November 21,2011: May your Thanksgiving be blessed.

Rick and Russ Miller just lectured, together, at a conference in our own community. It was well attended and we are still hearing positive feedback as to the importance of Confound the Wise Ministries, and Russ and Joanna’s ministry www.creationministries.org. The statistics are astounding, 95% of the youth brought up in strong Christian homes leave the faith by the time they are in college. The reason: doubt in God’s Word in Genesis 1-11. We believe people are welcome to their opinion as long as they keep it in that arena, opinion. We know that adaptation or “micro evolution” is good, empirical (tested and confirmed) science, but Macro Evolution is merely opinion and has no empirical evidence to back it up. Both: Darwinian Evolution that requires “macro evolution, (one species changes into another species, i.e a dog becomes a cat)” as its primary axiom (mutations plus natural selection); and “Long Ages of the earth and man” are adhered to by many scientists, people, and Christians. These Christians call themselves Theistic Evolutions or Progressive Creationists. Adhering to these beliefs, rather than adhering to the Word of God is the root of the problem of creating doubt rather than faith in the minds of the youth. In fact, at age fourteen, doubt is what caused Rick to exchange these theories (man’s opinion) for God’s Word when he turned his back on God. His first day in High School the teacher pointed out that there was no need for a God since Darwin’s teachings show us a “naturalistic” explanation that employs long ages and “Macro Evolution” to account for our origins and all life today that originated from a single cell that required a miracle to spontaneously generate in a “warm little pond.” Even though there has never been one empirical evidence for these long ages, the big bang,or for macro evolution; all secular colleges, museums, and most media productions teach them, including, “Macro evolution” as if they were fact. But the most troubling, is that most Christian Colleges and seminaries dismiss the first 11 chapters of the Bible as stories or fables rather than God’s account of true history, and teach instead, Theistic Evolution or Progressive Creation with long ages for the earth and man. It is not surprising then that these teachings are taught by many pastors and are at the root of the doubt created in the minds of our children. Students that attend “Bible” colleges say, “I’m confused, I don’t know whether I should believe my pastor who agrees with my Christian professor or the Bible.” Rick began to re examine his science as he was eye witness to a series of geologic catastrophic events that took place at Mt. St. Helen’s 1980 eruption. Seven years later, he became a Christ follower. Now he places his faith in God’s Word rather than man’s word, and he has evolved from an evolutionary biologist to a young earth creationist. He is still a biologist, but he trusts His Savior, Jesus, Who has always existed and Who is referred to in Revelation 3:14 as, “the Amen, the faithful and True Witness, the Beginning of the Creation of God,” Jesus is the same One Who holds all things together and Who created all we see and all we can’t see out of nothing, recently, in the Beginning (Genesis 1:1; John 1:1-3). Both Rick and Russ have powerful lectures that have caused many to change their mind; set aside doubt and choose faith in God’s Word: but as they lecture together, they “knock it out of the park.” As Michael Ruse, a Florida State University professor wrote in his book, we are talking about two faith based religions: Evolutionism and Creationism. We believe people need all the information before they decide where they will put their faith; God’s Word or man’s word, and that is why Confound the Wise Ministries is in existence.

Rick and I want you to be aware of a few resources that are effective tools when reaching individuals in today’s world. The feed back from them have been very encouraging. To begin we’d like to point out that Dr. John Sanford has some interesting resources regarding the declining human genome John’s Phd is in genetics and he was a professor at Cornell University. John points out that in the last five years some startling empirical information has been published by the scientific community regarding the genome project. They found that our human genome is declining at a rate of more than 100 mutations per generation, and it is known that natural selection cannot make a difference with this high rate of deterioration. John, along with several PhD scientists have developed a program on one of the world’s largest computers,the Crea computer, in Los Alamos, NM. After careful computation it was discovered that the human genome can not go further back in history than 8000 years, or we humans would be extinct. Because macro evolution is based on the axiom: mutations plus natural selection this new information empirically falsifies Neo Darwinian Evolution. John and the group of scientists offer a free download of their program at http\\.mendelsaccountant.info.

In his book, “Genetic Entropy and the Mystery of the Genome,” by Dr. John Sanford, he gives the detailed scientific accounts regarding this startling new information in his field of Genetics. He also produced a forty nine minute DVD, “The Mystery of Our Declining Genes,” available through Creation Ministries International: www.CREATION.com.

Lastly, the thirty three minute DVD, “180,” won the 32nd Annual Telly Award. Please note it does have graphic content. Go to www.180movie.com. This is a DVD that “will rock your world.” After watching it Rick and I agree, it is one of the most powerful DVDs produced since Ben Stein’s “Expelled, No Intelligence Needed.” You will see people change their minds as the interviewer uses logic, and their own words to bring them to the point of decision on various timely topics. There are several topics and some of them are: the Holocaust that took place in Germany during WW II, abortion, and the question, “where will you spend eternity? heaven or hell.” This movie is one of the most compelling on these topics that we have seen. The full title of Darwin’s book, “Origin of the Species in the struggle for life, and the Preservation of Favored Races.” Racism and abortion are among the many symptoms that are direct effects caused by Darwinian Evolution. Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood who promotes abortion bought in to Eugenics (favored races). Interestingly, Hitler had one of the most complete collections of Darwinian memorabilia. Today, one of our Chief Justices of the Supreme Court, Ruth Bater Ginsburg was recently interviewed on a public news channel, and when talking about the “Roe vs. Wade,” Supreme Court decision on abortion adopted by America in 1971, she said, I thought it was given so that we wouldn’t have too many of those people we don’t want too many of. These are issues every person needs to logically think through, and then, make decisions based on all of the information. The DVD, “180,” will help in that process in thirty three minutes.

We want to thank you, again, for your part in glorifying our Lord and for your prayers and support of Confound the Wise Ministries. If you know of any churches, schools or venues that would be interested in booking Rick and Russ Miller as a team, please let us know.

In Jesus’ service,

Rick and Susan Oliver

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