Slave Lake (and Manitoba)

     

   374 houses destroyed and 52 damaged, was the official word today on the out of control wildfire that devastated Slave Lake on Sunday. Officials released a map (above) showing which homes were destroyed, which ones were damaged, and which ones were ok. Luckily there wasn't as much damage as some people were predicting, and no one was killed or injured! But over 400 homes is still a lot. Keep Slave Lake in your prayers, people.

   But as new disasters come, people seem to forget the last ones. There was Indonesia (well, that was a while ago), Haiti, New Zealand, then Japan soon after, and many other disasters in between which I'm sure I've forgotten about, which in a way proves my point. Anyways, we mustn't forget Manitoba. Thousands of people were evacuated, and it is still flooding. The good news there though is that the controlled dike break (Q: Do the ends justify the means?) which was expected to impact hundreds of homes actually didn't do that much damage and apparently none of the homes in the dike break area were flooded! :D
I couldn't help thinking that we could use some of that extra Manitoba water in Slave Lake...

Creation

Did this evolve or was it created?

       In April the atheistic organisation Centre For Inquiry Canada launched controversial bus ads in BC claiming there is no God. The catch-phrase of this anti-Christian organization is "Extraordinary Claims Demand Extraordinary Evidence". They say that the burden of proof is on believers of God to prove that He exists. They also say that a belief in a god is an "extraordinary claim" and that it requires "extraordinary evidence".

       I find this interesting, because it seems to me that the real extraordinary claim here is that life somehow originated from non-life (an occurrence which has never been observed) and that humans like you and me ultimately evolved from microscopic organisms over time – in short, the Theory of Macro-evolution, which most atheists adhere to. It makes much more sense that an intelligent designer made our beautiful universe than that random processes created everything we know.

       So my challenge to you is this: find the real evidence, and judge for yourself what is true. Are there intermediate links between species in the fossil record that show they evolved? No. Are there evolutionary trends in the DNA of different species? No. Have we seen instances of (primitive) life spontaneously generating from non-life? No. Macro-evolution claims to have the answer to how we got here, but because of the numerous holes in the thoery, it ends up merely creating more puzzling questions instead.

       On the other hand, does it seem that nature was created? Take a look at your eyes – the delicate yet complex system of sight we have that is better than any camera ever invented. Take a look at even single celled organisms! There is no such thing as a "simple life form." Single cells are like miniature cities with ways to get food, break it down into energy, get rid of the waste products, protect themselves from invasion, copy information (DNA), communicate with other cells, and perform other essential tasks. You can believe that these spontaneously generated through random processes with random components at an unknown time and place, or you can choose to believe what is strikingly apparent - that nature has been designed by an intelligent God.