American Idol Gives Back

I missed the show as I am doing a small research project but when I got home, Mrs. Dude shared a story with me. She let the girls stay up and watch the show that night and over the course of the evening the impact of what they were seeing began to settle in. My oldest (8) is quite emotional and started crying when she learned that these people were starving to death and not getting basic medical care. Both girls have banks that are divided into three categories Church, Store, and Savings. When they learned that $12 would feed a child they each donated $12 from their store fund. This is the money they use to buy the stuff they want, that makes a daddy proud.

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This is a friend of my Mother's:

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My 1978 Guild F-512SB

This guitar was being repaired for almost a year. I really like the way it looks and it sounds pretty good even with my very limited playing ability (disability). Clayton from Broadway sound here in Knoxville Tennessee did all the work and I am pretty pleased. I think one of the cleats has come loose inside, but with seven or eight of them something like that had to happen. I will get that repaired as soon as I obtain the right pick-up. I also just acquired an OLP MM3 bass that I may trade for a good pick-up for the 12-string.

The latest on Dr. J

This is long but good:

Dear Pray-ers,

I apologize for not getting back to you much quickly after last night's successful debate with the Dean of Sciences out at UnivNevLasVegas, but I was out late with some young bro's & sis' and needed the rest-up time and some other catch-up work time here in the hotel room.

Well, soon there should be some reports from the students who were present at the debate, but I can summarize some to you Pray-ers from my perspective.

Dr. Yasbin unfortunately spent 20 minutes going over a downloaded "statement of faith" from my website, and going through a great deal of talk about Hebrew translations and how untrustworthy he thought the Bible was, and how much he was such a good Jew and how much beliefs like mine led to the deaths of millions of Jews and Muslims during the Crusades. Wow. The topic which he agreed upon and which he himself selected was "Does Molecular Biology Support Evolution." He did talk about the philosophy of science some, and then eventually got a little bit into molecular biology. He also went about 10 minutes over his allotted 30 minutes of time, all the while ignoring the Campus Crusade guy in the front row who was giving him the "5-minute warning" signals. (By a miracle ... Dr J only went one minute over his time -- ha, ha! -- even without a watch or a time-warning!)

I started out by telling the audience that I had no degrees and no credentials in Biblical Studies nor in Hebrew, Greek, or Latin ... and that I was credentialed in Biology and was given to understand that the topic for the night was "Does Molecular Biology Support Evolution" ... which I then proceeded to speak on to the audience. I let was "letting the other shoe drop" to them that of course ... neither did Science Dean Yasbin ... have any such credentials either.

Afterward, the Q&A was very hostile ... some suggesting that Nature was not an important nor credible peer-reviewed journal, and neither was Science nor Discover. One of the evo-profs had to shut up the young sith-apprentice since he was embarrassing them all by saying these things. I later quoted from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and I think that also shut the misguided lad down some. Dr Yasbin made many assertions of truth, but did not document a single one of them with any kinds of references at all ... which I then pointed out at this time to the evo-audience. Somehow they were not ashamed of this (sigh).
The audience chided me for only cutting down evolution and not presenting any positive proofs of creation. I told them I thought the agreed-upon topic was indeed for me to show how molecular biology did not support evolution ... which was what I then did ... but that I could certainly come up with positive proofs of creation. I gave the mitochondrial Eve & Y-chromosome Adam proportional evidence from molecular biology. I was later told that I hadn't given any positive evidence for creation again, and so I brought up the St Peter Sandstone and the Mars Flood. I was later told that I needed to present some positive evidence from molecular biology in favor of creation (which I indeed -- had -- already done in Q-A) so I brought up the goat and sheep DNA findings that restrict all living goats and sheep to the gene pools present on the Ark, and even after Noah had sacrificed a few of the Ewes and she-goats to God in gratitude to Him. They still didn't seem to be able to admit that I'd answered their questions. When the discussion wasn't going well for them, an evo-prof stood up and said this wasn't going anywhere and we should take another question, which we did. One strapping evo-lad hassled me on a point and we interchanged a few times and then he sat stone-silent after I'd responded to him. I let that silent moment hang in mid-air for like 10 seconds and said "so are we done with that?" -- he had to concede that we were. One young lady asked about human embryo "gill slits" and about "whale legs," to which I answered and she seemed quite receptive.
It was all basically a shameful fiasco of non-science philosophy and nit-picking on the part of the evo-believers there, and of salient data-driven documentations of the failure of evolutionary theory in the light of the newest molecular evidence (mostly from between 2003 and 2007). Some self-identified evo-believers came forward after and said they were extremely impressed with the presentation of the creationist side to the material -- including both young and mature members of the audience.
One evo-prof was forced to admit to the audience that whichever way you went on this issue was totally then a matter of "which faith you choose to believe in." He later in a small-group admitted that evolutionists also have a "visceral" negative reaction to creation (which he accused me of having toward evolutionists ... after he himself had admitted that he could never have debated me without losing his temper quite badly -- to which I told him that since he was a molecular biologist and would have been more likely to stick to the topic, that I'd actually wished I'd been debating him instead of Dr. Yasbin and his Bible-critique ... and that I would not have lost my temper -- what he really said was that it would've gotten "ugly", to which I responded that I would've remained "pretty" and so I wouldn't have minded it at all !!).
Many students were around. Many saw the evolutionist weakness and shamefully unprofessional attitudes and tactics. Many saw the lucid and well-paced well-heeled response of the truth from the creation science perspective. And all who wished to see it ... saw the wisdom of God in action, through His human vessel so graced with the surrender of the moment to do so.

All glory to God in the Highest. "Through our God ye shall do valiantly. He has put down the enemy." Amen. He brought glory to Himself, put down the blasphemers, and vindicated His Word by the known facts of science. I am very grateful to Him, and happy & blessed to have been used by Him as His mouthpiece.
And also quite glad that it is over ... as this is a very difficult place to minister the Truth, because of the evil presences that are so active in a city that is truly known the world over as "Sin City."
But then ... there are those wonderful Christian youth who live here on this campus ... who must make their stand for Christ among their peers every day ... who must be the bearers of the Light of the Gospel in every situation here. They are the real modern-day Biblical superheros! And I love them with all the love of Jesus that He's put into my heart toward them. He has gifted them and they are beautiful in His sight (and mine!).
Love to you all in the Savior of All Living. Thanks to you all for your faithful, fervent -- and most of all effective prayers !! I can not do this kind of ministry without you !! I can not do this in my own power !! I can not do this without Him. I love Him and I love you. He and the Body are one. And it is beautiful. Thank you all again.

Say a quick prayer now for the JrH/HS group at the church tonight (maybe up to like 100 kids). I'll be doing like a 20-min thing on lies in the textbooks and then a 20-min Q&A thing. They need your prayers too. But it's a very different kind of prayer ministering at a church ... than ministering in the hell-pots of UNLV. Thank you all so much ... for both of these kinds of prayers !!

I'll be forwarding you young Nick's perspective on the debate when his student-work schedule permits him to write it and send it to me.

Love in the Savior, an extremely grateful Dr. Jackson :)

Is there really a recession?

I say no based on my experience.

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