Sermons From Science -- March 2013
科学布道-- 2013年3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
3/18/2016
ckchui1@yahoo.com
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Rare Moments of Glory: Planetary Scientists
Admit Seeing “Lucky” Circumstances
罕见的荣耀时刻：行星科学家承
认看到“幸运”的情况
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Why are we seeing young phenomena in the planets if
they are billions of years old? Some scientists are
abandoning uniformitarian assumptions and admitting we
are lucky to be witnessing them in “rare moments of
glory.”
In Nature this week, Maggie McKee interviewed scientists
who are struggling with short-lived phenomena in the solar
system. The subtitle of her article, “Caught in the Act,”
states, “We may be seeing some of the Solar System’s
most striking objects during rare moments of
glory.” Her first two paragraphs elaborate why this is
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unsettling for some:
Rare Moments of Glory: Planetary Scientists
Admit Seeing “Lucky” Circumstances
罕见的荣耀时刻：行星科学家承
认看到“幸运”的情况
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“Ever since Copernicus evicted Earth
from its privileged spot at the centre of
the Solar System, researchers
have embraced the idea that there
is nothing special about our time and
place in the Universe. What observers
see now, they presume, has been going
on for billions of years — and will
continue for eons to come.
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Rare Moments of Glory: Planetary Scientists
Admit Seeing “Lucky” Circumstances
罕见的荣耀时刻：行星科学家承
认看到“幸运”的情况
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“But observations of the distant reaches of the Solar
System made in the past few years are challenging
that concept. The most active bodies out there —
Jupiter’s moon Io and Saturn’s moons Enceladus and
Titan — may be putting on limited-run shows that
humans are lucky to witness. Saturn’s brilliant rings, too,
might have appeared relatively recently, and could grow
dingy over time. Some such proposals make planetary
researchers uncomfortable, because it is statistically
unlikely that humans would catch any one
object engaged in unusual activity — let alone several.”
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Rare Moments of Glory: Planetary Scientists
Admit Seeing “Lucky” Circumstances
罕见的荣耀时刻：行星科学家承
认看到“幸运”的情况
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It seems a bitter pill for some planetary scientists to “go
against the grain of one of geology’s founding
principles: uniformitarianism, which states that planets
are shaped by gradual, ongoing processes,” she
wrote. Then she quoted Jeff More (NASA-Ames) who
explained that “Geologists like things to be the same as
they ever were” because it’s “philosophically
comforting because you don’t have to assume you’re
living in special times.” Why that should be “comforting”
was not explained.
McKee zoomed into each of these phenomena for more
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detail about what makes them look young:
Rare Moments of Glory: Planetary Scientists
Admit Seeing “Lucky” Circumstances
罕见的荣耀时刻：行星科学家承认看到“幸运”的情况
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Saturn’s rings: The rings are 90% water ice but should be
dirtier if they were old; “some planetary scientists say that the
rings’ resplendence is hard to reconcile with a lifetime
lasting billions of years.” That’s why hypotheses of a recent
encounter with an icy interloper that broke apart and became
the rings within the last few million years (just 10% of Saturn’s
assumed age) have been put forth. An ad hoc solution like
that, though raises other problems: all such candidate objects
should have vanished 700 million years after the birth of the
solar system, according to current theory. Close flybys by
Cassini in years to come may confirm whether billions of years
of dirt is hiding in the B ring, McKee said, but one responded, “if
the Cassini results point to a low mass for the rings, it will be a
real mystery.” This explanation, however, fails to explain why6
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the thinner D, C, A, F, G, and E rings are so bright.
Rare Moments of Glory: Planetary Scientists Admit Seeing
“Lucky” Circumstances
罕见的荣耀时刻：行星科学家承认看到“幸运”的情况
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Enceladus: The geysers of Enceladus are another thing that can’t be
old; “researchers have struggled to explain how it can sustain
such activity” on the order of 16 gigawatts – 10 times the amount
they can account for by internal radioactive heating. “Several
explanations have been put forward to account for this furious
release of heat, but all rely on arguments that researchers are
viewing the moon at a special time,” McKee said. It’s difficult to
keep the geysers going for 10 million years (1/450th the assumed
age of the moon), let alone 4.5 billion. One researcher who proposed
a recent cracking from growing stresses in the crust has apparently
been getting hard questions: “‘It seems like special pleading —
we just happened to catch it in the act,’ says [Craig] O’Neill
[Macquarie University, Sydney], echoing criticisms that he has
heard when presenting the model at conferences.” Nearby
Mimas “should be producing more heat than Enceladus and it
doesn’t, and we don’t really understand why,” O’Neill said.
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Rare Moments of Glory: Planetary Scientists
Admit Seeing “Lucky” Circumstances
罕见的荣耀时刻：行星科学家承
认看到“幸运”的情况
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Io: If Enceladus is a firefly, Io is a furnace, McKee wrote. It
gives off 90,000 gigawatts through its incessant volcanoes,
“several times more than would be expected from the
simplest models of tidal interactions between the moon and
Jupiter.” Again, it’s not that planetary scientists are unable to
imagine scenarios in which we might be seeing Io at a special
time; perhaps the moon’s orbital dance with the other moons
makes it undergo periodic exaggerations of its
eccentricity. Even though this “would satisfy the data,” one
planetologist said, when thinking about the peculiarities of Io
and Enceladus, “it’s possible we simply don’t understand
them.”
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Rare Moments of Glory: Planetary Scientists Admit Seeing
“Lucky” Circumstances
罕见的荣耀时刻：行星科学家承认看到“幸运”的情况
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Titan: The largest moon of Saturn presents problems
with both its atmosphere and surface. Atmospheric
theories are up in the air, because “the atmospheric
methane — and its effects on the landscape — ought
to be short-lived” in the range of a few tens of millions
of years. If sources of replenishment cannot be found
(there are some disputed candidates thought to be ice
volcanoes), it should have been long gone. Jeff
Moore “thinks that researchers are seeing Titan at
a unique and geologically fleeting time.” The
question then becomes, why now, and what
happened?
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Rare Moments of Glory: Planetary Scientists
Admit Seeing “Lucky” Circumstances
罕见的荣耀时刻：行星科学家承
认看到“幸运”的情况
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In Moore’s hypothesis, the sun warmed up to a tipping
point a few tens or hundreds of millions of years ago,
levitating the frozen nitrogen and methane into an
atmosphere that “rained like hell” onto the surface,
creating the erosional features seen today. Ralph Lorenz
[Johns Hopkins U] criticizes Moore’s view as “too
simplistic” and pointed to “some evidence” (not mentioned
in the article) that it would have taken billions of years to
form Titan’s hydrocarbon-rich sand dunes.
