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Welcome to Great OutDoor Endeavors!
Our ministry is focused on understanding God, via nature, using the Bible as our guide. God has many things to say about the world He created and how it relates to us, and us to Him.
Our hikes, camping trips, and other outdoor activities focus on God’s creation and bringing us closer to Him. Using short devotionals, creation “tidbits”, and the Bible, we will strive to lead you to a better understanding of His word and a closer relationship with Him.
Join us as we explore God’s creation in the Great OutDoors!
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Featured Article
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CSI, Cold Case & GPS’s
(part 2)
Written by Mike Webb
So what, you may be asking, does CSI have to do with Creation Science or Naturalism?
Science operates in much the same way as our CSIers do. At least the historical sciences do. Anthropology and archeology are good examples. Archeologists dig (yeah, I know – I made a bad pun) for clues in ancient civilizations trying to put together what everyday life looked like and how different events unfolded. Are they 100% correct? They may be, but probably not. Who knows! If no one was there as an eyewitness, much of it is a circumstantial “best guess.” It’s terrific when a written record can be found to verify their conclusions. Unfortunately, too often, written records necessitate archeologists going back to revamp and revise their models as more details are revealed.
Naturalist scientists in fields such as genetics, astronomy, biology, etc… are in the same position when they try to posit on origins; origins of the universe and of life itself. They dig and dig trying to find evidence. This evidence, however, doesn’t “say” anything on its own. It has to be interpreted. Is there a way of doing so with 100% accuracy? To quote myself, “There may be, but probably not. Who knows! If no one was there as an eyewitness, much of it is a circumstantial ‘best guess’.”
Now, I don’t mean to imply that Creationists have all the answers as to the exact sequence of events in Earth’s past history. We do have the main sequence of events. Even better, we have a written record – The Word of God. To quote myself again, “It’s terrific when a written record can be found to verify their conclusions.”
“Ah-ha!” the secularist will shout, “You start with a position that can’t be studied. ‘God’ can’t be studied or proven.”
I admit that is correct. But let’s be completely, intellectually honest, the other side has some unanswerable, un-testable questions of their own.
I can hear the screams now – “Wha…?! What questions are there to which we have no answers?”
I don’t have the time or space to cover them all. I encourage you to actually do some research. Ask yourself a hard question, and then try to find a 100% completely satisfying answer.
Here’s one that stumps me: where did the matter or energy or whatever was there in the beginning come from? Don’t know for certainty? No one does! That one is sort of like asking, “Where did God come from?”
Here’s another question for you: where and how did life originate? Did it crawl up out of some primordial soup? Know one knows for certain, regardless of what you have been told. You see, it’s un-testable. You would have to completely duplicate the conditions present at the time. What were they? Beats me; I wasn’t there. Nor was anyone else!
A related question: “How do we know animals have evolved from one kind to another?” We don’t see it happening in front of us and we can’t make it happen. Not true “evolution.” We can see mutations and we see variety in animals, but we don’t see the “links” we are supposed to see.
“What about Archaeopteryx? That’s a link!”
Is it? I see a fully functional, original bird that happens to have teeth. Who’s right? How can you be certain? The fossils don’t offer up any more info other than what they are – fossilized remains of organic material/
So, like a good detective, keep an open mind to all of the possibilities. Keep studying, testing, and digging. Keep trying to piece together the past. But remember, without an eyewitness, you’re dealing with circumstantial evidence. Like any CSI knows, it may, or may not, be enough for a conviction.
