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Atlas of Creation by Harun Yahya

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:21:30 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The theory of evolution is a major hoax and deception in the history of science.

Clip Source: www.harunyahya.com

ATLAS OF CREATION

Some 150 years ago, the British naturalist Charles Darwin proposed a theory based on various observations made during his travels, but which could not be supported by any subsequent scientific findings. In essence, his theory of evolution consisted of various scenarios, assumptions and conjectures that Darwin dreamed up in his own imagination.

This book will provide you with not only such information as what fossils are and where and how they are found, but also a closer examination of a variety of fossil specimens, millions of years old, that are still able to declare, "We never underwent evolution; we were created." The fossils discussed and illustrated in this book are just a few examples of the hundreds of millions of specimens that prove the fact of creation. And even these few are enough to prove that the theory of evolution is a major hoax and deception in the history of science.

ATLAS OF CREATION VOLUME II

ATLAS OF CREATION VOLUME III

Tags: atlas, creation, darwin, harun, yahya, islam, knowledge, nature

Accuracy of radiometric dating

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 00:06:31 GMT

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clipper's remarks: an earlier clip got me looking for resources on the internet to explain simply, yet completely, the underpinnings of radiometric dating. www.pbs.org/evolution provides a good starting point for many such references. there is a religious tract on the internet that makes many claims about the inaccuracy of radiometric dating methods and the infallibility of the bible as a historical record. the link in this clip addresses some of its primary claims.

Clip Source: www.actionbioscience.org

The rejection of the validity of fossils and of dating by religious fundamentalists creates a problem for them:

The rejection of dating by religious fundamentalists is easier for them to make, but harder for them to demonstrate. The fossils occur in regular sequences time after time; radioactive decay happens, and repeated cross testing of radiometric dates confirms their validity.

Accuracy of dating

Dating in geology may be relative or absolute. Relative dating is done by observing fossils, as described above, and recording which fossil is younger, which is older. The discovery of means for absolute dating in the early 1900s was a huge advance. The methods are all based on radioactive decay:

A key point is that it is no longer necessary simply to accept one chemical determination of a rock’s age. Age estimates can be cross-tested by using different isotope pairs. Results from different techniques, often measured in rival labs, continually confirm each other.

Where Life Found Refuge During Mass Extinction

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 16:27:35 GMT

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Clip Source: dsc.discovery.com

During the worst apocalypse the planet has ever known, somehow, life found a way to survive. But how? Scientists now think they have an answer: a nurturing refuge in the shallow continental shelf waters of northwestern Pangea.

During the end of the Permian era 250 million years ago, global warming ran rampant on Earth, extinguishing 95 percent of life in the ocean, and 70 percent of life on land.

The fossil record of the Permian-Triassic extinction is a stark one -- rocks go from teeming with life to nearly empty in the geologic blink of an eye.

"We see as many as 23 different genera of animals in some of these rocks. You'd be lucky to see that if you went out and scooped up a piece of the ocean floor today," Beatty said.

Clip Source: dsc.discovery.com

Beatty thinks wave action and storms near the shore aerated the waters, mixing life-giving oxygen into the first 50 meters (160 feet) of ocean.

life may have fled to the zone repeatedly in Earth's past to weather mass extinctions.

Clip Source: dsc.discovery.com

Where Life Waited It Out

Tags: life, refuge, mass extinction, fossils

Paleo Tour San diego Museum

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 02:56:20 GMT

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Clip Source: www.balboapark.org

Adult Program - Fossil Mysteries Paleontologist Tour

San Diego Natural History Museum (619) 232-3821 http://www.sdnhm.org

Join Kesler Randall, the Museum's collections manager of fossil vertebrates, on a tour of the Fossil Mysteries gallery. Discuss the paleobiology and evolutionary history of the fossils on display and learn anecdotes concerning their discoveries.

The 10 Most Puzzling Ancient Artifacts

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:12:11 GMT

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clipper's remarks: History that couldn't be, maybe.

Clip Source: www.ancientx.com

Over the last few decades, miners in South Africa have been digging up mysterious metal spheres. Origin unknown, these spheres measure approximately an inch or so in diameter, and some are etched with three parallel grooves running around the equator. Two types of spheres have been found: one is composed of a solid bluish metal with flecks of white; the other is hollowed out and filled with a spongy white substance. The kicker is that the rock in which they where found is Precambrian - and dated to 2.8 billion years old! Who made them and for what purpose is unknown.

The Dropa Stones

The Ica Stones

The Antikythera Mechanism

The Baghdad Battery

The Coso Artifact

Ancient Model Aircraft

Giant Stone Balls of Costa Rica

Impossible Fossils

Out-of-Place Metal Objects

What are we to make of these finds? There are several possibilities:

Intelligent humans date back much, much further than we realize.

Other intelligent beings and civilizations existed on earth far beyond our recorded history.

