hERE cOMES hURRICANE mILTON

 rICHT ON THE TAIL OF hURRICANE HELENE WHICH HAS ALREADY WREACKED HORRIFC DAMAGE AND A HIGH DEATH TOLL.  i'VE BEEN PRAYING THAT gOD WOULD SLOW DOWN mILTON BUT IT LOOKS LIKE hE'S NOT LISTENING TO ME.   

kAMALA IS OUT THERE TRYING TO LOOK PRESIDENTIAL NOW AFTER COMPLETELY IGNORING hELENE, WARNING PEOPLE TO LIVE AND OF COURSE TAKING THE OBLIGATORY SWIPE AT tRUMP FOR SUPPOSEDLY GIVING OUT MISINFORMATION ABOUT THE PREPAREDNESS OF fema TO HELP THE SURFVIVAORS.  wELL, THAT'S ODD.  wHY DOES IT COME DOWN TO tRUMP ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS?  i'VE BEEN HEARING FOR DAYS, WEEKS MAYBE, THAT fema HAS RUN OUT OF FUNDS AND i DIDN'T HEAR IT FROM tRUMP.   iF HE'S ALSO SAYING IT THEN HE PROBABLY GOT IT FROM THE SAME SOURCES i'M GETTING IT, AND i HAVE NO REASON TO DOUBT THEM.  fema SPENT ALL ITS MONEY ON ILLEGAL ALIENS AND THERE ISN'T ENOUGH FOR THE HURRICAN E VICTIMS.   iT'S BEEN LOCAL PEOPLE AND PRIVATE CHARITIES LIKE sAMARITAN'S pURSE THAT HAVE STEPPED INT O HELP WITH hELENE.  fema ACOCORDING TO MANY RERPORT HAS BEEN COMPLETELY USELESS.  bUT OF COURSE kama IS ONLY INTERESETED IN CREATED ING AN IMAGE.

Then Harris has the effrontery to accuse Trump of being the one who didn't come to the rescue and even saccused him of having no empathy.  the baldfaced lie makes me more angry than I can stand.  I'd better get off this post.HEN i TYPED dEL.

D43cREATION EVOLUTION pOSTS

tHEY ARE SCATTERED THROUGH MY BLOG OVER ABOUT A MONTH NOW AND MOSTLY ARE JUST SKETCHY ACCOUNTS OF MY ARGUMENTS AGAINST EVOLUTION, THREE GEOLOGICAL AND THREE BIOLGOICAL.  tHE MERE FACT OF THE HUGE SLABS OF TABLETOP FLAT SEDIMENTARY ROCK SPANNING WHOLE CONTINENSTS SHOWS THAT THEY CAN'T POSSIBLY REPRESENT TIME PERIIODS OF HUNDRED  NO, SORRY, TENDS OF MILLIONS OF YEARS PER TIME PERIOD.  tHAT'S ONE.  tHE FACT THAT THE STRATA ARE COMPLETELY UNDISTURBED INTHEIR INDIIDUAL EXISTENCE, ONLY THE WHOLE STACK BEING DISTUBRBED AS   AFTER THE WHOLE THING WAS LAID DOWN, PARTS OF IT SCATTERED IN SOME PLACES SUCH AS ACROSS THE eNGLISH iSLAND, AND THE STATE OF tENNESSEE, SOME OF IT TWISTED INTO PRETZELS BUT ALWAYS IN BLOCKS, NEVER IN THE INDIVIDUAL LAYER AND CERTAINLY NOT AT THE TIME OF ITS LAYING DOWN.  tHESE ARE SIMPLY NOT TIME PERIODS.  aND i ALSO DECIDED TO ADD THE FACT THAT THERE ARE BOTH SEA CREATURES AND LAND CREATURES FOSSILZIED TOGETHER IN A SINGLE LAYER HERE AND THERE, WHIC HIS IS IMPOSSIBLE UNDER NORMAL CONDITIONS.   sURELY ALL THIS HAS BEEN NOTICED BY SCIENCE BUT NOBODY EVER MENTIONS IT AND IT LOOKS TO ME LIKE IT KILLS THE WHOLE IDEA OF AN ANCIENT EARTH.