McKee ended with a quote from Lorenz: “I think we have
to have a much more nuanced view of Titan
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through time. Titan is bloody complicated.”
Rare Moments of Glory: Planetary Scientists
Admit Seeing “Lucky” Circumstances
罕见的荣耀时刻：行星科学家承认看到“幸运”的情况
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It’s not complicated at all, if you subtract out the
needless billions of years. This article is important, in
that in the 8 years of the ongoing Cassini mission to
Cassini, and the 9 years since the end of the Galileo
mission to Jupiter, scientists still have no answers to
these age conundrums. Their uniformitarian
philosophy makes them uncomfortable with the facts
their own eyes are beholding. We should not be living
in special times, but we appear to. (Understand that
the Copernican principle does not mean that we are
not special; see The Privileged Planet for corrective
information.)
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Rare Moments of Glory: Planetary Scientists
Admit Seeing “Lucky” Circumstances
罕见的荣耀时刻：行星科学家承认看到“幸运”的情况
 Here’s a classic case of ad hoc explanation to
force observations into a web of belief. (This is
called ‘special pleading’ in logic.) If science were
about honestly following the evidence where it
leads, these scientists would have to conclude that
the solar system is much younger than
thought. But they won’t do it, because they know
Charlie D. (their idol) needs billions of years for life
to evolve on Earth. Failing to provide those annual
sacrifices to the idol would get them
excommunicated from the Church of Darwin.
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Rare Moments of Glory: Planetary Scientists
Admit Seeing “Lucky” Circumstances
罕见的荣耀时刻：行星科学家承认看到“幸运”的情况
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If Saturn’s rings, Enceladus, Io and Titan were the only
problem worlds, they might have hope to rescue their
beliefs someday. Unfortunately, the problems mount for
uniformitarianism when one considers Mercury, Venus,
Earth, the Moon, Mars, Jupiter and its moons, Uranus and
its moons and rings, Neptune and its moons and rings,
Pluto and the trans-Neptunian objects, comets, asteroids,
dust – the whole system. There is hardly any planet or
moon that met their uniformitarian expectations. We call
on them: please, dump the assumption of billions of years,
and all these things will start making sense. We do this
out of sympathy for their discomfort, wishing them to sleep
well for once.
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Gloria Deo
愿荣耀归上帝
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Sermons From Science -- March 2013
科学布道-- 2013年3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
3/18/2016
ckchui1@yahoo.com
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Desert Varnish Growth Can Be Rapid
沙漠上光油的增长可以快速
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New research shows that the black coating on sandstone
known as rock varnish or desert varnish can form much more
rapidly than previously thought.
The abstract of a paper in Geology1 states:
Rock varnish is a thin dark coating best known from deserts,
and is believed to grow extremely slowly. Varnish samples
from near Socorro, New Mexico (United States), contain as
much as 3.7% PbO, derived from nearby smelters operating
from A.D. 1870 to 1931. Additional varnish, measuring as much
as 4 μm beyond the Pb-rich layer, indicates continued growth
from 1931 to 2003. Comparison with other varnish confirms
that the Pb is not an artifact. Based on Pb layer thickness, and
the period of smelter operation, these very young rock
varnishes yield growth rates of 28–639 μm/k.y.,
substantially higher than previously documented fastest 16
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rates of 40 μm/k.y.
Desert Varnish Growth Can Be Rapid
沙漠上光油的增长可以快速
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These rates imply that the average 1–2 μm/k.y. rate for
older varnish is not the active growth rate. Rather, it is a
long-term value including periods of nondeposition,
erosion, and active growth. Therefore, models of rock
varnish formation should be reevaluated with
consideration of much faster maximum growth
rates.
The new maximum growth rate is nearly 16 times the old
estimate.
1. Spilde, Melim, Northup and Boston, “Anthropogenic
lead as a tracer of rock varnish growth: Implications for
rates of formation,” Geology, published online January 4,
2013, doi: 10.1130/G33514.1 v. 41 no. 2 p. 263–266. 17
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Desert Varnish Growth Can Be Rapid
沙漠上光油的增长可以快速
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Interpretive signs about desert varnish appear in
national parks throughout desert parks in the United
States and probably elsewhere. How many of them
are going to be updated as a result of this
revelation? Probably few. They will continue to tell
unwary visitors that it’s a slow, slow, slow process. As
this paper shows, not necessarily. Significant buildup
could occur in just a few thousand years. Even so,
does any scientist possess the wherewithal and knowhow to understand all the variables? That this paper
shows up in 2013 after decades of research on desert
varnish should cause perceptive readers to see, once
again, that human “scientific knowledge” is limited and
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subject to change without warning.
Gloria Deo
愿荣耀归上帝
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Sermons From Science -- March 2013
科学布道-- 2013年3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
3/18/2016
ckchui1@yahoo.com
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Rare Anti-Leftist Editorial Posted on Science Site
罕见科学网站发布反左派编辑
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Finding an article on a secular science site that criticizes
the left and defends the right is so rare, it’s news.
On New Scientist today, Alex Berezow and Hank
Campbell blasted political leftists for their “war on reason”
with “lefty nonsense” that pretends to be scientificallybased but is not. The caption reads, “Conservatives
rightly get a bad rap for anti-science policies. But
progressives can be just as bad, say Alex Berezow and
Hank Campbell.”
As an example, the two describe a Congressional “green”
initiative to keep plastic and styrofoam utensils out of the
Capitol and replace them with biodegradable ones. It
sounded good; it felt good; but it ended up more wasteful
and harmful to the environment than before. This led to 21
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their key paragraph:
Rare Anti-Leftist Editorial Posted on Science Site
罕见科学网站发布反左派编辑
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“Conservatives’ sins against science —
objections to stem cell research, denial of climate
science, opposition to evolution and the rest — are
widely reported and well known.
But conservatives don’t have a monopoly on
unscientific policies. Progressives are just as
bad, if not worse. Their ideology is riddled with
anti-scientific feel-good fallacies designed to
win hearts, not minds. Just like biodegradeable
spoons, their policies often crumble in the face of
reality and leave behind a big mess. Worse,
anyone who questions them is condemned as
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anti-science.”
