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President - Scott Lane 599-7240 Vice President – Al(den) Johnson, O.D. Secretary – Clarence Johnson Treasurer – Carl Williams, M.D. [website – www.sabbsa.org ] [P.O. Box 34478, San Antonio, TX 78265] January 2016 Happy New Year from us at SABBSA! We hope and pray that you all had a Merry Christmas and a happy New Year. 2016 is already shaping up as an exciting year for us with a great new program on the horizon. That new program is the new radio show on KSLR radio slated to start in mid to late January on Saturday afternoons called “Believing the Bible.” Look for the announcement in this newsletter detailing this exciting new tool in our quest to spread the news of God’s creation and His Bible’s authority. Our lead article refers to a question often asked, “What is the best evidence for God’s creation?” There are a lot of great nominees for this answer. Science is finding more and more each day in the fields of chemistry, physics, biology and archaeology that do not fit the evolutionary world view, but which fit the biblical account beautifully! We also have an article that I hope you find both informative and entertaining. This article takes look at the dozens of theories for the extinction of dinosaurs that secular scientists have invented in the past. You should be impressed how the biblical account of how all life was killed in the flood, except what was on the Ark, fits the geologic and archaeological evidence better than any of these failed ideas! As always we will have rundown of all of the creation events in our area. Stay warm and we hope you are doing well. _________________________________________________________________________________ ________________ The Best Evidence for God’s Creation

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President - Scott Lane 599-7240 Vice President – Al(den) Johnson, O.D. Secretary – Clarence Johnson Treasurer – Carl Williams, M.D.

[website – www.sabbsa.org ] [P.O. Box 34478, San Antonio, TX 78265]

January 2016

Happy New Year from us at SABBSA!

We hope and pray that you all had a Merry Christmas and a happy New Year. 2016 is already shaping up as an exciting year for us with a great new program on the horizon. That new program is the new radio show on KSLR radio slated to start in mid to late January on Saturday afternoons called “Believing the Bible.” Look for the announcement in this newsletter detailing this exciting new tool in our quest to spread the news of God’s creation and His Bible’s authority.

Our lead article refers to a question often asked, “What is the best evidence for God’s creation?” There are a lot of great nominees for this answer. Science is finding more and more each day in the fields of chemistry, physics, biology and archaeology that do not fit the evolutionary world view, but which fit the biblical account beautifully!

We also have an article that I hope you find both informative and entertaining. This article takes look at the dozens of theories for the extinction of dinosaurs that secular scientists have invented in the past. You should be impressed how the biblical account of how all life was killed in the flood, except what was on the Ark, fits the geologic and archaeological evidence better than any of these failed ideas!

As always we will have rundown of all of the creation events in our area. Stay warm and we hope you are doing well.

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The Best Evidence for God’s CreationWhen people ask questions at a seminar or they find out I am a creation speaker through casual conversation I am often asked the question, “What is the best evidence for creation?”

There are a lot of good nominees for that honor. We have a wealth of evidence in the fossil record for the worldwide flood which thereby attests to the Bible’s accuracy and affirms its version of history. We have over seventy scientific clocks which show the earth and solar system are very young on the order of 10,000 years old or less which coincides with the biblical account and makes evolution impossible. We have “divine engineering” evident in every organism on the earth showing how all organisms are “irreducibly complex,” which means they could not have been cobbled together by random chance processes, but had to be built fully formed from the start by a designer to be functional and viable. Every living cell is a miraculously designed testament to the Creator with nanotechnology far in advance of what we can design and build today. As scientific research grows, so do our reasons to believe in the Creator.

My answer to the question of “best evidence” today is DNA. It would not have been so 20 years ago when evolutionists were running wild in the field with theories of “junk DNA” and “genetic drift” being roundly accepted. However, today, the case could not be stronger for Deoxyribonucleic Acid as God’s signature on His creation. Dr. Donald Batten with Creation Ministries International agrees with me on this.

