Piltdown Superman

Although humans are classified as animals ( which is biblically untenable ), it is useful in scientific ways. To use self-serving rhetoric used by atheists and other evolutionists and claim that we are "just" animals is quite ridiculous. Biblical creationists have been pointing out notable differences for many years. Some things we do that are not found in animals are composing symphonies, painting detailed art, sculpture, writing, nuanced language, photography, and more. Many of those things are aspects of creativity  — which is an aspect of the Designer (Romans 1:20). Picture of picture taking apparatus, Unsplash / Cowboy Bob Sorensen Materialists appeal to naturalism and exclude anything supernatural, especially God, then think their belief system is "reality." (Ironic that their reality cannot come from from the science they claim to uphold). Creativity seems to originate in the imagination. Where is that  located in the body? Most secularists deny the existence...

It is winter in these parts, and that means cold temperatures, ice, and snow. On a snowy day, I saddled up and rode into town for some supplies. As I was in the general store, my prospector friend Stormy Waters and her friend Ruby Slippers burst through the door, brushing the snow from their jackets. We talked while they shopped. Ruby does not mind the weather, but Stormy wants it to go away and have greener things come back to life. While I feel the same as Stormy, I have become stoical about it and endure winter. Winter trees in snow, Pexels / Jeffrey Czum , modified at PhotoFunia Ancient pagan cultures celebrated the arrival of spring, which meant the return of life. Or so they thought. What those folks could not know is that there is an abundance of life in winter. Do you really want to eat snow? Yes, it is frozen water vapor, but there are living things in it! When it comes to the seasons, we often associate life with spring, not winter. Depending on where you live, winter brings ...

Every once in a while, a documentary about deep time or someone in the secular science industry talks about an extinction event . According to many mainstream scientists, catastrophic events led to the extinctions of major life forms. Extinction events are important to their paradigm. One of those is the story of the huge rock that fell out of the sky that was the Chicxulub impact. It was instrumental in dinosaur extinction and is taken as a tenet of evolution — but saturated with problems . There were supposedly five extinction events in the distant past. Credit:  NASA  (usage does not imply endorsement of site contents) Now we're supposedly in the sixth  extinction event. Surprise! It's being caused by humans, because humans are bad and there are too many of us. (A few of these secular sidewinders are calling for the extermination of multitudes of people .) The first five of these supposed extinction events are rescuing devices for gaps in geologic information — which a...

It is very interesting to watch how space probes have developed over the years, with New Horizons  being extremely impressive. Consider that timing and trajectory had to be precise so it could do its flyby of Pluto after a trip of 9-1/2 years. New Horizons sent back quite a bit of information. Regular readers of this and other sites by biblical creationists have seen how information from Pluto and its five moons has frustrated deep time expectations. It was revealed that the moon Charon had features baffling to mainstream scientists . Charon, moon of Pluto, NASA / JHUAPL / SwRI (usage does not imply endorsement of site contents) Just a brief ride on a side trail here. There has been a Greek mythology thing happening, as Pluto was their god of the underworld. The dead were taken across the river Styx (I betcha thought Styx meant "middle of nowhere") which is the name of another of Pluto's moons. Charon in mythology is pronounced with a hard K sound, and is the Styx ferrym...

An icon of minerals-to-meteorologist evolution is the Neanderthal, which was portrayed as a hulking brute. Stupid, too, since it still had some of its apelike ancestor in its nature. Some folks still believe that image and call someone a Neanderthal as an insult. As extensive documentation reveals , Neanderthals were intelligent and creative. Evolutionists were forced to admit that Neanderthals were fully human. Indeed, their DNA is found in most population groups (but is rare in sub-Saharan groups). A controversy remains: Where did they go? Image cropped and enhanced, original: Flickr /  Clemens Vasters  ( CC BY 2.0 ) Since they were fully human and freely shared their DNA , they most likely did not go extinct. Instead, they probably assimilated. We have met the Neanderthal, and he is us. Lonely Neanderthal boy sees a group of modern humans and is attracted to a woman. Next thing you know, they married up and he is a part of that clan. That's because they were created, not ev...

