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It has been a while since I have been on this forum. I will stay a while. First came the holocaust--a horrible mass-murder, a genocide, in that day condemned by one and all. Then came the holocaust deniers, people who were rightly condemned for denying the obvious killing of 6 million...

I am starting a new thread because I don't want a thread with cut and paste cartoons, so I would ask people stay focused on the data. Anyone can participate, but I would like people to not merely state opinions, but take the data and show why it does or doesn't support global warming. I am...

11 years ago I came to China for the first time. I fell in love with the people and the place, and I studied Mandarin for 3 years--one hour per week with a friend. At that time I had decided not to try to read Chinese thinking I would never be a translator. So, I concentrated on speaking and...

It had to happen. It was just a matter of time. And now it has. Direct geometrical surveying of the stars, using the earth's orbital diameter as a baseline for the triangle has shown that the stars in a nearby galaxy are 6357 light-years away. Thus the predictions and claims of the YECs...

Recently someone on some list threw the Lake Walensee 'varves' at me as evidence that geological estimates of the age of the earth are wrong. The basic concept comes from places like this: "However, Lambert and Hsu have presented evidence from a Swiss lake that these varve-layers form rapidly...

A good friend of mine gave a paper at the Soc. Exploration Geophysicists meeting yesterday. A slide caught my attention. It shows an oil field in the Morrow section of Colorado and Kansas. The target is a channel sand in an old river channel. This channel is at 5100 feet below the earth's...

This is another month from, well, you know where. I was in the States 2 weeks ago, back for a week and a half and now back to the States for 10 days. The last 2 days I have been at a conference out of Beijing where the internet wasn't very cooperative. On the way to the conference, I was reading...

Over the past 25 years, young earth creationists have claimed that the only way pterodactyls could fly was if there was a vapor canopy. Jody Dillow, in his book The Waters Above, discussed this issue. My copy of that book is in Houston so I can't get quotes from that source, but on the web...

Many young-earth creationists beleive that the onset of the global flood is represented by the Precambrian/Cambrian unconformity. Such is Austin and Wise's view: "Then Kurt and I are doing the Mojave Desert Cambrian/Precambrian boundary stratigraphy. As far as creationists are concerned, the...

I ran into an amazing statement by an ID guy from the Discovery Institute on the ASA list. I then looked it up and it is true. MARK RYLAND (DI): "... The Discovery Institute never set out to have a school board, schools, get into this issue. We've never encouraged people to do it, we've never...

Yesterday while flying back to Beijing, I flew over the Lena River system of Russia and took the first picture below. The picture shows a tributary of the Lena River system along with the oxbow lakes,and scars from the previous channels. This picture reminded me of some rivers I have seen in...

Every weekend I go see something new in China. I hate sitting alone in an apartment. Yesterday, my driver suggested I go see this place. So today I went to LongDiXia which is in the 2nd mountain range north of Beijing. It took about 2.5 hours to drive there. A dam creates a huge lake along a...

Why Atheists Believe in a Universe Capable of Eternal Judgment and Prophecy and Don't Even Know It. By Glenn R. Morton June, 2005 'I do not mean to ask you to accept anything without reasonable ground for it. You will soon admit as much as I need from you. You know of course that a...

I have had the amazing experience lately of having two people totally screw up what an argumentum ad hominem was. I decided that I would draw from my philosophy grad school days and give a short lecture on what an ad hominem is and what it isn't. The issue came out of my now regretable...

Warning: Philosophy Ahead The other day in another thread, I was accused of (horror) using the God of the Gaps argument. I had made the statement that when considering the very origin of the universe (broadly defined) one has to explain the fact of existence itself. The Syntopicon of the...

Most young-earthers beleive that the flood started at the Cambrian Precambrian boundary and that the earth was a tranquil place during the 1600 years between the creation and the flood. But, seismic data from around the world shows this to be anything but true. Below is a seismic section from...

Oil is made from the remains of marine organisms, mostly microscopic organisms. However, there are small inputs from terrestrial plants and animals. As the animals and plants are buried in organic-rich rocks, the organic chemicals are cooked into oil over time. What does this have to do with...

There are thousands of correlations between vastly different areas of knowledge and natural systems which are seen in the geologic record which make the concept of a global flood simply untenable. This is one of them. One of the observations of modern science is that there is an inverse...

I ran into this paper the other day on chemical fossils from plants and the geology of Australia. It shows the incredible complexity found in the strata of the geologic column in which multiple independent measurements seem to all fit together and which make the global flood scenario...

According to global flood advocates, the global flood is responsible for the majority of the geologic column and it represents the remains of the preflood world. One biosphere was destroyed in this global cataclysm meaning that all the fossils we find lived on earth simultaneously prior to the...