Good morning friends,
Quote of the week:
The chief evolutionary problem with the fossil record is the repeating theme of sudden appearance and stasis (lack of change). Organisms appear fully formed with no previous evolutionary precursors or ancestors. – Jeffrey P Tomkins, Ph.D., and Tim Clarey, Ph.D.
Now, here are your weekly links:
- Knight and Rose Show #76: Passing the Torch: Standing Firm in a Secular Culture | WINTERY KNIGHT – Wintery Knight and Desert Rose welcome Ella, their protégé, to discuss her experiences as a young Christian in secular Europe. They explore how she moved from doubt to confident faith through apologetics. Ella shares her journey navigating university life, the workplace, and cultural pressures while mentoring the next generation. She offers practical encouragement for young believers seeking to live out Christianity with courage and conviction.: https://winteryknight.com/2026/05/09/knight-and-rose-show-76-passing-the-torch-standing-firm-in-a-secular-culture/
- Does the Cumulative Case for Design Point to a Divine Designer? – Cold Case Christianity: https://coldcasechristianity.com/writings/does-the-cumulative-case-for-design-point-to-a-divine-designer/
- No true religion on earth until 1919? Jehovah’s Witnesses’ view of church history – Answers to Jehovah’s Witnesses #2: https://wit.irr.org/no-true-religion-on-earth-until-1919-jehovahs-witnesses-view-of-church-history
- Are Jews Who Believe in Jesus Still Jews? Dr. Michael Brown: https://stream.org/jews-believe-jesus-still-jews/
- Flying Foxes and Their Little Cousins – Bats are like other mammals, which nurse their young with milk and have hair, but they are unique in other incredible ways. Unlike most orders of mammals, the bat order—Chiroptera—has lots of different species. In fact, there are over 1,100 different bat species, making up one-fifth of all mammal species. As the only mammal designed for sustained flight, bats are very distinctive in appearance: https://answersingenesis.org/mammals/flying-foxes/
- The Impossibility of Life’s Evolutionary Beginnings – While virtually all of the evolutionary story lacks empirical support, its greatest impediment is the fundamental problem of how life first arose: https://www.icr.org/article/10456/
- Why Jesus Cannot Be One Truth among Many – Jesus claims rule over all of heaven and earth. He presents himself not as one possible path to God, but as God himself: https://www.crossway.org/articles/why-jesus-cannot-be-one-truth-among-many/
- Dan Wallace’s TOP 5 BIBLE TRANSLATIONS – YouTube – Dan Wallace and Mike Licona discuss the BEST ENGLISH BIBLE TRANSLATIONS, the WORST ENGLISH BIBLE TRANSLATIONS, and how each translation differs from the others. Dan also tells us of his TOP 5 Bible Translations. There is a lot of information in this video most do not know. Daniel (“Dan”) Wallace is Senior Research Professor of New Testament Studies at Dallas Theological Seminary and Executive Director of the Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts. His book Exegetical Syntax of the New Testament is a standard intermediate Greek grammar. High resolution photographs of hundreds of Greek New Testament manuscripts may be viewed at http://www.csntm.org. Mike Licona is associate professor of theology at Houston Baptist University and president of Risen Jesus, Inc. HBU offers a fully accredited Master of Arts degree in apologetics that may be completed entirely online or on the HBU campus in Houston. For more information, visit https://bit.ly/2Wlej6Z.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjSBnZSa1oQ
- An Unexpected Benefit of Apologetics – I have posted many articles on the Christian’s need to engage in apologetics. Apologetics being the defense of the Christian faith. I have noted with great frequency the intellectual need to know what one believes and why one believes it. But, I am not only a theologian and an apologist. I am a pastor, too. Being a pastor, I have found that different people handle tragedies differently. No one is prepared for the loss of a family member, especially a close family member… Yet through the loss of my grandfather, I found firsthand the amazing benefits of having a robust theology and sturdy apologetic. Four particular benefits stand out: https://bellatorchristi.com/2017/02/07/an-unexpected-benefit-of-apologetics/
- Extraordinary Genetic Convergent Evolution in Moths, Butterflies | Science and Culture Today – We’re often told that the distribution of traits among organisms fits neatly with a nested hierarchy or an evolutionary “tree,” thereby supposedly demonstrating common descent. This claim is true, except for when it isn’t. There are numerous cases where it isn’t, and common ancestry cannot explain the distribution of a given trait. (We’ve covered many times how the evidence doesn’t fit with the tree-like expectations of common ancestry): https://scienceandculture.com/2026/05/extraordinary-genetic-convergent-evolution-in-moths-and-butterflies/
Of what value is an idol, since a man has carved it? Or an image that teaches lies? For he who makes it trusts in his own creation; he makes idols that cannot speak. Woe to him who says to wood, ‘Come to life!’ Or to lifeless stone, ‘Wake up!’ Can it give guidance? It is covered with gold and silver; there is no breath in it. Habakkuk 2:18-19
Blessings to you all