The evidence for DNA being Divinely engineered starts with its very chemical makeup. DNA is a constructed molecule with a

sugar base onto which one of four right handed molecules called nucleotides are hung in ordered succession to make up the code of life. This peculiar to the rest of nature “choice of life” to use only right handed molecules (same atoms as in a left handed arrangement of the same molecule, but in reverse arrangement spatially), but these right handed chemical codes, by design, must all be right handed to fit chemically with the 20 left handed amino acids which all fit together on the atomic level to make data transmission possible.

Just these three constructs by themselves of life only being constructed of four specific right handed nucleotides, 20 specific left handed amino acids (out of some 2000 which occur naturally, but always in a random mix of left and right handed forms) and the constructs of RNA reveals a data storage and transfer system that is not only easily seen to be designed, but just by themselves defies the laws of chance for just these three base constructs to have come together by random chance processes.

Each strand of DNA in a living cell’s nucleus will contain anywhere between millions and billions of nucleotides (equivalent of computer codes) strung together in data processing language of which we have been able to decode at this time only about 2% of the whole due to its incredible complexity. Note that decoding what it means and simply knowing where all the codes are placed are two different things. Finding where all the codes are placed on our DNA and what arrangement they are in was the great work of the Human Genome Project which mapped the human genome, but deciphering what all these three billion plus codes means is quite another thing.

Like our computer languages which also are data storage and transfer systems, DNA is written in its own “assembler language” which can be read by “reader RNA” and transferred into the formation of proteins or directions for the functioning of the cell. This data system like our computer systems utilizes data compression which is a hallmark of modern computer systems. It also uses “short cut” codes for function loops. Just as we see in our newest and most advanced computer languages like C++.

There are several places however, where the DNA data system is far superior to our best computer language systems to date. One of these superiorities is that information seems to not only be placed linearly on the DNA strands as we do on a hard drive or zip drive, but we have also found that some data is stored and read not linearly, but in three dimensions. The actual folds of the chromosomes (individual strands of DNA) are used by the system to reveal spatially close points across the top of each loop which offers data written on top of the linear code already imprinted. This is much like finding the secret codes buried within a story or other writing by picking out every tenth word or letter, except this system is far more complex.

The almost 2% of the genome which we have deciphered are called genes, which code for the making of proteins and other chemicals formed for use in the cell. The ENCODE project conducted by secular genetics labs all over the world has laid to rest the old thesis that 98% of DNA is what was called “junk DNA”. The ENCODE Project identified over 80% of this non-

coding DNA actually had regulatory functions associated with them. They found that what used to be called “junk or useless random DNA” was instead a vast store of switches and instructions for cell functions telling the cell when to produce certain chemicals, when not to, where proteins are to go and when and so much more.

As we would have suspected had we been the designers of DNA and cells, the 20,000 sites which produce proteins and make up only about 1.5% of DNA are directed in their production and use by the other 98% of instructions on the DNA strands telling the cell how and when to use these chemicals. So we have thus found that essentially all of the billions of data point nucleotides in any cell carry critical information for the functioning of the cell and organism. Evolutionists said that this could not be. On the cellular level, their whole theory of random mutations coming together accidentally and silently until accidentally expressed was grounded in the idea of “junk DNA.” The obliteration of this concept in DNA means that there is nowhere in DNA for genetic drift to silently occur which had been a major tenant of evolutionary hypothesis about DNA formation.

Using the instructions from our DNA, cells form any one of 20,000 different chemical compounds used at different times and places in the cell. All of these proteins and chemicals constructed by the cell using DNA instructions are comprised of hundreds or in most cases thousands of amino acids strung together. The chance of the instructions for just one of these proteins to be correctly placed in our genome by chance is a mathematical impossibility (Anything greater than a chance of 1 out of 1050 has been shown to be mathematically impossible. According to Golay, the chances of DNA containing the coding for the simplest of proteins used by cells are 1 out of 10450. ) When you multiply this mathematical impossibility by the chance of it occurring 20,000 more times for all of the instructions for each chemical coded to be made by the cell, you quickly see that there is no logical choice whatsoever except to understand that this information was encoded onto this complex data transfer system by a designer brighter than we are. This analysis leaves the idea that all of this happened by chance mutations as utter nonsense since it is mathematically, physically and chemically impossible for such an accidental construction to occur.

