on years! A more reasonable explanation is that bees and wasps come from one original created kind that then diverged into the various species we observe today. But even if bees and wasps were separate creations, this “oldest” bee has features that present-day bees lack, showing, if anything, a loss of genetic information—not the gain bacteria-to-bee evolution would require.
Geologist Russell Mapes, a student at the University of North Carolina, believes that the Amazon River once flowed east to west, the opposite of its current flow from the Andes toward the Atlantic in the east. Why? “Sedimentary rocks in the central part of South America contain ancient mineral grains that must have come from the eastern part of the continent.” Uniformitarians believe rocks on the eastern side of South America are significantly older, and use this to identify where in South America rocks originated from that, they say, have been carried elsewhere by the Amazon.
Of course, this is just an attempt to explain away the disorganized ages of these mineral grains, which do not make sense according to standard radiometric dates. Since the radiometric dates do not line up with the current flow of the river, this geologist is postulating this reverse-flow to try to account for why the dates are mixed up. But such a change is unnecessary if the dates are inaccurate in the first place.
Scientists are again looking to nature for inspiration. National Geographic News reports on engineers’ attempts to mimic seagull wings in their aircraft designs in an effort to reduce drag. Scientists have also designed wings based on the fins of great white sharks and humpback whales.
Just another example of design in nature.
Don’t expect fair treatment of Christianity from Britain’s “Beeb,” according to details leaked about an “impartiality summit” comprised of BBC executives:
[E]xecutives admitted they would happily broadcast the image of a Bible being thrown away—but would not do the same for the Koran.
Humanists aim to remove the Bible from public discussion by claiming to seek “neutrality” and religious plurality. But, as is seen in the comments of BBC executives, often the humanist ideas of “political correctness” really mean the promotion of anti-Western, anti-Christian views.
Geologist Bradley Cramer of [The] Ohio State University has used new techniques to determine that rocks from the Niagara Gorge (in Ontario and New York) formed five times more quickly than previously thought—supposedly two million years instead of ten. Of course, this finding doesn’t directly support Genesis, since creationist models of sedimentary rock formation are based on catastrophic principles and differ substantially from uniformitarian ideas. What’s most interesting is the fact that scientists can so suddenly discover their numbers to be so significantly in error. Just last week, ten million years was the “right” number. This week, two million years is the “right” number. Scientists could “discover” tomorrow that they need to change their estimates of the age of the earth by a factor of five (or more!), as well.
This week, Australia’s Courier-Mail reports on “black and white” twin sisters, born in May near Brisbane. One of the girls has dark brown skin and hair, while the other has very light skin and blonde hair. Because of the stark difference in skin and hair color, most would never think of the two as siblings. The twins’ mother is of Jamaican-English heritage, and the father is from Germany. The article also points out that light/dark twins were born last year in Britain as well (it is unclear if a similar story from the AP, released yesterday, refers to the same British twins), though neither represents the first time this has happened.
What does this interesting rarity have to do with the Bible? Sadly, racism has plagued humankind since just after the Tower of Babel. For the same reason that people ostracize those with other so-called abnormalities, human societies have often relegated minorities to second-class individuals, even considering them less than human. The th