tHE BIOLGOCIAL ARGUMENTS START WITH THE ONE i USED AT EVC FORUM FOR YEARS, THE FACT THAT VARIATION OF TRAITS IS ACCOMPANIED BY THE REDUCTION IN GENETIC DIVERSITY, ILLUSTRATED BY DOMESTIC BREEDING FOR STARTERS AND YOU LOSE THE TRAITS FOR OTHER BREEDS AS YOU ARE WORKING TO ESTABLISH  A PARTICULAR BREED.  tHE SAME THING WOULD HAPPEN IN THE WILD IF THERE IS SUCH A PERSISTENT VARIATION WHICH i THINK WOUDL HAPPEN IN RING SPECIES IN PARTICULAR, WHERE A FEW INDIVIDULAS MIGRATE AWAY FROM AN ESTABLISHED POPULATION TO FORM A NEW ONE AND DEVELOP NEW CHARACTGERISTICS FROM  A NEW SET OF GENE FREQUENCIES, LOSING THE TRAITS BEHIND THAT ARE NOT BEING BROUGH T TO THE FORE IN THE NEW POPULATION.   eVENTUALLY YOU'D HAVE TO RUN OUT OF GENETIC VARIABILITY AND THAT IS NO FORMULA FOR EVOLTUION.   tHE NEXT ARGUMENT IS THAT ALL VARIATION OCCURS WITHIN THE GENOME OF A SPECIES, THROUGH SEXUAL RECOMBINATION IN SEXUALLY REPRODUCING SPECIES, VARIATIONS BEING A MATTER OF RANDOM PAIRING IN THE FERTILIZED OVUM.   yOU CAN'T GET NEW TRAITS JUST VARIATIONS ON THE TRAITS THAT BELONG TO THE SPECIES WHICH IS WHAT THE GENOME CODES FOR AND NOTHING ELSE.  eVOLUTIONISTS ACT AS IF VARIATION CAN JUST GO ON AND AON ALTHOGUH THEY SURELY KNOW THE LIMTIS DEFINED BY A GENOME.  jERRY cOYNE ACTUALLY SAID THAT THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A WOLF AND A CHIHUAHUA IS TO HIS MIDN EVIDENCE OF EVOLTUION WHICH IS JUST GPLANIN RIDICULOUS.  tHE TRAIT VARIATIONS OF BOTH ANIMALS ARE BUILT INTO THE GENOME OF THE DOG.  THEY ARE DOGS THROUGH THE CSHARED GENOME.  GOOD GRIEF THIS IS OBVIOUS.  

tHEN THERE IS THE BODY PLAN WHICH SEEMS TO ME TO BE CONSISTENTLY DEFINITIVE OF A GIVEN SPECIES, RECOGNIZABLE AS THAT SPECIES IN SKELETON FORM, AND NEVER VARYING IN AN WAY THAT HINTS AT ITS EVER BECOMING SOME OTHER SPECIES.  a DOG BOY PLAN I ALWAYS A DOG PBODY PLAN, ERECOGNIZABLE IN WOLF OR CHIHUAHUA OR GREAT dANE OR lABRADOR ETC.    a CAT SKELETON IS ALWAYS A CAT SKELETON WHICH OF TIGER OR HOUSECAT OR BOGBCAT OR MOUNTAIN LION.   eTC.  a BIRD IS A BIRD IS A BIRD WHIETHER IT'S A PENGUIN OR A HAWK OR AN OSTRICH OR A CHICKADEE, IT IS ASSEMBLED IN THE SAME PROPORTIONS WITH THE SAME POSITION OF APPENDAGES IN EVERY BIRD.     tHE BODY PLAN OF A CHIMPANZEE IS NO AT ALL THE SAME AS THE BODFY PLAN OF A HUMAN BEING, PROPORTIONS ENTIRELY DIFFERENT.  tHE KIND AND AMOUNT OF CHANGE TO GET FROM ONE TO THE OTHER IS SIMPLY IMPOSSIBLE.

nO TIME WON'T DO IT, YOU NEED A CHECHANISM FOR SUCH CHANGE AND THERE ISN'T WONE.  yOU NEED IT WHETHER YOU HAVE TEN YEARS OR TEN MILLION FOR THE CHANGE.

the Octovr Seventh Horror Show

 The date almost went by without my noticing it, sad because it really should be remembered as a day of horrors hardly maginable in our civiliczed times.  the hatred Islam holds againt the jews isn't going to go away unless the religion or ideology goes agway, although the hatred is so ancient it's pretty much built into the the Arab poulation as well since they are relatives going back to Abraham.  Or some of them are anyway, ti's hard to sort it all out.  Israel was given by God the child of promise, Isaac, but Hagar the egyptuian had a son by Abaham called ishmael who would be blessed by God with many sons and princes and wealth in this world.  isaac was to be in the line to the Messiah.  At the time the hatred was fairly subdued but in recent times it's become the ause of general conflict in the Middle East, many wars so far and no end in sight.

the viciousness of the attack on the jews on Octover seventh of last year is really hard to wrap one's head abround.  how does usch barabarity exist in our age?  And yet the world is siding with Hamas against Israel, that's even more astonishing.  University students in the US are joining with Hamas supporters here too.  It's almot beyond belief.    then the world sends aid to Hamas, or at least the people of Gaza supposedly and Hamas intercepts all the food sent and keeps the people in starvation.  They also refuse to get their people out of harm's way although israel announces its   Israel warns them when they are about to attack a site in Gaza that is known to hold many hHamas but Hamas won't let the people leavw so the people have to surffer with them.  

