Piltdown Superman

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. However, Christianity provides the right environment for science to build and thrive — despite the efforts of atheists and evolutionists to pretend otherwise. Some scientific ideas may have originated in the East, but biblical presuppositions and ethics led founders of...

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...

Many years ago, I believed that UFOs were vessels for extraterrestrials. I read in a special-interest magazine remarks from an investigator who said they wanted to rule out natural phenomena before declaring something was a UFO. Similarly, many ghost investigators take that approach. Belief in such things aside, I commend them for not jumping at every chance to declare something is paranormal. An astrophysicist recommends that SETI folks pull on the reins and holler, "Whoa!" when they detect signals. After all, it may be another breakroom microwave oven . Parkes Radio Telescope, Flickr / Amanda Slater ( CC BY-SA 2.0 ) Interesting that the secular science industry believes in unguided chance-driven evolution, denying the much more logical conclusions of intelligent design by the Creator. Biblical creationists believe God is the First Cause of life, the universe, and everything, but creationist scientists want to know  how  he created; what makes things tick. Similarly, Intelli...

It is amazing how denizens of the secular science industry are looking to use artificial intelligence to advance evolution, yet they ignore the conflict in the theories. That is, particles-to-programmer evolution is supposedly a trial-and-error unguided process, but AI requires intelligent design. When robots work well to help us in highly repetitive or dangerous activities,  domo arigato  to them. But when they fail, it is often spectacular and possibly dangerous. Some secularists think AI robots can supplement or even replace humans. Robot tripping and falling, made at DeepAI — but I did not ask for three arms The field of biomimetics  is studying creatures in nature and attempting to apply their traits for human use. If you study on it, having robots walk, dance, and so on is an example of biomimetics. It takes intelligence and money to have them imitate or surpass some human activities. Centuries ago, I was going down some basement steps in my stocking feet. There we...

A proponent of stardust-to-psychologist evolution makes a statement, then it gets supported by terms like  scientists think , it could be ,  maybe , and other weasel words. No evidence though. The statement is then accepted by those with atheism spectrum disorder who call it science. Psychologists speculate about the evolution of religion (ignoring the fact that atheism is itself a religion ). Some are speculating that belief in gods is a function of the brain, but an existing part of the brain had to quickly evolve a religion section. No evidence though. Replica painting from the Chauvet cave, Wikimedia Commons / HTO (PD) A psychologist thinks he has evidence for this brain phenomenon. Deep-time presuppositions are fundamental, as human religious artifacts were dated tens of thousands of years ago. Plug in the assumption of atheism as a "default" position (never mind that children are born believing in God ) and biases appear to be confirmed. The real evidence shows that we...

People who have paid attention to history, and those who are curious about country name changes in Africa, may know that parts of Africa were claimed and divvied up by Europeans and the United States. British-controlled Nigeria became a kind of "see what happens" social experiment. The northern part of Nigeria was given control to a violent Islamist tribe called the Fulani. Apparently they were not really African, but lighter-skinned pillaging nomads. Those in charge were operating by Darwinian presuppositions and gave the Fulani control. It did not go well. Nigerian festival, Pexels / Darkshade Photos Social Darwinists were wrecking Northern Nigeria, and they heavily utilized the racism built into the Bearded Buddha's teachings. People were thought to be animals, were treated as such — and acted like they were. However, Christian governance further south was a different story. The area was prospering, and people were in leadership positions because of their skills, not b...

This is probably one of those things you may have seen, but cannot remember the five-syllable word for it. Some creatures absorb light (usually ultraviolet or blue) and then give it out again as a different color. The expensive word for this is biofluorescence . It occurs in many organisms. Researchers concluded that biofluorescence evolved independently over 100 times. That is a popular miracle and rescuing device in the secular science industry called convergent evolution . Since Darwin's disciples cannot explain how something evolved once, they obscure it with quantities. Aequorea victoria (crystal jellyfish), Wikimedia Commons / Sierra Blakely The researchers studied teleost fishes. Supposedly, they had a prairie-schooner full of evolutionary changes for biofluorescence. The empirical evidence? Nuffin. They used evolution to demonstrate evolution — highly illogical, Captain. Mathematical models look good on paper, but are based on presuppositions. The most logical conclusion wa...

For many years, science fiction and space fantasy themes have been around. They have greatly increased on the scene and silver screen over the years and have become very profitable. Comic book mutant stories can be considered science fiction, but there is an abundance of space alien stories. In the book Alien Intrusion — UFOs and the evolution connection , Gary Bates delves into the history of UFOs (now called UAPs) as well as science fiction. Although he does not believe that extraterrestrials exist, like many of us, still likes Star Trek  and other science fiction. Alien spacecraft over city, Pixabay / Secoura The genre is a means of making all sorts of social commentary. Some is called speculative fiction . Rod Serling used The Twilight Zone  to make all sorts of points under the guise of supernatural and science fiction stories. Many authors and movie makers have done the same. Herbert George Wells wrote The War of the Worlds , published in 1898. He took the fascination pe...

Materialists have their invisible friends, which are space aliens. They even created a fake science to study them and called it astrobiology . Except that there is no astro to biologize. That is (this may come as a shock), there are no space aliens. The whole philosophy is based on chasing shadows. This stuff is based on abiogenesis, where life supposedly came from non-life. (Many claim that abiogenesis has nothing to do with evolution, which is false; it is also called chemical evolution .) Abiogenesis is to be a given, then evolution stories commence from there. Mars,  NASA  / JPL-Caltech (usage does not imply endorsement of site contents) Secular scientists reject the Creator, but know that the origin of life cannot be explained on Earth, so they outsource the problem to space aliens. Life evolved, and it must have originated out yonder. Some of the stories they tell deserve Ig Nobel Prizes  because they defy logic and should be laughed away instead of published in ser...

While the Creator may very well have designed creatures to be pleasing to the eye, "cuteness" is subjective on our parts. We like when a kitty purrs, and may be surprised that some of their huge wild cousins also purr. But big and little cats are predators that hunt and kill. Aww, look at the cute chimpanzee! He is smiling! When an adult chimp is smiling, it is showing its teeth and thinking about violently ending you. That is why baby chimps are dressed up and ride tricycles, which seems to be abusive. Lion eating a zebra, Unsplash / Leon Pauleikhoff Atheists will take examples of predation, venom, and other unpleasantness in nature to say that if God exists, he made awful creatures. Meanwhile, death is a hero to evolution because the more fit take the place of the less fit. They do not want to get the full story from God's perspective. In the beginning, everything was very good. Sin entered the picture, and things went downhill quickly. As much as we love to sing about...

Everywhere we turn, Darwinism is assumed to be true. People even make up their own fake truths to seem all sciency and stuff. A video made an assertion about behavior being based on caveman days. The claim was unsubstantiatable, and when I called out the video maker on the false claim, a fundamentalist evolutionist railed at me that evolution is the best supported fact of science. Indeed, many people claim evolution is a proven fact — showing their ignorance of how science works. Algae pond near Hurley, NY, Unsplash / Cowboy Bob Sorensen (modified) "That's a pretty bold statement, Cowboy Bob!" No, not really. Things that have been considered scientific facts have been removed many times. What science does quite well is disprove  things. Also, there are scientists who admit that particles-to-planetologist evolution has many problems. F'rinstance, since abiogenesis (the secularist origin of life) violates the law of biogenesis and cannot be explained, evolutionists try...

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...