Wings As Eagles
Wings As Eagles ministry was established by Ray and Suzanne Dousset in September 2001 in response to a call from God to witness to the unreached, and to serve the orphaned, abandoned, disabled and disadvantaged children of China.
From the testimony of Ray Dousset, KIBC Hong Kong, 06 June 2004:
"...For life is not about pursuing selfish goals whether it be personal happiness, wealth or power. It is about saving the hungry, the homeless, the lonely, the orphaned, the abandoned - those who are seen by man as the least of the least, but by God as the greatest."
Creation vs Evolution - Do the Maths!
I have always enjoyed playing with figures; in fact Maths was my favourite subject at school. When I was grounded from flying in 1991 I took a Careers Test to help me determine what alternative career I could perhaps pursue. At the completion of the testing process there were no surprises for me when Accountancy came up at the top of the list. But God had other plans for me and now any ambitions of being a “bean counter” are a long distant memory.
I still enjoy a good mathematical challenge though, and when I came across a magazine article recently titled Where have all the people gone? I was hooked. The article begs the question that if Homo sapiens walked this earth a million years or so ago (according to the now-prevailing view), then where are all the trillions of people (or their remains) who should have evolved since then?
As Christians we know that God created Adam from the dust of the ground and then created Eve from his rib. There are enough clues in the Bible, based on the genealogies of Adam’s descendants, for us to determine with reasonable accuracy that this event occurred around 4,000BC, or around 6,000 year ago.
The Bible also tells us of the Great Flood when all but Noah and his family perished. This occurred around 1,700 years after Creation, or around 2,300BC or 4,300 years ago.
Knowing that Noah’s family consisted of eight people, and our current world population is around 6.7 billion we can determine that the world population has doubled roughly 30 times (this is easy enough to work out on a calculator).
If we know that 4,300 years have passed since the Great Flood then simple Maths will tell us that the average time taken for the population to double is 143 years (4,300 divided by 30). This seems to be a reasonably realistic figure given that according to the World Book Encyclopaedia the current population is increasing at a rate of approximately 1.8%, or doubling every 39 years.
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I still enjoy a good mathematical challenge though, and when I came across a magazine article recently titled Where have all the people gone? I was hooked. The article begs the question that if Homo sapiens walked this earth a million years or so ago (according to the now-prevailing view), then where are all the trillions of people (or their remains) who should have evolved since then?
As Christians we know that God created Adam from the dust of the ground and then created Eve from his rib. There are enough clues in the Bible, based on the genealogies of Adam’s descendants, for us to determine with reasonable accuracy that this event occurred around 4,000BC, or around 6,000 year ago.
The Bible also tells us of the Great Flood when all but Noah and his family perished. This occurred around 1,700 years after Creation, or around 2,300BC or 4,300 years ago.
Knowing that Noah’s family consisted of eight people, and our current world population is around 6.7 billion we can determine that the world population has doubled roughly 30 times (this is easy enough to work out on a calculator).
If we know that 4,300 years have passed since the Great Flood then simple Maths will tell us that the average time taken for the population to double is 143 years (4,300 divided by 30). This seems to be a reasonably realistic figure given that according to the World Book Encyclopaedia the current population is increasing at a rate of approximately 1.8%, or doubling every 39 years.
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