Piltdown Superman

When watching movies where indigenous people were attacking, hunting, or driving off enemies, I noticed something resembling a long trough used to launch a dart, arrow, or spear. Seemed silly to me, just throw the spear. I was dreadfully wrong on that. Although it looked awkward, the tool became an extension of the arm and gave more power to the projectile. This made it possible for womenfolk and young'uns to get into the act. When you had a group of people on the prod who were skilled in using those tools, you'd better get out of Dodge mighty quick-like! Credit: Wikimedia Commons / Richard Keatinge ( CC BY-SA 3.0 ) I was uncomfortable using a photo where people could be recognized, so I blurred the facts even though the original image does not do this. There are several names and styles, and simple enough that you can make your own atlatl . Interesting that these spear-throwing devices are very similar, and can be found in 'Straya and the Americas, among other pla...

Secular astronomers and a few vacillating creationists believe in that elusive stuff called dark matter. It supposedly makes up the overwhelming majority of the stuff in the universe, but dark matter has never been seen, nor has any evidence for its existence been decisively indicated. I'll allow that some astronomers insist that dark matter has been indicated, but they set up a consequent to affirm and ignore other possibilities for explanations. Image credits: Credit: X-ray: NASA /CXC/Univ of Missouri/M.Brodwin et al; Optical: NASA/STScI; Infrared: JPL/Caltech (Usage does not imply endorsement of site contents) Many tests for dark matter have been set up, but they keep jumping the fence. An 80-day experiment by Chinese scientists was a spectacular failure where the PandaX detector thumbed its nose at researchers. They get mighty disappointed when failing to detect something that probably doesn't exist in the first place. Cosmic evolution fails again. Since dark ...

As biblical creationists, we realize that our young Earth, creation-affirming, evolution-defying views raise ire and eyebrows. People who claim to believe in intellectual honesty and inquiry tend to reject creationary views out of hand. Others, however, want to understand our point of view. Indeed, we know that creation science raises many questions, especially for those who have been indoctrinated in materialism and atheistic interpretations of science. Credit: Pixabay / Jeff Jacobs One fair question is why we don't find a passel of fossils from the antediluvian world. After all, many creationists believe that the earth was not exactly sparse in the population category, so where are they? Related to this is the idea that artifacts, and possibly entire cities, from before the Flood would be (or have been) discovered — haven't they? While there is no direct biblical reason to think there cannot be fossils or artifacts, inferences can be made from Scripture. However, th...

Watching one of those medical shows the other night, the word hemoglobin was used. It is a common word, but some of us simply know that it is something important that has to do with blood, and then move on. Hemoglobin is a protein in red blood cells that takes oxygen to cells that need oxygen. That's a lot of cells, and specified complexity. Of course, Darwinoids want to tell us how it evolved. Credit: Wikimedia Commons / Zephyris ( CC BY-SA 3.0 ) The Master Engineer put hemoglobin in a wide range of creatures. Evolutionists are unable to appeal to the fossil record and their self-serving dating methods, so they try other methods. The evolsplaining methods fail, because of so many creatures have the stuff, and the imaginary common ancestor cannot be envisioned. Wherever hemoglobin is found, it is the same, and doing the same work. No evolution here, pal. Darwinists tried using duplication and translocation, but those ideas only make things worse. How about admitting that t...

If you head down south in Asia, south of Vietnam, Burma, and such, you'll reach an ocean and get your feet wet. Lots of islands and island nations down thataway, and you can find the third largest island in the world: Borneo. A skull was discovered in a Niah cave a few decades ago, and an evolutionary anthropologist examined it, and some jasper got the notion to call it "Deep Skull". This skull was classified, and people accepted the pronouncements that it was of a teenage boy from further down south, below Australia, of Tasmania. Other evolutionists were satisfied, since an authority examined some skull fragments and treated his words as ex cathedra. The dogma for that part of the alleged human evolutionary timeline was established. Rein 'er in there, Hoss! Maybe they were thinking how many papers passed peer review that could not be replicated , or someone simply got the notion to give the skull a modern examination. Whatever the reason, the skull research ...