And yet in a way the whole world is going barbaric, including the US.  At lest we might take this as a sign of btter to things to come, meaning of course Jesus soon return.

More bleating Against Jerry Coyne. Sigh.

 Here we go again.  I just keep taking the bait and need to stop eventually.  Jerry Coyne popped up again as I was cloicking through You tube so of course I had to listen.  An interview about his book faith Versus Fact, how religion and science are incompatible or something like that.    

Thereare confusions in this topic that need to be sorted out eventually and I don't thinkk I'm up to it, at least not now.  I certainly don't defend the kind of faith that denies a child a blood transfusion and that sort of thing, and I don't see that as a legitimate sort of faith either.  Biblcial Chrisitianity is quite rational it seems to me and true faith is very appropriate to navigating its revelations, and I would never think of faith as applicable to any kind of scientific question.  In fact I do accept the historical understanding that science became possible in the west because of the bible and would otherwise have never developed, and that's because the bible and the bible's God IS rational and points to a lawful physical world that can be emprically studied.   

Coyne is a spokesman for evolution and that's where the trouble comes in .  Evolution is simply not a science in the sense I'm useing the term here.  There is really nothing that can be ointed to that amounts to a genuine factual evidence for it.  Nothing about evolution can be witnessed or studied as say the law of gravity can or the fact of bacterial infection and all that sort of thing.  Coyne makes no such distinctions of course.  He really thinks he's talking abourt science when he talks about evolution and he really thinks the facts he pints to as evidence for it really are evidence for it.   

So off we go with the first kind of evidnce he points to which is not evidence of evolution and that is the fact that there is great variation within any given species, that populations change ovcer time.  this continues to amaze me.  All that variation is so clearly guilt into the genome of the species and he himself must know that as it's common knowledge that it just continues to be inexplicable to me that they can think such variation can just go on producing change that change the species itself into something other than that species.  

He really thinks that great degree of variation is evidence for such neverending change.  And so does Richard Dawkins.  But of course they neve rever try to demonstrate it, try to show how it works genetically, they just keep pointing back tot he mechanisms that are built into the genimome as if they could somehow jump ship as it were and start producing something that isn't that species.    this idea is so entraenched I guess I'll just be called crazy for trying to make a case out of it.  Sigh.

then there is the fossil record of course.  And over and over here I keep trying to explain how that is an illusion, which will jut succeed in getting me another dismissive chortle by many.  Butg again, all the fossil recod amounts to is a plausbile observation that mentally arranges the fossils in the geological column from simple to complex and declares it a fact that one evolved from the one earlier in the stack although there isn't one shred of evidence that this in fact actually ever happened.    they are relying entirely on an imaginative construct that seems plusible and that is really all there is to it and yet they call it fact.

but beyond that I've also tried to point out that the sedimentary layers in which the fossils are found , thjat are taken to reprensent time periods on this planet of tens of millions of years per layer in most cases, couldn't possible ever have been formed by normal processes at any time on this earth.  Getting somehoone to think this through may be impossible, I don't know.  the strata re tabletop flat when they are laid down and remain so in many parts of the world where they stayed more or less intact, such as in the Grand Canyon.  Tabletop flat ove may thousands of square miles, covering the entire north american continent in the case of those seen in the walls of the Grand Canyon.  Think think think, there is no way this earth was ever covered by a cthick layer of one single sediment ove such a huge area tabletop flat.  Think think think.    One single sediment, say sand which got compressed within the geologial column over time to sandstone, or limestone formed in the same way, a single sediment, just one.  Neither at the bottom of the ocean nor on the surface of the earth nor even some distance beneath the surface could such a sdedimentary layer have formed by normal means.  

Change in populations isn't evidence of evolution, and neither is the fossil record.  What else.  Well I cover all this in other posts and don't feel up to repeating myself right now.  It's just so discouraging .  Yes of course you'd think if these things were true that serious scientists woudl have noticed.  Of course.  that's why I'm so astonished that they don't seem to have noticed.  I don'tknow why nowt.  And I suppose that they have some kind of answer to snap aback at me but I really don'tknow what it is because I can't see that coudld be an snwer.  

Anyway.  Fatih is the way Christians know God and His revelation, His word to us, we don't use to it to understand gravity or bacterial infection or atoms and molecules and so on.  hThat is what empriical science is for.  But the confusing thing, again, is that evolution is taken to be science when it really is not science in the sense that is amenable to that sort of empirical study.