Any person or scientist who claims to pursue truth has to take notice of the astounding research available. Evolution will be seen as the shamanism of age.
May 12, 2012
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Science is Reliable (Sorry, Skeptics: No Grand Conspiracy against God)
The old “might makes right” argument. Yet current science is proven wrong all the time. Weak-sauce. Oddly, while ‘testamony of multiple persons’ gives an argument validity, it is not at all scientific proof of “rightness”.Consider the case of Francis Collins and Michael Behe, who are both Christians, although that is not technically important for the point I am making.
Collins is a well-respected geneticist who headed the Human Genome Project and, as of right now, directs the National Institutes of Health, overseeing the largest biomedical research budget in the world. He has written several books, including the bestseller The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief. In 2011 he and I coauthored The Language of Faith and Science: Straight Answers to Genuine Questions. In both of these books, in his public presentations and in his many research papers he affirms the theory of evolution and the adequacy of that theory to explain the development of life on this planet.
Michael Behe is a fully credentialed biochemist tenured at Lehigh University, a respected research institution. He has published more than a hundred research papers and has written two bestselling books: Darwin’s Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution and The Edge of Evolution: The Search for the Limits of Darwinism. In both of these books he denies the theory of evolution by natural selection, claiming it cannot account for the development of life on this planet. He promotes intelligent design as a superior explanation.
Who is right—Collins or Behe? And how do we decide? Almost all the controversies about science within the evangelical world—and elsewhere—come down to this sort of situation— multiple experts, often impressively credentialed, but with opposing views. Behe and Collins both claim to speak for science.
I want to suggest that, despite the apparent symmetry of the two sides in this case, that Collins should clearly be preferred over Behe. Collins promotes scientific ideas that are shared by tens of thousands of other credentialed scientists.
The pages of leading science magazines discuss those ideas. Scientific meetings put those ideas on their programs. Grants are awarded to study those ideas. Biotechnology companies research new products based on those ideas. Some pharmaceutical companies even have products for sale based on those ideas. In contrast, Behe’s ideas are shared by a tiny number of scientists, and most of them are less credentialed than he is. Collins’s group of colleagues is hundreds, perhaps thousands of times larger than Behe’s.
(Source: azspot)
May 9, 2012
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"Occasionally, scientists turn everyday beliefs into facts, or explain the workings of intuitively obvious things with their experiments. But facts about the workings of the universe, including the one inside your head, are not necessarily intuitively obvious. Sometimes, intuitions are just wrong—the world seems flat but it is not—and science’s role is to convert these commonsense notions into myths, changing truisms into “old wives’ tales.” Frequently, though, we simply have no prior intuitions about something that scientists discover—there is no reason why we should have deep-seated opinions about the existence of black holes in space, or the importance of sodium, potassium, and calcium in the inner workings of a brain cell. Things that are obvious are not necessarily true, and many things that are true are not at all obvious."
- The Emotional Brain by Joseph LeDoux. (via scipsy)
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May 1, 2012
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"If you are really a product of a materialistic universe, how is it that you don’t feel at home there?"
- C.S Lewis, Encounter With Light (via stevens-cat)
April 30, 2012
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April 20, 2012
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Ocean Chemistry, Calcium May Have Led to Explosion of Life
More than 500 million years ago, during a time known as the Cambrian explosion, novel categories of multicellular life forms appeared in a carnival of biological innovation unmatched in our planet’s history. New research ties together this burst with an ancient mystery called the Great Unconformity.
The Great Unconformity refers to the huge gaps left in the planet’s rock record where relatively young sedimentary rocks — still a few hundred million years old — sit atop much older igneous and metamorphic rocks. For example, in the Grand Canyon, 1.7-billion-year-old metamorphic rock is topped by a layer of sandstone that’s about 500 million years old. Similar unconformities exist throughout much of the world, leaving a limited record precisely when life was advancing so quickly.
Read more: http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news-Ocean-Chemistry-Calcium-May-Have-Led-to-Explosion-of-Life-042012.aspxposted without comment
April 14, 2012
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According to evolutionists changing theory of the age of the earth, it is ageing at a rapid 21 million years per year, or 40 years per minute.
ha! Source?
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"37% of US college graduates believe that God created humans in their present form about 10,000 years ago."
- According to a 2010 Gallup Poll (via reagancharlescook)
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"What these legislators and their religious supporters don’t understand is this: Evolution is not controversial within scientific circles, and so it should not be taught as controversial in science classrooms. Teach the controversy in history class, sure. (And don’t forget to mention Dayton!) Teach it in Sunday school. But don’t teach it in public high school science classes. To teach creationism and intelligent design as equals alongside evolutionary theory is incredibly misleading, and it fails massively to prepare students to excel in the sciences in the future."
- Rachel Held Evans: Thoughts on the Tennessee “Monkey Bill” (via azspot)
How can more information cause anyone to fail to be prepared? Yet another senseless argument. I would not be at all surprised if everyone screams bloody murder, but after the fact, students are quite content, and especially those of faith, as they would be allowed to engage in science.(via azspot)
April 13, 2012
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The Flying GurnardsThe flying gurnards are a family, Dactylopteridae, of marine fish notable for their greatly enlarged pectoral fins.They have also been observed to walk along sandy sea floors while looking for crustaceans and other small invertebrates by using their pelvic fins.
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April 12, 2012
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“Oldest living thing on earth” discovered
This is the headline with the thesis under it telling us some grass is 200,000 years old.
When you read down though you find that the study tells us that this grass is ‘between 12,000 and 200,000 years old’.
A 188,000 year error margin…this is what passes for science.
More junk evolution padding ‘science’ that if you even bat your eye at it, your branded an idiot.
My contention exactly. I attribute this to a “no challenge environment”. All the Creation Scientists & organizations that challenge the establishment are extremely minor voices to entrenched educators backed by the world’s biggest government.