What is imprinted on our DNA molecules is information. And information always comes from an intelligent source. That has been well established both in terms of common sense and by those in the burgeoning field of information theory.

Let’s look at just a few analogies of what information does. The cell manufactures itself, its organelles and proteins from scratch. To assemble a little red wagon from scratch would require a hefty instruction manual. To assemble the Space Shuttle and all its support components from scratch would require an immense library. A bacterium likewise contains in its DNA the equivalent information to assembly of the space shuttle and would require an immense library and yet it’s all stored in its DNA!

The human organism is as advanced over the bacteria as the shuttle is over the little red wagon and the amount of information required to build it could not be contained in any library known. The lunacy is that evolution says that the manual for the little red wagon can become the multiple libraries for the space shuttle. It says by typographical errors and some selective copying a little red wagon can turn into a space ship!

Genome mapping from the Human Genome Project was supposed to help us solve most medical problems, but to date it has not. Part of the reason for this is a reference frame problem which we do not understand in the coding of 98% of DNA. But, just as problematic are assumptions of working with only variable genes has not worked. It was thought that all we had to do was look at one region (gene) of the genome, change it and see what effect that gave to interpret how that region worked. As it turns out most gene locales contain codes for multiple proteins in the same set of instructions and thus cannot be researched in the simplistic way we envisioned.

New research has found how RNA assembles all of the varied proteins via the “splicing code.” Using the “splicing code,” RNA combines different lines of code from different parts of the genome as directed by introns, “silent DNA” or via its own coding. This incidentally is exactly what your computer does with information taken from different parts of the computer hard drive.

This “code within a code” was discovered by molecular biologists and computer scientists using information technology, informatics, code breaking techniques, reverse engineering and assuming that what they were looking at was a designed information system. This discovery came not from the theory of evolution, but only came when they ignored the evolutionary assumption that all this information occurred by chance and assumed that they were looking at a designed system!

Contrary to evolutionary propaganda of late, research into human and chimp DNA shows that we differ from apes not by the just 1-2% margin publicized, but by about 30% or almost a billion base pairs difference. This along with homology data which shows that the same areas which code for the construction, maintenance and manipulation of the hands, feet and other organs are not located in the same places in both genomes makes it quite clear that we did not evolve from the ape and that the instructions for each are very specific to each “kind” as is repeatedly said in the Bible.

DNA cannot exist by itself. It is a very fragile molecule which begins to break down quite rapidly when we die. Thus for it to exist, it has to now and had to in its beginning, be housed within a cell’s nucleus which not only maintains the DNA strands, but also uses its information for the running of cellular functions. This points up a brand new answer to the old “chicken and the egg” problem. Some will ask, “Which came first the chicken or the egg?” In the case of DNA and a cell they had to both be produced at the same time or neither one can exist. This again leads us to a designer.

DNA is like the hard drive in your computer. Your hard drive has information on it, but it must be contained within a computer which can read and use that information. A hard drive by itself, with no power source and no apparatus to read and use its data is useless. DNA without a cell to maintain it, read and use its data is a useless hard drive just sitting there.

I could go on for some time about how DNA shows the brilliance of our Creator and testifies to His existence. This is information which most people never hear and never delve into because of the complex nature of the information and DNA. But, this is such an exciting field of discovery in creation science today that I hope we have made it all at least partially understandable to the reader. God has left His signature finger print in the heavens, on Earth and especially in each one of the 60 trillion cells that make up an adult human body. As Romans chapter 1 says,

“ The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, 19 since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to

them.20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.

21 For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened.22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles.

24 Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25 They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.”

We have no need to deny our Creator. The evidence for Him lies within our very being and all around us. All we have to do is pay attention to His glory and the miracles of His creation!

How Did the Dinosaurs Die Off?

Today, most modern paleontologists widely assume that the dinosaurs were killed off in mass extinction event some 65 million years ago when a huge comet hit the Earth rapidly killing off almost all life in Central and North America and killing off all large life across the globe in the next year with the advent of a “nuclear winter” which followed due to all the debris hoisted into the atmosphere by this event.

This however is only one of a host of theories which have been proposed for how the dinosaurs met their demise.

