Next regular meeting: Tuesday, December 13, 2011 at 7 pm
In December we will view six animated mini-videos. You've never seen the creation issue addressed quite this way before! If you want teaching that is fun and exciting, you need Check This Out! (which also happens to be the title of the presentation)
This creative, cutting-edge new DVD is loaded with six mini-videos (3 to 4 minutes apiece), each covering a distinct "hot topic" in
the creation/evolution debate and each answering the controversy at warp speed! The topics covered include:
Radiometric Dating; Fossils and the Flood; The Origin of Races; Pain & Suffering; The Nature of Science; and Evolution Refuted.
This format is the fastest and most succinct videos for discussing these topics ever produced by AIG. Please join us in December.
November 8, 2011
In November our topic was "Distance, Starlight and Time." Many people think that astronomy has already proved that the universe and Earth are ancient and thus the Biblical chronology is to be questioned. We showed that the "Big Bang" has not been "all worked out," as many would lead you to believe.
In this presentation we gave 58 examples of the fact that the "Big Bang is not all worked out" and showed
that the "three pillars" on which the evidence for the "Big Bang" hangs are to be seriously questioned. Capping off
this presentation we looked at a relatively new cosmology (forgive the pun) which fits the data
we have on the universe better than the "Big Bang" and supports a Biblical chronology!
October 11, 2011
Our October meeting will featured the Answers in Genesis video, Genetics, Evolution and Creation: The Most asked Questions.
From gene duplication to beneficial mutations, more and more evolutionists are attempting to use
discoveries in the field of genetics as proof for common ancestry of life on earth. In this
informative new DVD, Georgia Purdom (PhD, molecular genetics) examines these arguments and shows
why they are not evidence for common ancestry. Using non-technical language and illustrations,
Dr. Purdom examines mitochondrial Eve, proposed human chromosome 2 fusion, ancient repetitive
elements (AREs), gene duplication, and beneficial mutations to demonstrate that these "proofs"
of evolution are nothing of the kind, but rather can easily be explained from a biblical
worldview. (60 minutes)
September 13,2011
In our September meeting saw the video Metamorphosis: The Beauty and Design of Butterflies. This documentary explores the extraordinary life cycle of these remarkable insects. It also shows why the only reasonable explanation for their origin is an intelligent designer. It features the first extensive MRI images of a caterpillar's transformation, inside a chrysalis.
This video is excellent both to inform and awe inspire the believer in
the complexity of God's creation, as well as a challenge to the unbeliever of how such miracles could
have taken place!
This evidence is what the esteemed Dr. Duane Gish often used in debates with evolutionists with
the immediate challenge to the evolutionist to explain how such a transformation process could occur "accidentally" in
nature? In 30+ years of debates, there was never a good answer other than it was designed and created by a maker!
FEAST Science Workshop Schedule for 2011 - 2012
Our friends at the Family Educators Alliance of South Texas (FEAST) have asked us again this year to provide the presentations for their Science Workshops. FEAST has asked us to use our new "Answers for Life" program in these presentations.
"Answers for Life" is geared for adolescents, middle school, high school and college and career. Its presentations attempt to give them answers to the Big Questions in Life? Like, Is there a God? What is the purpose to life? Why is there death and suffering in the world? and more... Many of the topics seem philosophical, rather than scientific, but the presentations mix a good deal of both science to back up our conclusions and biblical apologetics in agreement with that science to underscore the points.
All presentation will be at FEAST which is located at 25 Burwood Lane at 7 pm on the fourth Monday of each month. The dates and topics for each presentation are listed below:
September 26, 2011- Is there a God? and What is my Purpose?
October 24, 2011- Why is there death and suffering in the world? and Why do bad things happen to good people?
January 23, 2012 - Distant Starlight and Time, doesn't this prove the Universe is old?
February 27, 2012- The Science Against Racism, and Where did Cain get his wife from?
March 26 and April 23, 2012 will be selected by the audience from a list of big questions which we have pieced together scientific and biblically agreeable answers for. So this program is customized for the audience.
A companion young children's program will also be provided each evening.
March 13, 2012
Lanny and Marilyn Johnson
We are haapy to announce that Lanny and Marilyn Johnson with the Alpha Omega Institute will join us in March 2012. Lanny's topic will be "Does It Matter?" A serious look into the topic of creation evangelism, and whether it truly matters whether God created as He said He did.
Lanny and Marilyn Johnson are former evolutionists trained in the sciences. Creation teaching was instrumental in bringing them to a settled assurance that all of God's Word can be trusted. In 1993, God led them to join Alpha Omega Institute and establish the Children's Ministry to fortify children with the truth of the Bible and to help them avoid the pitfalls of evolution. They will share this perspective with us in March.
