HUH?...DINOSAURS IN THE BIBLE?

We continue our series: 'Holy Bible of Science', following the 2nd article: 'Wildlife Park Safari':
http://hotspuds.blogspot.com.au/2014/04/wildlife-park-safari.html

 

So the Science Master hasn't finished with Job, hey?

Now He points out the behemoth to Job.

Behemoth??  Never heard of it!

Maybe not but ask the kids to name an animal that ate grass, had huge muscles, with bones like metal beams and bars, and a tail the size of a cedar tree...straightaway they'll tell you it’s got to be the Brachiosaurus.

The first specimen was discovered by Elmer S. Riggs beside the Colorado River in 1900 and was probably not full size. It seems like they grew to about 26 metres long and weighed up to 45 tonnes. Other Sauropods were even larger: the Seismosaurus was about 40 metres long and weighed about 77 tonnes.

Imagine big game hunters trying to bag one of those.  Nigh on impossible!

You think that would be a challenge?... what about the livyathan!               

The leviathan was apparently a huge rough-scaled sea-dragon that even breathed fire. Try to catch one and you'd never try again!

Mmm...not the sort of pet you'd take home for your kids to play with. We began this safari with lions but it looks like this dragon was the king of the beasts.

So there’s two species in the Bible for palaeontologists to study. Sir Richard Owen coined a name for this new find in 1842 – dinosauria: terrible lizard….but here they were in the Holy Bible of Science all along. Some scientists claim that dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago but the Master Scientist tells Job: “I made with thee”…what do you know…dinosaurs created on the same day as Man!                          

No wonder they are finding dinosaur haemoglobin, blood vessels still elastic, collagen, osteocalcin, and even skin…all remarkably preserved.

NEXT:   'More Science.....wind & waves'
http://hotspuds.blogspot.com.au/2014/07/more-sciencewind-waves.html

The series: 'Holy Bible of Science' appears on hotspuds.blogspot.com.au 
Why not click on this link to see the 1st article?...

http://hotspuds.blogspot.com.au/2014/04/science-master-in-twister.html

Acknowledgements:
sciencekids.co.nz 
about.com
World Book 2005
Sarfati J. ‘The Greatest Hoax On Earth’, 2010, Creation Book Publishers, Atlanta 
Image credits:
surfab.it 
thanasis.com


 



  

 

 

       

 

      

     

                                                                           

                                                                                          

                                                                                                                  

                                                                                 

 

                                                                               

                                                                                                    

 

 

 

 

 

JUST A BAG OF CHEMICALS?

Following:  ‘Who made Jack ‘n’ Jill?’…
http://discoveryiopna.blogspot.com.au/2014/03/who-invented-jack-n-jill.html

Are you and I just bags of chemicals?  Hardly. Science is forced to admit that life cannot arise from non-living chemicals. Period.          

Tale of Louis Pasteur by Spencer Johnson

Famous bacteriologist Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) put that one to bed long ago when he proved dead meat cannot produce living maggots without the help of living flies.  Simple.           
So where did life come from?

Geneticists say we all carry the same ‘mitochondrial DNA’ (the energy program), as if from one woman.  
In fact they call it: 'the mitochondrial Eve'!

“Adam called his wife’s name Eve (Heb:Chavvah); because she was the mother of all living.”

Of course, ever since then people have been making people – right??  Sort of.                     

The human body comprises at least 10,000,000,000,000 somatic (body) cells which are constantly being replaced – miraculously by mitosis! (cell division)  Every new cell has been produced by an existing cell – so where did the first cells come from?  
Let's look for more miracles that medicos can't explain.                                                 

The basic building-block of life is the amino acid, assembled into linear chains as protein, with over 100,000 different proteins in our bodies.  Nearly all cells contain 2 metres of Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) programmed with 3 billion characters and necessary for making protein, BUT… 

protein is needed to have DNA, AND…                         
it takes about 150 proteins to make 1 protein.                                                            
Come to think of it…who wrote that DNA program?                                                       
Another set of miracles!                                                                                                         

By the way, only ‘left-handed’ amino acids are found in organic molecules, AND.... proteins are assembled into architectural components that fit together like Lego.  Two more miracles! 

All somatic cells carry 23 pairs of chromosomes, except the gamete cells – the ovum and sperm, which carry only 23 single chromosomes, thanks to meiosis.               
Yes - another miracle. 

So what happens when sperm meets ovum?                          
More miracles??

Click on video link: 'Programming of Life
'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00vBqYDBW5s

 
NEXT:  'Miracle or mistake?'
Click on: http://discoveryiopna.blogspot.com.au/2014/05/miracle-or-mistake.html

 

Quotation from KJV Bible: Genesis 3:20                                                         

Acknowledgements:                                                                   
Programming Of Life, LaBarge Media, 2011                                                         
Anatomica, Global Book Publishing, 2001, Lane Cove, Aust                                             
World Book 2005                                                                               
Wieland, C. ‘One Human Family’, Creation Book Publishers, 2011, Atlanta GA                                     
Image credit: morrison.net.nz

 

THE SHEARWATER - just a dumb mutton-bird?