Deccan Traps

Deccan Traps are large Basalt flows associated with volcanic eruptions. A large set of these have been found in India and dated to 65.5 million years ago. If there was a massive volcanic event at this time it could have caused a climatic cataclysm across the Earth killing off most life.

The Deccan Traps could have caused extinction through several mechanisms, including the release of dust and sulphuric aerosols into the air which might have blocked sunlight and thereby reduced photosynthesis in plants. In addition, Deccan Trap volcanism might have resulted in carbon dioxide emissions which would have increased the greenhouse effect when the dust and aerosols cleared from the atmosphere. (Duncan, RA & Pyle, DG (1988). "Rapid eruption of the Deccan flood basalts at the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary”. Nature 333 (6176): 841–843.)

Multiple impact events

Several other craters also appear to have been formed about the time of the K–T boundary ( an iridium laced layer of strata which may have been caused by comet or asteroid impacts). This suggests the possibility of nearly simultaneous multiple

impacts, perhaps from a fragmented asteroidal object, similar to the Shoemaker-Levy cometary impacts with Jupiter. Among these are the Boltysh crater, a 24-km (15-mi) diameter impact crater in Ukraine(65.17 ± 0.64 Ma); and the Silverpit crater, a 20-km (12-mi) diameter impact crater in the North Sea (60–65 Ma). Any other craters that might have formed in the Tethys Ocean would have been obscured by erosion and tectonic events such as the relentless northward drift of Africa and India.

A very large structure in the sea floor off the west coast of India has recently been interpreted as a crater by some researchers. The potential Shiva crater, 450–600 km (280–370 mi) in diameter, would substantially exceed Chicxulub in size and has also been dated at about 66 mya, an age consistent with the K–T boundary. An impact at this site could have been the triggering event for the nearby Deccan Traps. However, this feature has not yet been accepted by the geologic community as an impact crater and may just be a sinkhole depression caused by salt withdrawal. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cretaceous%E2%80%93Paleogene_boundary)

Maastrichtian marine regression

Evidence exists that sea levels fell in the final stage of the Cretaceous by more than at any other time in the Mesozoic era. No direct evidence exists for the cause of the regression, but the explanation which is currently accepted as the most likely is that the mid-ocean ridges became less active and therefore sank under their own weight as sediment from uplifted orogenic belts filled in structural basins.

A severe regression would have greatly reduced the continental shelf area, which is the most species-rich part of the sea, and therefore could have been enough to cause a marine mass extinction. The regression would also have caused climate changes, partly by disrupting winds and ocean currents and partly by reducing the Earth's albedo (reflectivity of sunlight) and therefore increasing global temperatures.

This idea has been found wanting because it does not give a wide enough cataclysm to explain the mass die off at the end of the Cretaceous. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cretaceous%E2%80%93Paleogene_boundary)

Supernova hypothesis

Another proposed cause for the K–T extinction event is cosmic radiation from a nearby supernova explosion. An iridium anomaly at the boundary could support this hypothesis. The fallout from a supernova explosion should contain 244Pu, the longest-lived plutonium isotope with a half-life of 81 million years. If the supernova hypothesis were correct, traces of 244 Pu should be detected in rocks deposited at the time. However, analysis of the boundary layer sediments failed to find 244 Pu. (Ellis, J & Schramm, DN (1995). "Could a Nearby Supernova Explosion have Caused a Mass Extinction?".Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 92 (1): 235–238.)

Multiple causes

It is possible that more than one of these hypotheses may be a partial solution to the mystery, and that more than one of these events may have occurred. The location of the Deccan Traps, for example, would have been close to the antipodal point of Chicxulub in the late Cretaceous; a sufficiently large asteroid impact might have sent shock waves around the planet sufficient to trigger an effect on weakened crust on the other side of the globe.

Rodents ate Dinosaurs Eggs

One old theory insisted that “early” mammal rodents, the size of rats, went around raiding dinosaur nests. They ate all the eggs and caused dinosaur populations to decrease drastically. This idea however has a lot of problems. Analyzing fossil deposits it appears that the dinosaurs and almost all life at the time died off rather suddenly which this theory could not produce. Further, consider that rats had to have lived alongside the dinosaurs for supposedly millions of years without killing them off. All of this reasoning is why this idea is no longer seriously considered.

