President - Scott Lane Vice President – Walter “Dub” WarrenSecretary – Clarence Johnson Treasurer – Carl Williams, M.D. [P.O. Box 200721, San Antonio, TX 78220-0721]
An independent nondenominational, nonprofit and volunteer, educational and evangelical outreach.We confess the Bible to be The Word of God, Jesus Christ as The Lord, and young-earth scientific creationism.
We have had a great start to the new year at SABBSA. John Pendleton gave 4 presentations last month which we sponsored. The first was at our regular meeting and it is detailed in our last newsletter. He then presented two sessions at Castle Hills First Baptist Church on Friday January 14th. The first was “Dinosaurs and the Bible” and the second was “Ape Men.” He followed this up with a talk on “6 Day Creation” at a special SABBSA meeting the next Monday the 17th at Jim’s Restaurant. We wish to thank Dr. and Mrs. Carl Williams whose efforts were invaluable in setting up all of these presentations. The Williams acted as point men in the logistics of setting things up with Castle Hills, doing the leg work for our advertising, coordinating our calls to Christian schools, printing leaflets and cards and serving as the communication conduit with John Pendleton. They were surely used in this endeavor as God’s instruments and it is clear that the success of this past month would have not been possible without their effort and direction. There are many other people who should be recognized for their efforts each time we put on a seminar or presentation. Our thanks to June Gulliuza for answering the phones. Special thanks to Mrs. Williams, Brenda Lane and Faith Ann Clark who provided free child care to the public. Thanks also to the many other SABBSA members who gave so unselfishly of their time to make these presentations a success. Most of all we thank God for what he has provided us!At our last SABBSA meeting we had our annual election of board and officers. We also voted to amend our constitution and by laws in two ways. The old board was reinstated with the addition of Clarence Johnson as a board member. Scott Lane was re-elected President. Walter “Dub” Warren was picked as Vice President. Dr. Carl Williams will continue as Treasurer and Clarence Johnson took on the duties of Secretary. This email you received was edited and routed through him. Ernie Hernandez graciously accepted to stay on as our webmaster. We voted to amend the constitution to wave the “rotation rule” for board members in the constitution until such time as the board votes to reinstate it (which we will do when and if it becomes feasible to do so). We also raised our regular SABBSA member fees to enhance our donations. This is the first such increase since our inception. Individual member dues were raised to $30 per person and family memberships were raised to $45 per year.John Pendleton’s presentation at Castle Hills was very well attended. There were in excess of 260 in attendance, including many children from Christian schools and home schoolers across the area. In his presentation of “Dinosaurs in the Bible” he covered a multiplicity of evidences for the recent sightings of dinosaurs. He showed slides of the MacFall property dig site outside of Glenrose where distinct man made footprints and dinosaur footprints cross each other in the same level of strata showing that we did coexist with dinosaurs. Underscoring this is the exhibit which Dr. Carl Baugh has in his Museum outside Glenrose of a human footprint which has stepped into a dinosaur’s footprint. A slide of this find was shown. He retraced the history of “serpent” legends and gave insight on how these, like most legends have their root in fact. The proliferation of these sightings, stories, drawings in caves and on pottery of dinosaurs by humans (as we have had an entire presentation on a couple of years ago by Dr. Patton) all point to our interaction with these creatures which did not cease to exist 65 million years ago as popular dogma would tell us. Indeed, the bible tells of two huge animals, “Behemoth” and “Leviathan.” The account in Job of Behemoth matches well with what we know of either an Apatosaur or a Brachiosaur. Leviathan’s description matches well with the Plesiosaur and there have been many recent sightings of Plesiosaur type beasts all over the world including two documented catches of dead Plesiosaur carcasses in fishing nets. After a break and perusal of the John Pendleton and “Answers in Genesis” materials John Pendleton answered written questions. We also had a brief word from Adam McManus whose radio talk show John Pendleton had been on and which undoubtedly lended to our great turnout. Mr. Pendleton’s second topic, “Ape men” covered the gamut of the “missing link” finds over the years. He talked about the dubious find of “Java man.” He detailed how this find was pieced together out of fragments spread 50 feet apart, among other human remains! He covered the fantasies of Nebraska man which spurred whole drawings of what they looked like from a single tooth! This find of course was discredited when it was found to be that of an extinct pig! He covered the fraud of Piltdown man and the problems with the partial find called “Lucy.” It was also discussed that the Neanderthals had rickets and curvature of the spine which gave them their brutish appearance. But, he noted that these are features which we associate with old age in humans and the Neanderthals increased brain capacity not only suggests they may have been more evolved (not less) but it really suggests they were normal humans with extremely old ages (like the bible describes). Over 200 of those in attendance stayed for the second presentation. The next Monday we had 23 in attendance to hear Mr. Pendleton talk on “6 Day Creation.” He covered the basics of the meaning of the word “yom” in the bible and how these had to be read as literal 24 hour days. The standard vision of a water canopy and an edenic earth was drawn via words and slides. One nonstandard in his presentation was the discourse on how the concepts of “week” and the “work week” are universal themes in all cultures of the world. He also pointed out that scientific studies have verified that the best framework for humans to work in to remain maximally effective and productive is the 7 day week with 6 days of work and one of rest as the creator designed us for!. Our next regular meeting will be this coming Tuesday night February 8 at Jim’s Restaurant at the corner of San Pedro and Ramsey. Our agenda for the evening will include appointment of a committee to study our last set of presentations for effectiveness and to evaluate our advertising response. We will discuss future plans for a summer or fall presentation. We will also have a roundtable discussion on a few more issues in the field of creation. You are invited to join us this Tuesday at 7 pm.