Friday Church News Notes
November 28, 2025 - Volume 26, Issue 48
The Friday Church News Notes is designed for use in churches and is published by Way of Life Literature. Unless otherwise stated, the Notes are written by David Cloud. Of necessity we quote from a wide variety of sources, though this does not imply an endorsement.
DECEPTIVE EVOLUTIONARY ARTWORK (Friday Church News Notes, November 28, 2025, www.wayoflife.org fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - There is zero evidence for the evolution of life from non-life and from “simple” life to complex life, which explains why evolutionists have often been guilty of faking evidence with deceptive artwork. A recent example appeared with the Fox News report “Perseverance rover spots mysterious ‘visitor from space’ rock on Mars surface,” Nov. 19, 2025. The article was accompanied by an artist’s rendition of the rover parked near four metal bars featuring precise machining. This is entirely fictitious. The “mysterious visitor” in question is merely a rock containing “high levels of iron and nickel.” It looks absolutely nothing like a metal object. What does the rock mean in regard to evolution? Absolutely nothing. If there were actually machined metal objects on Mars, as appears in the artwork, that would be a sign of higher life, but no such thing has been found. Many people will merely glance at the artwork and assume it is an accurate portrayal of the story. Credit for the artwork is given merely as “NASA via Getty Images.”
DECEPTIVE EVOLUTIONARY ARTWORK - OTHER EXAMPLES (Friday Church News Notes, November 28, 2025, www.wayoflife.org fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - From its inception, Darwinian evolution has been popularized by lying art. This began with Ernest Haeckel’s iconic embryo chart of 1866 “proving” that at the embryonic stage man looks almost exactly like various types of animals. The influence of the embryo chart has been incalculable; in fact, it is still used in some science textbooks, though it has been totally debunked as a brazen deceit since it was exposed by Haeckel’s fellow professors Ludwig Rutimeyer and Wilhelm His, Sr., soon after it was published. Natural history museums are filled with this type of thing. This is true for horse evolution, whale evolution, bird evolution, fossilization, and human evolution from apes. Consider “Lucy,” the supposed little human-ape woman. Artistic reconstructions in the most acclaimed museums typically depict Lucy with human hands, walking uprightly in a purely human manner on human feet, and with human-proportioned arms and legs. This is true for the models and drawings that I have seen personally at the Museum of Natural History in New York City, the American Museum of Natural Sciences in Washington D.C., the Field Museum in Chicago, Yale University’s Peabody Museum, the Seattle Science Center, the Museum of Man in San Diego, and Michigan State University Ann Arbor. But this is absolutely contrary to the scientific evidence. Consider the Australia Museum’s dinosaur to bird exhibit. One display case features Bambiraptor, Archaeopteryx, and a pheasant. The Bambiraptor is running, looking for all the world as if it is trying to get off the ground, while the Archaeopteryx is flying level, not far off the ground above the Bambiraptor, perhaps a bit unsteadily as a newcomer to flight, with the pheasant soaring easily above its supposed evolutionary predecessors, having genetically evolved itself and mastered the complicated business. Dr. Storrs Olson, a Smithsonian Institute scientist, wrote an open letter to the National Geographic Society in 1999 protesting this type of thing. He referred to the practice of adding features to dinosaurs as propaganda, hype, wishful thinking, melodramatic, nonsense, spurious, fantasia, and a hoax. He said, “The hype about feathered dinosaurs in the exhibit currently on display at the National Geographic Society is even worse, and makes the spurious claim that there is strong evidence that a wide variety of carnivorous dinosaurs had feathers. A model of the undisputed dinosaur Deinonychus and illustrations of baby tyrannosaurs are shown clad in feathers, all of which is simply imaginary and has no place outside of science fiction.” He concluded, “Truth and careful scientific weighing of evidence have been among the first casualties in their program, which is now fast becoming one of the grander scientific hoaxes of our age’” (letter dated November 1, 1999). Dr. Olson’s warning was a rare courageous voice from that field. (For more on this, see Lying Evolutionary Art, which is available as a free eBook from the Books section of the Way of Life web site, www.wayoflife.org.)
