Vol. 30 No. 4 April 2001 GOD’S TWO GREAT WITNESSES by John D. Morris, Ph.D. There are two great witnesses to God’s fallible proofs” (Acts 1:3), which the almighty power, and two great testimo- skeptic must explain away. nies He has provided for us to employ in As you have noticed, the Institute for pointing people to Him, to the Scriptures, Creation Research does not shirk from and to the rightness of the Christian faith. proclaiming both testimonies. This in- Without a doubt these are the two great- volves extolling the truth of Scripture and est acts of God. His creation of all things never hesitating to tell forth the author- and His bodily resurrection from the ity over our lives of the One who cre- grave demand our eternal awe and ated and bought us. proclamation to all. Consider the Thus, the ICR mandate and following two examples of their mission leads us into a wide use. variety of encounters. Obvi- In Acts 17:16–34, as Paul ously we speak to unbeliev- was declaring “the Unknown ers, both skeptic and seeker, God” to the pagans of Athens, demonstrating that the Chris- he began by establishing tian faith is a reasonable God’s credentials as Creator faith. We also speak to and authority over creation churches and Christian orga- (vv. 24–29). But He is not just nizations, insisting that the the Creator of life, He reigns foundational doctrine of cre- sovereignly even over death, of- ation no longer be minimized. fering eternal life to those who re- And we talk to Christians with a pent (vv. 30–32). Some mocked, heart for God, explaining how cre- some delayed, but some believed. ation thinking is relevant to every de- Similarly, the Apostle John witnessed cision in their lives. a future time of unbridled praise in May I request that you pray for us, that heaven (Revelation 4:8–5:11) when the God would grant consistency in our own four beasts and the four and twenty el- lives, power in our speech, and fruit from ders fell at the feet of the risen “Lamb as our labors? Pray for God’s continued it had been slain” (5:6), they worshiped financial provision for this now very large Him who “created all things” (4:11) and ministry. Pray for me and the other lead- “redeemed us to God by thy blood” (5:9). ers as we consider major decisions re- If the evidence for creation fails to garding ministry, research, and priorities impress the skeptic, he is “without ex- in the days ahead. And pray for open cuse” (Romans 1:20) and the evidence hearts and minds in those to whom we for the resurrection consists of “many in- minister. stated that no of either living apes 1,500 or of proto-apes have been found, but that ATTEND similarities between and chim- CREATION/ panzees and humans indicated that they had evolved from a common ancestor. He EVOLUTION illustrated certain motions of the arm of DEBATE AT the human, which he claimed are similar JAMES to those of apes. He then assumed the MADISON kneeling position with his upper body UNIVERSITY resting on his knuckles. He pointed out that gorillas and are knuckle Photos by: The Breeze, walkers and that is why a similar posi- James Madison University tion is assumed by humans. Sarich then Dr. Vincent Sarich, Professor Emeritus of stated that evolution of the body, the fos- of the University of Cali- sil record, and his evidence based on fornia, Berkeley, was Dr. Duane Gish’s function, do not constitute the real issue. opponent in the debate held in Wilson The real question is about our souls—did Hall of James Madison University, souls evolve? He stated that when the Harrisonburg, Virginia, on January 22. soul is brought in, most people are cre- The overflow-crowd (numbering around ationists. He claimed that neither God nor 1,500!) consisted largely of students, with evolution created the soul—we created faculty from JMU and other colleges. Dr. the soul. Sarich is widely known in evolutionary Gish emphasized the purpose of true circles as the co-inventor of the so-called science education—to instruct students “” used in attempts to to identify assumptions, use critical think- date alleged evolutionary events. Gish ing, make logical deductions, and con- and Sarich had previously debated each sider alternative explanations. He then other more than a dozen times. Their last described the fact that this is precisely debate was more than six years ago. The the opposite of what is being done in al- debate was arranged by David Sessa. most all public universities and colleges Dr. Sarich described the scientific ap- and in most public schools in the U.S. proach to problems. He stated that previ- when the subject of origins is taught. The ously he saw his role as defending evo- evolutionary establishment has a tight lution, but now he intended