Sermons From Science -- Oct 2013
科学布道-- 2013年10月
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.
Let us pray for Dave Coppedge’s fast recovery from
cancer surgery.
Pastor Chui
http://ChristCenterGospel.org
3/17/2016
ckchui1@yahoo.com
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Shocking Facts About Electric Life
令人震惊的事实关于有电的生命
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Talk about power plants: did you know
plants use electricity? Some fish, also,
can navigate or stun their prey using
electrical organs.
Power plants: Nature discussed how
electrical signals are propagated in
plants. The Venus flytrap and “sensitive
plant” come to mind as spectacular
examples of non-muscular leaf movement
triggered by electricity, but there’s more:
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Shocking Facts About Electric Life
令人震惊的事实关于有电的生命
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The mammalian nervous system can relay electrical signals at
speeds approaching 100 metres per second. Plants live at a
slower pace. Although they lack a nervous system, some
plants, such as the mimosa (Mimosa pudica) and the Venus
flytrap (Dionaea muscipula), use electrical signals to trigger
rapid leaf movements. Signal propagation in these plants
occurs at a rate of 3 centimetres per second — comparable
to that observed in the nervous system of mussels.
On page 422 of this issue, Mousavi et al. address
the fascinating yet elusive issue of how plants generate and
propagate electrical signals. The authors identify two
glutamate-receptor-like proteins as crucial components in
the induction of an electrical wave that is initiated by leaf
wounding and that spreads to neighbouring organs,
prompting them to mount defence responses to a potential
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herbivore attack.
Shocking Facts About Electric Life
令人震惊的事实关于有电的生命
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Who would have thought that cutting a leaf would send an
electrical alarm? Experiments on common thale cress showed
no response when a larva walked on a leaf, but an electrical
signal spreading at 9 cm per minute when eaten. “The relay of
the electrical signal was most efficient for leaves directly
above or below the wounded leaf,” the article said. “These
leaves are well connected by the plant vasculature, which
conducts water and organic compounds, and is a good
candidate for the transmission of signals over long
distances.” Receipt of the signal turned on gene expression
for defense compounds. “These fascinating
observations clearly demonstrate that electrical signal
generation and propagation have a crucial role in the
initiation of defence responses at remote sites upon herbivore
attack.”
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Shocking Facts About Electric Life
令人震惊的事实关于有电的生命
 The authors of the original paper did
not discuss evolution, other than to
speculate that “a deeply conserved
function for these genes might be to
link damage perception to distal
protective responses.” If so, this
function must have “existed before the
divergence of animals and plants.”
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Shocking Facts About Electric Life
令人震惊的事实关于有电的生命
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Wired fish: Two more electric fish species have been found in
the Amazon basin, but they appear to be wired differently. One
is biphasic or “AC” like most others, but another is monophasic
like “DC”. The article on Science Daily looked for evolutionary
reasons why this might be so, but the interesting thing is that
“these weakly fishes produce pulses of only a few hundred
millivolts from an organ under the body that extends out
onto a filamentous tail.” Too weak to stun prey like the jolts
from the famous electric eel, the pulses are read by other
members of the species, and by the opposite sex, for
communication. The fish also use them “to ‘electrolocate’
through their complex aquatic environment at night.” As for
evolution, the two fish are so similar as to be classified as the
same species except for the differences in electrical phase of
their signals.
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Shocking Facts About Electric Life
令人震惊的事实关于有电的生命
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So many ways of receiving input from the world:
touch, sight, sound, smell, taste, and now
electricity. The living world is a marvel of interactions
between organism and environment. Each sense is
exquisitely designed and useful to the
organism. Elegant systems are not the result of blind,
unguided processes. We believe that viewing them as
designed systems would energize research, both to
seek understanding of superior design, and to desire
to imitate it for improved engineering. The real
science stopper is to assume, “Oh, it just evolved. It
evolved because it evolved”– a soporific response
possessing a dormitive virtue (cartoon and 5/25/05
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commentary)
Gloria Deo
愿荣耀归上帝
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Sermons From Science -- Oct 2013
科学布道-- 2013年10月
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.
Let us pray for Dave Coppedge’s fast recovery from
cancer surgery.
Pastor Chui
http://ChristCenterGospel.org
3/17/2016
ckchui1@yahoo.com
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Darwin Fumbles
达尔文摸索着
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154 years after Darwin’s Origin of Species, evolutionists
say they still do not understand the origin of species. In
addition, they’ve lost most of whatever data they had.
An article on Science Daily says evolutionists still
haven’t left:
Darwin referred to the origin of species as “that mystery
of mysteries,” and even today, more than 150 years
later, evolutionary biologists cannot fully explain how
new animals and plants arise.
Maybe they can take refuge in that phrase,
“cannot fully explain” the answer. Maybe they can
partly or mostly explain it. The article does not allow that
reprieve. It’s even worse than not knowing: things they10
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thought they knew are not true:
Darwin Fumbles
达尔文摸索着
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For decades, nearly all research in the field has been
based on the assumption that the main cause of the
emergence of new species, a process called speciation, is
the formation of barriers to reproduction between
populations….
But now a University of Michigan biologist and a colleague
are questioning the long-held assumption that genetic
reproductive barriers, also known as reproductive
isolation, are a driving force behind speciation.
Rabosky and Matute were “surprised” by the results of
their study. Looking at two-thirds of bird species and 9
fruit fly species, they expected to see a correlation
between speciation rates and genetic markers of
reproductive isolation.
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Darwin Fumbles
达尔文摸索着
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“We found no evidence that these things are
related. The rate at which genetic reproductive
barriers arise does not predict the rate at which
new species form in nature,” Rabosky said. “If
these results are true more generally — which
we would not yet claim but do suspect — it
would imply that our understanding of species
formation is extremely
incomplete because we’ve spent so long
studying the wrong things, due to this
erroneous assumption that the main cause of
species formation is the formation of barriers
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to reproduction.”
Darwin Fumbles
达尔文摸索着
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They said evolutionists’ “understanding” is not just
incomplete, but “extremely incomplete.” Another
example cited on Evolution News & Views shows that
foraminifera do not fit the reproductive-isolation–
speciation pattern. Since speciation and reproductive
isolation appear uncorrelated, a “broader definition” of
speciation is needed, they said. In addition, so-called
“speciation genes probably play a minimal role in the
formation of species,” they said.
All they could do was speculate that maybe most
species, after splitting, go extinct, leaving no evidence in
the fossil record. The press release from University of
Michigan is entitled, “Long-held assumption about
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emergence of new species questioned.”
Darwin Fumbles
达尔文摸索着
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Whoops, We Lost Our Evidence
Meanwhile, Darwin’s tree has other problems, Science
Daily said: holes. Large portions of work on the “tree
of life” have been lost, a paper in PLoS
Biology reported, because of lack of data accessibility.
“Given that reproducibility is a pillar of scientific
research, the preservation of scientific knowledge
(underlying data) is of paramount importance,” the
authors began, warning that lack of reproducibility and
evidential support for the Tree of Life project threatens
to label it as “soft science,” putting trust in the word of
scientists instead of the actual data:
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Darwin Fumbles
达尔文摸索着
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Perhaps more importantly, we call for a shift in
thinking among all evolutionary biologists who rely on
the power of phylogenetics to test hypotheses and
make inferences. It is crucial for this broad
discipline to consider the alignments and
phylogenies themselves as key data that require
appropriate storage for study reproducibility and data
integration.… The biological community has lost
most of the alignments and trees underlying the
numerous phylogenetic analyses conducted over
the past several decades—we should strive to do
much better in the years ahead.
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Darwin Fumbles
达尔文摸索着
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Science Daily says that most of the data has been
“lost forever” from publications that referred to the
data but did not store it so that it could be crosschecked. “There are ambiguities with the
alignments, you have to make certain judgment
calls, and so an alignment that I do is not going to be
the same as an alignment that somebody else does,”
lead author Bryan Drew said, based on a study of over
7,000 papers that found “about 70 percent of
published genetic sequence comparisons are not
publicly accessible, leaving researchers
worldwide unable to get to critical data they may
need” for their own comparisons.
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Darwin Fumbles
达尔文摸索着
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Can you think of a more pitiful example in the
history of science of a majority of eminent
scientists believing things that prove not to be true,
teaching falsehoods for over a century, and then
carelessly losing most of the data that supposedly
supports its core beliefs? What a sham that
shaman Charlie started. He wrote a book on “the
origin of species” but 154 years later, his disciples
are still behind Square One! It would be funny if it
weren’t for the fact that textbook makers,
documentary producers, and educators worship at
Charlie’s shrine.
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Darwin Fumbles
达尔文摸索着
 The law require that this monstrous
“mystery” religion (with its long-standing
“mystery of mysteries,” the “origin of
species by means of natural selection”),
with its racist implications
(“the preservation of favored races in
the struggle for life”) be taught as
fact, fact, FACT in public schools—no
alternatives allowed.
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Darwin Fumbles
达尔文摸索着
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Not only do they keep going bankrupt and landing
in jail on their own Monopoly board, they won’t let
anyone else play; whoever tries is persecuted and
expelled. If you aren’t yet angry at the damage
done by the Charlietans for 154 years, you need to
take a refresher course in righteous
indignation. One thing you can do about it is
spread the outreach of Creation-Evolution
Headlines, where we expose these frauds with
their own words. They don’t have a data storage
problem; they have an integrity problem. Time for
regime change.
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Gloria Deo
愿荣耀归上帝
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Sermons From Science -- Oct 2013
科学布道-- 2013年10月
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.
Let us pray for Dave Coppedge’s fast recovery from
cancer surgery.
Pastor Chui
http://ChristCenterGospel.org
3/17/2016
ckchui1@yahoo.com
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Scientists’ Letter Challenges PZ Myers’ Revisionism
科学家们的信挑战PZ Myers的修正主义
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In a letter to Nature, three scientists set the record
straight about theology and science, after atheist P.Z.
Myers got off with only a mild rebuke in a previous
book review.
Glenn Branch gave a fairly genteel review of The
Happy Atheist by PZ Myers last month in Nature (Aug.
