Posts

The Creationist Spokesman

Image
by Cowboy Bob Sorensen Here is a "sorta" sequel to this post . It stems from remarks and questions like the one below, which creationists encounter rather often. It has been modified somewhat: You assert that evolutionists take our facts from Wikipedia and other biased sources but don't read what creationists really believe. So what do you guys really believe? I've looked at your FB page but I can't find anything. Are you young earth creationists? I assume you're Christian from the tenor of this Page .  Unfortunately for people who ask questions like this, I have not been appointed as the spokesman for creationists. morgueFile/RoganJosh There are times when atheists will fuss and say, "You don't know anything about atheists! And don't lump us all into one group, there are several kinds!" Sometimes, I think that some of those atheists do not know what atheists think, because they seem to have created (heh!) definitions specific

Lucy Gets "Splained" to Presumptuous Evolutionist

Image
Have you noticed that paleontologists and anthropologists will find a fragment of something, believe it's conclusive proof of evolution, and then find out later that they were wrong? They try to quietly drop their embarrassment. The process of making something out of nothing reminds me of this: Anyway. The scientists at major creationist organizations seldom have time for small-time bloggers who think that they are the smartest people on the short bus. In this case, they made an exception. "Lucy" at the Creation Museum  Adam Benton took exception to the "Lucy" exhibit at the Creation Museum , and decided to show how stupid and evil creationists really are. Except that he had several things working against his "analysis": He did not actually see the exhibit Ignorance of facts that he tries to present Ignorance of facts that he tries to refute Exceptional bias in his worldview Unwillingness to examine the evidence more completely  He

Considering the Ant

Image
morgueFile/jak It seems that most people consider ants to be nothing more than an inconvenient bug that finds things you've spilled in your kitchen and brings its friends to celebrate. Then you have to get ant traps. Or perhaps you've just watched them scurrying to and fro, often carrying something awkward. Have you ever seriously considered what they are doing, and how they do it? The spill on your kitchen floor that you thought  you had cleaned up, or planned on getting to later — they found it, and told their friends. How? And when they're carrying some dead thing in their caravan, what's up with that? Ants have taken over the world, it seems, but they didn’t do it alone! One reason they’re so successful is their ability to communicate with each other—where to go, what to watch out for, how to help. The lone ant follows the path marked earlier by her companions. In her ceaseless search for food, she decides to veer off the trail and blaze a new path. Along

Does the Higgs Boson Particle Prove Anything At All?

Image
CERN-AC-0510028 01 First, a silly side note. This article was scheduled to post on the last repetitive date that we will live to see, at 12.12 PM Eastern Time on 12-12-2012. The hysteria and publicity about the Higgs boson particle seems to have faded. Perhaps now we can give it a calmer examination. Some people rave that it is the particle (field) that was sought, and it is somehow proof of the Big Bang. (There are even people who go as far as to say that it proves there is no God, which is an asinine and unscientific statement.) What does it prove, if anything? Scientists from Europe’s CERN research center presented evidence on July 4, 2012, for a particle that is likely the Higgs boson, the last remaining elementary particle predicted by the Standard Model of particle physics. Does this discovery have relevance for the creation-evolution controversy? Particles can generally be classified into two categories, according to the quantum mechanical rules that the

No Transitional Forms?

Image
There is considerable dispute between creationists and evolutionists about transitional forms and missing links. Creationists say that there are no indisputable transitional forms, and proponents of evolutionism claim that there are many. (Some of Darwin's Juvenile Cheerleaders introduce emotions with cries of "Liar!" in a manipulative attempt to "win" the argument.) Sure, there are plenty of fossils. Some may appear  to be "in between".  Sometimes, the problem may be in the wording, and what is understood by "transitional". Also, it does not help matters for evolutionists that certain things that have been trotted out as transitional forms were presented too hastily, and they were quietly dropped from the show. Unfortunately for proponents, some are presenting outdated "proof" because they did not get the memo. First, the fact that the links (transitional forms) which the concept of evolution would prima facie cause its

Blue Stars Indicate a Young Universe

Image
Alnitak, Alnilam, Mintaka  Credit:  Digitized Sky Survey , ESA/ESO/NASA  FITS Liberator   Color Composite: Davide De Martin ( Skyfactory )   Blue stars cause a problem for cosmologists: They should not exist. Since they are bigger and hotter than other stars, and their fuel supply should be exhausted comparatively quickly. Blue stars exist on our own Milky Way galaxy . In a manner reminiscent of the Oort Cloud excuse for replenishing short-term comets, cosmologists say that certain areas are "stellar nurseries" where new stars are being formed. Except that there is no observational evidence of such a thing, it only exists in theory. Biblical creationists do not need to conjure up excuses like the Oort Cloud or stellar nurseries. Orion is one of the most well-known and easily recognized constellations of the winter sky. The three bright blue stars in Orion’s belt seem to draw our attention instantly. Such stars are a strong confirmation of the bibli

Parasites in your DNA?

Some scientists, in their rush to show that they know all things and can make ex cathedra  proclamations, have said that DNA is flawed because of parasites. Looks like they spoke too soon — again.