Archive for the 'Science' Category

Archaeopteryx Was Not Very Bird-like: Inside The First Bird, Surprising Signs Of A Dinosaur

Sunday, October 11th, 2009

An important part of the evolutionary mythology is that dinosaurs evolved into birds. There seems to be nothing that will convince these believers that the theory is “bird-brained” and that there is no supporting evidence for it.
Storrs Olson, Curator of Birds at the Smithsonian noted that a cadre of “zealots” were trying to “actively [...]

A Third of Dinosaur Species Never Existed?

Sunday, October 11th, 2009

Brian Handwerk
for National Geographic News
October 9, 2009
That’s because young dinosaurs didn’t look like Mini-Me versions of their parents, according to new analyses by paleontologists Mark Goodwin, University of California, Berkeley, and Jack Horner, of Montana State University.
Instead, like birds and some other living animals, the juveniles went through dramatic physical changes during adulthood.
This [...]

“Prehistoric Man” Used Crude “Sat Nav”

Monday, September 28th, 2009

Photo:Silbury Hill, Wiltshire which may have been part of an ancient navigational aid for prehistoric man Photo: SWNS
Prehistoric man navigated his way across England using a crude version of sat nav based on stone circle markers, historians have claimed.
They were able to travel between settlements with pinpoint accuracy thanks to a complex network [...]

Top Egyptian Daily: Joseph’s Era Coins Found in Egypt with Joseph’s Portrait

Monday, September 28th, 2009

by Hillel Fendel
(IsraelNN.com)
The report in Al-Ahram boasts that the find backs up the Koran’s claim that coins were used in Egypt during Joseph’s period. Joseph, son of the Patriarch Jacob, died around 1450 B.C.E., according to Jewish sources.
Excerpts from the Al-Ahram report, as translated by Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI):
“In an unprecedented [...]

Scientists Pull an About Face on Global Warming

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

By Lorne Gunter, For The Calgary Herald, September 19, 2009
Imagine if Pope Benedict gave a speech saying the Catholic Church has had it wrong all these centuries; there is no reason priests shouldn’t marry. That might generate the odd headline, no?
Or if Don Cherry claimed suddenly to like European hockey players who wear visors [...]

An Essay Concerning Giants, by Dr. Thomas Molyneux M.D., Philosophical Transactions 1700-Taking the Logic out of Mythological

Monday, September 21st, 2009

Genesis 6:4
There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.

The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, or Phil. Trans., is a [...]

The Fossil Giants of Castelnau

Friday, September 18th, 2009

Mr. M. G. de Lapouge had several problems that he needed to try to solve simultaneously back in 1890. Number one, he was a prominent scientist of his time, with a good reputation so why should he be publishing an article in a scientific journal concerning human giants–and of a “type”* evolutionists considered modern?
*Here at [...]

Giant Stone-age Axes Found in African Lake Basin

Friday, September 11th, 2009

Photo: Giant stone axes.
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This story has been given the evolutionary “early man” spin, but what is not addressed; who was wielding these “giant” stone axes?……..s8int.com.
Oxford University Tennis
A giant African lake basin is providing information about possible migration routes and hunting practices of early humans in the Middle and Late Stone Age [...]

Cosmic Chess: The Copernican Gambit?

Sunday, September 6th, 2009

Psalm 96:5
For all the gods of the nations are idols, but the LORD made the heavens
Prior to the Copernican Revolution which did not begin until 200 years after the publication of his book; On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres in 1543, science and the world generally adhered to the Ptolemaic model of the universe, [...]

Were Ancient Sea Monsters Actually Mythological or Did the Ancients Actually See Monsters? An E-Book-Let

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

by Chris Parker, Copyright 2009
Photo: This sea monster is actually an ancient bronze candelabra nicknamed “the sea monster”.
Excerpt
“Curiously, ancient dragon depictions closely match those of dinosaurs and pterosaurs which supposedly became extinct millions of years before man even “evolved”. Could the same be said for certain ancient “sea monster” depictions? Did ancient depictions also [...]