BIOLOGY - The science of life. Tremendous complexity, built-in variation,
and self-replication & assemblage are hallmarks of life on Earth. This
much we can all agree on, correct?
But our time in this temporary physical incarnation is limited. The
universe around us could possibly comprise more dimensions than we can
reliably detect, especially since we're probably not at the center of all
that is. Logical, yes? Add to this that historically speaking, humans prefer
no god or a god(s) of our own making. Religions (i.e. organized belief
systems, often irrespective of scientific knowledge) tend to resist information
that comes from outside of understood paradigms, and this includes biological
evolution. Creationists contend that evolution today is believed
(religiously?) not due to any scienfitic evidence, but rather often in
spite of it. Evolution is an organized belief system that encourages
humans to deny their most important responsibility as part of the created.
Modern biology, creationists contend, has become corrupted by the notion
that either strict evolution or alien implantation is acceptable, but that
our origin by the direct hand of God is (shudder, shudder) simply unthinkable.
Many evolutionists get visibly angry (angry? … excuse me? What happened
to that dispassionate science stuff and all…?) if one questions their atheistic
beliefs. They call creationists "inherently unscientific" as one means
of avoiding discussion and thus side-tracking creation theory. But we do
actually have 3 theories today for the origin of life on Earth: evolution
on Earth; or alien implantation - after evolution elsewhere in the universe;
or thirdly, miraculous creation (either recent or ancient) based on pretty
darned good scientific evidence and logic. (Please read a few of
our articles.)
The fossil record along with life on Earth today appear to show that
all the built-in variation has natural built-in limits. A baby inherits
characteristics from both parents while still being an individual, genetically
distinct from either of them. Evolution though requires that at least sometimes
heredity seriously falters, but that this (DNA copying error) may cause
a significant improvement as it breaks out of its predetermined lifeform
"kind." This though has never been observed and there is still zero transitional
evidence to support this from the fossil record.
Speciation though shows built-in complexity by life's Designer; which
is the opposite of what's needed for evolutionary beliefs, if you think
about it. Creationists sometimes call this "micro-evolution" and
it does not lend support to "macro-evolution" which is the belief
that small changes can accumulate ad infinitum. Again
… random, massive intermediate changes are simply not found in the fossil
record, nor do we observe them anywhere in the modern world.
Darwin's finches showed variability within their beaks. Break out
the party hats, as there definitely appears to be built-in variability
- within limits (i.e. evidence of a planned design, a.k.a. "micro-evolution").
Spontaneous generation, in evolved descended forms is still believed
by the majority of modern biologists (now called: abiogenesis); life from
non-life - well illustrated and strongly believed - but without scientific
foundation. To speak quite frankly, evolutionists are calmly assuming exactly
what they often accuse creationists of - they're resorting to miracles.
Life from non-life for no reason is a myth that requires a magical intervention
in order to occur. Mathematically, in order to beat the odds of left-handed
and right-handed proteins and sugars sequenced formations - it's just impossible
- for that reason among many others.
Creation science however firstly recognizes that we *must* have had
a Creator. Only with an initial "First Cause" could everything else have
come into being. Life on Earth is beautiful and diverse. When you eat waffles
or pizza do you then have to concentrate for the next hour in order to
ensure proper digestion? No, your body, an extremely advanced spiritual
shell (or housing - for your soul), breaks down the components of minerals,
carbohydrates, proteins, etc. This is done molecule by molecule. You don't
even have to think about it. And your eye is focusing on this text, all
by itself with pretty good accuracy, even though your body is about 200
successive copies down from the original model: Adam, about 6,000 years
ago. Oh, do you need glasses? Copying errors are indeed increasing.
What we see are lots of accumulated copying errors in our coding, not some
kind of series of slow, automatic improvements - evolution openly defies
known biological laws.
The false religion of evolution (a belief system that we contend: openly
defies science) provides a false foundation which encourages persons and
societies to make the wrong decisions for the future. A "simple"
cell contains a myriad of components: DNA, RNA, enzymes, lysosome,
cytoplasm, all separated by membranes. When we make our complex computer
chips we need big, expensive dust-free clean rooms. But an average
bacteria keeps its structural and coding integrity just fine during a much
more complex replication - while in pond water! Creationists just
don't have enough *faith* to believe in godless (or: "weak-lots-of-mistakes-god")
evolution. We prefer to think logically and scientifically concerning
our origins - and that points directly to a Master Designer.
They say we fell together strictly by "time & chance"...? Creationists
don't have enough faith to believe in such a false religious presupposition.
Evolution
actually requires more miracles than simply believing that there must be
a Scientific Mathematician behind our universe. (By the way,
even though many lab biologists and professors believe in atheistic evolution
as they see but misinterpret the Creator's built-in limited-variability
within life, many medical doctors have come to realize that life had to
have been designed.) We are fearfully and wonderfully made. (text
by P.A.)
