Let us now turn our attention to geological evidence. The following account and experience of a Physicist, Bob Gentry, has been taken from Chapter Four of the booklet Seeing Is Believing, by George Vandeman. Bob has also written a detailed account in a book entitled Creation's Tiny Mystery, which can be purchased from the address listed at the end of this chapter.

     "The year 1968 was a bitter pill to swallow. January stormed in with the North Korean capture of the USS Pueblo and the shocking Tet Offensive in Vietnam. Springtime cursed us with the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy. Summer brought no relief as the Vietnam peace talks dragged on and anti-war protests intensified! "No doubt about it, 1968 was a year we would just as soon forget. That is, except for Christmas Eve. A beacon of hope came to us that night, the thrill of accomplishment. For the first time in history men were orbiting the moon. And they were Americans! We could hardly believe our eyes as television relayed the dramatic lunar vista beneath Apollo 8. Astronauts Frank Borman, James Lovell and William Anders sent their Christmas greetings from a quarter million miles away. Then they read to us the first chapter of an old Book. Comforting words, somehow familiar and yet
nearly forgotten: 'In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.'

    "The New York Times, commenting on that Scripture reading from lunar orbit, observed, 'Somehow it was exactly right.' Yes, what could have been more appropriate for our astronauts than to recognize that theblue sphere they looked back upon exists not by accident, but because God put it here?

    "Some months after the mission of Apollo 8, I learned of a rather unusual incident that had taken place that Christmas Eve. Naturally,  many reporters were present at the Space Center in Houston, some of them from foreign nations. Among them were two from a country without a Christian background. These men had been deeply impressed as the astronauts read from Genesis. The stark splendor of those grand wordstouched their minds and hearts.

    "Not realizing they had been listening to Scripture, they asked someone from NASA if a script from which the astronauts read might be  available. The American official replied with a meaningful smile, 'Why, yes, when you get back to your hotel room, just open the drawer of your  nightstand. You will find a book bound in black. And the script from which the astronauts read is on the very first page.' "'In the beginning Godcreated.'  Strange as it may seem, many Christians in America are not as moved by these immortal words as those atheist journalists were. Even  many churchgoing scientists and educators, searching for the origins of life, find themselves unable to accept any answer that points to a Creator.  They would gladly spend millions of dollars probing outer space to find our roots. They would welcome some ancient legend or embrace some  dusty artifact. But not the Bible account of Creation! "They seem to enjoy bobbing like corks on the sea of uncertainty. If they knew something for  sure, they couldn't speculate anymore. All this to escape a Creator! All this to escape moral responsibility? I'm convinced that doubting Cod's Word  is not just a problem of logic. It's more a problem of attitude. Human nature wants to 'do its own thing,' although we might not want to admit it. So we hide our doubts amid intellectual verbiage.

    "It was Aldous Huxley who said, `The philosopher who finds no meaning in the world is not concerned exclusively with a problem in puremetaphysics, he is also concerned to prove that there is no valid reason why he personally should not do as he wants to do' (Ends and Means, p. 315).

    "We will discuss Gentry's fascinating discovery in a moment, but first let me tell you his story. "Bob Gentry had grown up in a Christianhome believing the biblical account of life's origins. But while taking a freshman biology course at the University of Florida, he began doubtingthe Scriptures. By the time he finished his studies there, he had become a theistic evolutionist-one who disbelieves the Genesis creation account butstill believes God exists.

    "One day an agnostic friend recommended a television program called 'It Is Written.' Gentry had no idea religion was involved until hetuned in to our telecast the next Sunday evening. But he then became one of our regular viewers. When I visited Orlando in the spring of 1959 toconduct some lectures, the Gentry’s invited me to their home. We discussed creation and evolution. I expressed my conviction that those whodiscard the account of Genesis also discredit the rest of the Bible. For instance, the Ten Commandments teach beyond question that God createdthe world in six literal days. We looked at the fourth commandment together: 'Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shalllabor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work...for in six days the Lord made theheavens and the earth.... Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it' (Exodus 20:8-II)

    "This Sabbath commandment directly challenged Bob Gentry's confidence in evolution. He had been trying tomaintain faith in the Bible by equating the six days of creation with six
long geological eras. But now he realized that if such were the case the fourth commandment would be saying something like this:   "'Six billion years you shall labor and do all your work, but theseventh billion year is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work...for in six billion year the Lord made heaven and earth... andrested the seventh billion year, Therefore the Lord blessed the seventh billion year and hallowed it.' "That gets a little ridiculous, wouldn't yousay? Well, Bob Gentry thought so too. So now he had a puzzle to solve.

    The Sabbath commandment proved that Genesis 1 required six, twenty- four-hour days in the creation week. But science seemed to indicateotherwise-radiometric dating appeared to prove the earth to be billions of years old. This conflict between Scripture and science caused quite adilemma for Gentry. At first he thought he must either reject the Bible as reliable or surrender his belief in science. Instead, he decided to search outthe scientific evidence to see for himself if it could be reconciled with the creation account of Lord's Word. Gentry began to realize that the case forevolution rested on shaky ground. Everything depended upon a questionable assumption known as the 'UNIFORMITARIAN PRINCIPLE.'

    This theory supposes that the universe evolved through the ages by means of physical laws that have never changed. If evidence couldbe found disproving this supposed uniformity, the evolutionary theory would fall apart. Geologists would have no basis for assuming that
radioactive decay has been constant throughout history, no basis for believing the earth has existed for billions of years. With these thoughtschurning in his mind, Bob Gentry moved his family to the Atlanta area. There he taught physics while pursuing graduate studies at the GeorgiaInstitute of Technology. Gentry's quest for truth led him to investigate radioactive halos. (These are imprints of radioactivity in rocks whichreveal the radiation present long ago when the earth came into existence.)

    But the department chairman wasn't enthusiastic about this new area ofstudy. For a year he tried to discourage Gentry.  "Finally he said, `Well, look, Bob. The time has come for me to tellyou frankly, if you want to do this research, fine. But you can't do it at Georgia Tech. I don't think you're going to find anything. But what if youdid? If you published evidence that disrupted the evolutionary time scale, what would happen to Georgia Tech? You would be an embarrassment toeveryone.' And so Bob Gentry took his conscience away from Georgia
Tech, forfeiting his doctoral dreams under those circumstances.

    Now, in the summer of 1964, he found himself nearly destitute, without a regularincome. The family exhausted their savings as well as funds borrowed from relatives in launching new research into those promising radioactivehalos. They were determined to continue this quest for truth, regardless of the consequences.

    "For the next few months things remained rather bleak for theGentry family. Nothing much happened up in Bob's research. Then he began noticing under the microscope that certain rocks had unusual ringpatterns. These mysterious 'radiohalos' showed evidence of radioactivity with a fleeting existence, lasting just a very brief time and thendisappearing. "Bob explains it this way: 'Suppose I have a glass of water and I put an Alka Seltzer tablet in it. The bubbles flow out and thendisappear within just a few seconds. Either I freeze that water instantly and catch the bubbles in transit, or else they're gone forever.

