Best Qualified Candidate Expelled Over Views on Evolution, Design

For daring to question evolution, an astronomer who was the best qualified candidate to become director of a new observatory lost out. “No one denies that astronomer Martin Gaskell was the leading candidate for the founding director of a new observatory at the University of Kentucky in 2007 – until his writings on evolution came to light,” a report on Courier-Journal reported. Martin Gaskell is suing the University, claiming that his views on evolution, religion and intelligent design cost him the position.

(for more of this article, see Best Qualified Candidate Expelled Over Views on Evolution, Design, Creation-Evolution Headlines, December 2010)

(also published in Creation Matters, a publication of Creation Research Society, Volume 15, Number 6, November/December 2010, to appear at http://www.creationresearch.org/creation_matters/pdf/2010/CM15%2006%20low%20res.pdf)

(for additional info see Daily Mail, Christian astronomer sues university that said his appointment would be 'huge public relations mistake', 17th December 2010)

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The words that put Asia Bibi in prison

On a hot Friday afternoon in June 2009, Asia Bibi left her post to get water for the other women who were picking fruit with her. But the women she worked with on the farm in Punjab province, Pakistan, refused her hospitality, saying the water was contaminated by her Christian hands. Asia and the women had a heated exchange about religion. Her Muslim co-workers taunted her for being a Christian and insisted that she should follow Mohammed.

She finally replied, "Our Christ sacrificed his life on the cross for our sins. What has your prophet done for you? Our Christ is alive. Your prophet is dead. Our Christ is the true prophet of God and yours is not true."

Asia was charged with blasphemy and locked in jail, where she remained for nearly 17 months before being sentenced to death. She is still in jail, pending the outcome of a legal appeal to her death sentence.

(from Voice of the Martyrs, February 2011)

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Mediocrity, the silent killer

From Tom White: In my opinion, corruption is not the main killer of Christian endeavor. We all recognize corruption and sin in our war with the devil. But just as high blood pressure is considered a silent killer in our physical bodies, the silent killer of the gospel is mediocrity - or, in biblical terms, being "lukewarm." A mediocre life is one that is neither good nor bad. Mediocre Christians may enjoy life simply because it is there, believing that as long as they have faith and are "good" people, they don't have to accomplish much of anything.

(Voice of the Martyrs newsletter, February 2011)

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The guerrilla asked, what are evangelicals?

In Columbia, Rolo and his guerrilla trainer made a surprising discovery one night that left a lasting impression on Rolo. "We learned to travel at night without a flashlight," Rolo said. "one night two of us traveled north without making any noise through the peaks and the pastures. We arrived at a little hill and rested. My partner turned to me and said, 'You can hear the evangelicals over there.' I replied, 'What are evangelicals?'

"We looked about one kilometer over the hill to see a lighted building where people were clapping and singing. We could hear the musical instruments. It was late. Evidently this was an all night prayer worship service. The door of the church was open. It was full. As the breeze carried this sound through the bushes, my partner explained, 'And what do these people do? They worship a god ... a god, I don't know what god it is. They ask for tithes. The old ladies wear these skirts.'

"He left me there and said, 'Wait for me here.' I stayed and listened to more of their songs. I thought, 'How good would it be to be an evangelical? Wouldn't it be better than this?'"

(testimony of a FARC guerrilla who turned to Christ, Voice of the Martyrs, February 2011)

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But they taught us that man evolved in Africa...

It is well known that the first human being evolved in Africa, and then migrated to all the other continents. Or is it really so?

Science Daily reported, “An international team of researchers, including a physical anthropology professor at Washington University in St. Louis, has discovered well-dated human fossils in southern China that markedly change anthropologists perceptions of the emergence of modern humans in the eastern Old World.” Maybe it was out of Asia instead of Africa. The BBC News has a photo of the cave in China where the bones were found. National Geographic News said that these bones, 60,000 years older than previous finds, “presents a strong challenge” to the out-of-Africa theory and the “traditional early-human time line”.

(for more, see Early Man in Trouble, Creation-Evolution Headlines, October 2010)

(also published in Creation Matters, a publication of Creation Research Society, Volume 15, Number 6, November/December 2010, to appear at http://www.creationresearch.org/creation_matters/pdf/2010/CM15%2006%20low%20res.pdf)

Marko's comment: Did you know that Chinese tradition states that Noah (Fohi or Yao) founded Chinese civilization in 2240 BC, which was approximately 10 years after the Tower of Babel dispersion. Noah did live for 350 years after the Flood, and for approximately 250 years after Babel. Is it possible that he was the principle ancestor of the Asian peoples, as Japheth was of the Indo-Europeans, Shem of the Near and Middle Eastern peoples, and Ham of the Africans? See more at the Bible Time-Line.

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