Post by iris89 on Jun 13, 2008 15:47:22 GMT -5
Creation, The Wonderful Gift of Almighty God (YHWH)
INTRODUCTION:
Some scientists believe the universe is pointless, without rhyme or reason; that the human race is not the center piece, but a freak accident, the by-product of pointless material forces in a back water of the universe. But is this so?
We will explore how nothing is pointless or the by-product of pointless material forces in a back water of the universe through the intricates of pollination. This one small area will show the regularity and design of even such a small item as the sexual organs of a flower show great intelligence and point to Almighty God (YHWH) as the supreme creative intelligence behind the universe.
POLLINATION MECHANISM OF A SALVIA FLOWER AN EXAMPLE OF GREAT INTELLIGENCE:
In Mexico and the western USA exist the Salvia flower an one observer noticed hummingbirds pollinating it. He noted, that when the hummingbird inserted its beak into the Salvia flower, the flower's male stamens bent down and dusted pollen atop of the bird's beak and forehead!
When the hummingbird left, he opened up a flower to see how the stamens had been able to move. He noted, each stamen's filament bear a little pivot about midway its length. The stamen is almost like a seesaw. When the backend of the seesaw is nudged by the bill being inserted, the front end with the pollen-bearing anther swivels downward, dousing the bird with pollen. When the bird visits the next flower, that flower's female style, with the stigma at its end, is held just beyond the top petal and thus will be the first part of the flower to touch the bird, and will receive the pollen from the last flower. Now it is simple to see how it all works, but imagine the great intelligence behind this design. Obviously no accident, but a very well thought out design.
THE BLOSSOMING SCARLET SAGE:
Other flowers have similar well designed methods of pollination showing creation by a superior intelligence. To readily see this, if you have blossoming Scarlet Sage at your place, you should open a blossom and see how its stamens are hinged a little like seesaws. Thus, when a bee moves beneath the seesaw and her head pushes up the seesaw's back side, the filaments front end with the anthers attached moves down, dousing the bee with pollen. The Salvia, previously mentioned, and Scarlet Sage are in the same genus, the genus Salvia, so it's not surprising that they would have similar workings inside them.
If you wish to examine a Scarlet Sage or Salvia blossom press down on the side petals, the wings, and you will see a slender, hairy, white style extended from the cylindrical, upward-curling object in the flower's center, the keel. Pressing your thumb down on the side petals will cause the style to poke from the curled tube. Thus, both the Salvia and the Scarlet Sage flowers have interesting mechanical at works inside them. It may take you a while to understand what is happening, but it will be a lot of fun figuring it out! In real life of course an insect pollinator would land on the side petals, pressing them down, and the style would reach out from the curled tube to pick up any pollen on the pollinator's back. A very clever and interesting design that could be no accident.
THINGS TO LOOK FOR WHEN EXAMINING A FLOWER:
When examining a flower, one should start by trying to figure out who or what is pollinating the blossom, i.e., insect such as a bee, a wasp, or other; a bird; or possibly even a specialized bat before you pay attention to the following:
[1] Is there a "landing Pad" for insects or birds?
[2] Is there any colored lines, called nectar guides, for leading the insect or bird from the landing pad toward the nectar? If you find any, you almost surely have a flower designed for honeybees, or other insects!
[3] Other features that might indicate pollination by a bat and/or other animal.
QUESTIONS FOR EVOLUTIONIST:
Now that we have seen, even lowly flowers show evidence of intelligence design by an intelligent Creator and not the by-product of pointless material forces in a back water of the universe.
Questions for Evolutionists to Answer:
1. Where did the space for the universe come from?
2. Where did matter come from? Einstein clearly showed in his famous formula that matter could only be changed into energy and visa versa, but not created by any method known to men.
3. Where did the laws of the universe come from (gravity, inertia, the weak force, etc.)?
4. How did matter get so perfectly organized?
5. Where did the energy come from to do all the organizing?
6. When, where, why, and how did life come from dead matter?
7. When, where, why, and how did life learn to reproduce itself?
8. With what did the first cell capable of sexual reproduction reproduce?
9. Why would any plant or animal want to reproduce more of its kind since this would only make more mouths to feed and decrease the chances of survival? (Does the individual have a drive to survive, or the species? How do you explain this?)
10. How can mutations (recombining of the genetic code) create any new, improved varieties? (Recombining English letters will never produce Chinese books.)
