Wednesday, July 31, 2013
Friday, July 26, 2013
Will we soon know the color of dinosaur skin?
http://creation.com/hadrosaur-skin
The discovery of hadrosaur (duck-billed dinosaur) skin near Grande Prairie, Alberta, Canada, is a classic example. University of Regina researcher Mauricio Barbi recounts: “As we excavated the fossil, I thought we were looking at a skin impression. Then I noticed a piece came off and I realized this is not ordinary—this is real skin. Everyone involved with the excavation was incredibly excited ….”2
Their excitement is understandable. Everybody is taught that dinosaurs became extinct millions of years ago yet here is a piece of real skin. No wonder they didn’t expect to find it, and initially thought it must have been only a skin impression. The basic question arising from the discovery ought now to have been, “Why is it that we’ve been taught these fossils are millions of years old, when here quite plainly is evidence to the contrary?”
Instead, Mauricio Barbi and colleagues are trying to answer their question: “how the fossil remained intact for around 70 million years.”
They plan to use the Canadian Light Source (CLS) synchrotron to look at melanosomes—the cellular organelles that contain pigments that control the colour of an animal’s skin.
CLS scientist Tim May is also amazed: “It is astonishing that we can get information like this from such an old sample.”
And Barbi further mused: “What’s not clear is what happened to this dinosaur and how it died. There is something special about this fossil and the area where it was found, and I am going to find out what it is.”3
If only these researchers could look at the world’s geological and fossil evidence through the biblical framework of a 6,000-years-ago Creation and 4,500-years-ago Flood timeline, they would be way less incredulous.
The photo at left shows part of the hadrosaur skin sample found in a
remote area of northwestern Alberta known as the Wapiti formation.
It was found by paleontologist Philip Bell, who trawls the dry riverbeds
there every summer, looking to see if the spring runoff has exposed
any fossils. Sure enough, in June 2012 he and his team came upon a
cliff that had collapsed, revealing dinosaur remains.“I first picked up
a bit with skin impressions, and I thought, great, there should be more
in there,” he said. “We immediately changed our approach to make
sure everything was kept in pristine condition. Soon, we hit upon a
section of skin that was glossy and black, unlike anything I had ever
seen in the field before. We looked at it closely, and realized that it
had a three-dimensional structure.”4 Now, does Dr Bell consider
that the standard textbook slow-and-gradual processes were at
work to preserve this skin so exquisitely? Despite believing in
millions-of-years and evolution, he says: “Obviously skin is
something that decays rapidly, so the fossilization must have been
incredibly fast.” For some enlightening material on how such
fast fossilization could occur, Dr Bell would do well to read our
articles Deluge disaster and
Dinosaur herd buried in Noah’s Flood in Inner Mongolia.
Hadrosaur skin found
Flickr/CLS Research Office (CC BY-SA 2.0)
University of Regina researcher Mauricio Barbi holds a hadrosaur
skin sample that he and his colleagues hope will still contain melanosomes,
the cellular organelles that contain pigments that control skin colour.
“If we are able to observe the melanosomes and their shape, it will
be the first time pigments have been identified in the skin of a
dinosaur,” he said. “We have no real idea [yet] what the skin looks like.
Is it green, blue, orange …”1
Published: 23 July 2013 (GMT+10)
Such is the power of the dinosaurs-died-out-millions-of-years-ago paradigm, that it not only limits what scientists expect to find, but also bizarrely affects how they view ‘unexpected’ evidence when they do find it.The discovery of hadrosaur (duck-billed dinosaur) skin near Grande Prairie, Alberta, Canada, is a classic example. University of Regina researcher Mauricio Barbi recounts: “As we excavated the fossil, I thought we were looking at a skin impression. Then I noticed a piece came off and I realized this is not ordinary—this is real skin. Everyone involved with the excavation was incredibly excited ….”2
Their excitement is understandable. Everybody is taught that dinosaurs became extinct millions of years ago yet here is a piece of real skin. No wonder they didn’t expect to find it, and initially thought it must have been only a skin impression. The basic question arising from the discovery ought now to have been, “Why is it that we’ve been taught these fossils are millions of years old, when here quite plainly is evidence to the contrary?”
Instead, Mauricio Barbi and colleagues are trying to answer their question: “how the fossil remained intact for around 70 million years.”
