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If you ride toward the left coast of the formerly United States, go through Nevada, then comes California. Yosemite National Park has its eastern boundary bumping up against the Nevada border. Yosemite has Sam , wildlife, mountains, waterfalls, and all that good stuff. Lots of wilderness in its 1,200 square miles. There are many aspects of geology to be studied at Yosemite. Although conventional scientists are mostly locked into deep time and uniformitarianism, there are clues that the granite mountains were formed rapidly. They also display signs of the Ice Age. Yosemite National Park valley, Unsplash / Mick Haupt Worldviews are important. Secular scientists view evidence and try to interpret data through their deep time evolutionary glasses. Biblical creationists believe the Bible is true and it teaches recent creation and the Genesis Flood, so we reject deep time interpretations. If conventional scientists would cowboy up and look at the data without evolutionary presuppositions, t...

Have you ever heard of parallel dimensions, also called the multiverse? The concept is quite ancient. My first introductions to it was a young adult book The Forgotten Door . In it, a boy fell through a hole in his world and ended up in ours — similar, but with noticeable differences. There are various concepts of the multiverse. A common version is that our universe resides in a bubble, and other universes are in their own bubbles in a much larger universe. Since things appear finely tuned, we are the results of dumb luck. Multiverse, geralt (Gerd Altmann) / Pixabay The fine-tuning argument for the design of the universe is frequently used by biblical creationists and Intelligent Design advocates. A couple of atheists on a podcast rejected it, saying that there is no scientific evidence (they must not look around much). Instead, the fact-free fantasy of the multiverse, a rescuing device for the Big Bang and atheism in general, passes for science to them. This is another example o...

Love it, fear it, hate it, artificial intelligence is common nowadays. Customer service is often turned over to AI, but people do not like it . They want to talk to a human. Indeed, the online typed "chat" with AI has seldom resolved my issues and I usually needed to talk to a real person. We use AI with internet searches. The military is programming missiles with it. It seems ironic that many people dislike artificial intelligence, but it is designed to think like humans — or superior to us. Many times it fails. Charles Darwin playing chess with a life-sized silver robot, made at  Bing AI image creator , then modified The AI graphics program refused to give me the picture that I desired, so I had to settle for Charlie Darwin playing chess with a robot. People are rapidly getting irritated at short videos that are on social(ist) media because so many are fake. (I don't mind comedy AI that is not trying to deceive people.) Deep fakes are a real threat used to deceive and ...

When pointing out that science needs the proper environment to thrive, atheists may reply that the true founders of modern science were not the Christians and creationists in history, but Islamists. It is true that some science was developed in Persia and other places in the East, but there is more to the story. It is interesting that when Muslims conquered lands, they brought laws and structure. That would provide some basis for science (and culture) to grow. Indeed, the glimmers of science that were found in those areas were actually from other lands and from non-Muslims. Iran image prayer rug, Pixabay / Rudolf Langer Islam is not exactly tolerant of ideas that came from "infidels" or from outside the Koran. (Ironically, there are many scientific errors in Islam, including that a man's seed forms in his chest.) However, Christianity provides the right environment for science to build and thrive — despite the efforts of atheists and evolutionists to pretend otherwise. S...

The number of marine invertebrate animals is rather startling, and they are found in oceans all over the earth. A key to their dispersion is their larval forms. Like many other living things, the youngest stages are markedly different from their adult forms. Most of the larvae are microscopic and can live in various conditions. This gives them the ability to travel great distances, often putting full development on hold until the right time. Biblical creationists note that these invertebrates were as diverse before the Genesis Flood as they are today. Rock-boring urchin, National Park Service (usage does not imply endorsement of site contents) Many times, creationists describe the way organisms adapt, grow, and other things to show that they are the products of design, not Darwinism. With marine invertebrate animals, another factor indicates the work of the Master Engineer: ocean currents. The critters are carried through the paths of the sea to all sorts of locations. Marine inverteb...

