I’ve heard the anti-creationists whine so often about how we’re so “poorly designed,” that it has inspired not one, but two CrEvo rants. The first rant, where I dealt with the argument from a general point of view was just to show the incredibly arrogant falacy of such claims:
CrEvo Rant #67: Poor Design? (Lessons from the robots, Part 1)
The second rant was also my most recent, spurned by the most common “poor design” argument of all, the ridiculous claim that the human eye was “poorly designed.”
Well now looky here! After years of anti-creationist mantra about how the human eye is a poor design (and the creationary community pointing out for many years why the human eye is designed the way it is), the anti-creationists now turn around and give credit to the god of evolution for the incredible design of the eye!
Comments from the famous theistic evolutionist, Dr. Kenneth Miller at the end are especially noteworthy: ” However, Kenneth Miller, a biologist at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island cautions that this doesn’t mean that the backwards retina itself helps us to see. Rather, it emphasises the extent to which evolution has coped with the flawed layout. “The shape, orientation and structure of the Müller cells help the retina to overcome one of the principal shortcomings of its inside-out wiring,” says Miller.”
C’mon Miller! Get with the times and do some research, and catch up on the facts the creationary camp has been pointing out for years! The eye was built with an “inverted retina” for a reason:
Of course, this is typical behaviour of the anti-creationist camp – evolution has hindered medical research. For many, many years, if a particular organ seemed to have no function, it was immediately labeled as a “vestigial organ” – a useless leftover from our evolutionary history. The Creationary camp of course, would look at it, assuming the human body was designed they would assume therefore that this organ must have a purupose, and went searching for the purpose. This has led to the advancement of discovery and science, whereas evolution has retarded science and medical research. Once again, we see this hindrance of scientific research rearing its ugly head. Creationists once again lead the way in discovery because we sought an answer, instead of assuming there wasn’t one, and it has to do with our world view. Your world view effects everything you do, including your science.
“CrEvo News Bites” are short commentaries from Ian Juby on current events relating to creation and evolution. You can subscribe by visiting his blog at: https://ianjuby.org/newsletter. He has many informative hours of video available for free viewing on line, including his exhaustive, 12-hour “Complete Creation” video series – a veritable video encyclopedia. http://completecreation.orghttp://youtube.com/wazooloo
(photo courtesy of Phil Battley, from Plosbiology Creative commons licensing)
From the “Incredible creation” files, satellite tracking tags on migratory birds have now demonstrated a shattered record for long-distance migration.
Known migration patterns are already amazing, what with examples like the hummingbird crossing the Gulf of Mexico in one flight, the American Golden Plovers flying 4,000 kms between Nova Scotia and South America, and the Red Knots flying 4,800 kms between the Wadden sea and Taymyr.
The hummingbird takes between 18 and 24 hours to fly across the Gulf of Mexico (depending on weather) – let’s say it’s an average of 20 hours. At an average of 40 beats per second, that’s 2,880,000 wing beats, non-stop!
But all of this is nothing. With the aid of ultra-small satellite tracking tags on the Alaskan bar-tailed godwit, a new record has been set.
Are you sitting down?
We now know that the godwit flies from Alaska to Australia in one, 8-day, 11,000 km, non-stop flight.
An extended-range 747 jumbo jet can fly ~14,000 kms, whereas the new double-decker airbus 380 (shown below) can fly around 15,000 kms.
Such aircraft require a lot of careful engineering just for the guidance systems, let alone flight control, etc… No one would make the preposterous suggestion that these aircraft were not designed. And yet the godwit blows the doors off the aircraft in efficiency, energy consumption, internal guidance system, etc… In fact, a couple of the godwits that were originally tagged didn’t make it to New Zealand because the tags messed up the design of the bird! The satellite tags had to be re-engineered and surgically implanted so as not to interfere with the flight of the bird.
All throughout the Plos article, you can see the necessary nod to evolutionism that must be made in any scientific publication (lest you be barred from being a “real scientist”), and yet the authors are stymied and can’t help but use the word “design:”
“Fit for Purpose—What Is the Optimal Design for Long-Distance Flight?”
“We know that the godwit displays no exceptional design features…”
They also can’t figure out how on earth all of this could have evolved – or why for that matter.
“How Did Such Long-Distance Migration Evolve?”
” It is unlikely that naïve short distance migratory birds accidentally reached
New Zealand to establish this migration route…”
Well, the reason they can’t figure out how or why such a system evolved is because the godwit was incredibly designed.
“CrEvo News Bites” are short commentaries from Ian Juby on current events relating to creation and evolution. You can subscribe by visiting his blog at: https://ianjuby.org/newsletter. He has many informative hours of video available for free viewing on line, including his exhaustive, 12-hour “Complete Creation” video series – a veritable video encyclopedia. http://completecreation.orghttp://youtube.com/wazooloo
Today’s New Bite is actually old news – a meteorite reported on back in 1996, claimed to be from mars, and allegedly containing fossils of bacteria within.
