Shane Bost

Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people. Proverbs 14:34

[Shane Bost @truthislacking]

Have you heard about Virginia’s Abortion Amendment. It’s insane. Whether you have a religious conviction or not, caring for the health and safety of girls and women should be of upmost importance- including the unborn life!

Learn more at https://t.co/DQIANGMoqH

[Shane Bost @truthislacking]

Should the Church Engage in Culture https://t.co/kjMBC5WKYH via @YouTube

[Divinely Designed @DivinelyDesined]

Vision is an absolute marvel of Divine Engineering.

It requires a minimum of 3 systems working together from the start, or we don't see.

1. Eyes to capture light & convert into signals
2. Pathways to transport the signal
3. A brain to process it

Evolution can't build it one step at a time, because there is no vision until all those systems exist and function together.

Compounding the complexity further, each of those 3 systems themselves require a minimum number of more complex subsystems to function properly.

For instance, all eyes require opsin proteins.

Opsin is a highly complex protein that holds a special light-sensitive molecule called retinal; when a single photon hits the retinal, it instantly flips shape, triggering the opsin to change its 3D shape and trigger a precise cascade which converts the light into an electrical signal to be sent to the brain where it can be understood as vision.

Opsin alone, is useless. It needs the retinal molecule plus the full cascade, or it does nothing.

This is the case with ALL vision systems, confirmed over and over again the lab.

No partially formed system produces any vision, or any other function for that matter.

Many uninformed Evolutionists attempt to argue that we see different levels of complexity in vision systems, which they say is evidence that vision evolved gradually from simpler systems.

But the evolutionary scientists themselves refute this.

Even the very simplest possible system of vision - the infamous "light sensitive cell" - still relies on a similar highly complex, interconnected network of proteins and other molecules.

Mainstream evolutionary science even teaches that vision systems evolved independently, from scratch, at least 40 different times.

The reason is because many vision systems are so different, operating with such unique parts, that one simply could not have evolved from another.

The fossil record itself refutes the concept of step by step construction of vision systems.

Complex eyes appear early in the fossil record, fully formed & functional.

There is no increasing complexity in the fossil record - it's a complete contradiction of evolutionary predictions.

The vision system has all the Hallmark evidence of design.

A complex, interconnected web of information processing systems with incomprehensibly precise timing & coordination between them all to produce a highly specialized function.

Nature does not, and cannot, produce such a system, not with all the time and resources in the entire universe.

Everything you see is a testament to the Power of our Creator.

[Lila Rose @LilaGraceRose]

An MRI scan of a 20-week-old unborn baby.

Not a parasite.

A living human child who can move, has a heartbeat, fingers and toes.

No child should be aborted.

[Rich Brown @richsbrown3]

Excited to host our Pastors' Luncheon with Faith Director Shane Bost of Citizens Defending Freedom (@cdfusa) on Wednesday, May 20th at @DowntownPres.

Together, we will talk about how we can apply our biblical worldview in the public square to affect lasting, societal change for Christ and his Kingdom of Grace.

Registration is available for local pastors and ministry leaders in the greater Lynchburg area!

@truthislacking @WilliamsforVA

[Darwin to Jesus @darwintojesus]

This is obviously the product of a random mindless coincidence.

[Shane Bost @truthislacking]

Examining the Scriptures to reflect upon the most amazing historical event ever told- and what it means for humanity.
https://t.co/jfXTojiMw2

[Wes Huff @WesleyLHuff]

This Easter, I invite you to look at Jesus, consider what he said and did, and ask for yourself what I believe is the most important question you will ever answer: Did he really leave behind an empty tomb? And if he did, what does that mean for you?

This video was made possible and in collaboration with my friends at @ChildlikeMedia.

[KAT @reallKAT]

John piper attempt to define “SIN” and I’ve never thought of it this way. Watch this and save it.

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[Divinely Designed @DivinelyDesined]

There are no simple cells.

A cell has all its key parts, or it doesn't function.

