Show Me Creation Episode 5

About this Episode

Steve Grimes has a B.S. degree from Washington University in St. Louis in Systems and Data Processing. He was also an adjunct faculty member for the Washington University School of Engineering and Applied Science for 25 years, teaching Computer Systems Architecture in the undergraduate Bachelor of Science program. He currently works as a Business Intelligence developer, capping an Information Technology career that spans multiple computer environments and languages.

Marv Schaefer graduated St. Louis University in 1973 with a Bachelors degree in Marketing. He currently serves as President of the the Missouri Association for Creation.

His interest in the Creation/Evolution debate was kindled in 2004 when his 5th grade daughter was laughed at by her classmates and dismissed by her teacher for not believing that the earth is billions of years old. Since that time Marv has become a diligent student of Biblical Creation and the inherent flaws of the theory of evolution. It is his desire to pass that knowledge on to others.

Introductions….by Marv

Dr. Rob Carter is a geneticist at Creation Ministries, and they talk about baraminology, or the study of created kinds. Or, “After its kind..” Marv expounds about Dr. Carter’s background,

Steve talks about what baramins are and who created classifications for all species definitions.

What the Book of Genesis says about created “kinds” or what God created in the animal kingdom outside of two humans.

The baraminology bandwagon and how genetics embraced it until they discovered it did not quite work because of the variations of the species. Then, they introduce the term cladistics, which is a way to group animals together by features, what they share and don’t share.

How, for instance how humans resemble and shared features with chimps. So, that is cladistics. It’s a grouping mechanism by shared characteristics. Then genetics changed everything.

DNA and genetic sequencing changed the whole study. We can be one letter different than chimps, but more than a three percent difference makes evolution impossible. So, we did not evolve from chimps.

Then, Rob goes into how our genetic makeup is different from chimps and how things don’t line up between humans and chimps. Evolutionist Jon Edward Ahlquist (died on May 7, 2020, at the age of 75. Thirty years ago, Jon was one of the most famous ornithologists in the world, co-recipient of the 1988 Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal from the National Academy of Sciences and winner of the 1983 Edward's Prize from the Wilson Ornithological Society.), was the first to say humans and chimps are 98% identical and how he came to that conclusion through his experiments.

Why Ahlquist’s deductions and experiments whereby he reached his conclusions was flawed. Later, Ahlquist realized that his experiments only worked with parts that align, not with the parts that do not align.

Dr. Carter talked about the four dimensions of DNA. Look for the “High Tech Cell video for more. How he discovered DNA is multidimensional and why that blew him away. You have 6-feet of gnomes per human cell. To make it fit, God made DNA multidimensional. And, the third dimension is also important for how gnomes fold to get them all to fit in one cell.

Then, Dr. Carter talks about how scientists found out DNA is multidimensional and how DNA that cross links and the genes that are used together align next to each other in 3D in a very complex folding pattern.

All the genes that need to be turned on can be turned on at the same time as a group because they rest in the same pocket of the nucleus. God optimized this order of how genes align to create the different species. We may have a lot of the same genes as chimps, but the gene orders are different and so they cannot transition easily from one to another.

Then, they start to talk about amino acids and RNA and how that all works. Genes that are clustered together are tuned to work optimally with different sets of genes. It’s another level of high order never explained before and it is not random like evolutionists argue.

Finally, time is also part of the forth dimension and optimized over time. Genes evolve over time and they are not the same genes that your mother passed along wo you in the womb. Genomes change over four different dimensions over different time. It’s so complicated and so amazing that it only brings glory to God.

Cancer is when this system gets out of whack and cells start to reproduce on their own out of control. Viruses may cause this highly tuned system to get out of whack.

Marv then reads from Romans one…and talks about why so many science still hold to the thought that if God’s DNA is not random and evolved over millions of years, then, the alternative is that God of the Bible is real and will hold people accountable for their actions, and they cannot accept that so they hide behind the argument of evolution.

Marv wraps up…..