Sermons From Science -- Sept 2014 科学布道 -- 2014 年 9 月

Sermons From Science -- Sept 2014科学布道-- 2014年9月 Sermons from Science is now published in both YouTube under the name “Pastor Chui” and also in PowerPoint slides and corresponding videos in the website http://ChristCenterGospel.org. The contents of this presentation were taken from different sources and in the Internet. May God have all the glory. Pastor Chui http://ChristCenterGospel.org ckchui1@yahoo.com 10/22/2014 1

Some Israeli Contributions to Science一些以色列科学贡献 • Israel, the 100th smallest country, with less than 1/1000th of the world’s population, has contributed the following: • The cell phone was developed in the Israeli branch of Motorola. • Most of the Windows NT and XP were developed by Microsoft-Israel. • The first Pentium MMX chip technology was designed in Israel at Intel. • Both the Pentium-4 and the Centrino were designed in Israel. • Voice Mail was developed in Israel. Microsoft and Cisco built their R&D facilities in Israel. 10/22/2014 2

Some Israeli Contributions to Science一些以色列科学贡献 • On a per capita basis, Israel has the largest number of biotech startups. • 24% of Israel’s workforce holds university degrees, ranking 3rd in the world, after the US and Holland, and 12% hold advanced degrees. • Relative to its population, Israel is the largest immigration-absorbing nation on earth. • Israel has more museums per capita than any other country. • Israel developed the first fully computerized, no-radiation, diagnostic instrumentation for breast cancer. • Israel developed the first ingestive video camera, small enough to fit inside a pill, to view small intestine for cancer and digestive disorders. 10/22/2014 3

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Some Israeli Contributions to Science一些以色列科学贡献 • Israel developed a new device to help the heart to pump blood. • Israel leads the world in the number of scientists and technicians, with 145 per 10,000, as opposed to 85 in the US, over 70 in Japan, and less than 60 in Germany. Over 25% of its workforce are employed in technical professions. Israel leads in this category also. • A new acne treatment developed in Israel, produces a high-intensity, ultraviolet-light-free, narrow-band blue light that causes acne bacteria to self-destruct, without damaging surrounding skin or tissue. • Israel’s $300 billion economy is larger than all its immediate neighbors combined. • Israel has the highest percentage of home computers per capita in the world. 10/22/2014 5

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Some Israeli Contributions to Science一些以色列科学贡献 • Israel produces more scientific papers per capita than any other nation by a large margin, 100 per 10,000 people, and one of the highest per capita rates of patents filed. • With more than 3,000 high-tech companies and startups, Israel has the highest concentration of high-tech companies in the world, apart from Silicon Valley, California. • Israel has the highest living standards in the Middle East. The per capita income in 2014 is estimated $38,000. • An Israeli company first installed a large-scale solar-powered electricity generating plant in southern California’s Mojave Desert. • Thank God for the descendants of Abraham because of God’s promises to Abraham about 4,000 years ago. 10/22/2014 7

Gloria Deo 愿荣耀归上帝 10/22/2014 8

New Surgery from Israel 来自以色列的新手术 • Recently I obtained an email containing a new surgery from Israel. The sender is a former US Consulate diplomat from Hong Kong. He said, “I hope this becomes available in all countries and medical centers in my lifetime! What an innovation….” • The technique is so amazing that no knife is necessary. A tumor is eliminated using advanced tools and software. The patient will go home on the same day. • The link is http://safeshare.tv/w/DTAINyElxY • It is 6.28 minutes in length: The Operating Room of the Future from InSightec featuring scientist Dr. Kobi Vortman, a Technion Alumus, and produced by Safeshare.TV • Praise God for what the descendants of Abraham have done to humanity. 10/22/2014 10

100% Electric Cars on the Roads of Israel100％电动车在以色列的道路上 • I came across a video which describes the 100% electric cars on the roads of Israel. It is a 4-minute video. This video was uploaded in YouTube in 2012. The link is • http://youtu.be/bn1XibHtq9U • Electric cars are not new. Now, virtually all car manufacturers are building electric cars or hybrid cars. The hybrid has an electric motor and a gasoline engine. • The Tesla Model S is a very nice electric car except the price is in the range of a new Mercedes. All patents of the Tesla electric car have been made public and royalty free. Other manufacturers must make the car cheaper to be affordable. • May God bless all these car manufacturers. 10/22/2014 13

