Piltdown Superman

It is amazing how secularists, who live by a survival of the fittest mentality, impose their alleged moral standards on people who lived hundreds of years ago. Although they excuse the racism and sexism of Charles Darwin  because he was a product of his time and culture, some historical figures are attacked and no excuses made. Not that anyone should excuse any actual bad behavior by Antony Van Leeuwenhoek, because all we have is a passel of allegations, inferences, and incomplete research that are far too common among secular scientists. Was he given this "science research" treatment and maligned because he was a Christian and a creationist? Asking for a friend. Recently, I wrote " How to Conduct Insufficient Research ", which parallels some of the shoddy work in the secular science industry that is passed of as meritorious. In this case, they wanted to examine two of Tony's microscopes. After all, he did tremendous scientific work, and they wondered about his ...

We have been pondering legends of the Great Flood in the New World, beginning in the area of the continental formerly United States in Part 1 , then we headed way up north in Part 2 . This time, we will turn around and go down Mexico way, and even further south. Nick Liguori is the author of the book  Echoes of Ararat , and also of this three-part series.  As stated previously, there are many cultures from antiquity that have Flood legends with many things in common despite the degradation of the stories over the centuries. Machu Picchu, Peru image credit: Pixabay /  Poswiecie I am once again asking you to consider the fact that the legends had notable similarities, especially that there was a deluge. Not death by army ants, tremendous winds, giants, fire from the sky, or other things. Water. Most of these were punishment for the wickedness of humanity, though some were because one of the "gods" was offended. Still, such diverse cultures that were widely separated had sim...

Continuing the monthly series on how the fossil record is a hostile witness against particles-to-paleontologist evolution. For true believers things get...truly bizarre. Rocks that contain fossils are sedimentary, and there is a passel of fossils in the Permian strata. It should be pointed out (even though people already know this) is that there is not a line of demarcation between layers. Indeed, some layers are "missing" from assigned progressions. Secular scientists use rock layers as indicators of the age of the earth, expecting the fossils they contain to present simpler life forms to more complex. Also, since some life forms disappeared from their assigned strata, these scientist postulate mass extinction events. Since they are locked into their erroneous presuppositions, they are constantly being amazed that fossils overlap in the "wrong" strata, that some reappear in higher-level strata — and that some creatures are still living today. The Permian layer is e...

Although it may take quite a while, plants find the nutrients they need. They also have a habit of growing and reclaiming land and getting into the foundations of buildings. I remember one time when the sewage for a house had backed up because a tree root had grown into the pipe. Plants are persistent things. They also play a big part in biblical creation science models. It is reasonable to use what is observed today regarding living things and expect that they acted much the same way in the past, yes? Creationists present evidence for the Genesis Flood, but it is understandable to wonder how plants played a part in the earth's recovery in the aftermath. Banding in quartzite image credit: Flickr / James St. John  ( CC BY 2.0 ) By the way, I really despise alphabet/Google/Blogger with a passion. This site may become an archive, so eventually the excitement may very well be at  Creation Cowboy  if I can get the hang of the interface. Back in 1980, Mt. St. Helens provided e...

by Cowboy Bob Sorensen  An article was suggested at The Question Evolution Project on Fakebook, and it was something I was able to build on. There are conspiracy theorists who believe that the Apollo moon landings were faked, and are passionate about their opinions. I have noticed that Flat Earthers join their ranks. (The ones who infuriate me are the September 11, 2001 "truthers" who say it was an "inside job," attacking the integrity of thousands of people.) There are numerous sites that refute the moon landing conspiracies, but I wanted to use this one in particular. Buzz Aldrin salutes the flag, image credit: Neil Armstrong / NASA (usage does not imply endorsement of site contents) There is no need for me to cover all the points in the article that will be linked below. This article complements " How to Conduct Insufficient Research ", the lunar conspiracy people have something in common with Darwinian thinking. One of the first logic errors used by f...

Way back in 1977, The Doctor said , "The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. They don't alter their views to fit the facts. They alter the facts to fit their views". (This became  a nice graphic .) While those words describe the attitudes and actions of totalitarian governments, they are also quite fitting for what we constantly see in origins and age of the earth discussions. There are numerous examples of dreadful research, omitted data, deception, and more by owlhoots who are determined to promote their naturalistic narrative. In this example, Zion National Park has itself some mighty nice sandstone going on. The official dogma is that the Navaho sandstone is the product of wind. Not hardly! Checkerboard Mesa photo credit: USGS / Annie Scott (usage does not imply endorsement of site contents) Ideally, scientist saddle up their ideas and see if they will be able to ride them to the end of the trail. If ideas don't fit what is observed or dis...

Believers in universal common ancestor evolution tell us that many years ago, life arose from minerals through random processes. Simple cells formed and everything became more complex through evolution. Today, we have ostriches, otters, and osteopaths among the many life forms existing today. Modern man has deemed the Creator irrelevant or nonexistent. In their paradigm, earlier life forms should be simpler, but scientist are constantly surprised to find specified complexities "earlier than thought". Well, earlier than they  thought, but that is based on presuppositions of purposeless evolution over alleged billions of years. Biblical creationists are continually vindicated by science. Pick some bones, for example. Credit: Wikimedia Commons /  Nobu Tamura  ( CC BY-SA 4.0 ) Bones may appear simple to the average person, but they are complicated structures that clearly indicate the work of the Master Engineer. There are cells needed to make bones, and they have a great deal...

Operating from materialistic presuppositions, believers in descent-with-modifications evolution have attempted to create life in various ways. Although the obedient media of the secular science industry trumpets how they proved that life can happen by chance, such claims are false. In a similar way, people are all atwitter about alleged synthetic life.  Since their worldview requires life to begin as simple cells, scientists tried to make their own cells. They pattern their work from cells that already exist. It did not go well. Modified from a photograph from  PIXNIO The goal was to make the cells as minimal as possible, so they assumed that certain genes were not essential. Then they found out that those were essential after all (reminiscent of the dreadful assumptions made in the "junk" DNA fiasco ). Their final product could not exist in the wild, so to speak. Also, the synthetic cells would have to rely on existing cells for their own survivial. God is still the Creator...

In the first part of this series , we considered Flood legends from indigenous peoples of the continental United States area. Nick Liguori is the author of this three-part series, and also the book Echoes of Ararat . He has accumulated a body of evidence about disparate peoples having fragments of Genesis Flood memories handed down by their ancestors. There are many tribes of which most people have never heard, some were isolated from each other, but they had verbal traditions. (Something I should have mentioned before is the Walam Olum, the "Red Record" , a written document of the Delaware Indians that has many surprising parallels to the biblical accounts.) Now we can venture north, out of the continental U.S. Hamasaka, a Kwakiutl chief in Tluwulahu costume with speaker's staff—Qagyuhl (principal chief) Modified from Library of Congress / Edward S. Curtis , ca. November 1914 Crossing the border into Canada, these groups are even more widely separated and had even less c...

It seems that anyone who has seen pictures of nature knows about the giraffe, what with the spots, iconic neck, and those knobby things on their heads. They may look cute, but their kicks can kill lions. Those necks are heavy and muscular, and they use them for fighting each other. Best keep your distance. Of course, the long neck is the giraffe's most famous feature. Lamarck told a just-so story that involved giraffes stretching for food up high, then this was passed on to succeeding generations. (For some reason, this technique never worked for other critters.) Then Charles Darwin made the long neck origin story better because he was the wisest and most brilliant scientist who ever lived. Credit: Freeimages /  Leslie van Veenhuyzen Neither Lamarck nor the Bearded Buddha gave satisfactory answers, and even raised other questions by their speculations that could not be sufficiently answered. Darwin's disciples try to tell us that giraffes have seven neck vertebrae , so do other...