May 8, 2012
Climatologist Michael Oard
We are haapy to announce that Michael Oard, climatologist from Creation Ministries International (CMI) will be with us on Tuesday, May 8, 2012. Mr. Oard will be with us in the San Antonio area from Friday, May 4 through Tuesday, May 8, 2012 and would like to book other venues duing his stay. We would especially like to find two churches for him to speak at on Sunday, May 6.
For more information or to book him to speak, please call 210-599-7240 or email lanes_1@sbcglobal.net
August 9, 2011
Is Evolution Bad for Science? and Genetic Entropy
Our August meeting centered around two videos of lectures by Dr. John C. Sanford, an eminent plant geneticist who used to be an atheist, but turned to Christianity as a result of his research. Scott Lane presented this material in an interactive power point presentation with clips from Dr. Sanford's lectures included.
The topic for the first lecture was How Evolution is Bad for Science? It showed how evolution has cut off free inquiry, high jacked resources and miss-directed investigations in science toward political dogma, rather than operational science. Along with this discussion it revealed the role of a power elite in our society with a vested interest to continue this allegiance to the religion of evolution. Also discussed was the spiritual side of this whole debate and the role that man's carnal mind plays in this affair.
The second lecture was on the topic of "Genetic Entropy." This presentation featured
startling evidence
that evolution has been rigorously falsified (disproven). It used the new Mendel's Accountant
program to show that neither the evolutionary model nor the Old Earth creationist model are supported by
genetic evidence. The genetic evidence is however fully supportive of the Young Earth Creation Model!
Another revelation of this data is that our genome is degenerating at a rate that will make the
human race extinct within 6000 years.
July 12, 2011
Thanks for the good group which joined us in July, and thanks for their help in reviewing the good work done by Terry Read on the "tongue and cheek" "Thank You Darwin" slides for Darwin Day.
We then viewed the latest video on the formation of our solar system entitled: "What you aren't being told about Astronomy, Volume 1." The best evolutionary models say that many of the planets in our Solar System should not exist. Yet there they are. This data allows for God to create our Solar System less than 10,000 years ago, as the Bible says. It also thoroughly dispells the notion that our solar system formed from a cloud of gas 4,600,000,000 years ago, as secular astronomers claim
This video shows that recent discoveries in space have supported the Biblical account. Each planet in our Solar System defies the evolutionary model in multiple ways. Many of the planets and moons appear to be young, not billions of years old. Plus, these objects show evidence of design, not random processes.
In this video, we toured our magnificent Solar System, and explored the wonders in the heavens. Along the way, we visited each of the planets and many of their moons, through more than 230 breath-taking photographs and graphics from NASA and other sources. We saw how each planet uniquely testifies of its Creator.
On reviewing this DVD, Danny Faulkner, Ph.D. (Astronomy), University of South Carolina and author of Universe by Design wrote,"I have watched your DVD. Overall, I'm very pleased with it... it is well researched and presented." We at SABBSA concur with Dr. Faulkner and would endorse this video as the best resource we have seen on the origin of our solar system. It is a devastating indictment against the evolutionary origin of our system!
If you would like to see more about this subject go to www.creationastronomy.com
If you
would like to order this DVD for yourself, the best price for it is offered by AOI on their
website at www.discovercreation.org.
June 14, 2011
Our June SABBSA meeting had three agenda items. First, we had a brainstorming and planning session on how to best advertise and market our new "Answers for Life" curriculum to the public. "Answers for Life" is a program geared toward youth and young adults which endeavors to answer the "Big Questions" in Life. We came up with a plan to market it via email and flyers, but much more importantly, to make every effort to make "face to face" pitches to pastors about using our program. One minister who was there warned us not to shy away from our scientific apologetics strengths when marketing this to pastors. We also made appointments for two of the segments of this series to be further refined.
Second, we had a similar brainstorming session on what kind of approach and program we can make available to churches for next year's "Darwin Day" in February. Two immediate suggestions were brougt forward. One was that the "Answers for Life" curriculum could be a good answer for this. Also, a "tongue and cheek" method was suggested, where we develop a presentation which chides Darwin for giving us such things as abortion on demand, communism, the holocaust, the eugenics movement and more. Two of our members volunteered to get together and see what they could put together in this vein. If you have ideas on how or what to present to churches on either of these topics we would love to hear from you.
Lastly, we had openned the floor to any topic on creationism, creation science, origins or apologetics the audience wished to discuss.
The one topic which came up was the idea of whether we should be promoting the Carbon 14 testing of dinosaur bones with soft parts?
The idea is an intriguing one since such results should verify the creationist timeline. Three reasons were stated for why this is
probably impractical. First, most dinosaur bones are fossilized (all bone replaced with rock) and thus cannot be dated by Carbon 14.
