When the Truth is Forbidden

When the Truth is Forbidden

June 7, 2009

Recent months have seen two momentous developments in American public education.

Firstly, as reported by Christian NewsWire(1), the Southern Baptist Convention is finally throwing in the towel on government education, and is considering a resolution "urging Baptists to remove their children from government schools and, instead, give them a Christian education."

Secondly, in May of this year, a team of paleontologists led by Dr. Mary Schweitzer of North Carolina State University completed their laboratory testing and DNA sequencing of intact, unfossilized soft tissue recovered from various dinosaur bone marrow samples. Dr. Schweitzer caused quite a stir in 2005 when she reported the discovery of the first of these soft tissues inside an allegedly 68-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus Rex femur, as it is universally acknowledged that unfossilized soft tissue cannot survive for more than a maximum of 100,000 years.(2)

Obviously, you don't have to have an advanced degree in biology to understand the problem this creates for evolutionists -- put simply, dead meat rots away, in a lot less time than tens of millions of years. Intent upon explaining away these inconvenient facts, many evolutionists resorted to the claim that these tissues were nothing more than "biofilms": biological muck which had seeped into the dinosaur bones since their time of deposition. However, the recent completion of multiple, independent laboratory tests upon the Tyrannosaur and Hadrosaur tissues in question has blown away this flimsy objection -- confirming not only that the soft tissue in question is original saurian bone marrow, but also confirming the presence of collagen protein within some of the tissues. Now, collagen protein begins to break down within weeks of the death of an organism, and even if hermetically sealed will completely break down due to simple thermodynamic effects within a maximum of 30,000 years.(3) Yet not only has intact, undecayed collagen protein been discovered within the soft tissues under study, but some of the cell samples recently recovered from allegedly 120-million-year-old Iguanodon bone marrow were still chemically "live" enough to produce an immune reaction!(4)

Unlike the Theory of Evolution (which has never been provably observed, tested, or reproduced in a laboratory), the breakdown of proteins in a dead organism is a known, measurable fact. So given that we now know, as a proven fact, that it is chemically impossible for these dinosaur bones to be more than 30,000 years old -- well, the only logical conclusion is that they aren't more than 30,000 years old! Furthermore, if the iron laws of chemistry tell us that these dinosaurs must have existed upon the earth within the last 30,000 years (rather than tens of millions of years ago, as claimed by evolutionists), then that leaves only one rational explanation for their presence: Recent Creation by an Intelligent Designer.

And, unlike the evolutionists -- the creationists have the cold, hard facts to prove it.

Louis Pasteur's Law of Biogenesis -- one of the oldest and best-established Laws of Science known to man -- teaches us that "Life does not arise from Non-Life". Clearly, the ultimate implication of this scientific axiom is that the existence of Life on Earth owes its origin to the work of a Creator. By contrast, the evolutionist claim that Life on Earth arose by spontaneous generation from the random mixing of non-living chemicals stands in direct opposition to this Scientific Law -- and so evolutionists must continue to place blind faith in their unscientific belief in the random, spontaneous generation of Life, despite the fact that there has never been even one laboratory example of a single living cell produced by the random mixing of non-living chemicals which would provide them with any evidence to contravene the creationist implications of the Law of Biogenesis.

However, there's one place in which you certainly won't hear these facts presented for discussion -- and that's your children's public school science classes. Unfortunately, due to wrong-headed decisions like Edwards v. Aguillard, government-sponsored science education in this country is crippled by a legal prohibition which prevents science educators from even mentioning the possibility of Recent Creation by an Intelligent Designer -- even when it's the only logical explanation that fits the evidence.

Thomas Jefferson once wrote, "To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical." When science educators in this country are legally prohibited from telling our kids the truth, it's no wonder that Baptist parents are questioning why they should still support the Public Schools.

Indeed, the larger question is -- why should any of us?

References:

(1) -- "The Southern Baptist Convention is Finally 'Throwing in the Towel' on Government Schools", Christian NewsWire, June 2, 2009

(2) -- "Soft Tissue Discovered in Bone of a Dinosaur", Robert Lee Hotz, Los Angeles Times, March 25, 2005; see also "Dinosaur soft tissue: Biofilm or Blood Vessels?", Brian Thomas, Institute for Creation Research

(3) -- "Hadrosaur Soft Tissues Another Blow to Long-Ages Myth", Brian Thomas, Institute for Creation Research, May 12, 2009

(4) -- Embery G. et al., "Identification of proteinaceous material in the bone of the dinosaur Iguanodon", Connect Tissue Res. 44 Suppl 1:41–6, 2003; as cited in "Dinosaur soft tissue and protein -- even more confirmation!", Carl Wieland, Creation.com, May 6, 2009