Let's say its spring-time on the beautiful Mid North Coast of New South Wales so we head to our favourite beach to check out the surf only to find it littered by small mutton-birds that have died from exhaustion.  Actually they are Short-tailed and Sooty Shearwaters that have been very successful in 'shearing the water' to fish and had nearly completed a 30,000 km round trip, making them one of the greatest migratory birds in the world.
They had started life as a fledgling that had to learn to walk, swim, fly, dive, and fish all on about the 3^rd May, and wait for it.....find mum and dad who had already left for New Zealand three weeks earlier!

These Short-tailed Shearwaters (Tasmanian mutton-bird, Puffinus tenuirostris) and Sooty Shearwaters (New Zealand mutton-bird, Puffinus griseus) that we find littering our beaches in September, making for an ugly tourist scene, have flown right across the Pacific Ocean from California, heading for the islands in Bass Strait.  In fact there will be at least 16 million of these birds around Tasmania this summer so the Government will allow harvesting of chicks on the Furneaux Group of islands.

Let's make it easy for ourselves and go to Griffiths Island at Port Fairy in south-west Victoria, arriving on 22 September.  Most of the adult shearwaters have already arrived but are out on the ocean, bobbing around as a raft, waiting for the cover of darkness. Now they silently swoop in to find that same burrow they used last year, on an island covered with tens of thousands of burrows under long grass.  All being well the same lifelong mate joins them to sleep off the jet-lag, then they will spruce up the burrow ready for mating in early November.

On the 12 November all the birds go off for a honeymoon over the Southern Ocean to return right on schedule on the 25^th.  Once mum has laid her egg and gone fishing its time for dad to do his bit - incubation for a lonely fortnight, to be relieved by mum for another fortnight.  They repeat this cycle twice more until the chick is hatched early January. By early April little 'chicky' is not so little, weighing nearly twice as much as mum or dad.

Come the 16^th, they bid goodbye to their fat youngster and depart east.

Hang about!  You haven't even taught your baby how to walk properly, let alone fly, swim, dive, fish, or navigate over the vast oceans.
The fledgling finds its own way down to the sea and swims out to join its learner mates.
Somehow they manage to get airborne and then head for the northern tip of New Zealand 2700 kms away, where they catch up with the adults! Now they all head for Japan, then Siberia and finally Alaska, with juveniles often stopping off in a port of call until next year.
As the temperature drops and the breeding season approaches they move on down to California ready for the long haul across the Pacific Ocean to Australia.
"I still call Australia home."

So, how did 'chicky' get those clever instincts in it's tiny brain?

Who programmed the baby mutton-bird that we thought was only good for food and oil?

Acknowledgments: Dept. of Sustainability& Environment - Victoria
                                        National Parks & Wildlife Service - NSW                                
Photo credit: Ryan Shaw

LION'S TEETH: Dandelion

Excuse me, we're looking for eye-openers - not mouth openers!
 
Is there anything special about a lion's mouth apart from his bad breath?
Well...there's no point telling a lion to chew his tucker properly because he can't - he has no molar teeth - but standby (not too close!)... 

Okay, these are dandelion seeds that all little kids like to blow but where are the lion’s teeth we were promised?
 
 Dandelion got its name from the serrated leaves that resemble lions’ teeth, called 'Denta leonis' in Latin or 'Dents de Lion' in French!

 

Ask most gardeners, landscapers, green-keepers, farmers or graziers - they will tell you that Dandelion is just common flatweed in need of a good dose of Roundup or broadleaf herbicide.

What can we say in its favour?

 

•  Dandelion is rich in Vitamins A & C and is possibly the most useful of all herbs. 
• It can be beneficial for eyes, plus liver, kidneys, intestines, spleen, pancreas, gall-bladder, stomach, bladder...(yup…sore guts!) 
• It is useful in treating: jaundice, gallstones, cirrhosis, hepatitis, arthritis, constipation, rheumatism, gout, arteriosclerosis, cellulite, skin and eye disorders...using an extract called Taraxacum.
• Dandelion wine is made from the flowers
• It makes a cleansing tea that is diuretic and blood purifying
• A coffee substitute can be made from Dandelion roots
• Dandelion leaves are useful in salads

 

Okay, that's mighty impressive but is there anything special about the plant itself? The Dandelion flower is highly developed as a composite of 100 or more tiny florets, 'perfect' flowers whose ovaries produce fertile seeds – WITHOUT POLLINATION! Not only that, it is capable of 'vegetative propagation' i.e. it can completely regenerate from ONLY a root.

So, is the Dandelion just a useless prolific weed...or is it one of God's amazing gifts to us as a perennial herb?

