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Welcome to our second February 2009 newsletter. Thank you for all that you do to pray for and support our ministry.
Please contact us for any further information you require, including requests for booking speakers at your church or organisation.
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Darwin Thought for the Day
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The BBC have asked a number of people, from different
religious backgrounds, to provide a Thought for the Day on their flagship Today
programme, in praise of Charles Darwin, because of 2009 being his bicentennial
year. No one sceptical of Darwinism has been invited to contribute. If they had
asked me, this is what I would have said.
Even his supporters agree that Charles Darwin was a
prevaricator. He very nearly lost out in the race to publish a theory of
evolution by natural selection to a little known collector from Wales.
He had been spending years writing letters, testing opinions
and compiling his ideas. His ideas were
largely influenced by other people. He grew up under the influence of an
atheist father and a mother who belonged to a church which denied most of the
accepted beliefs of normal Christianity. His grandfather had already published
his own evolutionary views. And, before he even began his famous voyage on the
Beagle, he had accepted the long age views of his hero - and later his mentor
and friend - Charles Lyell - a man whose views were motivated, not by
scientific evidence, but by a desire to undermine belief in the chronology of
the Bible.
During my years as a science teacher, pupils would often ask
- with no prompting on my part - why there seemed to be so little evidence for
evolution. Children are natural creationists. The most obvious conclusion to
the observation of the beauty and complexity of the biological world is that if
it looks as if it has been designed, it is probably because it has been
designed.
Evolutionary biologists can be clever at waving their
'just-so' stories, in a vain attempt to explain how organic mechanisms have appeared.
Some Christians have allowed themselves to be persuaded that the 'just-so'
stories constitute evidence. They do not. The first chapter of Colossians
maintains that everything was created by Jesus, for Jesus and through Jesus.
Jesus, Himself, reminded us that not even the smallest part of the Law - by
which he meant the books of Moses, including Genesis - would be superseded
until He comes again.
It is time for Christians to recognise the failure of
Darwinism as a pseudo-science, and, with humility, to acknowledge that what God
said He did is what He actually did.
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New Podcast Episodes
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 Don't forget that there are new podcast episodes available on the Internet. Use the addresses below to download the latest editions. The get in touch with us to let us have new ideas for the programmes and any constructive feedback. Answers UK Radio is a 30-minute talk show, featuring discussion on issues relating to Genesis, creation and evolution. The programme is presented by Paul Taylor and Simon Terry and features talk, reviews and product details. Raw feed: http://answersuk.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/2iTunes link: itpc://answersuk.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/2 Answers UK Ministry is a 30-minute programme taken from the ministry of speakers associated with AiG-UK. The talks are broken up into convenient chunks and introduced by Paul Taylor. Raw feed: http://answersuk.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/4iTunes link: itpc://answersuk.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/4 Please try these podcasts out and get involved in this exciting new media development.
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Sincerely,