"Mission Impossible:
the Monarch Butterfly" by Ron Lyttle - http://www.creationism.org/english/monarch_en.htm
"Evolutionists'
'Primordial Soup' Theory Being Replaced" by Gerard Wakefield -
http://www.creationism.org/wakefield/primordial.htm
"Louis Agassiz"
by Bolton Davidheiser - http://www.creationism.org/symposium/symp6no5.htm
"Jurassic Park: The
New Orthodoxy?" by Trevor J. Major - http://www.creationism.org/csshs/v16n2p23.htm
"Giraffes: Animals
that Stand Out in a Crowd" by Lynn Hofland - http://www.creationism.org/english/giraffes_en.htm
"Biblical Creation
and Personality" by Ellen Myers - http://www.creationism.org/csshs/v16n1p16.htm
"Who Designed Woodpeckers?"
by Thomas F. Heinze - http://www.creationism.org/heinze/woodpecker_en.htm
"Do Genetic
Studies Demonstrate Evolution?" by Gerard Wakefield - http://www.creationism.org/wakefield/genesevolution.htm
"Water,
Water Everywhere . . . and not a Drop to Drink?" by O'Daniel
- http://www.icr.org/article/water-water-everywhere-not-drop-drink/
"The
Human Genome: A Creationist Overview" by Wood - https://www.icr.org/article/451/
"Biblical
Biology" CMI Section - http://creation.com/biblical-biology
"The
Unselfish Green Gene" by Demick - http://www.icr.org/article/470/
"Evolution
Is Biologically Impossible" by Mastropaolo - http://www.icr.org/article/460/359/
"The
Bible and/or Biology" by H. Morris - http://www.icr.org/article/bible-or-biology/
"Scientific
Roadblocks to Whale Evolution" by Sherwin - http://www.icr.org/article/433/
"Genetics"
AIG
Section - https://answersingenesis.org/genetics/
"Origin
of Life" AIG Section - https://answersingenesis.org/origin-of-life/
"Thermodynamics
and Order" AIG Section - https://answersingenesis.org/physics/
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scientists first began sequencing the DNA of plants and animals, they began finding gene-like
sequences that appeared to have coding errors that would prevent them from making functional proteins.
Because these gene-like sequences, called pseudogenes ... control region in front of the gene, called
a promoter, that acts like a genetic switch ... beta-globin genes, and is required for proper blood chemistry ...
PTEN pseudogene (PTENpg) ... encodes RNA transcripts ... human processed pseudogene called PPM1K ...
most productive view of the genome from a research perspective would be one that expects pervasive
functionality and incredible bioengineering as the product of an omnipotent and wise Creator
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evolutionists are forced to postulate that bioluminescence and vision arose multiple times. This
contradicts Darwin’s basic notion that traits such as these should be traceable back to a single
common ancestor ... Bioluminescence is a very interesting trait. Generally, it involves two molecules:
a light emitting molecule, known generically as a luciferin, and an enzyme (either a luciferase or
photoprotein) ... to explain these unexpected patterns, they have coined the term “convergent evolution.”
Although it sounds like an explanation that fits their model, primarily because it uses the term evolution,
it is really a rescuing device (excuse) ... something designed for a purpose logically must have a designer,
and that the more magnificent the design, the more magnificent is the designer
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microRNA (miRNA) is a recently discovered class of regulatory, non-coding type RNA ... eukaryotic
gene regulation ... small, short strings of RNA (about 20 to 30 nucleotides long, or one-hundredth the
length of a typical gene) ... miRNAs function by binding to mRNA (messenger RNA) in order to down
regulate the level of mRNA-produced protein, reducing the gene product level ... involved in everything
from longevity to neurodegenerative diseases and cancer (Taubes, 2009). They are also involved in
apoptosis, as well as cell proliferation and differentiation ... first miRNA was discovered in 1993 by
Victor Ambrose, his wife, and their colleagues ... rejected for tenure at Harvard ... so-called junk-DNA that
was once claimed to be useless genetic material left over from evolution actually codes for miRNA
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evolutionist Isaac Asimov wrote words of praise on behalf of Louis Pasteur ... The New Intelligent
Man’s Guide to Science ... Stanley Millers infamous 1953 experiment ... “The Thouron Award”
which allowed him to study for two years at Cambridge University. He went on to earn his Ph.D. from
the University of Illinois ... determining the fluorescent lifetime of coenzyme NADH ... NADH is a relatively
small biological molecule that activates biological catalysts (enzymes) in the vast majority of electron-transfer
reactions involved in breathing, heart function, and energy-producing reactions in the human, animal, and
plant life ... Creator Christ has enhanced the quality of my life ... To God be the glory; great things He has done
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RNA is an enigma for abiogenesis ... living systems it serves as an information template, such as in
messenger RNA, and it also has catalytic functions, such as in various ribozymes of ribosomes ...
self-replicating molecule, a major hypothetical step towards abiogenesis ... Georgia Technological
University and head of the school’s Center for Fundamental and Applied Molecular Evolution ...
