Humans in Europe in Early Ice Age?

source: Science News, 7/31/10, p5

The 7/8/10 issue of Nature reports the finding of stone tools on the British coast that indicates the oldest settlement of humans there yet. "We suspect these tools were made by the last dregs of a larger hominid population that had come when the area was warmer, but hung on and survived under challenging conditions as the climate cooled" says Natural History Museum in London.

This could give creationists a better idea of how soon after the Flood that the Ice Age got into full swing. The evo-story might have it right (though not on the long time scales, but at least on the right order of events) that there was a warming time in Europe, when people moved further north, then had to leave again when the Ice Age got fully underway.

No bones were found--just tools. They are similar to tools found in Spain, which have been associated with fossils of Homo antecessor--the only human "missing link" fossil that has not yet been totally shot down by enough data. Was it a man or a monkey? This story will be interesting to follow. Creation scientist Gary Parker said to me once, "Evolutionists thrive in the gray areas, in the uncertainties." Dr. Parker is more than just correct on that one. When enough evidence comes in, then they no longer can tell their evo-fables about a fossil. So, we look forward to more info on antecessor in the near future. "Were they tourists, migrants or colonists? We don't know." Well, according to the Bible and the best info on the Ice Age, they would most likely be brief migrants--something between a tourist and a colonist. As soon as it got too cold for them, they left, whoever they were. Keep thinking. DrJ

Evo's looking for "Transformers" -- really!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11041449

thanks Manny of CRSnet for this source

Well, it's a well-known fact that the same evo's who can't buy that there's a God--can buy that ET is really out there. But now, the logical conclusion to such a line of thinking has been reached. SETI has been looking for the wrong thing. They shouldn't be looking for organic living aliens--they should be looking for robots! Yep, since we--sent robot probes out ... then they problably did, too. So, we should be looking for evidences of "artificial intelligence" out there in the universe.

In short, in evo-trending, ET is out and Transformers are in.

What a silly way to live your life and to perceive the universe. It's more like a cartoon that any kind of an enterprise of true science. You keep thinking! DrJ

RdrQ: Six Days?

I was just reading through Exodus (really for the first time in my Christian life) and God says Himself that He created the world in 6 days and rested on the 7th. Which is why the Sabbath was supposed to be holy to the Jews. If God states that he only needed 6 days to created both the heaven and the earth then why are people still arguing for an old-Earth creation theory?? ~Kristi

Kristi, that's just the point. God did say it. "Remember the Sabbath to keep it holy ... for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth and all that in them is." (Exodus 20:8,11a) The Ten Commandments ... is the only part of the Bible that God wrote -- Himself! He didn't use a scribe or a preacher or a even a prophet or an oracle. He wrote it Himself! So why are peopel still arguing for an Old-Earth creation theory?

Fear of Man ... is the answer. I go with, "Let God be true and every man a liar." And y'know ... that's majorly the way it usually works out, anyway. You can trust the Bible. Some theories may go against it. But the science data never will. Yours, Dr J

Compromise is ... Compromising.

DrJ, where do those that believe in the Framework Hypothesis interpretation of Genesis place the fossil record? I've heard a couple of different accounts. One being that they place them before Day 1 and another saying that God put them there on Day 3 when the dry land arose. Please help me further understand this compromise position so we can all better refute it. Shane

Shane, most compromisers will place the fossil record before Genesis 1:1. I really like the new Gen 1:1 rally of the main creationist community, BTW. But Gen 1:1 says plainly, "In the beginning." That clearly means that Gen 1:1 is ... the beginning! Right? Right.

Anyway Shane, one way to quickly tell a rotten theory on anything is this ... you'll see that logic and data very quickly get "in the way" of such a theory, and begin to actually bring it down in ruins rather than raise it up into the light of acceptability. Such is the way with any position that favors --and this is the kicker/acid-test -- death before sin. If it contains death, even animal death, before the Fall of Man in the Garden -- then it is heresy, plain and simple. Therefore those that teach it are become heretics. I didn't say it -- the Bible did. Amen. DrJ

RdrQ: Fire-breathing Dragons?