God’s Accuracy上帝的准确度 • Recently I received an email from Dr. Micah Leo who got an email from Ms. Sue Phinney. She wants this email will be widely read. I now fulfill her wish. • “How Great is our God! Our Creator and Redeemer... and do we THINK about it ? • “God's accuracy may be observed in the hatching of eggs. For example: the eggs of the potato bug hatch in 7 days; those of the canary in 14 days; those of the barnyard hen in 21 days; the eggs of ducks and geese hatch in 28 days; those of the mallard in 35 days; the eggs of the parrot and the ostrich hatch in 42 days. (Notice, they are all divisible by seven, the number of days in a week!) 10/22/2014 16

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God’s Accuracy上帝的准确度 • “God's wisdom is seen in the making of an elephant. The four legs of this great beast all bend forward in the same direction. No other quadruped is so made. God planned that this animal would have a huge body, too large to live on two legs. For this reason He gave it four fulcrums so that it can rise from the ground easily. • “The horse rises from the ground on its two front legs first. A cow rises from the ground with its two hind legs first. How wise the Lord is in all His works of creation! 10/22/2014 18

God’s Accuracy上帝的准确度 • “God's wisdom is revealed in His arrangement of sections and segments, as well as in the number of grains. • “Each watermelon has an even number of stripes on the rind. • “Each orange has an even number of segments. • “Each ear of corn has an even number of rows. • “Each stalk of wheat has an even number of grains. • “Every bunch of bananas has on its lowest row an even number of bananas, and each row decreases by one, so that one row has an even number and the next row an odd number. 10/22/2014 19

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God’s Accuracy上帝的准确度 • “The waves of the sea roll in on shore twenty-six to the minute in all kinds of weather. • “All grains are found in even numbers on the stalks, and the Lord specified thirty fold, sixty fold, and a hundred fold all even numbers. • “God has caused the flowers to blossom at certain specified times during the day. Linnaeus, the great botanist, once said that if he had a conservatory containing the right kind of soil, moisture and temperature, he could tell the time of day or night by the flowers that were open and those that were closed! 10/22/2014 21

God’s Accuracy上帝的准确度 • “The lives of each of you may be ordered by the Lord in a beautiful way for His glory, if you will only entrust Him with your life. If you try to regulate your own life, it will only be a mess and a failure. Only the One Who made the brain and the heart can successfully guide them to a profitable end. • “I HOPE YOU FIND THIS AS FASCINATING AS I DID. May God Bless You In Ways You Never Even Dreamed. I didn't think twice about forwarding this one. 10/22/2014 22

God’s Accuracy上帝的准确度 • “The Bible: When you carry the Bible, Satan has a headache; when you open it, he collapses; when he sees you reading it, he loses his strength, AND when you stand on the Word of God, Satan can't hurt you! …” • Thank God for you, Sue. • May God bless all of you in all times. 10/22/2014 23

Comparison of the Transcribed Intergenic Regions of the Human Genome to Chimpanzee比较人类基因组与黑猩猩的转录间隔区 • The Creation Research Society Quarterly 2014. 50:212-221 has a long paper by Dr. Jeffrey Tomkins on the above subject. Dr. Tomkins was awarded a PhD from Harvard on some aspects of genetics. The abstract of the paper says, “The human genome is pervasively transcribed and produces a wide array of long noncoding RNAs that have been implicated in gene regulation, chromatin modification, nuclear organization, and scaffording for functionally active protein complexes. Of particular interest in human origins is the long and very long intergenic noncoding RNAs transcribed from genomic regions outside protein coding genes. These are known as lincRNA and vlicRNA, respectively. 10/22/2014 26

Comparison of the Transcribed Intergenic Regions of the Human Genome to Chimpanzee比较人类基因组与黑猩猩的转录间隔区 • “LincRNA regions of the genome are more taxonomically restricted than protein coding segments and make logical candidates for research in genomic discontinuity. This report describes the comparative use of three different human lincRNA datasets and one vlincRNA dataset to the chimpanzee genome using the BLASTN algorithm. Short human lincRNA genomic regions (less than 600 bases) were about 75-79% similar to chimpanzee, while the larger lincRNA regions (greater than 600 bases) were about 71-74% similar. The human vlincRNA genomic regions were only 67% similar to chimpanzee. In contrast, all human protein coding exons 300 to 599 bases in length, are 86% similar to chimpanzee.” 10/22/2014 27

Comparison of the Transcribed Intergenic Regions of the Human Genome to Chimpanzee比较人类基因组与黑猩猩的转录间隔区 • After lengthy presentation of data, part of the summary is as follows: “For years, the standard axiom has promoted the idea that humans are 98% genetically identical to chimpanzees. However, this dogmatic statement about the DNA similarity between humans and chimps is based on cherry-picked data from short, aligned segments of high similarity and omits the regions that are vastly different. The leading human and chimpanzee DNA comparison studies published by evolutionists during the past decade were recently reviewed and critiqued. In every report, the researchers selected highly similar DNA sequence data and discarded other data because it would not readily align. 10/22/2014 28

