Welcome To Our Services This Morning

October 31, 2010

"God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in

spirit and in truth" (Jesus of Nazareth from John 4:24)

This morning's Scripture reading is...

John 14:7-12

"...as this process of extermination [survival of the fittest] has acted on an enormous scale, so must the number of intermediate varieties, which have formerly existed on the earth, be truly enormous. Why then is not every geological formation and every stratum full of such intermediate links? Geology assuredly does not reveal any such finely graduated organic chain; and this, perhaps, is the most obvious and gravest objection which can be urged against my theory. The explanation lies, as I believe, in the extreme imperfection of the geological record." Charles Darwin 1859

“Divergent big toes are associated with grasping, and this has one of the most divergent big toes you can imagine.”

ardipithecus ramidus

discovered 1992-1994 in Ethiopia

same basic size, skeletal features as modern chimps (ape)

Left: Ardi reconstruction

Right modern chimp

archaeopteryx

archaeopteryx

discovered 1861 in Germany

One of the most debated "transitional" fossils

archaeopteryx

September 11-15, 1984, an International Archaeopteryx Conference was held in Eichstatt, Bavaria to evaluate the official status of Archaeopteryx - officially classified as "bird"

tiktaalik

discovered 2004 in Canada - dated to 379 million years

lobe-finned fish fleshy pelvic and pectoral fins with well developed bones and muscles. These fins join (or articulate) to the body via a single bone (humerus to the shoulder or pectoral girdle, and femur to the pelvis)

tetrapod footprints-discoverdin Poland- dated 397 mill. yrs:18 mil. yrsolder thanTiktaalik1

coelacanth

coelacanth

tiktaalik

discovered 2004 in Canada - - dated to 379 million years

lobe-finned fish fleshy pelvic and pectoral fins with well developed bones and muscles. These fins join (or articulate) to the body via a single bone (humerus to the shoulder or pectoral girdle, and femur to the pelvis)

Alleged Bible ContradictionsJim Merritt (from www.infidels.org - 1992)

Born (YYYY.MM.DD): 1953.12.30

Occupation: Unix systems engineer

Degrees:M.S. Physiochemical Oceanography, University of South Carolina (1976)

M.S. Operations Research/Systems Analysis specializing in advanced modeling, Naval Postgraduate School (1982)

Title(s): Lieutenant Commander, USNR

Alleged Bible ContradictionsJim Merritt (from www.infidels.org - 1992)

non-believer - "The Bible is riddled with repetitions and contradictions, things that the Bible bangers would be quick to point out in anything that they want to criticize."

Alleged Bible ContradictionsJim Merritt (from www.infidels.org - 1992)

God good to all, or just a few?

PSA 145:9 (308) The LORD is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works.

JER 13:14 (374) And I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, saith the LORD: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, but destroy them.

Alleged Bible ContradictionsJim Merritt (from www.infidels.org - 1992)

War or Peace?

EXO 15:3 (34)The LORD is a man of war: the LORD is his name.

ROM 15:33 (552)Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen.

Who is the father of Joseph?

MAT 1:16 (469) And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.

LUK 3:23 (499) And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli.

Alleged Bible ContradictionsJim Merritt (from www.infidels.org - 1992)

War or Peace?

EXO 15:3 (34)The LORD is a man of war: the LORD is his name.

ROM 15:33 (552)Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen.

Who is the father of Joseph?

MAT 1:16 (469) And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.

LUK 3:23 (499) Now Jesus himself was about thirty years old when he began his ministry. He was the son, so it was thought, of Joseph, the son of Heli, (NIV)

Alleged Bible ContradictionsJim Merritt (from www.infidels.org - 1992)

War or Peace?

EXO 15:3 (34)The LORD is a man of war: the LORD is his name.

ROM 15:33 (552)Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen.

Who is the father of Joseph?

MAT 1:16 (469) And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.

LUK 3:23 (499) When Jesus began to preach, he was about thirty years old. Everyone thought he was the son of Joseph. But his family went back through Heli, (CEV)

Alleged Bible ContradictionsJim Merritt (from www.infidels.org - 1992)

Human vs. ghostly impregnation?

ACT 2:30 (529) Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne;

MAT 1:18 (469) Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.