8). In response, Robert White (U of Cambridge),
George Ellis (U of Cape Town; see mention in ENV)
and Denis Alexander (Faraday Institute; see mention
in ENV, an evolution defender, ENV) – no friends of
creationism or intelligent design – decided to write
Nature and list a few of the “religious believers” who
founded modern science.
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Scientists’ Letter Challenges PZ Myers’ Revisionism
科学家们的信挑战PZ Myers的修正主义
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Young Earth creationists are easy to lampoon (see G.
Branch Nature 500, 149; 2013). However, using reasoned
arguments might hold more sway with the US creationist
movement.
PZ Myers, author of The Happy Atheist (which Branch
reviewed), should remember that the majority of those who
helped to establish the disciplines that we now practise as
modern science were religious believers, including
Nicolaus Copernicus, Rene Descartes, Blaise Pascal,
Robert Boyle, Isaac Newton, Carl Linnaeus, Edward Jenner,
Michael Faraday, Charles Babbage, Joseph Lister,
William Thomson and Arthur Stanley Eddington — to name but
a few, and excluding a long list of contemporary names. Half
of the 10 most influential scientists of the past 350 years
chosen for the Royal Society’s commemorative stamps in 2010
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were religious believers.
Scientists’ Letter Challenges PZ Myers’ Revisionism
科学家们的信挑战PZ Myers的修正主义
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Branch had, indeed, lampooned creationists in spirit with
Myers. These three scientists, though, wanted to make
sure he was not dissing “religious belief” in general.
We take this opportunity for you to read some of our
biographies of these great scientists by clicking their
names. Some of them were not just “religious believers”
but strong Christians who studied the Bible and trusted
its authority. White, Ellis and Alexander would not wish
to associate with “creationists” or even advocates of
intelligent design, but they don’t want to support
atheism, either – especially the brand advocated by foulmouthed PZ Myers, who made a fool of himself on Ray
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beings are fish.
Scientists’ Letter Challenges PZ Myers’ Revisionism
科学家们的信挑战PZ Myers的修正主义
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It may be “easy” to lampoon creationists, but
looking at all the Stupid Evolution Quotes of the
Week on this site, and the many foolish things the
Darwin disciples say every day (see most recent
example of hundreds), who would not be
embarrassed to hang with that crowd? If Charlie
worshipers wish to parade their naked emperor in
public, day after day, they lampoon themselves
without our help. But to believe an intelligent, allwise Creator made the order and complexity we
see in nature, and told us what He did, why should
that be a subject of scorn? Well, look what they
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did to Jesus; don’t be surprised.
Scientists’ Letter Challenges PZ Myers’ Revisionism
科学家们的信挑战PZ Myers的修正主义
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One thing we can agree with these theistic
evolutionists on: “using reasoned
arguments might hold more sway with
the US creationist movement.” Great
idea! When do they start? We dare
anyone to lampoon this month’s featured
scientist, Raymond Damadian, inventor of
the MRI scanner – a Bible-believing
creationist. Millions owe their lives to his
intelligent design.
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Gloria Deo
愿荣耀归上帝
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Sermons From Science -- Oct 2013
科学布道-- 2013年10月
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.
Let us pray for Dave Coppedge’s fast recovery from
cancer surgery.
Pastor Chui
http://ChristCenterGospel.org
3/17/2016
ckchui1@yahoo.com
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Solomon Corroborated: It’s His Copper Mine
所罗门证实了：这是他的铜矿场
Copper mines in the Aravah of Israel were
most likely Solomon’s property, not the
Egyptians’, new date estimates show,
supporting the Biblical chronology.
 “Proof of Solomon’s Mines in Israel” reads
a headline on PhysOrg. The famous copper
mines of Timna, a national park in Israel
near Eilat on the Red Sea, have been redated to the time of Solomon by radiocarbon
testing of date and olive pits. More detail is
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on the Haaretz website for subscribers.
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Solomon Corroborated: It’s His Copper Mine
所罗门证实了：这是他的铜矿场
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The new date swings the pendulum from
the “Egyptian paradigm” that claims they
were bronze-age mines when Egypt
controlled Canaan, back to the “Solomonic
paradigm” that the mines were indeed
“King Solomon’s mines,” or at least were
in operation during his reign. Powerful
king that he was, it seems reasonable that
he was in control of the extensive mining
operation.
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Solomon Corroborated: It’s His Copper Mine
所罗门证实了：这是他的铜矿场
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The re-evaluation also sheds light on the
copper works in Edom. Todd Bolen
on Bible Places Blog reserves judgment
on who owned the mines, but notes that
the Edomites were subjects of Solomon
and could have worked the mines to pay
tribute. Noting the reversal of fortune of
advocates for the Egyptian paradigm, he
said,
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Solomon Corroborated: It’s His Copper Mine
所罗门证实了：这是他的铜矿场
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“If I had time, it would be interesting to go back
through the literature and review the statements of
those who used the absence of evidence at Timna
from Solomon’s time as evidence against the
biblical account. Once again we see why we should
hold to the assured results of archaeological
research lightly.”
An open-access copy of the archaeologists’ report
on BASOR is available here.
Another example that if you wait long enough, claims
doubting the historicity of the Biblical account get
falsified.
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Gloria Deo
愿荣耀归上帝
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Sermons From Science -- Oct 2013
科学布道-- 2013年10月
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.
Let us pray for Dave Coppedge’s fast recovery from
cancer surgery.
Pastor Chui
http://ChristCenterGospel.org
3/17/2016
ckchui1@yahoo.com
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Mars Panspermia a Sign of Desperation
火星生源说是绝望的标志
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A second article proposes life began on Mars,
prompting some observers to point out the failures of
naturalistic origin-of-life theories.
After Steven Benner proposed Mars for the origin of
ribose last month (“You Are Not a Martian,” 8/28/13),
Christopher Adcock (U of Nevada) pointed out another
problem with Earth-based life: phosphate doesn’t
dissolve readily in water here (see New
Scientist and Space.com). Since Martian phosphates
dissolve more readily, maybe life originated on
Mars. New Scientist was quick to point out a
contradiction:
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Mars Panspermia a Sign of Desperation
火星生源说是绝望的标志
 “Both studies have brought renewed
attention to the idea that life on Earth
was seeded from space, a theory
known as panspermia.
“However, they can’t both be right.
One idea requires Mars to be
covered in liquid water, while
the other needs it to be as dry as a
desert.”
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Mars Panspermia a Sign of Desperation
火星生源说是绝望的标志
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The two articles revealed a little-known difficulty with
origin-of-life research: the “phosphate
problem.” Adcock had nothing but the possibility that
phosphate, an essential ingredient in life as we know
it, dissolves much more readily on Mars than on Earth
because of its chemical form. Space.com quotes him,
“I don’t think our results have any direct bearing on the
theory that terrestrial life may have begun first on
Mars, other than that our results suggest phosphate
for potential biologic reactions may have been more
available on Mars — that the ‘phosphate problem’ may
not have been as significant there,” Adcock said.…
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Mars Panspermia a Sign of Desperation
火星生源说是绝望的标志
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“We haven’t discovered life on Mars, nor have
we presented evidence that it existed there,”
Adcock cautioned. “However, we have shown
that one potential roadblock for life to arise on
Mars may not be such a roadblock after all.”
New Scientist pointed out the contradiction in
Martian environments favored by Benner and
Adcock, then caught Benner admitting that the
phosphate problem and the ribose problem
both rule out the origin of life on Earth, despite
his warm feelings:
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Mars Panspermia a Sign of Desperation
火星生源说是绝望的标志
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Benner is more sanguine about the situation. He
says that Adcock’s team is looking at Martian
chemistry for the same reason he is: to solve a
chemical problem that geologists tell us could not
have been solved on early Earth.
“Just like RNA requires ribose, it also requires
phosphate. Just as geologists tell us that we
cannot get conditions on early Earth where ribose
could have accumulated, they tell us that we
cannot get conditions on early Earth where
phosphate is soluble. So our two papers go in the
same direction,” he says.
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Mars Panspermia a Sign of Desperation
火星生源说是绝望的标志
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National Geographic weighed in on this
dilemma on Sept. 5. Writer Mark
Kaufman noted Benner’s contention that
ribose (essential for the proposed
“RNA world”) falls apart in water, and can
only be found in dry environments with
boron—yet boron was too scarce on
Earth. Then he notes the “phosphate
problem” raised by Adcock. He put two
and two together to raise “the big cosmic
question” – where did life come from?
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Mars Panspermia a Sign of Desperation
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The reemergence of the theory of panspermia is
intertwined with progress (or lack of progress) in a
long-term scientific quest to find out how life
began on Earth, a question that synthetic
biology experts such as Benner have been working
on for decades. Despite some advances, the field
has come up against chemical walls that are
proving impossible to climb.
For instance, Benner said, the organic—meaning
carbon-based—compounds understood to have
come together to form life in a “prebiotic soup”
do not behave in the lab in a way that would
indicate they led to the formation of life on early
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Earth.
Mars Panspermia a Sign of Desperation
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When these compounds are energized by heat or
light, instead of producing early RNA they create tar—
hardly the stuff from which we would all evolve.
Origin-of-life research, stuck on the tar baby, is at a
crossroads. Kaufman was not quite ready to swallow
Benner’s optimism:
Benner says that “it’s yet another piece of
evidence which makes it more likely life came to Earth
on a Martian meteorite.” But it’s more of a changing of
probabilities than it is scientific proof.
“A panspermia solution, after all, produces another
panspermia problem,” he said. “If a Martian microbe did
make it from Mars to Earth, maybe it would be as if it
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landed in Eden. But just as likely, it would quickly die.”
Mars Panspermia a Sign of Desperation
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He left off with that quote, leaving the reader
pondering insurmountable problems, bereft of
answers.
The gig is up. Secular origin of life research
(OOL) is dead. To seriously consider
displacing the problem of life’s origin (by natural
processes) to another planet is tantamount to
saying that it is impossible. If they cannot get it
to form here, where “Eden” existed (in terms of
perfect conditions for its “emergence”), then
displacing it to an exterior hell is not going to
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help.
