Piltdown Superman

It has been a puzzler for paleontologists that there is such a wide mix of life forms as a result of the Ice Age. Uniformitarian explanations fail. The problem is compounded because of their presuppositions; the data will not fit. One of their beliefs is that there were several ice ages over a long period of time. Biblical creationists have alternative views that include the Genesis Flood. The data fit a Flood-caused Ice Age model far better than the secular versions. Disharmonious or nonanalog associations refer to the strange mix of animals and plants from widely different climates or environments in the same sediment. Such associations occurred during the Ice Age in both the northern and southern hemispheres and are the rule and not the exception. Animals that loved the warmth were found at high latitude while animals that loved the cold were found at much lower latitudes. Disharmonious associations apply not only to large mammals, but to other flora as well as to fauna: C

Scientists have been working adding "letters" to the language of the amazingly complex DNA molecule in a bacterium. Even the small steps they have taken have required a great deal of painstaking research. DNA is comprised of four letters, and they have convinced a bacterium to accept two additional letters that are alien to it. The eventual goal is to be able to have it pass along this information, and to trick bacteria into following the new instructions that have been given to it. Genetic engineering, a subject for some scary science fiction movies ("Oh, it's perfectly safe, we have limiting factors built in. Bwahahaha!"), has potential for improving life. But some people cannot leave real science alone, and must extrapolate backwards to bring in abiogenesis. This is absurd even on the surface. Using educated people, existing organisms with their complex DNA (and not yet as advanced as living cells), science, technology and so on — and then say that th

Neanderthals sure have evolved over the years. Proponents of evolution told the world that they were less-evolved than we are, and were therefore unintelligent brutes. As evolution caught up with real science (and substantial assistance from archaeology), it was realized that the differences were rapidly shrinking. They appear to have been good parents, made jewelry and art, buried their dead, made tools, could speak — and were able to breed with other "archaic humans" . There is a great deal of evidence that the stupid caveman motif was unjustified. Advances in technology and DNA further reduced the number of differences between Neanderthals and people living today. DNA studies prove that they were human . There are  some differences, but evolution has nothing to do with them — humans were created, not evolved. It appears that the answer to differences can be traced to epigenetics.  Recent genome reports show that the Neandertals are essentially fully human, causing

Many of us read superhero comic books as kids. Getting bitten by a radioactive spider, getting caught in an explosion of radioactive materials, receiving a massive dose of radiation could transform people into something extra-human with marvelous powers. Sometimes, they would be born with mutations that would develop into special talents as they grew older. It doesn't work that way. But hey, the comic book writers were trying to be creative and entertaining (as well as make a living), they were usually not trying to present scientific truths. Most proponents of Darwin's theory learned that natural selection (ironically, it was  first proposed by creationist Edward Blyth as a conserving factor ) does not lead to evolution. They moved into mutations and genetics. Blasting something with radiation ruins cells, it does not give them additional information. Even successful controlled mutation experiments usually have drawbacks as far as the organism is concerned. No super p

How do you know that something is old? Often, it based on personal experience, culture and reports. Sometimes it is simply relative. That book on the shelf with the yellowed pages from 1916 seems old when compared to current books, but it is not very old to someone who examines biblical manuscripts . The old man hobbling across the street in Kingston, New York is 84 years old, and he looks it, but he does not look "old" to people in some other cultures. (I've been told that I do not look my age, despite my Mark Harmon-like graying hair.) Looking old can be relative as well as subjective, often relying on some kind of standard of measurement. NASA/STScI; S. Allam and team; and the Master Lens Database, L. A. Moustakas, K. Stewart, et al (2014)       How does the earth look "old"? How does the universe look "old"? And how does a galaxy look "young", "old" or "mature"? These kinds of things have standards of sorts, bu

Scoffers will use so-called annual layers found in ice cores as an example that the biblical timeline is wrong. However, this technique has flaws that are similar to those used in dendrochronology . The assumption that one layer of ice equals one year was shown to be fundamentally flawed when aircraft that had to be abandoned on Greenland ice in World War II were found forty years later under 260 feet (80 metres) of ice. That is not supposed to happen according to uniformitarian ideas. The Genesis Flood is a far better model to explain what scientists observe. Credit: Ted Scambos & Rob Bauer, NSIDC Scientists drill into the ice and extract samples. Unfortunately, their method of establishing dates for the cores are fraught with difficulties and circular reasoning. Glaciologists drill and extract cylindrical cores from high-latitude ice sheets and use different techniques to estimate the cores’ age at certain depths. Bible skeptics, like recent debater Bill Nye, claim the

One of the criticisms of the biblical timeline is the growth rate of coral reefs and atolls. Using uniformitarian assumptions which include that growth rates today are the same as growth rates in the past, calculations supposedly prove that the Bible is wrong. However, as we have seen numerous times, "the present is the key to the past" plus other assumptions backfire. Coral Reef, Virgin Islands — USFWS / Gary M. Stolz / PD Reefs grow more slowly than coral. Reefs have varying growth rates, and can be very rapid. Complicating factors are found in the Eniwetok Reef in the Marshall Islands. This thick reef is not entirely reef, because about a mile of it is limestone resting on an underwater volcano. But still, questions arise as to how the entire package can appear the way it does in relation to Flood models. Creation scientists have proposed models based on theories and observations that offer a very plausible explanation. Modern ocean reefs can be quite massi