Watson-Crick base pairing. This refers to the preference of the nucleotides guanine (G) and cytosine
(C) to pair with each other on the one hand, and for adenine (A) and either thymine (T) in DNA or uracil
(U) in RNA ... template molecule, and with a catalyst ... RNA nucleotides ... hydrophobic (repelled by
water) and thermodynamic considerations ... formation of RNA-like polymers ... information-first scenario
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Geophysical Research Letters ... phytoplankton of the eruption of the volcano Eyjafjallajökull in
Iceland ... ash plume ... the atmosphere ... National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, UK ...
Phytoplankton are microscopic plants that form a key component of marine food ... availability of
dissolved iron ... dissolved minerals then they may have stimulated huge growth of micro-organisms
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marine molluscs that bear two long projections ("rhinophores") on their heads, giving them a
fanciful resemblance to a hare ... softbodied herbivores, typically found on seaweed in shallow
water ... well camouflaged through acquiring the colour of the seaweed they feed upon, if they are
nevertheless detected and threatened they can take very effective repulsive action ... discharge
a cloud of ink ... purple coloured liquid and a white substance called opaline ... sensitive antennae
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two species of falcons, the peregrine and the saker ... Cardiff University, Wales ...
hunting lifestyle of these birds involves extreme rigours, such as the pressure of impacting their
prey at speeds of up to 300km per hour (170 mph) ... highly efficient circulatory and respiratory
systems to cope with the extreme air pressure encountered during their high speed dives
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Monstera deliciosa is better known as the Swiss Cheese plant - a popular houseplant with
enormous leaves with characteristic large holes ... mathematical modelling ... Indiana University ...
these plants grow in the dark understorey of tropical rainforests ... rare beams of sunlight that
manage to penetrate down through the forest assume greater significance for the plant’s
photosynthetic requirements ... maximise the chances of finding a sunbeam ... epiphyte, having
aerial roots that attach to host trees, enabling it to climb as it grows ... mathematical models
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the archer fish, a creature with great prowess in shooting down its insect prey with jets of water
even through the distorted optics of the interface between water and air ... University of Milan ...
the fish’s forceful strike is formed externally, using water dynamics, rather than using the body's
internal muscles ... a strike range of as much as two metres (six feet) ... it "modulates" the velocity
of the water jet ... head of the water jet increases in volume from liquid arriving from its tail to form
a large drop, which hits its prey with greater force ... sophisticated utilisation of water mechanics
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Small Things Considered ... Web blog ... micro-organisms ... mealybug Planococcus citri ...
little insect is a pest on citrus crops, where it sucks the phloem sap of its host plant ...
Phloem is a poor source of amino acids, the building blocks of proteins, essential for
the development of all animals. To make up for this shortfall the mealybug plays host to an
endosymbiotic bacterium called Tremblaya princeps which bio-synthesizes the amino acids
needed ... cellular genomes ... Tremblaya princeps bacterium is itself a host to a still smaller
bacterium called Moranella endobia ... phenylalanine, arginine, and isoleucine synthesis
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Ophiocordyceps, the bizarre fungus that attacks and modifies the behaviour of ants ... spores use
enzymes to get inside the ant's body where the fungus begins to grow ... chemicals released by
the fungus cause the ant to wander up from the forest floor and onto a plant where it bites onto a
leaf vein or other vegetation moments before it dies ... Harvard University. They had noticed that ants
infected with the fungus Ophiocordyceps unilateralis bit into leaves with so much force that they
left a lasting mark ... mandibles ... parasitic fungi evolved the ability to control the creatures they infect
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hummingbirds have an extremely high activity level, requiring not only lots of plant nectar, but protein
and other nutrients from small insects such as fruit flies, consuming roughly 300 of these flies per day. ...
hummingbird beak is also perfectly suited for catching these tiny insects. Instead of having a cartilaginous
hinge at the base of the beak ... elastic energy thus stored in the bone of the lower bill quickly reaches a
threshold level ... this bill had to function flawlessly from day one indicates that it could not have developed
randomly and in stages
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book, Two New Sciences, Galileo (1638) wrote about mathematical designs displayed by animals.
John B. S. Haldane later wrote ... size, structure, and behavior of animals as constrained by mathematical
and physical laws. For example, the amount of heat leaving an animal’s body is very critical to its health.