Photo credit: Warwick Wells

 

 

 

'BRAINLESS AND FOOT-IN-MOUTH'

Which brainless animal, smaller than a pinhead, extends its undercarriage for a successful landing?

The oyster may have a heart, a stomach, a mouth, 2 kidneys, and 2 rows of tentacles but it has no eyes - not even a brain!

In this part of the world, oysters spawn with king tides at Easter and Christmas, producing larvae called ‘spat’. After 24 hours a bi-valve shell has started to develop so the larva is now called a ‘veliger’, swimming around using tiny hair-like cilia on its gills for propulsion, in its search for a suitable site to settle. The veliger ‘lowers its undercarriage’ by forming a muscular foot that extends from between the valves for testing the different surfaces available. After locating the landing ground, the ‘pediveliger’ (veliger with a foot) now produces a cement for adhering to the chosen site.
How clever is that?! There’s no brain to select ‘undercarriage down’- in fact, the oyster’s whole program has been wired in by the Designer and triggered by the proximity of the new moon and the sun. Clever huh?!
At least that’s one time when a no brainer like putting your foot in your mouth pays off!

Acknowledgements: Glen Dodds, oystergrower, Port Macquarie, NSW

BRAINLESS - WITH FOOT IN MOUTH!

 

Cottontails & Easter bunnies

 

Who needs chocolate Easter bunnies? 
Meet ‘Ballina Bunny’, our very own resident that wanders from lawn to lawn here in Ballina Crescent, sampling a delightful variety of grasses.                                            

Cottontails, European rabbits and hares all belong to the Leporidae family. 
Deep inside its burrow after feeding, the rabbit passes soft droppings of partly digested food which are then re-eaten to extract the maximum nourishment, thanks to a special pouch, the caecum, secreting bacteria into the large intestine. Finally it’s time to pass those hard pellet droppings outside the burrow where they belong.          

By the way, bacteria were first described in the mid-1670’s by amateur scientist Anton van Leeuwenhoek, and it wasn’t until the late 1800’s that Louis Pasteur began to unravel the mysteries of bacteriology, proving that only life can produce life.    

Only life can produce life??  Yes, we have known that for over 200 years. 
So how did life spontaneously first begin?  Supernaturally??  

Let’s get back on our rabbit trail…
How long have we known about the rabbit’s eating habits?                             
Here is Moses warning the children of Israel about 3,500 years ago:     

"...and the hare, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you."  Leviticus 11:6

Skeptics have scoffed at this strange directive saying that the Bible has got it wrong again – “Come on…everyone knows rabbits don’t chew the cud!”                       
Oh yes they do.                                                                   
Here are the Hebrew words Moses actually used: alah gerah, meaning ‘casts up chewed food’.                                                              
What do ya know!?...it sure looks like the God that Moses was always talking about got it right yet again.

 

Acknowledgements:  
The Creation Answers Book, Creation Book Publishers, 2006, Brisbane                                                    
Wildlife Fact File 
WorldBook,2005,Chicago                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

                                                                               

                                        

                                                                                     

 

 

WHO MADE JACK 'N' JILL?

We once proudly stood at attention to begin the school week with this pledge:

I love God and my country  
I honour the flag  
I will serve the Queen, 
and cheerfully obey my parents, teachers and the laws.                                                                                                                                        

Now when I go back to a primary school classroom, 50 years later, most of the children are not sure if God even exists!                                                               

Now hang on….didn’t I just walk past separate Boys and Girls toilets?...and now that I’m in the classroom, aren’t some girls and boys avoiding sitting next to each other? (Give them a year or two at high school and that might change!)

So we open up our Bibles at Genesis and learn that the Jews called this book: B’resheet, meaning: ‘in the beginning’. 

Who was there, in the beginning? ….the scientists, the theologians or the philosophers? 
No, only God was there – the rest of us were still dust – and He tells us what He did, making people on the same day as all land animals - even dinosaurs!  
So God creates Man in His own image, then the very first thing He mentions about people is…guess what.....SEX!  
“…male and female created He them.”                                                           

How odd! This sex-obsessed world seems to have no plausible explanation for the existence of male and female, hence the survival of the human race and us being in the classroom today, and yet God tells us He invented sex and goes on to explain its honourable role.

So how about that! Just seeing boys and girls sitting in their classroom is clear evidence that our Creator God exists and what’s more, He has given clear instructions on how to provide these kids with stable family life – it’s called marriage between a man and a woman - for life.  

So how did male and female simultaneously develop over millions of years?
Don’t hold your breath while waiting for a scientific explanation.  
Anyway, how long does a may-fly enjoy adult life for?  One day!                      

Oh and by the way, even the children recognise God was telling Job to take a look at the brachiosaurus dinosaur.   (chapter 40)

NEXT: Are you and I just bags of chemicals?
http://discoveryiopna.blogspot.com.au/2014/05/just-bag-of-chemicals.html
 

 Photo credit: army.mil