POINTS OF ORIGINS with Dr. Jackson Creation Truth Foundation www.CreationTruth.com
[DrJ] I was listening to one of your teachings at my church and I think I heard you talk about the finding of fossils that show they might have been fire breathing. Did I hear that from you and if so do you have any resources to show evidence for this?
Geoff, in Job 41 of the "leviathan" it says, "Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire leap out. Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as out of a seething pot or caldron. His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth." Some of this could be likening him to true fire breathing--but "kindling coals" presses it as literal, though maybe not totally. Still, we've got the little bombardier beetle. If he can do it, why not a bigger animal? DrJ

New Burgess-like fossils found in Morocco

POINTS OF ORIGINS with Dr. Jackson Creation Truth Foundation www.CreationTruth.com
source: Mensa Bulletin, John Blinke, citing BBC News, 5/13/10
The Burgess Shale in Canada has some weird life forms fossilized in it. They're sorta like sea plants and animals from another planet might look! -- and only in the Cambrian layer of rock. They're probably extinct. In college I was taught brachiopod clams were extinct, too. Until 1938 coelacanth fish were "extinct" too ... all because of the evo "layer = eons" mentality. Just because we find a fossil type only in one layer, doesn't mean that they weren't here at the beginning of life on Earth, nor does it mean that they didn't persist even up until today. Evo's look at the rock layers as blocks on a calendar. We look at them as different stages during Noah's Flood, in different places and at different times during that one drastic year of geologic history. New Burgess fossils have been found in Morocco in the Ordivician layer. Oops. I wonder if some Vulcan-lookin' lobsters ... are still around?
You keep thinking. DrJ

In Search of Adam and Eve

POINTS OF ORIGINS with Dr. Jackson Creation Truth Foundation www.CreationTruth.com

Dear Dr. J.
I understood you to say that all humans come from one of four gene pools, which is consistent with Noah. Can those four gene pools be traced to one gene pool, Adam & Eve?
Your ministry is a blessing. Thank you,Dan

Evo-stories Take Wing on Fruit Flies

POINTS OF ORIGINS with Dr. Jackson Creation Truth Foundation www.CreationTruth.com source: Science News, 7/17/2010, p28-9 A research team discovered that wherever sense cells develop on fruit fly wing, that's where a dark spot forms. It may be that same gene triggering sense cells to form also triggers pigments in that same place (Nature, 4/22/10). The team leader happens to be evo-fanatic Sean B. Carroll of UWisc-Madison. So, of course, he's decided this is all because of evolution. "At some point in evolution, an ancestor of some related fly species co-opted [whatever that really means] the system to create color patterns. The hijacking was accomplished by inserting a new switch into the DNA control panel." Evo genius Carroll doesn't say just how this could happen--just that it... well, it just did! Evolution decided to "hijack" the pigment gene in some"missing-link" fruit fly by creating a new genetic switch?! How! Oh, but we must not ask how. It is not fair to ask how! We are asked to just take it on faith that evo did it-- and that settles it! -- no thinking allowed! But you, young padawans -- You think. Amen. DrJ Evo-atheist Richard Dawkins, speaking at U-Okla, 3/6/09: "Science answers the 'how' question. The 'why' question is just a silly question. The question is an inappropriate one." Dawkins says some questions should never be asked! That's not in the spirit of true science!

Nice guys can be false teachers!

Hey Doc, Could you please help me answer this question. Nick (with a ministry in northern NJ)

Dear Creation Science Alive,
I have some scientific questions relating to the Virgin Birth that I'm hoping you can help me with. I found the following in an article from The Seattle Times entitled, "What would Jesus' DNA do?":

"Georgetown University professor of theology John Haught [wrote], 'To imply that Jesus is somehow exempt from ordinary natural laws and biological patterns [including having DNA and male chromosomes] would, in my view, be a failure to take the incarnation seriously.' This is hard to square with the virgin birth in light of modern biology. It's true that asexual reproduction, called parthenogenesis, happens in some fish, insects, and even a lizard species, and artificially in a few mammals, through cloning. But if cloning or parthenogenesis were involved, Jesus would look a lot more like Mary. He'd be a woman, for one thing, since females always beget females. In humans, females package some of their DNA in two matched X chromosomes, males in a single X and Y. So if you're a male, there's only one way you could have gotten your Y chromosome, and that's from your biological father. Where would Jesus have gotten his Y?"

