Sermons From Science -- Sept 2012
科学布道-- 2012年9月
My Sermons from Science is now published in both
YouTube under the name “Pastor Chui” and also in
PowerPoint slides in the website
http://ChristCenterGospel.org.
The contents of this presentation were taken from Dave
Coppedge’s website http://crev.info. May God have all
the glory.
Pastor Chui
http://ChristCenterGospel.org
ckchui1@yahoo.com
3/11/2016
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Bill Nye Fails Baloney Detector
比尔·奈伊失败胡扯探测器
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In a video clip seen by over a million, Bill Nye the
Science Guy slammed creationism with a series of
logical fallacies.
The 2.5-minute video, “Creationism is not
appropriate for children,” was posted
on YouTube on August 23. It was reported
by CNN Belief Blog and The Examiner among other
news media sites. On Live Science, Stephanie
Pappas gave an uncritical write-up, but at least
distinguished between creationism and intelligent
design, unlike Bill Nye. Transcript and analysis is
provided here in the commentary below. See also the
critical analyses on Darwin’s God and Evolution News
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& Views.
Bill Nye Fails Baloney Detector
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Bill Nye the Scientism Guy does not know what
he is talking about. If he ever learned
philosophy of science or even elemental logic,
he forgot it in this simplistic screed. He should
stick to cute children’s experiments that are
observable, testable, and repeatable, where
his TV programs shine. (Note: we mean “Bill
Nye fails baloney detector” in the sense of
failing a drug test—lots of baloney was
detected!) Here’s what he said about
creationism, with fallacies flying like rotten
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baloney in all directions:
Bill Nye Fails Baloney Detector
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“Denial of evolution is unique to the United
States.” Big Lie. Bandwagon. People around the
world doubt evolution. South Korea has a strong
anti-evolution movement. There are Darwin
skeptics in England, Spain and other parts of
Europe. One of the largest creation organizations
is in Australia. Nye is sadly misinformed. He
states no facts about Russia, the Middle East,
Africa, or South America, but expects readers to
just accept his sweeping Generality. Even if it
were true, would he really want America to imitate
the rest of the world? Lots of things about the
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United States are unique – thank God!
Bill Nye Fails Baloney Detector
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“I mean, we are the world’s most
advanced technological… I mean you
could say Japan, but generally the United
States is where most of the innovation still
happens.” Non-sequitur. How does this
support Nye’s contention? If anything
logical can be inferred, it’s a correlation
between technological innovation and
denial of evolution. The rest of the world
should follow the USA’s example!
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Bill Nye Fails Baloney Detector
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“People still move to the United
States. And that’s largely because of the
intellectual capital we have, the general
understanding of science.” Nonsequitur. And his point is? If
the USA already has the best intellectual
capital that is the envy of the world, what’s
the problem? Could it be that people
move to the United States because they
are running away from the Darwin
totalitarianism in their home countries?
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Bill Nye Fails Baloney Detector
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“When you have a portion of the population that
doesn’t believe in it, it holds everybody back;
really.” Big Lie, Non-sequitur. This sentence is
a Sidestep wrapped in a Generality, seasoned
with Equivocation and Fear-mongering. What
does “it” refer to? He has apparently just shifted
the topic from denial of evolution to denial of
science. Is Nye unaware that creationist leaders
have PhD’s in a wide field of scientific
disciplines? Denial of evolution has nothing to do
with denial of science. Creationists love
science! If anyone is holding anyone back, it is the
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Bill Nye Fails Baloney Detector
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“Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science, in all
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of biology…” Big Lie. Saying something doesn’t make it
so. Cell theory, genetics, or even intelligent design could
easily qualify for the most fundamental idea – intelligent
design, because biology is focused on genetic and
epigenetic codes, functional information, and functional
design, as evidenced in the biomimetics
revolution. Darwinists add their just-so stories as a narrative
gloss to the observations of biology, as often shown in these
pages. Wherever evolution is treated as a fundamental idea
or heuristic, it fails. The “tree of life” is a good
example. Biologists now consider it a network, not a
branching tree as Darwin envisaged; Darwin’s imaginary tree
misled biologists for over a century. Other examples:
junk DNA, vestigial organs, evolutionary psychology, social 8
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Darwinism.
Bill Nye Fails Baloney Detector
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“…analogous to trying to do
geology without believing in
tectonic plates. .…” Argument
from Analogy. Creationists
believe in tectonic
plates. Tectonic plate theory, not
involving life and reproduction, is
not comparable to evolutionary
theory.
