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As discussed previously, we often use artificial intelligence without even knowing it. The debate rages on about AI being a good, bad, a neutral tool to be used properly, or something else. A chatbot interacts with user input and can provide conversations. Many search engines incorporate AI features and resemble chatbots in how they answer a search query or basic question, then continue in a conversational way if a user requests it. I asked about Viking shield-maidens and received several supporting links, such as this one . AI-generated infant with robot, Pixabay / AiCanvas A fun illustration before I continue with why AI can be a problem for students. A spell back, I saw an AI-generated Viking song that was rather well done, and I took a screenshot of the warrior woman from this clip  where she is looking somber. (Another version gives her a lovely smile .) The AI screenshot was cluttered with captions, so I had another AI take them out. I put the picture in a frame at PhotoFunia...

Just the other day, Ruby Slippers asked me if I had heard anything from Stormie Waters Meadows and Roland Meadows after their recent nuptials. We discussed the brief letters each of us had received. For some reason, the conversation wandered to polar bears. Ruby told me that way back when, Vikings sometimes caught, transported, and gifted them . Quite a task, and the recipient would have to feed and house them. She also informed me that they can swim for mighty long distances. Polar bear ready to be a polo bear, made with Bing AI Image Generator Folks get all a-twitter about global warming, and they think that sea life around the Arctic will suffer. Scientists say (oh, boy, here we go) that the number of polar bears is declining and they will go extinct. As climate change alarmists are wont to do, they downplay or even leave out important facts. F'rinstance, the numbers of polar bears are variable. Also, they are currently increasing . Then there's the recent study of the genom...

Darwin's disciples often insist that the origin of life has nothing to do with evolution, the two are separate concepts. So, abiogenesis — life from non-life, also called chemical evolution — has nothing to do with dust-to-Doctor-Doom evolution. Actually, they want creationists to give them a boost over that hurdle. Meanwhile, there is a great deal of research happening on the origin of life. Much of the research involves torturing the evidence until it "supports" the latest narrative of evolutionists. Dr. James Tour, an Intelligent Design supporter, says they are clueless about the origin of life . The tales told are convoluted because one thing leads to another. Secularists have to go back to their creation myths and a molten Earth, then stumble forward through time. If evidence could speak, it might say, "Yes, but..." numerous times. Facts interrupt the stories, and more stories are developed, the OoL history keeps getting rewritten in the name of science. Th...

As mentioned previously , scientists have claimed to follow where the evidence leads  — as if evidence was a person. (Even so, we know what they mean.) However, many are unwilling to reach certain conclusions based on evidence because they dislike them. Dr. Richard Lewontin admitted that he believes in evolution despite  the evidence . Others have done the same. Once again we see that the narrative takes priority, and that is based on a materialistic worldview. Notice that respected evolutionists do not debate science with qualified biblical creation scientists. Black-eyed Susan and Coneflower, Unsplash / Cowboy Bob Sorensen (modified at PhotoFunia ) It is my contention that materialism and atheism are incoherent, inconsistent, and unliveable. Beauty is not utilitarian. Love, compassion, wonder, hatred, and a host of other aspects of the spirit exist and atheists use them despite their worldviews . With worldviews come presuppositions; people may deny it, but everyone has the...

Despite the railings of many atheists and other believers in Darwin's story, biblical creationists do indeed accept — and use — science. To put science as an ultimate authority, including over morality, is scientism . We do not accept that. One of their tenets of faith is that "science is self-correcting." Great. Except that science  is not an entity. Scientists  make mistakes that are often corrected. Unfortunately, many people do not get the memo. Spinach as a powerhouse of iron, cracking the knuckles causes arthritis — these and more debunked ideas are still believed by some folks. T-rex and landscape, Pixabay / GeorgeB2 Another worn adage is to "follow where the evidence leads." The story is that dinosaurs died out before birds evolved, but evidence shows that they existed at the same time. T here's lies in them thar museums . When soft tissues were found in dinosaurs, evolutionists scoffed. Indeed, some sidewinders even today claim that soft tissues do...

