New crime of blasphemous libel proposed for Defamation Bill – goodbye – Politics.ie
Actually, tisn’t “internet creationist” so much as the weirdo American christian fundamentalists that are stuck with the literal creation idea. The Vatican did state that the Big Bang theory does not contradict the basics of Bible or belief. There’s

Herschel, Planck satellites to carry huge telescope, equipment into – USA Today Blogs
Scientists Thursday will embark on a mission to discover how the universe evolved after the Big Bang. The European Space Agency will launch two satellites aboard an Ariane 5 rocket. If successful, the satellites will stay in orbit collecting data

Quote For The Day – Andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com
“As a child in Tibet, I was keenly curious about how things worked. When I got a toy I would play with it a bit, then take it apart to see how it was put together. As I became older, I applied the same scrutiny to a movie projector and an antique

Riverstone Announces NI 43-101 Resource Estimate of 1.14 Million – Market Wire
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA–(Marketwire – May 11, 2009) – Riverstone Resources Inc. (TSX VENTURE:RVS)(FRANKFURT:3RV) is pleased to announce the results of an independent, NI 43-101 compliant resource estimation for the Karma Project in Burkina Faso

Study offers new picture of Tahoe geology – Sierra Sun
Scripps researchers study the faults below Lake Tahoe. Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego LAKE TAHOE Researchers studying the history of earthquakes in the Lake Tahoe region say a large quake occurs every 2,000 to 3,000 years in

Report: Carbon could be stored in Pa. wells, caves – WHP CBS21
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) – A new state report says depleted oil and gas wells, coal beds that cannot be mined and salt caverns in north-central and western Pennsylvania are likely places to store carbon in order to use clean coal technology and curb of

Mexico: Swine flu epidemic on decline – News 8 Austin
MEXICO CITY Mexico’s health secretary said the swine flu epidemic in his country “is in its declining phase.” Jose Angel Cordova said Sunday that Mexico’s swine flu death toll remains at 19, and that the number of confirmed cases has increased

Swine Flu “On Decline” in Mexico: Official – HULIQ.com
Health Secretary Jose Angel Cordova said “evolution of the epidemic is now in its declining phase,” suggesting that data shows the epidemic peaked sometime between April 23 and April 28. At that time, Mexico took drastic measures closing the

Mexico says flu epidemic over the worst – Reuters India
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico announced on Sunday that its swine flu epidemic has passed the worst and experts said the new H1N1 virus might be no more severe than normal flu, although it could still impact on world health. Mexican Health Minister

Free Press, WWJ to launch TV show – Detroit Free Press
The paper has formed a unique partnership with CBS-owned WWJ-TV, Channel 62, to launch a 5-7 a.m. weekday program that will offer heavy doses of weather and traffic updates, as well as news gathered by Free Press journalists. The new program will be

by Jerry Bergman and Joseph Calkins
CRS Quarterly, Volume 45 Number 3, Winter 2009, pp. 213-224.

Abstract:
It is often claimed that the human retina is poorly designed because
light must travel through the nerves and blood vessels to reach the
photoreceptor cells, which are located behind the eye’s wiring. Many
specific reasons exist for this so-called backward placement of the pho-
toreceptors. A major one is that it allows close association between the
rods and cones and the pigment epithelium required to maintain the
photoreceptors. It is also essential in both the development and the
normal function of the retina. Both the rods and cones must physically
interact with retinal pigment epithelial cells, which provide nutrients
to the retina, recycle photopigments, and provide an opaque layer to
absorb excess light.

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Chilly day, warm welcome – TARGA TASMANIA 2009 and just a brief – Tasmanian Examiner
It’s a case of rock ‘n’ roll for ROB SHAW aboard The Examiner’s Targa entry. IF they had lips, the seagulls at St Helens would have been licking them yesterday. When a multi-million dollar fleet of gleaming paintwork rolled into town, nature’s

Friends-turned-foes in fray here – Times of India
PATNA: The electoral battle in the Patliputra Lok Sabha constituency is a manifestation of the fast-changing human relations. The three key contestants — railway minister Lalu Prasad (RJD), former Rajya Sabha member and retired Patna University

Economy Minister meets with ASU officials – Khaleej Times
WASHINGTON – Economy Minister Sultan bin Saeed Al Mansouri has wrapped up a tour of the United States, paying a visit to Phoenix in Arizona State (ASU). During his visit, Al Mansouri met with the officials of the Global Institute for Sustainability

by Carl R. Froede, Jr.
CRS Quarterly, Volume 44 Number 4, Spring 2008, pp. 286-300.

