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Theodore Roosevelt best remembered as the 26th president of the United States was born this day (Oct. 27) 1858. But he was so much more than the President. He shaped this country in ways that many will never know, for he was a man who studied life. Early in his own life, though times of personal fragility when life expectancy was not very high, Roosevelt's fascination with the world in which he lived laid a foundation of what grew to be an uncanny strength. It might be argued there are four kinds of hunters, the first being the kind that hunt for food. The second kind of hunter are those that hunt for sport, for the challenge of acquiring a trophy. The third kind of hunter is the kind that sought to understand the world. The fourth and final kind of hunter are those that  that don't know what they are doing . Period.  Roosevelt was very much the first three, but the third (The Naturalist) was the core of his being. He hunted to understand, foremost. He collected. He r...

“Supposing there was no intelligence behind the universe, no creative mind. In that case, nobody designed my brain for the purpose of thinking. It is merely that when the atoms inside my skull happen, for physical or chemical reasons, to arrange themselves in a certain way, this gives me, as a by-product, the sensation I call thought. But, if so, how can I trust my own thinking to be true? It’s like upsetting a milk jug and hoping that the way it splashes itself will give you a map of London. But if I can’t trust my own thinking, of course I can’t trust the arguments leading to Atheism, and therefore have no reason to be an Atheist, or anything else. Unless I believe in God, I cannot believe in thought: so I can never use thought to disbelieve in God.” – C.S. Lewis, The Case for Christianity .

According to  this article , the Slow Loris "kills by either biting with its mouth full of poison, or slicking its fur up with the toxin and waiting to be attacked. To be fair to the critter, its venom was probably developed for self-defense. Although it occasionally uses the venom to kill its prey, it is happiest just being left alone." I have some questions.  If the tenant of evolution is "survival of the fittest," then how long did it take for the Loris overcome its weaknesses and survive in order to figure out how to "probably" develop to be a venomous (or is it a poisonous ) primate?  What took place in evolution for the Loris not to be allergic to it's own spit?  Why can't scientists precisely identify the biological function of the secretion?  Science (Latin for "know) will confirm what is known, without speculating to probabilities, which are unknown. 

Can't help but wonder about Puffer-fish evolution. Which came first: the need to reproduce or the ability to reproduce? How quickly over the course of millions of years did this 5 inch Puffer-fish develop the skill to construct such an elaborate mating bed (up to 7 feet across) that would be attractive to the female in order for the species to survive?

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Someone posted photographs of the school children lost in Sandy Hook. The pictures were unexpectedly difficult to view. The difficulty came when a seemingly random thought reappeared--a thought I had the other day, then forgot as it wandered off to wherever it is wandering thoughts go when they wander. Well, this particular thought decided it was time to return home, and it slammed the door upon arrival. The thought was this: if we are a the outcome of evolution process, a mass of tissue responding to chemical reactions and impulses, then why does tragedy matter? If evolution were true, then those who cause destruction on others are demonstrating strength and the power necessary for survival. Yes the question remains: how can this be survival when the assertive ones destroy themselves? Ernest Hemingway was a man who lived powerfully, strongly, assertively then took his own life because he was convinced that even in death, he was still in control, living life to the final moment. The ...

It doesn't say that.  The Bible teaches that birds were formed from the ground.  Let’s read the passage in question from the King James: “ And God said, ‘Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl [that] may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.’ And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that [it was] good .” Notice those words in brackets? They are not there in the Hebrew and have been inserted for easier reading in English. What does it say in the Hebrew? The poetry alone is quite impressive: “ And God said, ‘Let the waters teem/swarm [“sharats”] with teeming/swarming things [“sherets”] that have life, and flying creatures [“owph”] flying [“uwph”] in the open expanse of heaven. And God created great sea monsters/dragons/whales [“tanniyn”] and every living soul that move...

This is an interaction with the New Atlantis article, “ Getting Over the Code Delusion ,” based on my printer-friendly version. This way page numbers and paragraphs are more easily identified. When I read this article, I was reminded first of the great milestones of science (the earth is flat; there are only 1,100 stars, which happen to be all the same; the earth sits on the back of a large animal; light was fixed, air was weightless and blew straight; the ocean floor was flat and was fed by rivers and rain; sick people must be bled; hands must be washed in still water; and last, but not least, complete ignorance of invisible elements, such as atoms) and second, how science has been working hard to catch up to the Bible (the earth is a sphere, Isaiah 40:22; stars are without number and are different, Jeremiah 33:22, 1 Corinthians 15:41; the earth floats in space, Job 26:7; light moves, Job 38:19-20, air has weight, Job 28:25 and blows in cyclones, Ecclesiastes 1:6; the ocean floo...

