Truth Discovery Project of Big Rapids

04/25/2025

No surprise: Dads make a difference!
- But this article articulates it in a clear way that our world needs to hear.

“The Kids are Alright,” The Who once sang. But about half of American kids are far from alright—in fact, our boys are in real trouble.

04/03/2025

Are you and I just part of a computer simulation?

One thing is sure - we are not. In a computer simulation, simplified pseudo-objects stand in for real objects. If I am simulating traffic, instead of having physical cars I have memory structures representing certain characteristics of the movement of cars. Now, we can get more sophisticated - suppose I have a flight simulator. It simulates certain characteristics of flight - but it doesn't fly. You can crash it all day long and not die because it isn't the real thing.

I've been told by my creator what I am, why I was created, and how I'm supposed to operate. Naturally, that's what I turn out to be - not some electronic shell representing certain selected components thereof. You and I actually function in the real world. Our eyes see, our ears hear, our mind, will, and emotions respond, and our bodies take corresponding action.

But is there more to the story? Yes there is. I was created in the image and likeness of Someone greater than myself - the thongs of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and untie. Yes, He desires to make me, in character, like Himself. When you find eternity in your heart, a wondering whether you were not made for something more than this world, there's a reason - God has placed eternity in the hearts of men.

03/13/2024

The design of the cheerful sunflower is more complex than we knew - in fact, we still don't understand how it works. It is clear that there's some skillful engineering involved.

Sunflowers (Helianthus annuus) are not only big and beautiful, but they also have an amazing biomechanism called heliotropism. ICR’s Dr. Jim Johnson stated, In fact, the sunflowers move during the daytime, in order to track the sun—that’s because God designed and bioengineered their physiologi...

08/22/2023

Similar? Somewhat. But so different as to create a real mathematical problem for common ancestry.

Several anti-creationists have made a hobby out of attacking creationists. Their best efforts, however, have generally failed. Unperturbed, "Gutsick Gibbon" ...

06/16/2023

06/01/2023

Does truth matter in the courthouse? Indeed it does! But many prosecutors handle prosecutions in a way which does great injustice to truth. We might not agree with all of the conclusions reached by this author, but at the very least this is a good explanation of the problem. And also a call to action.

Executive director Christina Swarns makes the case for the elimination of the trial penalty, which can lead innocent people to plead guilty.

12/23/2022

This is good presentation on the advances we're making in understanding biology through the lens of design and engineering. You've heard of poorly designed body parts? Well, as we advance in our understanding, we find that those body parts are optimized to take into account more factors than we realized.

Scientist Brian Miller explains the intriguing story of how biology is beginning to adopt more design-based models in its research. Although it's true that m...

07/20/2022

This looks interesting:

Great Lakes Symposium on Christian Worldview

04/11/2022

"I think it may be demonstrated that almost every heresy that has afflicted the church through the years has arisen from believing about God things that are not true, or from over-emphasizing certain things so as to obscure other things equally true. . .

"[T]he Bible teaches that God is love; some have interpreted this in such a way as virtually to deny that He is just, which the Bible also teaches. Others press the Biblical doctrine of God's goodness so far that it is made to contradict His holiness. Or they make his compassion cancel out His truth. Still others understand the sovereignty of God in a way that destroys or at least greatly diminishes His goodness and love.

"We can hold a correct view of truth only by daring to believe everything that God has said about Himself. It is a grave responsibility that a man takes upon himself when he seeks to edit out of God's self-revelation such features as he in his ignorance deems objectionable."

- A. W. Tozer, The Knowledge of the Holy

03/30/2022

Suppose we were to adopt the Biblical standard of conviction: The testimony of two or three witnesses. Do you think it would make our legal system more just? Reading a few news articles on this case reveals a disparity of information, but with a major commonality: Huge questions exist regarding this case. By no means does this woman appear to be guilty beyond a reasonable doubt of murder.

You may wish to consider signing the petition and following the Innocence Project.

Melissa Lucio faces ex*****on in less than 50 days in Texas for a crime that never occurred. Join the Innocence Project by adding your name.

03/25/2022

Is womanhood important to you? Do you celebrate mother's day? If you are a man, do you honor women by showing chivalry? Can you answer the question posed here?

What is a woman?

01/11/2022

There are huge questions being asked about the fundamental processes of evolution in the highest ranks of evolutionary science. It turns out that the evidence just isn't doing a great job of supporting what you may have been taught to believe. That same evidence also happens to support an alternative theory of origins. . .

"Science" isn't as straight-forward as some might lead you to believe. This article discusses science at 30,000 feet. Our fundamental assumptions have a huge effect on operational science, and that's why it is critically important that we challenge our assumptions and make careful choices at the crossroads.

Missed opportunities and bad timing often seem to go together. Military history has several notable examples of commanders who “seized defeat from the jaws of victory” when they delayed to bring closure to a war immediately after a major victory—often because they failed to see how fragmented ...