In this episode: Viruses evolve rapidly while horseshoe crabs do not, telomeres actually prove creation, Indiana approves a bill to teach creation in the classroom, and we dive into the mailbag and deal with the Paluxy fossil human footprints.
In this episode: Belief in evolution is nothing more than a gut feeling, the NCSE turns up the heat on global warming in the classroom, and we dive into the mailbox. This is episode 5 of season 1.
Here it is in all its glory, Episode 4. In this episode, we respond to the claim of multicellular life from single-celled life in the lab, Marcelo Gleiser’s NPR blog, and we dig into the mailbag:
In this episode, A Universe from Nothing, the Flood Movie Science Reviewe, a giant fossil human footprint, and we dive into the mailbag.
In this episode we discuss Dr. Jack Horner’s “chickenasaurus,” more teaching of creation in public schools, and we cover emails received containing some mysterious white powder.
In this episode:
Armpit hair and bedbugs prove evolution, Potholer needs to be filled in on thermodynamics, and we open a few letter bombs from our viewers:
Here it is in all its glory, now with closed captions for the hearing impaired (just turn on the Closed Captions in the bottom right corner of the video)
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1) Portable Creation Museum Project: An update
It’s been too long since I sent out an update, or managed to get any real work done on the portable creation museum project. I’m excited to give this update, and I’ll be sending out some updates over the next several months as I work on exhibits.
Here is an update video showing the containers and the prototype leg for the lift system, and I talk on where we’re at, some of the challenges, and the steps I’ll be taking the next little while.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fu1sPZomJX0
I’m especially excited over the next several months as I start working on building some new exhibits (animatronic dinosaurs, and Grand Canyon model in particular), as well as upgrading all of my present exhibits to be a stand-alone exhibition. Why? Well I’m so glad you asked! :)
In the new year, I am already booked into two venues with my museum as a special exhibition. As many of you who have seen my exhibits know, they are not “stand alone.” In other words, I need to be there to explain what each artifact is and why it’s significant. A stand-alone exhibit has plaques and a method of display for each artifact, which is what I’ll be working on over the next several months. I held a vote on facebook, and facebook friends voted to start on Dracorex for the first animatronic dinosaur, so I’ll be starting on that and the Grand Canyon model. Read the rest of this entry »
Yup – win yerself a gen-u-whine Captain Antagonator costume (we expect to see you on youtube wearing it!), all three volumes of my CrEvo Rants on DVD, and $50 Canadian cash prize (payable via paypal) by producing a 2-minute-or-less video on your favourite scientific evidence against evolution or for creation, and impress our judges enough that they pick your video!
Your video must be posted as a video response to this video:
Oh – and this video also explains the contest.
See y’all out there ranting!
Had a pile of people asking me about this “Alien skull” that was found in Peru.
Like something straight outa Indiana Jones and the crystal skull, a child’s skeleton with a bizarre, elongated skull has come to light:
Story is here:
Lots ‘o photos here:
To add to the fray, several “scientists” from Russia and Spain claimed it was an alien skull.
This is actually old news – I’d seen skulls like this some 15 years ago. I was quite shocked at first (as I’m sure some viewers have been), however, this is typical head binding and Trephination. Trephination is the drilling of a hole in the skull, and head binding is a practice of binding a newborn’s head with a board and cushion, in order to shape the child’s skull as it develops. This practice is actually found all over the world, and usually used in conjunction with trephination, in order to relieve pressures in the skull from the head binding.
Some other examples:
http://www.skullsunlimited.com/record_species.php?id=1959
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/71151/body-modifications-and-mutilations/8270/The-head
http://opposingdigits.com/forums/about1265.html&highlight=
No one really knows why cultures do this, but there is a lot of mutilation or modification of the human body in a lot of cultures.
Now in the case of the new peruvian skull, yes, the skull is unusually large – but that can be a variety of reasons and yet it’s still completely human.
In short, I disagree that it’s an alien skull. It is a modified human, that’s all.