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Bill Nye Fails Baloney Detector
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“You’re just not going to get the right answer. Your world
is just going to be a mystery, rather than an exciting
place.” Non-sequitur, Sidestep, Big Lie. Being “exciting”
may have a role in sociology of science, but is not a
necessary or sufficient condition for doing science
itself. Nye’s sophomoric statement also presumes that
science is capable of getting one and only one “right”
answer, a philosophically vexed notion. Science provides
tentative explanations that seem to work for the present; if
even Newtonian physics succumbed to Einstein’s
relativity, no scientific theory is beyond criticism. Nye also
assumes that Darwinism has produced a “right answer” –
name one! This is a claim so lame it mandates
penance. Re-reading every evolution story in our pages
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for the last 12 years is a start.
Bill Nye Fails Baloney Detector
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“As my old professor Carl Sagan said,
‘When you’re in love, you want to tell the
world.’” Argument from Authority. Nye
reveals his philosophical roots here: the
materialist, positivist, Darwin-saturated
world of the world’s most famous atheist,
with whom he is in love. Are you
surprised he wants to attack creation? He
should listen to his mentor’s advice
about Baloney Detecting, and his idol’s
advice about academic freedom.
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Bill Nye Fails Baloney Detector
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“Once in awhile I get people that really… that
claim they don’t believe in
evolution.” Ridicule, Straw Man. Nye’s sneering
demeanor here contributes to his emotional
effect of portraying Darwin skeptics as stupid,
misguided bigots. Rhetorically, nothing
prevents a person of equal status turning that
statement right back at him: “Once in awhile I
get people who claim they don’t believe in
creation” or “who claim they believe in
evolution.” Sneer and shake your head for
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added effect.
Bill Nye Fails Baloney Detector
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“Any my response generally is [shrugs shoulders], why
not; really [silly grin], why
not?” Bandwagon, Ridicule. Hey, just leave your brain at
the gate and jump on the Darwinmobile; it’s fun!
“Your world just becomes fantastically complicated when
you don’t believe in evolution.” Half truth, NonSequitur. The world just is fantastically complicated by
every biologist’s account, evolutionist or not. Read one
week’s worth of biochemistry papers for proof. One thing
Nye gets right: everything is so much simpler when you
just throw up your hands like Darwin and say, “Stuff
Happens” (9/22/2009,9/15/2008). Now the whole world
makes sense! No more need to buckle down and explain
the complexity of life. Just say, “It evolved!” and make up
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a just-so story.
Bill Nye Fails Baloney Detector
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“Here are these ancient dinosaur bones, or
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fossils…” Circular Reasoning, Card Stacking. First in his list
of items too complicated for creationists to deal with, Nye
embeds his beliefs into the language by calling the bones
“ancient.” Let’s get him to explain how blood cells and
proteins in dinosaur bone pulled up from the ground survived
for over 65 million Darwin Years. Does Nye really think that
creationists ignore dinosaur bones? Good grief, the creation
sites are filled with discussions about dinosaurs. And they
don’t fret over how complicated it makes creationism; on the
contrary, they show that the evolutionists are the ones
challenged to explain these large, complex, diverse beings
by an unguided process. As for other fossils, has Nye ever
heard of the Cambrian explosion? Let’s get him to
watch Darwin’s Dilemma to learn not to state
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misrepresentations on YouTube.
Bill Nye Fails Baloney Detector
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“Here is radioactivity, here are distant stars that are
just like ours but at different states in their life
cycles.…” Sidestep, Non-Sequitur, Card
Stacking. What on earth do these have to do with
the evolution as a “fundamental idea of biology”? If
he is trying to attack young-earth creationism, then
he is displaying his ignorance of PhD-level
creationist literature on radioactivity (e.g.,
the RATE books), and on cosmology. He is also
completely ignoring the many and deep difficulties in
evolutionary cosmology, not the least of which is
getting everything out of nothing. Search the
Cosmology links for many examples.
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Bill Nye Fails Baloney Detector
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“… the idea of this deep time, of billions of years explains so
much of the world around us. If you try to ignore that, your
worldview just becomes crazy – it becomes, uh, untenable; it’s
self-inconsistent.” Big Lie, Ridicule, Sidestep. Creation
scientists do not “ignore” questions of time. There are
creationist cosmologies that allow for billions of years
(example). Certainly intelligent design theory is disinterested
about deep time. What is Nye ridiculing? Deep time has
nothing to do with biological evolution, except as a convenient
closet in which to stuff their skeletons. We’ll grant evolutionists
ten or hundred times the billions of years they believe in: the
mathematical probability will still rule evolution “untenable”
(see online book). Nye tosses out the adjectives “untenable”
and “self-inconsistent” as unargued conclusions, offering no
support. Who is calling whose worldview “crazy”? Just the
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facts, Nye.
Bill Nye Fails Baloney Detector
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“And I say to the grownups, if you want to deny
evolution, and live in your [waves hands around]
world that is inconsistent with everything we
observe in the universe, that’s fine.” Generality, Big
Lie, Ridicule. Such folly is not worthy of repetition,
let alone refutation.
