Don’t matter – it proves evolution! This is Genesis Week, Season 1, Episode 1
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:
Newest Rant: Evolution and the Origin of Life
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)
December 5, 2011 CrEvo News with Ian Juby and CORE Ottawa
1) Portable Creation Museum Project: An update
2) Youtube producers and wanna bees: Epic Evolution Pwnage Contest!
3) Would you believe, new CrEvo rants?
4) Persuaded by the evidence – part 2
5) More Chimp and Human DNA stuff
6) Donating to CORE Ottawa
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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. (more…)
Announcing the first ever Epic Evolution Pwnage contest!
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!
Alien Skull???
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. Â 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. Â It is a modified human, that’s all.
