Evolution

Have you ever thought about your conscience?

We all have one and it speaks to us every day, every time something is out of place that needs our attention, like right and wrong. Where did this come from?

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The Geminian offers that people are usually offended by the idea of "coming from an ape." The truth, better said is not that we come apes but we and apes evolved from the same species which evolved from a, or rather, THE species all species evolved from, some nameless one celled organism that probably lived just long enough to reproduce offspring that were a little less susceptible to the life threatening ecological factors that killed it. Those offspring, in turn, did the same and so on.

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Well today I had quite a laugh.... but when I really think about I get sort of disturbed because... this is like, the biggest SCAM of all time. It is so simple it is just ridiculous.

There is now a new "MUSEUM" to advocate Christianity. Okay, fine.... even though "museums" are supposed to help preserve history, not stories. Whatever. Fine. But the FUNNY thing is that they built this $27 MILLION "museum" (wow, that's a lot of money; I'm sure that there was no better way to spend all that money for the good of humankind) largely to "prove" (I think that the better term would be to "ludicrously insist") that evolution is all a silly idea, that divine creation is the only truth-- and one of the MAIN issues is-- dinosaurs. The world of Science and Reason say that dinosaurs ENDED their several hundred million year reign tens of millions of years ago. BUT according to Christianity, that is simply not true. Yes, they have no explanation for the FACTS involved that make up REALITY but they still insist, arms crossed over chests and feet stamped firmly into the ground, that the Earth, humans, and dinosaurs were all brought into existence a mere 6000 years ago. What I cannot help think of are all the "Christian" friends I have who I consider to be very intelligent.... but... when it comes to this..... Which does everyone really believe? Science or faith? And is it all because they were raised that way? It certainly looks like it and I struggle with that. Do all these people REALLY believe that "God" planted phony evidence as a "test" or something and the Earth is REALLY only 6000 years old? Do people REALLY believe that the Earth is that new because a pastor or a preacher or a Reverend TELLS them so? THAT is the big selling point to the idea-- someone just telling masses of people that and since it seems morally tidy and easier than being independently ethical, people just GO WITH IT??? Because you cannot be a steadfast, faithful Christian if you don't beleive it ALL.... which to me is an awfully mean way of putting a lot of nice people who are just looking for answers into the postition of having only two options: be faithful or be reasonable. You cannot "in good faith" be both.....

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The planet, Jupiter!

To those tired of my political tirades, this dusty!

In my on going effort to keep up to date on the world in general, and obscure philosophies in specific, I have used the current and most nouveau phrase, "intelligent design". Between ourselves, dear reader, I prefer "creationism". This idea of the Supreme Creator and Judge, sitting there, being "intelligent" gives me the quivers.

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As some of you may know, I've created a site that functions mostly as an indexing resource for the things I've written here to date. There are alphabetical indexes for what I've written under Dude and Dude, The New Millennium Devil's Dictionary, Observations, and Science Belief and Society.

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Ichthyostega 365 million years ago the earl;iest tetrapod

There’s a new kid on the BloggerParty block, BigBadJohnny. Well, maybe he’s not a kid; if his avatar tells no lies then I’m a spring chicken by comparison. We can swap stories about when elephants had fur. Anyway, it appears that Johnny is a wondering sort, and one of the things he’s wondering about, he says, is where eyes came from. So here I am, sitting in front of the washing machine wondering how I’m ever going to work what I actually do for a living into the incoherent mishmash that is Felloffatruck Publications, and here comes an opportunity, wonderfully gift-wrapped. Thanks, John, the check’s in the mail. :)

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Extinction is inevitable. We can prolong it but we exist on a finite time line no matter how expansive. Happened to a billion species before us and it'll occur to a billion more after us. These species will have their hayedays; roaming the Earth (or whatever they might call it) consuming and devouring natural resources; perched at the top of the food chain.

We are doomed by our inability to transcend our own limitations. We're built to go only so far. Take Australopithecus Africanus for example; inhabited the earth roughly 3 - 1.6 million years ago, that's an awful long time. But in those million plus years they never managed to develop any tools more complex than a sharpened stone, it never even occured to them to put it on the end of a stick and make a spear. Were they dumb? Sure by our standards; they just weren't built to think that far ahead and eventually they died off and a species more adept to the enviorment sprung up and took charge.

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Judging from the latest I have been reading, seeing and listening to, all the "scientific" theories about "gradual" earth development and the age of the earth itself is all hogwash.

Tons of web sites out there tout theories from a bucketload of "alternative" scientists who think that the Grand Canyon, for example, was carved out of the desert suddenly by a massive water flow in ages past -- not by the Colorado River over "millions" of years.

