R.J. Rushdoony video with Portuguese subtitles!

I recently wrote a prospectus on The Forerunner and what I hope to accomplish with media within the next year or two. Beginning to get much of our material into Spanish and Portuguese is part of the plan.

An Internet friend in Brazil has been translating some of the articles from our site which you can read at Monergismo.com.

His plan is to get all of God's Law and Society and The Beast of Revelation: Identified dubbed into Portuguese.

I am impressed and excited about this since this is someone who I did not have to recruit to fulfill a dream of mine. I thank God for sovereignly orchestrating His plan.

"But the path of the just is like the shining sun,
That shines ever brighter unto the perfect day."

- Proverbs 4:18

Five evolutionary "deal breakers" that would disprove Christianity

My faith in Jesus Christ is real, not because I believe, but because God sovereignly regenerated me and gave me the gift of faith.

Truth is transcendent and is not subject to the "proofs" of our rational thought processes.

At the same time I am a reasonable person. If someone could offer incontrovertible evidence that the message of the Gospel was false, I'd be obliged to believe it. Of course, as a finite being, I could be deceived into believing anything. But given the handicap of limited knowledge, I am forced to believe what is rational, reasonable and logical to me.

I believe that God is perfectly rational, logical and reasonable. In any case, I know for a fact that world I live in is a rational ordered universe that is subject to universal natural laws.

I can think of five "deal breakers" by which evolutionary theory would render orthodox Christianity meaningless. I might still believe in a "God" if these evolutionary deal breakers could be demonstrated to be factual. But it could not be the God of the Bible incarnate in Jesus Christ.

If evolution is true, there is no original sin. If there is no original sin, Jesus' death on the cross was an arbitrary event. It might serve as an example to us, but it could never be a source of redemption and salvation.

The Five Deal Breakers

1. Prove by the laws of physics that the material universe suddenly appeared out of nothing. Or prove that the universe always existed.

2. Prove that life can be synthesized out of non-life by creating a cell in a laboratory.

3. Bio-engineer a new life form that is a totally different genus from the original.

4. Prove hominid evolution. In other words, humans are genetically human. Apes are genetically apes. There is a huge gulf. Prove a third form existed that bridges the gap. It can be neither genetically human or ape.

5. Discover life on other planets that could not have come from earth -- especially highly developed or sentient life forms.

Any of these would disprove the Genesis account as being factual and would prove that evolution is not only possible but probable.

In fact, I plan to eventually propose 21 of these "deal breakers."

I'd like these to forever be known as "Jay Roger's 21 Deal Breakers."

I'll let them stand for 113 years.

By 2121 A.D. if none of "Jay Roger's 21 Deal Breakers" can be demonstrated soundly, I propose that the Darwinian theory of evolution be buried once and for all.

EXPELLED: Loved by viewers, hated by critics

I was looking at Yahoo user reviews of the movie Expelled. One wrote:

As an observer, I have never seen so many extremes in reviews. Virtually either an "A" or an "F". No middle ground. This makes me really want to see this movie. Especially the F reactions are so extreme and closed minded that Stein must really punch their button. I gotta see this baby !!!

It's amazing that so many reviews here run in one or two directions. The ability to make a certain segment either hate or love a film is a sign of a good film. It just reveals the worldview that you are coming from -- if you hate it, it is because it exposes your worldview in a negative light, not because it's a bad film.

Below is a clip from one of the most powerful and controversial parts of the film.



Now here is atheist Richard Dawkins responding to the one of the film's premises that social Darwinism was at the heart of Nazi eugenics and the Holocaust.

.. natural selection is a good object lesson in how NOT to organize a society. As I have often said before, as a scientist I am a passionate Darwinian. But as a citizen and a human being, I want to construct a society which is about as un-Darwinian as we can make it. I approve of looking after the poor (very un-Darwinian). I approve of universal medical care (very un-Darwinian). It is one of the classic philosophical fallacies to derive an 'ought' from an 'is.' -- Richard Dawkins

Note that Dawkins doesn't deny that Hitler's attempt to breed a "master race" isn't logically derived from Darwinism. He simply says that we must not be Darwinists in this one instance. He doesn't explain how his rejection of Darwinism based on ethics is any different from the criticism of Darwinism by Christians who reject the idea of evolution as a random process without a Designer. At least the Christians are logically consistent.

A Documentary Film Record - EXPELLED: NO INTELLIGENCE ALLOWED on 1000 screens today!

The movie EXPELLED: NO INTELLIGENCE ALLOWED opens today in the USA.

I saw a preview screening of it and it's excellent. It is opening on a limited release of 1000 screens around the country. For a documentary, that's a record. It even beats Algore's and Michael Moore's films for the largest weekend opening. Christians who believe in the inerrancy of scripture are duty bound to support it by buying up a lot of theater tickets to ensure it gets a wider screening and a longer run.

I suggest that you make an outing of it and invite your friends this weekend. You can go to http://www.expelledthemovie.com/ to see where it is playing at a theater near you.

You can also watch a clip from Expelled here.

For the past few months, I've been doing a Tuesday night Internet radio show with a few friends on http://christianhillbilly.com/. If you want to come on and discuss controversial issues, it is a fun and profitable way to spend an hour. You just need a Skype account, which takes about two minutes to set up at http://skype.com/. Last Tuesday, we discussed Ben Stein's EXPELLED, showed a few clips, and answered questions and objections. The chat room was packed and we had more listeners than since I started with this.

Or if you'd just like to listen in next Tuesday, the show What Do You Believe? is from 9 to 10 pm EDT.

- Jay Rogers

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RANDOM AFTER THOUGHT: I sent the above email out to a few dozen friends and a couple of them took exception because I wrote that "Christians are duty bound" to see this movie. I suppose I could be accused of hyperbole, but I have always believed Christians are duty bound to support the arts. Back before the separation of church and state, in Christian countries, the church got tithe money directly from taxes collected by the state to support the sicences, the arts, missions, education, hospitals, ophanages, and so on. Now the Catholic Church still supports these things in Catholic countries. The state doles out money to the church's heirarchy who then support the church run institutions.

I don't think the state should be involved in any type of Christian welfare because as they say, "He who pays the piper calls the tune." It's also sinful and tyrannical to force taxpayers to support socialized programs they disagree with -- which is exactly what leftists force us to do today through liberal programs even though "separation of church and state" is their mantra.

Rather this responsility rests solely with churches and Christian individuals. One of the reasons why we are losing our Christian culture in Protestant countries is that the church's view has become that the civil government needs to support these institutions directly. The church does nothing but build the church. Therefore, entertainment, education, the arts and virtually every institution that shapes the hearts and minds of men is given over to crass humanism. But don't let me get up on my soapbox about this. Yes, you are duty bound to support the arts when there is a lone film in a vast sea of filth and anti-Christian degradation that seeks to uphold the truth.

EXPELLED is such a movie.