to challenge control of the educational system, and Gish’s ideas of creation. He said there was to be no argument whether God does or does not exist, but personally he is an atheist. He quoted from Gish’s books, PUBLISHED BY Dinosaurs by Design, The Amazing Story INSTITUTE FOR CREATION RESEARCH of Creation, and from Science and the P.O . B OX 2667, EL CAJON, CA 92021 Bible, where a literal creation in six days To disseminate articles and information of is described. He pointed out that the fos- current interest dealing with creation, evolution, and related topics. Sent free upon sils of humans and such mammals as request. bears, camels, etc., have never been found Editor: John D. Morris with dinosaurs, thus falsifying the claim Co-Editor: Henry M. Morris that they coexisted. He claimed that most Managing Editor: Donald H. Rohrer of the evidence for evolution does not Assistant Editor: Kelly Griffin come from fossils but is based on com- No articles may be reprinted in whole or in parative anatomy of living creatures. He part without obtaining permission from ICR. 2 students are subjected to indoctrination he asserted rendered a naturalistic, evo- in evolutionary theory. (Sarich, however, lutionary origin of the universe impos- somewhat of an independent thinker sible, thus requiring a supernatural ori- within humanist circles, expressed sup- gin. He closed with a description of the port for teaching both creation and evo- impossible odds of even a single mol- lution in public schools.) He quoted from ecule of a biologically active protein aris- a recent article by Dr. Michael Ruse, well ing by chance, let alone an incredibly known throughout evolutionary circles complex living cell. worldwide, the philosopher of science who was the chief witness for the evolu- tionist side in the Arkansas equal time trial in 1981. At that time Ruse insisted that creation was pure religion and evo- lutionary biology was pure science. In an article published last year, Ruse revealed the fact that he had changed his mind completely on that point. Still an evolu- tionist, he stated that now he realizes that evolution is being taught “as a secular re- ligion, a full-fledged alternative to Chris- tianity.” Gish quoted other evolutionary sources to support this fact. He then presented the scientific evi- dence for creation, placing heavy empha- sis on the record. This was followed During rebuttals, Sarich maintained by a description of the incredibly com- that the scarcity of evidence for evolu- plex motor system and control mecha- tion based on the fossil record is mainly nism that propels the bacterium, Escheri- due to the general difficulty in finding fos- chia coli, via its flagella. Gish stated that sils. Gish countered by pointing out that those who deny that this marvelous sys- not only are there billions times billions tem required an origin by an intelligent of fossils of complex invertebrates and agent but had merely evolved through a billions of fossil fish, but our museums series of genetic errors or mutations have fossils of more than 250,000 differ- would be incapable of accepting proof, ent species. Sarich showed a slide alleg- no matter how irrefutable and over- edly illustrating the similarity of the hu- whelming. He described the evidence man pelvis to that of supposed ape-like from the science of thermodynamics that ancestors (the australopithecines). Gish countered with the results of years of re- search by a team of anatomists led by Lord Zuckerman and the work of Charles Oxnard that they claimed showed that differences are very significant, proving that the australopithecines (including “”) did not walk upright and were not human ancestors. Much credit for publicizing the debate must be given to the continued efforts of John Doughty, an ardent creationist and student of creation science. 3 and patterns. Everything from the spiral inside a seashell to the intricate pattern of a sunflower follows certain mathematics. Is this the result of random chance? The two newest adventures of Jonathan Tune in to find out! Park—“The Disaster at Brenan Bluff” Apr. 28 “The Absolute Truth” and “The African Safari” are set to air How many times have you heard Memorial Day weekend. Please contact these comments? “Well, that’s your local station managers to encourage fine for you to believe, but it’s not them to air the broadcasts. If you would my truth.” Or how about this one? like to hand carry or mail a demo CD to “There are no absolutes!” But your station’s manager, please contact us isn’t truth an absolute? at 619/ 596-6059. Remember, a demo CD Don’t touch that dial! only contains portions of the broadcast. Our special preview line at 619/ 448-8198 also gives audio bites