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June 15, 2017 | David F. Coppedge Space Aliens: Evolutionists’ Imaginary Friends Those who believe life emerges from atoms pretend to talk to companions they don’t even know exist. It’s common in atheist circles to mock believers in God as having an “imaginary friend” that gives them comfort like a cosmic teddy bear. Well, how about those who believe in billions of invisible friends? That’s the faith that keeps atheists willing to spend time and effort looking for them. It launches many a book and article about what these imaginary products of evolution might be like.

June 8, 2017 | David F. Coppedge Stop the Presses! Human Evolution Falsified! Human bones found in Morocco undermine almost everything that has been taught about human evolution since Darwin. But is that news? Happens every year, doesn’t it? This news is so hot, we have to get the word out now and wait for a fuller analysis later. Evolutionary paleoanthropology is in big trouble, if a new find in Morocco is as important as the news are making it out to be. Announced in Nature this week, the discoverers are dating bones from five individuals at over 300,000 Darwin...

Secularists Can Believe Mars Had a Global Flood Mars has no liquid water today, but water must have covered much of the planet in the past. How? Nobody knows. Look at the diagram of Mars the way some secular planetary scientists believe it looked in ancient times (Phys.org). It’s almost covered with water. How could that be? There’s no liquid water there today, and Mars lacks the atmosphere that could keep it liquid. It’s also too cold for liquid water most of the time, although some may be locked up as ice in the polar caps.

Big Bang Blowup at Scientific American by Jake Hebert, Ph.D. * The February 2017 issue of Scientific American contains an article by three prominent theoretical physicists from Princeton and Harvard who strongly question the validity of cosmic inflation, an important part of the modern Big Bang theory.1 They argued that inflation can never be shown to be wrong—it cannot be falsified—and therefore inflation isn’t even a scientific hypothesis. Inflation theory was proposed by physicist Alan Guth to solve a number of serious problems in early versions of the Big Bang model. Supposedly, the universe underwent an extremely short period of...

Darwinism has remade Western society—for the worse Review of The Darwin Effect: Its Influence on Nazism, Eugenics, Racism, Communism, Capitalism, and Sexism by John Woodmorappe This work covers the effects of the Darwinian revolution on 19th and 20th century thinking. It is striking how pervasive and harmful this effect has been. Because this work is so rich in diverse topics, I focus on only some of them and concentrate on developments in the latter part of the 20th century. Darwin was not simply a product of his time and culture. To the contrary, he effectively steered his culture. His ideas...

Learning the lessons of Mount St Helens. How its eruption backs biblical history by Tas Walker It was not until I visited Mount St Helens volcano in Washington State, USA, that I fully appreciated the immensity of its 1980 explosion. Over many years, I had learned a lot about the eruption, watching videos, listening to lectures, and reading reports. When the mountain blew up physically, it also blew away many false ideas about geology, ideas that were wrong, but had been believed for more than a century. After decades of inactivity, Mount St Helens coughed to life in March 1980,...

Creation Geologist Fights Secular Bullies May 11, 2017 David F. Coppedge He has every credential a geologist could wish for, but the consensus bullies will not even let him collect rocks that might question their dogma. Dr Snelling teaching in Grand Canyon, 2008 Dr. Andrew Snelling has a PhD in geology from the University of Sydney. He has published in peer-reviewed journals. He has taught geology on numerous trips through the Grand Canyon. He wrote a two-volume book on geological evidence. But when he applied for a research permit at the Grand Canyon to collect samples, the secular uniformitarian consensus...

Marlon Bundo, the Pence family rabbit, launches Instagram account by Caitlin Yilek | Jan 23, 2017, Marlon Bundo, the Pence family rabbit, had "a productive first day" on the job, according to its newly launched Instagram account. The rabbit's first photo shows the animal sitting on a desk next to a globe, glasses and telephone. "Working hard to #makeamericagreatagain," the caption reads. Marlon Bundo is also dubbed as first "botus" — or "bunny of the United States" — in the caption. The Pence family introduced the rabbit to the nation in early January.

Archive Classic: The Mystery of the Ultra-Pure Sandstones Reprinted from June 27, 2003, this mystery is worth considering still. What caused these global deposits that are not being formed today? 6/27/03 — R. H. Dott, Jr (Univ. of Wisconsin) has a problem. He’s been trying to explain a geological puzzle for 50 years, and it is still unresolved. All around the world, sandstones are found that are “remarkably pure” that “seem nonactualistic” (jargon for “They can’t really be there”). These pure quartz arenites, as they are called, were considered a major puzzle half a century ago, when Dr. Dott was...

