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Myth of the Age of Reptiles

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 Way back in 1947,  Rudolph Zallinger completed a five-year project . He painted a huge mural called  The Age of Reptiles  that can be seen Yale Peabody Museum. It garnered awards, and a section was used on a  US postage stamp in 1970  (Scott catalog 1390). Scientific views of dinosaurs have changed, so some depictions are now inaccurate. Unfortunately, his work was based on a myth promoted by atheists and other minerals-to-Megalosaurus evolutionists. The so-called Age of Reptiles is a myth to help bolster the greater myth of evolution. Tyrannosaurus rex  toy figure, Pixabay /  Eric Labayle Biblical creationists reject the Age of Reptiles on theological grounds, but this is not just a simplistic reaction. It is based on the study of biblical texts and logic. Something else to consider was how Charles Lyell, a lawyer who was instrumental in establishing deep time, wanted to devalue the Bible. Not only was the myth of the Age entirely made up, ...

Beyond the Myth of Vestigial Organs

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Again, it is necessary to remind people to keep pressure on evolutionists . They have a prairie schooner-full of bad science, hoaxes, terrible logic, lies, and even outright fraud to bolster something that is often called a "proven fact." A fact does not need junk to bolster it, but vestigial organs are used to support evolution. Also called structures, they are vestiges — leftovers — from our supposed evolutionary past. This is something that should shame the medical science community because tonsils, adenoids, the appendix, and others were called unnecessary. Why? They were not understood; an argument from silence . Hammond C3 organ, Wikimedia Commons /  Emilio Muñoz  (Public Domain), modified Most of the organs/structures in humans labeled as vestigial have been found to have important functions, and some of the remainders are disputed. Sneaky evolutionists have even redefined the meaning of vestigial so they can continue to use it as an argument against creation. This sc...

The Myth of Tiktaalik as a Missing Link

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Darwin's Flying Monkeys™ swoop down on creationist sites, gleefully telling us how stupid we — they are the smart ones for believing "science." One example is something like, " Tiktaalik  is a transitional form that refutes creation. Haw, haw, haw!" Not hardly! It seems that atheists and other evolutionists do not keep current with their evolution stories; knowledgeable creationists have to correct them. In this case, tetrapods (vertebrates with four limbs, including humans) supposedly evolved from lobe-finned fish. Rikki-tikki-tiktaalik was one such fish. Tiktaalik roseae , WikiComm / Olmagon ( CC BY-SA 4.0 ), modified at PhotoFunia Darwin's disciples were all a-twitter when they found parts of Tiktaalik  because they presuppose their story of evolution and that it made tracks on land. This meant it wanted to be a tetrapod. A big problem for evolution believers is that they often don't get the memo: Tracks by a tetrapod were found that were dated using...

The Archaeopteryx Transition Myth

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Because of evolutionary presuppositions, the discovery of the first Archaeopteryx lithographica  fossil shortly after Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species , it caused quite a stir. The scientific community was beginning to take Darwin seriously, and here was alleged evidence for the first bird. Over the years, other  Archaeopteryx  fossils were discovered. Darwin's disciples were pushing the idea that dinosaurs evolved into birds, so Archie was claimed to be a transitional form. This has been debunked, but the transitional form concept is zombified and keeps coming back. Archaeopteryx lithographica, WikiComm, National Geographic Society / James L. Amos (PD) There are no half measures involved. The feathers were determined to be the kind used in flight, it had a wishbone (muscles attach there) so that involved flight as well, and other features of critters that exist today. In fact, it could be likened to the way a modern pheasant flies. No transitional form ...

Standard Science and Evolutionary Myths

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Over fifty years ago, the Institute for Creation Research was established primarily through the efforts of Dr. Henry M. Morris. Dr. Duane T. Gish joined him a bit later, the others. It reorganized in recent years under new leadership. Their free  Acts & Facts magazine has been published since 1972. A recent edition discussed eleven myths of standard (conventional) science beliefs, and I will present several or all when I feature ICR material here. Folks may bristle at the idea that there are myths in science, especially evolution, but they do exist. Charles Darwin the thug It may come as a shock to some people, but science is actually a philosophy. Several, actually. Scientists based their interpretations of facts based on their worldviews. Most believe that the universe is very old. There are evolutionary views of the cosmos, geology, biology, and so on. Indeed, Charles Darwin did not create evolution . Another shock for some people is that evolution is actually an ancient ph...