of each program. For those who missed the broadcast of “Jonathan Park and the Adventure on the Aucilla River,” you can request the free NEW study notes by calling 800/7 GENESIS. CD’s and cassettes of this broadcast are EASTER now available through ICR’s Customer BOOKLET Service Department at 800/628-7640. E- mail your comments to www.icr.radio.org PUBLISHED and don’t forget to visit our website at: (www.icradventures.org). This month on “Science, Scripture, & Salvation”: Impact of the Empty Tomb is the title of a Weekend of: Title/Topic: new 32-page booklet by Dr. Henry Morris, ICR’s President Emeritus. It is Apr. 7 “God the Artist” written as a gospel booklet to share with All of us would agree that we live people who have doubts or questions on an amazing planet. Most of us have experienced a beautiful about the historicity of Christ’s bodily sunset over the ocean, or stood resurrection and its significance for their looking up at a blue sky through lives. the branches of gigantic pine Taking a somewhat unusual approach trees. God has truly created a to this great truth, Dr. Morris examines wonderful world. Tune in. in order the significance of the empty Apr. 14 “Feasibility of Noah’s Ark” tomb to the soldiers, the priests, Pilate, Many Christians today question the women, the disciples, and us today, whether Noah’s Ark really leaving no doubt as to the reality of existed. Is it possible that Noah Christ’s resurrection and its unique im- and his family built this huge portance for our eternal destiny. structure? Could thousands of The booklet costs $0.50, but in lots of animals—including dinosaurs— 100 or more they are available for $0.30 actually fit? Listen and learn! each (plus sales tax, shipping and han- Apr. 21 “Fibonacci Numbers” dling if applicable). It can be ordered God’s creation reveals a directly from the ICR Customer Service combination of shapes, numbers Department at 800/628-7640. 4 workers. On Sunday, February 4, lectures were held at Pond Bank Independent Church and Locust Valley Bible Church. The busy speaking schedule was capped by a visit to the Gettysburg Civil VISTA, CALIFORNIA War battleground with Pastor Dr. Melvin On Sunday, February 11, ICR President Stambaugh and a civil war expert from Dr. John Morris, presented the “Case for the college. The “inside scoop” was Creation” to an audience of 250 in the amazing. Community Church of Vista, a suburb of San Diego. It was in Vista that the evolu- ICR FOSSIL BOOK tionists mounted a successful and devas- TRANSLATED tating attack against an elected school INTO SERBO-CROATIAN board favorable to creation. The evolu- tionary educational elite had selected Word has been received from Miroljub Vista for an aggressively evolutionary Petrovic, President of the Center for Natu- curriculum, and their flexing of power ral Studies of Belgrade, Yugoslavia, that was successful. As expected, the media Dr. Duane Gish’s book, Evolution: The predictably skewed the full story, and Fossils Still Say No! has been translated much was learned for the next time. into the Serbo-Croatian language and is One gentleman in his 70’s expressed now available in bookstores in Yugosla- deep gratitude after the meeting. “Ever via (Serbia and Montenegro), Croatia, since the third grade I have known in my Bosnia, and Herzegovina, and probably heart that evolution was wrong. I’ve Macedonia and Slovenia. The publisher merely had to cling to the Bible without gave the book the title, Krah Evolucije, factual support. And now, in just 45 min- which translates, “Collapse of Evolu- utes, Dr. Morris has given me that sup- tion.” Mr. Petrovic, a geologist, reported port. The Bible is absolutely trustworthy. that he is also using some of Dr. Gish’s Thank you for coming to my church.” videotapes (translated) in Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. He has asked for permission to translate and publish books by Dr. John Morris and by Dr. Steven Austin. Mr. Petrovic may be contacted at II Krajiske divizije 45/7, 11090 Belgrade, Yugoslavia / e-mail: [email protected]