Rare Anti-Leftist Editorial Posted on Science Site
罕见科学网站发布反左派编辑
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This paragraph makes it clear that they
are not embracing or defending
conservatism – just calling out antiscience (as they conceive it) on both
sides. “We have all heard about the
Republican war on science; we want to
draw attention to the progressive war
on reason.” This statement, though, begs
the question whether science and reason
are separable.
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Rare Anti-Leftist Editorial Posted on Science Site
罕见科学网站发布反左派编辑
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Berezow, editor of RealClearScience.com, is
clearly anti-creationist but also anti-nonsense from
any political stripe. Campbell is his co-author of a
book whose title is self-explanatory: Science Left
Behind: Feel-good fallacies and the rise of the antiscientific left. While not letting conservatives off
the hook for their “sins against science” (as
perceived by Berezow and Campbell), they feel the
charges need to be fairly distributed on both sides
of the political spectrum. While claiming only a
“lunatic fringe” among progressives is guilty, the
guilt is pressing:
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Rare Anti-Leftist Editorial Posted on Science Site
罕见科学网站发布反左派编辑
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“We contend that there is a disturbing and
largely unreported trend among influential
progressive activists who misinterpret,
misrepresent and abuse science to advance
their ideological and political agendas.
Of all of today’s political
philosophies, progressivism stands as the most
pressing problem for science. Progressives, not
conservatives, are the ones most likely to
replace scientific research with unscientific
ideology.”
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Rare Anti-Leftist Editorial Posted on Science Site
罕见科学网站发布反左派编辑
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Strong words coming from a news site that typically
takes the progressive position as a
given. “Conservatives who endorse unscientific
ideas are blasted by the scientific community, yet
progressives who do the same get a free pass,”
they ended. “It is important the problem be
recognised, and that free pass revoked.”
Update 2/05/13: New Scientist admitted to a leftist
bias. Commenting on Berezow and Campbell’s
rebuke, they agreed it is right to “Challenge
unscientific thinking, whatever its source.” They
considered whether the left gets a free pass by
scientists and reporters. Their conclusion was a call
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to freedom:
Rare Anti-Leftist Editorial Posted on Science Site
罕见科学网站发布反左派编辑
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“Is there any substance to that suspicion? We should go
to every possible length to ensure there
isn’t. Unreason of any hue is dangerous; any suggestion
of bias only makes it harder to overcome. Science and
liberalism are natural allies, but only in the literal
sense of liberalism as the pursuit of freedom. That
means freedom of thought, freedom of speech and,
above all, freedom from ideology— wherever on the
political spectrum it comes from.”
Trying to explain the bias, they said, “The suspicion must
be that this is because scientists themselves lean towards
the left, as does the media that covers them.” Then in
parentheses, they added, “(Both friends and critics of New
Scientist tell us we lean in that direction.)”
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Rare Anti-Leftist Editorial Posted on Science Site
罕见科学网站发布反左派编辑
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Freedom from ideology? Good
luck. Everyone has a world
view, whether carefully thought
out or not. We’d like the editors
of New Scientist to explain
“unreason” in Darwinian terms.
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Rare Anti-Leftist Editorial Posted on Science Site
罕见科学网站发布反左派编辑
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Refreshing as the main article is, it doesn’t even come close to
levelling the playing field. First of all, Berezow and Campbell
adopt, without question, the leftist talking points that antievolutionism is unscientific, that global warming theory is
scientific, and that no one has a scientific right to question “stem
cell science” (presumably the destruction of human embryos, an
ethical question, not an issue of science). They already
condemned conservatives before examining irrational ideas from
progressives. They essentially tarred and feathered all
conservatives before pointing out that just a few leftists on the
“lunatic fringe” are just as bad or worse. Is this the best New
Scientist can say? It’s too little too late. (Understand that it’s not
because Republicans or conservatives actually are anti-science
that gives them the bad rap; the leftists who control the media,
education, labor and scientific societies hate conservatives
for everything they stand for, scientific or not.)
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Rare Anti-Leftist Editorial Posted on Science Site
罕见科学网站发布反左派编辑
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Berezow and Campbell did well to distinguish liberalism
from progressivism:
Liberalism, as defined by John Locke, means the pursuit
of liberty. By that definition progressives are not
liberal. Though they claim common cause with liberals
(and most of them are Democrats because very few
progressives are Republican), today’s progressive
movement is actually socially authoritarian.
Unlike conservative authoritarians, however, they are not
concerned with banning “immoral” things like sex, drugs
and rock and roll. They instead seek dominion over
issues such as food, the environment and education.
And they claim that their policies are based on
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science, even when they are not.
Rare Anti-Leftist Editorial Posted on Science Site
罕见科学网站发布反左派编辑
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This distinction is correct and rarely recognized. If
Berezow and Campbell wish to promote liberalism
of the Locke version, though, then let them
promote academic freedom and freedom of inquiry
– including freedom to criticize evolution, global
warming and stem cell research, without prejudging it as anti-science in a socially authoritarian
way.
Nevertheless, thanks to New Scientist and these
men for the partial recognition of a huge
problem. We wish them well on their journey
toward a non–self-refuting rational foundation. 31
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Gloria Deo
愿荣耀归上帝
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Sermons From Science -- March 2013
科学布道-- 2013年3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
3/18/2016
ckchui1@yahoo.com
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Science Supports Proverb of Jesus
科学支持耶稣的谚语
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It is more blessed to give than to receive, said
Jesus and a team of psychologists.
The psychologists in New York were not setting
out to confirm Jesus’ words, but the headline on
Medical Xpress stated, almost with surprise,
“Study finds it actually is better (and healthier)
to give than to receive.” Two decades of prior
research had not found that recipients of help got
the same benefits as the givers. Now, a five-year
study involving 846 individuals linked decreased
mortality with the stress-releasing pleasure of
giving.
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Science Supports Proverb of Jesus
科学支持耶稣的谚语
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“These findings go beyond past analyses
to indicate that the health benefits of
helping behavior derive specifically
from stress-buffering processes,” Poulin
says, “and provide important guidance
for understanding why helping
behavior specifically may promote
health and, potentially, for how social
processes in general may influence
health.”
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Science Supports Proverb of Jesus
科学支持耶稣的谚语
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The words of Jesus, “It is more blessed to give than
to receive,” do not appear in the four gospels of the
New Testament, but instead were quoted by Paul to
the Ephesian elders in the book of Acts of the
Apostles, chapter 20, verse 35. This indicates that
many of Jesus’ teachings were remembered decades
later by other eyewitnesses besides Matthew, Mark,
Luke and John. This should not be surprising,
because many thousands heard Jesus
teach. As John ended his gospel (21:25), “Now there
are also many other things that Jesus did. Were every
one of them to be written, I suppose that the world
itself could not contain the books that would be
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written.”
