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100% of the UK was under water
At a time called
‘Late Cretaceous’, 80%–90% of the present UK land did not exist. Geological maps
indicate that 100% of the UK was under water at this time. Further, evidence
based on river flows shows that this submergence was recent. Geologist Dr John
Matthews sets out this remarkable research in the latest Journal of Creation
27(1). Matthews notes that geology, as currently taught in schools,
colleges and universities, knows nothing of (or at any rate does not mention)
the Noachian Flood. Yet, the Bible records that the whole world was submerged
under water recently (thousands, not millions, of years ago). And Matthews
reveals the remarkable fact that the evidence in the rocks of the UK is
consistent with this event. Our universities are causing a crisis of faith for
our young people.
According to
Matthews, the problem is that text books and journals on geology universally
reiterate uniformitarianism (the assumption that the present is the key to the
past) as being a necessary and sufficient way of studying geology.
Matthews says that this philosophy causes uniformitarian geologists to miss the
evidence for the Flood, because uniformitarianism by definition
sidelines biblical history. Using the wealth of geological information
readily available for the UK, Matthews shows how the geological evidence for
inundation has been documented but its significance has been missed.
Beginning with England’s highest peak, Sca Fell, in the Lake District, Matthews
explains that, although the current consensus favours the notion that the
volcanic rocks were deposited subaerially (i.e. exposed to the air), there are
a number of lines of compelling evidence that show it actually took place under
water. P.H. (abbreviated for
privacy) of Australia started university this year and recently emailed this
call for help:
“I am an impressionable
first-year Natural Science student. Within my first lectures, Creation and
Jesus have already been mocked. I want to do well without compromising my
faith. So, I am wondering if Creation Ministries has any books that relate to
surviving university in a Godly manner.”1
This confirms what
statistics already show: that our universities are causing a crisis of faith
for our young people. So, Journal of Creation is a great resource for
students, to help protect against this onslaught. You may know of young people
who are facing these challenges, and who would appreciate being given their own
subscription.
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Students Need to Argue Science, Not Memorize It
A professor of
science education has a radical idea: teach science through argumentation,
because that’s the way scientists do it. If you were
bored in science class having to learn a bunch of facts, you might have perked up
if your teacher taught it the way Jonathan Osborne recommends: argue a position
from available evidence. PhysOrg introduced its article by saying,
“Teaching students how to argue based on available evidence engages them in
the scientific process and provides a better idea of how science actually works.”
Earth orbits the sun. Microorganisms cause infectious disease. Plants use
carbon dioxide to grow. Most of us know these scientific truths from our
earliest school days. They’re accepted facts. But astronomers,
microbiologists and botanists once fought for these concepts using arguments
based on evidence. Science, it seems, arrives at its tenets through argument.
Science education should follow suit, says Stanford education Professor
Jonathan Osborne. Teachers should help students learn to argue a position
from available evidence, he says, helping them learn why we know what
we know. In short, Osborne wants students to
think about evidence, not just be told conclusions. “In science,
people argue for their ideas, in terms of the evidence that they have,” he
said. “There should be more opportunities to look at why some ideas are
wrong, as well as what the right ideas are.”
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Coal, cattle are most damaging to the environment, study
says
A United
Nations-backed report released Monday says coal-fired power generation in Asia
and cattle
ranching in South America are the most damaging businesses for the
environment, with hidden costs of those activities that exceed the value of
their production. The report, “Natural Capital at Risk – The Top 100
Externalities of Business,” says global output of basic goods – from cement and
steel processing to agriculture, forestry, fisheries, mining and oil and gas
exploration – caused damage totaling $7.3 trillion a year if pollution, water,
greenhouse gases and waste were priced to reflect long-term impacts. The study
was conducted by a business coalition for the Economics of Ecosystems and
Biodiversity (TEEB). The coalition’s backers include the United Nations, World
Bank, businesses and conservation groups. So, what are the facts to support this. Do you believe there exist methods to collect
such information? Is the information
speculative or projection based upon untenable data? You decided, don't listen to so called
"experts".
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Post Boston Bombing: Idiocy and Illumination By
Pauline Wolak
With purposely
gleeful righteous indignation, the blame game began almost immediately
yesterday. How disheartening to hear political pundits,
talking heads, and media figures offer their opinions as fact. Speculative
journalism is the norm these days, though. The words “vet” and “verify”
appear to have been stricken from either usage or practice. Chris Matthews made
his opinion pretty clear.
