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"Better is a little with the fear of Yehovah, than great treasure and turmoil with it." (Prov 15:16)

"Better is a little with righteousness than great income with injustice." (Prov 16:8)

"The fear of man brings a snare, but he who trusts in Yehovah will be exalted." (Prov 29:25)

"For who has despised the day of small things?" (Zech 4:10)

"Be careful, do not turn to evil; For you have preferred this to affliction." (Job 36:21

God’s kingdom does not come through compromise, but through upholding what is true. Jesus said "You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free" (John 8:32). Brethren, do not fear suffering for the sake of the Gospel. It is the fact that Jesus suffered for us that we came to saving faith in Him. If God had not sacrificed Himself on the cross for our sins, we never would have turned to Him. It is the sacrifice of Himself that causes us to turn to Him. Jesus said in John 3:14 and 12:32:

"And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up. . . . And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to Myself."

Peter wrote in 1 Peter 1:21-23,

"For you have been called for this purpose, since Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example for you to follow in His steps, who committed no sin, nor was any deceit found in His mouth; and while being reviled, He did not revile in return; while suffering, He uttered no threats, but kept entrusting Himself to Him who judges righteously."

Paul wrote,

"Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I do my share on behalf of His body (which is the church) in filling up that which is lacking in Christ’s afflictions.." (Colossians 1:24)

Kruse, Dale P. The Literal Historical Reliability of Genesis. Tulsa, OK: Layman Evangelism Ministry Book Series, © 1999 by Dale P. Kruse.

Kruse, Dale P. What It Will Take To Bring America Back to God. Tulsa, OK: Layman Evangelism Ministry Book Series, © 2003 by Dale P. Kruse.

In order to understand just the size of our Solar System, picture a football field with the Sun the size of a marble in the center of the 50-yard line. Mercury, the first planet from the Sun, is an invisible speck of dust 18 inches away. On the 49-yard line is a small grain of sand called Venus. Moving further out to the 48½ yard line is another grain of sand called Earth. Another half a yard away is a speck of dust called Mars. On the 46 yard line is an asteroid belt a few atoms thick. A large grain of sand 1/25 of an inch in size is on the 44 yard line called Jupiter. Another large grain of sand is on the 38 yard line called Saturn. A smaller grain of sand is on the 26 yard line called Uranus. Finally near the goal line are two small specks of dust called Neptune and Pluto.^200/32

Planet Types: Terrestrial & Jovian

Terrestrial: Mercury, Venus, the Earth, and Mars because they are solid bodies.

Jovian: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, so called because they are made up of gases with no solid surfaces.

It is believed that the sun and the planets supposedly were formed from the same dust and gas cloud. What we observe, however, does not support this.³⁹⁹ The sun is 6/7% of the mass of the solar system, yet it possess only 2% of its angular momentum. The planets, however, contain only 1/7% of the mass of the solar system, yet they revolve around the sun at much higher speeds than the sun rotates on its axis. The planets also possess 98% of the angular momentum of the solar system. If the sun and planets were formed from the same dust and gas cloud, some outside mechanism would be required to explain the transferring angular momentum from the central part of the nebula to the periphery. No plausible mechanism has yet been proposed.

Uranus is another problem. While all the planets rotate around the sun in the same direction, the axis of rotation of Uranus is nearly in the plane of its orbit. Therefore the inclination of the equator of Uranus to the plane of its orbit is 98^o, and its axial rotation is opposite to that of the other planets in the solar system. This means that the direction the axial rotation of Uranus and the motion of its satellites is opposite to that predicted on the basis of an evolutionary origin.

Saturn has nine satellites. The motion of the outermost, Phoebe, is moving in a direction opposite to the other eight moons and opposite to that predicted by an evolutionary origin.

Jupiter has twelve satellites. The five inner moons revolve around their planet in orbits only slightly inclined to the planet’s equator at distances from about 110,000 miles for the innermost to about 640,000 miles for the outermost. Then there is a group of three moons whose orbits are inclined to the planet’s equator by almost 30^o at distances of about 7 million miles from Jupiter. these three moons also revolve around the planet in the predicted direction. The four outer moons, however, move around the planet in opposite motion, or opposite to that of the other eight satellites, at distances from about 12 to 13 million miles from the planet.

Neptune has two satellites. Nereid, a small moon, moves around Neptune in the predicted direction, but Triton, one of the larger satellites in the solar system with a mass almost twice that of the earth’s moon, moves in an opposite orbit.

Of the 31 satellites around the planets in the solar system, eleven exhibit opposite orbits. Venus rotates very slowly, about one rotation every 240 days. These problems cannot be explained as minor exceptions to the theory of evolution. They do, however, point to created design.

