Below is a beautiful, encouraging article from ICR  (Institute for Creation Research).  It includes part of my favorite Bible passage, Rev. 21:3-4.

Most of you know that science is part of my background.  It has been a blessing and a curse.  Back in the early 80's when I returned to Christ, I found it difficult to believe the Bible again, especially miracles like the Ressurection.  After I prayed about it, I came across my first article on the Shroud of Turin.  I have been a "shroudie" ever since, and most importantly, my belief in the Resurrection is strong "beyond belief"!
 
Recently I prayed about the whole Creation issue.  If I can believe in the Resurrection (Christ's physical body moving from one dimension to another) then it helps me to believe in Creation.  Because during Creation, the created things moved in the opposite direction--from the dimension where Christ's body is now, to the dimension in which we live.   If God can supernaturally move matter in one direction, He can move them in another.
 
HOWEVER, I still struggled with the age of the earth and the OLD radiocarbon dates that  science gives us for dinosaurs, etc. So I prayed about it, and came across the website www.icr.org. The Institute for Creation Research believes in a young creation according to scripture.  You might want to direct your scientific, unbelieving, loved ones to this website, and perhaps buy them a magazine subcription for a Christmas gift.
 
I just received my first issue of their beautifully illustrated magazine "Acts & Facts".  Two articles in particular were of interest to me.  We all know that soft body tissue decays rapidly, and after millions of years IT SHOULD BE DECAYED OR FOSSILIZED.   This magazine (Vol. 38 No. 10) decribes two different specimens that should have been too old to have soft body tissue.  The first was studied in the 1990's and NUCLEATED CELLS were found in dinosaur bones. The second was reported in August of 2009, when English researchers found an intact ink sac in a squid that should have been 150 million years old.
 
Why don't these findings make headlines?  Because both science and the news organizations filter out what will be published.  If the research doesn't fit their evolutionary, old earth, concept, they even penalize the scientists that dare to print their findings.  I saw this personally with the Shroud this year when "half baked" research, from atheist backed scientists, got global coverage, yet the real, late breaking science from the 2008 conference got little or no coverage.  

What can we do about it?  PRAY, FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT, and REJOICE.
 
Days of Praise
The New Jerusalem
October 30, 2009
 
"But be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create: for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy." (Isaiah 65:18)
 
Here is a remarkable act of creation! The verb "create" always has God as its subject, and it would surely require the divine Creator to "create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy!" Jerusalem throughout her history has been a city of conflict and sorrow, and her people have suffered under oppressors longer than any other nation, not only in Jerusalem (meaning, ironically, "city of peace"), but all throughout the world.
 
The ultimate fulfillment of this striking prophecy can only be when we (like John in his vision) see "the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband" (Revelation 21:2). In that day, "God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away" (Revelation 21:4).
 
If there is no more sorrow, there can only be rejoicing; if there is no more death, there will be eternal rejoicing, just as our text assures us. This will be our everlasting home, so indeed "her people" will be, in their new creation, "a joy" forever.
 
Since the New Jerusalem will come down from heaven, it is now in heaven, where Christ has gone to prepare a place for us (John 14:2). Our Creator/Redeemer has created this new Jerusalem as our eternal dwelling place, as well as the new heavens and new earth.
 
Isaiah then ends his remarkable prophecy with this wonderful assurance: "As the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the LORD, so shall your seed and your name remain" (Isaiah 66:22). HMM
 
 
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