Well,
Michael, tax day today. That came up. You know, I was thinking of all the
iconic events that are being told about today. Of course I knew it was tax day
because I got them in. But of course, it’s Patriots Day. It’s also the Boston
Marathon. And would you as an expert be thinking domestic at this point? I
don’t think tax day means a lot to the Arab world or Islamic world or certainly
not to al Qaeda in terms of their world. It doesn’t have iconic significance.
Wolf Blitzer was
full of speculation.
”It
is a state holiday, in addition to the Boston Marathon. It is a state holiday
in Massachusetts today called Patriots Day, and who knows if that has anything
at all to deal — to do with these, these twin explosions.”
Michael Moore’s
tweets were deemed “cryptic.” Not really.
“2+2=”
“Tax
Day. Patriots Day”
“This
is the anniversary week of the Columbine massacre, the Oklahoma City bombing,
the Virginia Tech massacre, the Bay of Pigs, and Waco.”
It is time to take back the media from the
extreme left wingers that willing use any tragedy to further their agenda. Don't let the poetical theater fool you. These people do not really care about the
slaughter; they only care about leveraging them for their political purposes.
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Salon.com Wants Boston Bomber to be White - The new left
context; White Privileged
The Liberal media
need whites to be guilty of the Boston bombing to further their politically
correct idea of the world. Here is an excerpt from Salon.com
“As we now move into the official
Political Aftermath period of the Boston bombing — the period that will
determine the long-term legislative fallout of the atrocity — the dynamics of
privilege will undoubtedly influence the nation’s collective reaction to the
attacks. That’s because privilege tends to determine: 1) which groups are — and
are not — collectively denigrated or targeted for the unlawful actions of
individuals; and 2) how big and politically game-changing the overall reaction
ends up being.
This has been most
obvious in the context of recent mass shootings. In those awful episodes, a
religious or ethnic minority group lacking such privilege would likely be
collectively slandered and/or targeted with surveillance or profiling (or
worse) if some of its individuals comprised most of the mass shooters. However, white
male privilege means white men are not collectively denigrated/targeted
for those shootings — even though most come at the hands of white dudes. Likewise,
in the context of terrorist attacks, such privilege means white non-Islamic
terrorists are typically portrayed not as representative of whole groups or
ideologies, but as “lone wolf” threats to be dealt with as isolated law
enforcement matters. Meanwhile, non-white or developing-world terrorism
suspects are often reflexively portrayed as representative of larger conspiracies,
ideologies and religions that must be dealt with as systemic threats — the kind
potentially requiring everything from law enforcement action to military
operations to civil liberties legislation to foreign policy shifts.”
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No Left Wing
Extremist Groups?
Have you noticed
there has been absolutely no speculation of any Left Wing Extremist groups? That would not fit the left's agenda that
homegrpown terrorists are white conservatives.
Oh! No! God forbid it would be one of us (the Left)! Convenient amnesia or simply keeping with the
narrative? You decide.
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Gallup: Only 4% of Americans Think Gun Control is an
Important Problem
By Michael James
Only 4 percent of
Americans think guns and gun control are an important problem facing the
country, according to Gallup, and far more Americans are concerned about the
economy, unemployment and the federal debt. In its poll
from Apr. 4-7, Gallup surveyed 1,005 adults by telephone and asked, “What
do you think is the most important problem facing the country today?”
Respondents
answered in the following order:
Economy in
general
24%
Unemployment/Jobs
18%
Dissatisfaction with
Government
16%
Federal budget deficit/Federal
debt 11%
Healthcare
6%
Ethical/Moral/Family
decline
5%
Immigration/Illegal
aliens
4%
Education
4%
Guns/Gun
control
4%
Situation with
North Korea
4%
Lack of
Money
3%
Welfare
2%
Lack of respect for
each
other
2%
Poverty/Hunger/Homelessness 2%
Foreign aid/Focus
overseas 2%
Taxes
2%
Despite the Obama
administration’s strong push for more gun control legislation, few Americans
are concerned about the issue. Further, it shows
that Americans know the top four will attend to the rest!!
