May 2020 Newsletter

AzOSA News

EVENTS

In accordance with the CDC all May events have been cancelled.
 

EDUCATION

While AzOSA’s educational events have been cancelled you still revel in creation science learning.

Creation Training is making eleven (11) of its short videos available free of charge. Follow the link to creationtraining.org click on the Short Video tab and choose from the following segments:

How could Noah Fit All the Animals on the Ark?
Did God use Evolution?
How Long were the Days of Creation?
Is the Bible Outdated?
One Day is Like a 1000 Years?
The Sun and Days of Creation
Teaching the Gospel
The Fossil Record = Does it Prove Human Evolution?
Are Humans and Chimpanzees Cousins?
Junk DNA –does It Prove Evolution?
The Incredible Human Body

Answers in Genesis is making its Creation Apologetics Masters Class – all 6 sessions available for only $19 total. This offer is available only while the Creation Museum and the Ark Encounter are closed to the public during this current COVID-19 crisis. Follow the link to answersingenesis.org click on the Education tab and follow the instructions.

Creation Apologetics Master Class 1-6

This set of six online courses will help you acquire a solid understanding of creation apologetics, equipping you to stand strong in your faith, think biblically, and more effectively share the gospel with others.

Now you have to be prepared to read, and watch videos and write—but it’s a powerful opportunity to become equipped. We need more biblical creation apologists than ever! Do these courses as part of your homeschool (and right now most families are in a sense homeschooling), or individual study, or do as a family (teens and adults), or a church, or Sunday school, and learn together!

OUR COVID19 SPECIAL

Only while the Creation Museum and Ark Encounter are closed to the public.
We know there’s considerable financial stress in the culture right now. So we’re offering these six self-teaching apologetics courses from Answers in Genesis that are normally $49 each – for only $19 for all six ($294 value).

ARTICLES

Dinosaurs

By Dr. Joseph Kezele

Dinosaurs fascinate most everybody. The questions of how they came to be and what happened to them have been the subject of intense debate between evolutionists and creationists. Let’s take a look at the actual evidence and see which model best fits the evidence.

The fossil record does not provide transitional forms from one kind of dinosaur into another kind, for example, the Triceratops kind and the Tyranosaurus rex kind. Even more devastating for the evolutionary model is the fact that there are no transitional fossils from some other kind of reptile to the dinosaur kinds. The Bible clearly states that land animals were created on day six of creation week. This would include dinosaurs, which were created on the same day as Adam and Eve.

So what happened to the dinosaurs? Two of every kind were taken onto Noah’s ark. Not every species, but two of each kind, such as of the Ceratopsia kind, which includes Triceratops. Naturally the question arises about how all of the dinosaurs fit on the ark, along with the other animals and people. Three factors were in play. The first relates to the number of kinds of dinosaurs on the ark. Approximately 50 kinds of dinosaurs were in existence at the time of the flood, so only 100 dinosaurs needed to be on the ark.

The second factor is size. The average size of animals on the ark is calculated to be that of a sheep. Remember that some dinosaurs were the size of a chicken. Also take into account that reptiles grow until they die, even though growth of older reptiles is quite slow. So young dinosaurs, much smaller, but old enough to reproduce, would have been selected by God to go onto the ark.

The third factor is the capacity of the ark. The Bible tells us that the ark was at least 450 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet high. The resulting volume could hold over 125,000 sheep. It is also estimated that there were eight to ten thousand different kinds of reptiles, birds and mammals on the ark, so with two of every kind, there would have been sixteen to twenty-thousand animals on the ark. This is less than one sixth of the capacity of the ark, leaving plenty of space for more people than the eight who did survive on the ark, and for storage of food.
So two of every kind survived on the ark, and lived to reproduce and multiply upon leaving the ark after the flood until recent centuries. We know this to be true, not due to assumptions, but due to various forms of art produced by eyewitnesses from all over the world by post-flood peoples over several millennia. This is beautifully documented in Untold Secrets of Planet Earth: Dire Dragons by Vance Nelson.

This leads to the question: What killed off the dinosaurs? Evolutionists often invoke a catastrophe incurred by an asteroid striking the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico, causing world-wide fire blocking sunlight and preventing photosynthesis. But the biblical model provides for real and drastic climate change due to the one and only Ice Age after Noah’s Flood. More about this in a subsequent article. Other contributing factors would be natural disasters gradually declining after the flood, especially volcanoes, earthquakes, and landslides as well as hunting, more likely for self-preservation, rather than for food. But who knows, maybe they tasted like chicken. Rattlesnake does.

What evidence do we have that the major death of dinosaurs occurred only a few thousand years ago? Many examples of soft, non-mineralized tissue of dinosaurs have been documented in the scientific literature, especially since 2005. Stretchy arteries, intact red blood cells in arteries, flexible sheets of bone cells, and other tissues have been studied in dinosaurs and in other animals as well. In these samples, fragments of DNA and proteins have been unmistakably identified and verified by a variety of corroborative tests, for example, using antibodies to proteins. With experimentally established rates of decay for DNA and for proteins, these specimens can only be thousands, not millions of years old. This is totally consistent with the biblical time frame of four thousand six hundred sixty eight years since Noah’s Flood.

How do evolutionists respond to this well established experimental data? One way is to try to explain it away by saying that iron from red blood cells has caused the tissue to be preserved for tens of millions of years. Another is to resort to “a miracle of preservation”. A third way is to ignore real scientific evidence and to continue to ignore the true miracle maker, the creator God of the Bible.