Category: JONATHAN SARFATI

THE GENESIS FLOOD

THE GENESIS FLOOD

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When you purchase a subscription for Creation Magazine – $32 for a year – you also receive bonus daily Creation articles by e-mail if you wish. Although some are “for kids” they are also very faith building for adults, who often get rather “rusty”, forgetting some of the simple basic facts, the brain gets clogged with day to day worldy trivia. This monkey enjoyed this article by Jonathan Sarfati. Click on his live linked name just below to read his biography – which is most interesting. Subscribe here: https://creation.com/magazines and support a cutting edge Christian Ministry, while educating yourself. Gibber! Gibber! Chugley The Genesis Flood for Kids The floodwaters recede by Jonathan Sarfati Published in Creation 46(3):32–35, 2024 In the previous article, we learned how the Flood covered the whole earth and eventually reached its highest point (zenith). After that, the floodwaters had to come down. But because it was a worldwide Flood with lots of water, it took a long time. In fact, Noah and the other passengers were on the Ark for about a year. Local floods never last a year! But those on the Ark were safe. However, outside the Ark, the waters running off the continents left obvious evidence. The previous article explained that vast amounts of flowing water can carve through rock and even concrete. The receding floodwaters would have also carved rock into distinctive patterns. How did the water go down? You covered it [the earth] with the deep as with a garment; the waters stood above the mountains. At your rebuke, they fled; at the sound of your thunder, they took to flight. The mountains rose, the valleys sank down to the place that you appointed for them. You set a boundary that they may not pass, so that they might not again cover the earth. Psalm 104:6–9:…

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PLANETS AROUND THE STARS – IS THERE LIFE ON THEM?

PLANETS AROUND THE STARS – IS THERE LIFE ON THEM?

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I am pleased that my readers enjoy these articles which are written primarily for kids. They are also popular with adults, who find them easy to read and most educational.. This monkey finds it hard to understand how the Christ hating Mr Darwin managed to trick so many into believing his unworkable theory. The Universe is beyond the understanding of finite minds, and is magnificent display of the workmanship of an Almighty Creator. In order to keep informed make sure to subscribe to Creation Magazine: https://creation.com/magazines The authors biography can be read by clicking on his name at the beginning, which is a live link. Gibber! Gibber! Chugley Creation for kids—Planets around other stars: Is there life on them by Jonathan Sarfati Published in Creation 44(4):32–35, 2022 Our star, the sun, has eight planets and many other smaller objects. All of these make up the solar system. But what about all the other stars—200 billion in our galaxy alone? Could they have planets—called extrasolar, i.e., outside our solar system? In other words, could stars have their own stellar systems like our solar system? But they are so far away. How could we detect planets around them? After all, they would be much smaller than the stars they orbit. And they would not produce their own light; instead, they would reflect light from their star. Detecting extrasolar planets The first confirmed extrasolar planet was discovered as recently as 1992. Now there are over 5,000 confirmed extrasolar planets (‘exoplanets’). How do we know? Some planets have indeed been seen directly from their reflected light. But this is rare because the glare of the star usually overwhelms the faint reflected light. The most common detection is when the planet moves in front of its star, or ‘transits’. The planet is much smaller than the star, but…

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CREATION FOR KIDS OLD AND YOUNG!

CREATION FOR KIDS OLD AND YOUNG!