Gun grabbers:
"I think we've got a good chance of seeing [gun control] pass if members
of Congress are listening to the American people. The notion that Congress
would defy the overwhelming instinct of the American people after what we saw
happen in Newtown, I think, is unimaginable." --Barack Obama
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Two of America’s Most Hated Groups React to Boston
Marathon Bombings on Twitter
In the wake of the
bombings at the Boston Marathon, two groups at odds on practically every issue,
predictably took to Twitter seemingly to advance organizational agendas. The
international hacking group Anonymous first attacked America. It then blamed
the police for the interruption in cell phone services shortly after the attack
took place. Without even a nod to humanity, the Westboro Baptist Church, famous
for never letting a tragedy go to waste, and for blaming every tragedy on the
existence and tolerance of gays and lesbians in America, took to Twitter to
spew hate. Then it predictably threatened to picket funerals of victims of the
tragedy. It dismissed the importance of
one of the victims being a child. And it summed up its day with disturbing
bravado. The church has made a name for itself by trying to picket funerals of
American soldiers, victims of the shootings in an Aurora, CO movie theatre and
victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary shootings in Newtown, CT, among many
others. You
are witnessing in your lifetime a threatening coarsening of our society. Sad, very sad.
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More from the
idiots on the Left. House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer
(D-MD) decided to politicize the bombings that took place at the Boston
Marathon on Monday, saying that they were “proof” that some of the sequester
cuts were “irrational.” We should have known that this would be
forthcoming from a Democrat’s lips and so we are not shocked, but we are most
assuredly sickened by Hoyer’s comments. Hoyer claimed that the bombings
demonstrate “why having the ability to dress security concerns is important”
and then tied that with cutting off sequestration. He went on to elaborate when
asked by a reporter whether or not the attacks on Monday actually makes an
argument that should be directed towards sequestration. He said, “I think there
are multiple reasons for ensuring that we invest in our security — both
domestic and international security. That we invest in the education of our
children. That we invest in growing jobs in America. And don’t pursue an
irrational, across-the-board policy of cutting the highest priorities and the
lowest priorities essentially the same percentage…. I think this is another
proof of that — if proof is needed, which I don’t think frankly it is.” “I
doubt that [sequestration's] having any impact presently,” he added, “and the
reason for that, this is a priority item and I’m sure they’re shifting what
resources are necessary. Even if they’re shorter resources than they otherwise
would’ve had, I’m sure they’re putting all the resources necessary on this
effort. Certainly at the federal level — I think the President’s made that
pretty clear.” Well I think Mr. Hoyer must have
a problem, like Barack Obama does in remembering that sequestration was Obama’s
idea in the first place and second, that Obama continues to spend millions
almost every month on vacations and wasteful government projects, instead of
redirecting the funds to cover things he claims are more important.
However, we all know what this is about. It’s the political grandstanding that
Democrats so often do at the expense of a tragedy. After all, they follow in
the footsteps of Rahm Emanuel who declared, “You never want a serious crisis to
go to waste.” This is exactly what Hoyer is trying to capitalize on, just like
the Socialist Democrats did to push gun control following the shootings in
Newtown, Connecticut.
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Sen. Warren Praises an 'Actively Involved' Obama; No Mention of Boston Victims By Susan Jones
More idiotic
grandstanding by the Left. The
first words out of Sen. Elizabeth Warren's mouth at a Tuesday morning press
conference in Boston were praise for her fellow Democrat, President Barack
Obama. "The President of the United States has pledged his full
support in all efforts to keep the city safe and to find the person who did
this and bring them to justice. We did not have to reach out to the
president. The president reached out to us," Warren said at the news
conference updating the investigation into the terror attack at the Boston
Marathon. "He
called the governor, he called the mayor, he called the members of the
(congressional) delegation, because the president is actively involved here and
responding." Really?