People tend to think of having five senses, occasionally pondering the possibility of a sixth sense when they feel  something will happen or unexplained things occur. For that matter, a sixth sense has been attributed to various critters showing awareness of danger. Actually, animals can be sensitive to vibrations, smells, and other things in their basic senses. So are we. (This child suspects that some things attributed to the supernatural are often our forgotten or suppressed senses being active.) Some researchers think we have about thirty-three senses! Baby Reaching For An Apple , Mary Cassatt (1891) Believers in descent-with-modification seek function, such as survival advantage. The senses under investigation do not always provide a survival advantage. Indeed, what is called cross-domain associations  occur; senses in different areas must have come into existence at once — and they are active in children. What is observed points to the work of the Master Engineer and def...

by Cowboy Bob Sorensen  There are many articles, books, videos, and so forth that have incontrovertible evidence for intelligent design. When presented on various platforms, they are occasionally accompanied by antagonistic expressions like, "Checkmate, atheists!" However, evolutionists find rescuing devices to dodge evidences for creation and the unpalatable conclusions that accompany them. Conversely, misotheists use dysteleological arguments: God would not make killer jellyfish , or he fouled up on the human eye and reproduction . Although creationists also have rescuing devices, those arguments against design are not based on science . They are opinions — and theology. Chess pieces, Pixabay / moritz320 Folks on either side of the origins debate present what they think is a "smoking gun" or " knockout punch " that will force their opponents to abandon their beliefs and embrace the truth. Anyone who is capable of rational thought can see that evolution ...

Back in 1986, Voyager 2  visited the mysterious planet Uranus. Probes send back a prairie-schooner-full of data and some of it is analyzed and reanalyzed decades later. It is more than just, "Oh, look. More moons." Rechecking data from V'ger provided interesting results. Before going on, it is worth noting that Uranus defies the conventional cosmic evolution story. It is colder than Neptune, has an extreme axial tilt where it effectively rolls around the sun, rotates like Venus in a retrograde manner, has an offset magnetic field, and more. Illustration of Uranus and its five largest moons, NASA / Johns Hopkins APL / Mike Yakovlev (usage does not imply endorsement of site contents) To date, twenty-nine moons have been discovered. Several of those are odd like their ringed host (rings discovered in 1977). Two of them are strong candidates to have oceans under their surfaces. This was determined by stress fractures caused by the planet they orbit. If correct, they could jo...

There was a time when people thought that answers to many problems would be found by scientists, but over the years, there has been a growing distrust for scientists. This has increased after Dr. Anthony Fauci and vaccines for the Rona virus fell into disrepute in many areas. There are moral standards for the secular science industry that the public expects to be upheld. These are especially evident in medical science. There are certain criteria that can be implemented to discern if scientists are providing reasons for us to have confidence in their pronouncements. Chimp says, "She made a good point", made with Bing Image Creator Creationists have long pointed out the fact that science can be divided into two areas, historical (forensic) and operational. Obviously there is some overlap as forensics use what exists in the present in their efforts to determine what happened in the past. There are six criteria for medical science that can be used to some extent in some areas. Wh...

Culture is attempting to influence biological realities, but some things cannot be wished away. As of August 14, 2026, the WNBA cannot define what a woman is . Meanwhile, men who "identify" as women want to play in that women's league. Other people, including a Supreme Court justice, refuse to say what defines a woman. My doctor's office has a form that wants to know what gender I was assigned at birth . If they kowtow to reality-denying culture, I wonder if my medical care is in jeopardy! The differences between men and women exist and are important. Adam and Eve before the Temptation / George Frederick Watts Interesting that this gender stuff was mostly unknown for thousands of years, but has been accelerating recently. It is plain to see that men and women are wired differently. That is, we think and feel in different manners and have different internal chemistry. That remark I made about getting proper medical care because the doctor's office buys into the po...