I am a hunter and an amateur roper (just learning actually), so when a friend sent this to me, I just had to share it with others. I hope you see the humor in it as I do (no offense to my vegetarian friends) … but most of all realize that we are never too old to learn something new.

WHY WE SHOOT DEER

Why we shoot deer in the wild (A letter from someone who wants to remain anonymous, who farms, writes well and actually tried this).I had this idea that I could rope a deer, put it in a stall, feed it up on corn for a couple of weeks, then kill it and eat it. The first step in this adventure was getting a deer. I figured that, since they congregate at my cattle feeder and do not seem to have much fear of me when we are there (a bold one will sometimes come right up and sniff at the bags of feed while I am in the back of the truck not 4 feet away), it should not be difficult to rope one, get up to it and toss a bag over its head (to calm it down) then hog tie it and transport it home.

I filled the cattle feeder then hid down at the end with my rope. The cattle, having seen the roping thing before, stayed well back. They were not having any of it. After about 20 minutes, my deer showed up -3 of them. I picked out a likely looking one, stepped out from the end of the feeder, and threw my rope. The deer just stood there and stared at me. I wrapped the rope around my waist and twisted the end so I would have a good hold.

The deer still just stood and stared at me, but you could tell it was mildly concerned about the whole rope situation. I took a step towards it, it took a step away. I put a little tension on the rope .., and then received an education. The first thing that I learned is that, while a deer may just stand there looking at you funny while you rope it, they are spurred to action when you start pulling on that rope.

That deer EXPLODED. The second thing I learned is that pound for pound, a deer is a LOT stronger than a cow or a colt. A cow or a colt in that weight range I could fight down with a rope and with some dignity. A deer– no Chance. That thing ran and bucked and twisted and pulled. There was no controlling it and certainly no getting close to it. As it jerked me off my feet and started dragging me across the ground, it occurred to me that having a deer on a rope was not nearly as good an idea as I had originally imagined. The only upside is that they do not have as much stamina as many other animals.

A brief 10 minutes later, it was tired and not nearly as quick to jerk me off my feet and drag me when I managed to get up. It took me a few minutes to realize this, since I was mostly blinded by the blood flowing out of the big gash in my head. At that point, I had lost my taste for corn-fed venison. I just wanted to get that devil creature off the end of that rope.

I figured if I just let it go with the rope hanging around its neck, it would likely die slow and painfully somewhere. At the time, there was no love at all between me and that deer. At that moment, I hated the thing, and I would venture a guess that the feeling was mutual. Despite the gash in my head and the several large knots where I had cleverly arrested the deer’s momentum by bracing my head against various large rocks as it dragged me across the ground, I could still think clearly enough to recognize that there was a small chance that I shared some tiny amount of responsibility for the situation we were in. I didn’t want the deer to have to suffer a slow death, so I managed to get it lined back up in between my truck and the feeder – a little trap I had set before hand…kind of like a squeeze chute. I got it to back in there and I started moving up so I could get my rope back.

Did you know that deer bite?

They do! I never in a million years would have thought that a deer would bite somebody, so I was very surprised when …… I reached up there to grab that rope and the deer grabbed hold of my wrist. Now, when a deer bites you, it is not like being bit by a horse where they just bite you and slide off to then let go. A deer bites you and shakes its head–almost like a pit bull. They bite HARD and it hurts.

The proper thing to do when a deer bites you is probably to freeze and draw back slowly. I tried screaming and shaking instead. My method was ineffective.

It seems like the deer was biting and shaking for several minutes, but it was likely only several seconds. I, being smarter than a deer (though you may be questioning that claim by now), tricked it. While I kept it busy tearing the tendons out of my right arm, I reached up with my left hand and pulled that rope loose.