Mars Panspermia a Sign of Desperation
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Consider the number of problems revealed just in these
articles (a subset of all the problems). Ribose needs boron
in a dry desert, but even if it formed, it need water. But the
moment you put it in water, where the phosphate is for
making RNA, it dissolves or turns into tar. Even if you get a
stable RNA (which is going to be extremely rare), it is not
alive; dozens more high hurdles must be jumped in the right
order by chance: getting one-handed molecules, getting
them to be enzymatically active for useful purposes; getting
them isolated into protocells surrounded by membranes (we
could go on and on). Then, the Martian life has to get
incorporated into a meteorite. Even if that happens, it has to
survive in space for eons, and arrive at Earth. After all these
miraculous improbabilities occur, if it doesn’t land in “Eden” it
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will quickly die, Benner said.
Mars Panspermia a Sign of Desperation
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Yet many articles about these origin of life theories
make everything sound so simple. The
“RNA world” (now shown to be so improbable it is
impossible), has been for decades the cornerstone
of most secularists’ optimism that life originated
without design. It’s sickening to watch that emptyheaded “Newsy” reporter in the Space.com video
barfing out Benner & Adcock’s absurdity with
uninformed confidence: “Life on Mars? You better
believe it. NASA announced that it discovered
elements that support ancient life on the red
planet.” Such gullible toadies. Blah.
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Mars Panspermia a Sign of Desperation
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We seem to be catching the first hints, though, of a few
reporters becoming exasperated with the storytelling of
the OOL crowd, like Marc Kaufman and Lisa Grossman. They
have a long way to go, but when the day comes when they feel
enough courage to start really peppering the Benners and
Adcocks with hard questions like reporters do with politicians, it
will get interesting. “If we cannot believe what they’ve been
telling us about life forming on Earth all these years, why should
we believe you when you say it happened on Mars?” “Hasn’t
the origin of life been falsified by these discoveries?” “Are you
really asking the public to believe this incredibly improbable
sequence of events?” “Are you implying that your brain, telling
us these arguments, is the product of a series of cosmic
accidents? Then how can we trust anything you say?” That
will be a new day for “scientists” accustomed to the lapdog
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media regurgitating everything they say uncritically.
Mars Panspermia a Sign of Desperation
火星生源说是绝望的标志
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We call on Steven Benner to renounce his naturalism.
Steve, you’re a smart guy, but you know you have
been telling fables out of desperation. You know
enough philosophy of science to know that science
does not require naturalism; it requires following the
evidence where it leads. For decades now, the
evidence has been trending against naturalism. You
yourself said that the problems are hard enough to
almost make you want to become a creationist. Well,
why not? Don’t codes and systems bear the
hallmarks of intelligent design? Leave the dark side
of the farce and come over to the light.
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Mars Panspermia a Sign of Desperation
火星生源说是绝望的标志
 If you leave the farce, you will make a
lot of enemies. You will suffer the
persecution of the Expelled. But you
will make a lot of new and better
friends, and you will enjoy the good
feeling of a character trait sadly
lacking in your old crowd: integrity.
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Gloria Deo
愿荣耀归上帝
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Sermons From Science -- Oct 2013
科学布道-- 2013年10月
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.
Let us pray for Dave Coppedge’s fast recovery from
cancer surgery.
Pastor Chui
http://ChristCenterGospel.org
3/17/2016
ckchui1@yahoo.com
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Bach to the Feature: Music More Cognitive Than Language
巴赫的功能：音乐比语言更多的认知
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The ability for the human mind to gauge hierarchical
structures in music over the span of lengthy works
suggests that we exercise greater cognition in that skill
than in language.
Music is an evolutionary enigma
(1/05/01, 12/13/04, 5/19/08,
5/28/09 #10, 1/15/10 #2, 7/06/12) that defies
explanation by natural selection, despite years of
attempts to explain it since Darwin attempted a story
154 years ago. Now, we find that the human capacity
to analyze and enjoy music is even more complex
than realized.
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Bach to the Feature: Music More Cognitive Than Language
巴赫的功能：音乐比语言更多的认知
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Higher arky: Scientists from Germany,
America and Brazil analyzed the mind’s
ability to gauge hierarchical structures in
music. Publishing in PNAS, they describe
how they did brain scans while giving
subjects straight and modified versions of
a Bach chorale. Keeping distant parts of a
work in order utilizes multiple parts of the
brain:
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Bach to the Feature: Music More Cognitive Than Language
巴赫的功能：音乐比语言更多的认知
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“Our results reveal that a brain
mechanism fundamental for syntactic
processing is engaged during the
perception of music, indicating
that processing of hierarchical
structure with nested nonlocal
dependencies is not just a key
component of human language, but a
multidomain capacity of human
cognition.”
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Bach to the Feature: Music More Cognitive Than Language
巴赫的功能：音乐比语言更多的认知
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The end of the paper included this suggestion:
Because hierarchical structures of many
musical pieces (up to entire movements of a
symphony) exceed by far the structural
complexity even of the most elaborate
sentences, it is tempting to speculate that
the human ability to process hierarchical
structure in music might be more powerful
than linguistic syntax, often considered to
be the paragon of human cognitive
complexity.
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Bach to the Feature: Music More Cognitive Than Language
巴赫的功能：音乐比语言更多的认知
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Octavian: Another PNAS paper examined
the human tendency to associate notes
with their octaves. These authors also
speculated, but in the evolutionary chance
direction:
We speculate that this connectivity
scheme evolved from exposure to
natural vibrations containing octaverelated spectral peaks, e.g., as produced
by vocal cords.…
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Bach to the Feature: Music More Cognitive Than Language
巴赫的功能：音乐比语言更多的认知
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It is plausible that the octave
effect reflects neural connectivity at
octave-related frequencies. From
an ecological perspective, such
connectivity might have evolved from
exposure to environmental sounds (e.g.,
speech, animal vocalizations, and
vibrations such as in strings), which
contain multiple harmonics such as
octaves, which correspond to the second,
fourth, eighth, etc. harmonic.
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Bach to the Feature: Music More Cognitive Than Language
巴赫的功能：音乐比语言更多的认知
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All they could point to, though, was that
the “octave effect” is heard in both Asian
and Western musical traditions. It’s not
clear why evolution should have anything
to do with it. The Pythagoreans, for
instance, viewed geometry, music and
harmony as fundamental aspects of the
universe. The Judeo-Christian tradition
views music as a reflection of creativity in
the image of God. Why should mutation
and selection be given pride of place?
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Bach to the Feature: Music More Cognitive Than Language
巴赫的功能：音乐比语言更多的认知
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Mosh pit: Evolutionists keep asking the
question but never answering it with a
definitive, non-question-begging
solution. National Geographic, for
instance, put forward the old Darwinian
answers and some other
speculations. “Darwin and others have
said it was a way to woo. Others believe
music is social glue—a theory bolstered
by a new study,” Marc Silver wrote.
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Bach to the Feature: Music More Cognitive Than Language
巴赫的功能：音乐比语言更多的认知
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Why did humans invent music?
Until the hot tub time machine becomes a
reality, the answer to that question will
remain as mysterious as the true identity
of the ‘60s garage band ? and the
Mysterians.
Nonetheless, academic minds are
always trying to come up with a
theory. Charles Darwin believed music
was created as a sexual come-on.
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Bach to the Feature: Music More Cognitive Than Language
巴赫的功能：音乐比语言更多的认知
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So was music “created” by intelligent
design? Did humans “invent music” by
intelligent design? What mutation in the
brain made someone toot out the front
end instead of the back end, such that the
opposite sex found it appealing? How did
that mutation get passed on? Were
additional mutations required to produce
Berlioz’ Requiem?
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Bach to the Feature: Music More Cognitive Than Language
巴赫的功能：音乐比语言更多的认知
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Silver is half trying to entertain by letting a study by Chris
Loersch (U of Colorado) take the stage. Loersch tries to
support the notion that music evolved as a social glue:
“music evolved in service of group living.” But he
appeals to rock concerts for support, as the lead photo
illustrates, where groupthink is of the essence of the
experience. Loersch also focuses on the emotion of
music, and not the complex analytical structure of
classical works. Most egregiously, he cites no mutation
or genetic mechanism that would make music a
heritable trait in humans. Nor does he explain why other
animals, though emitting sounds, never “evolved”
anything close to the structural complexity of human
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music.
Bach to the Feature: Music More Cognitive Than Language
巴赫的功能：音乐比语言更多的认知
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Wouldn’t other animals profit from having
their group living served? Birds may sing,
and wolves may howl, but only humans
create musical forms with hierarchical
structure and symmetry, put words to
music, create musical instruments, write it
down in notational form, and perform it
both alone and in groups. In the Biblical
narrative, Adam’s offspring were already
making musical instruments while he was
still living.
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Bach to the Feature: Music More Cognitive Than Language
巴赫的功能：音乐比语言更多的认知
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Since this is all more of the same
Darwinian la-de-da and fol-de-rol that
never gets a credible answer in 154 years,
let’s just have a little jam session with our
Evolution Songs and laugh it off. Go to
the Darwin Hymnbook and have at it with
your garage band. Then, to get back to
sanity, analyze the use of octaves and
hierarchical structures in
some Mozart or Handel. Evolve that,
Charlie.
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Gloria Deo
愿荣耀归上帝
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Sermons From Science -- Oct 2013
科学布道-- 2013年10月
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.
Let us pray for Dave Coppedge’s fast recovery from
cancer surgery.
Pastor Chui
http://ChristCenterGospel.org
3/17/2016
ckchui1@yahoo.com
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Tiger in Oil and Other Surprising Fossils
石油中的老虎和其他令人惊奇的化石
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Deposits in North and South America reveal a rich
diversity of mammals discovered by oil workers, some
fossils in the oil.
Venezuela tiger in oil: Remains of mastodons, crocodiles,
glyptodonts, sloths, and sabre-tooth tigers are turning up
in oil deposits in Venezuela, PhysOrg reported. The
article describes a veritable “Jurassic Park” of creatures it
says inhabited the area from 14,000 to 370 million years
ago. Human-carved spear points have also been
found. “Under the rich Venezuelan soil, paleontologists
have found treasures rivaling the bountiful oil: a
giant armadillo the size of a Volkswagen,
a crocodile bigger than a bus and a saber-toothed tiger”
among the 12,000 fossils documented so far.