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FROM CENTRAL CALIFORNIA I saw the Mike Riddle presentation and was totally jazzed by it. That was the most dynamic and concise presentation of facts I have ever heard in such a small space of time! It’s amazing that many Christians have much of the Biblical in- formation already, but it’s scattered into ICR congratulates Bill Hoesch and his other folders of the mind. You took all bride, Alicia, on their recent marriage. the information and put it into one neat Bill and Alicia met last year when Alicia little folder for us to peruse. I knew all was in ICR’s Graduate School program. those Biblical facts, but never put them They married in upstate New York on De- together in the concise order that you did. cember 16, 2000. Bill has been with ICR Thank God for His diligent workers. The in a variety of capacities including Grand facts about the Mt. St. Helen’s eruption Canyon tours, technical inquiries, and was excitement enough, but the entire museum tours, and graduated from the presentation has sparked a flame that is ICR Graduate School with an MS in Ge- growing inside me. Science looks more ology in 1991. Bill is currently an inte- interesting and the desire to learn these gral Research Associate within ICR’s scientific evidences has been born. Geology Department, participating in ongoing field investigation of nautiloids SPECIAL EVENT IN MAY within the Grand Canyon and Colorado The Creation Research Society is offer- Plateau. We wish them the best in their ing a special “workshop” on Debating new life together. Creation/Evolution featuring Dr. Duane T. Gish (with 300 creation/evolution debates to his credit). Eligible attendees must be voting/sustaining members of the Cre- ation Research Society or members of a creationist organization. “Workshop A” will be in Livingston, NJ, Friday, May 18, 9:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m. “Workshop B” will be in Phoenix, AZ, Friday, June 1, 9:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m. Congratulations are also in order for Ja- To register, mail registration check to son Henderson, the ICR Web Developer Dr. David Kaufmann, 3745 NW 7th Av- who does the behind-the-scenes work on enue, Gainesville, FL 32607–2421. The the ICR web page. Jason and Miriam met early registration cost is $30 if paid by at a church singles activity in Arkansas and May 1 for NJ, and by May 15 for AZ. will be married on Friday, May 4, 2001. The late registration fee is $40, and you Jason has been a professional web de- must indicate which workshop you plan signer since 1995 and joined the ICR staff to attend. Please contact Dr. David in July of 2000. We pray for God’s bless- Kaufmann at 352/378-9112 or e-mail: ing upon their upcoming marriage. ([email protected]). 11 STEWARDSHIP & TRUST SERVICES These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world. These words spake Jesus, and lifted up His I have given them thy word; and the world eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is hath hated them, because they are not of the come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may world, even as I am not of the world. glorify thee: I pray not that thou shouldest take them out As thou hast given Him power over all of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them flesh, that He should give eternal life to as many from the evil. as thou hast given Him. They are not of the world, even as I am not And this is life eternal, that they might know of the world. thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word thou hast sent. is truth. I have glorified thee on the earth: I have As thou hast sent me into the world, even finished the work which thou gavest me to do. so have I also sent them into the world. And now, O Father, glorify thou me with And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that thine own self with the glory which I had with they also might be sanctified through the truth. thee before the world was. Neither pray I for these alone, but for them I have manifested thy name unto the men also which shall believe on me through their which thou gavest me out of the world: thine word; they were, and thou gavest them me; and they That they all may be one; as thou, Father, have kept thy word. art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be Now they have known that all things what- one in us: that the world may believe that thou soever thou hast given me are of thee. hast sent me. For I have given unto them the words which And the glory which thou gavest me I have thou gavest me; and they have received them, given them; that they may be one, even as we and have known surely that I came out from are one: thee, and they have believed that thou didst I in them, and thou in me, that they may be send me. made perfect in one; and that the world may I pray for them: I pray not for the world, know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved but for them which thou hast given me; for they them, as thou hast loved me. are thine. Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; given me, be with me where I am; that they and I am glorified in them. may behold my glory, which thou hast given And now I am no more in the world, but me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy of the world. 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