Why Diving Marine Animals do not Drown

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After discussing plans for marrying up my prospector friend Stormie Waters and her fiancée Roland Meadows, those two and some others lingered at my place to make chin music. Ruby Slippers was promoted to Matron of Honor and her husband is a groomsman. Ruby had a question about the Bajau "sea nomads," divers who go underwater for about ten minutes. She wondered how. They have certain physical qualities and practice, I told her. Sea mammals can go very deep for much longer periods because they were created for that life and we were not. Seal, Pexels /  Daniel Lee When you hold your breath, you become aware of carbon dioxide buildup and getting air becomes very important. (Breathing too shallow can make you feel strange.) A seal can dive and forage  for about half an hour. Some critters last even longer. They are aware of their oxygen levels instead of the carbon dioxide buildup, and have some help from the myoglobin molecule and other physiological differences. The Creator ...

Fantasizing about Salmon Evolution

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The other day, I hitched up the buckboard and rode into town for supplies. Since the town is small and entertainment is scarce, occasional lectures from officials at the Darwin Ranch are given. This time it was Russell Watchtower from their Ministry of Truth. Aside from Stinking Lake (which is not as bad as it sounds), the town is not near water. Russell talked on the evolution of salmon. The establishment had salmon on the menu for those of us who dine and listen. He presented no evidence for evolution, just assertions. Coho Salmon, NOAA Fisheries (Public Domain) Up yonder in Alaska, fossil Salmonidae were discovered along with other fishes. One is supposed to be an ancestor of salmon at age seventy-three million years. Trouble is, there is no sign of evolution. With fish and other critters, people should be practically tripping over transitional forms (something changing into something else), but the organisms in fossils that are said to be from millions of Darwin years ago are ...

Reptile Fossil will Prompt Evolution Rewrites

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Proponents of descent with modifications evolution have boxed themselves in with their fundamentally flawed worldview, but they have a rescuing device. A big one, because the problem is serious. An amniote track fossil was found in the wrong place according to evolutionary predictions. Researchers see the tracks and make a story about what went on. One reptile went across the ground, rain lightly fell, and others ran across the ground later. However, it is obvious that tracks disappear quickly. The scientists did not say how these were preserved. Modification of The Passion of Creation , Leonid Pasternak (1892) One problem for secularists is that it takes the right conditions to preserve the fossil tracks, and those would come from the Genesis Flood. What they cannot wave off is the dating of the tracks. Reptiles have always been reptiles since creation, and the tracks support what creationists say. Rewrite the evolution textbooks? Why, sure! They do it all the time. Reptiles belong to...

Back Pain is not from Evolution

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As stated here several times, many believers in particle-to-pachyderm evolution misrepresent biblical creationists in saying that we believe "GodDidIt" and scientific investigation is over. Not hardly! Creation scientists want to know how  God did something, and how things work. Meanwhile, evolutionists making such accusations are hypocritical. " It evolved " is a common explanation when empirical data are not available, and they appeal to evolution when something is not actually understood. Evolution is a science stopper — dangerously so in medical science . This is displayed in how they evosplain  lower back pain. Doctor examines woman's back, Pexels / Kaboompics The pain can be blamed through dysteleology on an incompetent Creator, or evolutionary presuppositions about our origins. In stories about the unobserved distant past, our apelike ancestors decided to stop walking on all fours and became bipedal. No one knows why. But we were not adapted for that kind...

Animals Communicating with Sounds

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Sure, we all know that many animals communicate with sounds. In the morning on a day off from work, listen to the mockingbird during an errand. It is amazing and entertaining, and there are guesses as to why, but it appears to be related to survival. As a child I asked what sound a certain animal makes, and I was told, "None." It has been discovered over the years that several kinds of creatures that were considered mute actually have some acoustic communications abilities. One study went further. Turtle singing before audience, made with DeepAI Using universal common descent evolutionary presuppositions, there was something I found surprising: It was concluded that acousting communication did not evolve multiple times in the groups they studied. Instead of convergent evolution, researchers pushed the problem back into the mists of imagined time. There was one ancestor, but nobody knows what it was. They have no evidence (fossil or otherwise) for evolution in the first place,...

