They say that with the Internet most anybody can trace their family roots.

In I Tim. 1:4, the Apostle Paul warns, “Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies.”

Of this very verse, Bible scholar C.R. Stam once wrote, “While there are some in our day who are very proud of their ancestry, and have coats of arms displayed in their homes, the average Christian probably has never had his family tree traced back very far. But in Paul’s day genealogies were very important, even among believers. One’s family relationships meant a great deal. If you were a second cousin to Christ or even a third cousin to Peter you ‘had it made.’ You might be crude, or stupid, or even wicked, but all this was overlooked: you were closely related to Christ Himself or to the Apostle Peter and all were ready to give you audience.”

Now think about how we can expect conditions to become increasingly similar to those in Paul’s day as we barrel closer to the Rapture. If you look at one of the lies widely believed from the “Da Vinci Code,” there’s supposedly a secret royal bloodline from Christ running around Europe today!

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People have been asking me lately what I make of all the complaints against the “liberal bias” of the New York Times. What I’m noticing more and more in the paper is its obvious promotion of the gay lifestyle. It seems there’s an article glamorizing some aspect of it every week now.

On Father’s Day last month, my pastor said in his Sunday sermon, “Our culture today has waged war on fatherhood and on the role of men in the home. Right now the whole culture out there is debating what the definition of ‘parents’ is—should it be ‘Adam and Eve’ or ‘Adam and Steve’?

“The problem is the role of fathers has just been totally decimated, and the war on fatherhood has been waged with such devastating force that, I tell you, our culture has sentenced the next three to four generations to a disastrous tragedy upon tragedy. The Bible talks about the sins of the fathers being visited on the third and fourth generations. When you raise a wicked generation of fathers, it takes 3-4 generations to root out the evil that’s produced in a culture, and you’re going to have generation upon generation of tragedy.”

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If you look at the way newspapers now write up stories regarding scientists’ claims on evolution theories, evolution is treated as a given. For example, look at the first two paragraphs from this Associated Press wire story posted yesterday on Yahoo.com:

“U.S. and German scientists on Thursday launched a two-year project to decipher the genetic code of the Neanderthal, a feat they hope will help deepen understanding of how modern humans' brains evolved.

“Neanderthals were a species that lived in Europe and western Asia from more than 200,000 years ago to about 30,000 years ago. Scientists from Germany's Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology are teaming up a company in Connecticut to map the genome, or DNA code.”

I found real reading enjoyment this past spring when the monthly newsletter I receive from Southwest Radio Church, Bethany, Okla., had as its cover piece, “Laughing at Evolution.”

It was written by an emeritus professor of aerodynamics, nuclear engineering and geological engineering at the University of Oklahoma, Dr. Edward Blick, who also worked on Project Mercury at NASA, as well as the F4 fighter.

Blick firmly rejects both the possibility of an “old Earth” and “processes of evolution” occurring in plant and animal life.

In his article, Blick starts by giving Darwin’s unflattering resume: “Charles Darwin was born into wealth. He spent two years in medical school, dropping out after spending too much time in bars. He had some divinity training but failed to make it as an Anglican minister. He was never a scientist but took a position as a naturalist on a ship and later wrote his racist books The Origin of Species and the Preservation of Favored Races and Descent of Man. He was ignorant of genetics. He married his first cousin. All seven of his children either died young or had mental and physical disorders.”

Blick then reports, “Darwin’s writings were not science but philosophical musings. But something had to be done to keep the world believing Darwinism. Prof. Ernest Haeckel tried by faking drawings of embryos (which he claimed repeated ‘fish to reptile to mammal’ evolution), but fellow embryologists in his trial at Jena University discovered his fakes. Believe it or not, Haeckel’s fakes are used as proofs of evolution in biology books today. His forgeries are like gonorrhea, a gift that keeps of giving!

“The next attempt to resurrect Darwinism came in 1872. The British ship HMS Challenger had dredged ocean sediments for four years looking for half-formed fossils. None were found. Since none had ever been found on land, the evolutionary fairytale of the gradual production of billions of fossils in sedimentary strata was quietly set aside. The Challenger did provide a momentary hope when it dredged up some blob from the ocean floor. It was a live microbe, some kind of a missing link! They named it Bathybuis Haeckeli after the old king of biological fakery, Ernest Haeckel. In 1875, however, it was discovered to be not a life form, but a chemical precipitate of sulfate of lime. True to form, the discovery was carefully swept under the rug and hidden from the public.

“In the meantime Darwin had returned to Lamark’s previously discarded idea, that giraffes developed long necks by stretching to reach those leaves on the top of trees. This theory died again in 1883 when German biologist Leopold Weisman cut off the tails of white mice in 19 successive generations and the tails always reappeared. Similarly, after 4,000 years of circumcision, Jewish men still had foreskins. More bad news for poor old Saint Darwin!”

As my pastor always says, “Darwin got it backwards: Rather than it being from the puddle to paradise, man’s going from paradise to the puddle.”