If heat loss is too great, starvation or pneumonia may result, a particular danger for small creatures. If the
heat loss is too little, internal temperature may rise and cause heat stroke, a concern for large animals ...
mouse (represented by the smallest cube), and a large mammal such as an elephant ... large animal faces
hazards far different from a mouse or bird ... design considerations for small and large animals based on
the ratios of their surface areas to internal volumes ... basal metabolic rate
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sheep named “Dolly” had just been cloned from the mammary-gland cell of a six year old donor ...
Reproductive cloning is a very inefficient technique and most cloned animal embryos cannot develop
into healthy individuals ... variety of defects in vital organs, such as the liver, brain and heart. Other
consequences include premature aging and problems with the immune system ... chromosomes that
are already shorter than normal ... shutdown of telomerase in a large, complex mammal ... cancer cells
are typically characterized by telomerase reactivation ... God told Adam that if he were to eat the fruit of the
tree of the knowledge of good and evil, he would die (Genesis 2:17) ... Scripture. God’s Word is true
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babies grow hair before they are born which they later lose ... first hairs in the human embryo are of a
thin, closely spaced type called lanugo. This type of hair is usually shed before birth ... oily secretion
from these glands combines with sloughed epithelial cells to form the vernix caseosa, a white
cheese-like layer that protects the baby’s skin from constant exposure to the amniotic fluid. The
closely spaced lanugo hairs help hold the vernix on the skin ... this prenatal sensory stimulation is
considered somewhat analogous to postnatal sensory input, as in a mother touching her baby,
which is considered important for healthy development ... human yolk sac serves in at least three
vital functions: haematopoiesis and blood vessel formation, nutrient and gas transfer, and biosynthesis
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barefoot running was easier on a properly trained person’s body than running with shoes, particularly if
the shoes have thick cushions in the heel ... Knee injuries are common among runners who wear shoes
during their workouts ... Skeletal Biology Laboratory at Harvard University. His findings concerning
barefoot running were recently featured in a cover article of the esteemed British journal Nature ...
trained person runs barefoot, he typically first lands on the ball (toes) of his foot, and then settles on to
his heel. Lastly, he pushes off from the toes ... human foot and ankle is a strong and complex mechanical
structure containing more than 26 bones, 33 joints ... plus various bones, muscles, tendons, and ligaments
in the rest of the body, need to change simultaneously and in a coordinated manner ... shod runner
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cold-climate arthropod, Ixodes scapularism (blacklegged, or deer tick), which overwinters in the American
Northeast and Upper Midwest. It possesses a special antifreeze glycoprotein, IAFGP, which adsorbs to
the surface of intra- and extra-cellular ice crystals when temperatures drop below freezing ... similar
antifreeze proteins have been identified in over 55 species of terrestrial arthropods, including insects,
spiders, mites, and centipedes ... Anaplasma phagocytophilum, actually possesses the ability to induce
higher gene expression for an antifreeze glycoprotein, suggesting a mutualistic relationship
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Burdick signed on at the University of Arizona to work with Gerhard Kremp (1913–1994), one of the
world’s foremost palynologists (not: paleontologist), one who studies contemporary and fossilized spores,
pollen, and similar structures ... pollen is extremely resistant to deterioration and therefore is often
preserved in rocks that contain no evidence of other plant material ... Hakatai shale many feet below
the Precambrian/Cambrian division. Angiosperm spores were later found there also ... Dr. Walter
Lammerts, who had them analyzed at the University of California, Berkeley palynology laboratory.
The pollen samples were identified by the lab as conifer ... geologists at Arizona received a copy of
John C. Whitcomb, Jr., and Henry Morris’s Genesis Flood as a Christmas present in 1964 — and
noticed the credits to Burdick ... as negative evidence for the evolution-uniformitarian model. News of
this discovery struck the scientific world like a bomb ... Microflora of the Grand Canyon ... India, USSR
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starting from an initial spontaneous appearance of building block amino acids and nucleotides, to
self-replicating molecules, to living cells, to advanced multi-cellular organisms such as man ...