Second, even if we got the results we want, they would be ignored. Third, there are very few bones which are ever "broken open" as the T-Rex find was since these finds are seen as sacrosanct
and their owners neither want ot saw them open, nor do they want to destroy part of the find as is required
for Carbon 14 testing. This coupled with truth that the evolutionists in possesion of these finds do not
want to find results verifying creationism make the chances of any widescale testing of these finds remote.
May 10, 2011
In our May SABBSA meeting we viewed a documentory on the Galapagos islands. This unusual chain of islands, home to salt-spitting marine iguanas, flightless cormorants, and giant tortoises that can live to be more than 150 years of age. It is also the birthplace of Darwinism, for here in 1835, a young Charles Darwin began to formulate a theory which would turn the world upside down. More than a century and a half later, these mysterious islands remain at the center of a controversy that has shaped the way modern men perceive science, religion, and life itself. The unique ingredients found on the Galapagos have led many of Darwin's followers to describe it as Darwin's Eden - a "laboratory of evolution."
Doug Phillips led a team of Christian scientists and investigators to this "ground zero" in the war of the worldviews. Seen through the eyes of 16-year-old Joshua Phillips, who joins his father and noted researchers like Dr. John Morris of the Institute for Creation Research, The Mysterious Islands is the story of one boy's search for answers to the great controversy of the modern world. It is a refreshing father-and-son adventure that combines cinematically breathtaking footage with high adventure. The quest: to determine whether the Galapagos Islands are a laboratory of evolution, or a testimony to creation.
This beautiful, 90-minute documentary takes viewers deep beneath the ocean waves, among hundreds of white-tip sharks, into volcanic craters with giant lizards, and to the unusual habitat of the Blue-footed booby. Featuring the only team of Creationists and Christian scientists to shoot a documentary on the Galápagos in 2009 - Darwin's anniversary year - the film brings a fresh perspective on the Theory of Evolution and presents stunning cinematography of one of the most desolate and fascinating locations in the world.
Our judgment of the video was that it was well filmed, showed beautiful scenery in the Galapagos, exotic animals
and made us feel as if we were there. However, it tended to "pack" 20 minutes of information into a 90-minute film.
For the uninnitiated who is not already an ardent creationist, it's one sided view will not pursuade
an evolutionist, and it's large amount of unedited scenic and wildlife footage will turn off anyone who is not deeply
interested in seeing the Galapagos as it really is. However, as a creationist, I can say that I
felt that I was there, and that is something special.
April 12, 2011
Dr. Daniel Harris made a considerable contribution to the creation effort with his groundbreaking presentation of "The Truth About History - Part I" to an enthusiastic and standing room only crowd at our April meeting. It is somewhat lengthy, but well worth the hour and 50 minutes with two intermissions which we devoted to this topic. In this power point talk, Dr. Harris gave us a new detailed timeline for Earth history and events which agrees not only with current scientific evidence, but also with the bible as well as historical records. It places the creation somewhere in the 8000-10,000 year realm, with the flood at 5999 BC.
The most startling development of his research is the verification of a previously tossed about idea of the ice age not being a direct result of the flood, but of rapid movement of the continents and tectonic plates after the flood. This event included considerable volcanic activity in the deep ocean ridges to spread the sea floor and move the continents, but also contributed to mountain building (as the bible says, "fixing a divide between the waters and the land") This allowed the continents to be moved over a 1000 year period after the flood and the resultant volcanic activity both heated the oceans causing large amounts of evaporation as well as seeded the upper atmosphere with debris which clouded the skies, cutting off enough sunlight to create cooler continents. This is a recipe for the formation of an ice age, and scientific discoveries, historical records and those of the Bible have a good amount of agreement that this all occurred about the time of the life of Peleg in the Bible, which references to these events occurring.
There was much more in his talk including evidence for the complete drying of the Mediterranean in historical times, along with dinosaur's appearance in historical times. This talk is a treasure which we will promote to interested audiences in the future. Also, there is some talk of compiling this information onto a DVD and into book form and we believe both would be worthy efforts. If you would like to have Dr. Harris come and give this startling presentation to your group, call Scott Lane at 210-599-7240 or email Dr. Harris at drharris@topministries.org
March 8, 2011
Our March SABBSA meeting featured the last of the preview sessions of our new "Answers for Life" series. This teaching attempts to answer the big questions in life. Especially those questions which tend to "hang" people up in their faith in God and without strong answers tempt them to move away from Him. This month's topics by popular demand were: "Did We Really Evolve from Apes?; and "Is there any Evidence that Dinosaurs and Man Co-existed?" These presentations were well reviewed by our board and our youthful target audience.
This teaching is now available to the general public by calling 210-599-7240 to schedule a seminar.