11. Is it possible that similarities in design between different animals prove a common Creator instead of a common ancestor?
12. Natural selection only works with the genetic information available and tends only to keep a species stable. How would you explain the increasing complexity in the genetic code that must have occurred if evolution were true?
13. When, where, why, and how did: a) Single-celled plants become multicelled? (Where are the two- and threecelled intermediates?) b) Single-celled animals evolve? c) Fish change to amphibians? d) Amphibians change to reptiles? e) Reptiles change to birds? (The lungs, bones, eyes, reproductive organs, heart, method of locomotion, body covering, etc., are all very different!) How did the intermediate forms live?
14. When, where, why, how, and from what did: a) Whales evolve? b) Sea horses evolve? c) Bats evolve? d) Eyes evolve? e) Ears evolve? f) Hair, skin, feathers, scales, nails, claws, etc., evolve?
15. Which evolved first (how, and how long, did it work without the others)? a) The digestive system, the food to be digested, the appetite, the ability to find and eat the food, the digestive juices, or the body's resistance to its own digestive juice (stomach, intestines, etc.)? b) The drive to reproduce or the ability to reproduce? c) The lungs, the mucus lining to protect them, the throat, or the perfect mixture of gases to be breathed into the lungs? d) DNA or RNA to carry the DNA message to cell parts? e) The termite or the flagella in its intestines that actually digest the cellulose? f) The plants or the insects that live on and pollinate the plants? g) The bones, ligaments, tendons, blood supply, or muscles to move the bones? h) The nervous system, repair system, or hormone system? i) The immune system or the need for it?
References:
[1] Creation or Evolution? By Iris the Preacher 2001 [can be read at, religioustruths.proboards59.com/i....read=1169135660 on 06/13/2008]
[2] The Backyard Nature Website by Jim Conrad
[3] Encyclopedia Britannia
To learn more, check out the following:
[1] religioustruths.proboards59.com/ An Educational Referral Forum
[2] www.network54.com/Forum/403209 A Forum Devoted to Exposing The False Religion of Islam
[3] jude3.proboards92.com/ A Free-Speech Forum For All
[4] www.freewebs.com/iris_the_preacher My web site.
Your Friend in Christ Iris89
INTRODUCTION:
Some scientists believe the universe is pointless, without rhyme or reason; that the human race is not the center piece, but a freak accident, the by-product of pointless material forces in a back water of the universe. But is this so?
We will explore how nothing is pointless or the by-product of pointless material forces in a back water of the universe through the intricates of pollination. This one small area will show the regularity and design of even such a small item as the sexual organs of a flower show great intelligence and point to Almighty God (YHWH) as the supreme creative intelligence behind the universe.
POLLINATION MECHANISM OF A SALVIA FLOWER AN EXAMPLE OF GREAT INTELLIGENCE:
In Mexico and the western USA exist the Salvia flower an one observer noticed hummingbirds pollinating it. He noted, that when the hummingbird inserted its beak into the Salvia flower, the flower's male stamens bent down and dusted pollen atop of the bird's beak and forehead!
When the hummingbird left, he opened up a flower to see how the stamens had been able to move. He noted, each stamen's filament bear a little pivot about midway its length. The stamen is almost like a seesaw. When the backend of the seesaw is nudged by the bill being inserted, the front end with the pollen-bearing anther swivels downward, dousing the bird with pollen. When the bird visits the next flower, that flower's female style, with the stigma at its end, is held just beyond the top petal and thus will be the first part of the flower to touch the bird, and will receive the pollen from the last flower. Now it is simple to see how it all works, but imagine the great intelligence behind this design. Obviously no accident, but a very well thought out design.
THE BLOSSOMING SCARLET SAGE:
Other flowers have similar well designed methods of pollination showing creation by a superior intelligence. To readily see this, if you have blossoming Scarlet Sage at your place, you should open a blossom and see how its stamens are hinged a little like seesaws. Thus, when a bee moves beneath the seesaw and her head pushes up the seesaw's back side, the filaments front end with the anthers attached moves down, dousing the bee with pollen. The Salvia, previously mentioned, and Scarlet Sage are in the same genus, the genus Salvia, so it's not surprising that they would have similar workings inside them.