Tiny Brains

Another idea supposed that since dinosaur brains are very small in relation to their size, their lack of adaptability eventually made them obsolete. Were the dinosaurs too stupid to survive? They certainly managed alright with the brains built into them from the beginning and did so supposedly for a hundred million years? Why would this all change?

Fat Dinos

Could they have died from overeating? Some thought that the tremendous size of the dinosaurs caused many to get “slipped disks” in their spines. This made it hard to forage for food. So they all starved to death due to back trouble!? I know your response. How stupid, but you can’t make this stuff up. It is printed in scientific journals and shows how grasping paleontologists had been at trying to explain dinosaur’s extinction.

Climate Change

They died of a heat wave! In 1946 one paleontologist theorized that a worldwide heat wave of just two degrees above normal would have “baked” all the male dinosaur sex glands. This caused a mass outbreak of sterility. Thus all dinosaurs would have die off without heirs.

Picky Eaters

Maybe like our kids they were “fussy eaters.” Some have theorized that if the dinosaur’s favorite food suffered severe crop failures, it could lead to starvation because they would not eat anything else. Others have proposed that when pushed from their favorite plants, that the dumb dinosaurs did not have enough sense not to eat poisonous plants and were killed off in this way by poisoning themselves. (Peterson, Dennis R., “Unlocking the Mysteries of Creation”, 2012, Creation Resource Publications, pages 170-171)

Constipation

Believe it or not, one theory suggested that dinosaurs might have died from mass case of constipation! The idea was that herbivorous dinosaurs had a problem digesting seed-bearing plants. As time went on, harder seeded plants began to displace the older spore-propagated plants that the dinosaurs ate. This caused problems for them, including constipation and malnutrition. (http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=572507)

Comet hits the Earth – the Alvarez Hypothesis

The cover of Time magazine (5/6/85) featured the now prevalent theory asking, “Did Comets Kill the Dinosaurs?”

A tremendous impact supposedly hit the earth in the vicinity of the Yucatan peninsula. This set the North American continent ablaze and sent so much dust into the sky that it was darkened for more than a year, temperatures dropped and cold blooded animals like dinosaurs died off. Those not killed by the temperatures died for the lack of vegetation in the next year as the “nuclear winter” effect caused by the lack of sunlight killed off most plants.

You can see that this theory at least makes more sense than many proposed. This theory was supported by evidence from the K-T boundary. The K-T Barrier is a thin layer of ash, debris and iridium deposits found around the world and which many scientists theorize could have resulted from the explosion of this 6-mile wide comet hitting the Yucatan and spewing radioactive iridium into the upper atmosphere which was eventually deposited all over the world and we see it in this boundary today, below which almost all dinosaur fossils are found.

It would also account for the killing off of almost all species on earth as the fossil record suggests for as Dr. Luis Alvarez said, “The problem is not what killed the dinosaurs, but what killed almost all life at the time.”

The Bible and Archaeology

What is not considered in all of these theories is the geological support for what the Bible says happened. The Bible says that several thousand years ago God sent a world covering flood to wipe all life from the planet. It describes a world altering event with a great amount of volcanism from the mid-ocean ridges and from the tectonic plate barriers around the world.

So what do we find in geology. We find billions of dead things buried by flood waters in sedimentary deposits all over the world which extend thousands of feet below our surface, just as we would expect to find if the Bible is true.

As it turns out, iridium is also associated with volcanism, especially with dust injected into the atmosphere from basaltic extrusions. For instance, the fine airborne particles above a Hawaiian basaltic eruption were found to be highly enriched in iridium, much higher than in the K/T boundary clays at Gubbio and Stevns Klint. High iridium has also been associated with other volcanic eruptions and found within volcanic dust bands in the Antarctic ice cores. This fine material is of similar particle size as the K/T boundary clay. (https://answersingenesis.org/dinosaurs/extinction/the-extinction-of-the-dinosaurs/)

Thus, the K-T boundary could just as easily be associated with evidence for the worldwide flood which would have included massive volcanism as it could to support either the Comet theory or the Deccan Traps theory.