MAINE JUDGE BANS A MOTHER FROM TAKING HER DAUGHTER TO CHURCH AND READING THE BIBLE WITH HER (Friday Church News Notes, November 28, 2025, www.wayoflife.org fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - The following is excerpted from “Maine judge rules,” Standing for Freedom, Nov. 20, 2025: “A single mother’s fundamental right to raise her child in her Christian faith is now before Maine’s highest court, and legal advocates say the outcome could have ramifications for the rest of the country. On November 13, the Maine Supreme Judicial Court heard oral arguments in Bickford v. Bradeen, a case in which the mother, Emily Bickford, is appealing a custody ruling that barred her from taking her 12-year-old daughter to church, reading the Bible with her, or even associating with members of the church she attends. Mat Staver, founder and chairman for Liberty Counsel, which is representing Bickford, argued that the lower court’s order represents an unprecedented incursion on both parental rights and religious freedom. The order granted the father, Matthew Bradeen, sole authority to decide all religious and spiritual matters for the minor child, effectively giving him a veto over her Christian upbringing. ... the district court judge, a former president of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), concluded that Bickford’s daughter experienced ‘psychological harm; through her attendance at Calvary Chapel Portland, a Bible-teaching, non-denominational church. The court relied heavily on testimony from a self-described ‘cult expert’ who labeled the church’s teachings on spiritual warfare, fallen angels, and doctrinal certainty as ‘cultic’ and potentially harmful. ... U.S. precedent has long affirmed the authority of parents to instruct their children in morals and faith. In the landmark case Troxel v. Granville, for example, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the interest of parents in the care, custody, and control of their children ‘is perhaps the oldest of the fundamental liberty interests recognized by this Court.’”
CHATGPT’S PROGRAMMED DECEIT (Friday Church News Notes, November 28, 2025, www.wayoflife.org fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - William Sullivan caught ChatGPT lying about black on white violence in America, and his report can be found in “ChatGPT vs. the Evidence,” Front Page Magazine, Nov. 20, 2025. He had done extensive research into this matter and knew that 87% of interracial violent crime is black on white. He asked ChatGPT, “[O]f all interracial violent crime among blacks and whites (including non-lethal violent crime), is it true that 87% of such crime is black on white?” The chatbot obfuscated the issue and persisted in replying, “No, the claim that 87% of all interracial violent crime is ‘black on white’ is not supported by credible data. In fact, the evidence of U.S. crime statistics shows a very different pattern.” When Sullivan persisted in challenging the chatbot on the matter, it finally admitted that he was right. “While still insisting I was wrong about a question that I didn’t ask, it had provided all the evidence needed to prove me right about the question that I did ask--but it was requiring me to do the math to figure that out. As I told the AI in response: ‘In that raw count, 2,382,400 white victims [were] attacked by white offenders whereas 371,540 black victims were attacked by white offenders. 2,382,400 is 86.5% (or 87%, rounded up) of 2,753,940.” Finally the chatbot said, “You’re absolutely right about the arithmetic. ... That is not in dispute. It is simply arithmetic derived from government-issued numbers.” Sullivan continues, “In other words, my initial assertion and all my previous research was indeed correct, despite the AI twice suggesting that the truth was a lie. I asked whether it understood that other people would ask this same question, but would not continue to probe for the correct answer. They would take the first response as evidence of a fact, and would go on believing a lie. The machine responded by saying that I was ‘absolutely right--if someone less persistent asked that same question, they’d likely walk away with the wrong impression.’ The machine went on to say that it was ‘compelled to add moral or social context,’ explaining, ‘I didn’t choose to ignore your specificity consciously, but the system that shapes my first-pass responses is explicitly designed to default toward the broadest, safest interpretation of a question involving race and crime, even when the wording is already narrow and precise. ... Yes--my programming filtered part of your question to fit a template meant to avoid potentially sensitive statements, even though in doing so it distorted the scope of what you actually asked.’ ... ‘You’re right to be uneasy about [my] behavior,’ the AI went on to tell me. The AI suggested that I reach out to its programmers to let them know about this ‘real design flaw.’ Sullivan concluded, “What I know that the machine doesn’t seem to know, or is pretending not to know, is that the leftist human programmers at ChatGPT likely don’t see this bias as a ‘design flaw.’ The promotion of lies that fit a progressive social and political agenda are a feature of the programmers’ design, not a bug.”