evidence that initially appears to support evolution falls apart when it is looked at closely ... almost
every introductory biology textbook today. He mixed water vapor, methane, ammonia, and hydrogen
in a spark chamber. When a high voltage arc was introduced across the gases in the chamber, he
produced a number of complex molecules including several different kinds of amino acids. Evolutionists
claim that this experiment demonstrates how natural physical processes could have produced the
building-block molecules ... hypothetical “primordial soup” talked about so frequently by evolutionists
has never been simulated in a laboratory
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typical hibernation season, many physiologic processes decrease dramatically in the black bear,
which neither eats nor drinks during this time, but uses fat as the primary source of energy. Reduced
muscle activity and prolonged starvation during hibernation ... excepting lactating females, which
experience a modest 4–10% loss of muscle protein ... specific genes coding for enzymes used in
protein synthesis in skeletal muscle and liver tissue ... type-I collagen in connective tissues provides
essential amino acids for protein synthesis ... Logically, a biological system so complicated, so perfect
and self-regulating, cannot have developed in stages or by chance
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perennial herbs, and most species of violets produce two types of flowers: those blooming in the spring
and early summer are showy ... lower petal possesses a spur or deep sac at its base. The two lower
stamens are located at the base with nectarbearing appendages which project into the spur or sac of
the petal ... pollinated, each flower commonly produces an abundance of seeds in what are called
seed pods. These seed pods slowly dry until they eventually burst, catapulting the seeds up to four feet
away ... genetic variability evidenced in cross-pollinated flowers ... our Creator has provided three
methods of propagating this group of plants: insect pollination, self-pollination, and reproduction
via rhizomes or runners
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parasitic worms have amazingly complex life cycles ... Friedrich Küchenmeister (1821–1890) was a
prominent German researcher in this area ... understanding of how to prevent infection by parasitic
worms. The United States Department of Agriculture website credits him with developing scientific
meat inspection by veterinarians ... era of experimental parasitology
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dark waters of the deep at least 50 species of fishes have well-developed eyesight. This is critically
important in the dark, because many deep sea organisms produce bioluminescent light, and sharp
vision helps these fishes find prey, avoid predators, and find mates ... ganglion cells are found in the
retina. They carry visual information to the brain through the optic nerve ... complex chemical reactions
that produce bioluminescent light in the deep sea ... peregrine falcons, chameleons and jumping spiders
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inspired by the stories of Rudyard Kipling and the discoveries of Charles Darwin ... the
continuing failure of evolutionary scientists to come up with any convincing explanation
as to how the giraffe's elongated neck could have evolved ... why, if this is such a successful
strategy, the giraffes are less numerous than the other browsers, who in any case seem to
manage quite happily without having long necks ... unusually high pressure in order to provide
sufficient blood to the elevated head ... special “spongy reservoir”, called the rete mirabile ...
long neck of the giraffe is also connected with the thorax in an unusual configuration which, it
is thought, helps cantilever the neck to facilitate movement in a very broad range of angles
and heights ... laryngeal nerve ... reach the larynx at different times ... scientists have a great
deal to learn yet
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A Predatory Bagworm
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Bagworms are the caterpillars of a family of moths called Psychidae. Unlike many
species of caterpillars, bagworms characteristically do not feed exposed. Instead they
walk around in little cases (“bags”) which they construct from pieces of leaf or twig
stuck together with silk. ... Most bagworms feed on plants, but now a new species has
been discovered that, surprisingly, is predatory on other insects ... how could the bagworm
have gradually developed the ability to attack and overcome fierce insects, which are
themselves formidable predators? Surely any incipient tendency to carnivorous behaviour
would not be favoured by natural selection, as the caterpillar would be less likely to survive
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Back to the Beetles
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Evolutionists had thought that beetle lineages had evolved alongside flowering plants, which
they claim occurred about 140 million years ago ... a more likely explanation is that evolution
of these lineages never did occur, but they were designed right from the start
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Something to Crow About
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abilities of New Caledonian crows to make use of tools in their efforts to find food ...
University of Auckland scientific study has now shown that the birds are capable of
using a succession of two tools in order to obtain food ... Analogical reasoning is
otherwise known only in human beings ... wise Creator
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Rafflesia is a remarkable genus of plants with some of the world’s largest flowers.
The blooms can be up to 1m wide and weigh as much as 7kg. They have bright mottled-red
colours and give off a strong odour, resembling rotten meat, which attracts the flies
that pollinate them. ... rubber tree and castor-oil plant ... tropical rainforest ... pollination
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Ohio State University, passing out free literature on creation science to students as we crossed
paths ... how long it took from the time random chemicals started combining until the first cell was
fully functional ... Have you ever noticed how every medicine in your medicine cabinet has an
expiration date? ... biological compounds spontaneously decay extremely rapidly. Because of this
decay, it is not safe to use them after a relatively short period of time ... accidentally form, how
could it stick around for over a million years waiting for the first cell to form? ... Romans 1:20, “For
since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the
things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse…”
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honeybees are social insects that live in highly organized colonies ... Honey bee, Apis mellifera
Linnaeus ... highly sophisticated array of nearly 50 chemical pheromone signals ... Isopentyl
acetate in alarm pheromone, for example, is one of about 25 different molecules released from
a honeybee worker’s sting gland during stinging that arouse the colony ... queen produces a
nine-component cocktail of pheromones that, when blended together, act synergistically to attract
worker bees ... larvae produce a ten-component pheromone blend of ethyl and methyl esters of
palmitic, linoleic, linolenic, stearic, and oleic acids
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application of the scientific method, and the utilization of Labrador retrievers ... remarkable ability
of dogs to detect substances by odor, and not just very strong odors, is common knowledge ...
