THE MISCREANCY OF VICE AT SEA, and the MARVEL of EMBARKATION IN CHRIST

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The dimness of dizzy captaincy led Israel of old into the calamities so acutely signalised by the prophet Jeremiah in the magnificently poignant book of Lamentations as to leave it like a cry for all time, a cry to consider, to ponder and to seek the Lord while it is day, while there is time.

This cry in Lamentations, It is not the usual plaint of the defeated. Far from it: for Jeremiah was in a way like a Churchill. He was sent to warn Israel of its impending doom, UNLESS it returned to its morals, its spiritual basis and to the Lord. It refused. The heart of Jeremiah mourned, as he cried before the end (Jeremiah 9:1-2),

"Oh that my heart were waters,

And my eyes a fountain of tears,

That I might weep day and night

For the slain of the daughter of my people!"

He saw in them,

"adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men."

Yes this was not least, a spiritual adultery, one most horribly against the Lord to whom they were ostensibly 'married'. They had become like a car out of control, several hundred metres from a cliff top in turn several hundred metres above the sharp-pronged rocks mauled by the savage sea. That, it was the sea of sin into which, despite all their protestations, they were callowly abandoning themselves, betraying tryst and trust alike.

How Jeremiah grieved for them!

Even for an enemy, like Moab, with its false gods, the heart of the Lord Himself could grieve, and this, even in the midst of the dramatic and terse index of the sins of that people. It is fascinating to see on the one hand the itemisation of sins, and on the other, in the same declamation, the exhibition of the Lord's sorrow at the gaunt results, His anguish of spirit at their coming ruin. Yes, even when their detestation and desire to taunt and deny any significance to Israel (Jeremiah 48:27), exalting themselves as a nation against the Lord (Jeremiah 48:26). Thus they did, as Iran does now via its President, and likewise Hamas. The latter, is the one now likely to be the ruling party in the region of the Palestinians, whose millions of people have spoken in election.

Like them, Moab of old would see Israel destroyed - it is a long road of hungry wolves snapping at that land and people. Yet even as the Lord judges the ravening misrules seeking Israel destruction, aggressors such as Moab, He has pity.

In our contemporary world, still does Hamas insist that Israel must go; and is there not one newspaper report to the effect that they will cooperate with Israel in small matters as if not seeking its destruction or elimination, while at the same time actually seeking to eliminate it as if not cooperating in small matters ? It is just so. It was with similar disdain and inveterate hostility that Israel was treated in the days of Moab (for its part, not now a nation - as forecast in the word of God), and again, in the blustering days of Babylon and Assyria (Isaiah 51:21-23, 37:22ff.).

Such approach to Israel, from its enemies, spans time: it is so, and will be so further, later, with other deadly adversaries of Israel's life, churning the waters of peace (Micah 7:18ff., Joel 3:9ff., Habakkuk 3:12-13), just as it was so earlier as with Moab (Zephaniah 2:8-9, Jeremiah 48:2). The attitude continues now while coming events await the work of God, as seen since 1948 many times, to render final and fatal response for their presumption, pride and renegade religiosity, as at the first, so to the last.

Just as God has rebuked Israel repeatedly for its unbelief, so now that He has brought them back as appointed, is He faithful till the time is ripe for the vast splendour of their spiritual return as in Ezekiel 37, in the second prophetic command to give life to the assembled bones, and in Zechariah 12:10, when following their mighty victories, they are given a far greater one, over the flesh, their spiritual eyes opened to

"look upon Me whom they have pierced".

Indeed, this same unmellow madness against it has been seen all but continually throughout Israel's history since the days of the Exodus, man contesting with God the apportionment of real estate and the need for realism in worship, to accept the testimony of truth and not to follow the passions of desire. You see it, in particular, in the day of Babylon, which God raised up specifically to bring judgment to many nations (Jeremiah 25), for a time, but which imagined itself pre-eminent to its own certified and predicted doom (Isaiah 14:22ff.).

The transition to self-affirmation and religiosity in vanity is seen in Habakkuk, almost as if in a biography, written in advance:

In this verse and indeed in several following, God designates the one with this aspiration to "cut off" Israel "from being a nation": Madman! Arrogance in the face of the divine writ and covenant (Galloping Events ... Ch. 4), including its unconditional elements, is a form of insanity according to the Lord, a spiritual madness!

Many a time has such belligerence been savage, severe and vocal. It was so more conspicuously, but no more certainly, with Hitler, a prime opponent of the Jew; it has been so in pogroms, in persecutions, in the Inquisition, whether the annihilative mode was religious, political or social; and it has not prevailed. The generation of Israel, the nation and the land, has not failed as Christ said it would not, till He came (Matthew 24:34). The return of Christ with the Jew extinct was not to be; for ALL that He said was to come before He returned is coming like an express train, the rails echoing to its beat. His return is to find that breed, that Israel, still intact. Indeed, in Luke 21:24, we find that at the time near His return, Israel itself, yes with Jerusalem, will be restored to the Jew.