“But don’t make your kids do it, because we need
them.” Non-Sequitur, Bandwagon. Who is
“we”? The scientific oligarchy? The Darwin
Party? The mandarins and elitists of Darwin
indoctrination? Or does Nye have a frog in his
pocket? Bill Nye, kids belong to their parents, not
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you.
Bill Nye Fails Baloney Detector
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“We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the
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future. We need people that, uh– we need engineers!
People who can build stuff, solve problems.” Non-Sequitur,
Bandwagon. It just gets worse. Nye has now equated belief
in evolution with engineering! This is funny. Is he that
clueless? Some of the hottest jobs in science right now
involve biomimetics, the imitation of nature’s designs. As we
have reported for years, Darwinism has nothing to do with
the cutting-edge sciences of biochemistry and
biomimetics. Did the Curiosity rover land on Mars by
evolution? Has it found evidence of
evolution? Neither. Engineers build things using intelligent
design. Nye is right about one thing: we need scientifically
literate voters and taxpayers for the future, so that they can
kick the Darwin Party usurpers out and end the totalitarian 18
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reign of the Emperor with No Clothes.
Bill Nye Fails Baloney Detector
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“It’s just really a hard thing. It’s a hard thing.”
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NonSequitur. Nye can’t think of anything intelligent to say, so he
just gestures and fills up time with irrelevant emotional
expressions.
“You know, in another couple of centuries, that worldview will
be [shakes head] just won’t exist. I mean, it’s [shrugs] …
there’s no evidence for it.” Big
Lie, Sidestep, Ridicule, Argument from Authority. More
vacuous emotional opinions. How can he know what the next
two centuries will bring? He could well find his peers digging
through the garbage heap of discarded ideas for their long-lost
statue of Darwin.
This is why Bill Nye is not called the Logic Guy or Bill Nye the
Philosopher. Chances are good (since he lives and breathes
scientism) that he could not even define science in a way that
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could keep evolution in and creation out.
Bill Nye Fails Baloney Detector
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Bill Nye’s 2.5-minute emotional rant,
unfortunately, shows the power of
an authority figure who can garner over a million
viewers to listen to his empty rhetoric and
influence the culture. Two minutes of lies and
distortions, spoken off the cuff with no support,
take paragraphs to refute. Don’t despair: if one
boy calling out “The Emperor is naked!” can turn
the tide, a few of us with our heads still screwed
on, not influenced by the aura of the
elitist Bandwagon, can make a difference. Get
your megaphone and shout the truth.
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Gloria Deo
愿荣耀归上帝
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Sermons From Science -- Sept 2012
科学布道-- 2012年9月
My Sermons from Science is now published in both
YouTube under the name “Pastor Chui” and also in
PowerPoint slides in the website
http://ChristCenterGospel.org.
The contents of this presentation were taken from Dave
Coppedge’s website http://crev.info. May God have all
the glory.
Pastor Chui
http://ChristCenterGospel.org
ckchui1@yahoo.com
3/11/2016
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Origin-of-Life Researchers Excited Over Nothing
没有什么激动生命起源的研究
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The phrase “building blocks of life” is pregnant
with misinformation.
Starry eyed: Many organic molecules have
been found in space by their spectra. New
ones are added to the collection from time to
time. The latest is glycolaldehyde, a simple
sugar, found by astronomers using the
Atacama Large Millimeter Array in Chile around
a young star. No planets were found, because
according to theory, they come later in the
star’s evolution.
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Origin-of-Life Researchers Excited Over Nothing
没有什么激动生命起源的研究
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A press release from the University of Copenhagen,
“Sweet building blocks of life found around young
star,” sent reporters into lockstep confirmation
mode. Science Daily reposted the press release
verbatim even though it was primarily promoting the
university’s homeboy, Jes Jørgensen, and didn’t
explain whether the simple carbohydrate, containing
only common carbon, hydrogen and oxygen, would
survive any planet’s fiery formation without turning into
tar. PhysOrg dropped the “sweet” word, but reprinted
the press release uncritically. Live Science called this
a “space sugar” and stated the phrase “building
blocks of life” twice.
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Origin-of-Life Researchers Excited Over Nothing
没有什么激动生命起源的研究
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At National Geographic, Ker Than was ecstatic
about the “sweet discovery,” asking in big, bold
print, “Sugar Found In Space: A Sign of
Life?” The presence of this molecule floating in gas
was enough to suggest “the possibility of life on
other planets.” Later in the article he did admit,
“Glycoaldehyde can be found on Earth, usually in
the form of an odorless white powder” that is
really not used to sweeten foods. It’s significance
derives from some scientists who “think it plays a
key role in the chemical reaction that forms
ribonucleic acid (RNA), a crucial biomolecule
present in all living cells.”