Science Supports Proverb of Jesus
科学支持耶稣的谚语
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It’s nice when science finally catches up to the Master
Planner’s truths two millennia later, but once again,
the thinking of scientists (if that’s what you can call
psychologists) is orthogonal to the intent of Jesus’
words. Jesus was not saying, “Behave this way for
your own health and happiness.” He was encouraging
the disciples to forget themselves and focus on
others. Not every selfless deed results in personal
reward; look at soldiers who fell on grenades to
protect their comrades. When health and happiness
do accrue from acts of helping others, fine; but anyone
who engages in helping others for his own health
misses the point. Psychology can only look at the
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“what,” not the “why,” the “is” not the “ought.”
Science Supports Proverb of Jesus
科学支持耶稣的谚语
 Wouldn’t it be something if the
Creator built our brains so that
righteous behavior would usually
result in health and happiness as a
by-product? That would be like
intelligent design. (It doesn’t work
with impure motives, though—that’s
part of the design, too.)
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Gloria Deo
愿荣耀归上帝
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Sermons From Science -- March 2013
科学布道-- 2013年3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
3/18/2016
ckchui1@yahoo.com
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Simulations Can Misrepresent Reality
模拟可以误传现实
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A new paper warns that commonly-used simulation
methods in science can misrepresent the real world.
In the European Physical Journal Plus, Daan Frinkel
warned about the “dark side” of simulations – those
applied out of context or extrapolated beyond their
capabilities (by “dark” Frenkel means under-exposed, not
evil). Simulations are very common in science; for
instance, Monte Carlo simulations are frequently used to
study everything from thermodynamic processes to
population behavior.
The paper was summarized on Science Daily as
“Simulations’ Achille’s [sic] Heel,” and on PhysOrg with
the headline, “What can go wrong when computer
simulations applied outside their original context.” The
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summary says,
Simulations Can Misrepresent Reality
模拟可以误传现实
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“Frenkel also focuses on methods that, at first blush,
appear reasonable, but are flawed and are akin to
attempting to compare apples and oranges. For
example, computing a mechanical property of a
system—say the potential energy—using a Monte
Carlo simulation, which can be based on thermal
averages, does not allow us to compute the thermal
properties of such a system—such as entropy—in
terms of thermal averages. Finally, the article also
takes great care to debunk common myths and
misconceptions pertaining to simulations, for
instance, newer simulation methods are not
necessarily better than older ones.”
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Simulations Can Misrepresent Reality
模拟可以误传现实
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Looking inside the paper, Frenkel
explained that Monte Carlo and Molecular
Dynamics methods, though simple, are
not risk-free. They require great care, and
sometimes are unreasonable even if they
seem appropriate. When used carelessly,
they can pretend to provide answers –
sometimes when the original question has
been forgotten.
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Simulations Can Misrepresent Reality
模拟可以误传现实
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In Kuhn’s view of science, “guilds” of scientists amuse
themselves with busy work on paradigms that may or may
not reflect reality. Guild members can seem mutually selfsatisfied that progress is being made on the paradigm,
when in fact, the work may not correspond to
reality. Hopefully many scientists really do care about
correspondence with reality, but even though they produce
papers with whiz-bang simulations that seem to work, their
readers should keep a healthy caution in mind that internal
self-consistency does not presuppose getting “the world”
right. This is especially true of evolutionary scenarios
(see 5/08/2008 commentary, “How Not To Work a
Puzzle”). We reproduce that commentary here for
convenience.
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Simulations Can Misrepresent Reality
模拟可以误传现实
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HOW NOT TO WORK A PUZZLE
Visualize your favorite picture.
Invite your friends. Check their credentials. If anyone
from a “different picture club” tries to sneak in, expel them.
Make everyone feel good about the
picture. Reinforcement can be achieved with a few choice
sermonettes from respected individuals.
Draw a big outline of the picture on the floor. A
gymnasium is good for this step.
Open the box and spill out the pieces.
Throw away the box top and the instructions. After all, this is
science. We do it our way.
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Simulations Can Misrepresent Reality
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Form teams and pass out the puzzle pieces. These can be
distributed by color, shape, or any other useful scheme.
Allow each team to work on their part of the
picture. Rearrangement of small parts is permitted, but not
changes to the outline.
The rules allow for complaints about how hard the work is. If
anyone complains about the big picture, though, they must
be expelled.
Every two years, throw a party with booze and croissants
and let each team share their experiences. Throw in a few
more choice sermonettes to keep spirits high.
Report to the media on the progress being made.
Draw up a curriculum and teach the next generation how to
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work the puzzle.
Simulations Can Misrepresent Reality
模拟可以误传现实
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INTERPRETATION
Note: Mature, well-trained, experienced readers can skip this
section.
Philosophy of discovery: Theories do not emerge from raw
data. More often, scientists begin with a picture in
mind. Even deciding what to call “the data” requires a
human choice, because not all inputs are relevant to the
picture. Like Benner said, “science is often what we choose
to believe.”
Sociology of science: Scientists tend to hang out with people
they know and like.
Sociology, cont.: Science is a human activity, not something
that could be done by robots. It is not purely rational but
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rational considerations.
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Kuhnian normal science: The paradigm determines the
research project. The participants were not assembling to
question the picture. They were assembling to affirm it.
Underdetermination of theories by data: There are inevitably
many possible explanations for one set of data. The same
puzzle pieces could be fit to a different picture.
Naturalism: Modern science has chosen to restrict itself to
“natural causes” (whatever that means;
see 05/11/2006). Today’s scientists have been trained to
deplore revelation (natural and/or special), no matter how well
validated by empirical evidence, reason or history.
Pragmatism: Nature does not determine the choice of
classification scheme; people do.
Limits of science: No one person can master the whole picture,
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especially one as broad as evolution.
Simulations Can Misrepresent Reality
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Sociology/psychology of science: Each researcher works
under the assumption that his or her little piece will
reinforce the paradigm. Cooperation is ensured by the
fear of being expelled as a maverick, or worse, a
pseudoscientist. Since no philosopher of science has
successfully defended demarcation criteria for science vs
pseudoscience, and since no universal scientific method
has been defined, emotional and sociological judgments
again come into play to determine who is “in” and who is
“out.”
Sociology, cont.: Social activities, though they have
nothing to do with the validity of the proposition under
study, serve to reinforce the paradigm and draw in more
party members.