They plan to use the Canadian Light Source (CLS) synchrotron to look at melanosomes—the cellular organelles that contain pigments that control the colour of an animal’s skin.
Mauricio Barbi and colleagues are trying to answer
their question: ‘how the fossil remained intact for around 70 million years.’
“If we are able to observe the melanosomes and their shape, it will
be the first time pigments have been identified in the skin of a dinosaur,” said
Barbi. That will determine if the hadrosaur skin was green or grey like most
dinosaurs are currently portrayed, or a completely different colour. CLS scientist Tim May is also amazed: “It is astonishing that we can get information like this from such an old sample.”
And Barbi further mused: “What’s not clear is what happened to this dinosaur and how it died. There is something special about this fossil and the area where it was found, and I am going to find out what it is.”3
If only these researchers could look at the world’s geological and fossil evidence through the biblical framework of a 6,000-years-ago Creation and 4,500-years-ago Flood timeline, they would be way less incredulous.
Dino skin “glossy and black, unlike anything I
had ever seen in the field before”
Flickr/CLS Research Office (CC BY-SA 2.0)
remote area of northwestern Alberta known as the Wapiti formation.
It was found by paleontologist Philip Bell, who trawls the dry riverbeds
there every summer, looking to see if the spring runoff has exposed
any fossils. Sure enough, in June 2012 he and his team came upon a
cliff that had collapsed, revealing dinosaur remains.“I first picked up
a bit with skin impressions, and I thought, great, there should be more
in there,” he said. “We immediately changed our approach to make
sure everything was kept in pristine condition. Soon, we hit upon a
section of skin that was glossy and black, unlike anything I had ever
seen in the field before. We looked at it closely, and realized that it
had a three-dimensional structure.”4 Now, does Dr Bell consider
that the standard textbook slow-and-gradual processes were at
work to preserve this skin so exquisitely? Despite believing in
millions-of-years and evolution, he says: “Obviously skin is
something that decays rapidly, so the fossilization must have been
incredibly fast.” For some enlightening material on how such
fast fossilization could occur, Dr Bell would do well to read our
articles Deluge disaster and
Dinosaur herd buried in Noah’s Flood in Inner Mongolia.
Related Articles
References
- Kretzel, L., Scientists use U of S synchrotron to study dinosaur skin, Saskatoon News—News Talk 650 CKOM, www.ckom.com, 29 April 2013. Return to text.
- Scientists study rare dinosaur skin fossil to determine skin colour for first time, phys.org, 29 April 2013. Return to text.
- Foley, J., What color were dinosaurs? Test of ancient skin sample will reveal final answer, Nature World News, natureworldnews.com, 29 April 2013. Return to text.
- In the skin of a … hadrosaur?, Scientific Canadian, http://tylerirving.ca/?p=1101, 6 May 2013. Return to text.
Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Trilobites: Evidence for Biblical Flood
Why do we find lots of trilobite tracks in lower rock layers, but we don’t find any trilobite fossils until higher up?
I was excited, scampering up a remote hill near Death Valley. I
finally had an opportunity to visit one of only a dozen or so places in
the world where you can find the lowest layers of animal fossils. Starting near the car, I scoured the ground very carefully for fossils. After examining one layer I would search the layer above it, slowly working through higher and higher rocks. The flaky shale rocks were the kind that preserves fossils well, so I was sure I’d find something.
At long last I found a trilobite trackway—the only fossil I found in that layer. In the next layer I found several more tracks, but no remains of the trilobites themselves. As I went up, the tracks became more abundant, but I found not the slightest hint of the animals that made the tracks.
Scientists have discovered lots of amazing trilobite tracks in the fossil record (called cruziana, top photo). They have also found mass graves of wonderfully preserved trilobites (bottom photo). The puzzle is that the bodies appear in layers above the tracks. If the layers were deposited over millions of years, this would be a great mystery. But what if the trilobites were scurrying for their lives, climbing through successive waves of mud that flooded over them, and then they finally expired from exhaustion? Do we have any record of a massive catastrophe that could form so many layers so quickly, then kill the trilobites?
Odd. Why would dozens of feet of rock have tracks but not the animals that made them? This finding is especially mysterious if you believe the rock was deposited over thousands of years.