Abstract:
Unique atmospheric conditions during and immediately following the Flood have recently been postulated based on the results of numerical computer modeling. This modeling suggests that the heating of the atmosphere and oceans could have produced conditions suitable for the development of super hurricanes, or “hypercanes.” Unfortunately, the atmosphere provides no historic record of such events. However, proxy records might be found in the rock record. In fact, it is probable that hypercanes would have created large-scale tempestites (i.e., storm deposits) across various portions of the continents while they were covered by Floodwater. Such storm deposits occur across the United States Gulf Coastal Plain. One such stratigraphic unit is the Gosport Sand Member of the Lisbon Formation (Eocene), which extends across southwestern Alabama. A Gosport Sand outcrop at Little Stave Creek in Clarke County exhibits sedimentary evidence that it formed from a single massive hypercane during the Middle Flood Event Division.

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by Michael J. Oard
CRS Quarterly, Volume 44 Number 3, Winter 2008, pp. 180-192.

Abstract:
Two of the six water gaps through the Alaska Range will be briefly described. These water gaps fit in with a worldwide pattern of well over one thou­sand water gaps. Water gaps are a major mystery to uniformitarian geology. The three main uniformitarian hypotheses for the origin of water gaps will be analyzed and found wanting. There does not appear to be any evidence for either of the two hypotheses suggested for the origin of the Alaska Range water gaps. However, the Flood paradigm successfully explains these water gaps, as well as practically all others, and even wind gaps. Both wind and water gaps could have been rapidly carved during the Channelized Flow Phase of the Flood, when strong water currents were flowing perpendicular to mountains or ridges. An analog for a water and wind gap occurred during the gigantic Lake Missoula flood at the peak of the Ice Age.

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by Danny R. Faulkner
CRS Quarterly, Volume 44 Number 2, Fall 2007, pp. 76-84.

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Astronomers think that stars end their existence as one of three possible stellar remnants. In recent decades, astronomers have amassed a tremendous amount of observational data and theoretical models to support an evolutionary interpretation of stellar remnants. We survey this topic and discuss possible creationary responses to it.

Recent issues of this quarterly have contained articles dealing with stellar remnants (Davies, 2007; DeYoung, 2006). In this article, we explore three topics. First, we review the types of stellar remnants recognized in the astronomical field. Second, we briefly describe the observations and physics that support the identification of these objects. Third, we discuss the evolutionary framework that astronomers generally think explains these different objects. In the conclusion we will discuss some of the possible creationary responses to these evolutionary ideas. As creationists, we reject evolutionary explanations and ought to respond to them with criticisms and creationary alternatives. However, in our critique of these evolutionary ideas, we must be very careful that we do not mistakenly “throw the baby out with the bath water” by dismissing some of the conclusions that are based upon good observations and physics. As difficult as it may be, we must separate the evolutionary speculations from the well-established ideas.

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by Mark H. Armitage and George F. Howe
CRS Quarterly, Volume 44 Number 1, Summer 2007, pp. 40-53.

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Lichens are a life-form composed of a fungus called the “mycobiont,” growing in close union with some alga or blue-green bacterium known as the “phycobiont” (Howe and Armitage, 2002). Some workers consider this to be a symbiotic union, while others see it as a mild form of parasitism. Lichen pigments probably play many important physiological roles, while their brilliant colors provide considerable aesthetic enjoyment (Howe and Armitage, 2003). The versatile array of lichen asexual reproductive bodies and other features of the lichen upper surface have been illustrated by using scanning electron photomicrography (Armitage and Howe, 2004). Lichen algae and fungi are woven together forming “tissues” that resemble the tissues of unrelated “higher plants” in a generalized fashion (Armitage and Howe, 2006). In this two-part article (our fifth lichen paper) we show that the cellular ultrastructure of lichen provides evidence favoring design and direct creation. Our hope here, as with the other lichen papers, is that the readers’ knowledge of the Creator and their esteem for His handiwork will be enhanced by the study of lichens.

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by Michael J. Oard and Hank Giesecke
CRS Quarterly, Volume 43 Number 3, March 2007, pp 232-240.

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Polystrate fossils are one of numerous evidences for the rapid deposition of strata, as opposed to the uniformitarian belief in slow deposition over millions of years. They are briefly described from the Joggins Formation, Nova Scotia; Yellowstone National Park, Montana and Wyoming; Ginkgo Petrified Forest State Park, Washington; the Geodetic Hills of Axel Heiberg Island; the Lompoc diatomite, California; and a diatomite from Peru. Uniformitarian geologists usually ignore polystrate fossils or claim that they represent only local rapid deposition, but they rarely supply any supporting evidence. A new location with polystrate petrified trees is described from open-pit coal mines in Alaska. About twenty upright trees at many different levels support rapid deposition of the strata there. The upright trees can be explained by the log mat model, and evidence from the coal mines supports that interpretation.

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