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Replacing limbs and such that are the results of birth defects or injuries goes back centuries. The image of a pirate with a pegleg comes to mind. It was a budget prothesis. There are countless other applications throughout history. Advanced forms of prosthesis are from the field of bionics . They are medical biological electronics, popularized by Martin Caidin in his Cyborg  novels and The Six Million Dollar Man television shows. (That much money would only be a down payment today.) Bionic limbs use existing nerves and muscles to operate. Some bionics can even involve robotics and artificial intelligence. Bionic eye, Pixabay / intographics Bionics are used in many ways, and people may not associate their implants and such with that word. What about taking it further? While there's no defying God's creation by mitigating damag caused through defects and mutations (originating in the Fall of Man), some folks with a worldview rooted in naturalism want to help evolution along thro

As you probably know, the story that big space rock smacked the earth near Chicxulub caused the extinction of the dinosaurs (which was selective in what critters it made extinct) is the prevailing view. Not all secularists support idea. Neither do creationists, for several important reasons . Up North Dakota way, scientists found a limb from a dinosaur known as a  Thescelosaurus , a wonder lizard. "Was it called that because it wondered where its limb went, Cowboy Bob?" Good possibility. So, the impact was in Mexico, but the limb is found in North Dakota... Asteroid and Earth, FreeDigitalPhotos / Idea go There were other assorted animals at the site as well. In addition to some absurd statements about the rock column, secularists are making claims that the shock waves from Chicxulub went around the world. That would provide selective devastation, but they are also invoking flood scenarios. They're getting closer to the globally catastrophic Genesis Flood, which is the sup

Earth has Rubisco. A lot of it. This enzyme is important in photosynthesis, and some scientists wanted to find a way to improve it. They dug down into Ruby's gene sequences to find enzymes that could be enhanced to increase the production of modern crops. As usual, they presupposed deep time, then added "evolutionary history" and wanted to bring back genes from millions of Darwin years ago. This assumption had them considering so-called important moments in the history of Solanaceae plants. Bell Peppers, Unsplash / Vino Li Rubisco, don't take your love to Darwin town. In fact, the malarkey about ancient enzymes that "likely existed" was misleading as well as poor reasoning — they used modern plants in their Rubisco sequencing. Mayhaps it's because evolutionists can't find any evidence of its alleged ancestor. Such evolutionary guesswork keeps coming up empty because life was created recently. The most abundant protein on Earth is probably an enzyme (

A few weeks back, Joe Nexnelsrent visited the Darwin Ranch for a symposium, then stayed around a spell to talk about other evolution things. He also tried to sing the song of his people about life existing embedded in halite for millions of evolutionary years. It seems to this child that people, whether scientists or the public in general, have the right to know the truth. Researchers who make claims in the increasingly untrustworthy peer review process should have to give credible scientific information to support those claims. Also, the press should perform due diligence and ask questions instead of being mindless drones. Home Ranch , Thomas C. Eakins, 1892 There's nothing wrong with running an idea up the flagpole to see if anyone salutes it. Doesn't everyone do that to some extent? Humility is greatly lacking in the secular science industry, especially regarding origins. Presenting speculations as true science without solid evidence is evoporn, and this stuff is gleefully s

Charles Darwin proposed his conjectures about evolution by his version of natural selection, but admitted the fossil evidence was extremely poor. The first discovery of what would later be called Neanderthal Man happened before, in 1829, but the discoverer wrote it off as just another human skull. Later, evolutionist covfefe would use insufficient evidence to prop it up as a transitional form between apelike critters and humans. (Neanderthal Man is accepted as fully human today.) Another supposed missing link was  Pithecanthropus erectus , more commonly known as Java Man. Pithecanthropus erectus parts, WikiComm / Peter Maas  ( CC BY-SA 3.0 ) Eugène Dubois is credited with the discovery, and the history is quite interesting. He was raised Roman Catholic, but his schooling destroyed his weak religion. This was accelerated by evolutionary teachings, which is something that happens to students today with a vengeance. Since Darwin needed evidence, he saddled up and rode down Java way to get

