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Great Deal for Materialists! We Will Spot You 99 Yards and 35 Inches in a 100 Yard Dash

To all of the materialist OOL researchers who continue to blither about how we are tantalizingly close to discovering how blind unguided natural forces produced the staggeringly complex nano-technology in even the simplest cell, we challenge you to a 100 yard dash. And there is good news.  We will spot you 99 yards and 35 inches.  Here’s how.  Take the simplest living cell you can find.  Put it in purified water free from any contaminants.  At this point you will have every chemical you need for the existence of simple life.  You will have all of those chemicals already arranged so that life can exist.  You need absolutely nothing else.  It is an absolutely perfect chemical cocktail for the existence Read More ›

Mathematician Granville Sewell offers six top evidences for ID

Sewell: Maybe some day human engineers will design a self-replicating machine, like those we see everywhere in the living world, but it will not happen in my lifetime, and it will not be simple. It will certainly not show that such a machine could have arisen without design. Read More ›

James Randi (1928-2020)

Thing is, the kind of skepticism Randi represented was based in a world where everyone agreed that 2 + 2 = 4. Today, it is NOT doubters of Darwin, etc., who are destroying science. Hardly! It is the ensconced science bureaucrats who are willing to entertain the destruction of math and—be sure of it—eventually, just plain literacy. It would be good to think that Randi never came to know of the doom. Read More ›

Did the black hole paradox really come to an end? Rob Sheldon offers some thoughts

Sheldon: Black Holes are a theoretical and empirical disaster. Given two possible assumptions to Schwarzschild’s solution of Einstein’s gravity equation, nearly everyone has taken the discontinuous, unphysical, "event-horizon" assumption leading to "Black Holes". One of the many predictions of BH, is that they cannot have magnetic fields, and they destroy anything that falls into them, converting all that matter into "Hawking radiation". What about all that data showing high density objects at the center of our galaxy and neighboring galaxies? Read More ›

Mathematician John Lennox warns about the darkening intellectual scene

Lennox: "One of the things that I never tire of saying is: Look to the origin of the great universities. They were mostly founded on Christian thinking. That is extremely important. Now what we’ve got is the dominance of naturalism, with universities going against their very foundation." Yes, when freedom of speech - for example - threatens them, they sure have a problem. Read More ›

Precambrian creature scrunches the origin of life even further

This “revolutionary animal” is not that much like the Cambrian creatures so far found but the big question is, how did life explode so quickly if it was only by chance? Why not just give up on that idea and study the creature for what it is? Read More ›

Why, as a neurosurgeon, Michael Egnor believes in free will

Egnor: "An intellectual seizure would be a seizure that caused abstract thought, such as logic, or reasoning, or mathematics. People never have, for example, mathematics seizures—seizures in which they involuntarily do calculus or arithmetic. This observation, which is as true today as it was in Penfield’s time nearly a century ago, begs for explanation." He offers an argument for the immaterial powers of the mind. Read More ›

“Superhuman:” Mind Blowing Documentary

If you want to have your mind blown, I suggest watching the documentary available on Amazon or iTunes titled “Superhuman.” It demonstrates amazing psi capacity, including teaching the blind to see and read with their minds, telekinesis, etc. The documentary shows just the tip of the iceberg of what is scientifically achievable once it is no longer limited by materialist perspectives.

What? An honest admission about the bacterial flagellum from Darwin-driven biology?

Researchers: "To build the machinery that enables bacteria to swim, over 50 proteins have to be assembled according to a logic and well-defined order to form the flagellum, the cellular equivalent of an offshore engine of a boat." They ADMIT this? It sounds like a Recovery Meeting. Read More ›

John Sanford and James Tour discuss science and faith

Dr. James Tour and Dr. John Sanford discuss science and faith, including Dr. Sanford's challenge against the idea of natural selection benefiting the fitness of living organisms, coming as a direct result of his research on genomes showing the fitness of biological systems are degenerating due to the accumulation of harmful mutations. Read More ›