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The Riot and the Dance
This project is one that I am really excited about. I have seen some of the footage (beyond this trailer), and it promises to pack a real punch when it comes to communicating the real nature of creation.
Some Worldview Jollity
A Fun Interview
The Laymen’s Cup Podcast recently had me on for an interview that was rather fun.
Dinosaur Soft Tissue
And here is a striking story about a young earth creationist who found out something really inconvenient. And guess what happened then?
Propaganda at NSA
You have probably seen the publicity about the release of the short film, The Hound of Heaven. In addition to that, the film was featured in the most recent music video by Shinedown. And during one of Propaganda’s visits here to Moscow, he was kind enough to visit with the students at NSA. Here is that video.
Getting By With a Little Help for Our Friends
Mark LaMoreaux has been taking our family pictures for years and just updated his site and is running a nice special in time for Christmas. Take a gander, and feel free to book a session…
You can call anytime in October to schedule your photo shoot. You have to have it completed by November 30 to receive the special.
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And While I’m At it…
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From the article under “Dinosaur Soft Tissue”: he and his colleague, Dr. Kevin Lee Anderson, wrote a report on their discovery so that other scientists could learn from it. The report was published in the peer-reviewed, secular journal entitled Acta Histochemica. Not long after that, the Darwinian Inquisition struck. He was fired from his position at California State University Northridge. As I reported previously, he decided to sue the university. Why? According to him, one faculty member stormed into his lab and shouted: We will not tolerate your religion in this department, or your creationist projects either! Science, religion, AND… Read more »
Wow, sounds like social Darwinism, in the mutation of a Darwinian inquisition, failed to reproduce or “evolve”.
Bummer man. ????
So ends the Northridge monkey trial!
Sounds like the monkeys lost! ????
Anyone know the song and/or artist in the riot & dance trailer?
Prayers for you and the region being sent up from the Northwest. Stay safe!
Dinosaur Soft Tissue And here is a striking story about a young earth creationist who found out something really inconvenient. And guess what happened then? Pastor Wilson, you keep making the same mistakes I pointed out in the last thread, and you don’t appear ready to acknowledge or repent of them. What you claim above is simply, objectively, false. There wasn’t anything “really inconvenient” about Armitage’s find. Soft tissue in dinosaur bones was first found more than ten years ago, by a (Christian) paleontologist who thinks the YEC hijacking of her discovery is ridiculous. Your claim that he made some… Read more »
See my other comment but there are many people: science students and scientists included that are not familiar with the existence of soft tissue in fossils or unfossilised dinosaurs. Armitage is allowed to made people more aware of this; though the existence of his work in the university would become increasingly known because of it interest value to people who are not aware that this phenomenon exists but would not expect it to be the case (much as surrounding the interest at the time Schwitzer initially discovered this). It is eminently reasonable to draw the conclusion about age of the… Read more »
There can be a scientific discussion on the dating of dinosaur fossils. I agree that open, informed debate on that topic is great.
I agree that Armitage should be allowed to speak his mind. That’s different than saying that he had made any sort of inconvenient discovery.
I don’t credit him with the revolution that Schwitzer instigated. Though as a choice of research, inconvenient for some.
Armitage was not a professional biologist, but rather a miscroscope technician hired to instal and train people on the scanning electron microcope at Cal State Northridge. He was a contract, not a tenure track, employee. I followed this case closely because my husband was a grad student in biology there and I knew some of the people. He is not a serious scientist and one of his contributions to academia is called “Jesus is Like My Scanning Electron Microscope.” He is item 453 in the Encyclopdia of American Loons. I seem to remember that part of the issue was using… Read more »
You got it! Batten down the hatches!
