PERMAFROST PUPPIES

This is more evidence for the creation science model of a young earth. According to our creation model all animals and mankind ate only vegetation before the Flood. I believe that these dogs were pre-flood animals. Here is some of the story copied from Creation Ministries site:

They say these dogs are 12,400 years old, but their organs and fur are intact, along with remains of their last meal.

Permafrost is thawing in Russia, and with it, astonishing discoveries of animals and plants from long ago. Siberia’s frozen mammoths are well known, but PhysOrg reports that the discovery of two exquisitely-preserved puppies is a first:

“To find a carnivorous mammal intact with skin, fur and internal organs—this has never happened before in history,” said Sergei Fyodorov, head of exhibitions at the Mammoth Museum of the North-Eastern Federal University in the regional capital of Yakutsk.

Be assured that this is not an April Fool prank. It’s been reported in Discovery News, Science Alert, and The Guardian. Well, maybe the latter’s headline “Bark to the Future” is over the line, along with suggestions the find will reveal something about “canine evolution,” but really: scientists are eagerly examining the remains, dubbed the “Tumat puppies” after the nearest village. They are hoping to do genomic testing and compare the dogs’ brains with those of modern dogs. The newly discovered specimen appears to be from the same litter as one found in 2011.

The most complete report with the most photos is in the Siberian Times, with a video clip of scientists holding and cleaning the specimen, chattering in Russian and English. Apparent butchering marks on some nearby mammoth bones, along with evidence of fire, suggest that humans were on the scene. Maybe these were domesticated dogs, at least partially.

Dates of 12,400 years are being assigned to the carcasses. Preservation of puppies is rare, the reports say, because they have thin bones and delicate skulls. What did it eat for its last meal? “When we opened it [the stomach], we were very surprised. The second puppy’s stomach is mostly full of twigs and grass,” Fyodorov said. He thinks “perhaps the animals were not exclusively carnivorous or whether they started eating grass after they were trapped by a mudslide and began to starve.”

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RETURN FROM VACATION

This is a return from my vacation from writing this blog. I have a lot of new ideas that I want to share and will be posting from time to time. The following is copied from a recent Livestock Weekly Column:

I am greatly encouraged by a story I read in Acts and Facts published by the Institute of Creation Research. The story tells about the launch March 18 that will place Astronaut Col. Jeffry Williams back for another six months’ tour of duty on the International Space Station. Col. Williams sees God’s design in the details of the earth. And how God’s laws are behind all of the physics and mathematics that lets us design and operate space vehicles. He can see how vibrant the Earth is with all the systems that support life on earth. It is great to have a creation scientist performing scientific studies on the ISS.

I have been adding some creation science comments in my column for the last couple of months. 

My latest interest is in carbon 14 dating. I would like to examine C14 dating using a young earth assumption. Questions like was there any C14 in the original atmosphere of the earth? The current C14 dating process assumes that C14 is formed from high energy particles striking N14 and removing a proton to create C14 and that this has been constant for at least 100,000 years. This doesn't fit my young earth model so I would like to look at several approaches that would and to examine C14 data that is rapidly accumulating in labs.

APOLLO 11 45TH ANNIVERSARY

I was riveted to the TV screen when Armstong stepped onto the moon. In the summer of 1961 I worked for GD Astronautics where I designed the liquid hydrogen and oxygen tanks for the second staged of the Saturn rocket. My design didn't win the competition because of inexperience with sandwich construction by GD Astro. The summer of '62 I designed a table at Hexcel Corporation in Berkeley, CA that was used to test the reaction rockets for the Apollo Command Module. The table had to move through 180 degrees with no deflection. That was a tough design problem but we got the deflection under a few thousands of an inch.
Then summer of '63 I worked for NASA in Houston on the structural design of the Command Module and the Lunar Lander. My primary assignment was to ensure that no astronaut would be killed by a meteoroid strike. We knew nothing about the meteoroid environment so it was a tough job but when I watched the landing they were untouched by meteoroids. During the landing I was more concerned about the landing pads. I had sat in on some of the discussions to decide how large the feet needed  to be. At that time we also knew nothing about the strength of the moon's surface but we had to decide then how large to make the pads. In one meeting I thought I was going to have to referee a fist fight over the surface conditions. A geophysicist, Dr. Gold, (I think from MIT) argued that the surface was formed by meteorites striking the surface of the moon and falling back into the vacuum so that it was a fluff that could be 100 feet deep. The geologists at UT disagreed. But we designed the pads as large as we could stuff into the rocket capsule for the launch. Fortunately when they landed they were on fairly solid ground. By the time of the landing we had landed surveyor and knew that the surface was solid, so that wasn't as much of a worry as to the uneven surface they were facing.
I really sweated the liftoff from the moon when the visit was over. I knew that every thing on the design was triple redundant except the rocket engine that took them back to the orbiting Command Module. If that engine failed to fire the astronauts were doomed to die because there was no escape method to be used to rescue them. I also saw the entire world praying for their safe voyage and believe that God answered those prayers. This is the only time in the earth's history that everyone was joined together in  a common goal. Only Russia didn't receive the TV transmissions of the landing and takeoff.