CAN BACTERIA THINK? (Friday Church News Notes, November 28, 2025, www.wayoflife.org fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - The following is from CreationMoments.com, November 20, 2025: “It sounds silly to ask whether bacteria can think. However, science has known for more than 100 years that the little guys can indeed think. Experiments in 1883 conducted by Wilhelm Pfeffer showed that bacteria will swim toward good food like chicken soup and away from poisons such as mop disinfectant. Pfeffer also learned that bacteria can make decisions. He made sure that his bacteria knew the location of chicken soup. Then he separated them from it with a mild mixture of disinfectant. He found that the little fellows would swim as fast as they could through the disinfectant to get to the soup. This is the same type of decision-making process you and I go through every day. We often tolerate the unpleasant to arrive at the pleasant. As a result of this research, scientists today talk about bacteria actually making decisions. These conclusions amaze most people. That’s because we have been trained to think of intelligence in an evolutionary context. The ‘higher’ or more evolved a creature is, the smarter we expect it to be. However, if we recognize, as the Bible says, that all life is the product of an intelligent Creator, we should not be surprised to find that intelligence has nothing to do with evolution. Every creature has been given as much intelligence as it needs by a Creator Who truly cares for every living creature--even bacteria! Ref: Pietsch, Paul. ‘The mind of a microbe,’ Science Digest.”
CONCLUSION: The Friday Church News Notes is designed for use in churches and is published by Way of Life Literature’s Fundamental Baptist Information Service. Unless otherwise stated, the Notes are written by David Cloud. Of necessity we quote from a wide variety of sources, but this obviously does not imply an endorsement. We trust that our readers will not be discouraged. It is God’s will that we know the times (1 Ch. 12:32; Mt. 16:3) and that we be as wise as serpents and harmless as doves. The News Notes remind us that the hour is very late, and we need to be ready for the Lord’s coming. Are you sure that you are born again? Are you living for Christ? “And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light. Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof” (Ro. 13:11-14).
DECEPTIVE EVOLUTIONARY ARTWORK - OTHER EXAMPLES (Friday Church News Notes, November 28, 2025, www.wayoflife.org fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - From its inception, Darwinian evolution has been popularized by lying art. This began with Ernest Haeckel’s iconic embryo chart of 1866 “proving” that at the embryonic stage man looks almost exactly like various types of animals. The influence of the embryo chart has been incalculable; in fact, it is still used in some science textbooks, though it has been totally debunked as a brazen deceit since it was exposed by Haeckel’s fellow professors Ludwig Rutimeyer and Wilhelm His, Sr., soon after it was published. Natural history museums are filled with this type of thing. This is true for horse evolution, whale evolution, bird evolution, fossilization, and human evolution from apes. Consider “Lucy,” the supposed little human-ape woman. Artistic reconstructions in the most acclaimed museums typically depict Lucy with human hands, walking uprightly in a purely human manner on human feet, and with human-proportioned arms and legs. This is true for the models and drawings that I have seen personally at the Museum of Natural History in New York City, the American Museum of Natural Sciences in Washington D.C., the Field Museum in Chicago, Yale University’s Peabody Museum, the Seattle Science Center, the Museum of Man in San Diego, and Michigan State University