times till\u00a0 February 2016\u00a0 … there is so much to it). It can be seen on the website:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/austore.creation.com\/product\/274-the-greatest-hoax-on-earth<\/strong><\/a> \u00a0<\/strong><\/b>I also strongly suggest you buy the book and read it from the\u00a0 Book Depository<\/strong><\/a> in the United Kingdom .. millions of books available. Delivery around the world is free.<\/p>\n

See a sample video of Dr. Jonathan Sarfati giving a lecture : https:\/\/creation.com\/dr-jonathan-sarfati<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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New Earth Community is a<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>global Cyberspace Christian Community networked by the love of Jesus. <\/span><\/span><\/span>This Community is facilitated by <\/span><\/span><\/span>Ken Aitken in Australia<\/span><\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>and is a community of people who have chosen to follow Jesus Christ. Jesus’s focus is on an internal, invisible change of heart. It was not on an external, visible keeping of certain standards and religious laws.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The purpose of this community is to reflect on what it means to follow Jesus Christ in a modern context. This community aims to develop and maintain <\/span>in you and many others an awesome relationship with the infinite – personal God through Jesus Christ.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

My wife Harriet and I in this email broadcast would like to really personalise this community. We wish to do this with photos of ourselves, some words, and other websites to this one. As the internet and email is quite impersonal (unless you know the people directly), we invite you to share some photos of yourself, some words of what you are focused on in your life. We would love to share with others it means for you to follow Jesus Christ in your context.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Ken and Harriet on their May 2010 holiday trip to the South Island of New Zealand.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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OUR HOUSE: <\/b><\/span>Ken & Harriet’s House<\/b><\/span> is a\u00a0 hand-built house built using human creativity a house with a lot of history. It isn’t a historical house but it is a house built out of recycled pieces which have a lot of history. We live in this amazing house built out of rejects for A$32,000.00\u00a0 in 1981 (32 years ago from 2013).<\/span>\u00a0See the website post:\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>a house we built from recycled materials in 1981<\/a> <\/b><\/span><\/span>o<\/span><\/span>n our <\/span><\/span>personal experiences<\/span><\/span>\u00a0website<\/span><\/span>.
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HAND-BUILT STAIRCASE:\u00a0 <\/strong><\/strong>I hand-built this staircase myself from timber slabs from a slab\u00a0 hut at Boonah\u00a0 from the 1800’s …..\u00a0 how I built\u00a0 it, see the note below:<\/p>\n

I had a little landscape design office upstairs from 1981 -1984. I would climb up an aluminum ladder to get to the office.\u00a0 I certainly needed better access to get to the office.\u00a0 In 1984 I saw an advertisement in a local paper that a farmer down at Boonah near us was selling big split timber slabs from an old hut on his land.<\/p>\n

To obtain these slabs is a very rare thing. When settlers came out in the late 1880’s into the dry Australian bush, they wanted to clear the land of trees and create open space for their cattle. They split the trees with wedges to form timber slabs for a hut on their land. They also made post and rail fences: horizontal rails and bigger posts to go in the ground.<\/p>\n

When the farmer had bought his land many years ago, it had one of the split timber huts on his land. After many years, termites ate out the round log rafters and the whole hut fell in. The farmer was selling the slabs at A$4.00 each so\u00a0 I bought a whole truckload of them. I used some of them to build this staircase.<\/p>\n

For the vertical banister posts, I went over the road with one of my landscape labourers where there about 100 acres of dry bush. We found a small round log where weathering had taken all the sapwood off and left the hard deeply creviced heartwood. See the photograph above. People often comment on my use of big timber pegs but have also used big hidden nails to secure the steps. I then used one of the slabs as the banister rail, cut down with an electric saw and electric plane.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Ken Aitken<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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