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The Creation articles written for kids are proving very popular with my adult readers also. They are very attention grabbing, easy to read and understand, The Universe cannot possibly be old. Make sure you keep up with this exciting ministry, subscribe to Creation magazine: https://creation.com/magazines To read the author’s biography just click on his live linked name at the top of his article below. Gibber! Gibber! Chugley Creation for kids—Dwarf planets, Asteroids, and Comets by Jonathan Sarfati Published in 2022 The most massive object in our solar system is the sun. By far—it has 99.85% of the total mass. Most of the rest of the mass—0.135%—is the eight planets. Jupiter has by far the most—over 2½ times the mass of the other seven planets combined. But what of the remaining 0.015%? Most of that is the moons around the planets. But the remaining relatively small objects are still interesting. Dwarf planets The most famous dwarf planet is 134340 Pluto, or just Pluto. The American astronomer Clyde Tombaugh (1906–1997) discovered it in 1930. He showed that it orbited the sun—once every 248 Earth years. Astronomers declared this the 9th planet of our solar system. It was named by the 11-year-old English schoolgirl Venetia Burney (1918–2009). She chose the name of the Roman god of the underworld (Greek: Hades). However, in 2006, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) ruled that Pluto was not a planet but a dwarf planet. Pluto is much smaller than the planets; in fact, it’s a fifth of the mass of our moon. There are also other objects of similar size, such as Eris, Haumea, Makemake, Gonggong, Quaoar, and Sedna. Eris is actually 27% more massive than Pluto. So the choice was to name all these objects as planets or demote Pluto to a dwarf planet like them. In 2015, NASA’s New Horizons space probe…

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THE GENESIS FLOOD

THE GENESIS FLOOD

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This simple explanation of Noah’s flood is filled with very helpful facts for kids young and old. This monkey finds it puzzling as to why humans should be so reluctant to accept the Bible as being history. Be sure to subscribe to Creation Magazine and keep your self informed about such matters: https://creation.com/magazines To read the Jonathan Sarfati’s biography click on his name at the beginning of his article. Gibber! Gibber! Chugley The Genesis Flood for kids: The flood peaks by Jonathan Sarfati Published in Creation 46(2):32–35, 2024 In the previous articles, we learned more about the globe-covering Flood taught in Genesis 6–8. It started in the oceans, then rose to cover the land. As it did so, all people, birds, livestock, and wild animals died—except those on the Ark. Vast numbers were buried in rock layers that spanned continents. Layer upon layer was laid down very quickly. All bad things come to an end Fortunately, even such a Flood doesn’t last forever. But it still lasted far longer than any local flood. Genesis 7:17–24 informs us that the Flood “prevailed” for 150 days. After that, the Ark rested on the mountains of Ararat, and the water started going down. But it took more than half a year before the Flood left the land so Noah and everyone else could leave the Ark. How high did the Flood reach? At the peak, the Flood covered the highest mountains to 15 cubits deep (about 7 metres or 22.5 feet). The Ark was safe because it sank only about ten cubits into the water—a third of its height. But how could water cover the highest mountains? The highest mountain today is Mt Everest—its summit (highest point) is 8,848.86 m (29,031.7 ft) above sea level. The answer is: Mt Everest didn’t exist at the beginning of the Flood. Rather, the highest mountains were pushed up towards…

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CREATION FOR KIDS AND PEOPLE WHO THINK THEY STILL ARE

CREATION FOR KIDS AND PEOPLE WHO THINK THEY STILL ARE

   Print Readers tell me they enjoy these Creation articles for kids, especially those who remain young at heart. Remember to subscribe to the magazine and enjoy the wonders of the Creator’s Creation: https://creation.com/magazines Gibber! Gibber! Chugley Creation for Kids—The earth: “Created to be inhabited” by Jonathan Sarfati and Lita Cosner Published in Creation 43(4):32–35, 2021 The planet we live on is not the biggest, but it’s the most important by far. It is amazingly well designed to support a huge variety of life. Size Eratosthenes worked out the size of the earth 200 years before Christ. He was the head of the famous Library of Alexandria in Egypt. He measured the angles of shadows in two different places on the same day of the year. He already knew the sun cast no shadow during midsummer noon at a place called Syene (Aswan), which was far south of Alexandria. Where he lived, noon midsummer shadows had an angle of about 7°, or about 1⁄50 of a circle, on that day. He realized that the earth must have a circumference 50 times the distance between the cities, which he knew. His result was very close to the modern value of 40,007 km (24,859 miles). Design features Our own planet has many amazing features which no other planets in our solar system have. Here are just a few of them: Right distance. The earth travels around the sun once per year and is always about 150 million km (93 million miles) from the sun. This is just right! Too close and the oceans would boil. Too far and the oceans would freeze. But at the right distance, most water is liquid, just like we need. Right spin. The earth spins once per day (half as fast as the hour hand of a clock!). This means we have the day and night cycle….