Interestingly enough, the site is not unique. Tracks are found before trilobites everywhere that the lowest trilobite layers are known.
Such a worldwide pattern of fossil layers suggests that a global catastrophe, such as the Bible describes, once struck the world. What if, when the “fountains of the great deep were broken up” (Genesis 7:11), the spreading waters surprised the trilobites living on the ocean bottom? As the water became muddy, trilobites scurried about in terror, leaving their tracks behind them. Then as a layer of mud covered their tracks, they climbed through the mud and left tracks on the next layer—repeating this process until they finally succumbed in exhaustion and were themselves buried and preserved.
Follow the trilobite tracks, and they lead us to the worldwide Flood of the Bible!
article from Answers in Genesis
is
the professor of science and theology at Southern Theological Seminary.
He earned his PhD in geology from Harvard University and has published
numerous articles on biblical geology. He has also written the book Faith, Form, and Time.
Thursday, March 21, 2013
Real Dino DNA Evidence for Biblical Creation
DNA and bone cells found in dinosaur bone
123rf.com/Eakkachai Ngamwuttiwong
Published: 11 December 2012 (GMT+10)
For the last 15 years, Dr Mary Schweitzer has been rocking the evolutionary/uniformitarian world with discoveries of soft tissue in dinosaur bones.1 These discoveries have included blood cells, blood vessels, and proteins like collagen. But under measured rates of decomposition, they could not have lasted for the presumed 65 million years (Ma) since dino extinction, even if they had been kept at freezing point (never mind the much warmer climate proposed for the dinosaurs).2 As she said in a popular TV show:When you think about it, the laws of chemistry and biology and everything else that we know say that it should be gone, it should be degraded completely.3..........................
.........Dino bone cells and proteins
Schweitzer’s more recent research makes long ages even harder to believe. Here, she analyzed bone from two dinosaurs, the famous Tyrannosaurus rex (MOR 112510) and a large duck-billed dinosaur called Brachylophosaurus canadensis (MOR 2598).11 Bone is an amazing structure with the ability to re-work in response to stress,12 and uses the finely designed protein osteocalcin,13 which has been found in the best known duck-billed dinosaur, Iguanadon, ‘dated’ to 120 Ma.14 The most plentiful cells in bones are osteocytes. These have a distinctive branching structure that connects to other osteocytes, and have a “vital role” in “immediate responses to changing stresses.”10click here to read the entire article
Saturday, March 9, 2013
Fairs for Summer 2013
We are looking forward to another great summer. Come and visit us at one of these fairs!
Waukesha County Fair July 17-21
Dane County Fair July 17-21
Washington County Fair July 23-28
Ozaukee County Fair July 31-August 4
Sheboygan County Fair August 29-September 2
Waukesha County Fair July 17-21
Dane County Fair July 17-21
Washington County Fair July 23-28
Ozaukee County Fair July 31-August 4
Sheboygan County Fair August 29-September 2
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Men of Science, Men of God
By Joseph Simon
1.
Johann Kepler (1571-1630): Discovered laws of
planetary motion. Determined sun was
center of solar system, not the earth.
He was an earnest Christian who stated that he was simply thinking God’s
thoughts after him. Believed in a young
earth.
2.
Sir Isaac Newton (1643-1727): Discovered universal law of gravitation,
developed calculus. Came up with the 3
laws governing motion, the law of inertia which states a body in motion will
stay in motion unless acted upon by another force and a body at rest will stay
that way unless acted upon by a force, F=ma and for every action there is an
equal and opposite reaction. He did work
with optics, showing a prism could separate light into primary colors. He invented the reflecting telescope. Developed the universal law of gravitation,
F=g*m1*m2/r^2. In a 2005 poll of the Royal Society of
London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge, founded in 1660, Newton was voted the most influential
scientist of all time, even more so than Einstein. He wrote more on religion than natural
science. Newton saw God as the master creator whose
existence could not be denied in the face of the grandeur of all creation. He believed in Christ as his Savior and defended
Sir William Ussher’s biblical chronology dating the earth at 5700 years in his
day.
3.
James Joule (1818-1889): Studied the nature of heat
and established its relationship to mechanical work. This led to the discovery of the first law of
thermodynamics: The increase in the internal energy of a thermodynamic
system is equal to the amount of heat energy added to the system minus the work
done by the system on the surroundings.