Although many people reject the Bible in its entirety, most attacks on it involve the first eleven chapters of Genesis. Biblical creationists present apologetics in both theology and various sciences regarding recent creation and the global Flood. Another subject that gets attacked is the tower of Babel. Many folks know the basics of the tower of Babel, but there is a bigger picture involved. (Again we see the importance of reading the context.) It was not that God was angry because people built a big tower.  People were in rebellion against God's command to spread out. Tower of Babel  by Lucas van Valckenborch, 1594 While the Bible is an excellent historical record, I'll allow that details going so far back are a bit sparse. Even so, there is corroborating evidence from historical records and archaeology. The various languages testify to the dispersion at Babel. Study on this a spell: Think of "telephone game." You know, where someone has a description, quietly tells...

It is not uncommon for Bible deniers to find excuses to justify their rebellion, but some go further and machinate alleged contradictions and absurdities. These are usually framed as "Gotcha!" statements and questions. They occasionally raise questions that some believers also want answered. One tinhorn, geology professor Ian Plimer, wrote a (now out of print) book called Telling Lies for God: Reason vs Creationism . Aside from the clear bias, he made himself a liar and CMI set the record straight . Jimmy Li has a resource refuting hundreds  of such claims . Then there are bats as birds? Flying fruit bat, Flickr /  Tambako The Jaguar  ( CC BY-ND 2.0 ) While many of the items in the above references can be attributed to superficiality, carelessness, and lack of doing some homework, others take a bit more digging. Darwin's Flying Monkeys™ on the internet exhibit an attitude like, "Haw, haw, haw! We're supposed to believe your Bible, but it says that bats are birds!...

The subject of near-death experiences (NDEs) is highly controversial, but has been fascinating people for many years. One reason scientists have difficulty examining them is because they are extremely subjective. Also, there is a variety of experiences. Some people see light and a voice they attribute to God or an angel that tells them it is not yet time, go back. Others experienced terror. Many lives have been changed, but not always for the better and they need counseling. Those who went to a happy place resent coming back; their infirmities still exist. Spirit, light, and clouds, Pixabay / Gerd Altmann (geralt) Medically, some NDEs can be dismissed as hallucinations because the brain goes into special functions. There are times when people in the midst of an NDE returned and described people, conversations, and more that they could not have known about. The idea of giving counseling to NDE experiencers (especially to those who have challenges to their worldviews) involves materiali...

The prevalent myth of the secular science industry for the origin of the universe is commonly called the Big Bang, which is buggy. Even so, believers in dust-to-dictator evolution support it. This is most likely because the work of the Creator is contrary to their paradigms. Angry atheists on teh interwebs are ignorant of (or unwilling to admit) that there are scientists, both conventional and creationists, who reject the Big Bang. Indeed, it has been frequently Frankensteined by adding inflation and other faith-based concepts to keep it looking respectable. Image credit:  NASA , ESA, M. J. Jee and H. Ford et al. (Johns Hopkins Univ)  (Usage does not imply endorsement of site contents) There are proofs offered by its advocates, but they are not very compelling; the Big Bang is not the only way to interpret what has been observed. Regular readers have seen several instances that the James Webb Space Telescope has provided evidence contrary to the expectations of cosmic evoluti...

As discussed previously, Intelligent Design is a movement that is decidedly not biblical creation science . Evolutionists (especially atheists) on social(ist) media do not seem to have received the memo, thus telling the opposite of the truth. They also spread myths about the Dover ruling. One tinhorn left a comment on a post that the ruling devastated ID both legally and scientifically, but he clearly did not know what he was talking about. Study on it a spell: How can science be settled by a judge — and a biased one at that? Flagellum base diagram, Wikimedia Commons / LadyofHats (public domain) Dr. Michael Behe's presentation of irreducible complexity (where all of the parts need to be in place and functioning from the get-go) was ridiculed, but the bacterial flagellum is irreducibly complex nonetheless . Since 2005, that fact has only been reinforced. Although Dr. Behe came up with the term, biblical creationists have been using irreducible complexity arguments for quite some ...