That was when I got my final lesson in deer behavior for the day. Deer will strike at you with their front feet. They rear right up on their back feet and strike right about head and shoulder level, and their hooves are surprisingly sharp … I learned a long time ago that, when an animal – like a horse – strikes at you with their hooves and you can’t get away easily, the best thing to do is try to make a loud noise and make an aggressive move towards the animal. This will usually cause them to back down a bit so you can escape.

This was not a horse. This was a deer, so obviously, such trickery would not work. In the course of a millisecond, I devised a different strategy. I screamed like a woman and tried to turn and run. The reason I had always been told NOT to try to turn and run from a horse that paws at you is that there is a good chance that it will hit you in the back of the head. Deer may not be so different from horses after all, besides being twice as strong and 3 times as evil, because the second I turned to run, it hit me right in the back of the head and knocked me down.

Now, when a deer paws at you and knocks you down, it does not immediately leave. I suspect it does not recognize that the danger has passed. What they do instead is paw your back and jump up and down on you while you are laying there crying like a little girl and covering your head.

I finally managed to crawl under the truck and the deer went away. So now I know why when people go deer hunting they bring a rifle with a scope……to sort of even the odds!!

All these events are true so help me God…

An Educated Farmer

Shared by Lanny Johnson

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In 1616, William Harvey discovered that blood circulation is the key factor in physical life. However, the Bible had revealed this fact 3,300 years before man would agree with Harvey’s discovery.

Dr. Benjamin Rush

For it is the life of all flesh; the blood of it is for the life thereof:  …  Leviticus 17:14 (See also Genesis 9:4, Leviticus 17:11).   

The practice of medical bleeding as a treatment (using incisions and often leeches) was a common practice until the middle of the 19th century.

Dr. Benjamin Rush, a medical doctor and one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, was an important advocate of bleeding. Unfortunately, as other physicians of the day, he mistakenly thought that the body held 12 quarts of blood instead of the actual 6 quarts.

George Washington

Shortly before his death, George Washington was bled 4 ‡ quarts in 24 hours for an infected throat and died not long after.* Many historians believe that George Washington’s bleeding was the cause of his death. Ironically, by his bedside was probably a Bible that stated in Leviticus 17:11 “For the life of the flesh is in the blood.”

Again, the Bible reveals a great deal of scientific truth written hundreds, and sometimes thousands of years before being “discovered” by modern scientists.

*(Thayer, William R., George Washington, 1922, p. 240)

Lanny Johnson

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In Genesis 17:12,  God commanded Abraham to circumcise newborns males on the eighth day. “And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you,… “ Genesis 17:12.

Why the 8th day? In Judaism, circumcision is considered a symbol of the covenant between God and the Jewish people. The act of circumcision is called the bris, which literally means “covenant.” One reason the circumcision is performed on the eighth day is so that if the newborn baby will have lived through a complete week which includes a Sabbath. Once the baby has experienced the “holiness” of a Sabbath, he may enter into the covenant of the Jewish people.

Another reason for the 8th day deals with blood clotting. Blood clotting is dependent on 3 factors: platelets, prothrombin, and vitamin K (which is responsible for prothrombin production and is produced by bacteria in the intestinal tract). Holt and McIntosh, in their classic work, Holt Pediatrics, observed that a newborn infant has “peculiar susceptibility to bleeding between the second and fifth days of life. … Hemorrhages at this time, though often inconsequential, are sometimes extensive; they may produce serious damage to internal organs, especially to the brain, and cause death from shock and exsanguination” (1953, pp. 125-126).

It has been shown that it is on the fifth through the seventh days of the newborn male’s life that vitamin K is present in adequate quantities for blood clotting.

On the eighth day, the amount of prothrombin present is above one-hundred percent of normal (the only day in the male’s life in which this will be normally be the case). Therefore, the 8th day is the perfect day to do the circumcision … when the Vitamin K and prothrombin levels are at their peak.

And once again the Bible reveals a great deal of scientific truth written hundreds, and sometimes thousands of years before being “discovered” by modern scientists.