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Tiger in Oil and Other Surprising Fossils
石油中的老虎和其他令人惊奇的化石
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Oklahoma camel: While digging for a new
well, oil workers found a camel and a
“small primitive horse” among other fossils
under six inches of soil, Western
Digs reported. The article claims that
camels originated in North America before
migrating to the Middle East, then went
extinct in America (except for the llamas
and their ilk in South America). American
camels, said to date from 23 to 5 million
years ago, were quite diverse:
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Tiger in Oil and Other Surprising Fossils
石油中的老虎和其他令人惊奇的化石
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It was also a tumultuous time for the
young family Camelidae, which came to
include the first true camels. The
mammals underwent bouts of
evolutionary changes that resulted in
animals that may have borne little
resemblance to the desert-dwellers we
know now; some Miocene camels had
necks as long as giraffes’, while others
had short, stumpy legs.
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Tiger in Oil and Other Surprising Fossils
石油中的老虎和其他令人惊奇的化石
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It would seem that, like the sloths and
elephants alive today, fossil mammals were
even larger and more diverse than they are
now. As in Venezuela, evidence of human
habitation was also found:
In fact, a recent study of hand-hewn stone
tools discovered in what’s now Boulder,
Colorado, found that they contained traces of
camel and horse meat, as well
as proteins associated with other Ice Age
animals like the short-faced bear.
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Tiger in Oil and Other Surprising Fossils
石油中的老虎和其他令人惊奇的化石
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Neither article stated whether the strata in which these
fossils were found showed an evolutionary
progression. Presumably the human artifacts were in
the same oil or soil.
Is it plausible to presume that the Venezuelan oil
deposit remained intact for 370 million years? These
deposits call for further study without evolutionary
glasses on. It seems to indicate that animals from
different assumed “ages” lived together. As is usually
the case, the stronger, fitter, larger and more diverse
animals are often the fossilized ones. That’s not
evolution.
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Gloria Deo
愿荣耀归上帝

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Sermons From Science -- Oct 2013
科学布道-- 2013年10月
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.
Let us pray for Dave Coppedge’s fast recovery from
cancer surgery.
Pastor Chui
http://ChristCenterGospel.org
3/17/2016
ckchui1@yahoo.com
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More Reasons to Love Plants
更多的理由来爱植物
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For food, for visual pleasure, and for the health of
the whole planet, plants are worth loving and
learning about.
Chemical library: An article on Science Daily says
that a leaf is an astonishing chemical factory:
Plants are capable of making tens of thousands
of different small molecules — an average leaf
for example, produces around 20,000. Many of
these are found in a typical diet and some
are already known to have medicinal
properties with effects on health, diseases and
general well-being.
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More Reasons to Love Plants
更多的理由来爱植物

The article goes on to say that the
immune system benefits of dietary
flavonoids—known to be nutritious as well
as cancer fighting—can be dramatically
altered by very small chemical changes
such as methylation at various parts of the
molecular scaffold. The findings by
researchers at the University of York were
discussed in a panel discussion titled
“Nature’s Marvellous Medicines” held by
the Royal Society.
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More Reasons to Love Plants
更多的理由来爱植物
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Inner qualities: A plane flying over
vineyards in Australia is monitoring the
“inner qualities” of grapevines, Science
Daily reported. The “hyperspectral
camera” is looking at the entire spectrum
of wavelengths of emitted molecules from
the plants, hoping to identify markers of
plant health and nutrition. A plant’s “inner
qualities” can directly affect their healthgiving benefits for humans.
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More Reasons to Love Plants
更多的理由来爱植物
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Self-fertilizing crops: Helping plants to fix nitrogen would
“really revolutionize agriculture,” another article
on Science Daily reported—and scientists at Washington
University at St. Louis are nearing that goal. They don’t
have to re-invent the process: they just need to get
cyanobacterial technology inserted into crop
plants. Though abundant in the atmosphere, molecular
nitrogen (N2) is difficult to “fix” by splitting it to form
ammonia and other usable compounds because of its tight
triple bonds. Some plants form symbiotic associations
with nitrogen-fixing bacteria in their roots. These bacteria
contain nitrogenase enzymes that split the molecules at
ambient temperature, much more efficiently than the
energy-intensive Haber process man came up with in the
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20th century.
More Reasons to Love Plants
更多的理由来爱植物
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Steering plants to use readily-available nitrogenase
would mean no more expensive fertilizer production,
no more bat guano mining, and much cheaper and
more productive crop yields. One of the tricks the
research team is overcoming is adding the benefits of
nitrogenase to plants without hindering
photosynthesis. PhysOrg reported another approach
being achieved at Caltech: the construction of
synthetic nitrogenase enzymes. They’ve made
significant progress but their product is not ready for
mass production: “Each catalyst molecule was only
able to convert seven nitrogen molecules before
running out of steam.” Natural enzymes work
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continuously for years.
More Reasons to Love Plants
更多的理由来爱植物

Plant protection: Researchers at Dartmouth are
discovering facts about a system that allows plants to
tolerate drought, flooding, salt and other stresses. “Plant
roots use their endodermis, or inner skin, as a cellular
gatekeeper to control the efficient use and movement
of water and nutrients from the soil to the above-ground
parts of the plant,” Science Daily explains. This
“gatekeeper” is made up of lignin produced by the plant
cells, forming a layer called the “Casparian strip” that gives
the plant robustness against environmental stresses like
salinity and drought. Researchers found a protein
called ESD1 involved in layering the lignin and binding it
together in the Casparian strip. Understanding this
process might lead to improving the production and quality
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of crops and biofuels.
More Reasons to Love Plants
更多的理由来爱植物
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Clean air act: Live Science provided a list
of indoor plants that are best for cleaning
the air in the home. Everyone learns in
school that plants absorb carbon dioxide,
but “scientists studying the airpurification capacities of indoor
plants have found that plants can absorb
many other gases” such as cigarette
smoke, benzene, formaldehyde and other
volatiles emitted by plastics, detergents or
synthetic products.
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More Reasons to Love Plants
更多的理由来爱植物
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Healthy eating: Articles on the benefits of
plants in the diet are frequent. For
example, National Geographic printed one on
five health benefits of eating watermelon. The
benefits of flavanols found in certain teas, fruits
and cocoa products was explained by Medical
Xpress. Another Medical Xpress article
described the health benefits of the
Mediterranean diet, which avoids red meat and
prescribes up to 9 servings of fruits and
vegetables a day.
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More Reasons to Love Plants
更多的理由来爱植物
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“God’s green earth” is blessed beyond our
understanding by the presence of
plants. Compare the dry, dull surfaces of
the moon and Mars with our abundant-life
planet. Using intelligent design, we can
steer existing plant technologies for our
benefit – technologies that we cannot
easily reproduce, but that give plants their
vitality, longevity and productivity.
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More Reasons to Love Plants
更多的理由来爱植物

For many fruits and vegetables, the benefits come
from eating them raw. Learn to enjoy the richness of
unprocessed plants as a significant part of your
diet. Many can be prepared for good taste and
enjoyment without cooking, juicing, blending,
dehydrating, or other destructive processes. Plant
foods are filled with cancer-fighting compounds and
health-enhancing chemicals among those 20,000
molecules in an average leaf. Many modern people
have arguably less knowledge of useful plants than
the natives that inhabited their lands first. The
knowledge and enjoyment of healthful plants is a
worthwhile skill to work on.
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More Reasons to Love Plants
更多的理由来爱植物
 None of these articles had any use for
evolutionary theory.* Why? It’s
useless. We need to turn science
back toward the improvement of
human life. Good science seeks
understanding, with the goal of
application for good
purposes. Storytelling is the opposite
of understanding.
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More Reasons to Love Plants
更多的理由来爱植物
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*The nitrogenase article claimed that “this entire
nitrogen-fixing apparatus” “evolved once and only
once” and then was repeatedly “lost” in bacteria:
“Studies of the evolutionary history of 49 strains of
cyanobacteria suggest that their common ancestor
was capable of fixing nitrogen and that this ability
was then repeatedly lost over the course of
evolution.” Like we said, evolutionary theory is
useless. The common ancestor (if there was one)
already had it, and then others lost it. What kind of
explanation is that? How does it help Darwin? How
did the ancestor get it? By chance? By magic? Let’s
be done with unobservable just-so stories and deal
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with what we can know and use.
Gloria Deo
愿荣耀归上帝

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Sermons From Science -- Oct 2013
科学布道-- 2013年10月
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.
Let us pray for Dave Coppedge’s fast recovery from
cancer surgery.
Pastor Chui
http://ChristCenterGospel.org
3/17/2016
ckchui1@yahoo.com
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Evolutionists View Poison as Elixir of Life
进化论者以毒为长生不老药
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Hydrogen cyanide is one of the most reactive and
toxic molecules we know, but astrobiologists view it
with almost alchemical qualities for the origin of life.
In “Hydrogen cyanide and life’s origin,” NASA’s
Astrobiology Magazine explored the ability of HCN as
a touchstone for the creation of other molecular
“building blocks” of life such as amino acids.
How many different molecules can be created when
you release one of the Universe’s most reactive
substances, hydrogen cyanide, in the lab? And will the
process create some particularly interesting
molecules?
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Evolutionists View Poison as Elixir of Life
进化论者以毒为长生不老药
That is what scientists call a good question, because hydrogen
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cyanide seems to have played a role in creating some
of life’s building blocks.
Scientists in the lab, though, must treat the chemical with
extreme caution. Just one drop can kill an adult human in 60
seconds. Wikipedia says “the relationship of these chemical
reactions to the origin of life theory remains speculative.…”
The astrobiology article asks mostly questions:
Hydrogen cyanide is an organic compound and it is found in
large quantities in the universe. It may have helped in
producing amino acids and DNA bases, some of life’s basic
molecules. If hydrogen cyanide can lead to the formation of
amino acids, can it also contribute to the formation of other
essential compounds? Can hydrogen cyanide help explain
how life originated on Earth? And how it can arise on other
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planets?