Believers in molecules-to-microbiologist evolution are constantly looking for evidence to support their conjectures, and that includes links from allegedly simple to more advanced life forms. Some attempted to do that with prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Remember from biology class that bacteria do not have a distinct nucleus, but eukaryotes are cells that have nuclei and form people, animals, plants and other things. These organisms are observed under a microscope, but one bacterium is huge in comparison to the rest. This bad boy is called  Thiomargarita magnifica , but its aesthetic appeal is not exactly magnificent. Nanographene oxide interacting with bacteria, TEM  Wellcome Collection  ( CC BY 4.0 ) Mr. Magnifica is impressive in that it has (technical word alert) a bunch  of genetic material inside its membranous pouch. Some of Darwin's disciples attempted to say that it's a missing link, but one of the frequent fallacies they have is ignoring other possible explanations. In t

It should be obvious that the public has a right to expect scientists to act like scientists: using logic, presenting evidence, being useful, and all that good stuff. Unfortunately, we see researchers ignoring logic, torturing evidence until it seems to support their claims, being elitists , and supporting leftist political views. This is even more evident with the so-called social sciences (for example, see " Freedom and Evolutionary Psychology "). It is debatable if those things can legitimately be called sciences, since they only have a modicum of the requirements of the others. Darwin trash dumpster fire, Flickr / Cowboy Bob Sorensen ( CC BY-NC 2.0 ) One of the unscientific reports recently presented could easily fall under the leftist "Men are Bad" heading. Boys and men build up muscle, so they will have violent behaviors. Well, forget nature, then (as well as their own evolutionary myths). Also, define "violence" because those of us who use our thi

Something I can never figure out is what Sherwood Tellit actually does at the Darwin Ranch other than tell stories around campfires. We got to jawing the other day, and he was a mite confused about probabilities. If you study on it, we live our lives based on probabilities every day. It is improbable that Sherwood will get his favorite parking space two days in a row, the power will probably stay on so I can finish composing this post, the moon will probably not drift away from the earth. Monkey Wide Eyes, Flickr  by Heather Fallows via Jemima Gibbons  ( CC BY 2.0 ) Some things are calculated so their probability can be determined. Biblical creationists point out (often citing the mind-boggling numbers) of the improbability of a single cell arising by chance and random processes. The odds are so greatly against it, the idea can be dismissed as impossible. Evolution is improbable. Even Clinton Richard Dawkins admits that evolution involves climbing Mt. Improbable. Improbabilities are s

Strange myths are told about dragonflies, such as them stinging, sewing your eyes shut, being tools of Satan, and so on. None of them can be taken seriously. They are actually quite marvelous to behold, what with those aerobatic maneuvers and all that good stuff. Sometimes things do not go well during flight, and they get moved upside down. They have a trick that has been likened to when a cat lands on its feet. Of a sudden, they are able to right themselves in flight. Dragonfly, Pixabay / Franco Patrizia Dragonflies obviously have tiny brains, and those are marvels of the Master Engineer's design work. Their mechanism can receive and process 200 images a second, so that gets translated into neural signals that reach the wings. The process was better understood using modern high-speed photography. As expected, all praise was robbed from the Creator and given to evolution, blessed be! Saying that "it evolved" is an unscientific police exit (cop out), and people should dem

In their efforts to thwart the work of creationists and Intelligent Design groups, many proponents of universal common ancestor evolution will ignore testing and empirical science, preferring instead to use the complex scientific principle of Making Things Up™. Other evolutionists use this hooey to confirm their biases. One of these is the concept of gene duplication  as a means of producing new genetic information. It supposedly effects evolution, but cannot be supported by actual science. Indeed, one would be hard pressed to find geneticists who believe such a thing. Gene duplication, Wikimedia Commons / National Institutes of Health (public domain, slightly modified) Genes get duplicated, so beneficial mutations can accumulate in one of them — that's the thinking. As with so many things used to support deep time, evolution, etc. asserted by the secular science industry, a passel of assumptions are made. But most mutations are by far neutral or deleterious. In addition, any ver