Years ago, I met Dave Harper, who would eventually become an AOI Board member. A few hours after meeting, we joined Dave and his wife Barb in a restaurant. After I offered a prayer for our lunch (which I didn’t realize until later had shaken him to the core), he riveted his attention on me and asked how I, as a geologist and a Christian, reconciled the teachings of Genesis with evolution. Dave had become a Christian a short while before, but was almost afraid to open Genesis, thinking it ran cross-ways with everything he was taught about “science.”

That one question was all the invitation I needed to give a month of teaching in the next 15 minutes. Being quite a reader and deep thinker, he later devoured the material I had recommended. We later became good friends and exchanged many such conversations. Mary Jo and I also gained a deep appreciation for his down to earth approach to life and deep insights into the core point of an issue, an asset that we welcomed when he became a Board member of AOI.

I also appreciated that even though an accident at age 16 left him in a wheel chair, he never let that stop him from doing things that other men only dream about. Just this month, he published his first book which had my endorsement on the back cover. Here is what I wrote:

“After getting to know the man behind this book, I anxiously awaited opportunity to read this potential best seller. If it reflected just part of Dave Harper’s core being, I knew I wanted to learn from it. Before reading the book, I thought it would be an encouragement to any person with a physical limitation. I was wrong! It is a huge horizon-builder for anyone who is limiting their potential by psychological barriers. After reading this book, you may never again say, “I can’t do that.”

If you allow it, this book will split your gut laughing, it will make you cry, and it will lift you to new levels of achievement. This iron-horse cowboy’s life story reflects what I have often heard him say: “I might be crippled, but I am not handicapped!”

If you want to appreciate this man like we have and get to know one of our Board members, call the office at 970-523-9943 or toll free at 1-800-377-1923 to order Wager the Wild Land, A Paraplegic’s Triumph Over Tragedy. We are offering it at 14$. If you are a Kindle or Nook user, you can also pick it up from those respective stores for your device. We will also offer it on our online store in the near future.

Dave Nutting

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Dr. John Lennox, a professor of mathematics from the University of Oxford, just released a short 96 page book which challenges Stephen Hawking and his book, The Grand Design. Hawking, the very popular and “prestigious” atheist scientist, claims that the laws of physics themselves brought the Universe into being, rather than God.

Lennox’s book is titled God and Stephen Hawking: Whose Design Is It Anyway? A review of this book gave the following quotes from page 32:

“What all this goes to show is that nonsense remains
nonsense, even when talked by world-famous scientists.”

“What serves to obscure the illogicality of such statements
is the fact that they are made by scientists; and the general public, not
surprisingly, assumes that they are statements of science and takes them on
authority. That is why it is important to point out that they are not
statements of science, and any statement, whether made by a scientist or not,
should be open to logical analysis. Immense prestige and authority does not
compensate for faulty logic.”

Having been familiar with Lennox’s down to earth way of unraveling scientific and philosophical nonsense, I ordered the 96 page book today. From my experience of speaking on the university campuses and interacting with “elite” professors and their student protégés, I certainly can echo those quotes. I also wish those “parroting” students would understand that they are being snowed by prestige and arrogance rather than sound logic and verifiable science.

I hope the book arrives quickly as Mary Jo & I are scheduled to speak at 4 universities in a few weeks where I fully expect Hawking’s faulty logic and book will be touted as the latest “science.” It will be good to show the students that Hawking does not have the final word.

Dave Nutting

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