Evolutionists View Poison as Elixir of Life
进化论者以毒为长生不老药
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The only way they got HCN to contribute
to one amino acid was by intelligent
design:
Preliminary studies have shown that
hydrogen cyanide can contribute to the
formation of amino acids. This
discovery required month-long
experiments in the laboratory, where
scientists painstakingly monitored the
reactions and continuously manipulated
the experiment to keep it on track.
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Evolutionists View Poison as Elixir of Life
进化论者以毒为长生不老药
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Nothing in the article suggests that this could have
happened without painstaking manipulation. Even if it
did, getting one amino acid is trivial. There are
numerous high hurdles chance would have had to
overcome before life began, such as the origin of
replication, a membrane, autocatalytic cycles,
metabolism, and the genetic code, along with
molecular machines able to process and interpret the
code for function. In a world of chance, where natural
selection cannot be invoked for help, a building block
of a building block has no guidance toward becoming
a building block, let alone a building. Most likely, it
would dissipate long before the next hurdle is
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approached.
Evolutionists View Poison as Elixir of Life
进化论者以毒为长生不老药
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Another post on Astrobiology
Magazine revised SETI’s old Drake Equation —
revised it downward, that is. Now, Sara Seager
would just be happy to find gas that might indicate
life, not intelligent life. “The equation focuses on
the search for planets with biosignature gases,
gases produced by life that can accumulate in a
planet atmosphere to levels that can be detected
with remote space telescopes,” she said. “If we
find gases that we might attribute to life we will
not know if the gases are produced by
intelligent life or simple bacteria. ”
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Evolutionists View Poison as Elixir of Life
进化论者以毒为长生不老药
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See the 9/07/13 entry to deflate the optimism
in NASA’s post.
Welcome to modern alchemy and magic. Science
is the magician’s twin, said C. S. Lewis; only in the
case of astrobiology, the twins have swapped
places. Astrobiology, using toxic HCN as an elixir
of life, is tantamount to modern-day alchemists
trying to create the building blocks of gold, or
modern Frankensteins thinking they can create life
with poisons and electricity. Note: Frankenstein
was a work of fiction, and alchemy was a
pseudoscience.
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Gloria Deo
愿荣耀归上帝

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Sermons From Science -- Oct 2013
科学布道-- 2013年10月
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.
Let us pray for Dave Coppedge’s fast recovery from
cancer surgery.
Pastor Chui
http://ChristCenterGospel.org
3/17/2016
ckchui1@yahoo.com
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Junk Science Gets Good Press if It Supports Darwinism
垃圾科学取得良好新闻如果它支持达尔文主义
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The headlines for some scientific
news stories might leave philosophers
of science wagging their heads. Few,
though, are the reporters willing to call
something really dumb, or at least
questionable—especially if it appears
to support evolution.
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Junk Science Gets Good Press if It Supports Darwinism
垃圾科学取得良好新闻如果它支持达尔文主义
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The small ball theory: PNAS published a paper by Emory
University evolutionists alleging that dads with small testicles
make better fathers. This kind of subjective claim is highly
susceptible to investigator bias, participant bias, and sample size,
and is therefore nearly impossible to establish (besides being
dumb on the face of it). Are well-endowed males destined for a
life of bad-dadness? Are moral behaviors determined by one’s
equipment? Don’t personal choices matter? Doesn’t character
count? But like starting gun to a race, all the
reporters, Nature included, nearly simultaneously proclaimed it as
scientific fact: the BBC News, Live Science, New Scientist, and
general reporters, ever lusting after prurient content, who feed on
these sources (Yahoo News, USA Today, Smithsonian’s “Smart
News” blog; Forbes had the cojones to criticize the
claim). Fortunately, most articles took their eye off the ball and
spared their readers graphic illustrations.
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Junk Science Gets Good Press if It Supports Darwinism
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Somehow, it seems unsurprising that
evolutionary theory motivated this
study. The BBC said,
The researchers were investigating an
evolutionary theory about trade-offs
between investing time and effort in
mating or putting that energy into raising
children. The idea being that larger
testicles would suggest greater
commitment to creating more children
over raising them.
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Undoubtedly, other researchers could find many
counter-examples if they tried, disposing of this
softball claim in the dustbin of evolutionary just-so
stories. Live Science pointed out another pitfall:
“no one knows how testicular volume changes
over time.” The claim is rife with unknowns and
variables that could “prove” anything. The fine
print in the BBC article noted that “The exact
nature of any link is not clear” and that “further
studies… are still needed”. Any “finding” that
appears to support Darwinism, though, seems to
get a pass.
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What to wear to the cave cookout: On the occasion of
Fashion Week (did you know? did you care?) National
Geographic spilled excessive ink pondering the evolution
of clothes. Even though the story is threadbare of
evidence, the article decided that clothing originated
25,000 years ago; or maybe it was 300,000, no one knows
exactly why. Perhaps the most useful piece of information
was the revelation that Neanderthals were skilled clothiers,
better tailored than brutes hiding their privates with animal
skins. Another take-home message is seen in this link to
a 1909 drawing of Neanderthal Man published in the
Illustrated London News, making it look as ape-like and
brutish as possible to portray it as a missing evolutionary
link. Nowadays Neanderthals are more respected as
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members of the human race.
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This one is full of holes: Some people have a condition
called trypophobia: the fear of holes. Science Daily and
other sites reported that this phobia “May Stem from
Evolutionary Survival Response.” Dr. Cole (U of Essex)
was quick to offer an evolutionary story: “These
findings suggest that there may be an ancient
evolutionary part of the brain telling people that they are
looking at a poisonous animal.” The explanation makes
humans pawns of an evolutionary history they never
experienced. “It backs up the theory that we are set-up
to be fearful of things which hurt us in our
evolutionary past,” Dr. Cole alleged. “We have an
innate predisposition to be wary of things that can harm
us.” It appears he never thought of self-preservation as a
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possibly designed instinct.
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It came from outer space: The Sutter’s Mill Meteorite that fell in
2012 contained traces of organic compounds previously not
seen in meteorites. That’s the science part. Most of the
science news media (e.g., Space.com) announced, however,
that these molecules tell secrets about the origin of life.
Scientists investigating the origin of life
often suppose dissolved compounds desirable for life need to
first have gotten concentrated and held together somehow,
much as cell membranes do for the cell’s components. The
organic molecules the researchers discovered in the Sutter’s
Mill fragments “could be good for such a purpose, because
they can form rudimentary enclosures to contain
compounds useful to prebiotic evolution,” Pizzarello said.
Live Science justified the speculation on the grounds of
ignorance: “Since the origins of life are utterly unknown, 101
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In a similar vein, PhysOrg reported that newlydiscovered microbes “could be crucial
to understanding origins of life on Earth,”
this despite the fact that the microbes have
highly adapted mechanisms for survival. The
suggestion that these microbes provide
understanding about a far-removed, distant
notion of life’s origin was merely tossed out
there without any evidential support. It “could
be crucial” but, then again, it could be utterly
irrelevant.
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And on it goes: Here are a few other evolutionary
stories offered up as speculative possibilities:
The evolution of play: maybe it enhanced creativity,
Jonathon Keats suggested in a book review on New
Scientist celebrating the imaginations of two authors;
“there’s no reason why scholarship can’t be as
seriously playful as bubble-blowing” – a Freudian
slip?
Phoenix mammals: Out of the ash of dinosaur death,
mammal-ness rises. That’s what “new
research suggests” according to Science Daily. It
takes an “evolutionary paleontologist” to come up
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with that notion.
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The whole tooth and nothing butt: Science
Daily used the power of suggestion to conjure
up images of mindless designers in an
arbitration meeting: “This suggests that the
wear process might have a crucial influence in
the evolution and structural adaptation of
molars, enabling to endure bite forces and to
reduce tooth failure throughout the lifetime of an
individual.” At least it “seemed” like an
“evolutionary compromise” to an evolutionist.
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Evolutionary leg up: Why did the bird run across the
road? Its tail got shorter. That’s the evolutionary
explanation on Science Daily: “A radical shortening of
their bony tails over 100 million years ago enabled the
earliest birds to develop versatile legs that gave
them an evolutionary edge, a new
study shows.” It shows no such thing; that was an
interpretation. According to the chief speculator, “Our
work shows that, whilst they may have started off as
just another type of dinosaur, birds quickly made a
rather special evolutionary breakthrough that gave
them abilities and advantages that their dinosaur
cousins didn’t have.”
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Malice in Blunderland: Science Magazine began an
article with a headline suitable for children: “How the
Red Queen Drives Terrestrial Mammals to
Extinction.” One of the co-authors was Charles
Marshall, the master of disaster who swept away the
problem of the Cambrian explosion by saying that
animals evolved because they evolved (see 4/23/06).
This is a sample of a strange genre in science
reporting: evolutionary speculation gets the green
light. It’s ironic that these evolutionists and their
reporters are often the ones criticizing creationists
over “lack of evidence” or “using science to support a
belief system.”
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We’re going to keep displaying this Darwin-brand
baloney till it stinks so bad people stop buying it. To
do that, we have to take it out of the can and unwrap
it. It’s hard for us to smell it, too, but somebody has to
show the world what passes for science from the
Darwin Baloney Factory. If anyone outside the Darwin
Party tried to fawn such putrid stuff on the public, the
health authorities would shut them down faster than
you could say DODO.
The 2013 IgNobel Prizes are being
announced. Hey! We have some candidates you
overlooked! Hey Bah-Fest! Check these out for your
Oct 6 celebration!
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Gloria Deo
愿荣耀归上帝
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Sermons From Science -- Oct 2013
科学布道-- 2013年10月
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.
Let us pray for Dave Coppedge’s fast recovery from
cancer surgery.
Pastor Chui
http://ChristCenterGospel.org
3/17/2016
ckchui1@yahoo.com
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Cosmos Does Not Look Evolutionary
宇宙看起来并不进化
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Evidence continues to mount that the universe and its
contents appeared mature from the beginning.
Surprising abrupt diversity near the start: Galaxies
were diverse, like those seen today, for most of the
universe’s history, Space.com reported. A new
Hubble survey “found that the assorted range of
galaxy types seen today were also present about
11 billion years ago, meaning that the types of
galaxies seen today, which astronomers described
as a ‘cosmic zoo,’ have been around for at least 80
percent of the universe’s lifespan.” The survey
pushes back the early maturity of galaxies from 8
billion years to 11.5 billion.
