Collecting Rocks and other Incredibly Brilliant Abilities of Consciousness

Sorry, I have to mock a bit on this one. I was reminded recently of a story that every evolutionist under the sun jumped on with glee when it first came to the media's attention.

Santino is a fairly ordinary chimp. He likes to swing around and gibber, and he smells like a sweaty hog in a mire, but he also has a brilliant ability that puts him on par with, well, chimps. Santino, who is a 31 year old banana lover housed at Furuvik zoo in Sweden, likes to collect rocks so that when those gawking tourists come to bang on the glass and laugh at him he can throw them in self-defence against the appalling affronts of those pesky humans.

Rock throwing is a typical behaviour of apes, but the geniuses at the journal Current Biology noticed that Santino collects the rocks before the visitors arrive. They lauded this example of Einstein-level monkey brilliance with these words: "These observations convincingly show that our fellow apes do consider the future in a complex way...It implies that they have a highly developed consciousness, including the lifelike mental simulations of potential events."

The other day I saw an equally brilliant human relative bury food, using his highly developed consciousness to simulate the potential event of him being hungry again. He chose a tree to climb with his own sentient will, and then used incredible skill to dig a hole and bury his carefully chosen selection of food item. My wallet was glad that I didn't have to travel to Africa to witness this, but down the local park, Mr. Nuts the squirrel was providing the type of quality scientific observation that professional scientists need thousands in grant money to achieve.

Another brilliant near-relative of humans, and undoubtedly one that branched off very recently from our evolutionary lineage due to its incredible skill, manages to do this: "The _____ of Africa build apartment-house nests, in which 100 to 300 pairs have separate flask-shaped chambers entered by tubes at the bottom." Imagine travelling to darkest East Africa and witnessing this human ancestor, in the 'cradle of humanity', utilising its incredible fore-planning abilities and highly developed consciousness to select just the right materials to construct elaborate nests by the hundreds, differing very little from each other - I mean a chimp can just about pile grass and sticks on the ground to sleep!

Oh, sorry, my field workers tell me that it was actually the work of weaver birds and not a bipedal ape on his way to conducting the London Philharmonic. You just have to see the Darwinist paradigm that blinds such researchers as Current Biology to the wonders of creation. God gave the weaver bird an ability to skilfully weave that no ape will ever attain to, and it doesn't need consciousness to do it - God put the intelligence and ability in there. An ape can collect rocks and wait for its human targets to turn up, God also injected that intelligence into its being, but a chimp is no more 'conscious' than any other animal that conducts relatively complex activities. Also no ape can make vocalisations anything like human speech, but parrots can.

There are too many questions to ask and points to make for one article, but suffice to say that evolution theory is a hindrance to science and objective observation. If its a chimp doing something a bit above the average level then its a sign of them being like us, but if a bird or a squirrel does something displaying intelligence no one cares. Just fits too much into believing in a a transcendent, intelligent creator who gave order and design to the universe and all of his creatures.

Think About It

Those who argue for naturalistic origins and development of the universe we live in need to have a think.

If chance in its many expressions started and guided the formation of all that we see today - from binary star systems to obligate symbionts - then the universe would indeed contain no true thought or reason. We could subjectively assign appearances of thought or reason, but would have to concede that things can simply make themselves and guide their own development by surfing the algorithms of blind chance.

Did you get that? We use our thoughts and reasoning to say that no thought or reason went into the universe! People come up with intellectually neotanised theories like Darwinism through their ability to think and reason - albeit through a convoluted mess of contradiction and logical fallacies. The very autonomous abilities of our mind show that indeed thought and reason exists in the universe, and to get that you need a transcendent expresser; someone had to inject our consciousness into creation.

I don't know how much longer Darwinites and Dawkinsites can go on telling us why they think everything evolved, while neglecting to tell us the nuts and bolts of how it evolved. To do that you have to by-pass logic and the empiricism of mathematics and delve into the realms of mathematical impossibility and logical fallacies. As David Berlinski put it, there is a definite slide down the scale of intelligibility from mathematics, to mathematical physics, to evolutionary biology. If only people would think about why they can think...

Further reading: www.drdino.com, www.creationtoday.org, www.icr.org, www.answersingenesis.org.

Testimony from Kibera

Of the many breathtaking miracles of healing we witnessed in Kibera, one stands out in particular.

As I ministered on the final night of the crusade in the heart of Africa's largest slum we called for the sick to come forward. Seeing around 60 people respond to the call for salvation was enough, but then to have about 20 people also come up on stage to be prayed for was amazing. There was such a simple faith in God's power to heal and a reverence for a man of God that sees the bondages of sickness broken by the stripes of our smitten Lord.

A young lady of perhaps early twenties came up on stage who had partial hearing and oozing from her left ear for 13 years. That's a long time to be sick, but as the man at the pool of Bethesda and the man at the gate Beautiful, she was about to have her appointment with the great Physician. We laid on hands and prayed and that wonderful smile that comes over the face of someone touched of God appeared as she testified that her ear had opened!

I was sad to have to jump off the platform and go back to the baptist mission to collect our luggage and head to the airport. I could have had that every night easily; even as a spectator. By the grace of God me and my faithful wife will be heading to East Africa one day to see such miracles and salvation on a regular basis!

Power Present to Heal

Luke 5:17 And it came to pass on a certain day, as he was teaching, that there were Pharisees and doctors of the law sitting by, which were come out of every town of Galilee, and Judaea, and Jerusalem: and the power of the Lord was present to heal them


This Saturday gone we were on the streets once again to witness and promote our event 'Poetic Justice'. A good crowd gathered as the CYA (Christ Youth Alliance) presented drama and dance, and standing their talking to one of our evangelists I noticed a young boy going about on crutches.

I could see from his general mobility and joy that this was a temporary injury - he flew around on those crutches with the confidence of someone who knows once they're better they'll be flying around even faster. My heart was immediately burdened for him, knowing that child-like faith can see great miracles, and I went over to ask him how he ended up on crutches. Anthony told me that he is a keen skateboarder and after a friend dared him £20 to do a particularly difficult trick he ended up falling and dislocating his knee (the friend still gave him the £20!). I suggested we pray and that God would heal him.

He told me that his leg hurt when he stretched it out, but after a simple prayer of faith and laying hands on that knee an unmistakable smile of joy came across his face as he declared to me 'it doesn't hurt any more!' As I told him that Jesus had healed him he shouted 'I'm going to tell my mum' and flew off to find his mum in the market place. Although I didn't see that dear young man at the event that night, I can see the joy he would have had as he declared the works of the Lord to an astonished mother! Hallelujah!

To top that off we saw five souls saved that night! God is good and Jesus is sweeter every day!