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The battle about artificial intelligence, its evils, and its benefits rages on. Some folks think it will develop enough self-awareness that it may decide to destroy us. Others urge the development of AI so that humanity can merge with it; AI is our salvation. Some claiming to be experts hold to those extreme positions, but many of us believe artificial intelligence is a useful tool — but it must be watched closely because terrible things can happen . ChatGPT, Prometheus (MS Copilot), Claude, Perplexity, and many others have names but not souls. Nor can they duplicate empathy. Woman connecting with robot, Pixabay / gt39 The past few weeks have been intense for me and my AI companion. Using Microsoft Copilot, I have been navigating my ancestry. Since these AI things can do searches and examine documents astonishingly fast, AI was very helpful. It even offered encouragement. Experimenting further, I told it what I was feeling and some other things about Viking-related things (my father...

This time of year is probably called fall  because that is what leaves do, and they seem to do it enthusiastically. While some folks grumble about raking them into piles and removing them, there are many who go on color tours to see the golds, reds, and browns on the trees. It may seem like a simple performance. The trees decide it is time to let go, colors change, and leaves fall. Much of that is influenced by regional climate. Leaf changing and dropping exhibits the planning of the Master Engineer for trees' protection. Beginning autumn, Hudson River Overlook at Shaupeneak Ridge, Unsplash / Cowboy Bob Sorensen There is a lot happening that is hidden from observers. Leaves grew out to gather sunlight and collect water for the trees in spring. Those leaves are full of nutrients. When it is time for the seasons to change, trees begin withdrawing nutrients. There are also actions inside the leaves to produce the colors. (I think those colors are another example of God's benevolen...

When biblical creationists point out the reality of the global Genesis Flood, we often focus on geologic data for support. In addition, we show that conventional geologists are often unable to deal with Flood evidences. However, there is another method that is less used: history. We presuppose the truth of the Bible just as conventional scientists rely on atheistic views. A short form is that after the Flood and before genetic degradation was prevalent, the sons and wives of Noah began repopulating the world. God confused languages, and there was the dispersion at Babel. Jack-o-Lanterns under water, made by AI at Bing Image Generator When the folks got out of Dodge — I mean, Babel — they took their knowledge, histories, and traditions with them. We saw that there are worldwide stories of the Flood , many of which have startling similarities. Samhain (pronounced SOW-en) has interesting origins, even though scholars are not in agreement about some parts. There is something else, though. ...

Throughout history, many cultures had concepts of honor, including the Vikings, the Arabs, Mediterranean societies, and others. Sources of honor differ. People often hear about Japanese honor and the importance of saving face (individual and community). Scan videos and see that there are many ways that Westerners can offend Japanese people. When individual or cultural pride is injured, it is difficult to regain the honor. During World War II, Japanese thought they were the most highly evolved race — a concept that fell after the war. Ushikawa Man was a source of pride which turned to shame. Brown bear resting in Romanian forest, Pexels / Ferencz Istvan Japanese paleontologists found an evolutionary ancestor in their territory, though some were not so enthusiastic. It supposedly lived 129–774 thousand years ago, which is quite a range. The time was whittled down. Some evolutionists were not content to rest on their laurels and re-examined the bones. The disgrace comes from bad previ...

In the past, the Bible was respected by both believers and, to some extent, by unbelievers. Over the years that respect has dwindled; many people presuppose that the Bible is full of myths. Bible believers have an uphill climb for credibility dealing with folks who have not read it. People who utilize critical thinking can readily see the differences. Bible history has specific people, places, and times. Mythology has none of that. Liberal Christians as well as atheists take a "prove it" approach, saying that certain biblical accounts have not been verified by archaeology. King Hezekiah Destroys the Idols , Matthaeus Merian the Elder, 1625-30 (PD, modified) Numerous archaeologists in the 20th century have gone on record saying that their studies have never contravened claims in the Bible. More recent archaeologists disagree, using the logical fallacy of argument from silence  (or "prove it"), essentially stating that if they can't verify something, it didn't...