That, of course, has happened, courtesy of 1948, 1967; and it is small wonder that the devil has the most intense passion to make it otherwise, for he always loves to abort the word of God; and being thwarted EVERY TIME in such endeavours, whether by misrepresenting it, or making ignorant claims contrary to fact, only to be rebutted by fact, he is naturally like someone always defeated in the first round of a tournament. He has ardent, indeed burning aspirations to do rather better. With God, however, no one ever wins the first round, for even when, as in the crucifixion of Christ, the most impressive seeming display of devilry, there seemed to be a vast triumph, yet it was in fact a colossal defeat.

Not merely was He resurrected, not only did Christ arise, but they were wholly unable to display the corpse on the news of His resurrection, neither Rome in its imperial powers not the regalities of the land or the priests, whose intense hatred and envy was a goad imperious to their misled minds, but worse than this, the entire procedure was precisely as predicted: the hatred, the death, the manner of it, the date of it (Highway of Holiness Ch. 4), the result of it in the resurrection, the Gospel resulting from it, the progress of that Gospel and the state of the nations as the time for the next palatial step came, the return of the Crucified One to be King, not only of Israel, but over the entire globe.

These things have often been seen on this site, and notably in SMR Ch. 9, but our current point on the ill-fated voyages of man, is zeroing in on muddled malice among spiritual misfits, and the vanity and frustration of having a devious captain like the devil, in autocratic and presumptuous control, while a spiritual King indeed is available, and will shortly return with the same power with which He created the universe, having tested, tested in all the voyages of man and of men, the heart. It is NECESSARY, if you are to worship the Lord, to do so in spirit and in truth (John 4), so that there is an IMPETUS and an IMPERIAL necessity to that end, which makes men tremble or disdain; but it is a matter which finds man out.

It found out ancient Israel, for God has no favourites, though He uses many to show to others the truth, and keeps covenant with those who come to Him on His own delightfully and indeed gloriously gracious terms. Life shows continually both the magnificent lovingkindness of the Lord, when you stay in the place assigned, and the horrendous results of setting off on voyages of lust and wilfulness, as if you invented the world or it were under your control, as an individual (like Napoleon), a nation (like the USSR), or an Empire (like that of Japan).

But man is slow to learn, like one perpetually in grade one, and never advancing, so that the world is whirling into pressures, problems and portents unspeakable, millions of starving children and slain men and women added to the funeral pyre of the ire of the imprisoned passions, misdirected and now released with increasing power. So sails the pretentious arrogance of man, his own hazard in a world he neither made nor understands, and in which his devious ways destroy the very tissues of wisdom, which might have kept out the diseases of the soul.

In all this, then, as we are seeing in Jeremiah 48 with Moab, a nation lacking even a covenantal relationship, one with NOTHING, God exposes His heart, while revealing their end, its reason and its pathos.

As to the last, in the very midst of judgment, He declares this, of Moab (red colour added):

It is the LORD whose heart shall wail like flutes, and who will mourn! This is uttered in a composure of judgment and heart. Long has the evil been committed, and now its result comes - and the composition of the whole from His word is outlined in SMR pp. 1111.

For Israel too God showed the most intense compassion, but not one which would abort truth or preclude judgment when for centuries they aborted truth, denied mercy and spread evil as if casting sores into wounds among the people (Amos is eloquent on the processes involved, as is Zephaniah, and Isaiah in Ch. 1, 6, 29). Indeed, you see this compassion, for example, in Jeremiah 31:16-20:

One cannot but notice the prelude to this last point: the repentance of Ephraim, in yearning earnestness of heart, "Restore me and I will return, for You are the Lord my God."

While God is Himself in the ultimate control, this is not the same as assuming He obliterates the very image-of-God status of man. Rather, it shows that knowing it, He interprets it and ensures reality proceeds, not from superficial but in ultimate terms (cf. Predestination and Freewill, Great Execrations, Great Enervations, Greater Grace Chs. 7 and 9, The Kingdom of Heaven Ch. 3).

The realisation of reality is crucial to man before God as indeed for his own part, and its activation is well within the capacity of God, even for the furthest removed from Himself, but not by force does He act, and THEREFORE His heart is so moved as He describes. He would have all (I Timothy 2, Colossians 1, Ezekiel 33:11), but both acts in love with restraint, and takes only His own, citing man for his obduracy (John 3:17,19,36). To seek to desecrate the word of God by distorting these facts is just as hideous a voyage as is the desire to make knowledge a captive to confusion, as if God did not KNOW His own from all eternity (Ephesians 1:4), or as if He did not have open desire for all, or in His own total sovereignty, redeem for ever those who are His.