Other experts see Mars and Venus as the culprits who, in ancient orbits, got too close to the Earth and caused upheavals that created the major mountain ranges we know as the Andes, Rockies, Sierra Nevada and Himalayas.

Jupiter has an upper atmosphere temperature of 300 degrees F, hotter than an oven, and it is monstrous, which means that all its satellites are impacted by enormous heat instead of being "cold." One of Saturn's remote moons was recently photographed spouting a massive liquid water geyser ... hey, that's at least 32 degrees F and its supposed to be 200 degrees below zero out there.

What gives? The volcanoes on Mars are way too big for a planet that size. There are way too many craters and lavalike "mares" on our own Moon for God's sake.

Noah's flood? It happened. Every ancient civilization records it.

Dinosaurs? Recent. All dating methods, including Carbon 14 and potassium-argon, are flawed because they assume controlled, constant, dead-even environments for "millions" of years on end.

Face it. Science sucks. The Bible thumpers are far closer to reality. Just look around you.

Greenland's melting. Fast. So is Antarctica. Hey, they used to be green at one time. They will be green again. It might be the end of regular life as we know it further in toward the equator, but so what? The tundra will melt and come alive with all kinds of life. We'll all have to move North. The Inuit will have to eat deer meat instead of whale blubber.

More to come ...

Project Seek: Onassis, Kennedy and the Gemstone Thesis

There’s More Where This Came From

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Bloggerpartygoers! It’s not nice to diss Dr. Science. You have been warned. If you persist in your perfidy, the oceans will rise and swallow you. Yes, you heard about that here first, weeks before it was splashed on the front page of the San Francisco Chronicle. The latest entry in the William Proxmire’s Golden Fleece sweepstakes is I was framed’s discovery that there is such a thing as a left-handed snail, and that left-handed snails beat off predators better than right-handed snails. He asks “How do snails beat off predators", “Does it matter", and “Who pays for this stuff"? The answers are “Keep reading", “Yes", and “You do". Let me explain.

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Now that I have your attention with such an outrageous title, I will be writing about my favorite book. Most people enjoy reading fictional works, or perhaps memoirs. I prefer sociological books that read like a college assignment. To that end, my favorite book is "The Lucifer Principle" by Howard Bloom. The title of the book comes from the first chapter. Mr. Bloom presents the story of Marcion, a Christian heretic in ancient Rome, who said that the creator could not be merciful. After all, evil was rampant, and everywhere you looked throughout nature, violence was to be found. To be able to create such violence, the creator must have understood violence, so he is to blame. Others did not like this idea and began to talk about Lucifer, a being which relished evil. Mr. Bloom states that perhaps Marcion understood the situation better. After all, Lucifer, even within the Christian lore, did not create the evil. He gave into its lure. "Evil" is a by-product of creation, says Mr. Bloom. The remainder of the book is dedicated to examining the evils of nature, creation, birth, etc. He does so through 5 concepts.

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Is it possible to believe in the creation version in the Bible and still be an evolutionist? Does the idea that the universe was created by some kind of Intelligent design offend Scientists?

I don't see how it could. The fact that the DNA of 1 cell....let me repeat it.....1 cell if typed out...and we are just talking about the repetition of just four letters....CTGA.....in DNA sequencing would fill four rooms filled with file cabinets and typed on regular typing paper.....that's 1 cell......and we are made of billions of cells....we are amazing creatures.

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This evening, I attended a presentation about human evolution. One of the greatest points that I took away from the meeting is the growing controversy surrounding the question of human evolution. Did we all come from Africa as modern science dictates, or did we evolve in the Americas as recent evidence suggests?

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Once upon a time, in the time of Joseph Stalin and his Soviet Union, in fact, there was a man named Lysenko. Trofim Denisovitch Lysenko, of the Ukraine, to be precise. His is a cautionary tale for all those who think science is just another ism, and that primary education should be about indoctrination in comfortable ideas, rather than in learning to deal with uncomfortable truths.

Lysenko considered himself a plant breeder and geneticist. He was charismatic, and was very good at indoctrination. He could get the peasant farmers of the Soviet Union to do his bidding - no mean feat, as the peasants had lost their farms to collectivization in the previous decade and were generally ticked off at anybody with orders from Moscow. He could sell sand in a desert - which is a good thing, because a lot of his ideas turned fertile fields into sand. Stalin made him head of the Soviet Union's Institute of Genetics. A position he held for thirty years, during which he silenced, exiled, or killed outright any scientist who disagreed with him. He was the politically correct "barefoot genius", the perfect Soviet Comrade, far superior to those effete, reactionary, brainwashed whitecoats.

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