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Origin-of-Life Researchers Excited Over Nothing
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Phosphorus for us: NASA Astrobiology
Magazine turned its excitement to phosphorus, a
molecule not common on earth but essential to
life. In “Life’s First Taste of Phosphorus,” (an odd
title considering the highly-toxic element became
essential in compounds long before taste buds
evolved in the evolutionary scenario), reporter
Michael Scherber provided this
summary: “Phosphorus is vital to life on Earth,
even though our planet doesn’t provide life very
much phosphorus to work with. Scientists are
now studying how phosphorus biochemistry may
have originated at the dawn of life.”
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Origin-of-Life Researchers Excited Over Nothing
没有什么激动生命起源的研究
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Phosphorus ranks 17th in abundance on earth,
and is generally locked up in inaccessible
minerals, the article explained; available forms
tend to be deep in earth’s core. But phosphorus
is a vital part of DNA, RNA, and ATP (adenosine
triphosphate), and “shows up in a surprisingly
wide range of biological molecules.” So
where did life get it? The article’s best answer:
meteorites. Georgia Tech’s Nicholas Hud
became chief storyteller for the scenario of what
happened after meteorites provided a veneer of
the essential element:
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Origin-of-Life Researchers Excited Over Nothing
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Hud thinks phosphorus might have started out as a
trace element in a few biological processes, and only
later did life realize all the potential that phosphorus
has for life.
“Once life developed the molecular machinery that
allowed incorporation of phosphorus, and even the
‘harvesting’ of phosphorus, life would have moved
to a higher level,” Hud says. “The inclusion of
phosphate likely represented a major evolutionary
advance in life (if it was not there at the very
beginning) and therefore is extremely important for
understanding the origin and early evolution of
life.”
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Origin-of-Life Researchers Excited Over Nothing
没有什么激动生命起源的研究
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Adventure game: New Scientist posted a highly
speculative article entitled, “DNA could have existed
long before life itself.” The only hint of empirical
substance revolved around work by Michael Powner
(University College London), who is “trying to
make DNA nucleotides through similar methods to
those he used to make RNA nucleotides in
2009. And he’s getting closer.” Already, though, the
speculation is in high gear: “a rethink might be in
order,” writer Michael Marshall teased, even though
“There is plenty still to do.” If he succeeds, it “could
have important implications for our understanding
of life’s origins.”
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Origin-of-Life Researchers Excited Over Nothing
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The old RNA World scenario might be replaced by
the DNA World or some “bloody mess” of “rich pickings,”
according to Matthew Levy (Albert Einstein College of
Medicine), who did not explain how life avoided the toxic
cross-reactions and tholins likely to form. Steven Benner
(origin-of-life researcher at University of Florida) would really
like to get DNA going early: “Benner says it makes more
sense for the first life to have used
pure DNA and RNA as early as possible,” Marshall wrote
without explaining how pre-microbes evolved sense,
because “Both work better than the mongrel
molecules.” “Right now, though, there’s nothing to tell us
exactly how and when life first used DNA,” Marshall
ended, confessing complete ignorance. Matthew Levy got
the last word: “It almost becomes a choose-your-own- 30
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adventure game,” he said.
Origin-of-Life Researchers Excited Over Nothing
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The pep tide rises: PNAS published a paper
apparently solving an old conundrum for origin-of-life
research: how did amino acids link up in peptide
bonds? “Protein synthesis in aqueous
environments, facilitated by sequential amino acid
condensation forming peptides, is a ubiquitous
process in modern biology, and a fundamental
reaction necessary in prebiotic chemistry,” Griffith and
Vaida explained in the abstract. “Such reactions,
however, are condensation reactions, requiring the
elimination of a water molecule for every peptide bond
formed, and are thus unfavorable in aqueous
environments both from a thermodynamic and
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kinetic point of view.”
Origin-of-Life Researchers Excited Over Nothing
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Excitedly, they announced, “We
report unambiguous spectroscopic evidence of
peptide bond formation at the air–water
interface, yielding a possible mechanism
providing insight into the formation of modern
ribosomal peptide bonds, and a means for
the emergence of peptides on early
Earth.” Great. Now if they can keep them from
dissolving again when they dip below the surface,
they might be onto something. Actually, their
experiment required the formation of amino acid
esters first, and the cooperation of copper ions.
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Origin-of-Life Researchers Excited Over Nothing
没有什么激动生命起源的研究
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Origin-of-life (OOL) researchers routinely commit a
number of fallacies. First, they are not following evidence
where it leads. Their evolutionary worldview comes first;
data are mere props for the worldview. Second, they
commit non-sequiturs. Just because life requires these
molecules now, it does not follow that the appearance of
these isolated molecules led to life. Third, they omit the
key ingredient of life: the code. Scattered amino acids and
nucleotides under the best conditions have no connection
to the configuration that produces function. OOL needs an
encyclopedia, but generates random alphabet letters
scattered over a vast ocean. Give the materialists whole
planets filled with letters combining at fantastic rates
without intelligent design; there is zero hope they will ever
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produce meaning (see online book).