It cannot arise by evolution, because it doesn't work until it's complete.

Intelligently designed.

[Stop Abortion Now @LifeNewsToo]

Former abortionist Anthony Levatino:

“I did 1200 abortions, first and second trimester. 1 was for rape, 2 were for incest, 9 or 10 were for genetic effects.., and all the rest of them were healthy moms and healthy kids.”

“People don’t want to believe that, but it’s the truth.”

[𝕊𝕠𝕝𝕒 ℂ𝕙𝕒𝕕 🎚️ @sola_chad]

The rainbow is a sign of God's covenant.

Not a celebration of sin.

[Divinely Designed @DivinelyDesined]

Mind-blowing! This is a Killer T-Cell hunting down and destroying a sick cell.

Your body's immune system is an obvious case of intentional design in Life. Think about this...

For the T-Cells to do their job of killing infected cells, they need four distinct systems in place. If all four of these systems don't exist together, T-Cells can't do their job. They have no function; they're useless.

And here's the most dangerous part: T-Cells release a cell-destroying cytotoxin directly into the diseased cells. Imagine evolutionary processes "accidentally" developing this cellular cytotoxin without the rest of the regulatory systems in place to direct it. It would kill everything it touched! A gradual, stepwise evolutionary path make no sense here - either everything exists at once, or Life dies.

The immune system is clearly a sign of foresight, planning, and intentional systems design. All evidence of the Supreme Intelligence behind Life.

Here is what the T-Cell system requires to function:

1. Tagging
The sick cell releases a small warning flag (made from pieces of bad proteins) on its surface to show it's infected or abnormal. This system is programmed into every cell.

2. Recognition
A killer T-cell, which are out patrolling your through your blood every second, spots the warning flag with a special scanner and locks on, confirming that this tagged cell is sick and ready for extermination.

3. Connection
The T cell attaches itself to the sick cell via a sealed connection point, aligning perfectly with specified proteins to ensure a tight connection. Spillage here is catastrophic; it must fit perfectly.

4. Cytotoxin Release
The T cell injects a specific cell-exterminating poison directly into the sick cell through tiny holes, causing the sick cell to self-destruct in a clean, controlled way, without effecting any other nearby cells.

All 4 steps, along with all the proteins, DNA information, regulatory roles, etc. must exist together for the T-Cell to do its job. Without all that, working together, from the start, it's functionless.

This is a clear sign of Divine Design.

[Divinely Designed @DivinelyDesined]

This is how cells make energy - the production of ATP.

All life requires ATP for energy. Without it, cells cannot function, and Life cannot survive. That means ATP Synthase is required from the very start of Life.

Evolution cannot build ATP, because evolutionary processes require ATP to even function - creating a massive chicken-or-the-egg paradox. You can't have life without ATP, but you can't get ATP until you have life.

Evidence it was intelligently designed.

ATP Synthase is also incredibly complex.

In simpler prokaryotic organisms (bacteria, etc), the molecule has 8 unique proteins organized into 22 subunits, all working together in a coordinated system. In higher level eukaryotes (humans, mammals, etc), the molecule has 18 unique proteins organized into 29 coordinated subunits making up the system.

The simpler versions still require a minimal set of specified proteins, totaling more than 3,500 amino acids, sequenced perfectly in line to create all the proteins, all engineered to perfection. The odds of something like this coming together by chance are incomprehensibly small, it's effectively impossible.

This system is a clear and obvious sign of design.

[Josh Barzon @JoshuaBarzon]

Evolution can’t explain this. The amazing transformation of a caterpillar becoming a butterfly. Only an Intelligent Creator could design such a beautiful thing like this.

[LifeNews.com @LifeNewsHQ]

This incredible scan captured footage of what unborn babies do in the womb.

Wow! This is amazing.

[Divinely Designed @DivinelyDesined]

It's obvious life was designed.

A single human cell has over 1 billion total protein molecules, ~20,000 different types of proteins, hundreds of organelles, thousands of molecular machines & motors working together, with millions interactions occurring simultaneously.