Yup, as I have contended for many years now, the classic “death pose” position in which we find so many organisms (most notably the dinosaurs), seems to be cause by water.
I talked about this in Complete Creation, part 3, and previously on this webpage.
I was focusing on asphyxiation and rapid burial, with Padian and Faux essentially coming to the same conclusion in their 2007 paper.
Now it seems another method of achieving the “death pose” post-mortem (after death) can also be accomplished, using…..(wait for it)….water!
Read all about it:
So once again the death of the dinosaurs and the resulting “death pose” is a consequence of water. The best explanation for the death of the dinosaurs is a global flood. Always has been the best explanation, always will be, because it matches the evidence.
I’ve been bombarded this past week with people asking about the fossil whales found during the expansion of a highway in Chile:
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/trending-now/ancient-whale-bones-discovered-desert-parents-outraged-hooters-165721306.html
Everyone already gets it – it was a world-wide flood that put’em there. :) Not much to comment except this isn’t the first case of a whale in the wrong place, probably won’t be the last. We find marine critters like the Mosasaur, found in the middle of Texas. Not far from my home in Ontario was found the “Mount Pakenham Whale” – fossilized remains found 500 feet above sea level, probably close to 1,000 kilometers inland from the ocean. Of course, they’re blaming that one on isostatic rebound after the ice age, of which for a variety of reasons I’m skeptical. It makes a lot more sense to just explain it within the context of a world-wide flood.
This is the “When I get a round tooit” Creation/Evolution newsletter from Ian Juby and CORE Ottawa
In this newsletter:
1) Latest research: East Coast Planation surfaces – powerful evidence of Noah’s flood
2) A whooole mess o’ new rants, and a new youtube show!
3) New CrEvo Rants DVD
4) Persuaded by the evidence – part 1 released!
5) Vance Nelson responds to critique of dinosaur petroglyph
6) Interesting new video: “The elusive identity of Leviathan”
7) Flood science review – finished!!!
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1) Latest research: East Coast Planation surfaces – powerful evidence of Noah’s flood
So I’ve had the privilege of heading over to Newfoundland multiple times in the past two years. Last fall, the Habermehl family was hosting me in Halifax and we went to the Halifax museum of natural history. The children wanted to head downstairs, and I’m so glad they did. When we got down there, there was a poster on the wall which was an aerial photo of the Cape Breton Highlands, which I’ve visited multiple times. What I hadn’t noticed during my visits there was that the tops of the mountains are planed off flat. (see picture right)
This is what geologists call a planation surface, and they are found literally all over the world. One example is found on the Alberta/Saskatchewan border in Cypress Hills Provincial park. The fun part about that planation surface is that it is covered in rounded rocks called quartzite, which is incredibly tough. The rocks originally came from 800 kms away in Idaho, and were transported to Alberta in deep water moving at least 110 km.hr (70 mph)! I discuss this in detail in part 4 of “The Complete Creation” video series, available for viewing for free:
In fact, the speed of the water which transported these rocks to Cypress Hills is significant in the interpretation and understanding planation surfaces, including the one found at the Joggins fossil cliffs in Nova Scotia. you’ll notice that the top of the cliff has been planed flat – dramatically so in fact. As my one geologist friend said when he saw the pictures: “Look at that! You could lay a ruler on it!”
Joggins Fossil Cliffs, Nova Scotia, Canada (Notice people on the beach for scale)
The Joggins cliffs make for an excellent teaching example of what planation surfaces are, and why we know what we do. Please note that the rock layers are tilted to the south (to the right in the photo above), typically about a 22 degree angle, and the top of the cliff was planed off flat. The gravels and sand on top were probably brought in by glaciers after the planation surface was made, or they could be leftovers from the flow that cut the layers off.
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Welcome to all of the new subscribers!