Origin-of-Life Researchers Excited Over Nothing
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 OOL research does not deserve
anyone’s respect. It deserves their pity,
or their laughter. They are wasting time
playing adventure games instead of
doing real scientific work that helps
humanity. The misinformation
disseminated by the media over this
hopeless, misleading research deserves
their scorn.
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Gloria Deo
愿荣耀归上帝
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Sermons From Science -- Sept 2012
科学布道-- 2012年9月
My Sermons from Science is now published in both
YouTube under the name “Pastor Chui” and also in
PowerPoint slides in the website
http://ChristCenterGospel.org.
The contents of this presentation were taken from Dave
Coppedge’s website http://crev.info. May God have all
the glory.
Pastor Chui
http://ChristCenterGospel.org
ckchui1@yahoo.com
3/11/2016
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Zoo Celebrates Bio-Inspiration
动物园庆祝生物灵感
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The San Diego Zoo has a new Centre for
Bioinspiration, promoting invention based on life’s
solutions to practical problems.
Radio station KPBS announced, “San Diego Zoo Will
Mimic Nature To Create New Products.” The zoo
will use its practical knowledge of plants and animals
to excite corporations to apply the knowledge to
invention. By connecting collaborators with sponsors,
they hope to bring useful products to the
marketplace. Examples of animals with biomimetic
potential listed in the article include the morpho
butterfly, whose wing scales led Qualcomm to improve
cell phone displays, and sharks, whose skin led to
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improved ways for shipbuilders to avoid barnacles.
Zoo Celebrates Bio-Inspiration
动物园庆祝生物灵感
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Reporter Tom Fudge ended with this promising
citation: “A study by Point Loma Nazarene University
found biomimicry could help the local economy. The
study said developing such products had
the potential to add 2,100 jobs and $325 million
in annual revenues to the San Deigo [sic]
region.” Across the world, the BBC News took
notice of this development, headlining, “San Diego
Zoo looks to nature to create new gadgets,” noting
the design influence of birds, whales and
butterflies. Live Science also reported the
news. “The San Diego Zoo has touted its
biomimicry expertise for a few years now,” the article
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Zoo Celebrates Bio-Inspiration
动物园庆祝生物灵感
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Visitors to San Diego Zoo’s Bioinspiration
Website can find news and lists of resources for
further information. The Centre’s summer
newsletter announced a Bioinspiration Conference
for October 2013 in partnership with the Zurich
Zoo. “Imagine medical transportation simplified by
looking to the flight of dragonflies, protective body
armor inspired by the armadillo shell, or drug
delivery improvements inspired by the mosquito,”
the announcement reads. “The natural world
represents a tremendous resource for novel and
transformative innovation.”
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Zoo Celebrates Bio-Inspiration
动物园庆祝生物灵感
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In addition, the Centre is attracting high school
students to consider careers in biomimetics by
offering a course this fall, “Introduction to
Biomimcry,” in collaboration with UC San
Diego. It won’t just be a series of lectures,
either: “Students will work in pairs on a Design
Challenge, where an adaptation from an
animal or plant is used as inspiration for
solving an engineering challenge.”
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In other biomimetics news:
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Zoo Celebrates Bio-Inspiration
动物园庆祝生物灵感
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Cucumbers: Did you ever wonder about those coils on
cucumber vines that find poles to climb? Did you ever
stretch them? Scientists at Harvard did. They wanted to
know how the spring-like tendrils coil tighter when stretched,
unlike most springs that unwind. In “How the Cucumber
Tendril Coils and Overwinds” in Science Magazine today (31
August 2012: Vol. 337 no. 6098 pp. 1087–1091, DOI:
10.1126/science.1223304), Gerbode et al. explained the
counterintuitive behavior of these natural springs “using
physical models of prestrained rubber strips, geometric
arguments, and mathematical models of elastic
filaments.” The outcome of their work “suggests designs
for biomimetic twistless springs with tunable
mechanical responses.” Their paper threw a cucumber
slice to Darwin who had called the tendrils “soft springs” – 41
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but that had nothing to do with evolution.
Zoo Celebrates Bio-Inspiration
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Their only mention of evolution itself was not helpful to
Darwin: “Collectively, our observations raise
questions at an evolutionary level about the ubiquity
of this mechanism in other tendril-bearing species and at
a mechanical level about the functional principles of
these soft twistless springs,” they said in the
conclusion. A Harvard press release summarized the
research in lay language. Trying to remain evolutionary
about this design, the article claimed, “Nature has
solved all kinds of energetic and mechanical
problems, doing it very slowly and really getting it
right.” Noting the efficiency of the design, the article
ended with a rhetorical question, “The real question
remains this: How difficult is it to evolve such
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Zoo Celebrates Bio-Inspiration
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Rats: Engineers at CORDIS are saying “Eureka!”
instead of “Rats!” as they work on rat-inspired
whiskered robots, reported PhysOrg. The summary
provides glimpses of hope for homemakers, doctors
and firefighters: “Inspired by the twitching
whiskers of common rats and Etruscan shrews,
European researchers have developed rodent-like
robots and an innovative tactile sensor
system that could be used to help find people in
burning buildings, make vacuum cleaners more
efficient and eventually improve keyhole
surgery.” Remember–these are the critters you
want to trap or poison.
