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Let's Get Tissues from Shelved Fossils!

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Even though secular scientists have a habit of limiting their thinking based on their worldview (such as calling part of our DNA "junk" because they don't understand it, then are proved wrong), I'll allow that grabbing tissue samples from fossils on the shelf is mighty unusual. Maybe it has something to do with paleoproteomics being a new field of study, and people are looking for a chance to saddle it up. A giant beaver fossil had been on a museum's shelf for 170 years, coated with varnish, and getting dusty. Someone got the bright idea of finding a place to look for samples, and struck collagen. They want to test more in-house fossils, they're not being shelf-ish. Not-giant beaver at Prince William Forest, Virginia, image credit: US National Park Service Of course, instead of asking how collagen can last millions of Darwin years and challenging the ruling paradigm, scientists got all het up about asking how this can further understanding

Crumbling Landforms

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"Go ahead, walk right on up there. It's safe". "I don't know..." "Look, it took millions of years to form, it's been here millions of years, it'll be here for millions. And more are forming all the time. Be adventurous." "Not hardly!" According to long-age views, various cliffs, arches, and other landforms were formed over huge amounts of time and are pretty much permanent. Except that they're not here to stay after all, since many famous landmarks around the world have been collapsing. Sure, you expect to see an ice arch collapse , but rock? Yes, it does. Some famous landmarks have interesting "before" and "after" photos. Sadly, a few have even resulted in fatalities, and sometimes people are not allowed to stand under arches and such, let alone, walk on the ones that were previous accessible. Delicate Arch, Moab, Utah, image credit NOAA / NGDC, John Lockridge , Longmont, CO Secular geologist

DNA, Degeneracy, and Evolutionspeak

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How many times have you been warned to watch for word definitions? Those owlhoots at the Darwin Ranch have been known to deal from the bottom of the deck in order to get what that want: for you to believe in common-ancestor evolution. If that means a bit of the ol' switcheroo on word definitions, so much the better. In Evolutionspeak, a word doesn't mean what you think it means. Based on an image from Clker clipart Of course, when you deal with certain applications, definitions are in order. Reel: Scottish dancing, or something you go fishing with? Default: normal setting in software, or you're in a world of hurt on your bank loan? Metal: that hard stuff that is used in building construction, or an astronomer saying any element heavier than hydrogen and helium? We expect that. But when evolutionists change the meaning to suit their purposes, that's mighty low. In fact, it's downright degenerate. Well, no, degenerate is being used in a flexible way (like the

Whose Life Matters?

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by Cowboy Bob Sorensen I don't know about other countries, but America is very "race" conscious. Some ethnic groups claim victim status and persecution from other groups, yet little attention is given to the murders of their own "kind". We hear about the "Black Lives Matter" group, and somehow, it becomes almost acceptable in the eyes of leftist media for them to block traffic and murder police officers. A response is, "Blue Lives Matter", because we need the police to do their jobs. There's a whole heap of racism from whites, blacks, and other groups that you want to name. Somehow, the lives of unborn children are not important to many people. "College Liberal" "meme" inspired by comments from Doug McBurney . This poor girl has been used in so many "memes", and was probably just minding her own business when the picture was taken. Did you know the word slave is based on the word Slav , as in Slav

Consider the Proportional Strength of Ants

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It's easy to dislike ants, I'll allow. They get in the house, spoil picnics, crawl up your leg, and other nuisance things. Ever have an ant farm as a kid? I didn't. Anyway, many of us like to stop and watch them carry things that are proportionally larger than they are and wonder how they can do that — and maybe want that ability ourselves.Well, some people are using biomimetics and thinking that mayhaps they can get inspiration from ants for robot designs. Image credit: Openclipart There was a study on the things, and it was discovered that they their structure is conducive to carrying. Part of this is that since their exoskeletons are so light, they do not have to carry their own weight, so they can focus on getting something from here and bringing it over there. Of course, the study praised evolution, blessed be! What they should have done is realize that the evidence shows the skill of their Designer. Now, I’m far from being an entomologist, but the diver

Hopes for Extraterrestrial Life Dimming

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Every once in a while, we learn that particles-to-planetologist scientists will effectively say, "Hold up there, Luke. You're saddling up the wrong horse!" In other words, they'll realize that certain ideas they have should be discarded instead of making excuses and sewing on more patches. (Of course, they still cling to evolution itself.) It's nice to see some scientific integrity now and then. Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech The pseudoscience of astrobiology is a part of the search for life on other planets, and they come up with some interesting speculations. Later, those are replaced because the facts tend to be obstreperous. (For example, if a planet is in the "habitable zone", it's not necessarily habitable .) Space "weather" ruins chances for life out there, as well as radiation, and some exoplanets may look good, but they're still too hot. The simple reason that they're having such a passel of hassle getting any hope

The "Convergent Evolution" Evasion

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Darwinists have a corral-full of rescuing devices to be utilized when observations do not fit their paradigm. One of these is convergent evolution, where different organisms independently evolved similar traits, even though there is no plausible mechanism or evidence. Some of these convergent evolution evasions are quite outlandish . Image credits: Burmese python (top), Pixabay / skeeze Emperor boa (bottom), Pixabay / sipa There are distinct differences in critters, but since they have some aspects in common, it's "evidence" that they evolved from a common ancestor. It's disallowed to even consider the more reasonable explanation: they were designed and equipped by their Creator to diversify within genetic limits and fill ecological niches. (That's right, creationists do accept speciation .) A recent study of pythons and boas reached the stunning conclusion that, even though they diversified, they did not change into something else. Convergent evolution