I am with Wile on this. For those of us around when Schwitzer first discovered blood this is extremely interesting. Creationists were aware of the findings and agreed there was blood then soft tissue. Schwitzer had a lot of push back but far less than had she been a creationist. The evolutionists disbelieved her and then came up with a large number of implausible explanations for what she was seeing (but not blood). And the anti-creationists were most disparaging toward creationists saying that these finding were clearly not soft tissue (in a most derogatory manner). Only when it became patently… Read more »
I agree with basically everything you say in the first paragraph. That’s how new discoveries/ideas in almost any field, within or outside of science, typically go. I disagree with the 2nd paragraph. We’ve observed that typically dna breaks down very quickly under most conditions, but that sometimes dna last remarkably long under other conditions. We’ve already seen dna last far longer than could ever be observed in a lab experiment – even the Creationists here are claiming that it lasts thousands of years in this instance. There obviously haven’t been any direct observations to cover the period between “6,000 years”… Read more »
There are so many issues here. I think there is a tendency among some people who are not experienced in academic science to believe that evolutionary biologists are determined to keep out any findings they don’t like because they think the theory is in so much trouble that one good piece of evidence might sink it. This is simply not the case. The vast majority of professional biologists accept that while there is still much to be discovered and explained, the theory is solid. I think that Armitage was treated badly by Kwok who had no business yelling at him… Read more »
Yes, that is certainly a sure sign of bad science. Like the researchers who worked on health hazards of smoking, paid for by Big Tobacco! Tell me, what is the hurricane doing?
I forgot to ask you, is your Ph.D. in biology? My husband’s research was on collembola. After the CSUN science building was destroyed in the Northridge quake, he kept them all in our basement in baby food jars. It was a weird specialty and one that is not very often studied. One strange result was that he was often called on to talk to people who have delusional parasitology issues because collembola are one of the insects they tend to think are infesting their bodies!
Did you have to give the rabbit pornography to get him in the mood? There are many things I don’t know in this world, but I do know that rabbits seem to have no trouble with reproduction. Why on earth would they need the thing you mention? A program to Build Bigger and Better Bunnies? I remember watching a NatGeo special on pandas and their yearly mating activity which often results in failure. To get the boys in the mood, they showed them videos which, of course, were referred to as Panda Porn! I just saw on my FB feed… Read more »
G’, that jilly sure is a great conversationalist huh?!????
Anyway, speaking of Steven j. Gould, I did not say so at the time, but as he faced his mortality, I thought it was funny that Charlie Rose referred to Gould as an “author” or writer, not an evolutionist. As I recall, Gould seemed capable of conceding gaps in theory he favored, where Others would not.
My thought bubble of an “evolutionary psychologist” pictures a bespectacled guy in a lab coat asking questions and taking notes, in session with a fossilized Brontosaurus thigh bone, which is reclining on a therapy couch!????????????
Speaking of the ’80’s and Hurricanes,
I wonder if the ’80’s Metal band “The Scorpions”, did anything to inspire your current weather! ; – )
In any case I hope you weather the storm!
So has it let up?
I was worrying about you yesterday. Are you and your people okay?
I’m so glad!
My thought is that the attitude you mention is a monument to Ivy League “grade inflation”.????
In order to maintain a 4.0 gpa, how could anyone afford to ever be wrong?
Same for BHO, HRC, JFK, etc!
A bit naive here Jill. Schwitzer got push back and she is an evolutionist.
I daresay you are right. I do have a C.P. Snow-level of respect for science. Whereas I am not naive at all about the skulduggery that goes on in the average English Department!
Ruh Roh! “Weaponized words!”
Sounds like a Monty Python sketch! ; – )
What you claim as positive I see as malicious. The creationists agreed with Schwitzer. They were castigated for it (as was she a little). Opponents of soft tissue were not open to the possibility due to their religious devotion to their ideology. * years is far too long when experiments were easy to do and ongoing. A more appropriate response is to withhold judgment. And changing one’s mind without apologising for such vitriol is hubris which means that they still cannot be trusted and signals that it truth is still a casualty. I don’t know which creationists you speak to… Read more »
Yes, a more appropriate response is to withhold judgement. And I think they were mean and too wedded to their previous beliefs. And more of them should have apologized. Once again, though, I don’t find that particularly surprising, as its true in all of human nature. How many years did it take Pastor Wilson to apologize for Southern Slavery As It Was? People often have a hard time letting go. But at the same time, Schwitzer’s findings got publication, she had supporters of her interpretation right from the beginning, her institution let her keep doing the work, more and more… Read more »
Listened to that Laymen’s Cup interview — you done real good.