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Bugs: A short video on Live
Science praises “The Master Designer,
Nature Herself.” Shrilk, a cheap new
material inspired by bug parts and
discarded shrimp shells, is leading to
biodegradable sutures, plastics, and
containers.
Lastly, Science Daily announced
“Evidence That New Biomimetic
Controlled-Release Capsules May Help in
Gum Disease.”
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Isn’t this great? This is more evidence that
biomimetics is rolling over Darwin. As
expected, the Darwinists are trying to
capitalize on this hot new trend with empty
speculations, like “Biology has had a much
longer time — 3.8 billion years — to address
problems, and a lot of the problems are
similar to those we face” (BBC News), but in
so doing, they are only exhibiting their
ignorance of natural selection (an aimless
process with no goal or purpose in mind), and
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the uselessness of their theory.
Zoo Celebrates Bio-Inspiration
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 Most biomimetics articles don’t even
mention evolution, and are better off
with the omission. Who needs a
distracting story, when the rush is on
to imitate the designs everyone calls
masterful? Darwinism may well be
simply drowned out and forgotten in
the bioinspiration stampede.
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Even worse is calling “Mother Nature” the
Master Designer. The apostle Paul rightly
instructed us to give honor to whom honor is
due (Romans 13:7), and the only Master
Designer around able to create master
designs is the all-wise Logos who created all
things (John 1:1–3) – including ourselves,
who are “fearfully and wonderfully made” and
“skilfully wrought” in the womb (Psalm
139:13–16). Give honor to whom honor is
due: be humble, be thankful, and be obedient.
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Gloria Deo
愿荣耀归上帝
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Sermons From Science -- Sept 2012
科学布道-- 2012年9月
My Sermons from Science is now published in both
YouTube under the name “Pastor Chui” and also in
PowerPoint slides in the website
http://ChristCenterGospel.org.
The contents of this presentation were taken from Dave
Coppedge’s website http://crev.info. May God have all
the glory.
Pastor Chui
http://ChristCenterGospel.org
ckchui1@yahoo.com
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Mt. St. Helens Renewal Slow, Steady
圣海伦火山更新缓慢，稳定的
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This is Dave Coppedge’s eyewitness report of ecological
renewal at the volcano that erupted 32 years ago.
On Saturday, August 4, a group of about 60 people
hiked the Johnston Ridge trail to view Mt. St. Helens and
hear about its geology and ecology. The event,
advertised onDoNotBeDeceived.org, was organized with
help from members of the Design Science Association of
Portland and 7 Wonders Museum on highway 504 west
of Mt. St. Helens. The event featured geologist Dr.
Steven A. Austin, who personally researched the
volcano in the weeks and years after its May 18, 1980
eruption and has hiked the area numerous times.
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Mt. St. Helens Renewal Slow, Steady
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Dr. Austin had even scuba-dived into
Spirit Lake to view the patterns of tree
deposition after sonar his team towed
under a boat revealed trees sinking into
the bottom in upright positions, analogous
to the petrified forests of Specimen
Ridge. He also discovered a 1/40th scale
“miniature Grand Canyon” carved by a
mudflow in 1982. This canyon (left center
in photo) was the destination of the hike.
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Mt. St. Helens Renewal Slow, Steady
圣海伦火山更新缓慢，稳定的
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Mt. St. Helens Renewal Slow, Steady
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Geology: The volcano is very stark, with most of the
surroundings still highly impacted by the eruption 32 years
ago. Two deep gorges, Loowit Canyon, headed with a large
waterfall, and Step Canyon, 600 feet deep, descend from the
crater and flow into the North Fork of the Toutle
River. Mudflow damage along this river is still visible for
miles west Mt. St. Helens. In the vast landslide debris field
below the crater, the “Little Grand Canyon” becomes visible
after about 1.5 miles on the trail. In many ways (except for
color) the 200′ deep canyon resembles its larger namesake:
it has stratified layers, round-headed side canyons and sharp
gullies entering from both sides. There is a small stream
flowing through it reached after a descent down Truman
Trail, after 4.6 miles of hiking (requires off-trail permit).