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Simulations Can Misrepresent Reality
模拟可以误传现实
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Positivism: The party celebration attracts reporters and gives
them some fun work to do at a nice hotel. The atmosphere
promotes a spirit of progress. All this activity, all these smart
people, and all the erudite PowerPoint slides must mean that
productive science was being done, right? It must be the
case since the government is funding the work.
The system feeds on itself. Reporters get a share of the
booze and croissants, paid for by their bosses, who get
better advertising ratings for maintaining a lively science
page. The reporters make friends with some of the scientists
and learn from the herd who is hot and who is not. It is
unlikely any reporter will go back to the office and write up a
scathing rebuke of the entire philosophical premise
underlying the event. Party organizers will be sure to send
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the cheerful press releases to Senator Earmark.
Simulations Can Misrepresent Reality
模拟可以误传现实
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Education: The paradigm might lose popularity
without new blood. Captive students must be trained
and inculcated into the craft before other paradigms
capture their attention. This can be accomplished by
making all other paradigms illegal. Skilled facilitators
can create visuals and curricula from the Policies and
Procedures Manual of the Paradigm, to inculcate the
novitiates into the craft and inoculate the young herd
against critical thinkers (12/21/2005). Successful
novitiates are graded on their ability to regurgitate the
talking points, meditate on the non-negotiable
assumptions and doctrines, sense how to tell the good
guys from the bad guys (the creationists), and honor
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the idol of Our Leader.
Gloria Deo
愿荣耀归上帝
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Sermons From Science -- March 2013
科学布道-- 2013年3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
3/18/2016
ckchui1@yahoo.com
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Targeted SETI Search Hears Nothing
针对性的SETI搜索没有听到什么
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For this search, a team targeted 104 stars with
planets discovered by the Kepler
Telescope. Still nothing.
Space.com told how veteran SETI queen Jill
Tarter was among the team using the Green
Bank Radio Telescope in West Virginia to look
for radio signals between 1.1 and 1.9 GHz – a
range SETI enthusiasts believe would be the
most likely for alien broadcasts, because it
includes the range used by humans for cell
phones and television.
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Targeted SETI Search Hears Nothing
针对性的SETI搜索没有听到什么
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MIT Technology Review’s ArXiv Blog discussed
an upcoming paper for the Astrophysical
Journal available as a preprint on ArXiv. “No
signals of extraterrestrial origin were found,” the
paper states tersely. The blog comments:
The results allow the team to put important
limits on the likelihood of
Kardashian [sic] Type II civilisations. Tarter
and co say that the negative result implies that
the number of these civilisations that are loud in
the 1-2GHz range must [sic] less than one in a
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million per sun-like star.
Targeted SETI Search Hears Nothing
针对性的SETI搜索没有听到什么
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PhysOrg defined the term: “a Kardashev
type II civilization ([is] named after Nikolai
Kardashev, who came up with a 3 tiered
scale of intelligent existence: those that
use the resources from a planet, their sun,
or a galaxy, respectively).…” Apparently
the blogger had a certain celebrity
socialite in mind; that alien has been
found, but her intelligence is questioned
by some.
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Targeted SETI Search Hears Nothing
针对性的SETI搜索没有听到什么
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Imagine a planet filled with Kim
Kardashian types! Yikes! That’s
a really funny Freudian
slip. Maybe the
Type II Kardashian civilization is
when a Kim babe marries a Carl
Sagan type, and they search
happily ever after.
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Targeted SETI Search Hears Nothing
针对性的SETI搜索没有听到什么
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We can’t be too hard on the SETI believers, if
they are using private funding, because they
really are looking for a needle in a million
haystacks, having to make lots of
assumptions. Remember that “less than one in a
million” includes “less than one in a gazillion”
given zero results. They can argue that silence is
to be expected given the nature of the
search. It’s still silent, though, even when
looking at the best candidate stars. Let them
look; it keeps them out of trouble, and their
methods give backhanded support to intelligent
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design theory.
Gloria Deo
愿荣耀归上帝
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Sermons From Science -- March 2013
科学布道-- 2013年3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
3/18/2016
ckchui1@yahoo.com
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OOL Follies: Evolutionists Ignore the
Obvious Questions
生命起源的愚蠢：进化论者忽略显而易见的问题
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In origin-of-life (OOL) research, any partial solution seems good
enough, even if the big questions go unanswered.
Stack of Plates Sans Code
Science Now got real excited about a new kind of RNA that,
with a sufficient kind of design, can organize into a stack that
reporter Robert Service (not the Alaskan storyteller) believes
mimics DNA. In “Self-Assembling Molecules Offer New
Clues on Life’s Possible Origin,” he spoke of problems with
certain RNAs called CA and TAP that stubbornly refuse to selfassemble in water. A little tweaking got them to cooperate the
way scientists wanted:
Unfortunately, in water CA and TAP clump together in large
ribbons and sheets and quickly fall out of solution, making
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stored genetic information in the earliest stages of life.
OOL Follies: Evolutionists Ignore the
Obvious Questions
生命起源的愚蠢：进化论者忽略显而易见的问题
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Now, however, Hud and his colleagues at Georgia
Tech and the Institute for Research in Biomedicine in
Barcelona, Spain, have solved this solvent
problem. The researchers gave TAP a short
chemical tail, transforming it into a chemical they
call TAPAS, as they reported on Friday in the Journal
of the American Chemical Society. And that one
change encourages it to assemble with CA to
form rosettes in water. What is more, the rosettes
stack atop one another, forming long genelike
chains made up of as many as 18,000
individual TAPAS and CA components—quite a stack
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of small plates.
OOL Follies: Evolutionists Ignore the
Obvious Questions
生命起源的愚蠢：进化论者忽略显而易见的问题
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Unfortunately for Service, this serves no
purpose without a code to organize the
sequence of the plates (which don’t even
resemble DNA’s double helix and paired
bases – the foundation of the genetic
code). He was content to call this “a step
in the right direction.”
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OOL Follies: Evolutionists Ignore the
Obvious Questions
生命起源的愚蠢：进化论者忽略显而易见的问题
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Assault on Battery
Tia Ghose in a story on NBC News said, “Theorists are
pumped up about their new origin of life
proposal.” This one has nothing to do with RNAs, but
rather theoretical natural “batteries” in hydrothermal vents
where “life may have gotten started.” The gaps in one
quote are astonishing:
Somehow, the precursors of life harnessed carbon
dioxide and hydrogen available in those primitive
conditions to create the building blocks of life, such as
amino acids and nucleotides (building blocks of DNA). But
those chemical reactions require a power source, said
study co-author Nick Lane, a researcher at the
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University College London.
