The Country Shrink on November 14th, 2009

Scientific hypotheses can come from anywhere at all (well actually just from an intelligent mind).  One important thing I learned about science in graduate school was, it did not matter where your hypothesis originated, it only mattered that it could be tested and falsified in a rigorous, repeatable, and measurable way.  Scientific notions can arise [...]

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The Country Shrink on March 14th, 2009

You never thought you would hear me say something like this, but I’m saying it now. Richard Dawkins deserves some credit for his most recent book, A Devil’s Chaplain. Now, I haven’t even read the book, and probably won’t unless I can find a used copy somewhere. But, I just wanted to [...]

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The Country Shrink on March 12th, 2009

Recently, a group of students from Liberty University visited the Smithsonian Institute. David DeWitt who is the
professor who teaches the Advanced Creation studies class takes his students there every year. The Washington Post had a writeup on the trip, and for the first time in my memory, it was a facts-based article.1 The [...]

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The Country Shrink on March 1st, 2009

Over on UD is a fascinating comment:
Two points:
1- Gene duplication, in order to do something, also requires all the meta-information- a binding site, a promoter, an enhancer and a repressor. Otherwise all the gene duplication in the world will not do anything except add more DNA to the existing genome.
2- In his book “Why is [...]

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The Country Shrink on February 23rd, 2009

And then did we, the Most High Scientists, decide that life may have “been forged in a quantum crucible.”(1)  Not to be outdone by our fellow believers in Naturalism, the venerable biologists, we physicists did decide to weigh in on the matter of life’s beginning. 
Erving Schrödinger, the fellow who did imagine a cat being dead [...]

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The Country Shrink on February 22nd, 2009

In The Journal of the Creation Science Movement,(1) we find:
The psalmist says, “I will praise You for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; marvellous are your works” (Psalm 139: 14). Nowhere is this more evident than in the design of the human brain. Capable of incredible feats of computation, data recognition and information storage, the [...]

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The Country Shrink on January 4th, 2009

It is a frequent argument of Darwinist apologists that critics of Darwinism are unqualified to criticize evolutionary theory because they lack the credentials or training.  I would also assert a corollary,(1) if this argument is accepted:  one can only accept the whole of Darwinism with sufficient training.
I assert this, because of my fallible view of [...]

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The Country Shrink on December 14th, 2008

Charles Darwin should be spinning in his grave: More than 40 percent of American adults still don’t believe in evolution. Though Darwin’s theory has been uncontroversially accepted among scientists, public resistance remains remarkably forceful. Meanwhile, creationism and intelligent design enjoy widespread public support. (1)
Clichés aside, I don’t think Darwin or any other naturalist should make [...]

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The Country Shrink on November 16th, 2008

Here is an interesting single observation challenge for the uniformitarians:

I wonder how long it took this rock to form, and what’s inside…

http://creationontheweb.com/content/view/6128/
UPDATE: I’ve turned off comments on this post, and deleted all the comments including my own.

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The Country Shrink on November 9th, 2008

Naturalistic cosmology has had decades of theoretical work and millions in public funding to produce a number of fairy tales, that purport to explain the cosmos. In some ways, creation scientists have only recently begun to put forth their own theories to explain observations of the universe within the context of Biblical explanations.
Recent theoretical [...]

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