Keeping Christ in His Creation
The Christian culture was focused on being entertained, not the Word of God. I’ve since recognized that what I saw in college was indicative of Christianity as a whole. As I’ve visited churches over the years, I’ve observed an overwhelming lack of desire to commit to God, even in conservative churches. Most Christians pay lip service to their religion but have no interest in inconveniencing themselves to serve God.
In all the excitement over Creation and Evolution, it is easy to forget the point of us being here. I just want to take a short period of time here and remind everyone what the whole point of this ministry is and why it matters.
The whole point of this ministry revolved solely around Jesus Christ. That’s it. Without Christ, this ministry is pointless.
Today, perhaps the most well-known species that is falling off the extinction cliff is the cheetah. Scientists know that Cheetah viability is dropping, litter size is shrinking, and deformities are increasing. As Kelly (2001) pointed out, the effective population size in cheetahs is a mere fifteen percent of the actual population size, far below what is acceptable to maintain a species. The cheetah will go extinct and nothing can be done to prevent it.
What relevance does the question of a minimal genome have to the creation/evolution debate? Consider the original creation. There would have been no parasites or diseases. In the post-fall world, organisms had to adapt to these lifestyles. One way they could do that is ejecting genes that they no longer needed. Hence essentially minimizing their genome. This is why I expect that no universal minimal genome will ever be found. Each kind requires unique genes to accomplish its various tasks.
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-3ngi4-f2dede Host Emory Moynagh explains why getting baraminology right matters. ARJ paper https://answersingenesis.org/the-flood/implication-creation-biology-neogene-quaternary-flood-post-flood-boundary/ Find In His Image on…
There are small sections of the DNA scattered throughout the genome that repeat. Termed microsatellites, these repeats vary in length but are rarely more than a few nucleotides long. Evolutionists believe they have no function. However, given a created genome, that seems unlikely. Therefore we will take a brief look at microsatellites today to see whether there is evidence they have function.
