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The Human Foot – A Feat of Engineering
(Copyright 12-15-2022) by David Rives (Lewisburg, Tennessee) Did you know you were designed to run around barefoot? Genesis tells us that originally Adam and Eve were created naked. It wasn’t until after sin that clothes—and eventually shoes—came into being. But when we shed our shoes, we see that God’s design is the best. An incredible 25% of the bones in your body are found in your feet. These bones form three arches; the transverse, medial longitudinal, and lateral longitudinal arches found behind our toes and on the right and left sides of our feet. These arches beat the design of man-made […]
From Eden to AI – The Spiritual Cost of Trying to Play God
(Copyright 04-21-2025) by David Rives (Lewisburg, Tennessee) We’ve explored the idea that while AI is revolutionary, it remains a product of human design, devoid of organic intelligence or morality. Today, we discuss the topic of transhumanism, and the dangers of this AI cult. Artificial Intelligence has potential for both good and evil. But its potential for harm stems from its reliance on algorithms and logic, often neglecting moral and ethical considerations. And certainly, since AI is not created in the image of God, it can’t have a true conscience or sense of morality. This leads us to the question: Where does […]
Creationism is Cool Again?
(Copyright 04-07-2025) by David Rives (Lewisburg, Tennessee) Once upon a time, belief in Creation was labeled as fringe. No, it didn’t start that way. Creation was the bedrock of most famous scientists and their discoveries, but a few generations ago, slowly, but surely there was a march through many institutions that pinned Bible believing Christians as extremists and fanatics. Many school children were required to watch the 1960s classic film, “Inherit the Wind” in their classes. One of the well-known lines from this film was preached by Dick Tracy: “Fanaticism and ignorance is forever busy and needs feeding. And soon, your honor, with banners […]
The Dangers of Education!
(Copyright 03-31-2025) by David Rives (Lewisburg, Tennessee) Let’s talk about the dangers of education on an intellectual level. I don’t mean research, or experience, or field-work, or training, or growing in knowledge. I’m talking about the education you can get from colleges for the price of a nice house. I’m talking about the “higher-learning” you can get from a recognized institution (and still be paying for it when you hit 50). I don’t have a college degree, although I employ quite a number of people who do. In fact, the majority of my friends and colleagues have Ph.D.’s in some scientific […]
Does Geology Really Disagree with the Bible?
(Copyright 03-24-2025) by David Rives (Lewisburg, Tennessee) Galileo famously stated that the Bible teaches “how to go to heaven, not how the heavens go,” which highlights the idea that the bible is not an exhaustive record of how God uses physics. But some have taken it too far, using this idea to support a long-standing belief that faith and science are fundamentally opposed. This perspective is increasingly being challenged and has been by the brightest minds in science for years. Today, a growing body of evidence suggests that Biblical scripture can offer valuable insights into various scientific fields, particularly geology. While the Bible […]
Adam and Eve Really Did Exist
(Copyright 03-17-2025) by David Rives (Lewisburg, Tennessee) Here is a recent headline in the Daily Mail: “Scientists reveal all the evidence Adam and Eve really did exist.” Now, as you can imagine, the article lacks a lot of substance or detail on who these people were… but the idea is simply that there is genetic proof that we do actually have a common ancestor. That is a good start. Reporters consistently come to the conclusion that evidence for some of the biblical accounts are being discovered but still fall short. You’ve heard me talk about Darwin’s Darkest Lie (which is that we came […]
Darwin’s Darkest Lie
(Copyright 03-10-2025) by David Rives (Lewisburg, Tennessee) Let’s talk about Darwin’s darkest lie. “Degraded views of humanity–particularly in denying that the human being is made in the image of God–inevitably [lead to] human misery.” This quote, from David Casas of Luther Rice University, points us to some of the darkest events in modern history. Since Charles Darwin penned his influential works, the world has experienced tragedies that are beyond words. First, Communism and Marxism. Darwinism and Marxism are philosophically joined at the hip, and according to The Black Book of Communism, it is Marxism and Communism that have led to over 100 million deaths […]
Compass for Birds
(Copyright 03-03-2025) by David Rives (Lewisburg, Tennessee) Did you ever play with magnets as a child, watching them snap together as the negative and positive charges found one another? Magnetism. – It’s not just childhood curiosity, as positive attracts negative and boom, two pieces come together. It is an essential part of our world. This fundamental force plays a crucial role in various aspects of nature, from the operations of technology to the survival strategies of living organisms. At the core of this significance is the Earth’s magnetic field, generated by the motion of molten iron in its outer core. This geomagnetic […]
Fossil Destruction
(Copyright 02-24-2025) by David Rives (Lewisburg, Tennessee) The Biblical flood, as described in the Genesis account, presents a fascinating scenario that could have dramatically reshaped the Earth’s landscape. The turbulent waters of the flood, which were said to have covered the Earth, caused significant geological changes, including erosion, sediment deposition, and the displacement of ecosystems! These events not only altered the physical appearance of the planet but also had profound implications for the fossil record. Many people enjoy marveling at the grand skeletal structures of dinosaurs, such as the T-Rex, or the remains of extinct megafauna like the woolly mammoth and […]
AI: Good or Evil?