(Photo courtesy NASA)
The original research was rejected by the majority of scientists – and with good reason. However, the researchers have brought it back from the dead to go for another round.
Now of course, the meteorite wasn’t found on mars, it was found in Antarctica! So how then do we know the rock came from mars? Science is based on observation, using our five senses (even if those senses are extended by machinery), so as it was so aptly put by ScienceAgainstEvolution.org, we know the rock came from mars because:
a) it looks like it came from mars
b) it smells like it came from mars
c) it tastes like it came from mars
d) it sounds like it came from mars
e) it feels like it came from mars
When you glance through the Washington post article, you’ll notice:
“the meteorites they are studying — which can be identified as Martian because the gases inside them match the Martian atmosphere — contain the remains of living organisms.”
So then according to NASA, the correct answer is b) we know the rock is from mars because it smells like it came from mars. There is no other reason to believe the meteorite came from mars.
So the source of the rock is highly questionable at best. Then there’s the matter of the “fossil bacteria” found within the rock, which has been hotly debated by the evolutionary scientists themselves, with the majority rejecting the “fossils” as such, and instead claiming these are nothing more then geological artifacts.
The “martian meteor” researcher, McKay “pointed to the presence of what appear to be fossilized microbes in other Martian meteorites,” according to Washington post. Now hold on a minute here: Let’s say that this is true. Let’s say that yes, there are multiple meteorites that have been found with fossil bacteria in them. The idea that multiple meteorites could be launched from mars, each with fossil bacteria in them, on a favourable trajectory that allowed the meteorites to land on earth, is stretching credibility to the breaking point frankly.
Instead, I would suggest that a far more feasible explanation would be that these rocks came from earth, and are simply returning home. “How?” you might ask, to which I would simply encourage you to read through Dr. Walter T. Brown’s hydroplate model, and in particular his chapter on the origin of comets, meteoroids and asteroids. His entire book is available on line, for free at http://creationscience.com
This is a vastly superior model to any evolutionary model which has rocks from mars somehow magically getting ejected into space and landing on earth.
“CrEvo News Bites” are short commentaries from Ian Juby on current events relating to creation and evolution. You can subscribe by visiting his blog at: https://ianjuby.org/newsletter. He has many informative hours of video available for free viewing on line, including his exhaustive, 12-hour “Complete Creation” video series – a veritable video encyclopedia. http://completecreation.orghttp://youtube.com/wazooloo
Those of you who’ve read my response to Sciam’s “The Human Pedigree” (https://ianjuby.org/jan2009sciam2.html#pedigree) will already be aware of my opinion of the Neanderthals: They’re human. Everything about them is human – even passing the OculusTM test with flying colours (skull on left):
A new study of Neanderthal genetic code has just been unveiled, concluding that Neanderthals bred with humans:
In order to breed with humans, they must be human. Now of course, I’ve been saying this for years – so it’s nice to see some affirmation of this from a genetic study. However, this isn’t the first genetic study that’s been carried out. In fact, as Dr. Sean Pitman points out in his web article (http://www.detectingdesign.com/earlyman.html about 2/3 of the way down the page) the human samples were farter apart from each other, genetically, then they were from Neanderthal!
There are no ape-men. Everything about Neanderthal in particular, is completely human.
“CrEvo News Bites” are short commentaries from Ian Juby on current events relating to creation and evolution. You can subscribe by visiting his blog at: https://ianjuby.org/newsletter. He has many informative hours of video available for free viewing on line, including his exhaustive, 12-hour “Complete Creation” video series – a veritable video encyclopedia. http://completecreation.orghttp://youtube.com/wazooloo
Now this is fascinating, but let us not forget that we still don’t know how on earth all of these cultures (like the Mayans) built the pyramids, so it should come as no surprise that they had things like plumbing!
It is an evolutionary concept to suggest that people were “stupider” in the past (i.e., we were evolving from less-intelligent apes, according to evolutionary theory). Adam and Eve of the Bible (the first created humans) were super-human, living to almost 1,000 years old. Just think of all that could be learned in that time. There are plenty of examples of ancient technology, including some examples which we still cannot explain to this day. The people who constructed these buildings/artifacts were so smart, that many have tried to explain it away as instruction from alien intelligence!
I discuss this in great detail in part 8 of “The Complete Creation,” viewable for free on line, complete with free home school resources for the videos at: http://completecreation.org
“CrEvo News Bites” are short commentaries from Ian Juby on current events relating to creation and evolution. You can subscribe by visiting his blog at: https://ianjuby.org/newsletter. He has many informative hours of video available for free viewing on line, including his exhaustive, 12-hour “Complete Creation” video series – a veritable video encyclopedia. http://completecreation.orghttp://youtube.com/wazooloo
I’ve heard the anti-creationists whine so often about how we’re so “poorly designed,” that it has inspired not one, but two CrEvo rants. The first rant, where I dealt with the argument from a general point of view was just to show the incredibly arrogant falacy of such claims:
