Maybe God did create all forms of life on the basis of a universal genetic code. I mean, why should we expect God to do otherwise? ‘This whole argument of DNA—the universality of DNA—is a major plank of the common ancestry argument. I became aware that the Word of God was more important than my concept of science. And I truly can say that I became aware that I’d been worshipping and serving created things rather than the Creator, as Paul said (Romans 1:25).’

http://creationontheweb.com/content/view/754

More:

http://creationontheweb.com/content/view/4983

As an off-the-cuff remark a Professor of Zoology said in a lecture ‘Some of you are worried about this evolution stuff. Don’t worry too much about it, I don’t know whether I believe it myself.’ Something ‘clicked’ with me when he said this—I came to see, after considerable prayer and study, that evolution is really a belief system parading as science. It is an alternative religion designed to banish the creator God to the realm of abstract philosophy only (contrary to Romans 1:20). In the end I came to see the importance of the written Word of God. I had an unforgettable experience of being confronted with the challenge, almost like an audible voice from Heaven, ‘Are you going to believe My Word, or the words of men?’ In tears, on my knees, I confessed my unbelief and asked for forgiveness. My life has never been the same since. It was like being born again—again!

http://creationontheweb.com/content/view/3499

Father and Child

Our earthly experience, this life, can serve as a training ground.

Repentance:
In relationships, repentance is a result of merciful heart.

Love:
Only when you are able to love others, you’ll be truly happy. If you have people whom you don’t love in your life, you can not be happy. When you don’t love others, you won’t receive love in return. Thus you’ll feel unloved, lonely, being left out, and self pitiful. One’s ability to love has a lot to do with one’s ability to tolerate. If a person is not able to tolerate much, s/he cannot love and cannot be happy.

Humility:
You have to be really humble, give up your pride, to be able to communicate an apology after repentance.

Respect:
Everyone deserves respect.

Forgiving:
You have to be able to love in order to truly forgive. Try to forget how people treated you in the past. Just ignore how bad people treat you at the present time. Just stop thinking about all the bad experiences.

Communication:
You have to be really humble to communicate an apology. You need to express yourself so others know you are sincere about your apology. Communication is also very important in relationships that you must master in order to have good relationships.

Attitude:
Watch your attitude. Don’t be tempted to be cold, irrespectful, cruel, judgemental, prideful. Pride creeps in without notice. Everyone has pride. When your pride thinks you are better than others, it will cause trouble. So just stop thinking about how much you are better than others. And start thinking about how others are better than you.

If you can’t forgive and start being cold, just think that the person who offended you still deserves respect and kindness. Be merciful and be kind. Let your heart be merciful and not cruel. Treat each one as a person who deserves love and kindness. Be considerate of others’ feelings.

If you think that others need to change themselves, but you have not successfully changed them, it’s time to think about how to change yourself, the way you think, your attitude when you talk, the way you communicate, how sincere you are. If you want to criticise or blame someone, you’d better stop because most likely it won’t work as you expected. You need to love them and help them to change in a loving way.

Anger/mood management:
There are two categories: one is related to people, one is related to things. The previous paragraphs deal with people. For the second category, it’s for our own benefit not to let things that happen to bother us. It’s easy to say. When you are facing cancer, or have lost everything like a Job, and you couldn’t go back in time to change things that have happened, all there is left is just to pray for peaceful mind.

You need to quit getting upset easily.

You need to let go and forgive easily. You won’t be able to forget until you forgive.

You need to love, and care about others. Here is how. If you care about others, do something to make someone happy each day. Then you’ll see the difference. The more you do, the more people you do for, the happier you are. Start with simple things, if you want to make someone happy:

Smile at people.

Ask them how they are doing.

Tell a joke to make someone laugh.

Guide them to discover the true meaning of life if they don’t reject.

Give them a hug when appropriate.

There are many other things that can be done if money can be involved. But be careful not to spoil children because material things can do evil.

If you have the time and energy, you can provide free services.

Sometimes it might be hard to smile when burdens get heavier. As we were walking from our car to the church building this morning, I felt obligated to teach my daughter to smile. I told her that when she smiles at people, people will smile at her and they’ll be nicer. So she listened to me and started smiling. Then the whole morning she was pretty happy.

Being happy, or even smile when no one is around, is being kind to oneself. After all, no matter how bad it gets, there is always hope.

There was a fictitious man named Ah Q in old China. He was poor all his life, but he was always happy. Even when he was going to be executed, he still wanted his thumb print to be perfect and he didn’t seem to be sad. Of course it’s hard to do. But it wouldn’t help Cinderella for her to be upset all the time when she was mistreated by her step Mother and sisters. When burdens get heavier, we need to patiently endure, meanwhile we need to be nice, kind, and considerate to ourselves. We need to help our own spirit to be happy, to have hope.