detection of illicit drugs in luggage at airports, in vehicles at border crossings, and in cargo arriving
at US ports of entry ... ultra-trace quantities of mercaptan-based volatile organics which have been
infused into the pipeline at an upstream pump station ... trained to react only to a product called
Tekscent ... an olfactory system which is sensitive to below parts per thousand trillion of man-made
substances transfers no obvious survival advantage to dogs, who existed before humans, according
to evolutionary scenarios ... our Creator has given us many blessings, including dogs for pets and for
assistance in solving technical and physical problems
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NASA over the past decade has been an attempt to sell the public on the idea that life (intelligent
or not) has evolved elsewhere in the universe. Selling evolution is big business even for some
government agencies ... claimed to have found evidence of organic life on the Martian meteorite
ALH 84001 collected in Antarctica ... other planets or planetary satellites possibly as extremophiles.
An article in the January 2007 issue of Sky and Telescope ... the escape velocity necessary to move
materials and organic life into space, the types of microbes that could possibly survive such a blast,
and the time and length of travel to seemingly hospitable locations, such as Mars, Jupiter’s moon
Europa, and Saturn’s moon Titan ... Chicxulub impact crater (Mexico) ... while uniformitarians assert
that microbial life could have been transferred to other terrestrial objects ... As young-Earth
creationists we know that the Bible has the answer ... occurred on Earth in association with the global
Flood of Genesis ... NASA Johnson Space Center
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geckos, a group of colorful, fat-bodied lizards, are the heaviest animals that can walk effortlessly,
even upside-down, on the smoothest of surfaces ... sole of a gecko’s foot contains roughly one
billion microscopic hairs, called “spatulae,” each about 200 nm in length and width ... stickiness of a
gecko’s feet increases with increasing humidity ... capillary forces and hydrogen bonding, or to van
der Waals forces, or perhaps both ... it could not have evolved in stages due to random chance, as
evolutionists claim
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Bombardier beetles are members of a group of small beetles that employ a most unique defense
mechanism when threatened. They produce a caustic mixture of para-benzoquinones that they can
aim and deliver with the precision of a marksman ... thin-walled storage chamber containing
hydroquinones and hydrogen peroxide, paired to a smaller, thick-walled reaction chamber containing
special enzymes, catalases, and peroxidases ... explosive chemical reaction that liberates oxygen
from the hydrogen peroxide ... unique anatomy to properly store and mix the agents ... 100°C
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approximately 700 species of bats that use sonar to locate prey and map out the world around them,
a process known as echolocation. These bats produce ultrasonic vocalizations ... bat sonar signals
can be of constant frequency or begin at one frequency and then change to another frequency. Bats
can vary the type of signals they produce to provide better images of their surroundings and of insects,
depending on the local environment, such as dense foliage versus open spaces. ... detect differences
in echo delay as short as 60 microseconds ... a perfect map of their immediate surroundings, even
in total darkness
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many cold-blooded animals, such as spiders, polar marine fish and many insects, produce antifreeze
proteins, which prevent their body fluids from freezing ... specialized proteins are designed to bind
to ice crystals ... some animals need extra protection from the cold, so they produce a second type
of antifreeze, a group of non-toxic sugar alcohols, such as glycerol ... These two antifreeze strategies
suggest an intelligent Designer with an understanding of chemistry, not the accidental forces of evolution
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molecular biologist and director of the Van Andel Creation Research Center, who is here to basically
say, “Darwin was wrong; Darwin was a hustler. The whole evolutionary theory is junk science and a
scam.” ... indoctrinate; and students are not taught to think, not taught critical thinking ... call that
more “de-evolution,” I guess. But if you’re talking about some kind of super cell that contains all the
genetic material that is in existence, and removal of genes allowing it to develop into humans and
horses and oak trees and cows ... Carl Sagan, himself, admit, in essence, that you can’t really explain
how life evolved on this planet if we had to become “seeded” by another life from outside of earth
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microbiologist, an expert in microbial genetics and molecular biology ... I’ve always been extremely
questioning of evolution ... college students and post-graduate students. The information I was
learning in school was actually making me more critical of evolution ... the gulf between life and
non-life continues to increase as we learn more about what it actually takes to be a living system ...