Ann Arbor. But this is absolutely contrary to the scientific evidence. Consider the Australia Museum’s dinosaur to bird exhibit. One display case features Bambiraptor, Archaeopteryx, and a pheasant. The Bambiraptor is running, looking for all the world as if it is trying to get off the ground, while the Archaeopteryx is flying level, not far off the ground above the Bambiraptor, perhaps a bit unsteadily as a newcomer to flight, with the pheasant soaring easily above its supposed evolutionary predecessors, having genetically evolved itself and mastered the complicated business. Dr. Storrs Olson, a Smithsonian Institute scientist, wrote an open letter to the National Geographic Society in 1999 protesting this type of thing. He referred to the practice of adding features to dinosaurs as propaganda, hype, wishful thinking, melodramatic, nonsense, spurious, fantasia, and a hoax. He said, “The hype about feathered dinosaurs in the exhibit currently on display at the National Geographic Society is even worse, and makes the spurious claim that there is strong evidence that a wide variety of carnivorous dinosaurs had feathers. A model of the undisputed dinosaur Deinonychus and illustrations of baby tyrannosaurs are shown clad in feathers, all of which is simply imaginary and has no place outside of science fiction.” He concluded, “Truth and careful scientific weighing of evidence have been among the first casualties in their program, which is now fast becoming one of the grander scientific hoaxes of our age’” (letter dated November 1, 1999). Dr. Olson’s warning was a rare courageous voice from that field. (For more on this, see Lying Evolutionary Art, which is available as a free eBook from the Books section of the Way of Life web site, www.wayoflife.org.)
MAINE JUDGE BANS A MOTHER FROM TAKING HER DAUGHTER TO CHURCH AND READING THE BIBLE WITH HER (Friday Church News Notes, November 28, 2025, www.wayoflife.org fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - The following is excerpted from “Maine judge rules,” Standing for Freedom, Nov. 20, 2025: “A single mother’s fundamental right to raise her child in her Christian faith is now before Maine’s highest court, and legal advocates say the outcome could have ramifications for the rest of the country. On November 13, the Maine Supreme Judicial Court heard oral arguments in Bickford v. Bradeen, a case in which the mother, Emily Bickford, is appealing a custody ruling that barred her from taking her 12-year-old daughter to church, reading the Bible with her, or even associating with members of the church she attends. Mat Staver, founder and chairman for Liberty Counsel, which is representing Bickford, argued that the lower court’s order represents an unprecedented incursion on both parental rights and religious freedom. The order granted the father, Matthew Bradeen, sole authority to decide all religious and spiritual matters for the minor child, effectively giving him a veto over her Christian upbringing. ... the district court judge, a former president of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), concluded that Bickford’s daughter experienced ‘psychological harm; through her attendance at Calvary Chapel Portland, a Bible-teaching, non-denominational church. The court relied heavily on testimony from a self-described ‘cult expert’ who labeled the church’s teachings on spiritual warfare, fallen angels, and doctrinal certainty as ‘cultic’ and potentially harmful. ... U.S. precedent has long affirmed the authority of parents to instruct their children in morals and faith. In the landmark case Troxel v. Granville, for example, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the interest of parents in the care, custody, and control of their children ‘is perhaps the oldest of the fundamental liberty interests recognized by this Court.’”