OOL Follies: Evolutionists Ignore the
Obvious Questions
生命起源的愚蠢：进化论者忽略显而易见的问题
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Ghose seemed close to a solution merely by having the battery,
without the need to explain the computer and software. Live
Science asked, “Origin of Life: Did a Simple Pump Drive
Process?” but did not offer a critique of Lane’s suggestion. In
its coverage, Nature News didn’t address DNA or codes at all,
but exposed Nick Lane to SEQOTW by stating a conundrum:
It is assumed that the rocky proto-cells would initially be lined
with leaky organic membranes. If the cells were to escape the
vents and become free-living in the ocean, these membranes
would have to be sealed. But sealing the membrane would
cut off natural proton gradients, because although
an ATP synthase would let protons into the cell, there
would be nothing to pump them out, and the concentration of
protons on each side of the membrane would rapidly equalize.
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Without an ion gradient “they would lose power,” says Lane. 65
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Obvious Questions
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“Proteins that pump protons out of the cell
would solve the problem, but there would
have been no pressure for such
proteins to evolve until after the
membranes were closed. In which case,
“They would have had to evolve a
proton pumping system in no time,
which is impossible,” says Lane.
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OOL Follies: Evolutionists Ignore the
Obvious Questions
生命起源的愚蠢：进化论者忽略显而易见的问题
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Lane implies that given some time, the
impossible becomes possible, the
possible probable, and the probable
virtually certain, as George Wald claimed
decades ago in a widely-criticized article
on the origin of life. On PhysOrg, Nick
Lane swept aside the problem of the
genetic code with a hand wave: “Life is,
in effect, a side-reaction of an energyharnessing reaction.”
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OOL Follies: Evolutionists Ignore the
Obvious Questions
生命起源的愚蠢：进化论者忽略显而易见的问题
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It Rocketed from Space
Intoxicated by the phrase “building blocks of life,” Tia Ghose
looked to the wisdom of NASA scientists who think they
found hydroxylamine. What? Well, given access to acetic
acid, this “white, unstable crystalline, hygroscopic compound”
(Wikipedia) whose nitrate form can be used for rocket fuel,
can form amino acids, Ghose claimed in Live Science. And
once you have amino acids, can’t you envision
proteins? Again, nothing was said about the genetic code, or
even how those amino acids could be filtered into a onehanded population. Instead, Ghose imagined worlds in
collision: “In turn, hydroxylamine could react with other
compounds, such as acetic acid, to form amino acids
that could be dumped onto other worlds during space- 68
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rock collisions.”
OOL Follies: Evolutionists Ignore the
Obvious Questions
生命起源的愚蠢：进化论者忽略显而易见的问题
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Get your local OOL researcher to take the following
pledge: “I will not publish anything that contains the
words may, might, could, perhaps, or possibly.” They
won’t do it because they would be out of a job. For
the rest of us, their storytelling under the banner of
“science” is unbearable.
For an explanation of why partial steps in their story
are of no value, we turn to a quotation from
the 5/22/2002 commentary:
They took a giant leap of faith. “But at least they were
in the lab experimenting; isn’t that better than just
giving up and claiming ‘God did it’?” (This is a favorite
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criticism of Eugenie Scott and the NCSE.) It depends.
OOL Follies: Evolutionists Ignore the
Obvious Questions
生命起源的愚蠢：进化论者忽略显而易见的问题
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To illustrate this, picture a large canyon, representing the
origin of life, that the evolutionists must cross by building a
bridge over it. They think they are making progress when
they hire a helicopter to hold a steel girder out in mid-air
and say, “We have demonstrated that this girder would
work as part of our bridge, if all the other parts were in
place.” But what happens the moment they let go of the
girder, and the pilot flies away? It crashes to the bottom of
the canyon, accomplishing nothing. In their write-up of
their results, they might refer to other helicopters that have
held up other girders and cables at other points, none of
which could have ever hung out there in mid-air waiting for
the next piece to join up, yet they boast about the progress
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they’re making.
OOL Follies: Evolutionists Ignore the
Obvious Questions
生命起源的愚蠢：进化论者忽略显而易见的问题
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An evolutionist may retort that they are not holding their
girders in mid-air, but building from the sides to meet in the
middle. No they are not; every one of their experiments
independently cheats by invoking intelligent design (the
helicopter or the prefabricated girders), which is unlike what
nature would do. To imitate nature, they would have to take
their intelligently guiding hands off the apparatus, and wait
for millions of years in despair while nothing happens.
Besides, nature would only be able to build from one side of
the canyon, and would have no directionality or will to aim for
the other side, or to build on any previous “successes”. (How
do you define success, by the way, without a mind?) Invoking
natural selection prior to replication is also cheating; but
without it, there is no building on prior successes.
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OOL Follies: Evolutionists Ignore the
Obvious Questions
生命起源的愚蠢：进化论者忽略显而易见的问题
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Our bridge analogy is actually generous toward
evolution; we gave them helicopters and steel
girders, which are all designed objects built or
manipulated by intelligent minds. The
evolutionists’ task is to tell us how mindless
nature, using raw materials like iron ore, built
the bridge itself, without help, and tell us why
nature would even want to do such a marvelous
thing. And why even grant them the iron ore?
Go back far enough, and they have to explain
the origin of all the raw materials from nothing.72
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Gloria Deo
愿荣耀归上帝

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Sermons From Science -- March 2013
科学布道-- 2013年3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
3/18/2016
ckchui1@yahoo.com
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Ungrateful Evolutionist Grouches About the
Human Body
负心的进化论者对人体整日愁眉不展
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If an evolutionist can’t blame God for an alleged
poor design, all he can blame is Darwin.
PhysOrg and Live Science both broadcast the
anti-ID rants of Bruce Latimer (anthropologist at
Case Western Reserve University) and Alan
Mann (Princeton) at a recent AAAS conference
on human evolution. They claim the human
body is poorly designed, despite being the
dominant primate form in the world today,
successful at conquering everything from the
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deep sea to outer space.
Ungrateful Evolutionist Grouches About the
Human Body
负心的进化论者对人体整日愁眉不展
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Bad backs, dangerous childbirths, sore feet and
wisdom teeth pains are among the many ailments
humans face from evolution, researchers say.
