Darwin is Dead Carnival - Second edition
It's that time again, when I take a day off of blogging and commenting and all that stuff and post the output of others. Lots of entries, so step right up and read away!
(1) Wollemia nobilis: A Living Fossil and Evolutionary Enigma
"Who would have thought that, at the close of the twentieth century, only 125 miles from the center of a sprawling metropolis of more than four million people, scientists would find a previously unknown tree in a rugged wilderness area.
When discovered in August 1994, the Wollemi pine was hailed as the "botanical find of the century," like "finding a small dinosaur still alive on earth." It was found by New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service ranger David Noble during a weekend bushwalk into a remote 500-600 meter deep narrow sandstone canyon in the rugged and densely forested Wollemi National Park only 200 kilometers (125 miles) northwest of downtown Sydney, Australia (figure 1). Thus this strange tree from the "ancient" past,a new genus, was formally named Wollemia nobilis (figure 2)."
Read Andrew Snelling's article here.
(2) Intelligent Design
"Recently my son came home confused. They were studying Intelligent Design in school and he had some questions. I was relieved that his school stopped teaching the theory of Evolution, which I never really understood. I once saw a movie that tried to explain evolution but it just got me more confused. It showed a bunch of apes in the desert who were starving and then this black obelisk appeared out of nowhere and they started using bones to kill animals for meat and then each other and then one of them threw a bone up in the air and it turned into a space ship. It didn't make a lot of sense to me and that's why I was glad when our local school board decided to stop teaching this theory."
Jon Swift (no, not that one) lays it all out here.
(3) Evolution versus Intelligent Design: The God of the Gaps
"Joe Carter at The Evangelical Outpost has an outstanding article on the “God of the Gaps.” Joe explains in easily understandable terms that the notion “actually encompasses four different views based on distinctions between a “science gap” (a gap in our current scientific knowledge) and a “nature gap” (a break in the continuous cause-effect chain of natural process) that may or may not be bridged by miraculous-appearing theistic action.”
As technology advances, our science gaps close, but more science gaps often rise up to take their place. For example, we once thought that an electron was a sub-atomic particle that had no components. Now we know that electrons are made up of quarks and that quarks are made up of vibrating strings. Furthermore, for those strings to have the properties that they do, it is required that the universe have somewhere from 9 to 12 dimensions instead of the 3 dimensions that we operate with on an everyday basis. The other dimensions are very, very tiny and apparently curl back on themselves, but they exist nevertheless."
The entire post by Michael McCullough is here.
(4) Study Proves Universe Created By Committee
"The most extensive analysis yet undertaken of the structure and contents of the universe conclusively proves the universe was created not by a single entity, as has been widely suggested, but by "a fractious and disorganized committee or committees given to groupthink and petty infighting", according to Drs. Karl Pootle and Yumble Frick, co-authors of the study. The analysis is expected to have profound implications on the theoretical underpinnings of many popular religions.
The study, entitled “Universe: Made By Whom How?”, was commissioned by an interfaith consortium of world religious leaders seeking to develop a comprehensive scientific foundation for various fundamentally compatible theories of creation, theories that until recently had been little more than matters of faith with no objective scientific underpinning. The Universe Made By Whom How data was intended by its sponsors to be a “Mother of All Bombs” in the ongoing war on evolution, according to Dr. Frick."
It is rumored that Ion Zwitter is the author and you can read it here.
(5) Darwinism: From Strength to Strength
"Fresh on the heels of victory in last year’s Dover intelligent design trial, Darwinists have now successfully scuttled Ohio's model lesson plan that encouraged students to think critically by exposing them to both the scientific strengths and weaknesses of Darwinism. Thanks to the tireless enforcers of Darwinian purity, the story Ohio students will now hear on Darwinism will sound a lot like the news stories on Castro in Cuba’s state run newspapers: all positive, all the time.
The average citizen who reads about these developments may be wondering what contrary evidence the Darwinists are afraid of, and how the politicians in Ohio got buffaloed into supporting such a reversal, particularly when at least three polls (two by Zogby) indicate that Ohio voters by a 3 to 1 margin support the state's science standards calling for students to critically analyze evolution."