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THE LIGHT THAT RULES THE DAY

THE LIGHT THAT RULES THE DAY

This monkey appreciates these articles for children, they are so easy to comprehend. I also find that contemplating the universe gives me a sense of proportion, and an appreciation of the majesty of God. Subscribe to Creation Magazine and keep informed about such things: https://creation.com/magazines Gibber! Gibber! Chugley Creation for Kids—The Sun: “The light that rules the day” by Lita Sanders and Jonathan Sarfati Published in Creation 43(1):32–35, 2021 The sun literally lights up the day! This star provides us with light as well as heat. It also powers green plants, allowing them to make their own food. Animals and people can eat plants for food. Without the sun there would be no light, heat, or food. The sun is huge! The sun may not look big, but it really is! How do we know? Because it’s so far away, it must be huge to look the way it does. About 250 years before Christ, Aristarchus proved that the sun must be many times further away than the moon. So why do they seem to be the same size? Because the sun must be far bigger than the moon. In fact, far bigger than the earth! Modern astronomers now know that the sun is about 150 million km (93 million miles) away. This distance is also called the astronomical unit (AU). The sun is over 100 times wider than the earth. It is 1,392,000 km (864,950 miles) across. It is so huge that 1.3 million Earths could fit inside it. Our special star The sun is remarkable even by the standards of stars. The sun is bigger than most stars, but that’s not what makes it the most important. It is also very stable and has been for thousands of years. Every few years, the sun sends out a major flare that can interfere with city power grids. However, living creatures are…

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THE SOLAR SYSTEM

THE SOLAR SYSTEM

The best antidote this monkey knows, for combating the lunacy of this fallen world, is to meditate on the work of the Almighty Creator who is in charge, and promises Eternal Life for those who accept His Son as Lord. Don’t forget to subscribe to Creation magazine and receive regular top ups for your faith. Subscribe here: https://creation.com/magazines Gibber! Gibber! Chugley The Solar System Creation for Kids by Lita Sanders and Jonathan Sarfati Published in Creation 42(4):32–35, 2020 For thousands of years, people have been fascinated by what they called ‘wandering stars’. These moved slowly but noticeably against the background of the other stars. Today, we call these ‘planets’, from the Greek for ‘wandering’. Together with the sun and many smaller bodies, such as comets, they and their moons are part of the solar system (Latin sol = sun). Studying the movements of the planets helped to develop modern science. Puzzling motions Ancient astronomers believed that everything in the heavens revolved around the earth (called geocentrism, from Greek gē = earth). But planets occasionally seemed to go backwards briefly (retrograde motion), before going on their forward path again. How come? The Greek astronomer Ptolemy, who lived about 100 years after Christ, had a complex answer. In his book called the Almagest, he proposed that planets moved in epicycles—circles upon circles. See Diagram 1 for why they would appear to reverse course briefly. This was the main astronomy textbook for well over a thousand years. Eventually, astronomers realized that this explanation wasn’t correct. A few astronomers proposed a novel idea: the earth and planets all revolved around the sun. This is called heliocentrism (from Greek hēlios = sun). In this system, planets occasionally pass each other. This explains the apparent backward motions (see Diagram 2). Some very high-ranking churchmen in the late Middle Ages (14th and…