Many are the false voyages of man, vast is the compassion of God, but in the end, truth is not available for perishing, though it be crucified (John 14:6, Psalm 2), and resurrection is the certain answer, whether with the body of the Lord Himself, restored to life, or with the restored Israel, now back in its land ACCORDING to divine promise, yes in Jerusalem, despite its continuing unbelief. This also is as predicted, Ezekiel 37's two phase restoration a famed exhibit of the dual process (cf. It Bubbles ... Ch. 10, esp. *1A), first the people coming back physically, and then by a separate action, coming back to spiritual life in the Lord. It is in Ezekiel 36:22 with the sequence of return to the land and to the Lord, as also in Isaiah 42:18ff.) that we see that the whole operation is one of GRACE in the midst of disgrace, since the people as a nation had left the Lord.

Indeed in Ezekiel 36, God in bringing them back to the ultimate restoration, in which comes their vast all but national conversion (Zechariah 12:10), makes strong voice for the fact that it is NOT FOR YOUR SAKES, that the nation is brought back, but because He has pity on His name. The result and cause of it in the heart of God, is seen in Micah 7:19ff.:

Having promised, He will do; and knowing all, He does not vary. Merciful in heart (Micah 7:19ff.), He rejoices with relish in the astounding events He brings in the midst of apparent ruin, fulfilling His undertakings, freely made, like a father at last seeing his son come true, not to dream, but in history.

Man too has his perpetual style loves, but not in goodness, for lust covering reality, brings shame.

Thus man loves idols of the mind, or the hand, or the will. Man tends to love the leader who in magnificent disregard of ANYTHING, has his plan, program and practice, though more than 6 million Jews must die, and Europe must writhe. Man in the flesh loves the plans of philosophy no less, so that the long dead and moulding corpse of Darwinism is kept as a shrine, where many still worship 'Nature' as if obsessed. On this, see Delusive Drift or Divine Dynamic Ch. 4 - Darwin dead with his ideological corpse, with Ch. 3 - man shrieking for the lost 'nature' idol, and keeping its moribund image in the sanctum, along with Wake Up World! ... Chs. 4-6, exhibiting misled man with the anguish of the broken-hearted idol worshipper.

In vain does Denton with exquisite thoroughness (EVOLUTION: A Theory in Crisis) declare of the world of generations of living creatures, that

Indeed, from the micro-biological to the macro, he presents the FACTS that "the anti-evolutionary thesis argued in this book, the idea that life might be fundamentally a discontinuous phenomenon, runs counter to the whole thrust of modern biological thought."

Never has it been possible, he continues, regarding the aggressive insistence of philosophy in much modern thought, on some kind of transitional mutation of things upward, progressively, the evolutionary stance and posture, "to provide any direct empirical or observational evidence for its support" (as given on p. 353).

The voyage of Darwinianism has been a disaster (cf. SMR pp. 140-150).
That is not the way it happens, as the evidence denounces the desire
with consistent voice, like a choir in full throat (cf. The gods of naturalism have no go!).

Indeed, whether with Hinduism you have the 'roaring silence' where nothing speaks so well that it cannot be heard, or the voices of many gods, arising from a unity from which they are dispossessed (cf. SMR pp. 995ff.), yes or Buddha, despairing and not without reason, of this motley collection, and seeking without any actual knowledge, to give some account of some way or other which would be helpful in navigating life without meaning, basis or cause (cf. SMR pp. 1011ff. ), it is one. They contribute nothing to reason, no ground for life, no testable account to add to a missing logic; and the silence continues amongst a multitude of voices.

Moreover, as noted on p. 999 of SMR, there is a constant strain in the spiritual besottedness that invents the creation, without inventor, invention or conceptual power, imagination or even mind, whether from East or West. It is worse than a death rattle: it is the voice of a somnambulist, rattled by death. He sees, but does not perceive; he considers, but does not think, he invokes causes in his thought, but dismisses them in his operas, which he then sends to 'science' falsely so-called, which with dying flourish, inserts them into the process, and comes back with belligerent nothingnesses, good enough to match the Hindu passion, and the Buddhist nullity.

The navigators have called endlessly on missing ports, which are not there, and their efforts to land in their designated harbours are constantly futile; for these too, they are not there. Their round the world trips are trips but of imagination; and the ports of call, so fabulous in the creativity of their own minds, are found to be missing on the surface of the practical earth, so that those who pay their fares in colleges and educational sites innumerable for this 'trip' might as well have used marijuana.

By contrast, the living God, the testable God, the verifiable God, the eloquent and unchanging God, the one God of the Bible, both says and does; His adversaries say, and it does not happen.

Their exploratory voyages - like those of man now into space, which he litters like an impressive litterbug with atomic waste, as if bent on his own destruction, despite the biblical admonition (cf. A Spiritual Potpourri Chs. 1-3 ) - come through unending endeavours towards the empty befuddlement of contrary thought consumed with contrariety^{* 1B.} It has some parallel with the vapid thoughts of the Neo-Nazis, yet struggling to re-arise in Germany, or the post-impressionistic Communists, as in China, where autocracy and capitalism (justly there, so-called) vie for control of the underprivileged and appallingly mistreated masses, whether in Tibet or the more rural areas (cf. Impossible to Men, Open to God Ch. 5, Journey to God or Fantasy's Flight to the Infernal Ch. 1).

