Just this past September, Firm Foundation was honored to have Glenn Beck’s support and endorsement. He made a special video for our group and he did a voice recording for a radio ad that promoted our conference. He has asked Rod what more can he do for us, as that will be a blessing for us in promoting the Book of Mormon. Glenn is also very concerned about our Native American Brothers and Sisters and is constantly praying on how to help them.
Back in about Aug. 2010 while Glenn was still on Fox News, was given Steve Smoot’s wonderful book and documentaries. Below you will see what was aired live on Fox News. Because of Glenn’s brazenness to share things that the intellectuals say are hoaxes, he was fired from Fox News but continues to do very well on blaze.tv and on his daily radio program. Below you will see part one and part two of these videos and then we have shared with you Steve Smoot’s Chapter 49 from his wonderful book, Lost Civilizations of North America where Steve shares his feelings about the Family and how we are created. We are also offering his book and documentary from 35-50% off below.
Part 1 Lost Civilizations of North America;
Part 2 Lost Civilizations of North America;
CHAPTER 49
Lost Civilizations on North America; Creation by Chance or Design—Hosting the Foreign Press Corps by Steven E. Smoot
In August of 1993, our family was asked to host a delegation of seven foreign journalists from Belgium, Holland, Germany, France and England, who were headquartered in Washington D.C. and were coming west to cover the visit of Pope John Paul II to Colorado. In a conversation with their director, he indicated that he wanted his coworkers to experience a little bit of small town USA. He mentioned, how over time, many of these reporters had become very cynical in their views of American society. This was the result of their continual exposure to the day-to-day crime and corruption of big cities and the politics of Washington. They had become very much disillusioned with the American way of life, having only lived in major cities. Their director wanted them to see and to understand that there was another side to American culture, which could only be understood by visiting and experiencing family life in small towns across America.
After a nice dinner prepared by my wife, we had planned a little family night program, starting with a short lesson and some fun Bluegrass and Country music, shared by our family Bluegrass band. In starting the lesson I picked up and placed my beautiful little daughter on my lap. As she looked up to me with her adoring big brown eyes, I expressed my love for her and my reverence for her life. I then pointed out to the group, her little hands in mine, showing how her perfect little fingernails, where placed on the end of her fingers in such a way as to protect her sensitive touch. Then I asked them to observe her adoring eyes that were looking up to me, watching my every move. I pointed out to them that her little eyebrows and eyelashes and eyelids, were placed to protect herself lovely brown eyes. Then we observed her cute little ears on the side of her head, placed, shaped and formed so perfectly to capture sound, enabling her to hear.
I then pointed to her perfectly designed nose, which enabled her to breathe throughout the night. Then we looked at the first of her little teeth, wondering if they would all come in straight. I then emphasized the wonder of this beautiful creation and how her intuitive spirit and brain enabled her to think, reason, walk, run, talk and play, and in so doing, allowed her to utter some of her first words, one of which was “daddy.” I told them that I marveled at how well her little complex digestive, nervous and circulatory systems function in order to properly sustain her. I also realized that this miracle of life would someday in the future, through her own reproductive organs be able to reproduce another beautiful child like unto herself. Today she has a little daughter who calls me “gumpa.”
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As we continued the visit, we discussed the important role that strong families play in the future of society. A couple of weeks after this ‘family night’ was over, we received two unusual letters from two of the reporters. Both letters mentioned that on their final day of travel, as they were all together, one of the reporters had taken a vote on what was the most memorable experience of their trip to the West. They both mentioned that the vote taken was unanimous, that the night the reporters had spent in a simple family home evening was their most memorable of their trip. The reporter from Holland, in a letter sent a few weeks later, had included his article; in it he gave us some insights into their comments. Pointing out that as our appreciation for a child grows so does our appreciation for family. His article on the importance of children and family life was published in a number of newspapers in Holland and Denmark.
