January 19, 2010
The 2004 discovery (reported in 2006) of a well-preserved fossil creature dubbed Tiktaalik was hailed as the “missing link” that finally solidified the “fish to tetrapod” transition — a “snapshot” of “a fossil fish in the act of adapting toward a life on land”. Dated to 375-383 Mya, Tiktaalik was concluded to be an intermediary […]
Tags: Acanthostega, amphibian, Biology, coelacanth, Darwinism, Devonian, evolution, fish-to-tetrapod, fishapod, Ichthyostega, lobe-finned fish, missing link, Paleontology, Panderichthys, primitive amphibians, Science, scientific controversy, tetrapod, tetrapod evolution, tetrapod tracks, trackways, transitional form, Ventastega, water-to-land
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January 17, 2010
Once again, the evidence flies in the face of evolutionary (i.e., neo-Darwinian) theory. Or, does it? A new discovery in Poland (see here or here) places the oldest tetrapod several million years earlier than the supposed transitional forms that biologists have been touting as proof of fish evolving into land animals. Naturally, this has caused […]
Tags: amphibian, Biology, coelacanth, Darwin, Devonian, Eusthenopteron, evolution, fish-to-tetrapod, fishapod, Ichthyostega, lobe-finned fish, missing link, Neo-Darwinian, Paleontology, Panderichthys, primitive amphibians, Science, tetrapod, tetrapod evolution, tetrapod tracks, trackways, transitional form, Ventastega, water-to-land
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January 9, 2010
About a month ago, Mark Mix wrote an op-ed column in the Washington Examiner, explaining why his organization is suing the Obama administration. Who is Mark Mix? He is the President of the National Right to Work (NRTW) Legal Defense Foundation, “a nonprofit, charitable organization providing free legal aid to employees whose human or civil […]
Tags: Big Labor, Department of Labor, forced unionism, Mark Mix, National Right to Work, NRTW, Obama and the Unions, Politics, special interest groups, unions
Posted in Politics |
January 6, 2010
First the California Science Center agreed to show the pro-Intelligent Design film “Darwin’s Dilemma” last October (along with a pro-Darwin film). Then they changed their minds when pressured by associates at the Smithsonian Institution. Their excuse was that a rental agreement had been violated by the film’s sponsor, the American Freedom Alliance (AFA). The AFA […]
Tags: California Science Center, censorship, Darwinism, evolution, Intelligent Design, Science, scientific censorship, scientific controversy
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January 3, 2010
In exchange for their votes to “invoke cloture” (i.e., stop debate and hold a final vote) on Obamacare, here is what some of the Democrat Senators got in return: Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-LA, asked for and got an extra $100 million in Medicaid money for her state. This has become known as “The Louisiana Purchase”. […]
Tags: backroom deals, buying votes, cloture, health care, healthcare, Obamacare, Politics, unethical behavior
Posted in Politics |
December 29, 2009
So, what do we make of the concerns and accusations referred to at the beginning of this article? First of all, there is no intentional deceit going on with respect to celebrating the Nativity on December 25. We have seen that there are and historically have been some Christian writers & leaders who genuinely believe(d) […]
Tags: birth of Jesus, Christian tradition, Christianity, Christmas, Christmas Day, December 25, Jesus birthday, Nativity, Pagan Christmas, pagan holidays, paganism
Posted in Religion |
December 28, 2009
What do Jimmy Buffett, Larry Csonka, Karl Rove, Cab Calloway, Anwar Sadat, Rod Serling, Humphrey Bogart, and Conrad Hilton (Paris’ great-granddaddy) have in common? Based on the title above, you may have guessed that they were all born on December 25th. Yet, as long as we’re listing famous people with that particular birthday, someone else […]
Tags: birth of Jesus, Christian tradition, Christianity, Christmas, Christmas Day, December 25, Jesus birthday, Nativity, Pagan Christmas, pagan holidays, paganism
Posted in Religion |
December 20, 2009
Over the past few months, articles and blog posts have been popping up here & there, discussing a grassroots effort to remove liberalism from the Bible. The Conservative Bible Project at Conservapedia is spearheaded by the web-site’s founder, Andy Schlafly, son of conservative activist & author Phyllis Schlafly. As Associated Press reporter Tom Breen summarizes […]
Tags: Bible translations, conservatism vs. liberalism, ideological bias, misguided Christians, Politics, Religion, scholarship, Scripture study
Posted in Politics, Politics & Religion, Religion |
December 14, 2009
OR… Bad America! Long Live Marxist Socialism! Radical far-Leftist Howard Zinn, first-among-equals among the ‘Blame America’ academic crowd, is at it again — this time with the help of Hollywood and The History Channel. The controversial professor is author of the popular A People’s History of the United States — a darkly revisionist work if […]
Tags: anti-Americanism, Blame America First, culture wars, Education, Hollywood, Howard Zinn, indoctrination, Leftist propaganda, Marxism, Politics, socialism
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized |
December 12, 2009
It seems an example of “climate change fascism” has peaked its head thru the curtain in Copenhagen. At a book-launching press conference today, Stanford’s Professor Stephen Schneider was answering questions from the audience, when journalist and documentarian Phelim McAleer asked the professor some frank questions about the ClimateGate scandal. While Schneider testily gave a non-answer, […]
Tags: climate change, Climategate, freedom of the press, global warming, liberal fascism, misguided scientists, Politics, Science, scientific censorship, scientific controversy, UN Climate Change Conference
Posted in Politics, Politics & Science, Science |