it is circular reasoning ... they are so brainwashed that evolution has to be the only explanation because
of the simple fact that we are here ... DNA was the genetic material in the cell, and that mutations in the
DNA were how the actions of the cell were changed, then Darwin’s ideas of natural selection and cellular
modifications had to involve genetics and had to involve mutations ... Richard Dawkins who said,
“Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist . . .” ... Nebraska Man and Piltdown Man
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the sound production equipment of cicadas is an engineering marvel. The best-known example is a
species of Australian cicada, the loudest known insect in the world ... male cicada has an elastic,
resonant structure called a tymbal, on each side of its abdomen, that produces a series of sharp
clicks at a frequency of 4.3 kilohertz, forming the cicada’s song. Each click produces high sound
pressures of up to 158 decibels within the cicada’s abdomen ... intricate design and function of
these structures could not have evolved in stages over millions of years, as evolution teaches
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finches of the Galapagos Islands ... Charles Darwin ... finch Geospiza fortis thrived on the
island of Daphne Major until the arrival of competitor species, Geospiza magnirostris,
in 1982. As the incoming bird established itself Geospiza fortis with a smaller beak ...
average beak size had shrunk dramatically whereas body size remained the same ...
The Creator gave finches a set of finch genes. Depending on the availability of suitable food,
those with genes for smaller or larger beaks would thrive. The populations of one or other
can rapidly respond to changing conditions. The finches remain finches.
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Scientists at Cambridge and Edinburgh have pin-pointed 200 human genes (out of the
approximately 25,000 in our genome) that code for the proteins that compose a fundamental
piece of the molecular machinery of thought. ... our brains are the most complicated
object known. Each on average makes a million connections every second between
its 100,000,000,000 nerve cells ... mass spectrometry, revealing more than a
thousand different proteins ... synapse ... a whole new layer of complexity
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chimpanzees have a similar genetic make-up to ourselves... the complete chimp genome ...
53 human genes are partially or completely absent in the chimp genome, which has
only 25,000 genes. There are a total of 35 million single nucleotide differences ...
genes are regulated ... transcription factors ... protein-changing differences per gene
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Radar Satellite pictures taken over the Sahara Desert have revealed the largest
field of impact craters ever found on Earth ... meteorites (nickel-iron fragments) and no
tektites (glassy beads) are found in sedimentary rocks ... fetal cells also help heal skin
wounds in the mother ... Creation journal ... New Scientist is always an interesting read
and is probably the best weekly for keeping abreast of the latest scientific developments ...
vertebrates ... supposed fish ancestors ... dissolved oxygen in water ... blood plasma
trapped in the glycocalyx ... Bats have been an evolutionary enigma
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In 1180, an Italian mathematician named Leonardo Fibonacci discovered a strange
sequence of numbers that have since attracted the attention of many perceptive
observers: 1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34,55,89,144,233,377,etc. Each number is the sum of the previous
two. It turns out that the ratio of any adjacent numbers approximates to 1.618. It
would be several hundred years before these sequences would be broadly
recognised in nature. In floral arrangements, the lily has 3 petals; the
yellow violet 5; delphinium 8; mayweed 13; aster 21; pyrethrum 34; helenium 55;
and the Michaelmas daisy 89 – all Fibonacci numbers! ... study of phyllotaxis, the spiral
arrangement of leaves around a plant’s stem ... Parthenon in Greece, the Great Pyramid in
Egypt, the United Nations building, credit cards, playing cards, postcards, light switch
plates, writing pads, 3x5, 5x8 index cards, etc. In classic art, Leonardo da Vinci, Van
Gogh, Vermeer, John Singer Sargent, Monet, Whistler, Renoir, Mary Cassatt,
Giotto, Durer and others relied on this golden rectangle ... also
appears in hurricanes, spiral seeds, ram’s horns, sea horse tails, growing fern leaves,
the DNA molecule, waves breaking on the beach, tornadoes, galaxies, the tail of a
comet around the sun, whirlpools, seed patterns of sunflowers, daisies and
dandelions; the ears of all mammals, and the cochlea of the human ear
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Gray Wolf, one of Siberia’s most skillful predators ... bitter Russian winters, without hibernating ...
double coat of coarse guard hairs, which overlay an undercoat ... vascular counter-current heat
exchange ... arteries and veins in the wolf’s lower legs are arranged with careful precision. They
run parallel to and alongside each other ... not only do wolves not experience frostbite, their paws
will not even melt the snow upon which they tread ... vascular counter-current heat exchange in not
only wolves, but also the cold water-dwelling Great White Shark ... physiology ... marvels of design
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ultrasonic sonar system ... plot the positions of aircraft ... bouncing signals off of them ...
bat emits high frequency chirps ... beyond the range of our ears ... radar ... fossils ...