Contrary to what you have been told, there are dinosaur fossils found above the K-T boundary. This does not fit with either the Deccan traps idea nor the Comet Hypothesis, but if fits perfectly with the Bible’s flood account.

According to the Bible, two of “every” land animal would have been included on the Ark and this would have included dinosaurs. Thus, while overwhelming 99%+ of all dinosaurs would have killed and buried in the flood leaving us with the mass of dinosaur fossils we find today buried under the K-T boundary, formed not from a comet explosion, but from the massive volcanism of the flood event. Some dinosaurs proceeded from the Ark and repopulated the earth for a time until a combination of climatic conditions and man hunting them finally killed them off just recently.

The rare dinosaur fossils found above the K-T boundary fit well with this biblical account, but not with the Comet model. The multiple finds of soft tissue in dinosaur bones and dinosaur bones which are not petrified attest to their demise being only in last few thousand years and not millions of years ago as has been assumed.

The recent finding by doing deep Earth echo soundings has shown that a vast store of water more than three times that of what exists on the Earth’s surface is buried inside the earth’s crust and mantle. This may be pointing to the remnant of what the Bible refers to as the “fountains of the deep” which opened up at the start of the flood event.

There are more than 46 evolutionary theories of why dinosaurs died out. They include everything from sunburn to constipation and even getting cataracts … from an asteroid hitting the earth to dinosaurs’ were being bitten by tsetse flies.

What is not given proper credence by paleontology today is the how well the biblical account matches what we find in geology. You do not have to be stupid nor ignorant to believe in the Bible. God’s creation attests to the trueness and infallibility of His words and we should pay attention to them.

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SABBSA on KSLR

We have an exciting new evangelical tool that the San Antonio Bible Based Science Association is proud to sponsor for the New Year. We are slated to begin in mid to late January sponsoring and putting on the air a new radio show called “Believing the Bible!”

This radio program was the brain child of SABBSA director Terry Read who has garnered this radio spot for us on Saturday afternoons on radio station KSLR 630 AM. Terry vowed to fund this program himself, but now it has become a family affair as many of our SABBSA board members have also signed up to help fund the production and airing of this program.

Terry is now into the writing of our fifth script and we have recorded the first demo program for evaluation by Salem Communications, the parent company of KSLR.

There are several ways you can help with this exciting new endeavor. One and always first is pray for this program, for its content and impact. Second, become a sponsor as many of our board members have done and help us defray the $60+ per week costs of putting this program on. Third listen to this show on the air and tell your friends and family members so this can reach as wide an audience as possible. Fourth, help us with scripts. We are hoping that our board and other interested

and knowledgeable members will both tell us what they would like to hear in future programs as well as help us by writing future scripts and coming on the air with us to make this truly a group effort.

The first few scripts have been written by Terry Read and edited by Scott Lane. These two individuals will record the first five or so shows to be aired, but we want to use the full capabilities of our membership at SABBSA so we challenge each of you to come up with topics and scripts within our 13 minute program format so that you too can get on the air with us!

Interested parties should email, call or talk to Scott or Terry so that we can spell out the parameters of what we are trying to achieve on the air. Scott Lane can be contacted at 210-861-0454 or email him at [email protected]

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“Made in His Image” at FEAST this Year! FEAST has again entrusted us with providing FEAST’s science workshops this year. In the spring we will feature the Institute for Creation Research’s new series “Made in His Image.” This year’s schedule of presentations is shown below. Thanks to Dr. Carl and Cindy Williams who have again agreed to provide the very popular young children’s “hands on” programs which run concurrently with our adult and youth presentations.

January 25, 2016 Made in His Image - Episode 1: The Miracle of Birth. We will also on this night supplement this presentation with a clip from another ICR video called “The Making of a Baby.” Both films are rated G!

February 22, 2016 Made in His Image - Episode 2: The Marvel of Eyes. 

March 28, 2016 Made in His Image - Episode 3: Uniquely Human Hands. 

April 25, 2016 Made in His Image - Episode 4: Beauty in Motion. 

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Patterns of Evidence: The ExodusSABBSA was invited by the Greater Houston Creation Association to present this fine video Patterns of Evidence: The Exodus at Houston First Baptist Church last month. We hope our sister organization in Houston was blessed by this.