He was a man of sincere Christian faith.
4.
James Simpson (1811-1870): This man read Genesis 2:21 which states that God
caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept, and He took one of his
ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof and made woman and brought her to
the man. He surmised that this deep sleep
goes beyond normal sleep, and that a substance must exist to cause this to
happen. He discovered the effects of
chloroform as an anesthetic and laid the foundation of modern
anesthesiology. He stated that his
greatest discovery was that he had a Savior.
He wrote a Gospel tract which concludes with “But again I looked and saw
Jesus, my substitute, scourged in my stead and dying on the cross for me. I looked and cried and was forgiven. And it seems to be my duty to tell you of
that savior, to see if you will not also look and live. He was wounded for our transgressions (Isaiah
53:5,6).
5.
Joseph Lister (1827-1912): He was an English surgeon whose great
contribution was the development of antiseptic surgery through the use of
chemical disinfectants including carbonic acid.
He founded the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine in London. His work has saved untold millions. Listerine mouthwash is named after him. He was of a Quaker background and wrote “I am
a firm believer in the fundamental doctrines of Christianity”.
6.
Louis Pasteur (1822-1895): One of the greatest
names in the history of science and medicine mainly because of his
establishment of the germ theory of disease and his conclusive demolition of
the the-prevalent pre-evolutionary concept of spontaneous generation which
stated that organisms basically spontaneously generate based on maggots
appearing in meat. He came up with
vaccines to combat rabies, diphtheria, anthrax and others. Obviously he developed the process of
pasteurization and sterilization (anyone had milk today). He undoubtedly made the greatest contribution
of any one man in saving lives and many consider him the greatest biologist of
all time (even though Darwin is far more popular and contributed to far more
deaths than any one man). God says in
His word, “whoever hates me loves death”.
Unfortunately he was the object of intense opposition by the biological
establishment due to his own opposition to spontaneous generation and
Darwinism. He was a strongly religious
man who’s faith grew stronger as he grew older.
7.
Samuel Morse (1791-1872): Famous for inventing the telegraph, one of
the most important milestones in human history.
This totally revolutionized humanity creating instant communications. What is the first message transmitted over
electronic media? A message by Morse
asking “What has God wrought” (Numbers 23:23). Four years before he died he said “The nearer
I approach the end of my pilgrimage, the clearer is the evidence of the divine
origin of the Bible, the grandeur and sublimity of God’s remedy for fallen man
are more appreciated, and the future is illuminated with hope and joy.
8.
Michael Faraday (1791-1867): Discovered the principle of electromagnetic
induction which is the process by which current is induced in a wire by a
moving magnetic field. Using this
principle he invented the generator. His
inventions of electromagnetic rotary devices led to the development of electric
motors. It was largely due to his
efforts that electricity became viable for use in technology. He was also a chemist who discovered
benzene. He is considered one of the
most influential scientists in history.
This man was a humble and sincere Christian. He was a member of the Sandemanian sect, a
small church whose teaching included emphasis on God’s creation as purposeful
and harmonious, designed for man’s well being.
He believed the Bible and science were in complete agreement. His church’s statement of fiath included a
line stating that faith in the divinity and work of Christ is the gift of God,
and the evidence of this faith is obedience to the command of Christ.
9.
James Clerk Maxwell
(1831-1879): Building on the concepts of
his friend Michael Faraday, he developed a comprehensive theoretical and
mathematical framework of the electromagnetic field theory. He came up with the four Maxwell equations
which describe the relationship between electric and magnetic fields and their
interactions with matter. He was also
involved with photography, discovering that color photographs could be formed
using red, green and blue filters. Much
is owed to him for the eventual transmission of electromagnetic waves
(telecommunications).
About Maxwell, Albert Einstein said “The work
of Maxwell] ... the most profound and the most fruitful that physics has experienced
since the time of Newton”. He was fundamentalist in his Christian
beliefs, and was strongly opposed to evolution.
He wrote a refutation of Darwinism.
He said his motivation for his work was the Genesis account of man
having been created in His image and the command to subdue the earth. He acknowledged his personal faith in Jesus
Christ.
10.