As my understanding increases these days, I can spot the beauty of spirits around me more and more, when the person is considerate of others, patient, and can let go of the bad experiences in the past.

Even if I were the only person left on this continent, I still need to smile and bring my spirit to hope and happiness, for being upset and feeling lonely is not going to help.

I heard a really nice speech about charity by brother Richard King recently. He mentioned about the words written on Mother Teresa’s door (or wall), originally composed by one of his friends. What’s left on my mind were ,”Be kind anyway. Do good any way.” Don’t let other people’s behavior stop us from doing good, for in the end, it’s between us and God, not between us and them.

I’d like to quote a paragraph I found at this place:
http://www.allaboutjesuschrist.org/is-jesus-god-c.htm

This is not my language and it might not sound good, but I think its logic is pretty interesting:

“Is Jesus God? Many people have dealt with this “spiritual” dispute by intellectually accepting Jesus as a great man, great teacher, or great prophet. However, Jesus and His inspired followers didn’t mince words when they declared Him to be God (John 10:30-38, Matthew 16:13-17, Mark 14:61-64, John 14:6, Hebrews 1:8, Colossians 1:16, John 12:40-41 [quoting Isaiah 6:1-10]). Therefore, any type of intellectual compromise calling Jesus a “good man” is logically inconsistent. Why? Because there are really only three legitimate alternatives for the identity of Jesus Christ. He is either a liar, a lunatic or our Lord and God. Since Jesus claimed to be God, His claims are either true or false. If false, He must have been a liar, deliberately misleading the multitudes. Or, He was a lunatic, sincerely believing Himself to be God, when in reality He was just a man. However, if Jesus was a “good man,” as most people now agree, how then could He be both good and crazy, or good and a liar? There is only one logically consistent alternative - He must have been telling the truth. In addition to the logical inconsistency, the remarkable historical, archaeological and manuscript evidence shows that Jesus was neither a liar nor a lunatic. Again, the only position left is that His claim is true. Jesus is Lord and God.

The only real argument that remains, is that Jesus was just a legend or myth. There is little likelihood that Jesus’ claims are legend. There just wasn’t enough time for any legendary development of the story to replace what really happened. For instance, we now know that the Gospels were written 30 to 50 years after the crucifixion of Jesus. More dramatically, we now date some of the early Christian creeds, proclaiming the life, death and resurrection of Jesus, to 3 to 10 years after His crucifixion. This includes Paul’s letters to the Corinthians, Romans and Galatians. Finally, if Jesus’ claim of deity was a myth, the early Jewish opponents of Christianity would surely have presented the fact that these claims never happened. Unlike modern skeptics, the Jewish rabbis never denied that Jesus made the claim that He was God. Instead, they called Him a liar, and tried Him for blasphemy. ”

Here is another impressive statement from:
http://y-jesus.com/jesuscomplex_3.php

When one compares Jesus with the other great religious leaders, a remarkable distinction emerges. Ravi Zacharias, who grew up in a Hindu culture, has studied world religions and observed a fundamental distinction between other religious founders and Jesus Christ.

“Whatever we may make of their claims, one reality is inescapable. They are teachers who point to their teaching or show some particular way. In all of these, there emerges an instruction, a way of living. It is not Zoroaster to whom you turn; it is Zoroaster to whom you listen. It is not Buddha who delivers you; it is his Noble Truths that instruct you. It is not Mohammad who transforms you; it is the beauty of the Koran that woos you. By contrast, Jesus did not only teach or expound His message. He was identical with His message.”⁴

Whenever humans discover a new law of the universe, it seems that it was well thought of and designed by someone. Using our ability to think for an example, it’s the most amazing thing that happened. If humans can not think, the whole universe will mean nothing to us. Yet, the universe existed long before humans came into being. All things follow its own course without our control.

Then, is the appearing of human beings on earth planned or just happened by chance? If no matter what, sooner or later, the atmosphere of the earth will support human life and humans will come into being, then the appearing of humans on earth was planned. If the most amazing thing in the world - human beings - must appear on earth sooner or later no matter what, then there must be a creator who planned all this.

Untamed horses are harder to control. Horses can be trained so they will follow commands and do the job instead of following their own free will. Just like horses, humans can be trained too. If not, we’ll fail in this life.

As we observe relationships, we can see that some people can be uncooperative, stubborn.  If what we stand for is not significant, then we are stubborn. When two people won’t give way to each other, they can not get along. Either one person has to give in or both parties give way to each other, or the relationship will fail.

Focus on the good of others so the relationship can head to the positive direction.  No matter how many mean things a person did to you, there could be something that s/he did that was good to you. Concentrate on that to see what happens.