    "'That's exactly what I was looking at under the microscope. Radioactivity in rapid transition, like those bubbles, had been quicklytrapped in earth's foundation rocks. If those rocks had taken hundreds of thousands of years to cool and solidify, as evolutionists believe, theseradiohalos could never have been formed. Something with such a fleeting existence must have been trapped in a matter of minutes. But how?'

    "Finally one spring afternoon in 1965 Bob Gentry received his answer. He tells what happened:  "'I was home alone with my three children. The house was silent-itwas our 'quiet hour,' and my boisterous little ones were asleep. I moved my borrowed microscope from the back room to the front of the house toreexamine those fascinating halos.

    "'Suddenly, as I stared into the microscope, two verses from Scripture flashed into my mind: `By the word of the Lord were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth. . . . Forhe spake, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast' (Psalm 33:6, 9).

    "'As I sat there stunned, a solution suggested itself. These radiohalosin earth's foundation rocks revealed radiation that had been active long ago but since had ceased. So what most geologists thought would havetaken ages could have happened quite quickly. Could this be scientific evidence of an instantaneous creation event? Could these radiohalos, in a
sense, be God's fingerprints?'

    "Evidently Bob Gentry was onto something here. Something really big!

    "Gradually he realized the tremendous implications of his discovery.He determined to test his findings by subjecting them to inspection by his peers in the world's most reputable scientific journals. But before anythingcould be published, it would have to survive cautious and critical analysis. And once in print, the article would be further scrutinized by evolutionists
everywhere. Any errors in his methodology would be quickly exposed. Gentry managed to publish more than twenty reports in noted scientificjournals. The basic criticism he met was,
'This can't be true because evolution is true.' But his conclusions remained intact.

    "Eventually Bob Gentry came to be recognized as the world's foremost authority in his particular subspecialty. The U.S. Atomic EnergyCommission invited him to do research as a guest scientist at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. October 27, 1981, Gentry was at work in hisoffice at Oak Ridge when the phone rang. The Attorney General's office from the state of Arkansas was calling-they needed Gentry to testify at theforthcoming Arkansas creation trial as one of the expert science witnesses for the state. The teaching of creation in public schools had been opposedby the American Civil Liberties Union as being unscientific. Gentry was
asked to meet the challenge by presenting his scientific evidence for creation.

    "At the trial, Gentry's research was scrutinized again by some of theworld's most distinguished evolutionists. Then it came time for the ACLU's geologist to be cross-examined. Asked specifically about the fleetingexistence of radioactive halos, he conceded that evolution had no satisfactory explanation for them. The courtroom listened in awe as he
could only say, 'Gentry has found a tiny mystery which scientists someday will solve.' "Yes, the testimony of earth's granite rock halos is creation'stiny mystery. But scientists will never solve it. They will never solve it because the Creator of the universe has placed in those halos His eternalfingerprints. Evidence that cannot be contradicted. Many honest minds these days are becoming convinced about creation because of Bob Gentry.

    But whether or not we accept his compelling conclusions, one fact remainsself-evident: It does matter what we believe about our beginnings. For what we believe about how we got here determines what we believe aboutGod. If He has misled us in the Bible about creation, how can He be a God worth worshiping? And what we believe about our beginnings determineswhat we believe about the future. For if we discard the book of Genesis as
myth and legend, why should we take the prophecies of Revelation seriously?"

    The following information in this section was extracted from the booklet Seeing Is Believing, by George Vandeman.

Light, Color, Motion, Shape, Perspective:

   "When we turn on all the lights, everything seems real. Now we can believe. Without light, we can't see to believe. Did you ever stop to wonderwhy? And did you ever wonder just how the human eye does see? Is it a camera, snapping away and sending pictures to the brain? Does it recordscenes electrically? Let's look at just how light and our eyes work together.

    "When light strikes our eyes, it first hits the transparent cornea. Theiris, located behind the cornea, controls the amount of light entering the eye by changing the size of the pupil-the hole in its center that appearsblack.

    "Once the proper amount of light has been admitted into the eye, itmust be bent in order to focus. The cornea, because of its bulging surface, bends light sharply toward the center of the eye. The light then reaches thetiny lens, which is about the size and shape of a small bean. The lens consists of over 2,000 infinitely fine layers of transparent fiber.

    "This lens, unlike the lens in a camera, is pliable and can bulgeslightly or flatten out. This changes the way light is bent and thus helps the eye to focus very sharply. Human vision is extraordinarily flexible. We canfocus on objects a few inches from our nose and then switch instantly to a clear, sharp view of a distant star.

    "After being focused by the lens, light passes through the clearjellylike substance that fills most of the interior of our eyes. This vitreous humor is matched to the lens in such a way that it keeps light traveling inthe same focused path.  "Finally light hits the retina, a pink coating that covers the back of the eye. The retina corresponds roughly to film in acamera. Packed into the retina lie what are called rods and cones. These photoreceptors contain light-sensitive pigments.

    "The rods and cones are a bit like having two kinds of film in acamera. Plump cones are most active in bright light. They give us full-colored, sharp vision. The slender rods are for dim light. Like highly sensitive black-and-white film, they create a monochromatic picture when
little light is available. That is why color seems to disappear at night and we see basically different shades of gray.

    "About 130 million of these rods and cones are mixed together throughout the retina, occupying an area the size of a postage stamp. Thisenables us to switch with relative ease from vision in bright sunlight to vision in very dim light.

    "Our photoreceptors, the rods and cones, also perform another vitalfunction. They transform the light they receive into signals, partly electrical and partly chemical. These coded signals are what will reach thebrain.

    "To carry those signals, retinal nerve fibers are required. These fibers create a complex interconnected network that fans out over theretina. This data-collection system brings all signals together at one point.

    The nerve fibers are bunched together like a cable and pass out the backof the eye as the optic nerve. Now things are just beginning to get complicated. The optic nerves from each eye crisscross in the brain. Theysomehow exchange information so that the images from two eyes can be coordinated into one stereoscopic field of vision. Then a new set ofspecialized nerve fibers picks up the signals and carries them to the visual cortex in the back of the brain. In this small mass of gray matter, theactual phenomenon of 'seeing' takes place.

    "The billions of cells in our visual cortex are arranged in a numberof layers. All these cells have highly specialized functions. Some send projections to other areas of the brain where memory and associationoccur. Most add, combine, exchange, and organize visual data in some mysterious way yet to be fathomed. The result is perception, a picture in
the mind.

    "Clearly, seeing is no simple matter. The organs that produce sightare a marvel. Scientists tell us that the delicate engineering of the eye's cornea and lens makes the most advanced camera seem like a child's toyby comparison. The tiny rods and cones in the retina transform light into electricity and chemistry through processes the most sophisticated laboratory cannot reproduce. And finally, brain cells in our visual cortexsynthesize countless bits of data into the miracle of perception-something no high-tech computer can come close to doing. Engineering, chemistry,information processing-all are involved every time we open our eyes. All suggest that our eyes are marvelously designed. In fact, the more we learnabout vision, the harder it is to ascribe all this ingenuity to chance.