Sea Dragon Troubles Evolution

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Crappie Crankbait from the Darwin Ranch specializes in ancient aquatic reptiles, and he was giving a lecture in town. It was a follow up to  his ichthyosaur talk , this time about mosasaurs. Dr. Crankbait gave old talking points about the critters. Yes, these reptiles were big, about 50 feet or 15 meters long. Their order is Squamata because they are supposedly related to lizards that left land and returned to the sea. It has been assumed that mosasaurs were poor swimmers. When I publicly asked how anyone knows these things, Dr. Crankbait ignored me. Mosasaurus hoffmannii skeleton (cropped and adjusted), Wikimedia Commons / Ghedoghedo ( CC BY-SA 3.0 ) Down Mississippi way in the spring of 2025, researchers found a sizeable sea dragon. Some of Darwin's acolytes get on the prod when I point out that evolutionists have presuppositions. Then some insist that creationists are the ones who do that, not "scientists." (That is, no true scientist questions evolution.) But the r...

Evolutionary Reasoning and Tree-Dwelling Ancestors

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When dealing with supporters of universal common descent, it is often frustrating and slightly amusing at the lack of evolutionary knowledge many show. Worse, they accuse creationists of not knowing "science," even when we demonstrate more knowledge about certain subjects than they do. Evolutionary scientists are portrayed as unified with only slight disagreements about details. Supporters seem oblivious to statements against interest where experts admit they have problems. The situation of a shrew-like tree dweller that is held up as our evolutionary ancestor helps illustrate these truths. "Docodonta Order" mostly made at DeepAI , then modified for texts The usual story is that humans and apes diverged from an unknown common ancestor millions of years ago, but this is not LUCA (the Last Universal Common Ancestor). Nor is it fish we all supposedly evolved from, either. The  hominine (the word itself question-begs evolution) are humans, apes, and lots of other crit...

Cyanide is Important in Biology

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When people hear the word cyanide , they may think of scenes in spy shows where someone ends himself by biting into a cyanide capsule and is dead in five seconds. Actually, those delivery systems do not work that fast. There are industrial uses for cyanide that include photography, electroplating, making plastics, and many more. It is inside you. Cyanide is an inorganic compound that has numerous sources, even fruit seeds (it takes quite a few to have a bad effect). Now it has been discovered to be biologically important. Hydrogen cyanide, Wikimedia Commons / Benjah-bmm27 (PD, background colors added) It is interesting how something that is lethal in small amounts is beneficial in even smaller amounts. (Doing the research in the first place is extremely difficult because it has to be done on living subjects.) Cyanide poisoning kills by stopping cells from using oxygen, but as a biological function, it helps protect cells during medical events when they are deprived of oxygen. There ar...

Fossil Ape Inner Ear Shows No Evolution

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The ear is comprised of three parts, the outer of which helps collect and amplify sounds for the sending of sound vibrations onward. In the middle ear, there are three small bones that transmit information from the tympanic membrane onward to the inner ear. The brain sorts out the sound information. Another function of the inner ear is balance. People who have inner ear infections can have dizziness and spacial awareness trouble. In infection can affect walking and other activities. Darwin's acolytes try to link us to our alleged apelike ancestors by examining fossils of their inner ears. Anatomy of the Human Ear, Wikimedia Commons / Lars Chittka; Axel Brockmann ( CC BY 2.5 ) The inner ear is extremely complex with many parts working together. This specified complexity strongly testifies to the genius of the Master Engineer. Like apes today, those pretended ancestors would have been quite at home swinging from trees. Walking on two legs is uncomfortable and tolerated for short dis...

Youthful Martian Northern Ice Cap

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There are many signs of youth in the solar system, relative compared to what believers in cosmic evolution expect. Mercury is cooling , the rings of Saturn are young , Jupiter's moon Ganymede looks young , and more places in our solar system do not cooperate with secular expectations. Ages are based on scientists using standard models and assumptions that are flawed. Instead of questioning their methods and even their own worldview, they are constantly surprised. It is no surprise that the northern ice cap on Mars is also surprising to them. Martian north polar cap in summer, NASA / JPL / MSSS (usage does not imply endorsement of site contents) Ice sheets grow and also get heavier. Then the weight pushes downward into the earth until things settle down. The same kind of thing is happening on Mars, where the ice does not seem to be growing, but still sinking at a calculated  (not measured), rate. Its age is far younger than would be expected by secular models. A team of German plan...