Fantasy's flights are perennial whether her concern is with God or man, with vice or virtue as a presence, lust or love, reality or rearguard actions for rebellion against the Lord are concerned. Especially is it so when the glory of God and the limitations of man, or his need to love in heart and not in vapour, are concerned.

Lamarck had evident fascination for Darwin, to make his engines start, to gain advance, but it failed^*1 , and neo-Darwinianism continued anyway, without uplift, imagining that a system which was in place, and did not rise by any conceivable means, would do so as if by inadvertence, as if 'chance', which merely is non-purposive action in a given system (without which, there would be no options to 'arise') would 'create'. It would be, for all the world, as if it had a mind and imagination, technical skills with language and command and integrational integrity for making it all work simultaneously, as it must, if it is to work at all.

Indeed, as Jerry Bergman points out in the article noted in *1, Darwin was still influenced by Lamarck; and naturally enough, he liked the concept of inbuilt striving and seeking, as if a deus in machina were at work, sensing need, adapting genes, co-ordinating controls, correlating considerations, writing programs or whatever else would be involved. Yet the present machinery or methodology is never to be found, nor are these adventitious, meretricious and casually ingenious works before the eye of man.

You can even find someone attempting to argue that although NOTHING is ever to be seen to the point of new design information to make new consequences of the same: yet it is all so slow that it is invisible, we are told, so that the imperceptible is at work with its missing apparatus, uncitable powers of operation, missing methods of creation, and contra-law ideas of construction. Here is reductio ad absurdum unblushing, contra-science with red face orating and irrationality on parade. In fact, if we are interested in science, not fantasy, as to what are deemed the three basic laws of science, EACH ONE, verifies the Biblical account (cf. TMR Ch. 8). Professor Barnes, Physics specialist and notable researcher of El Paso University, Texas pointed this out.

Each of these laws denies the roving imagination which, in replacement of scientific method, builds theory on what is NOT seen, where NO means are to be found. Revelation and reason are in tune, because reason is a product of the God who provides revelation, and only distortion of one or both of these domains provides confusion, that rich heritage-listed domain of carnal man, scientist or other.

Thus, in terms of the absurdities of evolutionism, NO principles of law correlate, and NO palaeontological affairs give account of the missing billions of in between somethings which do not appear in the performance, only in the opera notes of the production of fiction and fraud, which does not endure, whereas the diction of God verifies itself, because it does persist as it insists, and insist as it persists. Here as ever, it does so not least because it is right and never wrong, conserving its flight in the midst of the mists of man, unconquerable word to the incontinent heart of the factious creation, abuser of freedom, dissolver of liberty. True disbelievers become accustomed in much to disdaining fact for fancy. However, at times, even the cultural clutter awakes a little!

Small wonder Gould expostulated at the folly of explaining loss (as he declares the biota to exhibit, to around 90% since earlier days) by imagined methods of gain!

For such 'trips', the fares in all scientific integrity ought to be returned to the vendors; but then, they have had long enough to see the results. These are given attention in Lectures on Creation, TMR Ch. 1, at end-note *2, including the following.

As noted in some detail Earth Spasm ... Ch. 1, moreover, presuppositions which make computer programs where mathematics slaves in accord with PURPOSE, these are not apt for any program to mimick what lacks it! This is an import from creationism, an attempt to kidnap the power of God in the mindlessness of matter. The point is this: that IF you select what YOU in your 'wisdom' see as moving to improvement, this is precisely what blindness, in its non-wisdom, non-perception, and non-knowledge, and its complete obscuration on design, its preliminaries, pre-dispositions and ingredients, needs and progress, does not KNOW or SELECT. Otherwise, of course, you are simply playing a game BY WISDOM to inject its RESULTS into a system which lacks, on this model, its EXISTENCE!

Accordingly, the absence for any such movement in principle, is paralleled by its absence in practice. In vain do they look for mutant organs, only fully formed and functional types ever being found, for a mutant series of ascending cells, for mutant beasts, equipped with those block-headed consequences of a moronic 'nature' which somehow were imagined to find their way into existence. And this ? even if it were to come, it would be despite their load of the amorphous, ill-formed and unusable, waiting to become useful after or over a few millions of years (cf. SMR p. 208)..

When they call in at the port of new information for design mutation, or at that of other planets doing the job of creation (by the same absent means - cf. A Spiritual Potpourri Chs. 1-3), or X-ray 'help' to effect change of design, through bombardment, finding only devastation or peers often devitalised, or at that of palaeontological gradualism, so splendidly unwilling to conform (cf. SMR pp. 200ff., 208ff., 160ff.) to their plans, or at that of logical acuity (cf. SMR pp. 308ff., 312ff., 162ff.) or class-conformity to the theory, in terms of special types of creation (cf. SMR pp. 199ff., 235ff.): there is only failure. What SHOULD be, on the magical theorems of evolutionism, IS NOT. The theory is dead; the pall-bearers refuse to arrive.