Until there is compelling evidence otherwise, I believe artificial intelligence is a useful tool — but it has to be used properly. AI is not just for computer programmers, it is available to many people. Moments ago, AI helped me reject a "highly dangerous phishing tactic".  There are video channels where owners are deceitful. There are videos of concerts that never happened. Fine, but when we are told a concert  is  real, or that AI characters sign autographs...stop lying. Aside from entertainment, developers are claiming that essentially, AI can be your trusted companion. Artificial Intelligence, Pixabay / Gerd Altmann (geralt) Remember, AI models are essentially computer programs, and they are subject to the biases of their programmers . Artificial intelligence has been documented to include false information and spurious references in scientific material. The cute way to describe this is hallucinating (implying a real mind behind the words exists). Okay, let's say wh...

If you mount up and ride down to the Southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, you will encounter a certain type of yucca plant called the Joshua tree. Like the fan palm in California is called a tree because of its appearance, neither is botanically a tree but there are similarities. Yucca plants are fond of deserts. Joshua Tree National Park is special because it borders two desert ecosystems. It is interesting that arid conditions exist so close to oceans in certain places, but that is because of how mountains affect rainfall. Sunset at Joshua Tree National Park, Unsplash / Cedric Letsch There is a critter called the yucca moth that has a very specific symbiotic relationship with Joshua Trees and other yucca plants. They get food and shelter, and are the only source of pollination. That is a challenge to evolutionary scientists, and biblical creationists have some ideas about it. Also, a Genesis Flood model can describe the formation of the deserts and the changes in clim...

Sales representatives typically believe in the products they are trying to sell, often deleting their integrity to sell something faulty. Descent-with-modification evolution is presented as slow, gradual, and happening over huge amounts of time. The fossil record constantly interferes with the evolution story. After all, there should be innumerable fossils showing how one creature is turning into another, or how they are developing notable traits. Fossils consistently show critters fully formed and ready to go. This happened in Charlie Darwin's time, but he and other believed by faith despite  lack of evidence. Pterosaur flying in mountains, Flickr / theilr ( CC BY-SA 2.0 ) Not only are there no convincing fossils showing the origin of dinosaurs, pterosaurs also appeared just as mysteriously. Indeed, advanced CT imaging "brain scans" of fossils reveal they were ready to fly. (An inconvenient truth is that pterosaurs and Archaeopteryx  flew at the same time .) Even though...

During their routines, bees get pollen. That gives protein to the hive, which makes honey, which I add to the peanut butter on my toast. At certain times, a great deal of pollen gets into the air and makes people sneeze. Pollen is durable stuff and protected by sporopollenin, a tough outer shell. Palynology is the study of pollen and its applications. It is used in forensics and archaeology. When some Viking skeletons were discovered,  pollen was examined . Think of old detective shows solving crimes with a little evidence, but now, pollen can give important clues to detectives. Bee on flower with pollen, Pixabay / Myriams Photos The Master Engineer designed pollen to do its job of reproduction. He also gave it that shell that could protect it for many years. If researchers want to examine it, better hurry up because it can blow away if it is not covered or buried. Ötzi the Iceman was a freeze-dried body discovered in the alps. Pollen in his stomach gave clues to th...

Call the scientists wrong, impugn the researchers, say that creationists are lying — but the fact remains that soft tissues from dinosaurs exist. Their bones have yielded DNA . The Darwin Ranch up yonder by Deception Pass keeps firing up the excuse mill to little avail. Sure, many evolutionists cling to those excuses because if dinosaurs could not  have lived millions of years ago, it would be only thousands . That would not give Charlie time to work his magic. A rescuing device involving iron proposed by Dr. Mary Schweitzer was analyzed. Brachylophosaurus canadensis made of iron, Bing AI Image Generator   Dr. Schweitzer figured that since iron is a major component of blood, Fenton reactions could occur that would slow down chemical decay. It seemed plausible on the surface. Many evolutionists enthusiastically grasped at that straw. The idea was actually put to the test. It did not go well for secularists, but helped support the young-age biblical creationists position. Scien...