    "The eye all but demands a Creator. We have to ask, Could thehuman eye have simply evolved from something simple to its present complexity? Let me tell you what Charles Darwin said about that. Darwin,you recall, is the man who first proposed the theory of evolution. But at one point he stated that the thought of how the eye could possibly beproduced by natural selection made him ill.

    "There's a very good reason why the human eye is so distressing tothe evolutionist and why it presents such a stumbling block to developing a consistent model of natural selection. The theory of evolution states thatorganisms change through natural selection. That means, for example, that strong, healthy animals are naturally selected to survive over weaker ones
because they are better adapted to their environment. And slowly animals become better and better adapted. Beneficial changes are preserved;harmful changes are weeded out. All this, however, must happen over millions of years as a result of millions of tiny genetic changes. Thesemutations, it is believed, gradually accumulate and result in more complex
living things.

    "Now here's the problem. The human eye is absolutely useless unlesscomplete. It simply can't gradually evolve. There is no way that part of an eye could be beneficial to an animal. Natural selection would eliminate, notpreserve, any partially developed eye organs. "The lens, which focuses light, would be useless without the retina, which senses light. All the light
received would serve no purpose without the nerve fibers that carry signals to the brain. And these signals would be useless without the visualcortex, which interprets them. "Vision involves a complex interaction of nerves, muscles, fluids, glands, and brain cells. All must be perfectlyintegrated and balanced in order for us to see. Everything must be functioning or nothing functions. So you see it is very, very difficult toimagine how something like the eye could develop gradually.

    "Thinkingabout it made Darwin ill. But it need not make us ill. The eye isn't just a
baffling mystery. It is a wonderful work of art-if we understand it as the work of an Almighty Creator.

    "If we will only open our eyes to the wonder of vision, seeing canhelp us see the Creator God. "We have seen how vision and the eye point to a Designer or Creator. The Bible also tells us that light itself can pointto Him. God is light. He illuminates. He warms. He makes things real. The symbol is pretty clear. But, you know, scientific discoveries about light
have shown more about why it is an especially fitting symbol.

    "At first, light seems pretty simple. Look at any light source and yousee just a flood of white. But if you pass a ray of light through a prism, you see something quite different. The glass of the prism refracts or bends lightand spreads the ray into its different wavelengths, causing the whole spectrum of color to appear.

    "It was through experiments like this that scientists long ago discovered that light actually contains all colors. The light we call whitecombines every color in the rainbow. In fact, color itself exists only through light.

    "Normally we think of an object's color as something it possesses,something painted on it. The redness of an apple seems a part of it, period. The color orange seems inescapably a property of an orange. But, in fact,the light falling on such objects is what gives them their color. When the colors in white light reach an apple, it reflects back to our eyes only one
part of the spectrum, red light. The surface of an orange reflects back to our eyes only orange light."

    "Exploring the local park or forest, most of us see only a mass of green, an assortment of nondescript leaves and branches spread before us.Little do we dream, on our Sunday afternoon strolls, that we are unwitting witnesses to architectural feats, chemical marvels, innovative aviation, andcomplex data processing. It's right here, if only we look closely enough.

    "Most of us use plants simply to grace our living rooms, add colorto our porches, freshen up our offices. They're nice to have around, of course. Nice to have in the background. We don't notice them that much.We don't notice, for example, how much is involved in what appears to be a simple, common thing: a plant turning toward the light. We just kind ofexpect them to do it. They turn toward the light-naturally; they're attracted to it. Plants need sunlight to stay healthy, to grow. But how dothey do it? And how do they manage that technological feat of turning light directly into energy?

    "Much of the information shared in this chapter is based on a studyof plants by science writer Felix Paturi. He called his work Nature, Mother of Invention. In this chapter we're going to see just how incrediblyinventive Mother Nature is--by looking at plant prodigies.

    "Plants are masters of what is called 'phototropism,' the movementsof plants when stimulated by light. They pack all the necessary mechanics--the means of measuring, interpreting, and moving--into one compact unit. And it's incredibly sensitive. A plant kept in a dark room for a day willreact to a single flash of light two-thousandths of a second long. In a tree or bush, individual leaves bend and turn so that as few as possible areover-shadowed and all take in adequate radiation. Plants have solved an energy problem that still plagues our industrialized world, and they'vedone it on a large scale. They use energy efficiently-and without hazardous wastes. Think about it. Plants have been producing refuse for thousands
of years, far longer than factories. But they dispose of wastes without pollution. Their wastes are broken down in the soil to become food again.  Production and decomposition cancel each other out. Everything isrecycled. Such a well-balanced system can go on functioning indefinitely.

    "Sun power makes roses red, violets blue, and ferns green. Is it anywonder the psalmist was moved to write in praise of Jehovah: 'He makes grass grow for the cattle, and plants for man to cultivate, bringing forth foodfrom the earth' (Psalm 104:14, NIV)!

    "The psalmist saw a wise creator in the wonder of growing things.How much more should we see that now. Sunlight is a vital part of the miracle. And so is water. Let's look at how plants absorb it.

    "Say you live in an apartment on the sixth floor, about sixty feetfrom the ground. And let's say you and your family use forty gallons of water a day. It takes an extensive pipe system and a lot of pressure topump those forty gallons, sixty feet up in the air. That's one reason you get
those nice little bills every month.

    "But did you realize that a full-grown birch tree does that muchwork on a hot summer day? It gets forty gallons up to its branches and leaves every day, without electricity or gas or power pump. In fact, the treeitself needs to supply no energy to do this. Everything is automatic.

    "When water evaporates from the leaves, it creates a constant compensating suction of water below. The suction continues through twigs,branches, and trunk down to the roots.  "This happens because the tree's 'water pipes' are actually many, many microscopic tubes. No man-madesuction pump has ever managed to pull water up more than thirty feet. Columns of water suctioned higher than this in ordinary pipes inevitablycollapse. But the tallest of trees are able to suction up water to their uppermost branches-because of their 'capillaries'-tiny tubes a fewthousandths of a millimeter in diameter.

    "How true these words ring from Psalm 104:16: 'The trees of theLord are well watered, the cedars of Lebanon that he planted.'

    "The trees that He planted, indeed, how ingeniously they are watered. But there's much more to plant technology and engineering. Didyou know that plants are also extraordinary architects?

    "In the 1850s, architect Sir Joseph Paxton entered a competition todesign the building that would house London's world exhibition. He longed to outdo his rivals with an epoch-making design. Paxton conjured up abuilding of gigantic dimensions which would have nothing heavy or clumsy about it; he imagined a structure that would produce the effect oflightness, even weightlessness. But the problem was, there was no way to construct such a building at the time. Large structures required massivewalls to support them. There seemed no way to create the graceful, airy building Paxton had in mind.

    "But then he remembered a certain plant he'd worked with as agardener in his youth: the royal water lily. The floating leaves of this lily are huge, up to six feet in diameter, and very thin. But in spite of thus,they're quite stable. They achieve this stability by a complicated strutting on the underside. Ribs radiate from the center of the leaf outward,splitting up into many branches.