Not only is there no 'WELCOME!' sign at these ports of call, in verification or validity-creation, but there is no sign at all, since the ports are not there, for the sand dunes stare back at the repulsed crew, as at the sleepy passengers, who are all set to enjoy the ride in any case, since it was so expensive.

Indeed, the evidence smiles with a quiet and demure disdain on all the bustle of evolutionary theory.

Similarly, in SMR pp. 234ff. (slightly extended) , we discover more findings not in the tour guide's book, a matter of false advertising.

Indeed, to revert to Denton, he is at pains to point out the non-conformity in terms of evolutionary theory, to gradualism, noting the symmetry and distinctness of micro-biological relationships, underlying much of the grosser features of creatures supposedly merging into one another, but in fact abruptly diverse and divergent (cf. Denton, op. cit. pp. 278-286). Moreover, he refers to the mathematical precision of divisions, with nothing resembling a merger, thus:

He deems these developments a startling and vastly impactive new dimension, and in addition to the mathematical precision underlying divisions of living creatures, and the non-merging characteristics of the specialised types at this protein and molecular level, "the divisions turned out to be more mathematically perfect than even most die-hard typologists would have predicted..." and molecules stubbornly refuse to provide evidence of sequential arrangements in diverse creations over time.

It is even so in the "incredibly diverse" realm of bacteria. There is, indeed, in groups by evolutionists cited as intermediate in some sense, nevertheless an empirical failure to give "even the slightest hint of a supposedly transitional character." In fact, (p. 290), molecular divergence, say amongst frogs, can be as great as that between mammals, though very diverse morphologically.

On p. 303, Denton is seen to marvel at the finding of lungfish, on the evolutionary fantasy, separated by hundreds of millions of years from the present, but without any slightest hint of the changes in the cardiovascular system, for example, dramatic and distinct, which theory likes to imagine repetitively arriving on some escalator of change, complete with functionality achieved at each dreamed stage.

This is conceived, but never found, despite large numbers of ineffective changes for aeons to allow what has no power to create, nevertheless to do so, in the brave new world of Vernian imagination, in the very midst of merely unarticulated confusion. Such is the view of evolutionism, things having to progress by mere will of the thinker, despite an increasing drag existing useless for long, before any even theoretical thought of usefulness can 'arise', in a supposed sea of inchoate indifference.

From this sloppily sub-standard thought in the mind of the theorist, there is to come in the ways of 'nature', what builds the precise divisions and the unmerging parameters in both gross and minute features, which in living things are the actual FACTS. Rarely in the history of the intellectually hysterical has the equal of this mental malaise been found, except of course in the more and more usual rantings of the anti-God regime, in the various preliminaries of the naturalistic fallacy.

In fact, when it comes to the facts of things living, the rule is the coherent, the paradigm of reality is the cohesive, with the non-transitional things found, exhibiting the phenomena that arise from logical thoughts, when applied with their classificatory and specialised creative skills. This, the attested fact emphasised by Denton, is the precise opposite of unformed and scattered events such are hypothesised to give birth to their opposite.

To try to force the negative and anti-verificatory evidence into evolutionary theory is like trying to force a child's arm into a two ton chain, to lift it. It is absurd, an imposture, thoughtless, irrelevant to systematic thought, an abuse of scientific method, a testimony to the flight from God through the callow obstinacy of breaking the rules of that method.

This is done by not explaining the data with theories to match, but explaining the theories as they grind into the facts, mauling them like a tractor at a Primary School, unable to stop, or with a drunk driver. It is not possible to over-state the folly of this evil theory, which has no passion but to avoid the truth, and seems to hypnotise so many, like some kind of special academic LSD.

It is time scientists en bloc returned to this glorious realm of facts, and became true to them, instead of holding on, like some drunkard with a hang-over, to the delusive bottle with both hands.

The nugatory, obscure, the dim, the unformulable, nebulously irrelevant, the obfuscated, the imagery of imagination without the discipline of logic: this has become the farce of pseudo-science, the incubator for 'knowledge', especially the 'assured knowledge of science', which in its blatant self-advertisement, becomes a cover for confusion.

There is on exhibition in science falsely so-called, in these flouted areas, the presumptuous confusions of frustrated desire, imported into science, under cover of darkness, immune to scientific method, free from verification, mocking at anti-verification, virtue and truth alike, indeed a projectile from regions where truth is in principle denied, a fitting tribute to the nonentity from which it comes.

In fact , there is NO LAW of evolution, says the famed Karl Popper (SMR p. 145), and how could there be, since it declines to occur in the realms of innovative, upgrading-design equivalent FACT for observation ?

What law would describe, in science, facts that are mere fashion, and do not have the boldness to show themselves, ever! Law in science is to cover tested hypothesis, sanctified by constant verification in assorted fields and in diverse conditions over time; it is not for anti-verification in assorted fields, over time, for a negativity so strong, that the very facts themselves do not cease to shrink from observability, from occurrence, but hide away, precisely as if told to do so by the Creator.