(Copyright 02-17-2025) by David Rives (Lewisburg, Tennessee) Artificial Intelligence (AI) is often portrayed as a revolutionary advancement that may reshape the landscape of society, industry, and even human interaction! However, it is crucial to recognize that AI is not truly “artificial” in the sense of being independent or self-originating. Instead, AI is a product of human ingenuity and design. This leads to a profound realization: the intelligence exhibited by AI systems is indicative of a designer behind its creation—humans. Thus, one could argue that the existence of AI serves as a testament to the notion that intelligence inherently requires design, […]
How Evolution Took Over Science –The Evolution to Evolution
(Copyright 02-17-2025) by David Rives (Lewisburg, Tennessee) Every time you turn on the TV, watch the news, or read a science magazine you will more than likely find evolutionary content, so much so that you would think that science and evolution go hand-in-hand. The scene was set for the acceptance of Darwin’s evolutionary ideas long before Darwin ever visited the Galapagos Islands. In the 1600s the science of geology was born as people began collecting rock samples and theorizing about the rocks as well as the fossils inside them. Many of these early geologists saw the rock layers and fossils as […]
Exploring the Human Nose
(Copyright 2022) by David Rives (Lewisburg, Tennessee) Has a vague scent in the air ever caught your attention? You know you’ve smelled it somewhere before, but you just don’t know where? Well, our sense of smell is incredible, and many scents are strongly linked with memories. The average adult can distinguish 10,000 different scents from baking bread to a favorite perfume, to apple blossoms, to roadkill skunk. How does our nose do it? When you breathe in through your nose, air rushes into your nasal cavities. The majority of the space in your nose is dedicated to filtering this air before […]
3 Reasons You Shouldn’t Marry Them
(Copyright 2022) by David Rives (Lewisburg, Tennessee) Yes, you read the title correctly. To introduce the topic of this discussion, I would like to begin by stating that there are many instances in early Biblical history of people marrying closely related family. Based on Biblical text it doesn’t seem to be a big deal. If we take the Bible literally at its word, this practice would have been necessary just after Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden, and then again immediately following the Genesis Flood. However, in the book of Leviticus 18:6 things appear to have changed. It states: “None of you […]
Can you say Camarasaurus?