Tags: ancient history

Palin believes dinosaurs and men once coexisted

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 04:56:27 GMT

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Clip Source: www.boingboing.net

Palin believes dinosaurs and men once coexisted

Palin told him that "dinosaurs and humans walked the Earth at the same time," Munger said. When he asked her about prehistoric fossils and tracks dating back millions of years, Palin said "she had seen pictures of human footprints inside the tracks," recalled Munger, who teaches music at the University of Alaska in Anchorage and has regularly criticized Palin in recent years on his liberal political blog, called Progressive Alaska.

Tags: palin, republicans, vp nominee, dinsaurs, religon

Fossils tell of mass exodus from sea

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 06:44:11 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Creatures could develop some protection from the sun in the water, but the land was wide open, and predators were yet to get anywhere the efficiency of ocean based predators.
They can understand why shelled arthropods had the protection to survive, but can't understand the survival of soft bodied things like worms and Molluscs? then perhaps they can explain why a slug like creature evolved a shell and branched unto the Snail genotype.
i don't imagine life is safe anywhere for exposed slugs and worms, and solar radiation, particularly UV Light can accelerate development. and change. Perhaps they were moving to the place that was the least dangerous.

Clip Source: www.abc.net.au

New fossils of the first land animals reveal that ancient shores were alive with more crawling, slithering creatures than anyone previously thought.

In the late Cambrian era, nearly 500 million years ago, the seas were teeming with life. Food was abundant, but so were predators.

Palaeontologists believe animals fled the marine environment for the safe confines of tide pools, and ultimately dry land, where they could live without fear of being eaten.

From fossil tracks found in Ontario, Canada, researchers know that a group of insect-like creatures called arthropods were crawling on sand dunes around this time.

But how and when they migrated from the ocean to the dunes is still a mystery.

Despite the lack of predators, living on land was a dangerous proposition for creatures used to life at sea.

Suddenly they were faced with intense radiation from the sun, an atmosphere that would dry them out in a matter of hours, and no support from buoyancy.

Fossils Tell of Mass Exodus From Sea to Land

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:51:09 GMT

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clipper's remarks: New fossils of the first land animals reveal that ancient shores were alive with more crawling, slithering creatures than anyone previously thought.

Clip Source: www.discoverychannel.co.uk

Fossils Tell of Mass Exodus From Sea to Land

Sept. 24, 2008 -- New fossils of the first land animals reveal that ancient shores were alive with more crawling, slithering creatures than anyone previously thought.

In the late Cambrian era, nearly 500 million years ago, the seas were teeming with life. Food was abundant, but so were predators. Paleontologists believe animals fled the marine environment for the safe confines of tide pools, and ultimately dry land, where they could live without fear of being eaten.

From fossil tracks found in Ontario, Canada, researchers know that a group of insect-like creatures called arthropods were crawling on sand dunes around this time. But how they migrated from the ocean to the dunes -- and when -- is still a mystery.

Tags: sea

Fossil Reef found in Aussie outback

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 05:16:22 GMT

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clipper's remarks: So now they think Animal life evolved 80 million years earlier than we had calculated.
clearly 'Scientific' discoveries are too often base with too little evidence. one of the Basic Principles of "science' is the development of a method and a control where a method can be repeated in an attempt to get similar or 'Identical'- through the imposition of specific qualifications. this can be difficult when most natural situations are unique, or 'one offs'
There's generally no harm in 'looking', we just have to be careful the way we describe what we find

Clip Source: www.abc.net.au

Heather Catchpole

Australian scientists have discovered an ancient reef that may push back the evolution of the earliest animals by 80 million years.

Jonathan Giddings stands next to the 650-million-year-old fossilised layers found in the Northern Flinders Ranges

The unpublished research, by geoscientists Associate Professor Malcolm Wallace, Estee Woon and Jonathan Giddings from the University of Melbourne, will be presented at the Geological Society of Australia's Selwyn Symposium on Thursday.

The researchers say they have uncovered complex organisms that in some ways resemble multicellular life in a large reef located in the Northern Flinders Ranges, 700 kilometres north of Adelaide in South Australia.

A closeup image of the fossiled coral layers from Flinders Ranges (Malcolm Wallace)

If the fossils, which are around 650 million years old, are of multicellular organisms, they would be the earliest examples of primitive animal life discovered so far, the researchers say.

Jesus Horses and Sarah Palin

Sat, 20 Sep 2008 16:29:20 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Sarah "Speaking in Tongues" Palin explains how she believes that dinosaurs and man lived together.

This is precisely why the taboo of not discussing one's religion is wrong. This woman's viewpoint needs to be brought out and examined in the light of day. She holds ideas that have consequences in an increasingly technological world. By her own statements, she clearly doesn't have a clue what's going on.

Clip Source: atheism.about.com

Sarah Palin & Creationism: Sarah Palin Supports Creationism, Intelligent Design

Why Vice-Presidential Nominee Sarah Palin Prefers Superstition Over Science

Can anyone rise to a position of power or influence within the Republican Party without first avowing opposition to basic science in the name of religious ideology and anti-intellectual superstition? That seems unlikely and Sarah Palin, vice-presidential nominee chosen by John McCain, reinforces this impression through her defense of creationism against evolution.