After all, in the Bible, the word of God which never changes or has to, it is declared that His work of creation finished (Genesis 2). That, it is the testimony of the evidence, empirically, and of logic, rationally, and all the king's horses and all the king's men will not induce it to get going. "Its" do not become creators by whatever stimulus, for the imagination, discipline, devoted thought, conceptual fluency and over-riding power with the ingredients to match the concepts are not products of thoughtlessness, nor is the brilliance of the factual display, the result of a more than moronic mind, that does not even have the facility to exist! Such is the problem child of that rebel, evolutionism, with naturalism, its devoted cousin.

The realm of creation begun and concluded is IGNORED in many rationally paralysed academic settings; and this is common; though this is the apt cover for the empirical attestation: while what is ignored by facts is chosen as 'scientific' in one of the most imperiously perverse obfuscations of science that could be imagined, even if the world were in the process of devastation, as if will be, in a time.

THAT coming end, like the beginning not desired by mere fancy (II Peter 3), that is in fact hidden now, since it is to occur later; just as the creation is hidden now, since it occurred in the past. Moreover, this tenderness to thinking of such things and aversion indeed, it is this which Peter predicts will be the status quo as the world wanders on to this time of reckoning (II Peter 3:1-5 and following - as in Joyful Jottings 8). It IS the status quo! and the matter is fulfilled, its ludicrous logical solecism and scientistic fallacies making the verification of this prediction, now before our eyes as clearly as creation, the m ore remarkable.

The Bible has and has had it all covered for millenia, in the most precise conformity to fact; and to this valid and careful aspect of creationism, Denton also lends testimony (op. cit. pp. 353-354)! Here is what has been careful to be conformable to facts, he declares, not the myth of the Darwinian idea.

"The overriding supremacy of the myth" of Darwinianism, says Denton (p. 77), along with the assumption that it is shown to be so and merely being confirmed in various fields, is such that

He tries in another work to toy outside that myth, as does Gould, but neither provide anything to the point when they dip into these other realms of naturalistic fantasy^*2A . Nothing occurs but thought; for self-production of information does not find itself interested, in nature, which provides nothing. From this misconceived, mindless production unit of the products of mind there is nothing to be said, not a bird stirs, nor cheeps, nor does anything reply.

There is, antithetically, a fulness and satiety when facts instead, are brought under the surveillance of what is written in the Bible, a specialised approach to creationism, incapable of refutation for millenia. They meld, the propositions of revelation and the revelations from empirical fact, like two devoted friends, each echoing, each supplementing, each rejoicing in the other.

If naturalism and its evolutionism reaches the F grade, unfit for further consideration until it meets ALL the facts without contradiction by them, then the realm of biblical creationism finds A grade, with nothing contradicted at all, and amazing formulations made available precisely mirroring the established empirical realities. The matter rests; it is only the words which chatter on, as if from disturbed colonies of monkeys, parakeets or hungry lions.

Similarly, in another species of human pseudo-autonomy, the great world religions outside the Bible, are as empty before test as is naturalism, and as was in particular the vanity of the early Greek philosophers, or the political 'solutions' which working of old and anew, grind a few million to death, now here, now there amidst their ironic neglect of what man is, in their vain postulates for ruling him (cf. Aviary of Idolatry and Questions and Answers Ch. 7). What is workable and what is in the Bible have a marvellous facility both in science and in human conduct, which currently regarding such things as Christ's words in the Sermon on the Mount as impractical, make a practice of the impossible, so that the nerves of the modern manipulees twitch as the records of cruelty, fraud and deviousness mount, as if to be placed as paper flowers, above the mounds of the corpses that result. Naturalism is dead, and few need mourn her impositions, arrogance and vamping ways.

These consignments of human beings against the facts of their lives (cf. SMR pp. 348ff.) is as bizarre an event in life, as is any other form of erratic naturalism, whether in theories of errant biology or other bigotry, disdaining test, and presenting only conflict with facts, with man and with God to the utter devastation of this planet amid grinding grief and whining whimpers of the young, as those of more mature age push down the accelerator of imagination, and call that science which ignores the contradictions, which in human terms, mean death.

The form of life remains, but its dynamic delights in truth, its virtue in any kind of validity, its humility before any type at all of verification, where man himself is concerned, his meaning, origin and destiny: this is dead amongst all this nugatory idolatry, and like an unraised Lazarus, it stinks.

Even Christ was crucified; but He, He arose from the dead according to long-stated plan which nothing could or empirically nothing did foil; whereas the false and merely imaginary rules of naturalistic life lie dead, the modern substitute for the corpse that attested that death could not hold it. It stays dead; whereas Christ could never be grasped, walking from the tomb immune, triumphant by the announcement ahead of time, of some 1000 years, galvanising His people by His presence and the fact that He who raised the dead could Himself arise. After all, as He told them, when they asked for a 'sign',

"Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up" (John 2:19), speaking of His body (2:21). Just as Abraham saw His day, death could not hold Him (Acts 2:23-24).