There are approximately 30 to 40 trillion cells, all working together.

The Glory of God is shown in His Creation.

[Divinely Designed @DivinelyDesined]

The transition from prokaryote to eukaryotic cellular life is impossible.

It requires wholesale architectural innovation, plus massive leaps of novel genetic information & fully functional molecular systems to appear immediately so the cell doesn't die.

Such innovation would include:

- A membrane-bound nucleus enclosing DNA with pores, envelope, and support proteins. A nucleus invading without all the support staff would kill the cell immediately.

- Mitochondria, which would require instant integration for energy production, which requires immediately compatible protein systems, or cellular energy production fails, and the cell dies.

- Endomembrane system (ER, Golgi, vesicles), responsible for advanced protein processing & transport. Requires various molecular machines & RNA molecules for molecular trafficking to integrate all at once, or proteins go nowhere, and the cell dies.

- Sophisticated cytoskeleton (microtubules, actin, motors), for cellular architecture, transport, and division. Partial versions cause structural collapse, and the cell dies.

- Complex gene regulation (histones, chromatin, introns, splicing); eukaryotes have huge non-coding DNA with precise controls & sophisticated regulation. Partial additions add nothing and disrupt expression, and the cell dies.

- Division machinery (spindles, centromeres, checkpoints); these complex protein systems replace simple fission to regulate & control accurate chromosome separation in larger genomes. Without them, cellular division either doesn't happen or happens out of control...(Say it it with me!) And the cell dies.

These systems are sophisticated interdependent molecular cities; none function alone, and no observed intermediates or viable half-steps exist in nature or experiments. Research attempting to bridge this gap inevitably kills the cells they're working with.

To rescue the theory, evolutionists invoke rare, one-time endosymbiosis events - where two organisms essentially joined together in harmony to create one integrated system. Nothing like this has ever been observed, and the odds are so unlikely that even the evolutionists themselves admit it's nothing short of a miracle.

The stories and assumptions to save this failed theory stack up and continually fall. Evolutionism is a failure. Life was created.

[Divinely Designed @DivinelyDesined]

Have you ever seen how DNA is organized?

It's astounding.

A single strand of your DNA, when stretched out, is ~2 meters, or ~6.5 feet long. If you stretched out all the DNA in your body end to end, it could cross the entire solar system, from the sun to Pluto, 17 times. You could wrap all your DNA around the Earth like a rubber band ball almost 2 million times.

The storage capacity of DNA is so high that all the world’s digital data (estimated around 175 zettabytes by 2025) could theoretically be stored in just 178lbs of DNA. Imagine, one single server that could handle the entire world's annual data needs.

And yet, all of this fits inside the nucleus of a cell, invisible to the naked eye. How is that even possible?

To prevent DNA from becoming an tangled mess, unusable for anything, it is organized and packed very specifically. If not for this organization, DNA would be completely unusable for any of Life's processes. It would clump together, unable to be pulled apart to be read by the many interacting molecular systems.

To start, smaller segments of DNA are coiled tightly around a special protein called a Histone, whose sole job is to keep DNA organized. This coiled product is called a Nucleosome, which are then further coiled and packed together into long fibers call Chromatin. Chromatin then is further coiled into larger structures called Chromosomes.

This organization is not only incredibly efficient, but it also provides functionality to the DNA itself. Chromosome and Chromatin architecture actually effects how DNA functions and communicates with the different systems in the cell, and the number of chromosomes is important to overall function of the DNA in an organism.

Without this specific organization, Life could not exist. What does this mean?

This means DNA could not have evolved and functioned without simultaneous organization. And DNA can't be organized without the proteins and systems that hold it all together. On top of that, the fact that how DNA is organized affects its function is a clear sign of foresight and planning - all clear signs of intelligent design.

The more we learn about molecular biology, the more obvious it is that this was all Created intelligently.

[Divinely Designed @DivinelyDesined]

This is how your eyes work.

Eyes are part of an irreducibly complex system of structures that work together to give you vision.