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Cosmos Does Not Look Evolutionary
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“This is the only comprehensive study
to date of the visual appearance of the
large, massive galaxies that existed so
far back in time,” co-author Arjen van der
Wel of the Max Planck Institute for
Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany said in
a statement. “The galaxies look
remarkably mature, which is not
predicted by galaxy formation
models to be the case that early on in
the history of the universe.”
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Cosmos Does Not Look Evolutionary
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Science Daily left this conundrum unanswered. Indeed, it
added another: “Another piece of the puzzle is that we still do
not know why today ‘red and dead’ elliptical galaxies are
old and unable to form stars, while spirals, like our own Milky
Way, keep forming new stars,” another team member
said. “This is not just a classification scheme, it
corresponds to a profound difference in the galaxies’
physical properties and how they were formed.”
In the 20th century, most astronomers assumed that one type
of galaxy evolved into another, in an evolutionary “Hubble
Sequence.” Now, they all appear abruptly near the beginning.
“Clearly, the Hubble Sequence formed very quickly in the
history of the cosmos, it was not a slow process,” adds
Giavalisco. “Now we have to go back to theory and try to
figure out how and why.”
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Cosmic Questions
Other cosmology news stories show that major
questions remain unanswered, established
claims are being debated, and fundamental
issues remain unresolved.
Revising Newton: A modified form of
Newtonian mechanics named MOND is
claiming predictive success, Science
Daily reported – astonishing for a theory that
reigned science for centuries. At the same
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dark matter.
Cosmos Does Not Look Evolutionary
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Time bandits: A big dispute about the
nature of time is brewing between
cosmologist Lee Smolin and his
critics. One of them, Huw Smith,
reviewing Smolin’s book in Science, did
not have kind words for the latter, who
believes time is real. The dispute is an
echo of the ancient Greek debate between
Parmenides and Heraclitus.
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Cosmos Does Not Look Evolutionary
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Expanding detractions: One German
cosmologist, according to PhysOrg, is disputing
the hugely popular consensus that the universe
is expanding. “Cosmology has no big bang
singularity,” he wrote. “There exist other,
equivalent choices of field variables for which
the universe shows the usual expansion or is
static during the radiation or matter dominated
epochs.” Readers can decide whether his
proposal is more or less bizarre than an instant
universe from nothing.
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The measure of man: A giant “Hubble Bubble” surrounding our
galaxy may be affecting our measurements of the expansion of
the universe, Science Daily reported.
Got time for space, or space for time? Zeeya Merali, writing
in Nature, summarizes an article with basic questions: “Many
researchers believe that physics will not be complete until it
can explain not just the behaviour of space and time, but
where these entities come from.” In text and in an embedded
podcast, Merali wades through deep speculations that are more
frustrating than enlightening, giving time to entrants like
quantum loop gravity, string theory, holography,
thermodynamics, and some even more abstruse. The problem
understanding space-time, according to one cosmologist: “our
job is hard because we are fishes swimming in the fluid at
the same time as trying to understand it.”
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Cosmos Does Not Look Evolutionary
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Does a fish know that it is swimming in a fluid? No,
because fish are not philosophers. Humans can speculate
about big questions and ultimate answers in ways that no
animal can. Whether they can arrive at truth by their own
bootstraps, though, is a different question entirely. One
clue that man might be onto something is the “surprise
effect.” When a scientist is surprised by a finding, it
indicates a possible falsification of his or her
assumptions. The surprise of finding early mature
galaxies is a good example. The abrupt appearance of a
diverse group of galaxies already in mature states, is like
the Cambrian explosion in the fossil record. It’s surprising
to evolutionists, but not to creationists. Cosmologists
should open their minds to the possibility that cosmic
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evolution has been falsified.
Gloria Deo
愿荣耀归上帝
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Sermons From Science -- Oct 2013
科学布道-- 2013年10月
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.
Let us pray for Dave Coppedge’s fast recovery from
cancer surgery.
Pastor Chui
http://ChristCenterGospel.org
3/17/2016
ckchui1@yahoo.com
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Darwinist Intolerance Is Intensifying
达尔文主义的不容忍现象正在加剧
 Some recent cases of intolerance
against Darwin skeptics are so
extreme, they defy all logic or
propriety. Yet when Darwinists
promote radical ideas, they get a
pass.
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Darwinist Intolerance Is Intensifying
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The Discovery Institute is on a campaign to defend the
career and reputation of a Ball State University professor,
Eric Hedin, who dared to present both sides of the debate
over intelligent design instead of just the pro-Darwin side
(see Evolution News & Views). Not only that, he offered
the material in an elective class in philosophy – not in a
science class. At the same time, Ball State openly
promoted another class called “Dangerous Ideas” that
claims “Science must destroy religion” and “There is no
intelligent designer” (Evolution News & Views). This
“selective academic freedom” means professors are only
allowed one position on ID: to oppose it. This “Orwellian”
view of academic freedom by a university that claims to
respect controversial topics was described by John West
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on Evolution News & Views.
Darwinist Intolerance Is Intensifying
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Hedin did not advocate or teach intelligent design
(ENV). He only permitted a pro-ID book (along with
many anti-ID works) in the suggested reading list for
his honors course on the “boundaries of science”
(ENV). For that, he was targeted by a radical atheist
group, the Freedom from Religion Foundation, that
wrote Ball State’s president, Jo Ann Gora, to
complain. Unfortunately for Hedin, the president
heeded their complaints and ordered that no one on
campus was to teach ID in science classes at the
university. The atheist propaganda in the other class,
however, was not restricted. Ironically, Gora
maintained that Ball State’s “commitment to academic
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freedom is unflinching.”
Darwinist Intolerance Is Intensifying
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Earlier in the year, David Coppedge lost his lawsuit
against JPL in which he alleged he was demoted,
humiliated and ultimately fired for sharing pro-ID DVDs
in the workplace (ENV). The judge gave no
explanation for ruling against him on 10 counts of
discrimination and retaliation. In hindsight, the
reaction in the Coppedge case appears part of the
same trend in academic and scientific institutions: only
the secular, atheist, Darwinian position is permitted,
and those who disagree must be silenced. (The
Coppedge case will be reviewed in Volume II of Jerry
Bergman’s work, Slaughter of the Dissidents, about
the persecution of Darwin skeptics.)
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It appears the only ones able to stand up successfully
against the evolution lobby in a public platform are those
with nothing to lose. Retired surgeon Ben Carson, for
instance, has no dirty laundry to hide and, with a stellar
reputation as one of the world’s finest neurosurgeons, a
black man from a poor family who rose to excellence via
self-education and determination, has credentials that
cannot be impugned (see movie of his life, Gifted
Hands). His charitable work for improving education
with reading scholarships is another big asset
(see CarsonScholars.org). With nothing in his life to
assail, and much to commend, he boldly yet graciously
presents scientific arguments against evolutionism, as
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exemplified in a presentation on YouTube.
Darwinist Intolerance Is Intensifying
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Darwinists cannot destroy the career of this kind of enemy, so
they try to ignore him.
Others are not so fortunate. They have careers to maintain, or
tenure to earn. They risk losing access to research labs and
publications. They have families to feed. Astronomer
Guillermo Gonzalez, after receiving unfair treatment by
colleagues and loss of tenure at Iowa State for his book The
Privileged Planet (even though he never taught intelligent
design on campus), took years to find another reputable
university position (ENV). He recently obtained a position at
the same Ball State over the protests of outside evolutionists,
but he knows that he must keep silent about ID to avoid a
recurrence of persecution.
This past summer, the Michael Medved radio talk show began
a “Science and Culture Update” that airs on Tuesdays.
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The Michael Medved website includes a new page
with news and information on the programs. Past
episodes can be heard as podcasts
on IDtheFuture.com, where the Eric Hedin story and
other matters are discussed. Often, the intolerance of
some pro-Darwinist callers is displayed when Stephen
Meyer and other representatives of the Discovery
Institute try to make the scientific case for intelligent
design. Medved and his guests from the institute
usually have to spend excessive time correcting the
misrepresentations of ID by angry callers who clearly
have not read Meyer’s books, but are intent only on
repeating talking-point accusations from pro-Darwin
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sources.
Darwinist Intolerance Is Intensifying
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The Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture
began as a think tank to promote scientific research into
intelligent design, a role it continues to
fulfill. Increasingly, though, the center finds itself rushing
to the defense of victims of extreme intolerance against
the ID position – intolerance not just against teaching ID,
but even for the “thought crime” of holding to
an ID position privately or in outside activities. John G.
West at the Center explained the issues on Evolution
News & Views. In the wake of a bullying campaign by
the press and prominent evolutionists against Eric Hedin
(ENV), the Institute has also opened a page
under AcademicFreedomPetition.org asking for public
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Darwinist Intolerance Is Intensifying
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Here we are, five years after the movie Expelled, and
the Darwinists are still on the rampage. If anything, they
are worse. At the same time, the scientific evidence has
been militating against them: the origin of life troubles,
the Cambrian explosion, the collapse of Darwin’s tree of
life, and much more (have you been reading our recent
articles?). Either this is the last gasp of Darwinists
terrified that their world view is imploding, or (more
likely), Satan is protecting his masterpiece at all
costs. Whether or not you believe in a devil, the Darwin
defenders are acting mighty devilish. They cannot allow
open debate on their view, because it always gets
trounced. Their only hope is to destroy their opponents
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before they can get a hearing.
Darwinist Intolerance Is Intensifying
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DODO! is their chant: Darwin Only! Darwin Only! So
terrified are they of intelligent design (and any
scholarly critique of Darwinism) they passionately
weed out any hint of it creeping into academia, public
schools, and scientific institutions. What do they have
to fear from debate? If the evidence for their view is
so strong, let them defend it in public against
legitimate scientific criticisms. Their paranoia would
be amusing were it not so damaging to the individuals
whose careers are lost, and to the students who are
prevented from seeing the house of cards on which
Darwinism sits.