If you ride out Folly Road past Stinking Lake (not as bad as it sounds), then head northwest to Deception Pass, you can find the Darwin Ranch. The Winkie Guards are none to fond of sightseers, though. The ranch hands have been in a somber mood lately because genetic clock research is backfiring on their evolutionary research. You'd think they'd have learned from previous experiences . Derived from images at Clker clipart Genetic clocks are a study of DNA variations and how long an organism has supposedly been around. When plugging data into evolutionary presuppositions and deep time assumptions, scientists obtain conflicting results that do not fit their timelines. Using an empirical approach, results are right in keeping with biblical creation science timelines. A massive new genetic study by secular scientists analyzed the DNA of over 100,000 animal species using about five million DNA sequences. Researchers at The Rockefeller University and the University of Basel f...

For quite some time, Darwinists have believed that cranial capacity indicates intelligence, even though that concept has been in disrepute . (Interesting that Neanderthals do not play nicely with evolution, since they had large brains, but after spreading their DNA around, pretty much disappeared except for artifacts, bones and suchlike.) Today, we have two related articles — a doubleheader. Credit: Freeimages / Miranda Knox First, a big study was one on volunteers. Researchers learned that, just like people and other parts, brain sizes vary greatly. Although they tried to find evolution by twirling their Charles Darwin Club Secret Decoder Rings©, it still does not work. You don't need to be a brain surgeon to realize that some brilliant people have smaller skulls, and there are less-than-average individuals that have large heads. Biblical creationists realize that God made us with variety, but arbitrary classifications by scientists do not make anyone less human. We’re al...

Creationists have said many times that there is no such thing as Darwinist evidence and our evidence. Facts are facts, and the fretting commences with the nterpretation of said evidence. Some researchers wrote a paper on mitochondrial DNA, and excitement ensued in the evolutionary ranks because the results flew in the face of Darwinian dogma. Credit: Pixabay / Gerd Altmann Some years ago, scientists realized that classifications of organisms would be streamlined with the use of DNA barcoding. (I like it, as it makes purchases faster at the DNA superstore when they can scan each item and give you a total...maybe I'm thinking of something else.) Several objections to DNA barcoding were raised, which turned out to be unfounded. Although written with an evolutionary framework in mind, the researchers found that most species originated about the time that humans appeared on the scene. Interesting how that fits creationary models. Taking the research to the next logical concl...

While the title of this here post may sound like a UFO abductee story, it is actually about uniformitarian geology. Many times, there are features and observations that cannot be explained by slow and gradual "the present is the key to the past" processes, but they have to keep the storyline going because the alternative is unthinkable to them. There is missing time in the sedimentary erosion according to geologists. Morguefile / MichaelKirsh In the Marx Brothers movie Duck Soup, Margaret Dumont saw an imposter of Rufus T. Firefly leave a room. Then she saw another imposter (Chico Marx), and insisted that he left. "I saw you with my own eyes!" Chico said, "Well, who ya gonna believe, me or your own eyes?" Secular geologists deny the sensible explanation for what they see with their own eyes — the Genesis Flood — because that means the world was created recently, their views are loaded with errors, and Darwin's schemes did not have time to develo...

The observation that humans cause animals to go extinct is not exactly startling news. For believers in atoms-to-atomic engineer evolution, I will ask again: why should anyone care that some animals are endangered , and will even become extinct? Biblical creationists have an answer, but evolutionists are inconsistent because we are the dominant life form and can do what we want.  But we do care and try to keep various animals alive despite the naturalistic worldview. (By the way, ever notice that people don't care so much about the survival of ugly critters? Someone shared that, and it stuck with me.) Y'all might be surprised that despite my provocative and seemingly callous questions above, I'm actually angry while writing this. Elk photo credit: Unsplash / Abben S I'm not against hunting per se, (if people eat what they kill), but I get mighty riled when tinhorns want to kill critically endangered animals for photos and bragging rights. Also, "tradition...