Piltdown Superman

Although everything was created "very good" (Gen. 1:31), there has been much violence in the world after the fall of man ( Rom. 5:12, Gen. 4:8 and 6:11). It has even been a spectator sport, such as in the Roman Coliseum and its modern offshoots in several competitive sports. This is a product of our sin nature (Gal. 5:17-22, Eph. 2:1, Col. 3:5), but naturalistic thinking is attributing it to common-ancestor evolution. Fight With Cudgels , Francisco Goya, 1820-1823 There's a passel of evils that can be traced to evolution, such as " Social Darwinism ", the Nazi legal system , "scientific" racism , eugenics, abortion, and other horrors . Now we can blame evolution for the violence inherent in our systems based on more evolutionary speculations? Not hardly! Last I knew, people are supposed to be responsible for their own choices. The implications of saying violence is a product of natural selection are disturbing. Lethal violence is rooted dee

The consensus is that the landforms we see today are based on the slow, constant processes of uniformitarianism. For instance, dogma stat ed the Grand Canyon began to get itself carved out by the Colorado River about seventeen million years ago. Catastrophism (major changes in much shorter periods of time) challenges that assumption, and some geologists are reconsidering the long-time view. Also, catastrophism has the advantage of having observational evidence, such as the canyon system formed after the Mt. St. Helens eruption . Part of Providence Canyon from rim near entrance road image credit: Wikimedia Commons / Robbie Honerkamp Riding over Georgia way, just east of the town of Lumpkin is Providence Canyon Outdoor Recreation Area. That's right, they've got themselves a canyon of their very own, and the start of it was blamed on bad farming practices, since those yahoos didn't really know how to care for the land. But the canyon started to form, and it kept on gro

by Cowboy Bob Sorensen Although I have written on a similar topic before (" Presuppositions and Fallacies in Evolutionary Science "), I wanted to develop the subject further and provide some resources. Both articles are mainly written to edify Christians. The word apology has somewhat devolved over time so that common usage means someone is sorry: "I apologize for stealing your horse and shooting up the town". Simply put, apologetics is the branch of Christian theology that deals with giving a reasoned defense of the faith . We have to be careful to distinguish the word's usage, since there are atheist apologists, Mohammedan apologists, Roman Catholic apologists, and various non-religious apologists as well. So from here on out, I'm discussing Christian apologetics. There are various schools of apologetics.  Perhaps some people choose an apologetic method because they admire celebrities that use a particular version. I've seen from three to

There's an area up state of Washington way that's unaffectionately known as the Channeled Scablands.  Kind of dismal area, really. The Scablands and several other areas were carved out in the great Lake Missoula Flood . J Harlan Bretz is the fellow who came up with the name for the area, and proposed that the Scablands were made by a catastrophic flood. (Secular geologists didn't cotton to referring to a flood, that's too Bible-ish, I reckon.) He received a great deal of ridicule for having the audacity for making such a suggestion. Dry Falls image credit: NASA / Goddard / Harrison Smith Image usage does not imply endorsement of site contents Bretz was attacked since the 1920s because of a uniformitarian anti-biblical bias against catastrophism (even though this flood happened after  the Genesis Flood), but new research has vindicated him. There is also speculation that fast-moving water is more powerful than previously thought, and may give insights into other g

The expression, "When the cat's away, the mice will play" applies to the hands at the Darwin Ranch, when the foreman goes into town on business. Well, evolutionists are proposing something similar: when the dinosaurs took a dirt nap, mammals felt free to evolve faster. Of course, there was also a large amount of mammalian extinction going on as well. Scientists examined fossils of certain mammals, then presented a hypothesis based on their presuppositions of Earth being mighty old, evolution as a fact, and others. They neglected other areas of "rapid evolution" that conflict with this hypothesis, and included the too-common conflation between change  and dust-to-dinosaur evolution.  If they had cognated on actual speciation and bothered to look at the much better Genesis Flood models of creationary scientists, they'd have a much better idea of what happened, and that it happened much more recently than they'll accept in their worldview. In a recen

Although some fundamentalist evolutionists try to insist that there is strong evidence for their beliefs, especially in the area of genetics, other scientists admit that they have a heap of trouble. Scientific advances are showing that evolution is breaking down, even though the faithful keep making excuses for bad "theories" . Worse for them, biblical creationists are being shown correct all along.  Traditional Darwinism of natural selection being the key to evolution has been largely abandoned in favor of combining natural selection with mutations (neo-Darwinism). That's being disproved left and right, and some are seeking a "third way" of evolution . There is no evidence for evolution, old son. Instead, the evidence supports creation. On the 60th anniversary of the discovery of the structure of DNA, science writer Dr Philip Ball wrote an article in Nature saying, “we do not fully understand how evolution works at the molecular level.” Ball referred to

Did you ever stop to ponder that of all the great cats, only lions have manes? Mountain lions (cougars, catamounts, panthers) pretty much ruled the Americas, but are mainly in the West and parts of Canada. No manes on them. Why is that feature confined to lions? Daniel's Answer to the King , by Briton Rivière, 1892 Although it's mainly (heh!) the males that have manes, sometimes females have them, and they vary by location. Bruce Patterson did some serious research on lion manes and came up with some interesting results. The biological chemistry shows the handiwork of the Designer. Kind of makes it difficult for evolutionists to explain, too. A male lion in his prime with a grand and bushy mane rarely fails to impress. Ancient peoples carved lions onto stone walls, and prophets spoke of lions in the Scriptures. But of all the cats found around the world, why do only lions grow manes? Lion researcher Bruce Patterson from the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago ha