In conceptualizing and developing a number of real estate projects, office buildings, shopping centers, a hotel and golf course community, I have come to appreciate the complexity of thought, organization and design that goes into just one of these multifaceted projects. It has given me a greater appreciation for the complexity and the organization that is found in nature.
The traditional sources and insights into the origin of man and the creation of a world emanates primarily from ancient scripture. Conversely, the evolutionary dogma holds that Darwinism is a more comprehensive and reasonable hypothesis in explaining the origin of man and the organization that is found in nature. Yet, even today, it is difficult to find a scientist on the planet that can give a coherent explanation of how natural selection really works and how the meticulous organization of nature occurred.
Evolutionary science is based on the inference that you can get life from something that has no life. And that life came from some mutation of a coincidental combination of elements. All speculation as to how life started is an educated assumption. There is nothing inherently wrong with educated assumptions, since that is where all research begins. The problem, however, arises as researchers become so vested in their own theories that they start to view their theories as fact. This not only happens in religious circles, but in science circles as well. That is why, it is difficult to get to the truth, and why all avenues of meaningful research should be encouraged.
When one considers the intricacy and complexity of the creation of a human life, it is unfathomable to consider a world without some measure of design. Simply stated, I have never found that a building could simply erect itself. Within the framework of the building industry, even if one were to gather all the raw materials needed for the construction of a hotel and all material needed were delivered to the building job site, how many millennia would you have to wait before these raw materials would assemble themselves into a functioning and working building? The answer is intuitive because most people have observed that the tendency in this natural world is that everything tends towards disorder, not towards order, when left to itself, which is in essence, a restatement of the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics. Another way of stating this law is that entropy tends to increase, where entropy is a measure of the system order.395
Darwin’s vague concepts of Natural Selection though complex for his day, were given at a time when science knew little about the complexity of even a single living cell. Since the 1950s, powerful microscopes have been employed to do cell research. They have observed that life gets much more complex instead of simpler at the cell level, an idea that would have been foreign to scientists of the 1800s. Complex structures have been observed that cannot be explained by Darwin’s process of natural selection, and even Darwin himself acknowledged that in stating: “If it could be demonstrated that any complex organism existed which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive slight modifications, my theory would absolutely breakdown.” 396
Thus, this invokes the question as to which would take the greatest amount of faith? The idea that this earth and mankind came about by happen-chance and by way of natural selection or by acknowledging the idea that there could have been an intelligent designer or designers that helped to bring organization to the elements found in nature? Within the sciences there are still many questions that have no factual answers, such as where did life first begin? Or how can one get life from that which has no life?
These questions are so complex that they have plagued the scholarly mind, since the beginning of recorded time. This has also caused some within the sciences to believe that there are questions, which shouldn’t be asked or explored, if one wants to advance in the sciences, receive government grants or have their printed works published. This is especially seen in today’s academic and politically correct scientific community, where most archeologists and anthropologists rely almost solely on the government for support. Those who question the “established” traditional science learn quickly that a discussion or exploration into Creation-related questions, and into the origins of man or the merits of intelligent design is considered strictly taboo.
In her book, Native Americans Before 1492, Looking into the Origin of the Ancient Mound Builders, Lynda Norene Shaffer acknowledged that it was “a journey into the unknown and full of surprises.” She went on to say in the preface of her book, that “there are many controversies in North American archaeology,” stating: “I was taken back by the nature of some of the disputes in North American archaeology and by the ways in which they are pursued by some of the experts…Long before I finished this study, it became clear to me that such controversies would make it exceedingly difficult to write a book about the mound building region that would please all the archaeologists…Though I have often felt that I was making my way through a field of mines, I was never tempted to turn back [for what] I was finding was altogether too interesting.”397
395 Charles Kittel, Thermal Physics, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 1969, 61
396 Ibid, Where Does the Evidence Lead?
397 Lynda Norene Shaffer, Native Americans Before 1492, Looking into the Origin of the Ancient Mound Builders, Preface
