Piltdown Superman

Since Benjamin Franklin was a diplomat, practitioner of science, influencer of culture, and considered very wise, it is not surprising that he is still known worldwide over 300 years after his birth. Secularists who try to rewrite American history say Ben and others were Deists. The Deist claim is mostly false , but Franklin? His views are hard to pin down, and they changed over the years. Deists typically view God as someone who wound up the universe and stepped away. That kind of thinking does not describe Ben Franklin's views. Benjamin Franklin Drawing Electricity from the Sky / Benjamin West (1816), PD Deists and theistic evolutionists I have encountered online (I believe TEs are essentially deists), typically show disdain for the authority and reliability of the Bible. Franklin took the time to examine creation and arrived at the firm conclusion that there is a Creator. Indeed, he is an example of what Paul wrote about in Romans 1:20. Also, some people have hated God because ...

The media for descent with modifications present their views as if evolution were all figured out, no questions asked. That is news to scientists, as they are continually trying to make the story of evolution make sense. One are of concern is how humans became bipedal.  Sure, apes are quadrupedal, but sometimes they walk upright for a short time. Uncomfortably. They got hip bones, we got hip bones. These things prove evolution. Wrong. Using maybe, perhaps , and Making Things Up™ , evolutionists think they have a genetic clue about hip bones. People walking in Almaty, Kazakhstan, Unsplash / Dmitrii Filatov For apes to walk upright, there would have had to be a change in the pelvis. Humans and apes supposedly diverged from an apelike creature in the distant past. (Nobody knows when or what that critter even looked like.) Many changes would need to happen at the same time, or nothing would work. There is no evidence of these alleged changes in the fossil record. Quite a bit of effort...

There are lessons to be learned from the concept of "junk" DNA, including hubris, deep time, and bad assumptions. Fundamentally-flawed presuppositions play a big part. Believers in fish-to-fool evolution tend to assume naturalism and build from there. Big mistake. DNA just had  to keep evolving by chance and random processes over time. Scientists sequenced the human genome and found that almost none of it coded for proteins, therefore, it was useless leftovers from our supposed evolutionary past. This led to medical and scientific train wrecks. 1895 train photo at Wikimedia Commons ,  Papa Darwin's image is found all over the web, DNA image from  openclipart Notice that this junk DNA thing is related to dysteleology arguments. Essentially, "In my opinion, things are poorly designed, therefore, there is no Designer, only evolution." Spurious evoporn about the ear , eye , reproduction , and other areas are refuted by creationists and Intelligent Design proponents....

In a recent discussion on Folly Road with Sherwood Tellit of the Darwin Ranch, I was informed that the evolutionary story (or "fact," as he called it) explains biogeography quite nicely. It is the study of how plants and animals migrated over the years: "How did that get there ?" Superficially, evolution may seem plausible for the migrations of organisms. When one engages the think bones and actually considers what is observed — and asks questions — then the whole thing starts to unravel. Globe from top, Pexels / NastyaSensei A problem for Darwinists is that they often insist that things like biogeography, speciation, natural selection and other things are proof of evolution. Not hardly! Biblical creationists also believe those things. Scoff all they want, but questions raised about evolutionary biogeography are have better answers in creation science Genesis Flood models! In March 2010, internationally renowned atheist Richard Dawkins addressed the Global Atheist ...

Having been involved in presenting biblical creation science on social(ist) media for several years, there are some distressing things I have noticed. Unfortunately, it is not from atheists and theistic evolutionists, who we expect to be obstreperous. It is distressing when professing Christians act like those folks. Many Christians do not realize that we are not in it to "win" arguments, but to remove stumbling blocks so we can present the gospel message. Cute pictures with slogans get "likes" but in-depth material is ignored. Mean-spirited material gets applauded. These things ought not to be. There are parents who want to shield their children from evolution, but that is ridiculous. Kids learn things anyway — and often rebel against their parents. They will  learn about evolution whether we like it or not. Worse, it is the sanitized version that suppresses the deceit, racism, outright fraud, and more. What needs to be done is to teach them both  creation science ...

