18.03.13

Dear Christian Friend around the World,

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? In Australia where I come from, David Attenborough has been greatly featured on national TV. His program was: Galapagos Episode 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.

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 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.

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.

This viewpoint in 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.

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.

In contrast to this viewpoint, is an understanding that you and all things around you are here by a Special Creator who is the Infinite Personal God. 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)  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.

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.

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  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.

In May last year, I heard at a Brisbane Church Dr. Johnathan Sarfati from Creation Ministries International in America. He spoke at length on the topic: ‘The Greatest Hoax on Earth?’  refuting Dawkins on Evolution. 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: ‘The Greatest Show on Earth‘. Has Dawkins overreached himself? Could his challenge be a huge opportunity for Christians?The Greatest Hoax on Earth? meets Dawkins The Greatest Show on Earth 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.

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.)

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  February 2016  … there is so much to it). It can be seen on the website:

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

See a sample video of Dr. Jonathan Sarfati giving a lecture : https://creation.com/dr-jonathan-sarfati

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OUR HOUSE: Ken & Harriet’s House is a  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  in 1981 (32 years ago from 2013). See the website post:  a house we built from recycled materials in 1981 on our personal experiences website.