This is the “When I get a round tooit” Creation/Evolution newsletter from Ian Juby and CORE Ottawa
In this newsletter:
1) Random stuff I didn’t know where else to put
2) New Video: Beneficial mutations & information
3) Cretaceous Hammer Time! (The London artifact, a fossil hammer)
4) Vacation Bible School
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It’s been a wild time. Please pray for me, as the Lord kindly gifted me in many ways….but organization was not one of them! Here are some random updates on various projects I’m working on:
“Persuaded by the evidence”
For a variety of reasons, this movie is now about five months behind schedule, but lots of progress has been made in the past couple of weeks. I had to re-shoot the opener 11 times already. It really should be re-shot again, but I’m not going to, I’ll work with what I have. I hope to have the video released within the month, please pray for the project.
Portable Creation Museum`
With the sponsorship from Zign Creations (who just had their software featured for the fourth time in 3D world magazine!), I was able to purchase all the steel and almost all of the hydraulics needed for the lift legs. The legs will look like what is seen below. Construction of the prototype leg has started, but was put to the side while I try desperately to get “Persuaded by the evidence” finished. The steel turned out to be attrociously more expensive than I’d originally planned, but I’m very happy with the design.
The legs extend hydraulically, lifting the container off the ground as shown. The truck drives underneath, container is lowered onto the truck and hauled off to the next destination.
CrEvo Rant #110: “Natural selection gets pwned”
Working on several rants at the present, but this is my favourite. Hope to have it done soon, but am awaiting artwork. The premise dealt with is the erroneous claim that natural selection is the “guiding force” behind evolution. So of course, with a subject like natural selection – laughs abound. I’ve been hacking at it on the side, with “Persuaded” being the primary job right now.
Scene right is the two scientists in the labs of Cold Fusion Solutions. Hint: They get pwned. :)
The Flood movie
As y’all know, I’ve a part of the technical review team for a Hollywood production on Noah’s Flood. We, the technical review team, have been debating the science behind the film and its premise for over a year now, and we’re just finishing up those deliberations. The last round alone had about 250 pages of reading, so it’s a lot of work. Please pray for all of us as the producers figure out what the next steps in the process will be. The results of the technical review panel will be published in an e-book later on this year.
Rock Solid Answers
As some of you will recall, I had the privilege of authoring a chapter in the book “Rock Solid Answers: The Biblical Truth Behind 14 Geological Questions,” edited by Mike Oard and John Reed. This is a fantastic book I’d highly recommend. And no, I do not get a single penny from the sale of that book, it’s just 
an excellent book. Mike and John wanted to put together a book answering the common claims of old-earth, anti-creation advocates. Rock Solid Answers was the result. Geared for the layman, it is technical (it needs to be) but readable.
The chapter I wrote was on the polystrate fossils of Joggins, Nova Scotia. These fossils have been used since the beginning of the old-earth movement to convince people that the earth is millions of years old. In actual fact, the fossil cliffs provide powerful evidence for Noah’s flood, and refute the ideas of deep time. This chapter, Chapter 13, is now available on line for free reading here:
http://ianjuby.org/rock_solid_13.html
E-newsletter
If you’re reading this, then it must mean I managed to get a newsletter finished and sent off. :)
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I have NO idea why – but it seems the past couple of months, I have been inundated with questions about mutations, information in the genetic code, etc… That subject seems to be the rage lately.
I got an email from one skeptic, pointing to a video on youtube by user “AronRa” entitled the “8th Foundational Falsehood of Creationism: Mutations are rare, harmful decreases in genetic information.”
It turns out that AronRa has been posting the claims he made in this video allll over the internet, and his video was quite a big hit on youtube. His video was an impressive sounding string of anti-creation, pro-evolution arguments, but was actually a compilation of glaring errors! So I put together a video response. Within three days of posting the video, it had garnered over 300 comments, 2,000 views, and youtube emailing me suggesting I apply for the affiliate program!
In typical response, the atheists systematically ganged up on my video to vote it down and leave nasty comments….not realizing that in so doing, they actually promote the video. <big ‘ol grin> Read the rest of this entry »