Comparison of the Transcribed Intergenic Regions of the Human Genome to Chimpanzee比较人类基因组与黑猩猩的转录间隔区 10/22/2014 29

Comparison of the Transcribed Intergenic Regions of the Human Genome to Chimpanzee比较人类基因组与黑猩猩的转录间隔区 • “In fact, when the DNA similarities from these papers were recalculated using omitted data for the alignments, markedly lower levels of similarity were found that varied between 70 and 86%. Even the rough draft of the chimpanzee genome published in 2005 provides an overall genomic similarity of only about 70 to 80% when the discarded non-similar data is included. 10/22/2014 30

Comparison of the Transcribed Intergenic Regions of the Human Genome to Chimpanzee比较人类基因组与黑猩猩的转录间隔区 • “Much of the reported human-chimp DNA similarity data is due in part to the inherent BLASTN algorithm restrictions associated with aligning chimpanzee genomic sequence onto human and vice versa. In a recent study, a wide variety of BLASTN algorithm parameters were tested using 40,000 740-base long segments of chimpanzee genomic DNA (preselected to be homologous to human by NCBI) that were queried against four different versions of the human genome. The algorithm parameter combinations that produced the longest alignments gave similarities of 86% and the algorithm stopped aligning after only a few hundred bases on average, due to extreme dissimilarity between the genomes. 10/22/2014 31

Comparison of the Transcribed Intergenic Regions of the Human Genome to Chimpanzee比较人类基因组与黑猩猩的转录间隔区 • “The phenomenon of high levels of human-chimp genomic discontinuity was first noted by evolutionists in the initial stages of sequencing the chimpanzee genome. Researchers produced over 3 million bases of chimp genomic sequence (60 to 950 bases per read) and then BLASTed them against the human genome. The report stated that only ‘About two thirds could be unambiguously aligned to DNA sequence in humans’. The researchers also set their BLASTN parameters to omit DNA less than 98% identical and did not report the amount of each read not aligning, just that only two-thirds of them did. 10/22/2014 32

Comparison of the Transcribed Intergenic Regions of the Human Genome to Chimpanzee比较人类基因组与黑猩猩的转录间隔区 • “Clearly a more informative technique was required to compare the chimpanzee genome to that of humans to provide estimates of DNA similarity over long genomic distances. Specifically, a technique was needed to counteract the problem of the BLASTN algorithm breaking off the alignment extension in regions of low similarity. By digitally slicing entire chimp chromosomes into small pieces, Tomkins (2013) found that the BLASTN algorithm could effectively compare chimp DNA to human piece-by-piece by testing a range of sub-slice datasets and then selecting the highest sequence identity output. The same technique was used in this study to compare the transcribed intergenic regions of the human genome to chimpanzee. 10/22/2014 33

Comparison of the Transcribed Intergenic Regions of the Human Genome to Chimpanzee比较人类基因组与黑猩猩的转录间隔区 10/22/2014 34

Comparison of the Transcribed Intergenic Regions of the Human Genome to Chimpanzee比较人类基因组与黑猩猩的转录间隔区 • “Research is showing that the mysterious whereabouts of information underpinning organismal complexity is not entirely associated with just the basic protein-coding gene sets. Instead, much of this important information is located in the highly functional, noncoding portions of the genome; and as organismal complexity increases, so does the amount and complexity of transcribed intergenic noncoding RNA. The main points concerning the noncoding portions of genomes can be summarized as follows: (1) Any given human or animal genome is a complete storehouse of important information, and this fact negates the concept of ‘junk DNA.’ 10/22/2014 35

Comparison of the Transcribed Intergenic Regions of the Human Genome to Chimpanzee比较人类基因组与黑猩猩的转录间隔区 • “(2) Protein-coding genes are largely a basic set of instructions within a complex and larger expressed repertoire of both regulatory and structural noncoding DNA sequence… • “The real genome-wide differences between chimps and humans are too vast to be explained by hypothetical evolutionary processes. The regions that are similar between chimps and humans are easily interpreted as repetitions of effective design themes associated with code reuse, a concept that is very familiar to software designers and engineers. DNA sequence comparisons that include all the relevant data clearly show that human and chimpanzee genomes are not nearly identical but instead are as different as one might expect based on the clearly observed phenotypic discontinuities.” • Thank God for Dr. Tomkins’ contribution. 10/22/2014 36