SABBSA has purchased the rights to show this video over the next year and we will be happy to bring it to your church or other organization. Just email us or call Scott Lane at 210-861-0454.

Prayer Needs and Praises!

Answers in Genesis and their Ark Encounter project have come under intense political attack and the state of Kentucky has rescinded their rights to tax incentives provided to all tourist attractions such as them. AiG has had to sue the state of Kentucky to try and get back the tax incentives provided to all tourist attractions in Kentucky. Please pray that God will restore these tax incentives to Ark Encounter. Praise God for the fact that AiG has been able to break ground and is in the midst of construction with this ambitious project! The Ark is to open July 7 of this year!

Please keep Bodie Hodge (son-in-law of Ken Ham, creation science book author and speaker for AiG) in your prayers. In November, he suffered a massive heart attack. After a successful surgery, he is now resting at home with his family.

Humor Corner

Around Texas

Houston: The Greater Houston Creation Association (GHCA) meets the first Thursday of each month. They meet at Houston's First Baptist Church at 7 pm, in Room 143. After the presentation, there will be refreshments, fellowship and creation science materials for all to enjoy. For more information go to www.ghcaonline.com.

Glen Rose: Dr. Carl Baugh gives a “Director’s Lecture Series” on the first Saturday of each month at the Creation Evidences Museum just outside Glen Rose, TX. The new and improved museum is also a great and beneficial way to spend any day. Presentations are at 11 am and 2 pm. For more information go to www.creationevidence.org

Dallas-Ft Worth: The Metroplex Institute of Origin Science (MIOS) meets at the Dr. Pepper Starcenter, 12700 N. Stemmons Fwy, Farmers Branch, TX, usually at 7:30 pm of the first Tuesday of each month.

Lubbock Area (Crosbyton): All year: Consider a visit to the Mt. Blanco Fossil Museum, directed by Joe Taylor. The Museum is definitely worth the visit if you live near or are traveling through the Panhandle near Lubbock. If you call ahead and time permitting, Joe has been known to give personal tours, especially to groups. For more information, visit http://www.mtblanco.com/.

Greater San Antonio area: Listen to Answers with Ken Ham online at the address below. (No nearby station for this broadcast). http://www.answersingenesis.org/media/audio/answers-daily To hear program from

the Institute for Creation Research, listen online at this address. http://www.icr.org/radio/ Also, tune in KHCB FM 88.5 (San Marcos) or KKER FM 88.7 (Kerrville) for Back to Genesis at 8:57 AM Mon-Fri, then Science, Scripture and Salvation at 1:30 AM, 8:00 AM and 4:30 PM on Saturdays.

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Last Month at SABBSA

The Human Body: Divine Engineering (DVD)

Evolutionists say any appearance of design in nature is just an illusion. But how does that stack up to reality?

Dr. Randy Guliuzza, a professional engineer, medical doctor, National Representative for the Institute for Creation Research and a former SABBSA Board Member explores the wonders of the human hand, demonstrating the precise interactions of our nervous systems and muscles that provide its powerful movements. Dr. Guliuzza unwrapped for us the astounding design features that testify to the engineering genius of our Creator, the Lord Jesus Christ.

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Next SABBSA Meeting: Tuesday, January 12, 2016, at 7 pm

Coming to SABBSA in January

The Origin of Old-Earth Geology & Christian Compromise in the 19th Century-Part I (DVD)

A video featuring Dr. Terry Mortenson of Answers in Genesis. This video shows that the church's compromises on biblical authority began before Darwin. This eye-opening talk by historian Terry Mortenson shows that biblical geologists defended biblical history (and exposed the fallacies in an old earth), but the church refused to listen.

Please join us on January 12 for this informative video showing how we have been in the business of compromising God's word for longer than you might think. As always we invite you to join us for warm Christian fellowship, good food and Christian apologetic teaching that you will see nowhere else in Bexar County.

This video will be followed by a discussion, along with our yearly vote to install this year’s board and officers. It is also the time of year when we renew our yearly SABBSA memberships and dues to help support our ministry. We hope to see you there.