An Application for Dating My Daughter .  Well, I could have used this twice already, but at least I still have one more chance . . . Ah!  Here's a great question: " how much does a hurricane weigh ?"  The answer is astounding . . . but remember, this could not have come about through the work of a Creator--it happened by chance! "If the Apostle Paul’s letter to the Church in Galatia had been published in Christianity Today how would it be received by those who read that magazine? Well, what follows are the letters from readers in response to Paul’s inspired Epistle." Are you schizophonetic?  Spend seven minutes watching this fascinating presentation on the way noise may be affecting our mental health.  There may actually be another reason for wind, water and birds . . .

Is videotaping the police a crime? Seems that most missed the part about the driver committing traffic violations before being held accountable . Science now affirms what the Bible already teaches: the chicken came first ! Professor Howard Marshall's book, " A Pocket Guide to New Testament Theology "is available for download at BiblicalTraining.org Photoshop Time Travel. This makes one think twice about where we live and where we go. "Russian photographer Sergey Larenkov took some old photographs from World War II and combined them with new perspective-matching photos . The result are a series of time portals that help us contextualize the war into our current reality." (ht: Harlan Cone)

NewsNote: Make Way for "Non-Human Persons?" If researchers now claim "that dolphins rank second to human beings in terms of intelligence, displacing chimps and apes from that ranking," what does that do to the theory of evolution?

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By Chuck ColsonPublished Date: February 02, 2001 "False facts," wrote Charles Darwin, "are highly injurious to the progress of science." There's an old American saying that makes the same point. It says, "It's not what people don't know that's so dangerous; it's what they know that just ain't so." Well, I've got some good news and some bad news for you. Generations of students have been taught facts about biology that just ain't so -- they're false facts. For decades, our kids have been soaking up untrustworthy, unreliable information, and their minds (not to mention science itself) have been injured in the process. That's the bad news. Read the good news and the rest of the article on the BreakPoint website .

This is like saying, "The discovery of chocolate in Kroger supports the idea that the fundamental building blocks of desserts are prevalent in grocery stores, and strengthens the argument that chocolate chip cookies may be common rather than rare." Fundamental Ingredient for Life Discovered in Comet - Science News Science & Technology Technology News - FOXNews.com Posted using ShareThis

If Carl Sagan was right about the crab and natural selection . . . Then these crab had better get busy making faces uglier than certain Dutch Harbor captains . . . oops! Too late. Sorry. Natural selection is not micro-evolution.

Scant, but tantilizing evidence that humans helped to kill off Neanderthals? Key words and phrases: "probable," "any number of scenarios could explain it," "we think," "implies," "scientists are continuing to refine their understanding," "conflicting evidence," "likely," "may have been," "one recent study suggested." Yet, Genesis 4 is a myth? Stone Age Murder: Spear Wound Shows Human Killed Neanderthal - Science News Science & Technology Technology News - FOXNews.com Posted using ShareThis

"Creation Moments Responds to the Latest 'Missing Link' in Human Evolution." "It is now May and Creation Moments has been wondering when – during this Darwin’s bicentenary year – some startling new fossil discovery would be announced confirming Darwin’s Theory. Well, the announcement is a bit late – Darwin’s birthday was February 12. And, to put it mildly, the discovery is not at all spectacular. It’s a skeleton of a lemur monkey a mere 21 inches long, but half of that is the tail. It is claimed to be 47 million years old, and it was found in two parts by an amateur fossil hunter in Germany in 1983. The fossil female monkey, squashed as flat as a beer mat, was cleaned and set in polyester resin, then hung on a wealthy private collector’s wall like a Picasso painting until 2006. She then came into the hands of a private dealer, Thomas Perner, who took her to the Hamburg Fossil and Mineral Fair in Germany. It was there, in the murky world of fossil-trading, t...

"The skeleton, which other paleontologists say is far more likely to be an ancestor of lemurs and bush babies than human beings, . . ." Scientist Paid $750,000 for 'Missing Link' Primate Fossil - Science News Science & Technology Technology News - FOXNews.com Posted using ShareThis

Scientists May Have Found How Life Began - Science News Science & Technology Technology News - FOXNews.com Posted using ShareThis I wonder how they would answer these questions: 1) Which came first: DNA or RNA to carry the DNA? 2) How can mutations (recombining of the genetic code) create any new, improved varieties? (Recombining English letters will never produce Chinese books.) 3) Which evolved first (how, and how long, did it work without the others)? a) The digestive system, the food to be digested, the appetite, the ability to find and eat the food, the digestive juices, or the body’s resistance to its own digestive juice (stomach, intestines, etc.)? b) The lungs, the mucus lining to protect them, the throat, or the perfect mixture of gases to be breathed into the lungs? c) The bones, ligaments, tendons, blood supply, or muscles to move the bones? When did blood clotting become important?