Control emotions and don’t let them flow with the environment.

Throughout life we come into contact with people. Sometimes we happen to have people in our lives who are very strong willed. They could be our close relatives like spouse or children. It will be a challenge and opportunity for us to learn and cope.

Some people could get into bad mood easily, like getting upset, irritated, disrespectful, picking on others, demanding, bossy, jealous, angry, or revengeful. Being around them is a good opportunity for us to grow.

Conflicts are part of life and if we don’t learn how to deal with them, our lives could be miserable. Conflicts can destroy relationships, break up a family, cause someone to lose a job, cause street fights, or even murder, and wars.

The better choice is accepting others, their behavior, opinion, and just tolerate. Meanwhile be respectful, courteous, appreciative, considerate, loving, and kind. Don’t ever hold grudge, be unforgiving, cold, cruel. Those kind of attitudes won’t solve the problem. If two people are cruel to each other, the conflict will just get worse. If you’ve been cold or cruel, repent and apologize, and change your attitude. Be humble and admit faults, and correct it. Just accept and forget all the wrongs other people did to you. Even if they do it again and again, just endure and forgive. Let them have their way if it’s not a big deal.

Family is an important part of life.

The Earth’s size and corresponding gravity holds a thin layer of mostly nitrogen and oxygen gases, an atmosphere of the right mixture of gases to sustain plant, animal and human life. If Earth were smaller, an atmosphere would be impossible, like the planet Mercury. If Earth were larger, its atmosphere would contain free hydrogen, like Jupiter. The Earth’s size is perfect.

The Earth is located the right distance from the sun. Consider the temperature swings we encounter, roughly -30 degrees to +120 degrees. If the Earth were any further away from the sun, we would all freeze. Any closer and we would burn up. Even a fractional variance in the Earth’s position to the sun would make life on Earth impossible. The Earth remains this perfect distance from the sun while it rotates around the sun at a speed of nearly 67,000 mph. It is also rotating on its axis, allowing the entire surface of the Earth to be properly warmed and cooled every day.And our moon is the perfect size and distance from the Earth for its gravitational pull. The moon creates important ocean tides and movement so ocean waters do not stagnate, and yet our massive oceans are restrained from spilling over across the continents.

Water…colorless, odorless and without taste, and yet no living thing can survive without it. Plants, animals and human beings consist mostly of water (about two-thirds of the human body is water). You’ll see why the characteristics of water are uniquely suited to life:

It has an unusually high boiling point and freezing point. Water allows us to live in an environment of fluctuating temperature changes, while keeping our bodies a steady 98.6 degrees.

Water is a universal solvent. This property of water means that thousands of chemicals, minerals and nutrients can be carried throughout our bodies and into the smallest blood vessels.⁵Water is also chemically neutral. Without affecting the makeup of the substances it carries, water enables food, medicines and minerals to be absorbed and used by the body.

Water has a unique surface tension. Water in plants can therefore flow upward against gravity, bringing life-giving water and nutrients to the top of even the tallest trees.

Water freezes from the top down and floats, so fish can live in the winter.

Ninety-seven percent of the Earth’s water is in the oceans. But on our Earth, there is a system designed which removes salt from the water and then distributes that water throughout the globe. Evaporation takes the ocean waters, leaving the salt, and forms clouds which are easily moved by the wind to disperse water over the land, for vegetation, animals and people. It is a system of purification and supply that sustains life on this planet, a system of recycled and reused water.

The human brain…simultaneously processes an amazing amount of information. Your brain takes in all the colors and objects you see, the temperature around you, the pressure of your feet against the floor, the sounds around you, the dryness of your mouth, even the texture of your keyboard. Your brain holds and processes all your emotions, thoughts and memories. At the same time your brain keeps track of the ongoing functions of your body like your breathing pattern, eyelid movement, hunger and movement of the muscles in your hands.

The human brain processes more than a million messages a second.⁷ Your brain weighs the importance of all this data, filtering out the relatively unimportant. This screening function is what allows you to focus and operate effectively in your world. A brain that deals with more than a million pieces of information every second, while evaluating its importance and allowing you to act on the most pertinent information… did it come about just by chance? Was it merely biological causes, perfectly forming the right tissue, blood flow, neurons, structure? The brain functions differently than other organs. There is an intelligence to it, the ability to reason, to produce feelings, to dream and plan, to take action, and relate to other people. How does one explain the human brain?

I still remember that strange feeling when my first baby was born. For many years I was alone, but all of a sudden, this little being came into this world and I was his Mother. I don’t know why I didn’t even question where he came from. I didn’t notice the significance of his coming into being. Now I think that’s the most amazing thing that a little baby appeared in 9 months of time from invisible to a full featured person.