In an evolutionary sense, humans are by far the
most successful primates on the planet, with a
world population close to 7 billion. Humanity owes this
success to a number of well-known adaptations,
such as large, complex brains and walking upright on
two feet. However, there are downsides to these
advances as well.
“We’re dealing with the scars of human evolution,”
anthropologist Alan Mann at Princeton University told
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LiveScience.
Ungrateful Evolutionist Grouches About the
Human Body
负心的进化论者对人体整日愁眉不展
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One would think that such success would
generate awe for human design, but
no: PhysOrg led off with Latimer’s anti-design
sentiments:
“If an engineer were given the task to design
the human body, he or she would never
have done it the way humans have evolved,”
Latimer said. “Unfortunately, we can’t go back
to walking on four feet. We’ve undergone too
much evolutionary change for that—and it is
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not the answer to our problems.”
Ungrateful Evolutionist Grouches About the
Human Body
负心的进化论者对人体整日愁眉不展
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If Latimer wants to start a new evolutionary path
to four-footedness, he could certainly lead the
way. Live Science tossed in an anti-ID
comment from another ungrateful
anthropologist:
“If you want to look for examples of how
we’re not the result of intelligent design, you
don’t have to go far — just look at the
complicated, uncomfortable way we have
babies,“ anthropologist Karen Rosenberg at
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the University of Delaware told LiveScience. 78
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Human Body
负心的进化论者对人体整日愁眉不展
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Both articles pointed to human walking and running
motions as examples of poor design, contradicting all
the good things Daniel Lieberman had said about
those adaptations (see11/18/2004 entry). “Evolution
doesn’t produce perfection,” Mann said, thus
employing a false dichotomy, because intelligent
design theory never claims perfection as evidence of
design (or non-perfection as refutation of design). The
literature on dysteleology as it relates to ID is
extensive, but apparently unknown to these
anthropologists. Besides, evolution cannot even
approach the sophistication of the human body—let
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alone perfection—if survival is the only value in life.
Ungrateful Evolutionist Grouches About the
Human Body
负心的进化论者对人体整日愁眉不展
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How Latimer could claim, therefore, that
“The original design specs for the human
body were designed to last about 40 years” is
quizzical (besides his redundancy). “Darwinian
evolutionary theory” certainly knows nothing of
design specs.
Live Science reporter Charles Choi employed the
long-debunked evolutionary “march of progress”
icon with the caption, “Turns out, we have human
evolution to thank for our bad backs, dangerous
childbirths, sore feet and wisdom teeth pains.”
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Ungrateful Evolutionist Grouches About the
Human Body
负心的进化论者对人体整日愁眉不展
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Do you see what ingrates the evolutionists are? If
they don’t like their bodies, let them go on a fitness
program or walk on all fours. Watch Olympic athletes
and try to say the human body is poorly
designed. Without even referring to theological
arguments about the Fall and the curse (including pain
in childbirth), we can debunk the evolutionists’ own
positions. They spoke of evolutionary theory in an
effort to determine the truth about human
history. Well, if evolutionary theory is a product of
evolution, they have no grounds on which to say it is
true. Give these ingrates the gong and move along.
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Gloria Deo
愿荣耀归上帝

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Sermons From Science -- March 2013
科学布道-- 2013年3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
3/18/2016
ckchui1@yahoo.com
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What Do a Toucan, an Oyster and a Spider
Have in Common? Bio-Engineers’ Drool
大嘴鸟，牡蛎和蜘蛛有什么共同点？生物工程师流口水
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If we want to build more robust, lightweight materials, two
researchers say, look to nature.
In Science, Meyers and McKittrick, who have been in the
biomimetics field for a decade (seePhysOrg), laid out
the design specs for new artificial materials inspired by
animals.
Spider silk is extraordinarily strong, mollusk shells and
bone are tough, and porcupine quills and feathers resist
buckling. How are these notable properties achieved? The
building blocks of the materials listed above are primarily
minerals and biopolymers, mostly in combination; the first
weak in tension and the second weak in compression. The
intricate and ingenious hierarchical structures are
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material.
What Do a Toucan, an Oyster and a Spider
Have in Common? Bio-Engineers’ Drool
大嘴鸟，牡蛎和蜘蛛有什么共同点？生物工程师流口水
 Toughness is conferred by the presence of
controlled interfacial features (friction,
hydrogen bonds, chain straightening and
stretching); buckling resistance can be achieved
by filling a slender column with a lightweight foam.
Here, we present and interpret selected examples of
these and other biological materials. Structural bioinspired materials design makes use of the
biological structures by inserting synthetic materials
and processes that augment the structures’
capability while retaining their essential features. In
this Review, we explain this idea through some
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unusual concepts.
What Do a Toucan, an Oyster and a Spider
Have in Common? Bio-Engineers’ Drool
大嘴鸟，牡蛎和蜘蛛有什么共同点？生物工程师流口水
 Meyers & McKittrick delineated the following challenges
for materials engineers: self assembly, multifunctionality, hierarchy, hydration, mild synthesis
conditions (e.g., room temperature), optimization, and
self-healing. For inspiration, they looked to the beak of
the toucan, the feathers of birds, oyster shells, spider
silk, porcupine quills, and the skulls of longhorn
cowfish. Strong, lightweight, durable – life has mastered
all seven design specifications. Engineers don’t have to
use proteins as long as they follow the methods used in
nature. “Mother Nature gives us templates,” said
McKittrick. “We are trying to understand them better
so we can implement them in new materials.”
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What Do a Toucan, an Oyster and a Spider
Have in Common? Bio-Engineers’ Drool
大嘴鸟，牡蛎和蜘蛛有什么共同点？生物工程师流口水
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Meyers pointed out that biomimetics has a long
history. “Bio-inspired designs have been a
part of science and engineering for a long
time—from the legend of Icarus, to
Leonardo Da Vinci’s flying machines, inspired
by birds, to modern-day materials such
as Velcro, Meyers pointed out”
in PhysOrg. Only in the last decade or so has
the field really taken off, with new research
labs, journals and dramatic successes with
more on the way all the time.