    "The royal water lily gave Paxton the key to making his architectural dream come true. He used a few main struts connected by many small ribs in his design. And he won the competition. The result: theCrystal Palace of the world exhibition, a smashing success. It proved to be a great turning point in architecture. The bold skyscrapers of steel and
glass we see all around us today actually date back to that graceful, airy Crystal Palace, and, yes, back to the remarkable design of the royal waterlily.

    "Plants have also mastered the art and science of aviation. And theydid it long before Orville and Wilbur Wright propelled their frail craft into the air. We see this most often in the way seeds navigate to suitable soil. If a tree dropped its seeds straight down, the seedlings would have to try togrow in the shade of the parent tree and would soon choke each other out. Seeds need to be transported away from the parent tree or plant, and this
is accomplished in a variety of ways.

    "The common dandelion sends its seeds aloft by means of tiny parachutes. First the plant actually measures relative humidity, temperature, and velocity.

    "It will release its seeds only when conditions are just right. A steadywind must be blowing, not just a brief gust; the air must be warm and dry-indicating that rising wind currents will prevail. Only then do the flying seeds let go and venture on their all-important journey. And thesedandelion seeds, hanging under their parachutes like so many paratroopers, are able to travel remarkable distances.

    "Several other plants also transport seeds by means of parachutes.And what's very interesting is that these plants come from widely different botanical families. They are not confined to one species or genus; they arenot one type of plant. Now this presents a real problem for the theory of evolution. It's one thing to assume that one plant group managed to evolvethis ingenious parachute solution to the problem of seed transportation. That, in itself, takes a lot of faith. But to believe that a whole range ofdifferent plant types all developed this same amazing solution to a common challenge that takes more faith than I could ever muster.

    "I hope you are beginning to see that behind all the ingenuity ofplants solving technical problems lies one common denominator, one common source: an ingenious Creator.

    "From parachutes we move to gliders. The most interesting exampleis probably the winged seed of the tropical liana. It grows high up in the branches of its parent tree amid beautiful, shining green leaves. The lianaseed develops two curved wings, transparent, gleaming, and very elastic. When the seed releases from the tree, it glides away in the breeze.

    "Coldly objective scientists grow eloquent when observing this bitof plant aeronautics. One professor described the liana glider in this way: 'Circling widely, and gracefully rocking to and fro, the seed sinks slowly,almost unwillingly, to the earth. It needs only a breath of wind to make it rival the butterflies in flight.'

    "Early aviation pioneers were also impressed with the perfect flightof the liana seed. In building craft light enough to soar in the wind, stability was the key. Early flying machines kept falling apart. But theliana glider's gossamer winds were remarkably stable. And so two flying
pioneers, Etrich and Wels, made use of the liana seed in designing a tailless glider. The craft that resulted in 1904 proved to be a milestone in aviationhistory, gliding for about 900 meters.

    Another technological marvel pointing to nature as the mother of invention. "Well, we've seen parachutes and gliders in the plant world; how about helicopters? TheNorway maple seed is one example. It comes equipped with tiny curving wings. When the seed falls from the tree, air friction causes it to rotatequickly. It spins in a spiral path around the nut at its base. The effect is exactly the same as that produced by spinning helicopter blades. Therotation creates a complete circular surface which the wind can grip. And so, of course, the seed falls much more slowly, and the tiniest bit of windcan push it more than 100 yards. Aeronautics. Who would have thought that trees would lead the way? Who can fathom the creative Mind behindit all?

    "Think for a moment of a mainframe computer, one of the truly great feats of modern technology. Its ability to store and retrieve data, andto compute and sort and list is mind-boggling. Computers perform functions in a split second that would take mathematicians weeks or evenmonths. These machines are real problem solvers.

    "And electronic computers are getting smaller and faster almostevery day. Micro-electronics continues to develop tinier and more efficient chips and circuits. "But as impressive as computer number crunching is,there's something even more impressive that I can hold in the palm of my hand, a tiny marvel that rivals all the information processing that a roomfull of computers can do. What is it? A common, ordinary seed.

    "Now some of you may be saying, 'Wait a minute. I know seeds grow into flowers and trees, but doing the work of a computer? Isn't thattaking it a bit far?'

    "Well, let's think about it. A single plant seed must contain all theplant specifications ; all the information about its appearance and behavior has to be stored right in one seed. The size and shape and color of theplant, its reactions in heat and cold, light and shade, in drought or
downpour-all must be determined beforehand in the seed. Now how many megabytes would be taken up in a computer just to program the color ofa plant's flower? Or, say, to mathematically encode just the outward form of a tree? Think about programming in the exact geometric shape ofleaves, buds, blossoms, fruit, bark, stems. We're getting into millions and millions of digital notations. Think about trying to program the chemicalqualities of the cell sap, the disposition of various types of tissue.

    "And then try to figure out how to instruct the plant about survivaltechniques in various environments. How would you program in the remarkable range of adaptations we've talked about today?

    "Well, science writer Felix Paturi, for one, concluded that thestorage capacity of a large modern computer would scarcely suffice for all this data. But it's all here, all that information and more is stored in eachtiny seed.

    "Incredible computer. Do you want to look at the far horizon of hightechnology? You don't have to go to Silicon Valley. You don't have to go to MIT. Just dig up a seed burrowing into the ground. Here's informationprocessing that is most mind-boggling.

    "Here is solid evidence for an infinitely wise Creator. I can't believea seed is the product of natural selection or genetic mutation. Weak animals can be weeded out by natural selection. Genetic mutation canproduce a few freaks now and then. But those blind processes don't invent computers this size. I'm sorry. That just isn't done.

    "If we can't see an incredibly ingenious God behind plant aviationand architecture and chemistry and the seed-computer, then something's wrong with our eyesight. Our Creator has solved a vast array of technicalproblems. He's created solutions that have inspired our greatest inventions.

    "Computers and rockets and dictionaries and planes are the product of genius and hard work. But the men who design them are the product ofaccident and chance. So we are told.

    "But did you know that the common honeybee, without even trying,can upset the conclusions of brilliant minds?

    "Just how much are you willing to attribute to the unlikely magic ofthe ages? If evolution happened, how did it happen? Would it be unreasonable to ask some specific questions-in one small area?

    "Come with me as we watch the fascinating activities of the commonhoneybee. I promise there will be some surprises-and a rather formidable dilemma for those who credit all creation to the supposed power of time todo in the past what it cannot do now!

    "Have you ever noticed that bees are incredible architects? The hiveis a masterpiece of engineering, with rows and rows of six-sided rooms with walls of wax. The marble palace that we call the comb is built byyoung bees under seventeen days old. Yet each little room is the same size, six-sided, with each of three pairs of walls facing the other. The walls ofthe rooms are only 1/350th of an inch thick, yet so strong that one pound of comb will support at least twenty-five pounds of honey.