There is none to whom God does not give, in the rebellious trantrums of festering imagination, his come-uppance, whether it be life or death, healing or holiness, peace or purity, forecast or history.

That, it is the difference between God and man. Lazarus, and Christ's own body ARISE ON TIME, and meet every test, for nothing can imprison or corrupt them. The theories of naturalism have no power, lacking all go, all credibility, all empirical facade, and are enemies, awry with fact an incubus not to be borne.

Unfortunately for naturalism, and indeed it is the whole point of its folly, there is no deus in machina, continually doing its home-work, and information tends to decrease, not increase as Professor Gitt is at such pains in his field of specialty, to make clear, as if to the blind. Codified, commanded, co-ordinated things do not arise by systems not concerned with them, and chance does not invent new systems, since it is merely a name for the operation of old ones, according to type, specifications and structure. News and information, command and micro-systematics do not create themselves, unless where required to do so by sufficient command and condition. You do nothing by talking of little things or hopes or survival or anything else, other than orate; nor by such means do you or can make anything that simply is not there, act as if it were.

This naturalistic absentee shows none of its means or media, but in fact the exact opposite is empirically attested in editorial devices, brilliant, inbuilt, cellular, directed at consistency of reproduction in life, as distinct from the fallacious image of it, wrought by liberty amiss, in the minds of that logical creation, to which freedom is conspicuously allied: mankind. Empirically, production at this level has ceased, and the Producer has attested His word and verified and validated it uniquely, in which He states that this is the case^*2B.

ALL that is required for basic movement, bits being irrelevant both in palaeontology and functionality alike, is an intensive combination of information, command, inter--systematic capacitation and contrivance, code and executive correlation with the multiplied requirements manifestly needed, to the point of requisition, and of course, what has a requisition notice served on it has to be THERE, at the time and in the place, the amount and the accessibility. All that is required for Shakespearean plays, is Shakespeare. It is simple ... but adequate. Not so in naturalism!

Such might be the raving of some antiquated ex-builder, musing on the clumsiness of apprentices, and thinking back to his prime, and imagining after so long a time since he actually did it with sweat and an array of organisational connections and tradespeople, that it was 'easy'. Easy it may have seemed when the whole structure of information and appliances, people and organisation had been CREATED by his persistent efforts over years. It had, however to be created by intelligence.

It is the same in much investigation: it is ONLY that the DNA and the RNA and the ingredients an the timing and the code and the code carriers, and the modes of cell division, meiotic and mitotic, and the sequence of developmental viabilities for the stages of the coming to be of the embryo; it is ONLY that all this has to be right to the point that making an aircraft is basically most simple, by comparison. NO system really does this; some systems exhibit it, but they do not invent themselves, but rather as Gitt points out, tend to uncreate themselves, information-wise.

And when life is based in much on commands, information is essential, exquisitely quintessential, and this codification and symbolic setting neither makes itself, nor commands itself, any more than does this page. It is not enough for a word or two to float by now and again; we need the lot and NOW together, for any operation. It is the same with nothing: it is not enough that nothing lies around for a long time, since time is not nothing, and there therefore could not BE any time. Nothing is ever the same. ALWAYS, past any question, SOMETHING has been there, and ALWAYS, to present the end, it must have had - as the all-encompassing ground basis and continuously existent advance on the impossible 'nothing' - ALL that would EVER be required. Otherwise, as inadequate, it would NEVER produce what has come.

The all-sufficient something requires the capacities to create the wholly distinct, but inter-relatable domains of mind, matter and spirit, and to give them their systems. That their systems do not create themselves is resolved at once in the fact that the all-sufficient something does it.

HOW directly ? That is His affair, but it is as directly as the evidence attests. It shows NOTHING EVER creating a KIND, more information as to any DESIGN, nor ANYTHING showing the capacity to do so, so that it s existence would point to such action. It is not a mere statistical monstrosity to imagine nothing doing something or something of one type inventing a system of wholly upgraded parameters^*2, as if systems were God, where in fact they are delimited and assigned phases of existence: it is a logical impossibility.

Permutations and combinations of existing elements in existing systems enable variation within a type and setting. The things that so permute and combine; but they do not make categorically NEW things to combine in efflorescence of art, or design, or NEW arrangement dynamics to perform. The codification of a system is just that: not a licence to create. For that you need imagination and command, code or concept and correlation of these in your field of competency. Man is the creation who has this in singular degree; but he has no slightest ability to create himself, or for that matter, even the basic ingredients of life! These, they are the facts, and what is contrary is as absent as atmosphere on the moon. To imagine it really is fine; for we are built to imagine; but to confuse this with air is simply childish.

