Author: Richard Worsley

Epigenetics an Argument for Design

[Posted on: 21 February 2025]

Epigenetics an Argument for Design

This video and article talk about epigenetics, which refers to the processes by which DNA can adapt to different situations. Experiments with plant breeding under constrained environmental conditions have demonstrated clearly that the plants will adapt accordingly over a number of generations. This is an area that requires a lot more research in order to understand the mechanisms more fully, but it is becoming increasingly clear that complex pre-programming in the genetic code is involved, pointing all the more to the work of a highly intelligent designer.

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Teaching Humanities

[Posted on: 20 February 2025]

Teaching Humanities

In this video and article, Richard reflects on something of his own experience of teching history and geography over a period of 20 years. He talks about some of the challenges brought by these two disciplines and also how they support the authority of the Bible.

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Rapid Decay of the Earth’s Magnetic Field

[Posted on: 19 February 2025]

Rapid Decay of the Earth’s Magnetic Field

In this video, Richard introduces an article about the earth’s magnetic field. The rapidity of decay that can be observed in the strength of the magnetic field only reasonably allows for the earth to be up to 10,000 years old. Whilst evolutionists have proposed theories to account for a long earth history, the idea of a young earth and a worldwide flood still provides the most sound explanation of what we see.

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Creation and Intercessory Prayer in Isaiah

[Posted on: 18 February 2025]

Creation and Intercessory Prayer in Isaiah

IN this video and article, Richard talks about how the themes of creation and intercession appear to go together in the second part of the book of Isaiah (chapters 40-66). This leads on to the challenge of the importance of intercessory prayer in these last days, when godlessness is one the increase and people are largely denying God as creator.

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How marvelous are Your works!

[Posted on: 17 February 2025]

How marvelous are Your works!

In the article which Richard introduces here, we see how the full human genetic code has now been unravelled, and how the resulting complexity that is revealed shows all the more that it cannot have all happened by chance, yet again pointing to the wondrous work of God as Creator.

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Caves are Formed Rapidly

[Posted on: 16 February 2025]

Caves are formed rapidly

In this video, Richard introduces an article by Michael Oard about cave formation. Traditionally it is thought that caves would require millions of years to be formed, given present conditions. A recent worldwide flood however, would have created extreme conditions enabling the rapid formation of caves. The long age theory is therefore not the only explanation and is itself based on an assumption that the earth is millions of years old.

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Doctrine of Perspicuity

[Posted on: 08 February 2025]

Doctrine of Perspicuity

In this video and article, Richard talks about the Doctrine of Perspicuity. This was first put forward by the Reformers and included in the Westminster Confession of Faith. It basically says that although some parts of Scripture may be deep and require a degree of interpretation, there are nevertheless many parts that are intended to be plain, straightforward and easy to understand. At the end of the video, Richard cites the example of Genesis 1-3 which is clearly written as an historical narrative.

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Absence of Universal Genes

[Posted on: 07 February 2025]

Absence of Universal Genes

In this video, Richard refers to an article about research that has been done in the comparison of DNA between a large number of species. The pecentage of DNA that is universal across all species is extremely small, which is inconsistent with the idea of a common ancestry. For the bulk of DNA, nearly a quarter is unique to each individual species, while the rest, whilst neither unique nor universal, is consistent with the idea of common design features. We are told the God created everything according to its kind.

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Some Thoughts on Christian Education

[Posted on: 06 February 2025]

Some Thoughts on Christian Education

In this video and article, Richard talks about Christian education and the importance of it being based upon a solid foundation that will stand up to the pressures imposed upon it by the culture of our society.

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Devils Tower

[Posted on: 05 February 2025]

Devils Tower

This video and the associated article talk about Devils Tower, a well known geological feature in Wyoming. Richard talks about how the lack of erosion on the cliff faces is not consitent with a long age world history and also how the formation of such a feature (an isolated rock mound on an otherwise flat landscape) is best explained in terms of a worldwide flood.