RESEARCHERS CAN'T BELIEVE IN THE FLOOD

Here is the latest evidence of a world-wide flood, but the researchers have to interpret from their very old age perspective.

Giant sea creatures that filled Earth's oceans for ages began dying off in vast numbers approximately 2.6 million years ago, and researchers say supernovas may have played a role. Stellar radiation from a string of nearby star explosions would have drastically affected the animals, likely triggering the Pliocene marine megafauna extinction along with climate changes at the time, according to findings accepted for publication in Astrobiology.

LiveScience (12/12) 

130 MILLION YEARS OR MAYBE A LOT LESS

This news came across the wires today:
Blubber, skin preserved in 180M-year-old ichthyosaur fossil

Researchers have found blubber and skin preserved inside the fossil of an ichthyosaur that dates back about 180 million years. The findings, published in Nature, suggest that the marine reptile was warm-blooded and offer hints about its camouflage pattern.

There is no way blubber and skin can be preserved more that a few thousand years at best, I would be ashamed to publish such a story!

VANILLA SUPPORTS EVIDENCE OF EARLY MANKIND

Another archaeological find supporting the creation model of early mankind:
 Evidence of early vanilla use found in Bronze Age Israeli jugs

Vanilla was in use in Israel about 3,600 years ago, much earlier than previously thought, according to findings presented at the American Schools of Oriental Research annual meeting. Archaeologists detected traces in Bronze Age jugs found at the Megiddo dig site.

Science News (11/19) 

MORE EVIDENCE OF EARLY MANKIND

Here is a news article that shows early man was smarter than ape men:
Dots carved in Azerbaijani stone expose ancient game's global movement

A collection of dots carved into stone in an approximately 4,000-year-old rock-shelter in Azerbaijan is an example of a game called 58 holes, or Hounds and Jackals, previously believed to only have been played in the Near East during the Bronze Age, according to findings presented at the American Schools of Oriental Research annual meeting. "Bronze Age herders in that region must have had contacts with the Near Eastern world," said Walter Crist, the archaeologist who made the discovery.

Science News (11/16) 

EVIDENCE OF PRE-FLOOD HUMANS IN AFRICA

The creation model says that the world was a tropical forest place with daily dew supplying the moisture to the plants. After the flood and after the world was divided we have today's continents with the Sahara desert in Africa. I am not surprised at this news release except it has the dates really wrong:
Rainy, green Arabia may have greeted hominids at least 300K years ago

Stone tools and animal fossils found in Saudi Arabia that date back between 300,000 and 500,000 years ago hint that hominids traveled through what is now a desert when it was green and rainy. Marks found on the fossils suggest the animals may have been butchered, and a chemical study of animal teeth shows evidence of a grassier environment, according to findings published online in Nature Ecology & Evolution.

Science News (11/1) 

Of course the creation model has no eating of animals before the flood so this evidence could be after the flood and before the Sahara dried up. At least it is interesting for me to speculate on the evidence. I can make up stories just like the evolutionists can.

Dating of fossils

This news story tells the problem of evolutionary dating of fossils:

The 120-million-year-old fossil of a bird that lived among the dinosaurs has been found in China, and paleontologists were surprised to find well-preserved fossilized lungs within its chest cavity, according to findings presented at the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology's annual meeting. The fossil of Archaeorhynchus spathula also includes preserved feathers.

LiveScience (10/19) 

It is obvious that a creation dating of this fossil is much more adequate. A fossil with lungs and feathers is obviously only a few thousand years old, not millions of years.

Ancient writing before the Flood

This was my email exchange today with Lester Verigan:

Thank you so much for your comments.  God’s timing is always perfect.  I have had my jude3ministries.org website up and running for some time, but I am now seeking to launch the public speaking part of it.  Obviously, CRS, AIG, ICR, and the other big groups cannot possibly reach every church or youth group that can benefit from the creationist message.  That’s the niche I would like to fill.  My degrees are in Psychology and Human Relations/Counseling, so (except for some courses in Experimental Psychology during my Masters program), I am not trained as a research scientist.  My knowledge of the creation-evolution controversy has been gained through over 40 years of personal reading and study.  Your comments have encouraged me to not be intimidated by the “experts”, but to trust the Lord to use me.  Thank you, again.

Sent from Mail for Windows 10

From: car926@aol.com
Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2018 7:01 PM
To: lcpav1213@gmail.com
Subject: Fwd: CRS Quarterly Article

Lester,

I can't tell you how much I appreciate your article on the Tablet model in the CRS Quarterly. I just now got around to reading it. The tablet concept is new to me just this last year after reading Henry Morris book Biblical Creationism.

I think you made very cogent arguments for the concept and the reply by Anderson was lame. I am a rocket scientist and not a bible historian. I am teaching Bible studies and have taught Sunday School all of my life.

Your arguments make great sense and I applaud your efforts.

Thanks,

Charles

Charles A. Rodenberger, PhD, PE

Professor Emeritus, Aerospace Engineering

It is time I returned to posting to this blog. The current news on attempts to teach the truth in science education are in this news report today:

Arizona Parents, Teachers Blast Proposed Science Standards.

The Arizona Republic  (9/24) reports that teachers and parents “on Monday rallied outside an Arizona Board of Education meeting, and then took turns during the meeting blasting a proposal to remove references to evolution and climate change from state science standards.” They also expressed “outrage” over a separate proposal by state Superintendent of Public Instruction Diane Douglas “to replace all the education standards for K-12 district and charter schools with a set developed by a private college in Michigan with ties to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.” Douglas “addressed the science standards controversy during the discussion of the revisions,” saying that the “focus of the draft science standards is not to introduce intelligent design,” but “rather to clearly define the strengths and weaknesses of evolution theory.” The state “board is expected to vote on the science standards at next month’s meeting,” but it is “unclear if or when it may vote on Douglas’ proposal to replace all Arizona standards” with the so-called “Hillsdale standards.”

It is almost impossible to present the theory of creation science in public schools today. But I am glad someone is trying. I appreciate DeVos working on the problem. Good luck and God bless.