Piltdown Superman

It seems like finding dinosaur footprints would be unexciting, what with there being billions of them and all. And yet, more are being found. There's a "dinosaur freeway" of tracks from New Mexico to Colorado  that have new tracks revealed, usually after a flood. Imagine cowboys riding herd on dinosaurs for that distance. Well, they did a sizable trek from Texas to Kansas in the heyday of cattle drives, but cattle aren't prone to eating horses. Sorry, my imagination needs to be lassoed. Buckhorn Wash, Utah, dinosaur print Image credit: US Department of the Interior BLM Anyway, new dinosaur tracks have been found practically in the backyard of the Institute for Creation Research after a flood receded. Several kinds were found, puzzling paleontologists. Yet again, creationists' Genesis Flood models have the better explanation. Spring rains flooded the Dallas area this year, including Lake Grapevine which is about 10 miles west of the Institute for Creati

Anti-creationists have been known to use hasty and overgeneralizations (among other logical fallacies) to describe the positions held by biblical creationists. The "pterosaur carved by Native Americans at Black Canyon, Utah" is a splendid example of how some tinhorns can act. They want to prove us wrong, but use logical fallacies to do it. Oh, please. This character who strikes me as a P.Z. Myers wannabe claims that it's "actual science smacking down creationist fairy tales" (straw man, question-begging epithet), and uses a fallacy of reification in the title, " Pterodactyl Murdered by Science! " Hard to take people like this seriously. Couldn't find a picture of the image under discussion that I felt I could legally use, so I made something up. Original image from US BLM , with pterosaur clip art . The facts are that some  creationists used the idea that the Native American pictograph looked like a pterosaur, but that idea was certainly

by Cowboy Bob Sorensen Evolutionists and atheists make statements of faith as if they were secular holy writ. Their fans adore this, and some people can be intimidated when such statements are made with confidence and authority. This is often mixed with pseudo-intellectual philosophical jargon. However, when people know the truth of what is being said, there is no cause to give heed to such assertions. Actual quote from Clinton  Richard Dawkins,  The Blind Watchmaker , 1996, page 1 Have you noticed that people tend to pay attention when someone speaks with confidence and authority? Imagine this: A crisis situation, and someone who is not in uniform takes charge of the situation. Even though that person is a stranger to everyone else, they often follow instructions. Of course, if someone toting a badge shows up, that's  the one most likely to be obeyed. People who are popular and make strong statements get attention and often get adoration. (Why people care about the opi

The aardvark (from the Dutch, meaning "earth-hog") is confounding to proponents of plankton-to-paleontologist evolution for several reasons. One is that it looks like it was assembled with spare parts of several animals, so we have another cladistics fail. The fossil record does not give a hint as to its alleged evolutionary ancestry. Add to that the numerous features, such as: Designed for digging, which it does remarkably fast Chowing down on ants, termites, and plants A sensitive sniffer Fast runner Mostly solitary Of course, Darwinists use useless terms like " convergent evolution " and make excuses, but the fact is that the aardvark cannot be explained through naturalistic processes. The Creator designed it, personally, I think it's one of those critters he made to show that he has a sense of humor. Despite being one of the first words in a dictionary or encyclopedia, the aardvark is still something of a mystery for many people outside its hom

Imagine a spider that spent an hour building a web (usually at night), then seeing a clumsy bird blast on through it, ruining the work. Well, back to the drawing board. Except that it doesn't happen all that often. Why not? FreeImages.com / Aleš Čerin The special property that the spider puts into the web so that the bird can see it is being imitated (biomimetics) in special bird-safe glass, and considered for other applications. God gave critters special abilities, and he gave us intelligently-designed minds to observe and implement characteristics of his creation. Ironically, many people who are intelligently designing items based on what they see in nature believe that those creatures evolved by time, chance, mutations and random processes. Makes perfect sense. No, not really. Have you ever heard the thump of a confused bird hitting a window? Countless birds are killed each year when they fly directly into window glass. Sometimes they can’t see the glass panes that are

What's that up yonder in the sky, lighting things up at night? Sometimes it's a crescent, other times it's round, once in a while in the daytime, other times you can't see it at all. In Latin, it's called luna,  but those of us who speak English call it the moon. What's it there for, anyway? Well, it has several effects on Earth. The Effect of the Moon / Eugene Boudin / 1891 Old Earth proponents have no idea how it got there, but many hang onto the " impact hypothesis " because that idea offends logic the least. Also, the sun is 400 times larger than the moon, and also 400 times farther away, which makes things interesting during a solar eclipse, and no other planets have that kind of size-distance ratio. (I reckon that those owlhoots who keep getting all excited when they think they've found a "habitable planet" orbiting another star can find out if those  planets have useful moons.) The gravity of the moon regulates tides on Ea

by Cowboy Bob Sorensen A certain anti-creationist insists that poems are interpreted, not facts or data. Strange talk from someone who supposedly has a doctorate, and I reckon that it's his bias that motivates such a wrong statement. Picture this, if you will. I started up the car and the "check engine" light came on and stayed on, giving a dose of anxiety to start the day. When I took the car to my mechanic, he plugged in his machine to get the data. From the codes, that model's history, and other checking, he was able to tell me what was going on and repair it. Tech Sgt. Annette Ferguson-Sims watches over a patient during an MRI scan. U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Keith Brown. Use of image does not imply endorsement of this site's contents. If you haven't had an MRI scan, you probably know someone who has had the procedure done since millions of them are done every year. (Good thing biblical creationist scientist Dr. Raymond Damadian inve