If you wish to examine a Scarlet Sage or Salvia blossom press down on the side petals, the wings, and you will see a slender, hairy, white style extended from the cylindrical, upward-curling object in the flower's center, the keel. Pressing your thumb down on the side petals will cause the style to poke from the curled tube. Thus, both the Salvia and the Scarlet Sage flowers have interesting mechanical at works inside them. It may take you a while to understand what is happening, but it will be a lot of fun figuring it out! In real life of course an insect pollinator would land on the side petals, pressing them down, and the style would reach out from the curled tube to pick up any pollen on the pollinator's back. A very clever and interesting design that could be no accident.
THINGS TO LOOK FOR WHEN EXAMINING A FLOWER:
When examining a flower, one should start by trying to figure out who or what is pollinating the blossom, i.e., insect such as a bee, a wasp, or other; a bird; or possibly even a specialized bat before you pay attention to the following:
[1] Is there a "landing Pad" for insects or birds?
[2] Is there any colored lines, called nectar guides, for leading the insect or bird from the landing pad toward the nectar? If you find any, you almost surely have a flower designed for honeybees, or other insects!
[3] Other features that might indicate pollination by a bat and/or other animal.
QUESTIONS FOR EVOLUTIONIST:
Now that we have seen, even lowly flowers show evidence of intelligence design by an intelligent Creator and not the by-product of pointless material forces in a back water of the universe.
Questions for Evolutionists to Answer:
1. Where did the space for the universe come from?
2. Where did matter come from? Einstein clearly showed in his famous formula that matter could only be changed into energy and visa versa, but not created by any method known to men.
3. Where did the laws of the universe come from (gravity, inertia, the weak force, etc.)?
4. How did matter get so perfectly organized?
5. Where did the energy come from to do all the organizing?
6. When, where, why, and how did life come from dead matter?
7. When, where, why, and how did life learn to reproduce itself?
8. With what did the first cell capable of sexual reproduction reproduce?
9. Why would any plant or animal want to reproduce more of its kind since this would only make more mouths to feed and decrease the chances of survival? (Does the individual have a drive to survive, or the species? How do you explain this?)
10. How can mutations (recombining of the genetic code) create any new, improved varieties? (Recombining English letters will never produce Chinese books.)
11. Is it possible that similarities in design between different animals prove a common Creator instead of a common ancestor?
12. Natural selection only works with the genetic information available and tends only to keep a species stable. How would you explain the increasing complexity in the genetic code that must have occurred if evolution were true?
13. When, where, why, and how did: a) Single-celled plants become multicelled? (Where are the two- and threecelled intermediates?) b) Single-celled animals evolve? c) Fish change to amphibians? d) Amphibians change to reptiles? e) Reptiles change to birds? (The lungs, bones, eyes, reproductive organs, heart, method of locomotion, body covering, etc., are all very different!) How did the intermediate forms live?
14. When, where, why, how, and from what did: a) Whales evolve? b) Sea horses evolve? c) Bats evolve? d) Eyes evolve? e) Ears evolve? f) Hair, skin, feathers, scales, nails, claws, etc., evolve?
15. Which evolved first (how, and how long, did it work without the others)? a) The digestive system, the food to be digested, the appetite, the ability to find and eat the food, the digestive juices, or the body's resistance to its own digestive juice (stomach, intestines, etc.)? b) The drive to reproduce or the ability to reproduce? c) The lungs, the mucus lining to protect them, the throat, or the perfect mixture of gases to be breathed into the lungs? d) DNA or RNA to carry the DNA message to cell parts? e) The termite or the flagella in its intestines that actually digest the cellulose? f) The plants or the insects that live on and pollinate the plants? g) The bones, ligaments, tendons, blood supply, or muscles to move the bones? h) The nervous system, repair system, or hormone system? i) The immune system or the need for it?
References:
[1] Creation or Evolution? By Iris the Preacher 2001 [can be read at, religioustruths.proboards59.com/i....read=1169135660 on 06/13/2008]
[2] The Backyard Nature Website by Jim Conrad
[3] Encyclopedia Britannia
To learn more, check out the following:
[1] religioustruths.proboards59.com/ An Educational Referral Forum
[2] www.network54.com/Forum/403209 A Forum Devoted to Exposing The False Religion of Islam
[3] jude3.proboards92.com/ A Free-Speech Forum For All
[4] www.freewebs.com/iris_the_preacher My web site.
Your Friend in Christ Iris89