Friday, 3-16 turned out to be a “red-letter-day.” Ex-student Jared Grummer was returning to Seattle from Argentina and wanted to share some of his adventures. He had just completed a 5-month field-study exploring the genomes of the lizards of Patagonia. This involves the last leg of his efforts to obtain a PhD degree in herpetology … [Read more…]
“Everything You Need To Know Is Contained In a Flower.” Buddha Excerpt: “The Immense Journey” [How Flowers Changed The World] by Loren Eiseley. “A little while ago—about one hundred million years, as the geologist estimates time in the history of our four-billion-year-old planet—flowers were not to be found anywhere on the five continents. Wherever one … [Read more…]
In, The Great Evolution Mystery, Gordon Taylor explains why Darwin’s Theory of evolution does not account for “organs of extreme perfection.” This includes the human eye. Human eyes contain over 100 million cells that all must function in perfect synchrony in order for people to see properly. Although ophthalmologists know much about eyes, it remains … [Read more…]
There is a rural legend that domesticated turkeys are so dumb that they will drown themselves while looking up at the rain with their mouths open. The term “birdbrain” emerged from the fact that, compared to humans, bird brains are extremely small. Most birds have pea-sized brains with the largest belonging to parrots. Ostrich brains … [Read more…]
The Excesses of God Is it not by his high superfluousness we know Our God? For to equal a need Is natural, animal, mineral: but to fling Rainbows over the rain And beauty above the moon, and secret rainbows On the domes of deep sea-shells… – Robinson Jeffers In his wonderful poem, “Excesses of God,” … [Read more…]
“For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.” Psalm 139 13-14 It is a stunning irony that an “uneducated” sheepherder wrote this Psalm circa 3,000 years ago! He may have been closer to the truth of our origin than … [Read more…]
If I were still teaching Biodesign, I would have students quietly concentrate on this image for one full minute and have them “write out of their stream of consciousness.” I can assure you, their descriptions would be astounding! Why not try it? The “Big Bang Theory” and evolution have something in common, both are events … [Read more…]
“Great minds think alike, and fools seldom differ.” – Anonymous http://www.evolutionnews.org/2014/07/we_hold_some_tr087471.html Isaac Newton wrote about the universe (circa 1677): “This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.” Approximately 150 years later, Thomas Jefferson agreed with Newton and thought that … [Read more…]
Young’s book relates how a group of disconnected souls connected and discovered the real meaning of life in a high school class called Biodesign. [Wilmington, NC June 3, 2014] Author Lowell Harrison Young appeared on The Author Show recently to discuss his latest release, ‘Biodesign Out For A Walk’. A biology class does not normally … [Read more…]