EVIDENCE FOR YOUNG EARTH

There have been several recent discoveries that to me would support a young earth theory. One was the discovery of small elephants frozen in the Arctic that had drowned. This agrees with Flood theory. Another told of fossilized sharks that apparently lived in water that has less salt than present oceans. This would also agree with the idea that pre-flood water was less salty. The researcher listed the shark as 150 million years old, or something like that. They can't see evidence that is right in front of them. The evidence for a young earth including dinosaur fossils with soft tissue and blood, carbon 14 found in all "old" carbon deposits of diamond, coal, oil and gas plus recent finding of semi-tropical vegetation in Anarctica all support young earth evidence.

NEW BOOKS

I am reading a couple of books that are new to me. One, on Kindle, is What Your Atheist Professor Doesn't Know (But Should) by Stephan Joseph Williams. He makes a powerful argument against Darwinian Evolution using all sorts of scientific facts. Primarily the biological complexity of life that I liked. He also quotes astronomers and lists over 100 facts about our planet that if something were just a little different life would be impossible. These are scientific facts gleaned from astronomical observations. I don't agree with the Big Bang assumptions, but the facts about magnetic fields, distance to the Sun, orbital factors, proximity to Neptune, etc. are all interesting facts that if things were just a little different life couldn't exist here. He points out that all the astronomers believe that only an intelligent designer could have made it like it is, but they don't accept a Judeo-Christian explanation.

I exchanged books with a new Muslim friend. I gave him a copy of the New English translation of the Bible and he gave me a copy of the Quran in English. We agreed that we would each read their book. I am now about half way thru the Quran and must say that I cannot understand why it is accepted as a holy tract in the way it is worshiped. To understand it you need to know the Torah and Old Testament as well as the story of Christ. They accept Christ as a prophet but not as the Son of God. The book rewrites the history of Moses and Noah with some interesting stories. It is a tough read for me.

FRUSTRATION

Every day I read posts from Creation sources. Lately there have been stories and articles telling about the enormous complexity of the human cell structure. I personally have never unravelled RNA or DNA and am totally dependent on what I read that other researchers have done. But based on what I read each cell has a computer load of information that controls how the cell interacts with other cells and reproduces. How any mature intelligent scientist can look at this information and not believe that we have been created and could not possibly have evolved from some mud puddle hit by lightning amazes me. There is no way that inorganic molecules can organize themselves into organic molecules and inbed themselves with enormous amounts of information to control their activity. Only an intelligent designer with great complexity could create such a system.

A more difficult scientific fact to confirm is the young earth assumption. Based on the historical written record we have clear evidence of a 6,000 year old world. But we have been brain-washed into the idea of billions of years by modern scientists with no solid evidence, only a belief system to back their ideas. Scientific evidence of soft tissue found in fossils clearly refutes that the fossils are more than a few hundreds of years old, which fits with a Flood theory of burying an enormous amount of flora and fauna in a short time. But scientists can't see what is right in front of them.

Frustrating.

CHURCH WORK

I have wanted to post more often but this week I am spending all day (no nap) at the Central Texas Conference of the United Methodist Church in Mansfield as the Lay Member from the Cresson/Waples churches. The Lay members heard a presentation from a General who is the Commandant of Chaplains. His talk was how the chaplaincy is changing drastically with weird religions now represented. He digressed to tell about finding a church in Va. where he lives. He finally found one that treated him like our Waples church.