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Gen. Hayden: Boston-Style Attacks May Be ‘The New Normal’
By David A. Patten
The Boston marathon
bombing may not represent the work of al-Qaida, but still could be a harbinger
of future attacks targeting Americans in their own country, warns Gen. Michael
Hayden, the retired four-star general and past director of both the National
Security Agency and the CIA. In an
exclusive interview, Hayden said that the attack may be an act of domestic
terrorism, or could be the act of an al-Qaida inspired, lone wolf. Either of
those scenarios would account for the fact that al-Qaida and its affiliates
have yet to claim credit for the two bombs that went off almost simultaneously
near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on Monday. But he said the bombing could foreshadow
future attacks on the U.S. homeland, even if al-Qaida was not involved. “As
we move into this next phase of this war with al-Qaida,” said Hayden, “and
their ability to conduct massive-casualty attacks against iconic targets of the
spirit of 9/11, these are probably the kinds of attacks that they would then
resort to, in order to try to achieve their objectives.” Among the
hallmarks of this new era of terrorism, he said, is that the attacks “are
not overly complex, or at least not complex in the way that it requires a
massive cell of people to be involved.” Hayden said the ultimate
evaluation of the level of sophisticated involved in the bombing will “come
down to the weapon, how complex that was, how reliable it was, and whether the
reports were true that there were other weapons out there as well.”
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Rep. Peter King: Bombings Signal ‘The New War With
Al-Qaida’
By William Hoffmann and Todd Beamon
New York Rep. Peter
King suggested on Tuesday that the Boston Marathon bombings might indicate “the
new war with al-Qaida.” “This may be the
new war with al-Qaida: smaller attacks with people who are under the radar
screen,” King told Wolf Blitzer on CNN. “Many al-Qaida groups are using
Americans with clean records.” In discussing possible scenarios behind the
bombings that killed three people and injured more than 170, King, the former
chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, suggested that the
pressure cooker-devices that investigators discovered in the bombings have been
used in al-Qaida attacks in the past. He noted the 2010 attempted
bombing in Times Square in New York. “Al-Qaida has been more associated with
iconic events, athletic events — lots of carnage, with a lot of innocent people
hurt,” King told CNN. He added that “al-Qaida in its literature has been
calling for attacks on athletic events.” “Also to say that al-Qaida
… that certainly has not been ruled out. It could still be domestic terrorism,
it could be al-Qaida, but there’s certainly a lot of evidence indicating it
could be al-Qaida.’’
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School Teaching Students That Conservatism Wants To
Restrict Personal Freedoms
Union Grove,
Wisconsin is a small rural community 16 miles west of Racine and 16 miles north
of the Illinois border. It has a population of around 4,300 people who
enjoy the small town lifestyle with easy access to the larger nearby towns. One
would expect a small rural town like Union Grove would be fairly conservative
in many of their personal, religious and political views. But if you look
at the lessons that students at Union Grove schools are being taught, you may
be in for a surprise. Tamra Varebrook, a local conservative
activist in Union Grove, recently discovered that her 13 year old daughter was
being taught politically liberal views in her 8th grade class.
Her daughter came home from school with a crossword puzzle assignment that was
part of a lesson plan on liberalism versus conservatism.
Varebrook, being a responsible parent, was reviewing her daughter’s homework
when she discovered something that greatly concerned her. The clue
for the word ‘conservatism’ was:
“The political
belief of preserving traditional moral values by restricting personal freedoms
and encouraging prosperity through economic freedom.” If
that isn’t bad enough, the definition for ‘liberalism’ was: “The
political belief of equality and personal freedom for everyone, often changing
the current system to increase government protection of civil liberties.” On
the back side of the crossword puzzle was a political survey asking the
students for their opinions on a number of political topics including guns and
gun control. Varebrook immediately contacted the school district to complain
about the definitions. She said the school was sympathetic to her
concerns and was told that the assignment was wrong and that the teacher feels
horrible about it. School Superintendent Brenda Stevenson issued the
following statement:
“At
Union Grove Elementary School we have always encouraged parent feedback and
have strove to present a balanced curriculum. We sincerely regret any
disapproval associated with this particular assignment. We will continue
to evaluate materials used in the classroom.”
Note that Stevenson
says they regret any disapprovals with the assignment, not that they regret
what the assignment taught. I read her statement as saying that they
regret being caught teaching the student liberal philosophy.
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“Where was God?” A question about the Boston Marathon
Bombings
Andy
Chavarilla
“Where was God?”
