On Friday, Sept. 15th, we had Thomas Bailey, a speaker from Creation Ministries International come to our church. It was a very informative evening about how evolution is impossible. He also showed how the rest of the Bible is very tied to Genesis and that Jesus quoted from there.
Thomas Bailey speaking.
Mom arranged for people to bring Creation snacks (The Seven Days of Creation). Below are some pictures. Sorry, some are a bit blurry : ).
Anyone for some “Ocean Punch”?
Genesis 1:1- In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
The main reason we went down to Kentucky, was to visit the new Ark Encounter!
This 100 million dollar project was started back in 2014 by Answers In Genesis, 8 years after they opened the Creation Museum. It is nearing the 500,000 visitor mark in the less than 5 months it has been open.
At the Ark Encounter, there are 11 buses that commute from the 4,000 spot parking lot, down about a mile to the ark drop off site.
The stern end. It was not made with a rudder, as Noah probably wouldn’t have been piloting the ship anywhere.
The door of the ship. It is quite big!
We don’t butcher our chickens quite this nice:)
The middle posts of the ark are huge! The ark is sitting 15 feet off the ground, and there are 3 floors + a roof deck that is opening up as a restaurant next year, Lord willing.
Depicting the scene of sacrifice to God after Noah and his family got out of the ark.
An all metal lion at the gift shop (a hefty price tag).
An exhibit depicting what food storage and gardens inside the ark could have looked like.
While the Ark and restaurant are finished, the site will be continually added onto over the years. Some expansions include, a pre-flood Walled City, the Tower of Babel, an amphitheater, etc.
We got back 1 week ago late at night!
“And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.”
On our second day at Mt. St. Helens, we went to the Seven Wonders Museum. Lloyd and Doris Anderson along with Kim Jones showed the Biblical implications of what had happened from the erruption. They led us on a guided tour to the main side of the mountain. We were also priviledged to meet the Curator of the San Diego based Creation and Earth History Museum. He and his family were also on the tour. The tour was excellent and interesting! It started with looking through the museum followed by a slide show and talk by Mr. Anderson. Then visits to several sites along Spirit Lake Highway and some hiking.
This A-frame was fairly new at the time of the erruption. It was fourteen miles from the volcano. One would have thought it would be a safe site. But when the mud started flowing it dealt a generous helping of mud to the cabin burying the bottom floor with about four feet of mud.
In this picture you can see a few trees that survived the steam blasts, surrounded by many new trees planted by the forestry companies.
Many areas still look like a disaster compared to the forests that once stood there.
Standing on the stump of a tree which was partly buried by the landslide.
We were on a ridge quite a distance from the mountain, but some of the areas we were on were at least 200 feet higher than they were pre-1980. There were lots of hummocks in this area formed by the landslides.
An igneous rock among some of the new growth.
The trees are still lying around after over three decades.
Some badland and erosion formations caused by the volcano.
This was one of our tour guides, Lloyd Anderson, the director of the Mt. St. Helens Creation Museum. It was great having him and Kim Jones lead us with their knowledge of the area.
Some beautiful scenery.
And the volcano with its canyons. This particular photo was taken high on Johnston Ridge.
Badlands.
The canyons were huge. They would have been cool to tour but because of the dangers of a live volcano and park restrictions, only people with special research permits are allowed down in this valley. The significance of these canyons is that they were formed in hours, some of them through solid rock, the tallest of them is 140 feet deep. The fact that these formed in hours means that the Grand Canyon didn’t have to take millions of years to form. It could have formed in a day while the flood waters were draining. Observable Science doesn’t contradict the Bible! Rather it proves that the Bible is true.
Amazing scenery!
God’s rock gardens!
Kim Jones signing “The Case Of The Missing Mountain” which she wrote.
And a picture of the directors of the Museum in front of their mural. Sorry for the big shady area on the picture, it was so nice and sunny during our visit that it was hard to get a good picture, but I guess we can’t complain. The Andersons were great to us and Mrs. Anderson even served our whole group a meal after the tour!
On Tuesday night there was a live debate between Bill Nye the “Science Guy” and Ken Ham from Answers In Genesis, dealing with the question, “Is creation a viable model of origins in today’s modern scientific era?”
Bill Nye said the reason he agreed to debate Ken Ham was that he wanted everybody to see that “Ken Ham’s movement” should not get in the schools. He also wanted to see if Ken actually believed in Creation, or if he was just in it for some other reason.
A problem with Bill Nye is that he says he’ll change his mind if he hears even one piece of evidence for creation, but, there is ample evidence for creation, and yet he does not believe in it! His mind is darkened.
I am glad that Ken Ham presented the salvation message. We pray that Mr. Nye will accept the truth of the Bible and its salvation message. One day …“ we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ. For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God. So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.” Romans 14:10b-12
Bill Nye really did not have any firm answers and had no hope for eternity whereas Ken kept on pointing back to where to find the truth, in God’s Word. Here is the debate:
The whole debate idea got roused up when Bill Nye released this video in 2011 attacking teaching Creationism to children. Creationist organizations responded to Bill Nye’s video, and as a result, Bill Nye agreed to the debate!
The above video clip is a fun way of pointing out some of the flaws in Bill Nye’s video clip.
For more information than was possible to present in the debate forum, please go to the following link for an excellent follow up article about the debate.
By the way, one of Bill Nye’s arguments for a very old earth was the Greenland ice cores. He implied that the layers in the snow ice cores each represented one year. If that reasoning was true, this snow drift on our yard last year was at least 18 years old, complete with a glove at the bottom to give scale and, no, the glove is not fossilized.:) The layers in the snow drift were much clearer in real but had already melted a little bit when the picture was taken. These layers are caused by temperature changes and weathering between snow falls.