Analysis of Walt Brown’s Model of a Pre-Flood 360-Day Year分析布朗的模型洪水前的一年是360天 • The Creation Research Society Quarterly 2014. 50:222-226 has a paper by Dr. Danny Faulkner on the above subject. Dr. Faulkner was full professor of astronomy and Colonel Brown retired from the Air Force. Both are young-earth creationists. Both have written much to promote young-earth creationism. Now, Dr. Faulkner critiques Dr. Brown’s view on Pre-Flood 360-day year. The abstract says, “Walter Brown has proposed that the year originally was 360 days long and had twelve 30-day months. He further proposed that within his hydroplate model significant changes in the earth and moon at the time of the Flood altered the lengths of the day and month to the current configuration. Here I evaluate this claim. 10/22/2014 39

Analysis of Walt Brown’s Model of a Pre-Flood 360-Day Year分析布朗的模型洪水前的一年是360天 • “From the standpoint of basic physics, his mechanism of shortening the day by 1.46% is plausible, though I don’t address the question of the geophysics involved. However, the mechanism for decreasing the size of the moon’s orbit to shorten the month has problems. Brown’s proposal of selective impacts on the leading edge of the moon as it orbited the earth is based upon a misunderstanding of orbital mechanics. There is no suitable site on the moon for the required number of impacts. Furthermore, the energy released by the many required impacts would have produced far too much heat on the moon.” 10/22/2014 40

Analysis of Walt Brown’s Model of a Pre-Flood 360-Day Year分析布朗的模型洪水前的一年是360天 • After much mathematical presentation, Dr. Faulkner concluded this way: “I have evaluated Brown’s model for how the lengths of the day and month could have changed at the time of the Flood. While his proposal for how the day might have changed length is consistent with basic physics and hence may be possible, his suggestion of how the Flood altered the month is fraught with difficulties. There is a problem with his presentation of the orbits of debris ejected from the earth. This suggests a fundamental misunderstanding of orbital mechanics on his part, for any particles appreciably smaller than the earth, as the moon does. His identification of the lunar nearside as the site of the impact of debris that robbed the moon of orbital energy is questionable. 10/22/2014 41

Analysis of Walt Brown’s Model of a Pre-Flood 360-Day Year分析布朗的模型洪水前的一年是360天 • “Even if one grants Brown’s unrealistic claim of preferential impacts on the moon, there is a considerable heat problem. When the orbital problem with the debris is corrected, the heat problem is far greater. • “The results presented here agree with my earlier assessment, that models of altering the day, month, and/or year at the time of the Flood have serious physical problems. As shown in that previous paper, there are neither biblical nor historical reasons for believing that the original year consisted of twelve 30-day months. Hence, proposals to change the relationship between the day, month, and year at the time of the Flood are unnecessary.” • Thank God for Dr. Faulkner’s contribution. 10/22/2014 42

Beyond “Origin and Operation” Science-1超过“起源与操作”科学-1 • The Creation Research Society Quarterly 2014. 50:237-251 has a paper by Dr. John Reed and scientist Peter Klevberg on the above subject. The abstract of the paper says, “The terms ‘origin science’ and ‘operation science’ are used to explain the nature of science, especially as it relates to history. But they are an inadequate response to positivism. The proposal for multiple kinds of science was an attempt to answer claims from the 1980s creation trials that evolution was science and creation was religion. Proponents of ‘origin’ and ‘operation’ science sought an alternative inside science, rather than in the broader context of the Christian worldview. In addition to problems in their view of the history of science, ‘origin science’ fails its own criteria and ‘operation science’ is redundant. The past and singularities, key factors in this scheme, are not proper topics of science. Finally, the proposal includes a deficient understanding of uniformity and mistakenly accepts the ‘god-of-the-gaps’ fallacy and methodological naturalism.” 10/22/2014 45

Beyond “Origin and Operation” Science-1超过“起源与操作”科学-1 • This paper is heavy on the philosophy of science. I now summarize the contents using the diagrams in the paper. In 1987, Drs. Geisler and Anderson derived four kinds of science based on their classification criteria of past versus present and regularity versus singularity. 10/22/2014 46

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Beyond “Origin and Operation” Science-1超过“起源与操作”科学-1 • Dr. Reed and scientist Klevberg state that positivism (facts and experience) is the logical epistemology (knowledge) of naturalism, flowing from its view that matter and energy are ultimate reality. Positivism replaced the epistemology of revelation that dominated the Christian West for centuries outlined by Dr. Reed in 2001. 10/22/2014 49

Sermons From Science -- Sept 2014 科学布道 -- 2014 年 9 月

Sermons From Science -- Sept 2014 科学布道 -- 2014 年 9 月

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