Battle of Britain ... several complex interacting mechanisms ...
closing in on a moth, clicks become progressively fainter and more rapid
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Harvard University Memorial Church presents the William Belden Noble Lectures, a forum
established in 1898 to “present the personality of Jesus ... and arousing in young men ... the joy
of service for Christ ...” ... Integrating science and theology ... atheism ... Dr. Francis S.
Collins, the director of the National Human Genome project. His presentation was entitled “Can
a Geneticist Be a Believer?: Evolution and Other Challenges.” ... evidence for the existence of
God and a spiritual realm: the Anthropic Principle and the origin of a common human morality ...
Johnson, Behe, and Dembski ... intelligent design movement ... Genesis account ... YEC ...
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facts of nature provide instruction about God, the Divine Inventor. There is, of course, a distinction
between the Creator and His creation, because He has existed before, apart from, and above all
His handiwork ... The Lord preserves, pervades, penetrates, perpetuates, and protects all His work ...
aoratos denotes imperceptible traits like God’s (1) divine nature, and (2) His power ... divine
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research in molecular and cell biology has supported the work of William Dembski (1998) and
Michael Behe (1996) in the areas of irreducible complexity and intelligent design ... theory of
biological origins, but rather to benefit humanity, such as by curing diseases, recycling wastes,
and converting abundant materials like cellulose to ethanol ... enormous structural complexity
of biological macromolecules ... complexity that results from the folding of the amino acid chain ...
stronger covalent peptide bonds that hold the links of the chain together ... Prion Diseases ...
bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE, and the presumed related disease in humans is
variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, or vCJD ... chemistry of living organisms
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leading cause of death in the United States is cardiovascular disease, which includes heart
disease, stroke, and atherosclerosis ... Bones, physiology, the nervous system ... cholesterol
deposits on the walls of our arteries ... Circulatory System: Flawed or Flexible? ... Heart Attack
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distinguished physicians from the past ... each clearly saw design evidence in the human body,
and boldly shared a creation testimony with patients ... Jean Astruc (1684-1766) was the chief
physician for several dukes and kings in eighteenth century France ... Astruc was also an Old
Testament scholar and readily accepted its inspired accuracy ... Hermann Boerhaave (1668-1738)
is known as the founder of rational medicine and chemistry ... 1732 Elements of Chemistry
was translated into many languages and became the standard chemistry text for a century ... George
Cheyne (1671-1743) was a physician and member of the British Royal Society ... the hand of God
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myseries of the human body .. Vesalius was born in Brussels in 1514 ... anatomy would be changed
forever ... Galen had dissected very few (if any) human cadavers, his anatomical descriptions were
limited to animal dissections ... Vesalius, a devout Roman Catholic, understood there to be a Master
Craftsman behind the fabric design in the human body ... diagrams portrayed in Fabrica
vividly imply the theme of an Intelligent Designer in the interwoven human body ... Parallels in Scripture
and body design ... Henry Morris ... Defender’s Study Bible ... “Curiously wrought” means embroidered,
a striking description of the double-helical DNA molecule program ... Interwoven complexity
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Iam indebted to geneticist Matthew Rainbow (who does not share my view of origins) for having
brought the burgeoning field of fruitfly (Drosophila melanogaster) morphogenesis ... modem
textbook in genetics or embryology ... in a search of library sources ... Drosophila nurse cell gene
called nanos accumulates at the posterior end of the egg. The nanos transcription product prevents
the mRNA’s of another gene ... result in embryos that have deletions or duplications of heads, tails,
dorsal structures or ventral structures ... regulate pair-rule genes which are expressed in seven bands,
dividing the embryo into 14 zones ... segment polarity genes become active because they are
regulated by transcription products of the other genes previously activated ... embryonic controls
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neo-Darwinian evolutionary theory cannot do what is claimed for it. The theory cannot account for the development of life from some simple beginning. It cannot account for the broad sweep of evolution ...
I attack a paradigm to which most biologists declare allegiance ... both theoretical and experimental
grounds ... evolution of bacterial resistance to antibiotics ... Genetic rearrangements are complex
genetic changes. They are carried out with precision and are driven by sophisticated cellular
mechanisms. These mutations appear to be triggered by cues from the environment ... built-in
mechanism that permits a line of organisms to adapt to a new environment ... enable a heritable
switch in the organism to one of a limited set of alternate forms ... Probability is too small
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The major thesis of the book is “that the cosmos is uniquely fit for human existence”, and evidence
of such unique fitness is presented ... Denton appears to accept the whole evolution scenario, from
the Big Bang to the Big Brain; that is, that all phenomena in the cosmos can be explained in terms
of a natural evolutionary process ... life on earth ... organisms are optimally designed for their role
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