by Ian Juby | Nov 23, 2011 | CrEvo News Bites
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:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21228404.600-is-water-the-secret-of-the-dinosaur-death-pose.html
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.
by Ian Juby | Nov 23, 2011 | CrEvo News Bites
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.
by Ian Juby | Nov 13, 2011 | Creation Science Newsletter
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) 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:
http://completecreation.org
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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by Ian Juby | Jan 30, 2011 | Creation Science Newsletter
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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1) Random stuff I didn’t know where else to put
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:
https://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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2) New Video: Beneficial mutations & information
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> (more…)
by Ian Juby | Jan 11, 2011 | Rants, raves and commentary
This is the script for my video response to AronRa’s “8th foundational falsehood of creationism” video on youtube.
Ian Juby replies to “8th Foundational Falsehood of Creationism” by AronRa:
Hello everyone, sorry about the paucity of videos – been on the road for several months, so obviously production comes to a grinding halt. I’m presently working on three rants -two of which are going to require an enormous amount of work, plus my “Persuaded by the evidence” movie, plus I’m involved in a holywood production of a movie on Noah’s Flood, not to mention trying to get my portable museum built on the side. It’s been rather intense.
I recently was given a link to a
youtube video by AronRa entitled “The 8th foundational falsehood of Creationism: Mutations are rare, harmful decreases in genetic information.”
Now until a couple of weeks ago, I’d never even heard of AronRa, and suddenly had a rash of people handing me his videos. I will say this one was well presented, I especially liked the fact that he put the script on line, so kudos to him for that – I will, in fact, do the same with this video; I will post the transcript to my blog, which will also contain hyperlinks to the references I provide here. This is the address for the blog entry:
Part 1: crash course in genetics
I’m afraid though, AronRa’s video did not live up to his claims, and in fact was full of flagrant errors and blunders, from beginning to end, and I feel compelled to produce this video in response.
To explain to the layman first though, your DNA holds the genetic code, or program, which is the blueprints or instructions on how to build you and every single cell and part in your body. Changes to this DNA – be they programmed or accidental (like radiation damage for example), is referred to as a “mutation.”
The first major error AronRa made is in the title of the video and in his first statements in the video: “Mutations are rare” and “Creationists insist that mutations are rare”
Says who? I certainly do not claim they are rare, and every creationary geneticist that I know of emphasizes the great number of mutations that happen in our short lifetimes, and even the great number of mutations passed on generation to generation! In fact, that was the whole point of my
CrEvo Rant #78: Genetic entropy – a point with which I will close out this video because AronRa inadvertantly brought it up, and skirted around the issue. This was the whole point of geneticist
Dr. Jonathan Sanford’s book “Genetic entropy and the mystery of the genome.” The high frequency of mutations was the subject of many of the biology papers at the last International Conference on Creationism.
So, his reasons aside, let’s cut to the chase: the title and entire first part of AronRa’s video is in flagrant, gross error! It is completely untrue! We creationists do not claim mutations are rare, the exact opposite is true – we claim there are many, many mutations – in fact, we would say there are even more mutations than AronRa claimed in his video.
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