If Jesus' DNA could be analyzed today, what do you think it would show?
Jesus, being fully man in addition to being fully God, would have had a full set of human genes. Every normal set of human genes has paired alleles from the father and the mother, except in the Y chromosome. Where did Jesus get his "father" alleles? If God created a sperm cell with a Y chromosome and alleles untainted with Adamic behavioral traits or original sin wouldn't that mean Jesus wasn't a descendant of Adam but, only of Eve considering he would only be inheriting Mary's mitochondrial DNA and the non-Adamic Y chromosome created in that instance? How would this relate with that in Biblical times descent was usually only traced paternally through the father (e.g. tribal affiliation transfered from father to child)? Could you please help me understand this?
Thanks in advance. God bless, Dylan.

There's a great answer for this Nick ... it was a miracle. I have met Professor Haught, also, and he's an evolutionist, so he's teaching un-Biblical doctrine all over the place anyway! He's a religion prof, but does not believe in the Virgin Birth nor in Creation, nor does he believe in miracles then. Well he teaches at a Catholic University. Not all Cath's are evo's though ... check out The Colby Center for cath studies in creation.
Well, here's a quote by Haught. I met him and he was a gentleman (unlike many evo's). But he is definitely a false teacher ... so sad. He went out of his way to be cordial to me at the Theistic Evo conference at Ohio State, when I attended it. DrJ

Plates, Shelves, and Ice Age Land Bridges

Hello Dr J, I know that you weren't there but maybe you have some ideas on this question:
Before the flood of Noah’s day, the land mass was in one piece.How long after the flood, through Catastrophic plate tectonics were the land mass separated into what we have now? I’ve read where it was torn apart and moving fast, and has now slowed down.
The reason I ask is, when the animals got off the ark, was the land masses already far apart, if so, how did the animals get across the vast oceans, or why would they want to even try? And also, if it was still moving while they got off the ark, that also would make it hard to cross. I've read somewhere about land bridges, but find it hard to visualize them as practical. Later on, when God confused the languages, He scattered the people all over the world, so maybe this was possible. Don't know Thanks Dr.J dom

Man's best-smelling friend!

Points of Origins with Dr. Jackson, Creation Truth Foundation ( www.creationtruth.com )

source: Science News, 7/31/10, pp30,31

I love it when evo's contradict themselves--in the same breath. This always happens, and is inevitable too, when a position is actually not true.

New research shows breathing smoke can transport toxins directly to the brain through the olfactory nerves (Science News, 5/22/10, p16). Evo's have picked up on this to say that our "invention" of fire caused natural selection to kill off those of us that had the best sense of smell and lots of nerve endings in our noses (p31) . Okay, well at least that has some logic to it. But wait. A new evo-book details the intimate and long-standing evo-relationship between dogs and humans (p30) . Indeed, dogs can read us far better than monkeys ... despite all the "link" stories about our tree-swinging "cousins." But wait. If dogs have been hanging out in our caves and by our fires for so long -- then why do they still have the most celebrated mammalian sense of smell? Once again, evo-logic runs into a brick wall--itself. Keep thinking. DrJ

In discussions I've had surrounding the new/old earth "controversy" among Christians, I quickly point out to those that believe Genesis 1 is speaking of events that happened over millions of years that
Exodus 20:8-12 refers directly and specifically to the creation time period. The only conclusion from this passage on the Sabbath is that God created in six 24 hour periods. One question concerning the flood that has stumped me is ... Where did all the water go to? Thanks for all you do in promoting the TRUTH.

All the water’s mostly still here. Some of it might've outgassed to space, particularly during the Flood event itself. Most of it can be accounted for in the Earth ice, the lowering of the ocean floor by 500 meters (as confirmed by oxygen isotope measurements in seafloor muds), and the Flood-time construction of the world's tallest mountain ranges that we have today. OK. God bless, Doc J