There is no evolutionary pathway that could produce even the simplest eye. Here is everything you need to know about why eyes did not evolve and are certain evidence of design.

This is the proposed version of eye evolution:
1. Photosensitive cell
2. Pigment cells without a nerve
3. Optic nerve surrounded by pigment cells, covered by translucent skin
4. Pigment cells forming a depression
5. Skin gradually takes a lens shape
6. Evolution of muscles for lens to adjust

But each one of these steps still relies on a similar irreducibly complex system of machines for vision to function. The very first step, the mythical light sensitive cell, is actually incredibly complex by itself and has no plausible evolutionary pathway.

A single photosensitive cell is an incredibly complex system of nanomachines. The simplest known light-sensitive prokaryotic cells have genomes with around ~1.3 million base pairs of DNA information, with around ~1,300–1,400 unique proteins. Knockout tests in cells have been able to simplify cells to 500,000 base pairs of DNA, with close to 500 unique proteins (but these are not light sensitive.)

ALL vision systems require rhodopsin proteins. These handy little proteins capture light, transforms light into a signal, and sends that signal down a transduction pathway to the processing center (brain).

So basically, ALL vision systems require at least 3 separate major systems, which are themselves filled with multiple subsystems - it's complexity on top of complexity on top of complexity. And none of it works if all of those systems are not in place together. There is no evolutionary pathway by which all of this arises together - nature doesn't engineer multiple interdependent systems together.

Eyes are so complex and so different among various organisms today that evolutionists even widely recognize that vision systems must have arisen independently at least 30 times, because there is no genetic pattern to explain the origin of eyes from a common ancestor.

The odds of that happening are absolutely absurd. Beyond logic.

There is no evidence of eyes evolving in the fossil record, either.

Complex, fully functional vision appears almost at the very start of the fossil record. The oldest eye in the fossil record, that of a trilobite, is a complex compound eye originating in the Cambrian, conventionally dated about 540 million years ago.

From there, various different kinds of eyes appear in the fossil record of varying degrees of complexity - with both simpler and more complex version of vision systems scattered all throughout in no particular pattern of development.

Evolutionists also like to claim the human eye is designed poorly.

They point to “blind spots” & “backwards retinas” as evidence of poor design, which is why, they say, evolution makes more sense. But that is completely false, and shows they simply don't understand the biology of the eye in the first place.

But this design actually makes our eyes better and fully optimized for our necessities.

The Blind Spot: Vertebrates have an inverted retina, where photoreceptors face away from light and nerves bundle through a hole in the back, creating a tiny blind spot. The blind spot is only~1% of visual field and each eye's blind spot overlaps with the seeing part of the other eye - there is no actual vision loss. This could be seen as evidence of intelligently designed coordination.

Vertebrate eyes also provide the sharpest vision among animals. Eagles (with inverted retinas) see clearly up to 2–3 miles away and spot prey from great distances. Features like oil droplets in photoreceptors improve color vision, and mitochondrial clumps focus light better, giving higher vision acuity overall.

The Inverted design also allows direct, close access to the Retinal Pigment Epithelium (RPE) layer. RPE supplies massive nutrients/oxygen (vertebrate photoreceptors have the body's highest metabolic rate) and removes toxic byproducts from light detection. RPE's dark pigment absorbs stray light, giving a sharper image, and protects against sun damage, which makes our eyes last longer and stay healthier. Cephalopods eyes - often compared as a "better version" by evos who don't know better - have the everted retina which limits nutrient/toxin access, causing slower repair, shorter cell life, more vulnerability to damage.

In summary, the human eye is optimally designed for the function required. The orientation of the retinas improves vision sharpness and the longevity & overall health of the eye. Anyone claiming the eye is evidence of “bad design” simply doesn’t understand how beautifully their eyes are designed.

Even the simplest forms of vision require incredibly complex systems to come together at the same time for vision to arise. Evolution cannot do that.

Only intelligence engineers irreducibly complex systems like Vision.