    "How do these young bees know that the hexagon has the smallestcircumference, therefore requiring the smallest amount of building material? How do they know that hexagon cells are the best and mosteconomical plan? Who told them? Yet they do it all without blueprints or drawing boards or protractors. And every cell is perfect-just the size to fita bee!

    "How do they do it? They hang themselves up like a festoon fromthe roof of the hive. Or it may be in the hollow of a tree. One bee hooks onto the roof, and another bee hooks onto his dangling legs, and so on.These chains of bees grow longer and longer, and as they sway back and forth, they hook onto bees on the right and left until they form a living
curtain.

    "They hang themselves up like this to produce wax. You see, thereare four wax pockets on each side of the bee's abdomen. And after about twenty-four hours of hanging, wax begins to appear from these pockets.When a bee feels its wax is ready, it climbs up over the other bees, takes the wax out of its pockets, chews it, and pats it onto the comb.

    "At first they just pile on wax. Then they form rough cups, climb into them, and push. And apparently all this pushing sets up vibrationswhich enable the bees to judge the elasticity and thickness of the walls. The result-the perfect shape and the incredibly thin walls. And that's the waythe comb is built. The bees perform their tasks in perfect cooperation, as if their assignments were posted on a bulletin board!

    "It must be a marvel of organization, you say. Yes. But who directsit? "It is true that no honeybee lives to itself. They all live for the hive. There may be forty to seventy-five thousand bees in a hive, or more, allworking in perfect harmony, as a unit. "But who is the leader? Is it the queen? You might say she exerts leadership at the time of swarming. Buteven then the worker bees play the key role in locating a new nest site. The queen, of course, is an egg-laying machine. In a single day she can lay twothousand eggs. And evidently she does produce chemical signals that in some way enable the colony to function smoothly. For we are told that ittakes less than a hundred worker bees to build a comb if the queen is
present, but thousands of them if there is no queen. But is she the leader of the hive? Certainly not.

    "And the drones are not the leaders. These male bees are completelyindolent. They spend their lifetime waiting-just waiting for a chance to chase after a queen on her mating flight. The worker bees are unquestionably the real marvels of the hive. But they have no leader. Yetsomehow they get all the right things done!

    "Bees need two things-pollen and nectar. Both are found in flowers. And as they fly off to the fields offlowers, they go marvelously equipped. In the first place, a honeybee is a
fantastically engineered flying machine. Man-made freight planes can carry a payload of about 25 percent of their weight. But bees can carryalmost 100 percent of their weight. The bee needs no propeller or jet. Its short, wide wings both lift and drive it. It can move straight up or down,or it can hover in midair. Its stubby wings fold in a split second when it
dives into a flower. Or it can use its wings as a fan to cool the beehive.

    "The bee has three places for storing cargo. One is a tank inside itsbody in which it stores nectar. Then, on its hind legs, it has two storage baskets for carrying pollen. Imagine a freight plane with its load danglingunderneath! "Are these pollen baskets something that evolved because of a need? Well, man first wrote about the bee in the year 3000 B.C. It hadthe pollen baskets then. And it hasn't changed since! "A bee can suck up a load of nectar in a minute. It takes three minutes for it to build up twobulging loads of pollen in the baskets on its hind legs.

    "How does it do it? Well, the bee dives into a flower, its body pickingup pollen by brushing past the pollen boxes. It splashes about in the flower, and the yellow powder clings to the hairs on its body.

    "But now it isn't so simple. How does it get the pollen into thebaskets? And how does it keep the pollen from blowing away in flight? The load must be moistened, pressed together, tamped down, and evenlybalanced on each leg. But believe it or not, the bee does it-and all the while hovering in midair or hanging by one claw!

    "And now the little honeybee, acting as a scout, has discovered afield of flowers and is ready to return to the hive with a sample of the nectar and the pollen. How will it find its way back? Keep in mind that itmay be several miles away, and that its search may have led it in several directions before it made its discovery. Yet now it will fly straight back to
the hive!

    "Who told it how to do it? What sort of navigational equipment doesit possess? And once back in the hive, how will it communicate to its thousands of fellow bees the location of the treasure it has found?

    "It is true that bees are able to distinguish odors with great skill. Ifa bee returns to the hive with nectar from flowers nearby, the other bees will leave the hive and fly directly to the source. And they also act as ifthey have an internal clock. If they discover that food is available at a particular time of day, -they return for more at the same hour the next
day.

    "But what if the flowers are several miles distant? Surely there mustbe some limitation to the tiny creatures' sense of smell. What then? How can the little bee get across to its fellow bees the location of the treasure it has found? Well, you haven't heard anything yet. Let me tell you about the'waggle dance'!

    "Sometimes a bee returning with nectar and pollen goes through a peculiar performance that many scientists believe is its way of communicating the location of the source of nectar. It gives samples of thenectar to the other bees and gets them all excited. Then, as they watch, it
does a fancy dance before them-called the waggle dance because of the way it waggles its abdomen. It goes through a figure eight across the face of the comb. And the astonishing thing is that the angle of the dance down thevertical comb represents the horizontal direction of the food source with respect to the direction of the sun.

    "And not only that. The number of dances per minute indicates thedistance to the field. But surprisingly, the number is in reverse ratio to the distance. That is, the farther away the field, the smaller the number. Inother words, if the bee goes through ten rounds in fifteen seconds, the field of flowers is three hundred feet away. But if the bee moves in slow motion,say two rounds in fifteen seconds, the flowers are almost four miles away. And listen to this. A little calculation will show that this relationship todistance is not one of simple arithmetic, but is logarithmic! What do you think of that?

    "What kind of brain does the little honeybee have? Who taught it todo all this? How did this tiny creature learn to relate sun angles and distances to dance step routines? And how is it that millions of beesunderstand the language? "Now I am aware that some scientists are not
convinced that bees do understand the language. They are not convinced that this strange dance really does communicate to other bees the locationof a field of flowers. I am aware of the controversy over this matter. "But if by any chance you are inclined to doubt, then consider this. A bee, bymeans of this dance, can communicate the location to human beings. Men
can under-stand it. Men can watch the dance and find the field of flowers. Is that any less striking? Is it any less a miracle to communicate thatinformation to human beings, in logarithmic terms, than to get it across to other bees? I think not! "I say again, What kind of brain does the littlehoneybee have? Is it an accident?

    "One writer suggests that if you wished to duplicate the internalcircuitry of the honeybee, if you wished to match its navigational and guidance system, this is what you would need to start with: 'Internal clock.Polarized-light sensor. Sun angle-azimuth computer. Instrument for
measuring true vertical. Dead reckoning equipment. Wind speed and direction indicator. Trigonometric calculator and tables. Air and groundspeed indicators.'

    "It sounds a little extravagant. But is it really after what we havealready seen of the honeybee's accomplishments?

    "And I wonder if you realize just how necessary the honeybee is-even to life itself. Bees, of course, could not exist without plants and flowers, with their pollen and their nectar. But it works both ways. Manykinds of plants and flowers could not exist without the bees to pollinate them. In fact, many of the most beautiful or most fruitful plants woulddisappear. And what a loss that would be!

