Luke 1:26-27  :

Now in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee, named Nazareth, to a virgin pledged to be married to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. The virgin’s name was Mary.

In only 26 verses, Luke records two angelic visitations. Just a reminder, these are historical accounts of supernatural events that were witnessed by people that Luke researched. Many scientists today deny such accounts on based on their own predispositions against accounts of the supernatural. I would like to take a bit more time to discuss the problem with this way of thinking.

It is important to remember that it is only false testimony that can affect the character of the witness. Until the witnesses testimony is proven to be false, the witnesses character should be considered good enough to consider. Scientists today are attempting to discredit witnesses based only on their belief in the record supernatural events. They claim that these events go against science because science is confined to the natural world. A significant problem with this partitioning of science is that it goes against two obvious things.

First, science is based on observation. Most scientists would agree with that statement, but when it comes to evolution, they say the opposite by limiting observed evidence to their definition of science.  They are saying, in the case of evolution, that observation must first be based on science.  Rather than allowing science to learn from observation, they stop learning by disallowing evidence. It shouldn't take long reading this paragraph to understand the madness that takes place when you trying to justify these two opposite positions. When someone promotes circular logic, the are often attempting to deceive the listener into believing something untrue.

Second, disallowing the supernatural breaks natural law. Most people know without going to school that there is a natural law of "cause and effect." We know based on our own lives that in order for something to happen, something bigger has to cause it. The thing that causes the the thing to happen is more greater than the thing that get's effected. When we are talking about evolution, we are talking about all of nature. This law of cause and effect would lead us to believe that if all of nature is the "effect", then cause and effect would tell us that something greater than nature had to cause it. If something "super" to nature caused it according to natural law, then I would have to say that belief in the "super" natural would be clearly scientific. Purposely avoiding a natural law in order to believe something you want to believe is not science, it's stubbornness.

We can sum this up by saying that the reason people put themselves through such logical misery in order to believe something as crazy as evolution, is because that way they can believe what they want to believe without having to worry about the facts and they can teach others to do the same.

There is another angel that fell to evil that is also willful and deceitful and he is called the god of this world, but those who believe in evolution will continue to allow this angel to do whatever he wants because they don't believe in him... yet.

Luke 1:18-20  :

Zacharias said to the angel, “How can I be sure of this? For I am an old man, and my wife is well advanced in years.”

The angel answered him, “I am Gabriel, who stands in the presence of God. I was sent to speak to you, and to bring you this good news. Behold, you will be silent and not able to speak, until the day that these things will happen, because you didn’t believe my words, which will be fulfilled in their proper time.”

For the last few days we have been going over the wonderful things that Zacharias was being told by the angel. Zacharias' response here demonstrates the depravity of humanity. Think about this for a moment.

Zacharias was visited by an angel in the temple of God after praying for who knows how long. Even with all of these obvious "signs" Zacharias still asks: "How can I be sure of this?" That is an amazing demonstration of faithlessness, but isn't that the way we are sometimes? Perhaps this explains why God had taken so long to answer. Read what James says about this:

James 1:5-8  :

But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach; and it will be given to him. But let him ask in faith, without any doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed. For let that man not think that he will receive anything from the Lord. He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

Faith is extremely important to God. We tend to focus on good works and think that God responds when we do good things, but God is very clear that it is faith that He wants from us. This means that He wants us to believe what He says and that's exactly what Zacharias wasn't doing here.

I want to make it clear that there is kind of healthy doubt. After all, Satan is angelic too and is not to be believed. This, however, wasn't what was bothering Zacharias. He was concerned about God's ability to make him have children, which represents a lack of faith in the supernatural power of God. This is an important thing to understand today this very kind of faithlessness is being practiced in the church concerning Evolution.

The Bible clearly states that God created the world in six literal days. The Evolutionary Model requires billions of years to get from molecules to man. Christian leadership today is questioning God's ability to create in six days because of an assumption that "facts" must modify our understanding of the Bible. The problem with this is that "facts" originate from the word of God according to the Bible. It is inconsistent to think that a fact would ever go against the Bible, leaving the Bible unharmed. I believe that this is what is fueling the atheist movement today. We should not be fooled into attempting to assume that there is any Biblical consistency with Evolutionary Model when the Bible has to be modified in order to do so!

Back to the story, Zacharias ended up getting a sign from God as He would be unable to talk until it happened. Let's not be too quick to ask for more signs. Let's start by reading and believing the signs that we have already been given. If God's people don't show respect for the word of God in regard to Evolution, it would not be inconsistent if God decided to "shut up" scientific discovery until our faith problem is dealt with.

Galatians 6:8  :

For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

The environment you choose to do your farming in depends on what you plan to grow. The other way around it can be said that the land that you have been given to work with determines what kind of things you can plant. You can't grow bananas in Alaska for instance. Also, how you tend the plants will be different. Some things need water, some need pruning. Some need more or less light.