The trunk of an elephant looks awkward, but it is a vital tool for the critter's life. When it trumpets by forcing air through the trunk, it is a form of communication as well as expressing emotion. It can be heard for a great distance. As all y'all know, biomimicry is taking a concept seen in nature and adapting it for human purposes. This was applied when imitating an elephant trunk to design a robotic arm. Interesting how secularists admire things they design, but trunks came from evolution and chance, not the Master Engineer. But I digress. Elephants using their trunks, Unsplash / Wietse Jongsma Those trunks can be used for snorkeling (yes, really), visual communication, and other things. What robotics people wanted to study was the ability to grasp and the flexibility. They had to develop a special nonmetallic material and precise controls because the 40,000 muscles the elephant uses are beyond their ken. Conventional robotic arms with their metal skeletal bars and lots of...

Many Christians, especially those with more intellectual interests, are fond of C.S. Lewis. Also known as Jack, Lewis is popularly known for The Chronicles of Narnia  written in the 1950s. Several of those books had Christian allegories. Lewis wrote many times warning the world about Scientism, a de facto  religion where science is salvation for humanity . He also opposed evolution despite how some people claim he as a theistic evolutionist. Not as widely known is his resistance to eugenics. Francis Galton was a cousin of Charles Darwin. He took Charlie's Victorian evolution fantasy further by developing eugenics. The word means well born  or good genes , and is a natural extension of evolution ; the best people should survive and reproduce, the inferior people should be forbidden from reproducing, including through forced sterilization. Abortion is a big part of eugenics — which should come as no surprise. America imported the English philosophy enthusiastically, a...

Probably everyone that watches television has seen advertisements for food, but the product purchased is disappointingly different. Marketing people have techniques to make stuff look good, and they put a great deal of time and effort into creating an image that is far different from reality. Charles Darwin had a mediocre theology degree but nothing in science. He did not make a great discovery about evolution and then tell the world. Instead, he presupposed evolutionary ideas (which dated back to ancient Hindus and Greek philosophers). Then he popularized them for his era. Marketing Darwinism, made at NightCafe AI Like the food people, Charlie knew his audience and what would be accepted. He also made friends of influential people. One was Thomas Henry Huxley, who promoted Darwinism. T.H.'s grandson Julian also championed his ideas (see " Darwin Succeeded through Huxley Conspiracies "). Further, Darwin labeled his material as science and not what it really was. There ha...

One aspect of science that could be considered to be fun, aside from all the hard work, is the thrill of learning new things — except when discoveries ruin evolution for the secular science industry. Whales have long been subjects of study, and new information about humpback whales has been found. The story goes that life came from non-life, things evolved in the sea, human ancestors are fish. Some critters flopped onto land and evolved to live there, but something like a bear decided life in the sea was better. That is where whales came from. Humpback whale breaching, i image credit: NOAA  (usage does not imply endorsement of site contents) The characteristics of whales show that the story of their evolution is laughable, instead showing that they were designed by the Master Engineer. For that matter, the songs of humpback whales possibly contain sophisticated language ! Recent research indicates their songs may be supplemented by those slaps on the water to help communicate. Hump...

As people who have read or viewed creation science material know, the Genesis Flood is extremely important. One reason is that the Flood ruins uniformitarian (old Earth) geology. Scoffers dismiss it out of hand without learning even the basics of what is involved. Creationists have pointed out that there are questions raised in bad faith to trip up biblical creationists, but there are also people who sincerely want explanations. Today we examine two. The first is how Noah rounded up all those critters. The Animals Entering Noah's Ark , Jacopo Bassano ca. 1570 Noah saddled up a Compsognathus, put a cart behind it, made a lariat, and lassoed — "Don't be facetious, Cowboy Bob!" Actually, scoffers paint a similarly absurd picture through their prejudicial conjectures. When intelligently  debating opponents, it is necessary to learn their views and look for inconsistencies and logic flaws. Genesis 6:20, 7:8-9 tells us that the animals came to Noah at the Ark; they were gui...