Johnathan Witt's entire post is right here.
(6) THE TRUTH OF LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD
"Despite mounting geological evidence, the liberal academic elite has continually scoffed at my years of scholarship concerning the reality of the so-called “fairy tale” of Little Red Riding Hood. That is all about to change, my friends. During my latest field excursion, I unearthed the most important artifacts of my career, which are sure to put an end to any controversy. I was walking a Cretaceous synorogenic conglomerate formation, searching for antediluvian fossils, when my eye was caught by the exquisitely preserved trackway of a WOLF (Canis lupus) that can be clearly seen in the accompanying photograph. These footprints measure 85 cm across--very BIG and, I must say, VERY BAD. Remember, this rock was supposedly formed 80 million years ago, long before the appearance of any large mammal carnivores, and certainly before any canids—yet another INCONSISTENCY in the evolutionists' dogma."
It is necessary to read Carel Brest van Kempen to completion here.
(7) Only one Ice Age
"We often hear glacial geologists speak of numerous ice ages, as if it is certain. They hypothesize up to 30 different ones, each separated by interglacials, during the past 2.5 million years.1 An interglacial is the period between ice ages when all of the glaciers melted, except for Antarctica and Greenland. Each ice age is believed to have occurred at regular intervals of 100,000 years during approximately the past million years. The ice sheets are said to build up in 90,000 years and melt in the subsequent 10,000-year interglacial. Before a million years ago, ice ages cycled about every 40,000 years, they believe. Furthermore, uniformitarian scientists also postulate more ancient ice ages as far back as 2 to 2.5 billion years ago (see section later in this chapter). Figure 11.1 shows a plot of these ice ages in the evolutionary/uniformitarian time scale."
Be sure to read all of Michael Oard's article here.
Big thanks to every author for their participation!!!!!!
I hope you all get a chance to read every entry. A great deal of research and thought went into the entries above and you will both stretch your mind and traverse the nyuk-nyuk zone during the course of your literary odyssey. Or in some cases, perhaps Oddyssey would be correct? Enjoy!
(1) Wollemia nobilis: A Living Fossil and Evolutionary Enigma
"Who would have thought that, at the close of the twentieth century, only 125 miles from the center of a sprawling metropolis of more than four million people, scientists would find a previously unknown tree in a rugged wilderness area.
When discovered in August 1994, the Wollemi pine was hailed as the "botanical find of the century," like "finding a small dinosaur still alive on earth." It was found by New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service ranger David Noble during a weekend bushwalk into a remote 500-600 meter deep narrow sandstone canyon in the rugged and densely forested Wollemi National Park only 200 kilometers (125 miles) northwest of downtown Sydney, Australia (figure 1). Thus this strange tree from the "ancient" past,a new genus, was formally named Wollemia nobilis (figure 2)."
Read Andrew Snelling's article here.
(2) Intelligent Design
"Recently my son came home confused. They were studying Intelligent Design in school and he had some questions. I was relieved that his school stopped teaching the theory of Evolution, which I never really understood. I once saw a movie that tried to explain evolution but it just got me more confused. It showed a bunch of apes in the desert who were starving and then this black obelisk appeared out of nowhere and they started using bones to kill animals for meat and then each other and then one of them threw a bone up in the air and it turned into a space ship. It didn't make a lot of sense to me and that's why I was glad when our local school board decided to stop teaching this theory."
Jon Swift (no, not that one) lays it all out here.
(3) Evolution versus Intelligent Design: The God of the Gaps
"Joe Carter at The Evangelical Outpost has an outstanding article on the “God of the Gaps.” Joe explains in easily understandable terms that the notion “actually encompasses four different views based on distinctions between a “science gap” (a gap in our current scientific knowledge) and a “nature gap” (a break in the continuous cause-effect chain of natural process) that may or may not be bridged by miraculous-appearing theistic action.”