February 8, 2011
Lanny and Marilyn Johnson with the Alpha Omega Institute
were with us in February
at our monthly SABBSA meeting. Lanny's topic
was "The Miracle of Life." Lanny focused on the obvious miracles of design
from the formation of sperm and egg cells, to the intricate designs which make possible fertilization
of human embryos. All along the way Lanny emphasized pure mathematical impossibility of all of this occurring by chance,
as well as the fact that if just one of these clearly designed features
was not present, then none of us would be here today! We thank the Johnson's and AOI for this re-affirmation of our faith in the miracles in God's awesome creation!
January 11, 2011
We had a very special treat at our January SABBSA meeting. Dr. Carl Baugh, director and founder of the Creation Evidences Museum outside Glen Rose, Texas as well as conservator of some of the best creationist artifacts in existence, was with us. Dr. Baugh presented changes he has made in his "Canopy Theory" in response to new data. We had a great crowd of 30 people in attendance. This was a rare opportunity to view new thought in the creation field and have a hand in both forming those thoughts and interacting with an expert in the field.
December 14, 2010
We continued to review and refine our new "Answers for Life" presentations using a good deal of Answers in Genesis material in a power point format to allow for discussion and questioning. This teaching attempts to answer the big questions in life such as: Why am I here? Is there a God?; Why is there death and suffering in the world?; and How did "bad things" come about? December's topics were: Race and Racism in the Bible and Science; and Distant Starlight and Time. Our board did a fine job (as usual) of giving constructive feedback for the betterment of these presentations.This teaching is targeted at stemming the tide of youth who the Beemer Report says are flocking from our churches.
November 9, 2010
We continued to refine our "Answers for Life" presentation using a good deal of Answers in Genesis material in a power point format to allow for discussion and questioning. This teaching attempts to answer the big questions in life. The questions to be discussed in November were Why is there death and suffering in the world? How did "bad things" come about? and Don't all the contradictions in the Bible prove that no omniscient God wrote it? and more! It was a constructive meeting with good fedback on how to improve these presentations.
October 12, 2010
We began to review and refine our new "Answers for Life" presentation using a good deal of Answers in Genesis material in a power point format to allow for discussion and questioning. This teaching atttempts to answer the big questions in life such as: Why am I here? and Is there a God? In fact, these were the questions we focused on in October. It was the judgment of the group to reverse the order of the two answers and edit the "Why am I here?" section by adding some evidence for the credibility of the Bible as well as shortening and "bulletizing" the slides. Al Johnson and Dr. Carl Williams took electronic copies of this material with an eye on doing some of this editing. We also had good discussion on the role and type of scripture to be included. This was a good start in refining this work. We invite you join us in November and December as we continue reviewing and refining this teaching.
September 14, 2010
Mr. Terry Read presented the progam at our September meeting. His power point presentation explained the differences between Micro and Macro Evolution. He explained how variation occurs naturally in reproduction. He covered the theory of evolution including: Natural Selection; Geographic Separation; Random Mutations; and Time. He also covered the history of the theory of evolution going back to James Hutton. We saw some of the evidences of a young earth and a global flood. Finally, he made some observations about a Biblical World View verses a Darwinian World View, and talked about why he believes the Bible and point out how the Bible teaches that man has a sin problem and that is what we observe.
We will bring the "Already Gone" presentation to You!
We strongly recommend the video "Already Gone:
Why your kids will quit church and what you can do to stop it."
Statistics reveal a huge disconnect taking place between our children and their church experience.
Nationwide polls and denominational reports are showing that the next generation is calling
it quits on the traditional church. And it's not just happening on the nominal fringe; it's
happening at the core of the faith.
In the first scientific study of its kind, the "Beemer Report" revealed startling facts
discovered through 20,000 phone calls and detailed surveys of a thousand 20-29 year olds, who
used to attend evangelical churches on a regular basis, but have since left it behind.
The results are shocking:
In this powerful video, popular author Ken Ham and consumer behavior research/analyst
C. Britt Beemer combine to reveal trends that must be dealt with now . . . before we lose
another generation!
The trends are frightening, but Already Gone showed how to win back our families, our churches,
and our world!
We have already had one group who have requested an encore viewing of this
material for their organization and another church is doing a book study on this material. If you or your organization would also like to see this video or
procure the book, please contact us.
Those who faithfully attend Sunday School are more likely to leave the church than those who don't;
Those who regularly attend Sunday School are more likely to believe that the Bible is less true;
Those who regularly attend Sunday School are actually more likely to defend that abortion and gay marriage should be legal; and
Those who regularly attend Sunday School are actually more likely to defend premarital sex.
And, we are not losing them in college as previously thought, but in middle school!