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What Do a Toucan, an Oyster and a Spider
Have in Common? Bio-Engineers’ Drool
大嘴鸟，牡蛎和蜘蛛有什么共同点？生物工程师流口水
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In other Biomimetics news, (1) Science discussed efforts to
copy what microbes do so easily—splitting hydrogen
molecules. Hydrogenase enzymes are the envy of fuel cell
designers but molecular biologists still don’t know quite how
they work so effectively at room
temperature. (2)PNAS featured “Biomimetic Buildings” in a
review that is part engineering, part art, and part
Thoreau. Architect Charles Lee’s exhibit of a biomimetic house
is currently on tour as part of exhibition entitled Nature’s
Toolbox: Biodiversity, Art, and Invention. (3) Finally, Science
Daily talked about “Cell Circuits Remember Their History:
Engineers Design New Synthetic Biology Circuits That
Combine Memory and Logic.” By building logic circuits in the
genes of bacteria, MIT researchers hope to create “long-term
environmental sensors, efficient controls for biomanufacturing,
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or to program stem cells to differentiate into other cell types.”
What Do a Toucan, an Oyster and a Spider
Have in Common? Bio-Engineers’ Drool
大嘴鸟，牡蛎和蜘蛛有什么共同点？生物工程师流口水
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The future is in biomimetics, not
Darwinism. The quaint Victorian myth
has no place in this exploding
field. Get with the program, Charlie
worshippers; it’s all about design now.
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Gloria Deo
愿荣耀归上帝
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Sermons From Science -- March 2013
科学布道-- 2013年3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
3/18/2016
ckchui1@yahoo.com
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Soil, Sustainability, and the Blue Revolution
土壤，可持续性和蓝色革命
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Life-sustaining resources are right beneath our
feet, says a Penn State hydrologist.
Henry Lin, professor of hydropedology and soil
hydrology at Penn State, has some good news
for environmentalists worried about the
availability of water for a thirsty world. In
a Penn State press release, he said:
“We look at nature and we see all the beauty
and all the prosperity around us,” said Lin,
“But most people don’t know or tend to forget
that the key to sustainability is right
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underground.”
Soil, Sustainability, and the Blue Revolution
土壤，可持续性和蓝色革命
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He shared some amazing facts about soil ecology:
Soil “helps soak up and purify water by extracting
excess nutrients, heavy metals and other
impurities.”
“The ground can also act as a storage container
for freshwater.”
“About 60 percent of the world’s annual
precipitation ends up in this zone, Lin said.”
Lin added, “In fact, there is more water under the
ground than there is in the so-called ‘blue waters,’
such as lakes and rivers.”
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Soil, Sustainability, and the Blue Revolution
土壤，可持续性和蓝色革命
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We tend to forget about soil. It’s out of sight,
out of mind. That needs to change:
“Without water there is no life,” Lin said.
“Without groundwater, there is no clean
water.”
Lin looks forward to a “Blue Revolution” where
farmers will prevent flooding, building designers
will minimize runoff and keep groundwaters
replenished, and city planners will minimize
groundwater contamination. Such a revolution
“may lead to efforts to water security with clean,
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safe water supply around the globe.”
Soil, Sustainability, and the Blue Revolution
土壤，可持续性和蓝色革命
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Speaking of soil, PhysOrg discussed how natural
soil antibiotics can offer an alternative to farm
chemicals. “All you have to do is make your
microbial community happy,” one researcher
said, and they can help feed the world. And
speaking of clean water, for the rainfall-poor areas,
researchers at Eindhoven University of
Technology, “inspired by nature,” have devised a
coating for cotton that can hold 340% its weight in
pure, fresh water by absorbing it from desert
air. They got the idea from desert beetles and
spiders that collect their water from fog.
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Soil, Sustainability, and the Blue Revolution
土壤，可持续性和蓝色革命
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Did you know that soil is a giant sponge
that holds 60% of the worlds rainfall and
cleanses it? What a wonder simple soil is
– a complex ecosystem involving
decaying plant material, numerous
animals and countless microbes. It’s a
marvelously designed system that human
beings can protect and preserve or erode
away. The choice is ours.
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Soil, Sustainability, and the Blue Revolution
土壤，可持续性和蓝色革命
 Many third-world countries are desperate
for clean water. Some common-sense
planning can enhance the gift of soil, a gift
that will give back an overflowing
abundance of life. New biomimetic
technologies can pull clean, pure drinking
water right out of the air. This is the kind
of thing science should focus on, not
speculative tales about the unobservable
past. Let’s help real people in the here
and now.
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Gloria Deo
愿荣耀归上帝
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Sermons From Science -- March 2013
科学布道-- 2013年3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
3/18/2016
ckchui1@yahoo.com
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Intact Biomolecules Claimed to Be 350
Million Years Old
完整生物分子被称是3.5亿年老
The oldest recovered biomolecules have
been found in crinoid fossils – but are they
really that old?
 A trio of Ohio State researchers, publishing
in Geology, described intact biological
molecules in crinoids they found in
Carboniferous strata in Ohio. Rather than
question the ability of fossils to maintain
biological molecules for 350 million years,
they used the evidence as support for
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evolution:
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Intact Biomolecules Claimed to Be 350
Million Years Old
完整生物分子被称是3.5亿年老
 Results suggest that the preservation of
diagnostic organic molecules is much
more common that previously realized,
and that preserved organic
molecules may provide an independent
method to unravel phylogenetic
relationships among echinoderms and,
perhaps, other fossilized organisms.
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Intact Biomolecules Claimed to Be 350
Million Years Old
完整生物分子被称是3.5亿年老
 The press release from Ohio State shows
the crinoids (sea lilies) in situ in the rock,
clearly distinguishable by color. Analysis
of the material in the colored specimens
suggests that the molecules are quinones,
used by the animals for coloration or as
toxins to deter predators.
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Intact Biomolecules Claimed to Be 350
Million Years Old
完整生物分子被称是3.5亿年老
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“When a crinoid dies, the tissue will start to
decay, but calcite will precipitate into the pores,
and calcite is stable over geologic time,” the
article claimed. “Thus, organic matter may
become sealed whole within the rock.” The
researchers did not watch the organic matter for
that long, though, to see if it is empirically true,
nor did they explain how the pores would
remain sealed through hundreds of millions of
years of asteroid strikes, earthquakes, and
other catastrophes.
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Intact Biomolecules Claimed to Be 350
Million Years Old
完整生物分子被称是3.5亿年老
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It’s uncanny how these people never ever question the
time scale. They can’t. It would be their
undoing. “Geologic time” must remain a Law of the
Misdeeds and Perversions that cannot be altered. An
earth even one third or one fourth as old as claimed
would lead to the collapse of the quaint Victorian myth
they hold so dear. But when miracles of time and
chance multiply in the evolutionary scenario, it
becomes indistinguishable from any other humanconcocted creation myth. Creation accounts with an
Eyewitness are vastly superior. Do you know of more
than one?
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Gloria Deo
愿荣耀归上帝
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