I find this principle is even easier to illustrate in terms of genetics and cloning. When you are cloning a sheep, for instance, you can't take the sheep DNA and put it into a cow. Only a female sheep can create a new sheep clone. The womb you put the DNA in must be the one that can interpret the kind of animal being made and then make it.

You are probably wondering why I'm talking about cloning on a Bible study blog about Galatians. Well, it so happens that since DNA is information about growing something it is like a seed and follows the same principle as this verse. If you plan on growing something in your flesh, you will go and get flesh DNA information or a fleshly worldview and plant it in your flesh so that it can grow the things that the information produces. If you plan on growing Spiritual things, you will go and get Spiritual information or Spiritual a worldview and open up to Him so that He can grow the things that the faith in that worldview produces. It is good to understand that seeds are information packets because it demonstrates the importance of God's word and reasoning. We are to understand the truth and believe it so that, by faith, the Holy Spirit can do His work in us.

When living by faith in this world's belief system, it eventually turns into corruption and death. When Spirit's worldview grows, it produces eternal life. Isn't that amazing? It may be easy to sow to the flesh because of how available the information is in this world, but it is not the way to go if you want to live forever. When a person really believes in Jesus, they will sow to the Spirit because they understand that the flesh can't make it to heaven and trying to sow to the flesh, no matter how "good" the works are, will lead only to corruption.  Isn't that what we see in other "gospels" that attempt to combine law with grace?

Science: Cloning is not as mysterious as it sounds. It's actually a natural occurrence in humans. That's what identical twins are. When you have an identical twin, you have a clone for a brother or sister! That's why it is very bad to use human cloning as a means of doing experiments. It's like experimenting on a twin. It's every bit as bad as abortion. Cloning animals is not a problem, but man is not that good at it and when we try to do it they often have problems that make them not last long. It's easy for us to get a bad copy (corrupted version) of the DNA program. When God's human program naturally does the human cloning, it works out quite nicely.

Creationism/Evoloutionism: When Creationists talk about God creating separate "kinds," it has a very practical application in cloning. Kinds grow their own kind and you can see this clearly in genetics. It is difficult to "evolve" to another kind using any time at all if it requires a male and a female of a specific kind in order to produce offspring. The Bible really is a book that fits our modern world and scientific discoveries.

Galatians 6:7  :

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

Here we have the seed principle. This is why the bizarre idea of biological evolution (goo-to-you-by-way-of-the-zoo) is so ridiculous. I have to admit that I almost thought that this verse was a bit simplistic, but after seeing how hard mankind strives against this principle, it is easy to see why God wanted to make it abundantly clear.

The chink in the armor of evolution is the problem of information. Information is corrupted by random change not produced by it. When we "scramble" a hard drive, we ruin the information there by mixing it up. Randomization is to information as water is to fire. Now, the reason I bring this up is that a seed is information. If you sow a specific kind of software program you will reap what that program produces when executed.

You see, a seed holds the DNA that makes the thing that you are trying to grow. The information you sow defines the product you will get. As much as we may wish to be able to sow bad information and get good product, life never works that way. This law of God stands against our laziness, ignorance, and pride.

Evolutionists would like to believe that if you sow a corn seed enough times you could make a apple tree or something, but that is never how it works in operational science. Psychologists tell us that one sign of insanity is when a person expects the same cause to produce different effects. Isn't that what evolution is suggesting only in a much more grand way? I think so. The concept is not a sane one even though it might be persuasive at when certain facts are omitted and evidence is hidden.

As a programmer, I understand this insanity well. I do it in moments of weakness. I see it when I am "debugging" a program. There is a mental block that can happen to a programmer when he is trying to find a problem in which he can run the same program over and over and say to himself "but it should work." Clearly the computer isn't working, but because of my pride in my own knowledge, I want to believe that I completely understand what I am doing. Obviously, I don't and that can be hard to deal with as a sinful human. When I finally come to grips with the fact that it isn't working at all, then I am able to seek the truth in order to learn what is really happening. Then I find out why I was wrong. It is never the seed's fault. It's the one sowing the seed. No missing link will ever prove that I was right. I must come to grips with the fact that I was wrong or else I will simply go insane because it is obvious to everyone that the computer isn't working.

The point here is that when you set a program into motion by your own hand, then, by your own hand, you will get what that program produces. It is our fault when we run our lives by the wrong program and we will get the results that the program produces. It goes two ways and that's why it is also a good thing. If you sow a good program in your life, you will get good results. This law of God is a blessing or a curse. You decide, but God won't be the one mocked.

Galatians 6:3-5  :

For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself. But let each man test his own work, and then he will take pride in himself and not in his neighbor. For each man will bear his own burden.

Here we have science in the Bible. God tells us by Paul's letter that we should test our work before we take pride in ourselves.