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Darwinist Intolerance Is Intensifying
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How ironic it is that the Darwin dobermans, mostly leftist
liberals, are the very ones who have the traditional
reputation for academic freedom. Remember them in the
free speech protests of the 1960’s? They demanded
academic freedom to the point of violence. You cannot
trust these people. Like communists, they promote
“freedom” just long enough to gain power, then they take
away the freedom of their opponents. They promote
“democracy” just long enough to win a majority, then they
establish tyranny. Knowing their strategy, wise men will
act accordingly – not by imitating them, but by being wise
as serpents and harmless as doves, as a certain advocate
of intelligent design once advised.
You only have till Sept 30 to write Ball State and protest
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the treatment of Eric Hedin. Do it today.
Gloria Deo
愿荣耀归上帝
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Sermons From Science -- Oct 2013
科学布道-- 2013年10月
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.
Let us pray for Dave Coppedge’s fast recovery from
cancer surgery.
Pastor Chui
http://ChristCenterGospel.org
3/17/2016
ckchui1@yahoo.com
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DNA in Amber Doesn’t Last Long
DNA在琥珀持续时间不长
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Claims of ancient DNA hundreds of thousands of
years old may be false. No DNA was found in an
insect encased in amber said to be 10,600 years old.
The article on Science Daily suggests that a study
published in PLoS ONE puts the “final nail in the
coffin” of Jurassic Park’s thesis that dinosaurs could
be reconstructed from fossilized DNA in
amber. Researchers from the University of
Manchester looked for DNA in Colombian copal, the
resin precursor of amber. Using “sensitive nextgeneration methods”, they obtained sequences a few
hundred bases in length, but could not match them to
the insects. They concluded, therefore, that they are
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artifacts. The abstract states,
DNA in Amber Doesn’t Last Long
DNA在琥珀持续时间不长
 “We were therefore unable to obtain any
convincing evidence for the
preservation of ancient DNA in either of
the two copal inclusions that we studied,
and conclude that DNA is not
preserved in this type of material. Our
results raise further doubts about
claims of DNA extraction from fossil
insects in amber, many millions of
years older than copal.”
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DNA in Amber Doesn’t Last Long
DNA在琥珀持续时间不长
 David Penney said that despite
expectations that copal or resin would
protect the DNA, providing an ideal
environment for preservation, that doesn’t
appear to be the case. “So, unfortunately,
the Jurassic Park scenario must remain in
the realms of fiction.” They couldn’t even
find it in a specimen said to be 60 years
old.
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DNA in Amber Doesn’t Last Long
DNA在琥珀持续时间不长
 Update 9/18/13: Nature reported an
alleged discovery of DNA from bones of a
cave bear 300,000 years old extracted
from permafrost. Most of the segments
were less than 50 base pairs long, “too
degraded” to be useful except with new
techniques used by researchers at the
Max Planck Institute. They claimed to
assemble and sequence segments as
short as 30 base pairs.
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DNA in Amber Doesn’t Last Long
DNA在琥珀持续时间不长
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So what will this mean for claims of
ancient DNA extracted from specimens said to be
millions of years old? The obvious answer is that
it’s not really that old. According to these scientists
looking at insects under ideal conditions of
preservation, 10,600 years is an upper limit. For
the cave bear bones, it becomes less credible to
believe permafrost conditions were uninterrupted
for that long, let alone the question if permafrost is
30 times better at preserving DNA. How could that
be tested without assuming the evolutionary
dates?
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Gloria Deo
愿荣耀归上帝

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Sermons From Science -- Oct 2013
科学布道-- 2013年10月
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.
Let us pray for Dave Coppedge’s fast recovery from
cancer surgery.
Pastor Chui
http://ChristCenterGospel.org
3/17/2016
ckchui1@yahoo.com
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Biblical Archaeology Still Has Much to Discover
圣经考古发现仍有许多
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Some exciting discoveries in Jerusalem and other
near eastern sites emphasize the fact that
archaeologists have much more to explore in the
lands of the Bible.
Jerusalem: The house of a wealthy family on old Mt.
Zion from the first century was reported on Live
Science and Science Daily. Archaeologists are
surmising that the dwelling belonged to a priestly
family. James Tabor indicated that this discovery can
help shed light on Jesus in two ways: by
characterizing the lifestyle of the rich He criticized, and
by understanding their financial motivations for
condemning Him to death.
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Biblical Archaeology Still Has Much to Discover
圣经考古发现仍有许多
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“If this turns out to be the priestly residence of a
wealthy first century Jewish family,
it immediately connects not just to the elite of
Jerusalem — the aristocrats, the rich and
famous of that day — but to Jesus himself,”
Tabor said. “These are the families who had
Jesus arrested and crucified, so for us to
know more about them and their domestic life
— and the level of wealth that they
enjoyed — would really fill in for us some key
history.”
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Biblical Archaeology Still Has Much to Discover
圣经考古发现仍有许多
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Jerusalem: Tia Ghose at Live Science reported
a research project at a city dump outside old
Jerusalem that provides insight into the animal
sacrifice economy that thrived in Jesus’ day,
when thousands of pilgrims would buy or bring
animals to the Temple for holy day
offerings. Isotopes in the bones can reveal the
location of origin for the animals. “The study
found that many of the animals found in the city
dump came from rural desert regions hundreds
of miles away, such as Arabia or Transjordan.”
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Biblical Archaeology Still Has Much to Discover
圣经考古发现仍有许多
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City of David: Eilat Mazar is shown holding up
a portion of a golden medallion found in the City
of David near the Temple Mount in coverage
on Bible Places Blog. This “once in a lifetime”
discovery of coins and other golden treasures
from the Byzantine period (after the New
Testament) was also reported on Science Daily.
based on a press release from Hebrew
University. The article also mentioned the
Canaanite inscription found earlier nearby,
possibly from the time of David (see Live
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Science coverage).
Biblical Archaeology Still Has Much to Discover
圣经考古发现仍有许多
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Dalmanutha: Artifacts believed to be from
Dalmanutha, mentioned only in Mark 8:10–12,
have been found in the Ginosar Valley along
the northwestern shore of the Sea of
Galilee. Mark mentioned the town as a place
where Jesus confronted the Pharisees who
demanded to see a miraculous sign. The town
is near Magdala, home of Mary Magdalene. If
the pottery remains and Corinthian capitals are
indeed from Dalmanutha, it indicates a
prosperous town thrived there in the first
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century.
Biblical Archaeology Still Has Much to Discover
圣经考古发现仍有许多
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Abel Beth Maacah: It has an imposing tell (mound) at
the north end of the Huleh Valley, near the border of
Lebanon, but it has never been excavated—till now. It’s
Abel Beth Maacah, at the crossroads of important trade
routes in ancient and modern times. Bible Places Blog,
quoting the ASOR Blog, describes the initial survey and
first season that are providing hopes the site will prove
as productive as Tell Dan and Hazor. The town is
known from a moving story in 2 Samuel 20:14–22 about
a woman who saved the town by appeasing David’s
army captain Joab. The site appears to have prominent
Aramean influence. One of the major towns of the
northern kingdom of Israel, was destroyed in 733 BC by
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Assyrian conqueror Tiglath-pileser.
Biblical Archaeology Still Has Much to Discover
圣经考古发现仍有许多
 Derbe: Mentioned in Acts 14, 16, and 20,
Derbe is one of the last cities on Paul’s
missionary journeys to be
excavated. Alongside a photo of the
impressive mound, Bible Places
Blog pointed to a news article about a new
excavation at the site begun by Selçuk
University. So far they have uncovered a
possible early Christian church.
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Biblical Archaeology Still Has Much to Discover
圣经考古发现仍有许多
 We commend Live Science for reporting
stories on Biblical archaeology, not just
on DODO evolution, wanton sex, and
liberal politics (as they have been wont to
do, for which we cannot commend them).
 We would also point out to readers that
archaeology is one of several active
sciences dependent on intelligent design
principles: determining the products of
mind from the evidence of physical
artifacts.
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Gloria Deo
愿荣耀归上帝
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Sermons From Science -- Oct 2013
科学布道-- 2013年10月
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.
Let us pray for Dave Coppedge’s fast recovery from
cancer surgery.
Pastor Chui
http://ChristCenterGospel.org
3/17/2016
ckchui1@yahoo.com
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Planet Habitable Zone Cannot Be Too Windy
行星可居住区不能太多风
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The “habitable zone” of a planet usually
concerns its distance from the star such that it
can support liquid water. But what if the star
fries the surface with intense stellar winds?
“Deadly stellar winds could put a stop to life”
reads the headline of an article on Astrobiology
Magazine. Planet Earth has a protective
magnetic field that shields its inhabitants from
the solar wind. But the solar wind emitted by
our star is mild compared to the intense storms
of charged particles flung out by other stars.
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Planet Habitable Zone Cannot Be Too Windy
行星可居住区不能太多风
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Joe Llama from the University of St. Andrews looked at the
winds that bombard one of the “hot Jupiters” (giant planets
orbiting close to parent stars), named HD 189733. He
considered what such a wind would do to an earth-like
planet, even if it orbited in its habitable zone:
In the case of HD 189733b, this is not a huge problem as it
and other hot Jupiters are already far too hostile for
life to survive. But strong stellar winds could also strip
away the atmospheres of potentially habitable planets
further out, something that would have dire consequences
for their habitability. Joe comments: “Imagine what the
Earth would be like with its air stripped away, placed in a
radiation bath. There could be numerous planets like
this that in many ways resemble our world, but where life
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never stood a chance.”
Planet Habitable Zone Cannot Be Too Windy
行星可居住区不能太多风
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The article did not quantify how many stars
would irradiate their planets to death, but Llama
thinks they “could be numerous”. There would
be no point looking for life on planets in such
systems. “For more than two decades we have
been stepping up the search for other planets
like the Earth,” he said. “Our new work will help
refine this quest, enabling us to rule out the
sites where dangerous activity on stars
would kill off life from the start.”
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Planet Habitable Zone Cannot Be Too Windy
行星可居住区不能太多风
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Earlier this month on Astrobiology Magazine,
Sara Seager of MIT presented a “revised”
Drake Equation that leaves off Frank Drake’s
final factors about intelligent life evolving. She’s
just interested in any kind of life emerging on a
habitable planet. Llama’s conclusions will
surely affect one factor she calls FQ, the fraction
of stars that are quiet. “Some stars are like
our solar maximum all the time, with flares
and other activity,” Seager said. “We don’t
like those noisy stars.”