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Mt. St. Helens Renewal Slow, Steady
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What makes this little canyon fascinating and relevant to
catastrophist geology is that we know exactly how and
when it formed. The main eruption on May 18, 1980
deposited a thick layer of landslide debris. In June, a
pyroclastic flow deposited 25 feet of sediments that show
remarkable laminations at both large and small scales – a
surprise to pre-eruption geological thinking. Finally, on
March 19, 1982, a mudflow that poured from the crater
deposited mud on top of the other flows, then overtopped
a debris dam, causing rapid downcutting and upstream
cutting through the three layers. While it might appear that
the stream carved the canyon, we know from this highlymonitored volcano that the stream is a mere relic that had
nothing to do with the canyon’s rapid, catastrophic
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formation.
Mt. St. Helens Renewal Slow, Steady
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Ecology: The blast zone north of the volcano still looks very
desolate, especially south of Johnston Ridge. Fallen trees
remain all over the hillsides many miles from the crater, bearing
mute testimony to the power of the eruption that flattened virgin
forest in seconds. Pioneer species are making a strong
foothold, especially nitrogen-fixing lupine and
alder. Remarkably, some seeds and small animals survived
the blast under snowfields and were able to re-establish small
populations. A few douglas fir saplings dot the landscape in
places. Elk herds are among the first large mammals that have
entered the blast zone, living on grasses and vegetation
growing on plateaus alongside the Toutle River canyons and
debris hummocks. Some birds and frogs inhabit the riparian
environment along the stream in Little Grand Canyon. There is
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very little shade, though, in the blast zone.
Mt. St. Helens Renewal Slow, Steady
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Spirit Lake is 200 feet higher than its pre-eruption
level. The landslide on May 18, one of the largest
ever witnessed, caused a water wave 860′ high that
swept a million logs into the lake onto a new bed of
debris. So covered was the lake with logs and pumice
from the blast, early reports claimed Spirit Lake had
been obliterated entirely. The heat and vegetation
brought into the water created conditions for rapid
growth of anaerobic bacteria, causing an opaque,
churning stew of gases and germs. Ecologists were
surprised at how quickly the lake rebounded,
however.
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Mt. St. Helens Renewal Slow, Steady
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The water is blue and mostly clear. Trout were
probably illegally reintroduced by a tourist, since it is
questionable they could have found their way in
naturally. They are doing well, after subsiding from
record growth rates when first introduced into the
uncompetitive environment. About 35% of the logs
remain, mostly douglas fir that could float for decades
more. Snowmelt over the post-eruption years caused
rapid rise in lake levels that threatened another
catastrophic dam breach down the North Toutle
drainage, so engineers carved a tunnel over a mile
long to divert the excess water down Coldwater
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Canyon.
Mt. St. Helens Renewal Slow, Steady
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It’s quite humbling to look at this environment that all
changed so quickly on March 18, 1980. Our guides
told us that in places where we were walking along
the ridge and in the valley, we would have been in
the sky before the eruption, looking down on the
tops of old-growth forest. The volume of material lost
to the once-conical volcano is very striking, even as
seen from airliners leaving Portland; it’s like the
mountain was sliced horizontally, with a huge gash
on the north side where the lateral eruption
unleashed its energy. And yet this was a small
eruption as volcanoes go.
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Mt. St. Helens Renewal Slow, Steady
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Mt. St. Helens is important as a living laboratory of rapid
geology and ecological succession. Textbooks on geology
and ecology had to be rewritten because of the events that
followed that fateful morning (for example, see Science
Daily article today). Dr. Austin’s work is proof against the
accusation that creationists only criticize evolution without
offering original research. To the contrary, his work,
unfettered by Lyellian presuppositions, has been generally
well received and has influenced secular geologists to
reconsider the role of rapid catastrophic change. The
evidence he uncovered and published is second to
none. Moreover, his winsome Christian manner, alongside
the quality of his research, has gained the respect of notable
geologists willing to think outside the box.
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Mt. St. Helens Renewal Slow, Steady
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Several of our guides also believe that God, showcasing His
power through this event, also showed mercy in providential
timing of the eruption. It could have destroyed much of
Portland had the blast aimed in that direction instead of north,
and would have killed many more people on the north side
had it occurred the day before or after that Sunday morning,
because the prior day property owners were allowed to come
in and get their belongings, and the day after a new group of
campers and sightseers would have come within the actual
(not predicted) danger zone. The 57 who were killed were all
forewarned of the danger; now, Spirit Lake Lodge owner Harry
A. Truman and the others are fossilizing under tons of
sediments. Solomon said, “Boast not thyself of tomorrow, for
thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.” (Account,
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photo and commentary by David Coppedge.)
Gloria Deo
愿荣耀归上帝
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Sermons From Science -- Sept 2012
科学布道-- 2012年9月
My Sermons from Science is now published in both
YouTube under the name “Pastor Chui” and also in
PowerPoint slides in the website
http://ChristCenterGospel.org.
The contents of this presentation were taken from Dave
Coppedge’s website http://crev.info. May God have all
the glory.