This is a very interesting passage in that God is not against taking pride in work well done. What God doesn't like is self deception. It isn't good when we think we are bad when we are actually good or think we are being good when we are actually bad. This is where science is very helpful.

Science sets up a test and measures the result. Then you can assess yourself based on an objective or outside measure rather than on a subjective or internal one. We should test ourselves to see if we are really helping others with their burdens as I mentioned yesterday. Set up a test for yourself and see if you do anything for anyone else. Then think of yourself based on your actual behavior not on how you feel.

Notice that Paul speaks of two burdens in two very near verses. One burden is the one that someone cannot carry without help from someone like you as indicated by the Law of Christ, and the other is the burden of helping others with their burdens. This is one that we all can carry if we trust in Jesus to give us the power.

Notice that God is not a big fan of competition. He is more interested in an accurate assessment from His perspective. God gives each of us ability as He sees fit and it isn't necessarily beneficial to compare yourself with another person who hasn't been given as much as you! If you compare yourself to your neighbor, and God has given you a different task, you are taking pride in your neighbor's inability! That's just puffed-up self-promotion at another's expense. If your neighbor bears your shame well, he will probably get a great reward in heaven at your expense!

Science: A good place to observe self deception is in some of what is called "science" today. God does believe in objective measure. He is not at all against science. In fact, the evidence of history indicates that Christianity helped science to become a benefit to mankind. What is passing as science in some areas today is not based on objective measure as you might assume. One such area is the biological evolution of life from non-living matter. This cannot be directly observed, is not a part operation science and must rely on interpretation of evidence. To make matters worse, many modern "scientists" reject some of the evidence based only on the fact that the supernatural was witnessed by an observer. Thus, their anti-supernatural bias is reported as if it were science by leaving out key evidence from their assessment. This parsing of evidence is not objective but subjective based on pre-determined requirement that the supernatural be excluded. Thus, conclusions based on this reasoning are unscientific at their base because one who takes this particular position is blindly upholding a faith anti-supernaturalism. Unfortunately, this passes as science in schools today at the expense of objective supernatural evidence.

I absolutely love this gem... O'Reilly says "I'm throwin' in with Jesus because He's the only one who has an explaination about how all of this got here."  And Dawkins ridiculous reply "We working on that."  Priceless... and note that one of the main problems with people like Dawkins who demonstrate no understanding of the information problems in biology, early on in this piece when he says how we clearly understand how the tides work.  Notice that understanding how something works and even what the component parts are made of, have nothing to say on WHO put them there, who or what organized them with know-how, properly tuned, to function day after day. 

Imagine we find a complicated engine somewhere in a desert, with gasoline and lubricants, working, etc., the whole nine yards... and say "well obviously, that gear there turns and rubs against that gear over there and these parts are made merely of metal which is found in the earth and these oils are known to be in the ground as well.  Clearly when this part goes up and down, this part over here reacts and the continual sparking of this keeps this machine going until it runs out of fuel."   Dawkins would have us believe that since we know how it's working and what it's made of, the case is solved and science has proven that this engine needed no creator and no one to make sure that the oil is topped up and the gasoline filled.  Anyone who suggests a "creator" of this device is simply an enemy of science, who's clearly trying to take the "easy way out" and suggest something besides natural forces are at work.    This is complete ignorance of the information problem.  Read my lips Mr. Dawkins:  All design has a designer.   And to believe otherwise is to be an enemy of truly observed science.   One last point.... I have always found this humorous and I can't recall where I heard it:  "Atheists don't believe in God, but some people are surprised to learn that God doesn't believe in atheists either."   In other words, God tells us that even the most ardent combat soldier against Christianity (we'll use Richard Dawkins as our example), deep down knows that there is a God.  All of observed nature makes this clear.  Since all things which exist had a causation, and a cause must be greater than it's effect, we look at this universe with it's untold billions and trillions of stars and spinning galaxies, quasars, nebulae, black holes, suns and planets, and the planet earth with its beautiful and exquisite life forms, it is readily accessible information that the cause behind it all, must truly be a GOD. 

Details bore some people.  But if Christians hope to give an answer for their reasonable faith in a creator God, they need to be armed with details.  Facts which are indisputable.  And the dirty little secret is, the details are on OUR side.  I am reminded of a favorite saying of a Jewish man I used to work with... "GOD is in the details".  Enjoy!

More from Dr. Berlinski the great... enjoy!

What a joy it is to hear a man show no fear in marching about in the public square shouting that the emperor hasn't any clothes.  Dr. Berlinski, we salute you.  Not because you're pushing Jesus in the schools.  Not because you're anti-science.  Not because you're a rebel.  Because you are unafraid to stand up against the pseudo-science of our times and the priesthood that will blacklist you for speaking out.   Dr. Berlinski is standing up FOR science.  He is a clear and level head in a time when it has become against the rules to question the authority of Darwinism.

Watch and enjoy!