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Planet Habitable Zone Cannot Be Too Windy
行星可居住区不能太多风
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The “habitable zone” theory is a classic case of dogmatic
slumbers being jolted awake by physical reality. In Carl
Sagan’s Cosmos days, it seemed so simple: billions upon
billions of stars might have life, based on the idea that all you
needed was a rocky planet at the right distance from its
star. Over the past decade we have been adding
complications to the “habitable zone” idea, narrowing down
substantially the probability of finding those lucky stars. Last
year about this time, our list of factors (reported from
astrobiology literature) was at nine (see 9/08/12); we
predicted additional factors would be thought of. Now we
have #10: the Stellar Wind Habitable Zone. Earth continues
to look mighty special in this vast universe. You can thank
your lucky stars if your world view requires heavy doses of
superstition. Others of us find positive evidence for
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intelligent design.
Gloria Deo
愿荣耀归上帝
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Sermons From Science -- Oct 2013
科学布道-- 2013年10月
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.
Let us pray for Dave Coppedge’s fast recovery from
cancer surgery.
Pastor Chui
http://ChristCenterGospel.org
3/17/2016
ckchui1@yahoo.com
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Sherpa Fitness Is Not Evolution
夏尔巴人健身不是进化
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A study about mutations that might confer benefit to
high-altitude Sherpas is being announced as an
example of evolution, but variation within species is
not Darwinian evolution.
Science Daily said that two mutations have been
found in the mitochondrial DNA of sherpas, those
high-altitude inhabitants of Tibet that carry packs up
Mt. Everest for western adventurers. The article,
though, says that the mutations “may be an important
adaptation for low oxygen environments,” and
“may explain the importance of the role of
mitochondria in the Sherpa population’s ability to
adapt to the extreme Himalayan environment.”
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Sherpa Fitness Is Not Evolution
夏尔巴人健身不是进化
 This was published in Molecular Biology
and Evolution with the title, “mtDNA
lineage expansions in Sherpa population
suggest adaptive evolution in Tibetan
highlands.”
 What the article fails to say is that sherpas
are members of the one (and only one)
human race, interfertile with all other
human beings.
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Sherpa Fitness Is Not Evolution
夏尔巴人健身不是进化
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Evolutionists play fast and loose with the term
“evolution,” ascribing whatever minor change they can
to Darwinism. Darwin, though, was trying to
portray universal common ancestry by means of
unguided natural processes. It’s essential to keep that
distinction in mind. Evidence abounds for minor
mutation variants in life – you yourself have multiple
mutations compared to your own parents. That
doesn’t mean you “evolved” from them. It is well
known that tribes of people have physical differences
due to inbreeding and adaptation to climate, but they
are not different species (Darwin wrote, remember,
about the “Origin of Species”).
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Sherpa Fitness Is Not Evolution
夏尔巴人健身不是进化
 Adaptation is not evolution. Creationists
of the strictest Biblical sort believe in
adaptive variation within kinds of
organisms, where “kinds” (from the
Genesis word baramin) is usually much
broader than species. Using evolution for
within-kind variation commits the halftruth fallacy, and the extrapolation
fallacy if applied to macroevolution.
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Sherpa Fitness Is Not Evolution
夏尔巴人健身不是进化
A recent article on genomic variations within felids, including
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tigers, lions and panthers (see Science Daily) also used the
word “evolution” incorrectly. Creationists believe God created a
“cat kind” that gave rise to a wide variety of felids around the
globe, adapted to their habitats, with less genetic information
than the ancestral form. Even today, lions and tigers can
hybridize, yielding “ligers.” The variety of house cats that can
interbreed is well known, as with dog breeds, but dogs never
give rise to cats, or vice versa, because they are different kinds
of animals. Similarly, horses, donkeys and zebras are within
the equine kind. To distinguish itself from
creationism, Darwinism must go beyond the origin of species,
and the origin of genera, invoking only unguided natural
processes. There is plenty of evidence for extensive
variability within kinds, but none outside of kinds. That
variability was designed into the genomes of the created kinds
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so that they could adapt to environmental changes.
Sherpa Fitness Is Not Evolution
夏尔巴人健身不是进化
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If you weed out the evolutionary
evidence about
variability within kinds, nothing is
left. Kinds all appear abruptly and
appear with variations,
reproducing “after their
kind.” What Darwin claimed is not
observed in the natural world. It is
only assumed.
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Gloria Deo
愿荣耀归上帝
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Sermons From Science -- Oct 2013
科学布道-- 2013年10月
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.
Let us pray for Dave Coppedge’s fast recovery from
cancer surgery.
Pastor Chui
http://ChristCenterGospel.org
3/17/2016
ckchui1@yahoo.com
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Mars May Have Been Wet, But Never Lively
火星可能有湿气，但从来没有生命
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Astrobiologists got excited with evidence for early
water on Mars, but other discoveries are putting
the quash on hopes it has or had life.
We can only observe Mars in the present. Current
evidence might suggest past realities, but can only
infer probabilities for the past, based on one’s
assumptions. What we know today from the Mars
rover Curiosity and other sources is that: (1) some
Martian minerals contain water; (2) Curiosity has
failed to detect methane, a potential biomarker;
and (3) perchlorate in the soil would be toxic to life.
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Mars May Have Been Wet, But Never Lively
火星可能有湿气，但从来没有生命
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Perchlorates (compounds containing chlorine and
oxygen) were first detected near the Martian north pole
by the Mars Polar Lander Phoenix (Wikipedia). Now,
perchlorates have been found by Curiosity in Gale
Crater, reported Science
Daily, PhysOrg and Astrobiology Magazine; “This finding
at Curiosity’s equatorial site suggests more global
distribution” of perchlorates, according to a JPL Mars
Science Laboratory press release. These “troublesome
chemicals” can interfere with the SAM (Sample
Analysis on Mars) instrument’s search for organic
molecules, because they give off oxygen that rapidly
destroys evidence of their existence. As a result,
“The quest for evidence of life on Mars could be more
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difficult than scientists previously thought.”
Mars May Have Been Wet, But Never Lively
火星可能有湿气，但从来没有生命
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Some water: Evidence for water-containing
minerals, therefore (as reported by Science
Daily), is little consolation in the face of the bad
news. Soil minerals dug up from the Curiosity
rover’s arm were found to contain several
percent water by weight. Even though
described as a “Wow moment” for the mission
team, the finding of toxic chlorinating chemicals
in the same environment is not conducive to life
now or in the past. This puts a wet blanket on
recent suggestions that Earth life might have
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come from Mars (see 9/07/13).
Mars May Have Been Wet, But Never Lively
火星可能有湿气，但从来没有生命
 Still, if water could be mined right out of
the soil, it might be handy for future
manned missions to Mars – but then there
are the damned perchlorates. “If the
water was the good news for the
astronauts,” the BBC News remarked,
“this is the bad news.” Ingesting some
of the fine-grained soil could “interfere with
thyroid function,” the article explained.
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Mars May Have Been Wet, But Never Lively
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No methane: Years ago, hints of methane in the
Martian atmosphere temporarily aroused
excitement it might be a whiff from
life. Unfortunately, the Mars Science Laboratory
(MSL) rover Curiosity has failed to detect methane,
a JPL press release announced. “It reduces the
probability of current methane-producing Martian
microbes, but this addresses only one type of
microbial metabolism,” an MSL scientist
cautioned. It would have been “exciting to find”
methane, but “We measured repeatedly from
Martian spring to late summer, but with no
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detection of methane.”
Mars May Have Been Wet, But Never Lively
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Veteran atmospheric scientist Sushil Atreya
said if it was there, it should have been
detectable, because it would take centuries for
the methane to deplete. He was insistent about
it: “Without a way to take it out of the
atmosphere quicker, our measurements
indicate there cannot be much methane being
put into the atmosphere by any mechanism,
whether biology, geology, or by ultraviolet
degradation of organics delivered by the fall
of meteorites or interplanetary dust particles.”
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No life? A list of MSL accomplishments
by JPL never mentions life. The absence of
methane “challenges life theory,”
the BBC News concluded, noting that 95% of
Earth’s methane comes from life.
Researchers have hung on to the hope that
the molecule’s signature at Mars might also
indicate a life presence.
The inability of Curiosity’s sophisticated
instrumentation to make this detection is likely
now to dent this optimism. (BBC News) 171
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Mars May Have Been Wet, But Never Lively
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 In its coverage, Science Magazine rather
indelicately quipped, “Mars Rover Finds
No Evidence of Burps or Farts.” The
editor must gotten some Bronx cheers for
that one. The headline now reads, “Not a
Whiff of Life on Mars” – leaving
unanswered the burning question of
whether emission of methane by a
microbe qualifies as a fart.
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Mars May Have Been Wet, But Never Lively
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How’s that for a gift of a segue? Astrobiological
speculation about the origin and evolution of life is
about as useful and desirable, scientifically speaking,
as a – shall we say – sudden eruption of particulateladen vaporous emissions from the lower end of
a GI tract. Eat Darwin-brand philosophy with your
science, and a certain venting of fogma is
predictable. Scientific observations constitute the
nutritious part. They are absorbed to become the
meat, bone and sinew of scientific understanding. The
evolutionary junk food, though, based on hopes,
assumptions and improbable expectations – like
cotton candy, lacking substance – breaks down into its
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constituent volatiles.
Mars May Have Been Wet, But Never Lively
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When not quickly belched out to the press, the
vapor gets refined on its journey, mixed with the
methane of storytelling and the hydrogen sulfide of
relativism, till it reaches the back orifice, where
hordes of journal editors and science reporters
await the product. It wrecked ‘em. They thought it
would give them a “high” of
understanding. Instead, it contributed less to
knowledge than to angry partisanship, a kind of
global warming. Maybe the planet would benefit
from some climate change – in the other
direction. Cool it, Charlie. Kick
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the DIDO habit. Go on a health food diet.
Gloria Deo
愿荣耀归上帝
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