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!

Revival in Kenya

Just got back from an unforgettable trip to Kenya.

Too much to really express, but the highlight for me was getting to preach and pray for the sick in Kibera, a city within a city in Nairobi and Africa's largest slum. 1.5 million people live in poverty, but despite this and maybe because of this, there is a huge response to the gospel there.

After holding pastors seminars in Nakuru and a Wednesday night crusade in the slums there we travelled back to Nairobi and The Door church at Kibera for Saturday and Sunday night crusades, which had begun mid-week. My pastor preached at the church building in the morning, where I was able to give my testimony, and then we headed to the Kibera slums for the evening.

I prayed for many sick people, who were all healed and I would say over 60 people answered the altar call. In total 430 souls were saved during the crusade - powerful! It really is happening in Kenya and I've always felt it's the most fruitful place in the world.

More stories to come, but my heart truly is stirred for this nation and pray God would have me be a missionary in East Africa one day.

Mungu akubariki!

Stephen Hawking's Favourite Fairy Stories & Other Tales...

It is funny how selectively blind the world is to reason and logic. It is funnier how the people that they exalt perpetuate and entrench such blindness. Or not so funny.

One would hope that Hawking et al would open the door of their hearts to objective consideration considering terminal illness, no matter how long they eventually live. Unfortunately Professor Hawking shows no sign of following suit of many great thinkers throughout history and applying his mind to all the glaring observations of science that necessitate a creator.

He said this in a May 2011 interview: "I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail...There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark".

Well, this of course begs the question of who made the computer? The truth is the brain is infinitely more complex than a man-made computer. Before Professor Hawking disputes the existence of a soul, immortality of the soul, or a place of existence of the immortal soul, he must of course first explain the naturalistic origins of the brain - which he cannot do. It is incredibly puerile to say those who believe in or have experienced heaven hold to a fairy story. One could easily point to Hawking's faulty analogy of the inorganic, man-made computer and the organic, logical product of an higher intelligence than man as a 'fairy story'.

This excerpt also caught my attention: 'When asked what is the value of knowing why we are here, Hawking replied , "The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can't solve the equations directly in the abstract. We need to use the effective theory of Darwinian natural selection of those societies most likely to survive. We assign them higher value". I use my scientific prerogative and beg to differ. If you are a secular humanist/Darwinist then there is no value to being here what so ever, as value itself is an abstract concept that a naturalistic universe cannot determine.

If Hawking was the great Physicist that is he is held-up to be, then he should clearly see that Darwinism is not effective, sufficient to explain origins or a good historical gauge of what is generally accepted as valuable by civilised people. Neither is the universe governed by 'science' - it is governed by the providence of God through the laws He has put in place - by 'science' Hawking is means the secular humanist world-view. He could easily have said it is governed by 'nature' or God, but he wants to sound authoritative and empirical and definitely not like a theist. Unfortunately he is far from empiricist; as happened to Peter, his speech betrays him.

He says that "science tells us we can't solve the equations directly in the abstract", but the real statement here is that his pre-conceived secular humanist world-view won't allow him to employ logic or true empiricism, like mathematics. Looking at incredibly complex design and pointing to a transcendent designer is just too 'abstract' for old Stephen. Yet he is not quite empirical enough to crunch the numbers and see that mathematical law rules out unguided naturalistic origins for the universe and its complexity.

Then, either in foolish bravado or a drunken stupor, he bursts out of the Trojan horse of Darwinism and hits the nail on the head. If evolutionists decide, for coherence of argument, that there is such an 'abstract' concept as value then it has to be determined through the cracked, warped and wrongly prescribed lens of Darwinism. Indeed, the value lies in 'higher animals'. Sorry, didn't mean to quote from Mein Kampf, but for brevity's sake it seemed just the point that Hawking was making.

So here we have it, Hawking as Dawkins, as Hitchens as Huxley, doesn't believe in the God he is going to stand before and an eternal destination for his soul (I think for an old sinner it would be better to 'reason' against hell). But he is frank enough to also reveal that the beliefs he holds to lead him to think that the West is of more value than the Two-Thirds world, an over-fed British child is of more value than a starving African one and value can arbitrarily be assigned based on the opinion of a man who believes he is ultimately accountable to no one outside himself.

Well done, world, another of your geniuses manages to kick his own tonsils into touch.

False Correlations of Darwinism

My favourite topic of enquiry regarding creation and the refutation of Darwinism is zoology. Though my studies within it, from a formal perspective, include only an unfinished diploma, I have spent many hours reading, researching and observing the wonder of living things.

One of the fallacies of Darwinism that is rarely mentioned is the supposed correlation between bipedalism and intelligence. In the conventional time-line of human evolution, from monkey to 'modern' man, the assumption is made that increased bipedalism be-gets increased intelligence or vice versa, increased intelligence be-gets increased bipedalism. "Why of course, all four-legged creatures are stupid and all two-legged creatures are smart!", I hear the intellectually neotanised Dawkinites murmur.

That is simply not true. Bears are smarter than kangaroos for one, but it is also not true in view of Darwinian human evolution theory. If the fallacious correlation presented in the pretty pictures of the text books was true then we would find that the more bipedal the ape, the more intelligent. Unfortunately fact, and namely fact by zoological observation, proves otherwise. The smartest ape is not the most bipedal, and the most bipedal is not the most intelligent. Darwinists say "d'oh!


The most intelligent ape, shown by several tests that have included the ability to learn sign language and the ability to grasp gift reciprocity, is the orang utan. The thing about the orang is that it is the most arboreal of the great apes - it spends more time in the trees and is less bipedal than all of the other great apes such as gorillas and chimps. The most bipedal ape is not even a 'great ape', it is the gibbon. The gibbon habitually walks upright when dancing across branches or when on the ground. God made it this way because its long arms that are used for 'brachiating' through the trees are not suitable for the knuckle or wrist walking of the other apes. The gibbon is certainly not the most intelligent ape.

So there we have it, there is no observable relation between bipedalism and intelligence in apes, so how can it be assumed that there was in the fictitious tree of human evolution? Easily, because evolutions are experts at drawing pretty pictures and telling you that something definitely happened, without explaining how. You cannot reasonably posit that Lucy was any more intelligent than her relatives that swung in the trees more than she did.

The other false correlation is brain size and intelligence - inevitably the drawings show the head size increasing from the small head of an ape-like creature to the larger size of homo sapiens. As Dr. Marvin Lubenow, author of Bones of Contention observed, if you blow up a gorilla's brain you simply have a huge gorilla brain - it is the wiring of the brain that matters. In fact, gorillas have larger brains than orangs, but do not display intelligence to the same level. It is nothing to do with their size - chimps are smaller than both but have a larger brain than an orang.

These are just two scientifically verifiable observations made amongst living creatures that we can observe, study and test, not dead bones shoe-horned into a pre-conceived world view - now that's science.