What are the books for? Do you want to see a positive use of Darwin's "Origin of Species"? Click on the link for Livingwaters and watch the video of Kirk Cameron for more details. We are joining with the Way of the Master in sponsoring a free give away of the book to college students in our area with an interesting twist.. Contact ARK ASAP if you would like to help pay for them (as of Sep 30 we did not have all paid for - we need about 500 more books @ $1.10 each) or distribute the books on the 150th anniversary? It's a very positive plan to reach the college age student now.

Nov 19: 9:00 am until 7:00 pm. College Distribution of "Origins of the Species" with Volunteers at Local Dayton Universities, Dayton, OH. Ph: (937) 256-ARKY. Details later. Call ARKY to volunteer!

Nov 19: 7:00 pm until 8:35 pm. DVD In the Beginning was Information with Dr. Werner Gitt at Post Road Christian Church, 1112 North Post Road
317-596-3800x1241, Indianapolis, IN 46219, IN. Ph: (317) 596-3800. Current theories of chemical and biological evolution cannot explain the origin of coded information. Information specialist Dr. Werner Gitt shows that coded information can only come from an intelligent source. The amazing DNA code is thus proof of an intelligent designer-specifically, by the God of the Bible.
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The Testimony of Chemical Equilibrium By Timothy R. Stout

Suppose you were to flip a coin with someone. Every time you win, they give you one dollar. Every time you lose, you give the 100 dollars. It will be very hard for you to make any money with these rules.
This parallels the situation with amino acids and proteins. Proteins are the building blocks of life. They are made from long strings of amino acids connected by what are called 'peptide bonds.' However, there is a fundamental problem facing those who believe that natural processes are adequate to account for the origin of physical life. A string of amino acids is far more likely to split apart than it is to lengthen spontaneously. This observation is significant enough to make a natural origin of life effectively impossible.
In 1976, Reven Evard and David Shrodetski wrote about this problem in the journal Origins (Evard, 1976). Amino acids require an aqueous environment in order to form a proper protain shape. This is problematic, though, because whenever a peptide bond is formed between two amino acids, a water molecule is produce by the reaction and released into the solution. However, this is also a reversible reaction. In the reverse scenario, a water molecule reacts with a peptide bond to split the bond connecting two amino acids. In an aqueous solution, the water molecules will be far more abundant than isolated amino acids. This means that the laws of chemical equilibrium will act to favor the splitting of existing peptide bonds as opposed to isolated amino acids finding the ends of a chain and joining them.
Then in 1981 biochemist Duane Gish calculated from thermodynamic principles the ratio of splitting versus lengthening. His calculations showed that in a forming chain, each time a new amnino acid is added to an existing chain, its concentration decreases by a factor of one hundred (Gish, 1981). This makes it essentially impossible to form a chain longer than a handful of amino acids.
Since then, various experiments have confirmed in principle Gish's theoretical calculations. The results of the experiments vary somewhat depending on the actual amino acids used, the temperatures, the pH of the solutions, and the presence or absence of various metallic ions in the solutions. However, the pattern is consistent of an extremely rapid decrease in produce concentration with each additional amino acid added to a chain. For instance, an experiment by Claudia Huber and Gunter Waechtershaeuen reported a maximum detectable chain length of four amino acids (Huber, 1998). An experiment by El-Ichi Imei et al. reported a maximum detectable chain length of six amino acids (Imei, 1999). Of course, when a species is so dilute as to be barely detectable and when it has a relatively short lifetime, it is useless as a component of a prebiotic soup leading to a formation of life.
The very short lengths of these barely detectable species is important because proteins are made from specific substructures of coils and sheets. Coils usually average about 10 or ore amino acids each and sheets 36 or more. A tiny protein of only a few sheets and coils can quickly add up to a hundred amino acids. Typical proteins average about 400. Thus, a chain of only four to six amino acids is useless.
If brilliant scientists using sophisticated laboratory equipment and experimenting to find the most ideal conditions to make chains of amino acids can only produce chains too short to be of use, it is ludicrous to claim that uncontrolled conditions in the wild would give better and more consistent results. The truth is that the laws of chemical equilibrium teach against the formation of the hypothetical soup talked about with such great certainty in the literature.
Chains degenerating about 100 times as fast as they can form is similar to a gambling scenario in which you lose money 100 times as fast as you win it. In both cases, it does not matter how much you start with. Time is your enemy; you will eventually lose whatever you started with. Evolutionists like to claim tie is on their side. This is nothing more than wishful thinking; it is not the product of scientific calculation.
Thus, if a person is to believe in a natural origin of life, and if he is to reject life as the direct creative efforts of a living God, then he must throw away the laws of chemical equilibrium. This may not mean a lot to a lay person who has little understanding of chemistry. However, to a scientist trained in these laws it represent a high price to pay, particularly if he has any intellectual integrity.
In fact, God says that such a person is "without excuse" for not acknowledging Him as Creator (Rom 1:20).
Source: Creation Matters, Creation Research Society, July/August 2009, Vol. 14 No 4
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Dec 5: 9:30 am until 12:30 pm. Teaching Pastors About Creation with Freddie Dudton at Eastmont Freewill Baptist Church, 1645 Spaulding Rd, Dayton, OH. Ph: (937) 258-1961. ARK will also have a book display to introduce Pastors to available materials. Possible ARK children's program on creation.

Dec 5: 1:00 pm until 5:00 pm. Author Signing with Ms Ozzie Davis at ARKY's House, 2002 S Smithville Rd [1 mi South of US 35, just past Wayne Ave], Dayton, OH. Ph: (937) 256-ARKY. Writer - The Adventurers of Frogman: Froggy Patience, Tate Publishing. 1st out, 44 more in wings.

*Dec 14: 7:00 pm until 8:35 pm. The Fourth Wiseman, DVD with Seasonal at ARKY's House, 2002 S Smithville Rd [1 mi South of US 35, just past Wayne Ave], Dayton, OH. Ph: (937) 256-ARKY. Based on Henry van Dyke's classic, "The Story of the Other Wise Man." A Magi named Artaban sees a sign in the heavens that he hopes will lead him and his servant to the Messiah. For 33 years, Artaban and his faithful servant pursue Jesus, only to miss Him at every turn. The story culminates on Easter Sunday as Artaban, old and dying, finall encounters the new King, bringing peace to his life. Includes Spanish and Portuguese langauages, optional English subtitles, and actors' bios.