Matthew
Fontaine Maury (1806-1873): Matthew Maury joined the U.S. Navy and
sailed all over the world. He remembered a verse his father had read from the
Bible about “paths” in the sea – Psalm 8:6-8 “…and whatsoever passes through
the paths of the sea…”. If the Bible said there were paths in the sea, Matthew
was sure that the sailors could find them. Maury injured his leg in an
accident, but stayed in the navy. With the help of other sailors he was able to
find and map on of these “paths”. Ships following this path (current) shortened
a 70 day trip to 24 days. Soon ship captains from many countries were sending
Maury the information he needed to map his “paths”. The currents Maury mapped
made ocean travel quicker, smoother and safer. Even today ships use the maps
made by Lt. Matthew Maury, “the pathfinder of the seas”. His book is called Wind and Current Charts. This is from a
speech he gave in Tennessee in 1860: “The
Bible is authority for everything it touches… When you men of science, with
vain and hasty conceit, announce the discovery of disagreement between [the
Bible and science], rely upon it, the fault is not with the witness of His
records, but with the worm who essays to interpret evidence which he does not
understand.”
Now ask yourself this, What did Charles Darwin accomplish?
I believe evolutionary ideas actually hinder scientific research. When one begins with the authority of Scripture and the foundation of its truth, we can begin to enter the realm of reality and discovery of the universe He created. Hats off to these men and their work!
Monday, December 3, 2012
Friday, November 30, 2012
Mutation Study Confirms Biblical History
The article below (and continued at the link) is scientific confirmation of the historical accuracy of the Bible. The study confirms what the Bible states, man has been "devolving", or going in the opposite direction of "evolution". After sin and death came into the world, genetic mutations began and just keep getting worse with each generation. Modern man is only a shadow of what God created man to be. We wait for the return of Christ when the curse will be gone, yet we rejoice now that the price for our sins has been paid by His blood.
Study shows surge of bad disease genes in Europeans
A
scan of all the mutations in the human gene map shows something
surprising – people of European descent are evolving fast, and not for
the better.The study finds that in the past 5,000 years, European-Americans have developed a huge batch of potentially harmful genetic mutations – many more than African-Americans.
The study, published in the journal Nature, may help explain why so many people develop diseases even though they don’t have common genetic mutations. It can also help explain why different people have so many different reactions to the same drug, said Joshua Akey of the University of Washington in Seattle who led the study.
to continue article click HERE
Here are some good articles to help you put on your Biblical glasses when pondering the history of man:
More Mutations Mean More Diseases, Less Evolutionby Brian Thomas, M.S. *
The science of genetics continues to refute the notion that humans evolve by natural selection of beneficial mutations. One recent study used next-generation techniques to compare the detailed sequences of 202 genes in 14,002 people.1 They discovered that many people have rare, individual differences in their gene sequences. And those differences, or "variants," were probably caused by mutations and arose in the last few thousand or fewer years. The variants that everybody carries raise difficult questions for evolution to answer, while they confirm biblical creation.
Publishing in Science, the extensive gene survey discovered "an abundance of rare single-nucleotide variants compared with common variants."1 Rare variants include those that perhaps only one or two people or a family possesses, and common variants are DNA differences that are shared by larger people groups. The vast majority of variants are rare. What does this mean?
Continue article here: Mutations and Diseases
Time—no friend of evolution
Our downhill genetic slide fits the biblical creation timeline
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The issue is not the amount of change we observe, but the direction.
The issue is not the amount of change we observe, but the direction.2 The observable changes that evolutionists cite as evidence for their paradigm, such as in sticklebacks,3 bighorn sheep,4 Atlantic cod,5 pollution-resistant worms,6 and antibiotic and pesticide resistance,7,8,9 are all going the wrong way. They’re the direct opposite of what microbes-to-man evolution requires.
Adding up these ‘downhill’ changes can never result in the ‘uphill’ evolutionary frog-to-prince progression.
Continue reading here: Time No Friend of Evolution
Thursday, November 29, 2012
Monday, November 26, 2012
Dinosaur and Fossil Day at the Library
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| Dozens of families came to our first Dino and Fossil Day. |
Yes, the Bible can be trusted, from Genesis to Revelation.
May the birth of Christ this Christmas season bring new hope and refreshment to you!
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| Dinosaur crafts |
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