Pastor Chui
http://ChristCenterGospel.org
ckchui1@yahoo.com
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Diatom Evolution a Mystery
硅藻的进化神秘
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A science writer is sure diatoms evolved, even if
their origins and intricate designs are major
mysteries.
Michael Gross, a science writer at Oxford, wrote a
feature story for Current Biology called, “The
Mysteries of the Diatoms” (Current Biology,
Volume 22, Issue 15, R581-R585, 7 August
2012). Gross knows that diatoms are extremely
successful and diverse, very important for the
carbon cycle, and beautiful to look at, but said
scientists still know little about them. One of the
chief mysteries is their evolution:
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Diatom Evolution a Mystery
硅藻的进化神秘
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Diatoms — single-celled algae typically enshrined
in a cell wall made of intricately laced silica —
have fascinated researchers with a whole range
of mysteries, from their evolutionary
origins through to their morphogenesis and
reproduction. They entered the plant kingdom
rather late in evolution, and through an unusual
entry. Researchers believe they are secondary
endosymbionts, meaning that their precursor was
a eukaryote that engulfed another eukaryote,
resulting in a quadruple membrane around the
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Diatom Evolution a Mystery
硅藻的进化神秘
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The evolutionary success story of
diatoms only begins some 200 million years
ago, but they have spread around the globe
and diversified into hundreds of genera and
around 100,000 species in this short fraction
of the geological timescale. Today, they
are present wherever there is liquid water, in
the oceans, in freshwater, and even in soil.
They have already played a significant role in
the global cycles of carbon and nitrogen,
and are responsible for large sediments of
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silica including diatomaceous earth.
Diatom Evolution a Mystery
硅藻的进化神秘
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In the article, Gross described many amazing facts about these
microbes that live in glass houses:
“they have a very efficient way to dissipate excess solar
energy, known as non-photochemical quenching.”
“In a time span of less than 200 million years, diatoms have
branched out into a multitude of species, which can be as
genetically different as humans and fish.”
“While we might want to call diatoms ‘plantimals,’ these things
are much more complex than we think,” Chris Bowler says.
“Like animals, for instance, diatoms possess a complete urea
cycle.… the cycle enables diatoms to recover quickly after
prolonged periods of nitrogen limitation.”
“…diatoms have a huge influence on geochemical cycles
and our climate.”
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“Diatoms fix as much carbon dioxide as all the
rainforests of the world combined.…”
“The silica frustules with their intricate nanoscale
patterns can make any nanotechnologist jealous.
Nature can produce such structures at ambient
temperature and under benign conditions, an
achievement that our technology cannot match yet.”
“Diatom adhesives are of interest for two opposite
reasons — some may want to mimic bioadhesives like
these to produce better glues that work under
difficult conditions, for instance under water.
Others want to stop diatoms from sticking to things
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under water, such as ships.”
Diatom Evolution a Mystery
硅藻的进化神秘
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Considering these are widespread, common
organisms we can study right under a
microscope, surprisingly little is known about
them, Gross said. For instance, the in-depth
study of model organisms like water cress
and E. coli hasn’t helped scientists understand
the molecular physiology of diatoms. The
growth (morphogenesis) of their intricate glass
patterns is not understood. Their role in climate
modulation is poorly understood. It’s not that
scientists have not tried; the mysteries of
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diatoms have so far proved intractable.
Diatom Evolution a Mystery
硅藻的进化神秘
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One thing Michael Gross seemed profoundly confident
about, though, was his belief that they evolved from
non-diatoms. This extended not to his endosymbiotic
theory but to their subsequent ability to evolve other
capabilities that stump human engineers. He spoke
glibly about how “diatoms evolved thicker and denser
cell walls and spread across the oceans,” speaking at
one moment about the mystery of their “evolutionary
origins” but then their “evolutionary success
story.” It didn’t seem to bother him that in half the
time horseshoe crabs remained static, diatoms
diversified into 100,000 species with genomes that
differ as much between them as fish differ from
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humans. Evolution works in strange ways.
Diatom Evolution a Mystery
硅藻的进化神秘
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There is no such thing as an evolutionary
success story. Evolution, being mindless,
purposeless, and aimless,(see clarification
on Evolution News) could not care less
about what thrives and what goes extinct. If
the whole world went extinct, “evolution”
(whatever that fictional being represents),
would yawn and move on. By using the
word success, Gross exposes himself as an
unevolved human who cares.
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Diatom Evolution a Mystery
硅藻的进化神秘
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In the 12/19/2007 entry, we used the
nonsense word gribbleflix as a substitute
for evolution, and it worked in the same
manner – it explains everything without
needing to explain anything. Readers are
encouraged to re-read that commentary to
understand how Michael Gross, and the
accomplice Current Biology, employed
evolution as nonsense masquerading as
explanation.
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Gloria Deo
愿荣耀归上帝
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