jackakin's Podcast

Tue, 29 September 2009

We were discussing some of the reasons why many evolutionists believe there is a genetic link between ancient reptile and mammals, believing that an intermediate group evolved from the 'true' reptiles, which gradually acquired mammalian characters until a point was reached where we have artificially drawn a line between reptiles and mammals. Creationist biologists and paleontologists remind us, however, that the creatures included within the class Mammalia are a diverse group. The mammals comprise 32 orders, most of which are placental mammals but which also include the Monotremata, which embrace the egg-laying spiny ant-eater and the egg-laying duckbilled platypus, and the Marsupialia, which include the opossums and the pouched marsupials, such as the kangaroo and wallabies.

In a 2003 copyrighted Impact article Dr. Duane Gish states the following. “It is interesting to note that while claiming that intermediate forms for the reptile-to-mammal transition have been found, some evolutionists admit that no immediate ancestors for any of the 32 mammalian orders have been discovered. Thus, George Gaylord Simpson, after stating that nowhere in the world is there any trace of a fossil that would close the considerable gap between Hyracotherium ("Eohippus"), which evolutionists assume was the first horse, and its supposed ancestral order Condylarthra, goes on to say "This is true of all the thirty-two orders of mammals…The earliest and most primitive known members of every order already have the basic ordinal characters, and in no case is an approximately continuous sequence from one order to another known. In most cases the break is so sharp and the gap so large that the origin of the order is speculative and much disputed." Here Dr. Gish is citing Simpson’s book entitled Tempo and Mode in Evolution, New York: Columbia University Press, 1944.

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Sun, 27 September 2009

Fossils - 8 of 15

As mentioned previously, the evolutionist sees through the lens of materialism and gradualism to explain variation by the development of increased order, from single-celled to multicelled, invertibrates to vertibrates, from primitive jawless fish to sharks, skates, and rays, from primitive jawless fish to bony fish, from primitive bony fish to amphibians, transitions among amphibians, from amphibians to amniotes (first reptiles), some transitions among reptiles, and from synapsid (having a skull with an extra low opening behind the eyes) reptiles to mammals, and from diapsid (two holes on each side of their skulls) reptiles to birds. Let’s briefly discuss the supposed transition from reptiles to mammals.

Evolutionists begin the discussion by citing the differences between “early” reptiles and modern mammals. Distinctions in skull, braincase attachment, palate and dentition. These particular reptiles had teeth all of the same type, whereas the modern mammal has molars, canines, etc. These reptiles had teeth that were replaced continuously, unlike the mammal, and had a single ear bone, or stapes, whereas the mammal has three ear bones; the stapes, incus and malleus.

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Fri, 25 September 2009

Fossils - 7 of 15

Even though we are often literally bombarded with the notion held by some evolutionists that vertebrates, those creatures with their skeletons inside, somehow evolved from invertebrates, those creatures with all their soft parts held together by an outside skeleton, it seems that the evidence is all in favor of the creationist view. Even though this transition is supposed to have taken 100 million years, not a single intermediate has ever been discovered. If vertebrates themselves have not evolved, as seems certain, evolutionary theory is dead, and it is unnecessary to further speculate about evolution of groups within the vertebrates, or within any other division. By the way, there is to date no clue as to how the one-celled organisms could have evolved into the vast array of complex multi-celled invertebrates during what is dubbed as the Cambrian period.

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Tue, 22 September 2009

Fossils - 6 of 15

The theory of evolution, states within its doctrine that vertebrates evolved from more primitive invertebrates. The term “vertebrate” describes an creature that has an endoskeleton, that is; an internal, skeletal frame, upon which its systems of muscles, nerves, circulation, etc., are mounted. The five classes of these are the cold-blooded fish, amphibians and reptiles, and the warm-blooded birds and mammals. An invertebrate is an organism whose body is held together by an external skeleton. Examples of these are insects, sponges, worms, arthropods, mollusks, and even tiny one-celled animals, or protozoa. Now, the average evolutionist believes that the time between the origin of life and the abrupt appearance in the fossil record of the many complex invertebrates was nearly three billion years, and about 100 million years for one of these invertebrates to evolve into the vertebrates, or fishes.

