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Billy Graham's Prayer For Our Nation



: 'Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask your forgiveness and to seek your direction and guidance.
We know Your Word says, 'Woe to those who call evil good,' but that is exactly what we have done.

We have lost our spiritual equilibrium and reversed our values. We have exploited the poor and called it the lottery.

We have rewarded laziness and called it welfare.

We have killed our unborn and called it choice.

We have shot abortionists and called it justifiable.

We have neglected to discipline our children and called it building self esteem.

We have abused power and called it politics.

We have coveted our neighbor's possessions and called it ambition.

We have polluted the air with profanity and pornography and called it freedom of expression.

We have ridiculed the time-honored values of our forefathers and called it enlightenment.

Search us, Oh God, and know our hearts today; cleanse us from every sin and Set us free.
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: Amen!'
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Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness..."

In January it was announced that scientists had created self-replicating RNA. I first heard this on National Public Radio. There the announcer gushed about having found the origins of life and Richard Dawkins being right. Gerald Joyce of the Scripps Research Institute had this to say about his teams work:

""So long as you provide the building blocks and the starter seed, it goes forever. It is immortalized molecular information.

[The] chemicals are technically hacked RNA enzymes, much like the ones we have in our bodies, but they don't behave anything like those in living creatures. But, these synthetic RNA replicators do provide a model for evolution — and shed light on one step in the development of early living systems from on a lifeless globe.

"More fundamentally, to mimic biology, a molecule must gain new functions on the fly, without laboratory tinkering. It doesn't have open-ended capacity for Darwinian evolution.

Obviously what we're trying to do is make a biology. [We} hopes to imbue [this] molecule with all the fundamental properties of life: self-replication, evolution, and function.

Gerald Joyce in New Scientist http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16382-artificial-molecule-evolves-in-the-lab.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news

Now there are three big points that I would like to make here.
First, when the engineer "hacks" takes from what is already in existence and makes something new with it, he demonstrates that he was made "...in [God's]... image, in ... likeness..."
Second, according to Chandra Wickramasinghe, Professor of Applied Mathematics and Astronomy at the Cardiff University of Wales, "if you were to take the information density just in the human enzyme and analyze the complexity of information, as a mathematician you will come to the very quick conclusion that the possibility of that language coming together [by accident]is one in ten to the forty thousandth power.
That compares to the estimated number of atoms in the universe at 4x10 to the 79th power and 1x10 to the 81st power.
So the improbability of this happening by accident is greater than the total number of atoms in the universe. DUH!
Third to prove that life began on its own, they still have to have matter that accidentally comes into existance on its own.

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