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CHRISTMAS & GENESIS

CHRISTMAS & GENESIS

Chugley and friends thank Creation Ministries for their many great articles during 2023. We wish all our readers a very Merry Christmas and a prosperous 2024. The Blog will be closed until January. To read the interesting biography of Joanathan Sarfati click on the live link above his article. Don’t forget to subscribe to Creation Magazine, just click below, makes an unusual Christmas Present also… https://creation.com/magazines Gibber! Gibber! Chugley by Jonathan Sarfati We at CMI wish all our readers and supporters a safe and blessed Christmas and New Year festive season. But what does CMI have to do with Christmas? How does Genesis relate to a birthday? The whole point is that the One whose birth is celebrated at Christmas was none other than the One who brought the whole universe into existence! Our Creator took on the nature of one of His creatures, a helpless infant. Think about the movie producers Alfred Hitchcock and M. Night Shyamalan: in their movies, they would make an entrance in the movies they created. But Christmas is no movie: it happened in history: God, the Creator, became flesh, the Incarnation. World leader in sickle cell anemia research, Dr Felix Konotey-Ahulu, in an interview in Creation magazine, pointed out the significance: ‘The baby whose birth we celebrate at Christmas is the Creator of the world! See John 1:1–5, especially v. 3: “All things were made through Him, and without Him was not anything made that was made.” The world, you see, is no cosmic accident. This world was created by the Triune God, and through this Lord Jesus, who was born in Bethlehem.’ Right back in the early days of the Christian Church, Melito, Bishop of Sardis, gave an amazing Passover sermon in AD ~170 that expresses that astounding event (see below). Melito’s Passover Sermon (see main text) The baby whose birth we celebrate at Christmas…

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THE GENESIS FLOOD

THE GENESIS FLOOD

This wonderfully simple explanation of why we can observe the results of Noah’s flood, and how they are absolute proof that this event occurred, is so obvious even a child can understand it. Only you “adult” humans have difficulty accepting it. The authors biography can be viewed by clicking on his name at the top of the article. Be sure to subscribe to Creation magazine before the world makes a monkey out of you. https://creation.com/magazines Gibber! Gibber! Chugley The Genesis Flood: Vast, wide rock layers by Jonathan Sarfati Published in Creation 45(4):32–35, 2023 In previous articles of this series, we learned how the Bible teaches a worldwide Flood. It destroyed all people and land vertebrates off the Ark. Many creatures were buried, forming fossils all around the world. But could the fossils be the result of local floods instead of a global Flood? In many cases, this is not possible because they are in rock layers covering huge areas—rocks clearly laid down by water. Sometimes they span whole continents and even across different continents around the world. Geologists use the term megasequence for some of them (mega is Greek for ‘big’). If the layers are extremely wide, then whatever caused them must also have been extremely wide. Let’s see some examples from around the world. One of the most famous natural wonders in the USA is the Grand Canyon in northern Arizona. It is 446 km (277 miles) long, over 1.6 km (1 mile) deep, and 6.4 km (4 miles) to 29 km (18 miles) wide. Standing on one rim and looking at the opposite wall, the layers of rock look like a giant stack of pancakes. One of the easiest layers to spot is the almost-white Coconino Sandstone. From the other side, it looks thin (arrow, top right). But it is actually about 96 m (315 ft) thick….

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SOLAR SYSTEM ORIGIN

SOLAR SYSTEM ORIGIN

Creation.com features real qualified, scientists, giving real, qualified answers to questions raised about the the Biblical Creation account. To ensure that you are not entrapped by worldly theories that abound in these late days, make sure you subscribe to Creation Magazine, and protect your children also, by feeding them the truth. Subscribe here: https://creation.com/magazines To read Jonathan Sarfati’s biography, click on his name at the top of his article. Gibber! Gibber! Chugley Solar system origin: Nebular hypothesis by Jonathan Sarfati According to the eye-witness account in Genesis, God created the earth on Day 1, and the sun and moon on the Fourth Day, most likely along with the planets. However, evolutionists reject a Creator a priori, so need to come up with another explanation. The leading candidate is called the nebular hypothesis. This proposes that the sun, the earth and the rest of the solar system formed from a nebula, or cloud of dust and gas. The best known pioneer of this was French atheistic mathematician Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749–1827).1 However, despite the dogmatic support by evolutionary astronomers, it has a number of huge problems. Origin of stars First of all, if the collapsing cloud theory can’t even explain the sun alone, then it is doomed from the start. To form the sun, or any star, a cloud must be dense enough to collapse and compress the interior so that it becomes hot enough for nuclear fusion to start. But most gas clouds have a tendency to expand rather than contract. The British mathematician and astrophysicist James Jeans (1877–1946) calculated how massive a cloud must be so that gravity can overcome the tendency for gas to expand.   The main points are: high density favours collapse, and high temperature favours expansion. The minimum mass he calculated relates to both of these, and is now called the Jeans Mass (MJ).2 …

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