Candi did a Bible study with Wyatt today. I asked him about it over dinner. See if you can guess their topic.
Dad: Wyatt, what did you learn today during your Bible study?
Wyatt: There was a devil!
Dad: A devil?! What else?
Wyatt: There was a tree with women.
Dad: Oh my! What did God say about the "woman tree"?
Wyatt: God said don't eat the tree.
Dad: What would happen if they ate the "woman tree"?
Wyatt: It's die time.
I think he was able to articulate all the theological aspects necessary for a three year old. I wonder what questions God would ask me about what I learned when studying my Bible today. I wonder if He would get as much pleasure from hearing my answers as I did from Wyatt's.
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Saturday, April 11, 2009
Little Trip
We took a trip to Ft. Hauchucha last week. We intended to go to this sweet pool that's in the town of Sierra Vista (where the base is), but they did not have open swim hours during the week (it was a Monday/Tuesday). Oh well - next time. We instead hung out at the bike park next to the pool and then went to Kartchner Cavern. Kartchner is a living cavern with several large rooms that was discovered in the '70s, kept a secret and secretly transferred to state control (to protect the cavern from vandalizing), and then opened around 2002. It was really an amazing thing to see. They have one of the longest "soda straw" formations in the world - something like 29 feet.
The only draw back was having to listen to someone explain how the cave was formed millions of years ago. Even the kids rolled there eyes... I'm so proud! Hee hee.
Here's some pictures:
Oh, Christian fell into the prickly pears!
At the hotel -
There was definately something in the water! We had a real Alice in Wonderland problem.
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Fit This Into the Model
I just found out about this and looked for it on the internet. This discovery was made by an evolution-believing scientist. Models for how where the universe and life came from must be able to include all evidence. If it can't the model should be revised or discarded. Evolution should be discarded, frankly.
The Devastating Issue of Dinosaur Tissue ----- by Frank Sherwin, M.A.
A recent discovery in the field of paleontology has sent shockwaves through the scientific community. Evolutionist Mary H. Schweitzer of North Carolina State University has discovered flexible blood vessels inside the fossilized thighbone of a "68-70 million year old" Tyrannosaurus rex1 from the Hell Creek formation in eastern Montana. Further investigation revealed round microscopic structures that look to be cells inside the hollow vessels. Even to the untrained eye, the tissue samples look as if the animal died recently. Fibrous protein material was dissolved with an enzyme called collegenase, indicating that amino acid sequencing could probably be done (amino acids are the building blocks of protein).
Although it is too early to make definite statements regarding this stunning and wholly unexpected find, the evidence seems to indicate the T. rex fossil is -- well, young. Young as in just centuries-old, certainly not an age of millions of years. Indeed, Dr. Schweitzer said, "I am quite aware that according to conventional wisdom and models of fossilization, these structures aren't supposed to be there, but there they are. I was pretty shocked."2
Would evolutionary theory have predicted such an amazing discovery? Absolutely not, soft tissue would have degraded completely many millions of years ago no matter how fortuitous the preservation process. Will evolutionary theory now state -- due to this clear physical evidence -- that it is possible dinosaurs roamed the earth until relatively recent times? No, for evolutionary theory will not allow dinosaurs to exist beyond a certain philosophical/evolutionary period.
This is not the first time that puzzling soft tissue has been unearthed. Nucleic acid (DNA) taken from wet "fossil" magnolia leaves allegedly 17-20 million years old have been discovered.3 Fragments of genetic material up to 800 base pairs long were recovered -- amazing considering it does not take long for water to degrade DNA. A microbiologist in California dissected a 25-to-40-million-year-old Dominican stingless bee from amber.4 Spores of bacteria were found inside the insect and actually grew when placed in the proper medium. Dr. Cano, the discoverer, took careful measures to avoid contamination. Analysis of the DNA extracted showed it was very much like the DNA found in bacteria growing in bees today. Just as the creation model predicts, bees have always been bees and bacteria have always been bacteria.
If this is in fact what these various scientific evidences indicate -- soft tissue, bacteria, and DNA ensconced in fossils and amber allegedly millions of years old -- then there needs to be a complete re-evaluation of these evolutionary time spans, especially in light of the advances of the ICR RATE project.
Here's the link, with references at the bottom.
The Devastating Issue of Dinosaur Tissue ----- by Frank Sherwin, M.A.
A recent discovery in the field of paleontology has sent shockwaves through the scientific community. Evolutionist Mary H. Schweitzer of North Carolina State University has discovered flexible blood vessels inside the fossilized thighbone of a "68-70 million year old" Tyrannosaurus rex1 from the Hell Creek formation in eastern Montana. Further investigation revealed round microscopic structures that look to be cells inside the hollow vessels. Even to the untrained eye, the tissue samples look as if the animal died recently. Fibrous protein material was dissolved with an enzyme called collegenase, indicating that amino acid sequencing could probably be done (amino acids are the building blocks of protein).
Although it is too early to make definite statements regarding this stunning and wholly unexpected find, the evidence seems to indicate the T. rex fossil is -- well, young. Young as in just centuries-old, certainly not an age of millions of years. Indeed, Dr. Schweitzer said, "I am quite aware that according to conventional wisdom and models of fossilization, these structures aren't supposed to be there, but there they are. I was pretty shocked."2
Would evolutionary theory have predicted such an amazing discovery? Absolutely not, soft tissue would have degraded completely many millions of years ago no matter how fortuitous the preservation process. Will evolutionary theory now state -- due to this clear physical evidence -- that it is possible dinosaurs roamed the earth until relatively recent times? No, for evolutionary theory will not allow dinosaurs to exist beyond a certain philosophical/evolutionary period.
This is not the first time that puzzling soft tissue has been unearthed. Nucleic acid (DNA) taken from wet "fossil" magnolia leaves allegedly 17-20 million years old have been discovered.3 Fragments of genetic material up to 800 base pairs long were recovered -- amazing considering it does not take long for water to degrade DNA. A microbiologist in California dissected a 25-to-40-million-year-old Dominican stingless bee from amber.4 Spores of bacteria were found inside the insect and actually grew when placed in the proper medium. Dr. Cano, the discoverer, took careful measures to avoid contamination. Analysis of the DNA extracted showed it was very much like the DNA found in bacteria growing in bees today. Just as the creation model predicts, bees have always been bees and bacteria have always been bacteria.
If this is in fact what these various scientific evidences indicate -- soft tissue, bacteria, and DNA ensconced in fossils and amber allegedly millions of years old -- then there needs to be a complete re-evaluation of these evolutionary time spans, especially in light of the advances of the ICR RATE project.
Here's the link, with references at the bottom.
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