(Copyright 2023) by David Rives (Lewisburg, Tennessee) Dear friends, 2023 has been amazing so far. In February, I flew to Salt Lake City to get some firsthand experience with the different options that are available on state-of-the-art projection systems for the planetarium. After comparing projection and server systems, we feel we have made the best choice to fit the type of shows that we plan to have here. We are hoping to start the system install sometime in May. We know that the planetarium will make a great impact on our visitors as they learn about the Wonders of our Creator’s Universe. The […]
Atheism is a Religion – The Pantheon of Atheism
(Copyright) by David Rives (Lewisburg, Tennessee) The intellectual atheist claims that he has done away with the need for God. In reality, he has created for himself a pantheon of his own gods. The three supreme deities being the god of Natural Selection, the god of Time, and the god of Spontaneous Generation. When questioned how an amoeba could turn into an ape, or a molecule into a man, he invokes his first god. “Well, Mother Nature selects, and Natural Selection along with mutations will bring about this change,” he confidently replies. When questioned why we have never seen this transformation from one […]
Nature’s Sports Car
(Copyright) by David Rives (Lewisburg, Tennessee) The fastest land animal in the world makes its home on the Savannahs in Africa alongside elephants, hippos, and rhinos. A very small population of a sub-species also lives in eastern Iran. That mammal, of course, is the Cheetah. This Cheetah is famous for its speed. While hunting it can reach top speeds of 45 to 70 miles per hour in just three seconds. Even though they’re the fastest, their prey is often able to escape because antelope and gazelle can change direction very quickly and have greater stamina than a Cheetah’s short bursts. Cheetahs always […]
Faith
(Copyright) by David Rives (Lewisburg, Tennessee) This is real…they both require faithHere at David Rives Ministries, we talk a lot about Genesis and how easy it is to read and understand the first book of the Bible. Now, Christians have many different ways that they look at Genesis and a part of our ministry is encouraging them that we don’t have to relegate Genesis to mere fable, myth, or allegory. Genesis was written as literal history! The history of our Universe’s origins, the Bereshit, the beginning. But why do we bother spending so much time discussing this topic? Why is […]
Evolution and Pop Culture
(Copyright) by David Rives (Lewisburg, Tennessee) If you pay attention while you’re watching TV shows and movies, you might be surprised by the amount of evolutionary content the writers and producers work into the finished product. Everything from kids’ movies about the Ice Age, to Flintstones cartoons, to sci-fi movies have subtle (or not-so-subtle) messages of evolution or millions of years. This is especially common within the science fiction genre of films. Many of them feature back stories that dip into the far distant past or alien civilizations that have evolved elsewhere in the universe. Indeed, this genre started to become […]
Figure Eights Aren’t Just For Skates
(Copyright) by David Rives (Lewisburg, Tennessee) Featherwing beetles might be the smallest beetles measuring in at mostly under one millimeter, but their size doesn’t stop them from being speedy fliers. These tiny beetles have been found to fly just as fast as other beetles three times their size. Learning more about their flight reminds us that our Creator designed purpose in the tiny details. Entomologists have been studying the flight patterns and behaviors of these amazing beetles to learn how they seem to defy Newton’s laws. Unlike the wings of other insects, made of membranous material, the featherwing beetles have bristly […]
Erasmus Darwin & The Evolution of Evolution
(Copyright) by David Rives (Lewisburg, Tennessee) Evolutionary ideas are all around us. Every time you turn on the TV, watch the news, or read a science magazine you will more than likely find evolutionary content. How did this philosophy become so popular that it literally took over science? Most people picture Charles Darwin as an unbiased naturalist who discovered evolutionary ideas by studying the world around him. But that isn’t true. He had been influenced to doubt the Bible and accept long ages for the geologic record by some of the thinkers of his day. He’d even been influenced by evolutionary […]
Could All of the Animals Fit on Noah’s Ark?
(Copyright) by David Rives (Lewisburg, Tennessee) Many skeptics of the Bible, and even fellow Christians, have wondered how Noah could’ve fit all the millions of modern animal species on the Ark. He would have needed a fleet of cargo ships! But Noah didn’t take all the species on the Ark! Noah was only commanded to take every kind of land-dwelling, air-breathing animal on the Ark. while we always picture two giraffes and then two cows, and so on, the Bible actually says that Noah took seven pairs of some. But isn’t this making the problem worse? Well, let’s look more closely. Noah didn’t […]
Wonder of the Human Ear – How Do We Hear?
(Copyright) by David Rives (Lewisburg, Tennessee) Have you ever wondered how you can hear my voice, or any other sound? Our sensitive ears can pick up the faint whisper of the breeze, the buzz of a bee’s wings, or the patter of rain on a puddle. These same ears can withstand music blaring in our headphones, a baby screaming, or a car back-firing. How is this possible? Well, here’s the short, simplistic version of how your ears work. Sound travels on sound waves. These waves are collected by the outer ear and travel down the ear canal to the eardrum causing […]
Does Color Matter?