As technology advances, our science gaps close, but more science gaps often rise up to take their place. For example, we once thought that an electron was a sub-atomic particle that had no components. Now we know that electrons are made up of quarks and that quarks are made up of vibrating strings. Furthermore, for those strings to have the properties that they do, it is required that the universe have somewhere from 9 to 12 dimensions instead of the 3 dimensions that we operate with on an everyday basis. The other dimensions are very, very tiny and apparently curl back on themselves, but they exist nevertheless."
The entire post by Michael McCullough is here.
(4) Study Proves Universe Created By Committee
"The most extensive analysis yet undertaken of the structure and contents of the universe conclusively proves the universe was created not by a single entity, as has been widely suggested, but by "a fractious and disorganized committee or committees given to groupthink and petty infighting", according to Drs. Karl Pootle and Yumble Frick, co-authors of the study. The analysis is expected to have profound implications on the theoretical underpinnings of many popular religions.
The study, entitled “Universe: Made By Whom How?”, was commissioned by an interfaith consortium of world religious leaders seeking to develop a comprehensive scientific foundation for various fundamentally compatible theories of creation, theories that until recently had been little more than matters of faith with no objective scientific underpinning. The Universe Made By Whom How data was intended by its sponsors to be a “Mother of All Bombs” in the ongoing war on evolution, according to Dr. Frick."
It is rumored that Ion Zwitter is the author and you can read it here.
(5) Darwinism: From Strength to Strength
"Fresh on the heels of victory in last year’s Dover intelligent design trial, Darwinists have now successfully scuttled Ohio's model lesson plan that encouraged students to think critically by exposing them to both the scientific strengths and weaknesses of Darwinism. Thanks to the tireless enforcers of Darwinian purity, the story Ohio students will now hear on Darwinism will sound a lot like the news stories on Castro in Cuba’s state run newspapers: all positive, all the time.
The average citizen who reads about these developments may be wondering what contrary evidence the Darwinists are afraid of, and how the politicians in Ohio got buffaloed into supporting such a reversal, particularly when at least three polls (two by Zogby) indicate that Ohio voters by a 3 to 1 margin support the state's science standards calling for students to critically analyze evolution."
Johnathan Witt's entire post is right here.
(6) THE TRUTH OF LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD
"Despite mounting geological evidence, the liberal academic elite has continually scoffed at my years of scholarship concerning the reality of the so-called “fairy tale” of Little Red Riding Hood. That is all about to change, my friends. During my latest field excursion, I unearthed the most important artifacts of my career, which are sure to put an end to any controversy. I was walking a Cretaceous synorogenic conglomerate formation, searching for antediluvian fossils, when my eye was caught by the exquisitely preserved trackway of a WOLF (Canis lupus) that can be clearly seen in the accompanying photograph. These footprints measure 85 cm across--very BIG and, I must say, VERY BAD. Remember, this rock was supposedly formed 80 million years ago, long before the appearance of any large mammal carnivores, and certainly before any canids—yet another INCONSISTENCY in the evolutionists' dogma."
It is necessary to read Carel Brest van Kempen to completion here.
(7) Only one Ice Age
"We often hear glacial geologists speak of numerous ice ages, as if it is certain. They hypothesize up to 30 different ones, each separated by interglacials, during the past 2.5 million years.1 An interglacial is the period between ice ages when all of the glaciers melted, except for Antarctica and Greenland. Each ice age is believed to have occurred at regular intervals of 100,000 years during approximately the past million years. The ice sheets are said to build up in 90,000 years and melt in the subsequent 10,000-year interglacial. Before a million years ago, ice ages cycled about every 40,000 years, they believe. Furthermore, uniformitarian scientists also postulate more ancient ice ages as far back as 2 to 2.5 billion years ago (see section later in this chapter). Figure 11.1 shows a plot of these ice ages in the evolutionary/uniformitarian time scale."
Be sure to read all of Michael Oard's article here.
Big thanks to every author for their participation!!!!!!
I hope you all get a chance to read every entry. A great deal of research and thought went into the entries above and you will both stretch your mind and traverse the nyuk-nyuk zone during the course of your literary odyssey. Or in some cases, perhaps Oddyssey would be correct? Enjoy!