Maybe this is something you have already heard or been asked about the bombings
at the Boston Marathon in Boston, MA. This is a question that I have heard
asked not only about this horrific tragedy but also about Aurora, CO and
Newtown, CT. It almost seems reasonable to say there is not God at this point
right? Why would God allow things like this to happen to innocent people? Why
would I put my faith in a God like that? So many are quick in times like this
to dismiss God and say they couldn’t do it and relinquish their faith. So if
I don’t put my faith in God then where do I put it, in humanity? Let us not
forget that God’s message is ultimately a promise of hope, grace and mercy. It
is free thinking man that corrupts, murders and destroys. Before I get
into more details and encouragement about God and His love and care I want to
be clear. This is a time we should come together as a nation and share our
cares and concerns. As a Texas- based writer for YoungPatriots.com, I am
pretty far from those affected, however, my heart is with our fellow Americans
in the Boston. It is no secret that Young Patriots is a political organization
attempting to raise conservative awareness among the younger generation.
However, this is no time for the politics.
This is a time
where we see no color; there is no Red or Blue state right now. This is a time
where we don’t focus on party; right now we aren’t republican, democrat or
libertarians. Right now we just focus on being, American! This is a time
where we focus on people, because we care about people. This is a time
when hearts are hurting. As grim as times like these may seem, there is beauty
in seeing where we come together; in witnessing why this is the greatest nation
on earth.
We must know that
God allows
things like this to happen not because He wants to. God allows them to happen
because we make the wrong decisions and live with their consequences.
God rewards righteousness and always punishes wickedness. However, sometimes even the Bible
tells us the wicked in this life “prosper” but they still receive their
punishment because this life is merely temporal. As a minister I think we have gotten too
caught up in the ideal of a feel good, health and wealth message that we
dismiss the reality of eternal judgment. I recently read a book by
one of my favorite religious writers, Francis Chan called “Erasing Hell.” Chan
addresses a topic that many are scared to broach in fear that they will lose
followers. Even still the argument Chan makes is that Hell is real; the Bible is
clear about it. Not everyone is going to Heaven. Hell isn’t real because God
hates people. Hell is real because God is just. To be just, God must
punish and not reward the wicked. Sometimes it is easy to feel like God isn’t
there and that He doesn’t care about the wickedness that is going on. Still
in times like these we must remember, God knows and the wicked will be humbled
before Him and they will receive their Justice in this life or the next.
Remember the words of the Psalmist, “Therefore the wicked will not stand in the
judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous; for the LORD knows
the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.” (Psalm 1:5-6,
ESV).
Times like these
are tragic, horrific and emotionally painful. Hearts are hurting in times
like these. It is in moments like these that we need to turn and run to God
instead of run away from him. I thank God that we have men and women who serve
as law enforcement personnel. They are working diligently to bring to justice
those responsible. So as we take a step back and acknowledge the fragile nature
of life and just how quickly it can go or be changed, let us take heart and
reach out to our fellow man. The world seems dark in times like these but
look around and you will see plenty of light. You will see God’s reflection in
the form of: policemen, firefighters, EMT’s, doctors, nurses and even just the
everyday citizen who helped. More than that, God will be seen in the
power of prayer. Many of us that are nowhere close are showing Boston God’s
love by showering them with prayers from where we are. Keep the faith and remember God
is just. To those affected, if you are reading, my heart and prayers
are with you. No matter how bad or hard it seems remember, YOU “Can do all things in
Christ who gives you strength!” (Philippians 4:2).
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Founding Fathers
"History
affords us many instances of the ruin of states, by the prosecution of measures
ill suited to the temper and genius of their people. The ordaining of laws in
favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is
certainly the most erroneous and mistaken policy. An equal dispensation of
protection, rights, privileges, and advantages, is what every part is entitled
to, and ought to enjoy... These measures never fail to create great and violent
jealousies and animosities between the people favored and the people oppressed;
whence a total separation of affections, interests, political obligations, and
all manner of connections, by which the whole state is weakened." --Benjamin
Franklin, Emblematical Representations
"What, sir, is
the use of militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the
bane of liberty... Whenever Government means to invade the rights and liberties
of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an
army upon their ruins." --Elbridge
Gerry, 1789
"To judge from the history of mankind, we shall be
compelled to conclude that the fiery and destructive passions of war reign in
the human breast with much more powerful sway than the mild and beneficent
sentiments of peace." --Alexander
Hamilton, Federalist No. 34
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