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Despite what some people believe, logic and reason are essential to Christianity. Without them it’s impossible to deduce anything from the true propositions of the 66 books of Scripture, which is the final authority for a Christian.

130 km west of Alice Springs, Glen Helen Homestead is popular among tourists exploring the Red Centre. The lodge sits alongside towering sandstone cliffs that form part of the West MacDonnell Ranges. It also sits on the Finke River, which, surprisingly, flows straight through the sandstone wall, forming Glen Helen Gorge, a feature called a water gap.

Some people think that evolution has nothing to do with an individual’s philosophical outlook. But atheism can’t exist without evolution! The question of origins has only two possible answers, and for atheists there is only one choice.

Some people say that Genesis means to tell us WHY God created not HOW He did. But Genesis doesn't tell us why God created. It tells us When, Who, What, and gives us a sequence in which things were done, but not why they were done. (The 'why' appears later in the Bible.)

Old-earth believers assert that there are gaps in the Genesis genealogies. Where are the gaps?

God describes His original creation as "very good". The Bible reveals that there was no death of (nephesh) animals or people before Adam sinned. But Christians who accept faulty dating methods must accept that there was human death before Adam. Thus destroying the Gospel. (Rom 5:12)

Charles Darwin is often presented as a brilliant, iconic figure who singlehandedly changed the scientific landscape. His picture is on the British ten pound note, and he is looked up to by many as a great scientist. But research over the last 100 years reveals a different story.

Many people think that Charles Darwin first thought of the idea of natural selection. However, others prior to Darwin described the concept, although they sometimes used slightly different terminology.

Does the human Y chromosome suggest that men are headed for extinction? In 2003, an Oxford University geneticist claimed that the human Y chromosome was “crumbling before our very eyes” and that the demise of men was imminent. Since this time, other researchers have pointed out that these doomsday predictions were overstated. For instance, the Y chromosome has a unique mechanism for correcting harmful mutations. Nevertheless, the Y chromosome certainly shows signs of overall decay, as do the other chromosomes. Human genetic decay is a real phenomenon, but it flies in the face of evolutionary ideas. According to evolutionists, all the complex coded information in our genomes supposedly arose through a slow accumulation of random changes called mutations. However, what we see with the Y chromosome is that such natural processes consistently degrade the genetic instructions, as opposed to creating them. Since the time of Adam, we live in a decaying world, just as the Bible says.

The world seems to think Christianity is for simple, uneducated people who are out of touch with science. This week we share a little of the growing, positive evidence for the truth of creation and Christianity. It really is a great time to be a Christian!

The Nazi Holocaust is seen by many as a gruesome but aberrant event in history. But 60 years earlier the Darwinian idea that some humans are not fully human resulted in horrifying brutality perpetrated upon the Herero people in South-West Africa. The Holocaust of WWII serves as reminder of the fruit of evolutionary thinking that began long before and continues today.

Many scientists say that the evidence from genetics incontrovertibly shows humans did not originate from a single pair. This episode looks at specific arguments by bible skeptics and shows how wrong they are.

If you suffer from high blood pressure you're certainly not alone. The incidents of high blood pressure, or hypertension, are on the increase. To combat this problem, doctors can prescribe several types of medication which lower blood pressure by different mechanisms.

Half a century ago, Nobel Prize winning biologist Sir Peter Medawar made a startling comment. He declared that the survival of a child in a mother's womb contradicted immunological laws. Since the immune system normally detects foreign tissue and attacks it you'd expect the immune system to attack the genetically distinct child within her.

All thinking people have to answer the question of origins. This episode explores what atheists have to believe about where they came from.