Thus have these three, pseudo-autonomy, naturalism and ignorance of God, become the rattle and the dummy of man in his belated infantility. He is like one grabbing at power systematically impossible for him, seeking its emplacement where he can control and manipulate it, like a kid sawing up the furniture which he does not appreciate, while constantly failing to find his parents, far less know them.

Indeed, in the end it is the failure to KNOW GOD which is the funereal tribute to lost man as the 21st century zooms on from the days when EMPTINESS was Jung's call for the problem in fallen man. It is not only what is NOT there; it is what OUGHT to be there, and missing, which leaves man as meaningless and demented in his relationship with reality as a bird which, having gone from the Artic to the Antarctic, forgets, even there, that it needs land. The voyage is no cruise, and all is lost on the wing for the feet, groundless, as the logic of fallen man, find no rest, nothing secure; for all is changing, and even itself, it grows thin and confused with the travel, a sermon in the incessant, a sentence, self-imposed, hovering constantly above it, to press it down, while it stays, like drifting clouds, aloft.

In SMR, pp. 422L ff., we see some overview of the wanderings, with heavy and unfounded feet, of man's migratory obsessions. Here it may be seen slightly extended.

	a) failure to find what is predicted.
	b) failure to find anything like what is predicted.
	c) success in finding the exact opposite of what is predicted.
	d) success in finding multiplicity, complexity, variety and an extraordinarily wide coverage of living systems, coming both suddenly and 'early' at the very gates... of biological life... a testimony radically and ruinously contrary to all but magical and wholly unscientific auto-creation, in scope and character.

	the microscopic or the macroscopic, the gross structures or the mini-means,
	the hierarchical organisational mode,
	the protein brilliance and discreteness,
	the arrangement of types,
	the onset of design abundant and varied at what evolutionism deems the most early times,
	the scientific laws in major categories backing creationism to the point of being a virtual re-statement of it (cf. TMR Chs . 1 , 8, The Wit ... Ch. 2) or
	the absenteeism in fossil records of transitional organs, of gradations in type, rather than variations in kind, which as in the Bible, in fact appear, or
	the stark brilliance of individual designs,
	the singularity of Biblical Creationism in meeting ALL the observed, empirical features and the logical constraints, that evolutionism meets not at all:

	Aristotle hid "Him" in a contemplation casket, untouchable, untouching;
	Plato (q.v.) in forms, archetypes with occasional glints from beyond;
	Kant (q.v.) hid "Him" in the unknowable noumena, about which he was so knowledgeable ...
	Bergson (q.v.) in vital force (living what ? "force" accelerates matter, but bears no mind - see 'Potential');
	Davies seems to act similarly with - a vanishing god, as if disassembled - in the multi-faceted monism, which he inspects like a doctor, to see if perchance dissolved mind is somehow secreted in the self-contradictory "it" (pp. 252A-N, 263-270, 284-297, 300 ff, supra; 422Q-W, 425 ff. infra); while -
	Buddha (q.v.) seems as if he really wants to forget "it" (cf. pp. 996-997, 999 infra); in this, being like a primordial version of ...
	David Hume (cf SMR Ch. 3), who for his part proceeds without subject, cause or ground for his "description only", contradicting both his criterion and his results with his procedure. So -
	Hoyle ( cf. SMR pp. 79, 157, 209, 224, 226, 252A, 422H,L ) more consistently put "it" into the system's innate 'intelligence' bureau, complete with virtual information library. But of this nexus, the composer and the cause ? He merely removes the necessities one step, in transit to God. (Cf. pp. 127, 225-226, 112, 207, 80, 302 supra.) Attributing to the universe a facility it does not manifest, he ignores the demands of the creative action it incorporates. (Cf. pp. 80-88, 121, 131, 252C-N, 265, 293-299ff., 313ff. supra.)

	the early Greek philosophers (Spiritual Refreshings ... Ch. 13), wanting water, fire, air, change, flux, to arise and create or precede and depute, themselves causeless, are found witless arbiters of the arbiter, man. From him, they are as far as is painting a masterpiece from paints, and these from minerals, exposing in their dreamings, mere imaginations without legs, stomach or head, principle or power, or exemplification of their chosen ways; or
	with Aristotle, more meaningful but still enshrined in mist, seeking types to be endlessly insistent on coming to be, designs perfected with a dynamic of necessity arising like all else in this distorted realm, from nowhere, his God being too preoccupied with being himself; or
	with the idolatries exposed in the prophets of the Bible in the Old Testament, Phoenician and Canaanite carry-overs and acquisitions, popular and populous gods, going about their imagined adventures and consumption of devotees - for Moloch, this more literally in the case of burnt up children: exemplars of the butt of lust, not the rule of liberty and law, of ruin, and not of life: the career is the same. It imagines what it does not find, and does not account for what it does find. There is a certain disagreeable dizziness, as if the spirit of man were moribund, floribund, or both, flowering in death, and dying amidst its flowers of the illicit, like narcotic plants, set in damp soil.

4. There's a Time to be Timely