Evolution: Not Complicated!

This Isn't Rocket Surgery people. Scientists have just figured out that some animals didn't evolve from other ones which were previously thought to be common ancestors. Okay, fail right? But then this Wired article goes on about how the evolution researchers twist themselves in knots trying to figure out how something that plainly didn't happen, happened.

God made the hagfish, the lamprey, and the sea squirt. He made them like they are. If you went back to the century the world was made, you'd likely recognize the direct ancestors of all three of these, and find zero "transitionary forms" because there was never any transition. God made these animals. If you can accept the reality of a God to whom you are accountable, this is simple. If you can't* then you get to spend millions of dollars sequencing the genomes of slugs trying to figure out how they are related to chickens.

*can't means won't. This they willingly are ignorant of . . .

Extra-Fun (Not) Way To Spend The Day: Busted Computer.

My secondary hard drive apparently took a dump. I was up late fooling with the (stupid) computer, and then spent a good deal of time today running a full backup while the computer is functional. Now I get to play musical cables and figure out how to connect the IDE bus so it doesn't give errors without the 2nd hard drive in there.

Yes, IDE. Feel free to buy me a machine with SATA2 and DDR3 or whatever they are up to now. I was looking in the black friday sale ads and they are selling complete systems *with* displays for under $300.

I remember reading PC World when computers were $1000 for a super-cheap one, and the commentators were wondering if we would ever break the $500 barrier for low-end computers.

I guess so, huh?

Neutral Evolution: Humbug!

Wired would have you believe that "neutral evolution" theory has just demolished "another" alleged proof for Intelligent Design. For those unwilling to read 2 pages of solid hogwash, the cliffs version is that mitochondria are not irreducably complex and, therefore, proof of an 'intelligent designer.'

The only problem with the whole idea, for a thinking person, is that the article is proposing the equivalent of you, and your grandkids for a zillion years* growing a third arm that is used for absolutely nothing . . . and then one day deciding to walk around on your heretofore completely unused hand.

The unabashed creationist shakes his head at such foolishness.

*remember kiddies, the fairy tale of a stone turning into a man begins with "a long, long time ago. . . "

Evolutionists Shocked To Find "Vestigial" Appendix is Functional.

From Yahoo! News.

For a long time, nobody really knew what the human appendix was good for. So, according typical evolutionist thinking, it's good for nothing.

Hold on there.

Somebody went and took another look, and it seems the appendix is a valuable organ after all! Who knew?! Turns out, if you live in too clean an environment, it may give you trouble, but otherwise it's actually pretty helpful.

I found the linked Yahoo! article to be both amusing and sad. My favorite lowlight: " No less than Charles Darwin first suggested that the appendix was a vestigial organ" Really? The same Darwin who was too stupid to get a real job, so his daddy told him to go be a priest? Wow.

The general tone of the article is somewhat-stunned confusion at the discover of function in a bodily organ. A creationist just smiles and nods, realizing that God placed the appendix in the body for a reason that was too advanced for us to figure it out until now. Christians to evolutionists: welcome to having a clue. Now if you'd just believe in Jesus . . .

Texas Children No Longer To Be Taught Evolution

at least, they won't be taught the theory has flaws anymore.

Yes people, the theory of evolution is full of holes you could drive a truck carrying a tyrannosaurus rex through, but the children don't need to know that. Because, theoretically, eventually, that could lead to talking about some other theory of how nothing turned into everything, possibly even (gasp) creationism! The children might even look around and start thinking there is a God that made them! This MUST NOT be permitted.

No johnny carbon dating is absolutely perfect. No, human and dinosaur footprints have never been found in the same piece of rock. No, Darwin did not say if something irreducibly complex were found his theory would be invalid. No there is no God, you were not made you just happened.

The "scientists" in the teach/don't teach evolution flaws debate are about as fervid as the "rights advocates" in the give/don't give pre-abortion counseling debate. For the same reason: they are humanists. Google up what the supreme Court has said about humanism and you will understand why they can't give even a millimeter of ground to the intellectual enemy.

Meteor Craters: Fountains of the Deep?

I was considering the Barringer Meteor Crater the other day, when a thought came to mind that I had never had before. It has pretty obviously occurred to other people because there is some interesting debate on the topic online. You can google up your own information as well as I can, and most of the people with forums dedicated to the discussion are very anti- everything I believe in so I won't drive traffic to them on purpose. Suffice it to say, there is a LOT of thought that has been put into a LOT of words in some pretty interesting conversations out there.

Anywho, here's the thought I had, based on one of my first principles (the Bible is true, which has a corollary principle: the Earth is young): Are the huge meteor craters out there actually mislabeled? The Bible says

In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.

To me, that says there was some water somewhere underground, and it came out via multiple fountains. There would have to be a lot of water to cover the face of the whole earth, and the fountains would have to be pretty big. Could this have been one of them?

image from thelivingmoon.com

There would have been water flowing out in every direction, so one would not find evidence of rivers originating from the fountains. There seems to be a general lack of meteorites found in the craters which would make sense if they were fountains.

There are plenty of people who won't (will not, on purpose) believe in the flood. The changes on the face of the planet that could be from the events described in the Bible as happening at that time won't fit into their worldview. They may be expected to expend great amounts of time, energy, and money to prove the Bible false. They have failed so far, but may be expected to keep trying.

One thing you will find true regardless of what you think made the craters: there are some astonishing photographs of them available online.