    "Now tell me. Let's reason again. Did the honeybee, with all its fantastic equipment for its job, just happen? Through long ages? A little bit at a time?

    "What if the bee started out with no pollen baskets on its hind legs?What if it had the pollen baskets, but not the knee joints to press the pollen into the baskets, or the sense to know how to do it? What if it had no hairson its body to collect the pollen-or the hairs but no way to comb off the pollen? What if it hadn't developed a nectar tank-yet? What if it had nowax making equipment-or didn't know it was supposed to hang up in a festoon for twenty-four hours to make the wax come out? What if the waxwould not withstand the high temperatures of the hive, as few waxes could? What if the bees didn't know how to make royal jelly to feed thequeen-and the queen died? What if a bee couldn't find its way back to the hive-or back to a field of flowers?

    "The questions fairly tumble out. They are endless. I think you cansee that any one piece of the bee's physical equipment might be useless without the others. To be of use, the bee's equipment and know-how wouldhave to have developed simultaneously-not little by little! Or-if evolution happened-consider this. That very first bee, away back there, sitting on a
limb of a tree. What kind of bee was it? Was it a queen? But a queen could not reproduce without a drone with which to mate.

     "Was it a drone? Drones can't reproduce themselves without aqueen.

    "A worker bee then? Hardly. For worker bees are creatures that can't possibly reproduce themselves.

    "It is difficult to escape the conclusion that the whole colony wouldhave to evolve at once, simultaneously with every individual bee's physical equipment and know-how fully developed, ready for business!

    "And, of course, with the honeybee as with the birds, that isn'tevolution at all. That is creation!

    "Isn't it easier to believe the simple, uncomplicated, straight-forwardstatement that you find on the first page of your Bible? 'In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.'

    "What we believe about our origin affects what we believe aboutourselves; it affects our sense of self worth. For if we just evolved from some lowly cell in the sea, we would not have the dignity of being formedin the image of God. And if the human race did not fall from that high position, if Adam didn't sin, then why did we need a Savior for the humanrace? The mission of Jesus becomes pointless and the cross only a meaningless drama!

    "We could go on and on. I think you can see that what we believe about our beginnings could well determine our eternal destiny. Is it anywonder that the devil, fighting against our souls, aims his sharpest arrows at the first seven chapters of Genesis? Why is this generation, obsessedwith piecing together our beginnings, looking everywhere but in God's
Word?

    "There can be only one answer. It wants to find Adam, but not inGenesis! Yet all the while the simple statement of Scripture stands firm, quietly inviting our faith: 'In the beginning God created.' Could it be thatthe evidence collected by Bob Gentry and many others was left by the Creator to help establish faith in the Genesis account? After all, the Bibleitself says: 'Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence ofthings not seen' (Hebrews 11:1). Though the Genesis account will never beproven beyond question, God has given us all the evidence we need for strong confidence in His creation.

    "Doubt is in the air. Bt so are the birds, who fly above us better equipped for navigation than the latest air force fighter jets, able to traverse unmapped oceans with their built-in instruments.

    "Controversy swirls around us. But so do the bats, who effortlessly operate their ultrasonic radar, reminding us that neither technology norwisdom are exclusive with the human mind.

    "Skepticism encircles the earth. But so do the stars, speeding alongin their unerring orbits, keeping their appointment with a precision that boggles the mind. Book after book insists authoritatively that this earthevolved over millions of years. Evolutionists talk confidently about the magic of the ages, of happy accidents that exploded us ever upward--withnever a need for intelligent direction, never a need for God.

    "But all the while birds and bats and the stars eloquently challengetheir entrenched beliefs. Long ago David proclaimed, 'The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament shows His handiwork. Day unto dayutters speech, and night unto night reveals knowledge. There is no speech nor language where their voice is not heard.' (Ps. 19:1-3)

    "Nobody can escape the grand harmony as all nature joins in the unmistakable chorus, 'There is a Creator!' But the One who made this world also let His creatures nail Him to a rough, splintery cross outsideJerusalem--so that lost sinners might find eternal life in Him. And even the evidence of the birds and the bats, of suns and racing constellations,convincing as it is, pales before the mighty argument of Calvary." (SeeingIs Believing, George Vandeman, Pacific Press Publishing)

    The witness of mathematics about a divine Creator is very strong witness, but the proof is so vast, that we can only sample a tiny fraction of theevidence available. If the reader is interested any further, whole books have been written on this subject.

THE NUMBER SEVEN IN NATURE:

    The number 7 (symbolic of perfection) has been identified by God as Hisnumber from the time of creation, while six (symbolic of imperfection and man's number, for man was created on the sixth day) has been Satan's numberfrom the time he sinned. We will explore the number seven as seen in nature and in the Bible. For it is God's stamp or proof authenticating His works in theuniverse. But other numbers are also seen. Sometimes one number pattern is
dominant, and at other times it is another.

    The following material was taken from a small book Mathematics Prove Holy Scriptures, by Karl Sabers, which may no longer be available.

    "The number system of God is stamped upon all His works. All departments of nature are based on a system of mathematics--great mathematical laws govern the activities of the entire universe.

    "For instance, in the sphere of light, there are exactly seven colors.The seven colors merged together form light. In the sphere of music there are exactly seven whole tones in the scale, while every eighth note beginsa new octave and is merely a repetition of the first note. The seven colors correspond to the seven notes in music, and sounds that harmonize correspond with colors that harmonize, while discords in color correspondwith discords in music.

    "The human body is completely renewed or changed every seven years. Every part of the body is constantly throwing off old effete matter,and constantly receiving deposits of new and living matter. In seven years the whole structure is altered down to the minutest particles and becomesessentially a new body. In certain diseases, the seventh, fourteenth, and twenty-first are the critical days. Man's pulse beats slower every seventhday whether he is sick or well. In diseases resulting from physical exhaustion, the pulse (also) changes every seventh day. With the humanbeing the period of gestation is 280 days (7X40). Indeed, seven is stamped
upon physiology. Is it not significant that God ordained every seventh day to be a day of rest, and that He declared man's years to be "Three scoreand ten" (7X10)?

    "With animals, the period of gestation of the mouse is 21 (7X3)days. The hare and rat 28 (7X4) days. The cat 56 (7X8) days. The dog 63 (7X9) days. The lion 98 (7X14) days. The sheep 147 (7X21) days. Withbirds the incubation of the common hen is 21 (7X3) days. The duck 28
(7X4) days.

    "The Creator's law of design for the snow flakes is the number six.

     All snowflakes are different, yet they all alike with either six points or six sides.

    "The number 11 as well as seven is stamped on music. The numberof vibrations in a second for each note is a multiple of eleven, and the difference in the number vibrations between each note is also a multiple ofeleven. For example, the difference between Do and Re is 33, between Far and Sol 44, always a multiple of eleven.

    "The Science of Botany reveals that the different sections of flowersarranged according to particular numbers and their multiples. For example the basic number of the buttercup is five. There are 5 sepals in thecalyx, 5 petals in the corolla, 5 carpels in the pistil, 15, 20, 25, or some other number which is exactly so many fives of stamens in the androecium.Similarly, the basic number of the daffodil is 3, that of the mignonette 4, the wild rose 5, etc. Thus God stamps His creation with a mathematicalpattern.

    "In Chemistry no two substances can unite without observing definite mathematical proportions. The planets of the heavens aregoverned according to mathematical laws. Indeed, nature does not operate by chance, but by design. God's number system is found throughout theuniverse much more extensively than is commonly supposed. Volumes
could be devoted to showing design in nature. God is the Great Numberer and Mathematician of all creation. Every department of nature bears Hismathematical signature.

    "'He made the stars...And God set them in the firmament of theheaven.' Gen. 1:16,17 "'He counteth the number of the stars.'" Ps. 147:4 He 'bringeth out their host by number.'  Isa. 40:26.

    "If God placed the stars in their proper order, and numbered them,and measured the waters and weighed the mountains, is it surprising or incredible that He has placed the words and letter of His book in exactorder, and numbered them, and guided them into combinations of numbers?

    "The same God who created the universe and was careful to weavedesigns and intricate patterns into the smallest detail of creation, has taken the same care with His Word. He has placed the same peculiarity in both.'The very hairs of your head are all numbered' (counted) Matt. 10:30.

    "The word 'numbered' in Greek is 'arithmeo' the very word fromwhich our English word 'Arithmetic' is derived. If God counts the very hairs of our heads, is it strange that He has counted the words and lettersof His Scripture?" (Mathematics Prove Holy Scripture, Karl Sabiers, pp 105-108)

NUMERICAL SCRIPTURAL EVIDENCE:

    Now it is time to look at a fantastically complex organization of thenumber seven and multiples of 7 as found in the Bible. Its complexity is so overwhelming as to be totally unexplainable, except as something that couldhave come only from the mind of an infinite God. Because the evolutionist lacks hard evidence for their theories, in order to refute the creation account, they have had to attack the credibility of the Scripture. This is unfortunate for them, forGod has provided scientific, mathematical proof from the Scripture itself that
this is the Word of God, proof which it is impossible to legitimately argue
against.

    God designed into the original Old Testament Scripture written in Hebrew, and into the New Testament written in Greek, a mathematical patternwhich would have been utterly impossible for any human to have conceived or designed. God has provided in the Bible, incontrovertible proof that He is whoHe says He is, and that the Bible is His Word to humankind. As a consequence, the creation account as recorded in the book of Genesis cannot be refuted orargued away.

    A most amazing discovery about the Scriptures was found in 1882 by ayoung Russian immigrant by the name of Ivan Panin. What he found is so complex and astounding that critics of the Bible, after examining the evidencewere left without any recourse but to acknowledge that the Bible could only be the inspired Word of God, and that the creation account in Genesis is true to the letter.

    In his youth, Ivan was converted and experienced the saving power ofJesus Christ, after being an avowed atheist. Sometime after his conversion, he discovered (led by the providence of God) in the Scriptures a mathematicalpattern which changed the direction the rest of his life would take.

    From the time of that discovery, for over 60 years, Ivan used everyworking moment to painstakingly write out over 43,000 pages of data, proving his discovery of an intricate matrix revolving around the number 7 and primefactors of 7. This little known work of Panin was compiled and written in a small book Mathematics Prove Holy Scriptures, written by Karl Sabiers. What we share with the reader was information gleaned from the book and put into
a tract -- The Holy Bible--Wholly True by Pratney, Last Days Ministry, Box 40,Lindale, Texas. Ivan also translated the New Testament using this pattern which was printed by the Oxford Press in England, but which no longer available.

    "Panin became one of the top ten mathematicians in the United States,taught in universities, and read seven languages fluently (he knew up to fourteen). Panin began to study the Scriptures as a Christian, but knowingHebrew, Aramaic, and Greek, he began to read them in the original languages. Now both Hebrew and Greek are unique languages. They are the only twolanguages in history that do not have a number system. In other words, they do
not use special symbols for their numbers (like our Arabic numerals 1, 2, 3, etc.)but use instead the letters of their alphabets to represent numbers...each letter isactually used as a number.

    "Aware of the numerical values of the Greek and Hebrew alphabets,Panin experimented one day by replacing the letters with their corresponding numbers in Scripture. Here is Panin...a mathematical genius, a Hebrew andGreek scholar, and he loves playing with numbers. Suddenly, his trained mind saw a mathematical pattern! As he studied more intensely, his excitement grew.A few short hours of work had him utterly amazed. The verses he had studied bore unmistakable evidence of an elaborate mathematical pattern, far beyond
random chance, or human ability to construct. This discovery marked the turning point in His career, and from that time until His death in 1942, hedevoted his entire life to the study of Bible numerics.

    "He showed, first of all, that the Bible, in its original language, is askillfully designed product of a mathematical mastermind--far beyond any human possibility of deliberate structuring. He later supplied a representative of the NOBEL RESEARCH FOUNDATION with over 43,000 sheets of his studies accompanied by his statement that this was his evidence that the Biblewas the Word of God. Their reply was, 'as far as our investigation has proceeded...we find the evidence over- whelmingly in favor of such a statement.'

    He then issued A CHALLENGE throughout leading newspapers of the worldto offer a 'natural explanation' or refute the facts; not a single person has been able to do so.

What He Found:

    'The words of the Lord are pure words; as silver tried in a furnace onthe earth, refined 7 TIMES.' Ps. 123:6. (Emphasis supplied).

    "Panin found that patterns of prime numbers, such as 11, 13, 17,and 23, but ESPECIALLY 7, were found in great clusters. He would add up the sum of all numerical values for different words, sentences,paragraphs, passages, and whole books, and he found the same patterns
in each of these forms! He found that the number of words in a vocabulary divides by 7. The number of proper names, both male and female dividesby 7. The number of words that begin with a vowel divides by 7, likewise the number of words that begin with a consonant. The number of lettersin a vocabulary divides by 7, and those letters, those that are vowels and
those that are consonants also divide by 7. Words that occurred more than once divide by 7, and also words that appeared only once! The number ofnouns is divisible by 7, also the words that are not. Even the number of words beginning with each letter of the alphabet! And on and on...Paninonly stayed on a passage long enough to confirm beyond reasonable doubt the statistical evidence for supernatural design. But he stated that thelonger you stayed on one, it would continue to yield further and further evidences of patterns until the mind reeled!!

Some Examples:

    Here is an example from the Old Testament. Just the very first sentence in the Bible. 'In the beginning God created theheavens and the earth.' Gen. 1:1. That's the way it comes out in English; in Hebrew it's exactly 7 words, 28 (4X7) letters. There are 3 nouns (God,heavens, and earth). Taking the letters of these, substituting their number equivalents and adding them up, you get a combined total of 777 (111X7)!There is one Hebrew verb--created. It's total numerical value is 203 (29X7). The first three words contain the subject with exactly 14 (2X7)letters, likewise the other four are the object with exactly 14 letters. The Hebrew words for the two objects (heaven and earth) each have 7 letters.The value for the first, middle, and last letters in the sentence is 133 (19X7). The numeric value for the first and last words in the sentence is1393 (199X7); the value of the first and last letters of the verse is 497 (71X7). The value of the first and last letters of each of the words betweenis 896 (128X7). And so on, and so on....in this verse alone there are 30 different features of 7. I have listed only 11 of them! The chance of thishappening accidentally is 1 in 33,000,000,000,000 (33 trillion).

    "And now an example from the New Testament: Matthew 1:1-11. The vocabulary has 49 words (7X7). 28 words begin with a vowel (4X7),the remaining 21 with a consonant (3X7). 7 end with a vowel, 42 with a consonant (6X7). The 49 words have 266 letters (38X7). Out of the 266letters, 140 are vowels (20X7). 126 are consonants (18X7). Also, of these 49 words, 14 occur only once (2X7), 35 occurred more than once (5X7), 42(6X7) are nouns, 7 are not. These remaining common nouns have exactly 49 letters (7X7). Male names occur in all 56 times (8X7). The names of only3 women appear in the passage, and the Greek letters of their names add up to 14 exactly.

    "Panin said it would have taken Matthew several months, working8 hours a day to construct the genealogy, even if it were possible. But the names were chosen BEFORE Matthew was born! "One (Divine) Author;The whole Bible is like this. I am just taking one small chunk of it and doing it in detail. Every paragraph, passage and book in the Bible can beshown to be constructed in the same marvelous way. What kind of fantastic collaboration between the disciples could have produced thisstructure without computers? How could mere fishermen and tax-collectors produce this kind of incredible structuring and design? What is crazy, is that Mark is a Roman, Luke a Greek, and Matthew a Jew, butthey all wrote with the same pattern. Each one wrote with their own unique flavor. Mark's flavor is different, but the pattern is the same rightthrough! So who wrote it? One Mind, one author--one God-many different writers, but one Writer. Can you imagine what kind of Mind would do thisand not even care if you ever found out?! What I want you to see is how smart God is! These are not just words, its an incredible mathematicalpattern. It dances with its own poetry in mathematics. A computer would go into raptures over this! It's like a building where every piece joinsperfectly into each other. And what is wild, is you can't pull even one word out without damaging the whole pattern, so the Bible carries within itself,a self-checking, self-verifying protection factor. If a person comes along and says I don't like this one, the whole pattern falls apart. This cannot be found in any other religious 'holy book in the world!"

    So, dear reader, here is irrefutable proof that the Bible is the Word of Godand every word inspired. This information will most important to you as you explore in this book Deadly Delusions, for we have used the Bible as thestandard by which to measure the enemy's delusions; delusions foisted upon an unknowing and unsuspecting world; delusions designed to ensnare, deceive andcause the eternal ruin of those who continue to believe his lies. For knowing the truth IS a matter of eternal life or death. There is POWER in the Word of God
as shown by the following incident described in a book, Buried Evidence, byGeorge Burnside, pp. 54-57.

    Dr. Jerome Stolwell, a scientist renowned for his work on devices forthe destruction of mankind, working in conjunction with four other scientists in an experiment to discover the wave length of the brain, founda channel of wave lengths in such a wide range that each individual brain is further separated from other brains as there is difference between finger
prints!

    What happens in the brain the moment of transition from life todeath? In answering this question, these scientists chose a lady who was still alert in mind, but was on the verge of death in a research hospital.They arranged a pickup device in hr room and also a tiny microphone the size of a quarter by her pillow so they could hear if she had anything to
say. In an adjoining room these five hardened atheistic scientists had placed their instruments, prepared to register and record what transpired.

    Their measuring device (a milliampere gauge) had a needle whichpointed to 0 in the center of the scale. To the right the scale was calibrated to 500 milliamperes Positive, to the left 500 milliampere points Negative.This identical device had previously registered the POWER used by a 50,000 watt broadcasting station in sending a message around the world
at 9 points on the Positive side.

    Dr. Stowwell reports: 'As the last moments of this lady's life arrived,she began to pray and praise the Lord. She asked Him to be merciful to those who had despitefully used her. Then she reaffirmed her faith in God,telling Him she knew He was the only POWER, that He had always been and would always be the LIVING POWER. She told Him how much she
loved Him.

    We scientists had been so engrossed with the woman's prayer that we had forgotten our experiment. We looked at each other and saw tearsflowing down atheistic, scientific faces. I had not shed tears since I was a child.

    Suddenly we heard a clicking sound on our forgotten instrument. We looked, and the needle was trying to go higher than 500 point positiveterminal, only to bounce against the 500 point positive post. By actual instrumentation we had recorded that the brain of a woman alone and dying, in communication with God had registered more than 55 times thePOWER used by a 50,000 watt broadcasting station in sending a message around the world.

    "'After this we decided to try a case very much unlike the first one. We chose a man lying in the research hospital, stricken witha deadly social disease. His brain had become atrophied to the point of death. He was practically a maniac.

    After we had set up our instruments, we arranged for one of thenurses to antagonize the man. Through her wiles she attracted his interest in her, and then suddenly told him she didn't want to have anything moreto do with him. He began to verbally abuse her and the needle began to register on the Negative side. Then he cursed her and took the name ofGod in vain. The needle suddenly clicked back and forth against the 500 Negative post!

    By actual instrumentation we had registered what happened in the brain when that brain broke one of God's Ten Commandments. Thoushalt not take the Name of the Lord thy God in vain. Ex. 20:7.

    We had established by instrumentation the Positive POWER of Godand the Negative POWER of the adversary. We had found that beneficial truth is Positive and that non-beneficial things, covered by the "Thou shaltnots" of the Ten Commandments, are Negative in varying degrees.

    If we scientists can record these thing, I believe with all my heartthat the Lord God can keep a record of our thoughts! He has more POWER than we have, and is a better Record Keeper than any of us onthis earth....

    It is the presence of God in us that gives us POWER of whose magnitude we have no conception! I am now a scientist who loves the Lordwith all my heart, and mind, and soul, and might! I want you to pray for me, that I will always think and say and do the things a Positive Godwants....and nothing according to the wishes of a Negative adversary, who
kept me blinded and bound so many years.

    To conclude this chapter, we ask a simple question. How do those whoclaim their is no God, who believe that evolution is a viable theory about the origin of the earth, answer the evidence presented against them by the God ofheaven? The truth is, THEY CANNOT! God has effectively unmasked this delusion and the enemy behind it so that all may know the truth.

    "Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free." God isvindicating His word with proof that cannot be denied. Those who want to know the truth have opportunity to find it. In this very time of the end of this world, God is bringing forth His evidence against the carefully contrivedmachinations of man, so that the atheist, agnostic, newager, and evolutionist will be left with nothing to say in defense of their beliefs. Dear reader, we entreat
you to let the Holy Spirit of God speak to you through the pages of this book.

    "He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith ..."