Stomping the Human-Chimp DNA Similarity Myth

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by Cowboy Bob Sorensen  Edited 14 July 2025 Scientific research is unfriendly to atoms-to-ape evolution, and the icon of ninety-eight percent similarity of human and chimpanzee similarity has been long been disputed. Indeed, it is based on bad science that is omitted from the secular science industry propaganda [ 1 ]. Research in chimpanzee genome supports biblical creation science [ 2 , 3 ] instead of evolution. Darwin's disciples get mighty irritated when people say that we evolved from apes or monkeys. We supposedly split from a common ancestor that looks like a monkey [ 4 ] — but they are assuming its appearance. Human-Chimpanzee DNA, made at Night Cafe , then removebg The number for human-chimpanzee similarity varies by a few percentage points, but usually about ninety-eight percent. Darwin's disciples need such a close match because apes and humans allegedly diverged around seven million years ago. That means evolutionists cannot account for a larger percentage difference...

Genesis Flood Explains Ichthyosaur Graveyard

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It was a nice evening, so I saddled up and took a ride into town so as to get some oil for my lamp and watch the show. The townsfolk like entertainment of some sort or another, and Crappie Crankbait from the Darwin Ranch was giving a talk about his specialty, ancient marine reptiles. The topic was ichthyosaurs, which brings a struggle to Crankbait because there is no record of their evolution; they appeared suddenly in the fossil record. Dinosaurs are found in the same rock strata as these fish lizards. Ichthyosaurs, Heinrich Harder, 1916 Interesting that a fossil or remains can be found but not excavated for several years. This happened with an interesting ichthyosaur fossil was named Fiona. This critter met her demise while pregnant or even giving birth, and her last meal was identified. Almost ninety other ichthyosaur fossils were also discovered. Secularists invoked a form of catastrophism, saying that numerous underwater rockslides buried them. That many? On the continent?  No...

Genesis and Giant Megalodon Longevity

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The largest shark in the world today is the whale shark, an endangered resident of tropical waters that grows around 17 meters (55.7 feet). Be amazed but not afraid because it eats plankton. Something that might have kept people cautious when swimming was  Otodus megalodon . New information on megalodon has been issued where it could have grown up to 24.3 meters (80 feet), and it apparently was a predator that would eat lots of things, including other predators. It could have lived for hundreds of years, so it did not reach maturity any time soon. Otodus megalodon , The Royal Society Publishing / Jose L. Herraiz et al ( CC BY 4.0 ) Biblical creationists are interested in growth calculations for the megalodon because of how humans and organisms lived for extended periods until after the Genesis Flood. More data are needed to be certain of calculations, but it is also reasonable to compare their size (and therefore age) to the Greenland shark for reference. Fossil remains of the gia...

Sophisticated Language in Humpback Whale Songs?

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Whale evolution is a convoluted story, what with evolving creatures in the sea moving to land to continue there, then some went back to the sea, and all that. Believers in descent with modification tell that absurd story with straight faces, but it is disputed. Also,  genetics refutes whale evolution . Language is a strong evidence for creation . Despite the efforts of evolutionists to show language recognition and usage among great apes, the Creator gave us the capacity to use and refine it. But...humpback whales are exhibiting language as well? Humpback whale image credit:  NOAA.gov via  Wikimedia Commons  (usage does not imply endorsement) A scientist recorded humpback whale songs. Lots of them. Over several years, not just a weekend at the beach. Although no whale was recorded singing "Louie, Louie,"  it seems that the whales have a kind of language. Indeed, the songs would even increase in complexity later on. This is markedly different from when birds sing...

Jupiter — the Big Protector

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Out yonder past Mars is the asteroid belt, followed by Jupiter, Saturn, surprising Uranus , and Neptune. Those last four planets are called gas giants . The average person may think they were put up there to look nice (which they do through telescopes and astrophotography), but they have purposes. In addition to the asteroid belt, there are rocks and things floating around up there. Those big boys have an influence on celestial rocks with their gravity. The largest is Jupiter, and it has been observed being a protector of Earth. Jupiter and a moon,  NASA  / JPL (usage does not imply endorsement of site contents) Outer planets protect Earth, but Jupiter has been seen doing so. F'rinstance, Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 was broken up by Jupiter's gravity and its pieces were drawn into the gas giant. It could have been a serious problem for Earth otherwise. Also, a meteor hit is in 2019 . (Interesting that news sources use phrases like "slammed into" Jupiter, but it is gas.) I...