Lucy Languishes as a Human-Ape Link by Frank Sherwin, M.A. * Evidence for Creation Human evolution has consistently been shown to be without scientific or biblical merit. Although a parade of supposed transitions are displayed in every conceivable outlet, non-Darwinists maintain that the links between people and our alleged ape-like ancestors are—missing.

Tailbone “serves no purpose”? New York Museum of Natural History misleads the public by Keaton Halley Published: 27 April 2017 (GMT+10) On a recent visit to the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York, I encountered a sign that struck me as an embarrassment to that institution. It claimed that the human coccyx, or tailbone, serves no purpose, but reminds us that humans have descended from ancestral animals with tails. [Emphasis added] Serves no purpose? Really? The claim is absurd. Although evolutionists since Darwin have been foisting such nonsense on the public, anyone who bothers to investigate the...

Radiocarbon Dating Can't Prove an Old Earth by Vernon R. Cupps, Ph.D. * Evidence for Creation Recently, I conversed with an educated man who maintained Earth must be millions of years old because radiocarbon dating proved it. Although this argument is common, it’s simply inaccurate. Even evolutionary scientists acknowledge that radiocarbon dating cannot prove ages of millions or billions of years. Why? Radiocarbon (14C) is an unstable form of carbon that spontaneously decays into nitrogen over time.1 The best instrument for detecting radiocarbon is an accelerator mass spectrometer (AMS),2 which can typically detect one radiocarbon atom per quadrillion (1015) carbon...

Can we know God? by Lita Cosner Published: 18 April 2017 (GMT+10) William Paul Young has written a new book entitled Lies We Believe About God. This serves the useful purpose of vindicating all the people who warned about the bad theology in The Shack who were told to stop worrying because it’s just a story with no theological teaching motive. Lies has a definite teaching motive, and it’s just as chock-full of heresy as his fiction. But the heresy in Lies is almost entirely a symptom of a foundational error evident in the back cover blurb: “This book is...

Evangelical Apologist Hank Hanegraaff Converts to Eastern Orthodoxy Posted by: Rob Bowman On Palm Sunday, April 9, 2017, Hank Hanegraaff formally joined the Orthodox Church. Since 1989 Hanegraaff has been the President of the Christian Research Institute (CRI) and (since ca. 1992) the host of CRI’s Bible Answer Man radio program.[1] Hank, his wife Kathy, and two of their twelve children were inducted by a sacramental rite called chrismation into the Orthodox faith at St. Nektarios Greek Orthodox Church in Charlotte, North Carolina, near where CRI is based. In chrismation, a baptized individual is anointed with oil in order to...

Plant Email System Described Posted on April 7, 2017 in Intelligent Design What do you call a long-distance signaling system that involves coded information? Japanese researchers identified a coded string of information that acts as a signal, but it wasn’t intercepted email: it was a molecule inside a plant, the humble lab plant Arabidopsis thaliana. Phys.org says that scientists at Nagoya University identified a polypeptide that tells roots when the top of the plant is starved for nitrogen, essentially telling the roots to send some up pronto. The polypeptide is not a random string of amino acids. It’s an ordered...

Scientist Realizes Important Flaw in Radioactive Dating Apr. 3, 2017 In beta decay, a neutron turns into a proton by emitting a beta particle, which is an electron (click for credit) As someone who has studied radioactivity in detail, I have always been a bit amused by the assertion that radioactive dating is a precise way to determine the age of an object. This false notion is often promoted when radioactive dates are listed with utterly unrealistic error bars. In this report, for example, we are told that using one radioactive dating technique, a lunar rock sample is 4,283 million...

Bennett Greenspan - Are Modern Jews Descended from the Biblical Israelites?

Westinghouse bankruptcy filing just the start for Toshiba Fulfilling loan guarantees could further strain fragile finances March 28, 2017 6:00 am JST TOKYO -- Toshiba's plan to have Westinghouse Electric file for bankruptcy protection this week is a risky first step in a long and potentially complicated recovery, exposing the parent to a stiff financial blow if loan payments by the American nuclear unit falter.

The Lone Ranger vs the Big Science Consensus 3-23-17 National Geographic retells the lonely battle of J Harlen Bretz against the scientific establishment, and what made them so pig-headed. Glenn Hodges tells in bold narrative how one man, not even trained in geology, figured out the Channeled Scablands in eastern Washington state. It’s a story we’ve told before, but this article in National Geographic, with Michael Melford’s stunning photographs, is a keeper. The headline and subtitle give a flavor of what’s below: Formed by Megafloods, This Place Fooled Scientists for Decades Geologists couldn’t account for the strange landforms of eastern...