The way penguins fly is amazing — if one redefines the word fly . For most folks, it is obvious: The ability to maneuver through the air. Penguins are flightless when it comes to air, but underwater, it sure does look like they are flying. Their movement in water has been studied in great detail. When penguins are discussed, people tend to think of the Antarctic. That is not a pleasant place to conduct studies. (Some species live in Africa and the Galápagos.) Part of their attraction may be attributed to their cuteness  and how humans respond to it. Jumping penguins, National Science Foundation /  Dr. Paul Ponganis   (Usage does not imply endorsement of site contents) Penguins can make deep dives and hold their breath far longer than any human. Biomimetics  (or biomimicry ) gets involved, studying this characteristic for human health in medicine. While believers in particles-to-penguin evolution claim  that they have their development all figured out, that...

Saddle up and ride to the top of the hill for the big picture, useful when atheists make assertions. They often claim that they believe in reality because they deny the existence of God; they are materialists and matter is all that exists. That is their definition of reality. Something simple that this child learned long ago is to ask pertinent questions, including, " How do you know? " Note that many of their assertions are arbitrary. They presuppose materialism, then put Christians on the defensive — if we let them. Ashokan Reservoir, Unsplash /  Cowboy Bob Sorensen Things like this illustrate a bigger concern: How do you know what you know? Similarly,  how do you know what you believe is true ? Atheists make claims that they cannot logically justify. Indeed, if matter is all there is, then logic itself cannot exist because it is not material. Neither is love, hate, joy, integrity, science, justice, and other things that people use every day. Only a theistic worldview warra...

As discussed before , one purpose for the James Webb Space Telescope was to find evidence supporting the Big Bang. Scientists expected it to "look back in time" and see stars and galaxies they way they looked shortly after the Big Bang. The results are the opposite of what mainstream scientists expect. What has been called the most distant galaxy discovered so far has shocked secularists. The MoM designation is mirage or miracle . So they admit to secular miracles while rejecting the Creator. Interesting. MoM-z14 galaxy , DAWN JWST Archive; Image Processing - Joseph DePasquale (STScI), NIRCam Note that these scientists are amazed at this most distant galaxy being bright and mature. That does not fit their cosmic evolution paradigm, hence the mirage or miracle  wording. Biblical creationists know about true miracles, and we presuppose recent creation, so we are not surprised by this discovery. Indeed, secularists presuppose that the Big Bang is true and that the universe is qu...

Yesterday morning I was talking with my prospector friend Stormie Waters and her fiancé Roland Meadows, and the topic strayed from their upcoming nuptials to the Genesis Flood. God brought the animals to Noah, some other things, then we pondered Genesis 6:3. I picked up my Bible and read, "And the LORD said, 'My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years'". It looked like a countdown to me. Roland said that the key word can also be translated "abide." The Entry of the Animals into Noah's Ark , WikiComm / Jan Brueghel the Elder, 1613 When considering the meaning of a word or phrase, it is helpful to see how it is translated in other places. Aside from Genesis being an ancient text, the Hebrew word in question is used only once in the Old Testament! Is it strive  with man, or abide  in man? This is not a vital point of Christian doctrine so there's no need to stand and defend a ...

The formerly United States had a surprisingly bad winter in 1970s, so scientists began prognosticating that another ice age  was on the way. In fact, there was no stopping it. This notion was suddenly left to chill and the scaremongers instead came up with global warming caused by humans. Conventional geologists and astronomers presuppose millions of years and that there were many ice ages. They invoke the fundamentally-flawed Milankovitch Cycles to explain that changes in Earth's orbit caused ice ages. Glacier sliding down a mountain, FreeImages /  Ainhize Barrena Is there evidence, Cowboy Bob? For multiple ice ages? Not really. The evidence is assumed, and what little they have can be explained by other processes. There is a passel of evidence for the  single Ice Age, though. Sheets of ice still exist in Antarctica and Greenland, mostly. There is physical evidence that ice sheets had intruded further south than they are today. A problem with the unavoidable coming ice ...