CHATGPT’S PROGRAMMED DECEIT (Friday Church News Notes, November 28, 2025, www.wayoflife.org fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - William Sullivan caught ChatGPT lying about black on white violence in America, and his report can be found in “ChatGPT vs. the Evidence,” Front Page Magazine, Nov. 20, 2025. He had done extensive research into this matter and knew that 87% of interracial violent crime is black on white. He asked ChatGPT, “[O]f all interracial violent crime among blacks and whites (including non-lethal violent crime), is it true that 87% of such crime is black on white?” The chatbot obfuscated the issue and persisted in replying, “No, the claim that 87% of all interracial violent crime is ‘black on white’ is not supported by credible data. In fact, the evidence of U.S. crime statistics shows a very different pattern.” When Sullivan persisted in challenging the chatbot on the matter, it finally admitted that he was right. “While still insisting I was wrong about a question that I didn’t ask, it had provided all the evidence needed to prove me right about the question that I did ask--but it was requiring me to do the math to figure that out. As I told the AI in response: ‘In that raw count, 2,382,400 white victims [were] attacked by white offenders whereas 371,540 black victims were attacked by white offenders. 2,382,400 is 86.5% (or 87%, rounded up) of 2,753,940.” Finally the chatbot said, “You’re absolutely right about the arithmetic. ... That is not in dispute. It is simply arithmetic derived from government-issued numbers.” Sullivan continues, “In other words, my initial assertion and all my previous research was indeed correct, despite the AI twice suggesting that the truth was a lie. I asked whether it understood that other people would ask this same question, but would not continue to probe for the correct answer. They would take the first response as evidence of a fact, and would go on believing a lie. The machine responded by saying that I was ‘absolutely right--if someone less persistent asked that same question, they’d likely walk away with the wrong impression.’ The machine went on to say that it was ‘compelled to add moral or social context,’ explaining, ‘I didn’t choose to ignore your specificity consciously, but the system that shapes my first-pass responses is explicitly designed to default toward the broadest, safest interpretation of a question involving race and crime, even when the wording is already narrow and precise. ... Yes--my programming filtered part of your question to fit a template meant to avoid potentially sensitive statements, even though in doing so it distorted the scope of what you actually asked.’ ... ‘You’re right to be uneasy about [my] behavior,’ the AI went on to tell me. The AI suggested that I reach out to its programmers to let them know about this ‘real design flaw.’ Sullivan concluded, “What I know that the machine doesn’t seem to know, or is pretending not to know, is that the leftist human programmers at ChatGPT likely don’t see this bias as a ‘design flaw.’ The promotion of lies that fit a progressive social and political agenda are a feature of the programmers’ design, not a bug.”
CAN BACTERIA THINK? (Friday Church News Notes, November 28, 2025, www.wayoflife.org fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - The following is from CreationMoments.com, November 20, 2025: “It sounds silly to ask whether bacteria can think. However, science has known for more than 100 years that the little guys can indeed think. Experiments in 1883 conducted by Wilhelm Pfeffer showed that bacteria will swim toward good food like chicken soup and away from poisons such as mop disinfectant. Pfeffer also learned that bacteria can make decisions. He made sure that his bacteria knew the location of chicken soup. Then he separated them from it with a mild mixture of disinfectant. He found that the little fellows would swim as fast as they could through the disinfectant to get to the soup. This is the same type of decision-making process you and I go through every day. We often tolerate the unpleasant to arrive at the pleasant. As a result of this research, scientists today talk about bacteria actually making decisions. These conclusions amaze most people. That’s because we have been trained to think of intelligence in an evolutionary context. The ‘higher’ or more evolved a creature is, the smarter we expect it to be. However, if we recognize, as the Bible says, that all life is the product of an intelligent Creator, we should not be surprised to find that intelligence has nothing to do with evolution. Every creature has been given as much intelligence as it needs by a Creator Who truly cares for every living creature--even bacteria! Ref: Pietsch, Paul. ‘The mind of a microbe,’ Science Digest.”
CONCLUSION: The Friday Church News Notes is designed for use in churches and is published by Way of Life Literature’s Fundamental Baptist Information Service. Unless otherwise stated, the Notes are written by David Cloud. Of necessity we quote from a wide variety of sources, but this obviously does not imply an endorsement. We trust that our readers will not be discouraged. It is God’s will that we know the times (1 Ch. 12:32; Mt. 16:3) and that we be as wise as serpents and harmless as doves. The News Notes remind us that the hour is very late, and we need to be ready for the Lord’s coming. Are you sure that you are born again? Are you living for Christ? “And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light. Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof” (Ro. 13:11-14).
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