Lanny Johnson

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I irrigate my property for 7 months a year with a system which gets its water from the Gunnison River. I have a settling pond that the water runs into – much of the silt and mud carried by the water settles out here before the water travels on to a larger holding pond that I pump the water out of for irrigation. Because the branch of supply water is at the end of a line, without this settling pond, the pipes and sprinklers carrying the water would plug up with mud and silt in a very short time.

Sediment that was removed from the settling pond.

About every year, I need to remove the built up mud and silt from the settling pond. Last year we had abundant snow in the mountains that supply the Gunnison River, resulting in a high spring runoff carrying a lot of silt and mud. This year we are in a drought, resulting in a low spring runoff … thus a lot less mud and silt to settle out in the settling pond. When I remove the silt and mud this year, I expect to get only one quarter (1/4) – if that much – of the amount I removed last year.

Herein lies a huge problem for uniformitarian types of dating methods.  Uniformitarianism basically states, “The present is the key to the past.”  Many secular geologists observe what they see today and then extrapolate that into the past. They believe that slow and gradual processes have created the geology we see today.

Settling pond after the removal of sediment with a 4 ft measuring stick.

If you were to observe the amount of mud accumulated this year, and try to extrapolate it into the past, then by measuring the amount of mud accumulated last year (and assuming you were not there to observe its deposition), you would come up with a date about 3 to 4 times longer than actuality.

Now some would argue that we can observe deposition rates for several years to establish an average rate of deposition.  However, can that rate be extrapolated back millions and millions of years … would not catastrophic floods, tsunamis, volcanoes, and mudslides have a drastic affect on that extrapolation?

The Bible gives a historical account of a catastrophe that reshaped the world – the Flood. The geology we observe today fits a cataclysm such as the global Flood. As Andrew Snelling (Noah’s Flood and the Age of the Earth, 2009) said, “The past is the key to the present” not “The present is the key to the past.” The Bible explains the geology we see today in a way Uniformitarianism cannot.

Lanny Johnson

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I have noticed over the years that people have a love/hate relationship with rhubarb. They either love it, or they hate it, with very few not caring one way or the other. I have also noticed that people seem to be the same way when it comes to Biblical Creation … there are those who love the Creation message, and those who hate the Creation message, and unfortunately, many who are apathetic, not caring one way or the other.

At our last Family Vacation Bible School (VBS) I met two people who love the message of Creation. One gentleman shared that until he went to a seminar Richard Stepanek and I taught in southeast Colorado, he was an avid evolutionist and a mediocre (apathetic in his beliefs) Christian. He used to spend hours watching evolutionary television programs and reading evolutionary books and magazines. He shared that the AOI seminar had changed his life, and now he couldn’t get enough of Creation literature or movies … he was on fire for His Creator.

A lady at the same VBS shared that years ago she had seen Marilyn and I at a VBS in another southeast Colorado community. Five churches from different denominations had come together to put on this VBS. She and her husband (a pastor) loved it! She said it was “the best VBS” they had ever attended. Ironically, she shared that her neighbor, a lady pastor who attended the family night presentation, hated the program.  I remember the lady pastor she was talking about … she had interrupted me in the middle of a program, throwing a challenge at me that she was confident would demean my authority. Beseeching God for help, I was able to refute her and get back with the teaching. After the program, I tried approaching the lady pastor, but she and her entourage of four ladies made a beeline for the door.

Unfortunately, we see a lot of anti-creation feelings within the “church.”  Even more disconcerting, especially for pastors who invite us to speak at their churches, is the apathy of so many Christians towards the Creation message.  I think God gives us a warning about apathy … ” So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.”  Revelation 3:16   Lanny Johnson If you would like to see if an AOI seminar is right for you, or you would like to help the work of Alpha Omega Institute, please visit our website events page or our donate page. Keep up to date with what AOI is doing. Thanks for your partnership.