Notes on the News
2010
Earth's Early Ocean Cooled More Than A Billion Years Earlier Than Thought -- Well, science is slow, but it's starting to catch up, at least in a few areas, with what the Bible has been telling us for thousands of years. The Bible indicates a cool early Earth. Let's see how long it takes science to finish coming to this conclusion...
No Global Warming (at least since 1995) -- When is science not science? When it's paid for by politicians? Well, that's one option. Blaming it on disorganization is a handy one, too.
Evolution Faster Than Thought -- German scientists have found mutations happen very rapidly and are assuming evolution is thus rapid as well. A few thoughts come to mine on this one:
1. Since the time the human race has been on earth is checked via the timing of mutations, doesn't that shorten our history on this planet?
2. Isn’t it the number of heritable mutations which is important and not just the fact of them occurring randomly in a person at different points?
3. Aren’t the number of negative mutations far outstripping possible beneficial mutations? If this is so, then we should become extinct very soon, shouldn’t we?
Pass the Soup -- let's try another model -- anything to leave creation out of the equation!
Chilean earthquake changes earth's axis -- if an earthquake can do this, then what about the series of impact craters we see? What about the giant 300 mile wide crater in Antarctica?
Israeli Scientist Questions Evolution -- You are allowed to question the existence of God, but most certainly not the reality of evolution. From what we can see, however, God has left plenty of evidence regarding His reality, whereas evolution seems much more 'a fairy-tale for aduults.' We can't even get poor little E.coli bacteria to mutate into something other than what they are. We can get them fat, and mostly dead, but not non-E.coli....after more than 2 million generations of them in labs (and that doesn't count all the billions of same-generation bacteria), being bombarded with every known mutagent and combination.
"Ida" not a human ancestor -- but we are willing to bet they got a lot of funding for claiming that it was, intially. Keep an eye on these 'missing links' -- almost every fossil vaguely reminiscent of certain mammals is claimed to be a human missing link. Why all these claims? Funding.... lots of money involved if you get the missing link question right.
Don't Drink Raw Milk ....??? -- If any pharmaceutical drug had this kind of record, it would be deemed one of the safest drugs on the planet. Two deaths in ten years? In the meantime, raw milk is what babies get from their mommies, it's what little cows get from big cows, and little goats get from their mommies. It's what tastes like real milk should taste like, and is enormously healthy for you. Best bet? Know someone with a nice little Jersey cow. Wonderful milk which has enough butter fat to make really good butter and wonderful yogurt.
Catastrophic Coincidence: Second Ever Example Of Contemporaneous Meteorite Impact And Flood Volcanism Discovered -- This article just came to our attention awhile ago, although it is dated January 2009. The combination of asteroid impacts and volcanism would seem intuitive, although evidently the two have not been connected by many. The Peleg continental division at about 65 million atomic years ago would be perhaps the biggest of these combination events, but the idea that this sort of combination has caused at least locally devastating effects in certain areas at certain times should be seriously considered.
Dinosaur Extinction Didn't Cause The Rise Of Present-Day Mammals, Claim Researchers -- this one is from 2007, but equally interesting. The ever-changing evolutionary model said earlier there was a great diversification of species which happened after the dinosaurs became extinct. Then it was discovered that there were ancestors of mammals around much earlier, so that theory had to be put to rest. The facts are simply that there are not many mammal fossils in the Mesozoic, and the very good reason for that is that they did not live in the lower river valleys where there was so much geologic activity between the time of Babel and the time of Peleg. It was not that they did not exist, it was that they did not live in the places where the dinosaurs did and thus did not get buried and fossilized with them or in conjunction with them.
WMAP: A Radiological Analysis -- from Progress in Physics, January 2007. Part of the conclusion reads: "All of the cosmological constants which are presented by the WMAP team are devoid of true meaning, precisely because the images are so unreliable. Given the tremendous dynamic range problems, the inability to remove the galactic foreground, the possibility of generating galactic ghosts through 'cleaning', the lack of signal to noise, the lack of reproducibility, the use of coefficients which fluctuate on a yearly basis, and the problem of monitoring results on a cosmological timescale, attempts to determine cosmological constants from such data fall well outside the bounds of proper image interpretation." Enough said.
U.N. Elects Iran to Commission on Women's Rights -- the monkeys are letting the tigers out.
Star formation -- science is beginning to catch up with the Bible again. The discovery of a water plasma in space was 'unexpected,' (although the Spirit was driving the waters in Genesis 1:2) and the formation of stars in long filament strings has also just been discovered, validating the plasma model.
Interstellar Water Mystery -- it's only a mystery in the gravitational model. In the plasma model, it's very much to be expected. A question about this was responded to in the Discussion section.