Mercury has a light weight crust. Since Mercury’s density is 4.5-5.0 g/cc, as compared to earths 5.5, it must have a heavy core. To have a heavy core means that these planets had to be originally in a molten state. However, when scientists look at the crust of Mercury, they find that no change has taken place in these surface features since Mercury was formed, since its creation. Evolutionists cannot explain this based on evolutionary theory. Another problem with Mercury evolutionists cannot explain is that it has a magnetic field. Scientists teach that in order to have a magnetic field you must have a fairly fast rotation of a planet. Mercy has a very slow rotation on its axis, once around every 88 days. Therefore the self-generating dynamo theory won’t work for mercury.

These facts create other problems. Now that we know Mercury has a magnetic field, scientists agree it cannot be the result of a self-generating dynamo. If this is true of mercury, why not also of the earth? The absence of such a dynamo requires that the earth’s magnetic field must be generated by the flow of an electric current. Since we know that the earth’s magnetic field is decaying, extrapolation back into the past more than about 10,000 years predicts a current flow so vast that the earth’s structure could not survive the heat produced. Therefore the earth cannot be more than 10,000 years old.

Methane has been discovered on the satellite Titan. This is surprising on such a compact planet since it is contrary to an evolution which teaches the oxidation of terrestrial planets. Because the gravity of Titan is not strong enough to hold hydrogen, the hydrogen is flying away at a fast rate. This gives absolute evidence of a young solar system, not an old one. The temperature of Titan is 125^oK. Absolute zero is 0^oK. This is very much higher than the equilibrium temperature which corresponds to its rate of rotation and other features. Since Titan exhibits a surface temperature in excess of that predicted, this strongly indicates a greenhouse effect. This means Titan has an atmosphere capable of absorbing and retaining solar radiation. If Titan is billions of years old, the hydrogen cannot be a remnant of its beginning. Its original atmosphere would have been depleted billions of years ago. Where is all this hydrogen coming from? Some propose a core of methane, ammonia and water. The problem being: where did this body of methane, ammonia and water come from? If science teaches that the earth is too small to retain these gases, how then has Titan, which is 0.0235 the mass of earth, retained its methane, ammonia and water?

The sun is a noisy place which would be very deafening if we did not have the 98 million mile space gap between us and the sun. The sun produces a solar wind which would be fatal to us if not for our magnetic field around the earth. The sun gives off ultraviolet light. This is stopped by the ozone layer made from oxygen in the atmosphere which filters out the ultraviolet light. The sun gives off x-rays which are absorbed by the atmosphere. It is now known that as many as thirty comets per minute the size of a house are hitting our upper atmosphere. This results in about 40,000 comets a day hitting the upper atmosphere. These comets are made up of water and break up and melt in the upper atmosphere and settle down to the earth. This would result in a one inch depth of water upon the earth every 10 to 20,000 years. If the earth were 5 billion years old this would result in 8 to ten miles of water over the surface of the earth. We don’t have this much water.

The moon is 400 times closer to us than the Sun. The Sun is 400 times larger than the moon. This results in the sun and the moon appearing the same size to us as we look at them from earth. This also gives us the sensation of a total solar eclipse when the moon passes in front of the sun. This makes it possible for us to see the outer corona of the sun.

Our distance from the sun in relation to its size are critical, how much ultraviolet light penetrates our atmosphere is critical. The temperature range and electromagnetic strength of our earth are all critical for life to exist on earth as we know it.

The Moon causes tides on earth. These tides are very important for our benefit. If there was no moon, tides would be gone and ocean currents would be diminished. The oceans could no longer function to break down poisons and would become unhealthy. Life in the oceans would probably die without the tides. Many small plants in the ocean make oxygen that we breath. They would die without the tides from the moon. The tides of the moon also act on ground water like a pump keeping the water moving and thus keeps our water fresh and usable.

Another effect of the moon on the earth is that it is slowing the rotation of the earth down. As the earth’s rotation slows down this increases the distance of the moon’s orbit around the earth. At present the moon is moving away from the earth about 4 centimeters per year which is about two inches. If the solar system was 4½ billion years old as evolutionists claim, 4 ½ billion years ago the moon would have been very close to the earth and the tidal wave affect on the earth would have been devastating to the continents. If this were the case we would find evidence of it in the fossil record. What do we find? No evidence in the fossil record. Based on evolutionary theory the earth and moon relationship would only be around 1 ½ billion years old. This proves that the earth and moon are much younger than 4 ½ billion years old.

This has resulted in a new collision theory. This teaches that sometime in the past a large object struck the earth and broke off a part of the earth which became our moon. This has resulted in many attempts of computer simulations of how this could come about and they have not been able to produce a scientific scenario of how a moon could be produced under these circumstances. There is also the fact, however, that the substance of the moon is completely different from that of the earth. There is no relationship to them in their material make up.

If the planets of the solar system and the sun where formed of the same material, they would all have the same material and characteristics. What we find is that the planets in our solar system are made of completely different materials. Even the sun is made up of completely different material than the planets. Our solar system was obviously made by design not only by a creator but with His intent to reveal His creative hand.

"For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse." (Rom 1:20)