When running for governor of Alaska in 2006, Sarah Palin made it abundantly clear that she supported teaching religious ideology in public schools where they should be teaching science and fact:

"I pushed her on the earth's creation, whether it was really less than 7,000 years old and whether dinosaurs and humans walked the earth at the same time. And she said yes, she'd seen images somewhere of dinosaur fossils with human footprints in them."

The slow ripening of India’s biofuel industry

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 04:35:10 GMT

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Clip Source: www.economist.com

Biofuels in India

Power plants

Sep 18th 2008 | DHANORA, CHHATTISGARH
From The Economist print edition

The slow ripening of India’s biofuel industry

Reuters

Seeds of hope

OUTSIDE his village in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh, Sudarshan Dhrube inspects a field of jatropha, planted in rust-red soils, heavy with iron. His village is growing the shrub under the watchful eye of D1-BP Fuel Crops, a joint venture between D1 Oils, a British biofuels firm, and BP, an energy giant. D1-BP has promised to pay 6.50 rupees (14 cents) for every kilogram of the black seeds found inside the shrub’s fruit. Crushed, these seeds yield a viscous oil that burns with a clear, clean flame. The oil can run a generator or a pump. Or it can be refined into biodiesel that can fuel tractors, trucks or trains.

By 2017 it aims to meet 20% of India’s diesel demand with fuel derived from plants rather than fossils.

India also makes bioethanol from molasses left over from refining sugarcane.

Tags: biofuel

COAL FIRE POWER MEETS RESISTANCE

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 02:02:23 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Virginia Coal Meets Much Resistance At Investor Meeting-Very Funny and Effective

Clip Source: understory.ran.org

Dominion CEO Punk’d!

Just back from Bank of America’s 38th annual investors conference at the Ritz here in San Francisco. Thomas F. Farrell, II, the esteemed notorious CEO of Dominion was presenting to analysts on the company’s financial outlook. Fortunately, we were also there to greet him too.

Mid-way through his podium presentation, however, images of this morning’s protest popped up on one of the screens behind him. Unaware that his power point had been modified, Farrell waxed on about the bright future of coal as confused murmurs began to emanate from the audience of analysts and investors.

“because there’s lots of coal, so we’re going to burn it.”

Great. Good plan. Meantime, we’ll keep prodding Dominion, its investors and other industry fossils toward a future that meets the climate challenge. Notice to Wall Street: The ostrich strategy isn’t working.

Lucky break allowed dinosaurs to rule Earth: study

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 14:48:03 GMT

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clipper's remarks: More at the source

Clip Source: news.yahoo.com

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Thanks to a big stroke of luck 200 million years ago, dinosaurs beat out a fearsome group of creatures competing for the right to rule the Earth, scientists said on Thursday.

Dinosaurs appeared about 230 million years ago, during the Triassic Period, and competed for 30 million years with a group of reptiles called crurotarsans, cousins of today's crocodiles that grew to huge sizes and looked a lot like dinosaurs.

Many scientists believed dinosaurs were simply superior to crurotarsans and fared better because the earliest dinosaurs walked on two legs, not four, and because they may have been warm-blooded.

But scientists led by Steve Brusatte of Columbia University and American Museum of Natural History in New York conducted an extensive review of fossils and found that the two groups were evolving at roughly the same pace and the crurotarsans actually had a larger range of body types, diets and lifestyles.

Slideshow: Dinosaurs and Fossils

The dinosaurs won

Tags: archeology

Foot hunting pterosaurs

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 04:38:53 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I couldn't notice long limbs for land runnin.

Clip Source: www.sciam.com

THE AZHDARCHID: A study of azhdarchid anatomy, footprints and the distribution of their fossils shows these flying reptiles,which could grow as big as a giraffe and have a wingspan of up to 33 feet (10 meters), probably preferred to hunt on foot.
Courtesy of Mark Witton

Azhdarchids' closest relatives today: large ground-feeding birds such as ground-hornbills and storks.

Tags: flying reptiles, pterosaurs

Ancient trees recorded in mines

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 16:08:02 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The forest of fossils is as big as a big city.

Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

The remains of a tree that grew about 300 million years ago

Spectacular fossil forests have been found in the coal mines of Illinois by a US-UK team of researchers.

The ancient vegetation - now turned to rock - is visible in the ceilings of mines covering thousands of hectares.

These were among the first forests to evolve on the planet, Dr Howard Falcon-Lang told the British Association Science Festival in Liverpool.

"These are the largest fossil forests found anywhere in the world at any point in geological time," he told reporters.

"It is quite extraordinary to find a fossil landscape preserved over such a vast area; and we are talking about an area the size of (the British city of) Bristol."

The forests grew just a few million years apart some 300 million years ago; and are now stacked one on top of another.

It appears the ancient land experienced repeated periods of subsidence and flooding which buried the forests in a vertical sequence.

Scientists look up to

the forest floor

Tags: history