(Copyright) by David Rives (Lewisburg, Tennessee) About half of the world’s bird species migrates. That’s a lot of birds since there are more than 10,000 species! These small travelers have an ingrained knowledge given to them by their Creator to migrate as seasons change, often to follow food sources or reach safer nesting grounds. They can take surprisingly long journeys, including one tiny type of warbler that migrates over 8,000 miles one way, setting the record for distance traveled related to size. Researchers have found something most migrating birds share in common — lighter colored feathers than nonmigratory birds. They suggest these paler […]
“Hummingbird Nest”
(Copyright) by David Rives (Tennessee) Tiny homes are all the rage these days. They even have television shows dedicated to showcasing these little custom jewels. But if you think that 300 square feet is minimalist, what if I told you that I’m showcasing today a comfortable home with a floor plan of only 250 – square millimeters, that is! A lot of work goes into building a Hummingbird nest. These tiny homes are normally really hard to spot, because otherwise, predators might come and harm the young. The female Hummingbird camouflages the nest with bits and pieces of lichen and moss […]
Evolution Is Dead! Take That, Nietzsche!
(Copyright) by David Rives (Tennessee) We have never been able to create life from non-life in the lab, despite millions upon millions of tests in the most favorable conditions possible. We have never observed one basic kind of animal turn into another kind, much less a human. Animals adapt…they change… this is observable. But a dinosaur has never turned into a bird any more than a giraffe could ever turn into a hippopotamus! That is a belief based purely on faith — not on the fossil record. Charles Darwin was not a scientist. He was an explorer and author with a vivid imagination […]
Vulture Bees Evolved or Adapted to Eat Meat?
(Copyright) by David Rives (Tennessee) We know that vultures eat dead animals and are helpful in cleaning up those rotting remains, but did you know there are also bees that eat carrion? With all the talk of killer bees and murder hornets, here are some bees we can be thankful for! Vulture bees, as they have been named, have been found to have acid in their guts similar to the stomach acid of other animals that feed on carrion, like vultures and hyenas. While there are only three species of vulture bees that exclusively consume dead meat, there are other bees […]
Charles Lyell and the “evolution” of Evolution
(Copyright) by David Rives (Tennessee) Charles Lyell was a British lawyer and geologist who lived during the nineteenth century. He published a three-volume work called Principles of Geology, which promoted his ideas of an old earth, geologic ages, and uniformitarianism. This is the belief that the present is the key to the past. He believed that the slow and gradual processes we see today are the same processes that shaped our planet’s geology over millions of years. Lyell outright rejected the Bible as God’s Word and rejected it as an accurate account of earth’s history. He actually wrote that he wanted […]
The Mighty Grizzly – Reproducing After Their Own Kind
(Copyright) by David Rives (Tennessee) There are eight species of bears worldwide—the Asiatic black bear, also known as the moon bear, giant panda, Malayan sun bear, sloth bear, spectacled bear, brown bear, American black bear, and polar bear. Some of these species have subspecies, such as the grizzly bear, a subspecies of the brown bear. A couple of years ago I traveled to British Columbia, Canada and interacted with a real-life grizzly. They’re recognizable by their concave faces, the hump between their shoulders, and the lighter tips of their fur. This gives them almost a “grizzled” appearance, and that’s where the […]
No Erosion Between Rock Layers!
(Copyright) by David Rives (Tennessee) You’ve probably heard the conventional story of how the rock layers formed. The most popular story is that rock layers form slowly over millions of years by the same geologic processes we see operating today. Weathering and erosion then produced hills, valleys, and the other topographical features we see today. But a quick trip into the Grand Canyon, perhaps the most spectacular place to view rock layers, shows this narrative can’t be right. If this old-age view is indeed a correct interpretation of the evidence, we’d expect to see weathering and erosion between rock layers. After […]