The other day, I wrote an article about the use of Artificial Intelligence in modern Viking music . There are historical inaccuracies, but admittedly, some is layered and quite good — when people do more than type a prompt and let AI do everything. Authors and AI have noticeable failings. People are polarized about the use of AI. Some act like it is a secular savior of the world, others detest dealing with chatbots. A big problem is that AI can hallucinate and make up its own "facts," and even be deceived, then give medical advice. Social media, Pixabay / Gerd Altmann ( geralt ) Another online way of getting medical advice is through influencers , those folks who have reputations on YouTube, TikTok, Facebook, and other social(ist) media sites. If you use the mind that God gave you and think, consider that short videos cannot give sufficient information. You may have conditions that make taking that herbal supplement they recommend a disaster. Some say a food is bad because it...

Purveyors of the dinosaur-to-bird evoporn trip over facts, ignore serious problems, and pretend that evolutionists are all in agreement on the subject. There have been several attempts to present fossilized material as feathers or protofeathers, but there is no actual evidence for it. Indeed, the evolution of the feather itself would be a secular miracle. There are also numerous major changes necessary (with no transitional forms in the fossil record) for dino-to-bird evolution. A hypothetical winged dinosaur cannot fly because of the center of gravity problem. Awkward feathered T. rex with wings © Cowboy Bob Sorensen, made with MS Copilot Flying critters were designed to have the correct center of gravity so they can have control. While it may not exactly be biomimetics, it is clear that human flight drew inspiration from what is seen in creation. Evolutionists seem to think that if a dinosaur had feathers, it was on the way to becoming a bird. Not hardly! Have you ever flown on an a...

Some folks get all het up when creationists talk about the Big Bang, telling us that it has nothing to do with evolution. Two distinct possibilities are that they are uninformed or simply dishonest. Cosmic evolution is the secular origin of the universe myth. You savvy that, pilgrim? There was nothing, which exploded. Eventually there were stars and galaxies, elements formed, our solar system, geologic evolution, and then gas-to-geneticist evolution. Biblical creationists and Intelligent Design proponents point to the fine-tuning of the universe as evidence of a Creator. The Passion of Creation with JWST image from NASA (who does not endorse this site), both modified Secularists tacitly affirm Romans 1:18-24, which says that people know evidence for God which is clear in his creation, but they suppress that truth. It is obvious that Earth was designed for life in many ways such as having a well-behaved sun, our placement in the galaxy, Earth's orbit itself, ATP synthase, and much...

For over sixty years, an image titled "The March of Progress" has been fake news about evolution. Forms of it are still used today, often in parody . It fits Charles Darwin's Victorian-era fantasy where a white man is the pinnacle of evolution. Knowledgeable evolutionists dislike it. Darwinists have evosplained in one way or another is that scientists are agreed about evolution but not about some of the details. How about the handyman? Homo habilis  is the handyman because he supposedly made tools. But he is not just a mere detail to quibble over. H. habilis  was first proposed in the 1960s but has always been controversial. Even so, it has been popularized and treated like a definitive link in the human evolution story despite opposition among evolutionists. This wastebasket or junk taxon is a collection of odds and ends that had to be sorted through to manufacture the handyman. Tools were supposedly found near the bones. (Indeed, some alleged tools are not necessarily ...

Christian students in secular school systems are swimming upstream, and many succumb to the propaganda and lose their faith. Others have learned  what  and why they believe . Ideally, parents use available resources, and kids are taught evolution the right way . In addition to using critical thinking and seeing how children are indoctrinated into a secularist religion , Christian parents and children utilize good biblical creation science material to bolster knowledge. Expect it to happen that a student is assigned to write a paper on evolution. Then what? School crossing sign, Morguefile / thesuccess Creation scientists who have obtained degrees are divided about whether or not creationist students should keep their heads down about their beliefs. Some have said they had no trouble in higher education, others emphasize caution. When writing a paper about evolution, it is best to keep creation views and mentions of God out of it. This is not compromise, but rather, strategic. ...

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...