Sunday, October 13, 2013
God gave us the "S" curve
I just want to point out that Australopithecus afarensis, africanus, and sediba all have "S" curves in their spines. I will even site a creationist source for sediba.
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/print/2006/07/bipedal-body/ackerman-text
http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/aid/v8/n1/sashaying-to-throne-sediba
Friday, October 11, 2013
What are the 60 dinosaur kinds?
I keep asking about these 60 or 50 dinosaur kinds. This was one of the main questions that led me to reject Young Earth Creationism. What are the orders of mammalia? Google it. You will find a debate over whether there are between 19-29 orders. Start looking for Dinosaur kinds. What you will not find is a debate among creationist about 60 or 50 kinds of dinosaurs. What you will find is an assertion of it's validity and one or two examples of a Dinosaur kind. The most common example of a dinosaur kind is ceratopsia.
- j Deinonychosaurs.
- h Oviraptorosaurs.
- m Carnosaurs and Coelurosaurs.
- n Segnosaurs.
- o Prosauropods.
- p Sauropods.
- q Fabrosaurids.
- r Scelidosaurs.
- s Stegosaurs.
- t Ankylosaurs.
- u Ornithopods.
- v Heterodontosaurids.
- w Ceratopsians.
- x Pachycephalosaurs.
- Ceratopsians
- Pachycephalosaurs
- Ornithopods
- Stegosaurs
- Ankylosaurs
- Theropods (Segnosaurs, Deinonychosaurs, Oviraptorosaurs, Carnosaurs, and Coelurosaurs)
- Prosauropods
- Sauropods
Thursday, October 3, 2013
But it's still a frog?
Anurans are made up of an extraordinary number of species living in highly diverse habitats, and with highly diverse lifestyles, behaviors, and design features. The above descriptions were meant to provide a glimpse of the variety and taxonomic challenges inherent in the study of frogs. New molecular data is being collected every day, while new species are being identified every year. This is causing frog taxonomy to be in constant flux and highly tentative. Furthermore, seven species from the genera Crossodactylodes (3), Rupirana (1), and Zachaenus (3) have not been categorized to date. Therefore any attempt to determine the number of anuran kinds is a daunting task (Amphibiaweb 2013). With the above in mind, I tentatively place the number of extant anuran kinds on the Ark at 140. Whatever the number actually was, it is clear that frogs and toads represent the amazing diversity that is consistent with the Creator’s triune character and the creative wisdom required to build fascinating creatures with the ability to persist and thrive, in a fallen world.
I really didn't like this movie...
If the Separatist Pilgrims (1620) left us a monument built in 1888, over 250 years after Plymouth, then can we say the apostles left us the church fathers? Also, this movie seems to ignore the Great Migration (1629-1640), when about 20,000 Puritans immigrated to New England dwarfing the Separatist population.