Several Items of Interest

Clinic Closings Increasing in the U. S.

Abortion centers are shutting down at an unprecedented rate.  The total so far this year is 44, according to a pro-life organization that tracks clinic operations.  None was more telling than the mid-July closing of the Planned Parenthood center in Bryan, Texas.  It came less than four years after Abby Johnson, burdened by her involvement with abortion, walked out of that clinic as its director and into the offices of the Coalition for Life.  "Knowing that the former abortion clinic I once ran is now closing is the biggest personal victory of my life," Johnson said.

This year, 42 clinics that provided surgical abortions have shut their doors, and two that offered chemical abortions by drugs also have closed.  That number far surpasses the 25 shutdown last year and the 30 in 2011, by Operation Rescue's count. Some of the shutdowns have been of major clinics.  For instance,Virginia's No. 1 abortion provider closed.  It had performed 3,066 abortions in 2012 and 3,567 in 2011.
  (Christian Renewal, Oct. 2013, www.crmag.com)


A few Scientific Facts about Creation

Which came first, proteins of DNA (Revelation 4:11)?  For evolutionists, the chicken or egg dilemma goes even deeper.  Chickens consist of proteins.  The code for each protein is contained in the DNA/RNA system.  However, proteins are required in order to manufacture DNA.  So which came first: proteins or DNA?  The ONLY explanation is that they were created together.

Our bodies are made from the dust of the ground (Genesis 2:7; 3:19).  Scientists have discovered that the human body is comprised of some 28 base and trace elements  -  all of which are found in the earth.

The First Law of Thermodynamics established (Genesis 2:1-2).  The First Law states that the total quantity of energy and matter in the universe is a constant.  One form of energy or matter may be converted into another, but the total quantity always remains the same.  Therefore the creation is finished, exactly as God said way back in Genesis.

The first three verses of Genesis accurately express all known aspects of the creation (Genesis 1:1-3).  Science expresses the universe in terms of: time, space, matter, and energy.  In Genesis chapter one we read: "In the beginning (time) God created the heavens (space) and the earth (matter)....Then God said, "Let there be light (energy)."  No other creation account (such as evolution) agrees with the observable evidence.

The universe had a beginning (Genesis 1:1, Hebrews 1:10-12).  Starting with the studies of Ablert Einstein in the early 1900s and continuing today, science has confirmed the biblical view that the universe had a beginning.  At the time that the Bible was written most people believed the universe was eternal.  Science has proven them wrong, but the Bible correct.

The earth is a sphere (Isaiah 40:22).  At a time when many thought the earth was flat, the Bible told us that the earth is spherical.

Scripture assumes a revolving (spherical) earth (Luke 17:34-36).  Jesus said that at His return some would be asleep at night while others would be working at day time activities in the field.  This is a clear indication of a revolving earth, with day and night occurring simultaneously.
   (The above short items from www.creationmoments.com, 101 Scientific Facts & Foreknowledge)