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Sat, 19 September 2009

Fossils - 5 of 15

We have been looking at the testimony of fossils in general and the theory proposed by evolutionists in particular that birds have through the ages somehow evolved from reptiles. Their case in point, the Archaeopteryx. It has been asserted for example, that Archaeopteryx shares 21 specialized characters with coelurosaurian dinosaurs. Recent research on various anatomical features of Archaeopteryx, however, has shown, in every case, that the characteristic in question is bird-like, not reptile-like. K.N. Whetstone, in the 1983 Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology revealed that when the cranium of the London specimen was removed from the limestone and studied, it was shown to be bird-like, not reptile-like. M.J. Benton published in a 1983 article in Nature that "details of the brain case and associated bones at the back of the skull seem to suggest that Archaeopteryx is not the ancestral bird, but an offshoot from the early avian stem."

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Thu, 17 September 2009

Fossils - 4 of 15

For your consideration...the following is an excerpt from a radio spot on KAPL radio, Jacksonville, Oregon, called " Akin For the Truth". To listen to the entire spot (a few minutes long), click the little microphone icon....Jack
As stated earlier, Creationists assert that there is no correlation in fossils found in sediments and increasing complexities and that all of the "kinds” of animals are distinct within each kind. After looking carefully at the data, creationists have concluded that there are no transitional forms from invertebrates to vertebrates, from fish to amphibians, from amphibians to reptiles, from reptiles to mammals, or from reptiles to birds. So let's talk now about the supposed transition from reptiles to birds.

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Mon, 14 September 2009

Fossils - 3 of 15

The study of the forms of life existing in the fossils of plants and animals is called paleontology. This discipline differs from that of archaeology, which is the study of man's past by scientific analysis of the material remains of his cultures. The two studies, however, often intersect. When studying paleontology, it is also often necessary to draw from geology, and most particularly, sedimentary geology.

Evolutionists who also study paleontology or sedimentary geology sometimes put forth arguments against the world-wide flood spoken of in Scripture being the source of most of the fossils we find.

However, in the opinion many creationists, such arguments demonstrate a potential misunderstanding of the forces of nature that bear upon such a world-wide, cataclysmic event. Re-thinking of sedimentation is beginning as some geologists take a more detailed look at the multi-layering phenomena observed, say, at Mount St. Helens, Yellowstone and the Grand Canyon, in finely separated rock strata, hard-rock erosion from mud-flow, multi-level sedimentation and tree re-planting, coalification, etc. The effects of these processes on the radiometric attributes of underlying strata, (for example trapped Argon concentrations in igneous rocks) are also coming to light via focused, scientific studies.

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Sat, 12 September 2009

Fossils - 2 of 15

We continue today by introducing the testimony of the fossils as we take a closer look at the various types that have been found. Thus we begin to accumulate what we could call a fossil record. How this record is interpreted is largely subjective, depending on one’s point of view as to how the plants and animals they represent came to be. What that record tells the unbiased observer may be surprising. In addition to the replaced and permineralized fossil types described earlier, sometimes soft tissues of plants or animals are carbonized, or rapidly buried and compressed. Frozen mammoth carcasses found in ice or insects trapped in amber are examples of preservation fossils, whereby an organism is preserved with very little chemical or physical change. Most of us have seen clams or other invertebrate shells that have been recrystallized. In other words, the aragonite crystal structure of the shell has been changed to mineral calcite rock.

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Thu, 10 September 2009

Fossils - 1 of 15

Its startling how such widely diverging statements are made from two different camps using the same data. But such is certainly the case when interpreting the data provided by fossils. So let’s talk about fossils for awhile. Fossils are remains or traces of once-living organisms. When something dies, it is usually eaten by something else; a predator or bacteria, and is soon gone. So, in order for fossils to form, there must be a way to preserve the remains of animals or plants for a time. This occurs most often on the bottom of bodies of water; oceans, lakes, rivers. When an animal or plant dies in or falls into the water, the remains are sometimes covered up quickly by sediments; mud, peat, or something like that, and the sediment forms a protective covering.

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Mon, 7 September 2009

The Real Rub - 3 of 3

When attempting to focus on what is the “real rub��?, the actual disagreement, between evolutionists and creationists, we find that the debate reduces to the question of origins. Unable to come up with plausible scenarios or explanations as to how the complexities of the cosmos could have accidentally come to be, the evolutionist/materialist establishment seems to be forced to resort to dogma and propaganda, attempting to restrict all inquiry about origins to evolutionary alone, exaggerating evidences for their theories, and ridiculing and misrepresenting the creationist views. Evolutionists use the false argument that, if we accept God as the Creator of nature, we will simply resort to the creative act, instead of searching for the scientific explanations. History, of course, does not support this argument.

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Sat, 5 September 2009

The Real Rub - 2 of 3

We have been exploring the differences between creationists and evolutionists, noting that there really are very few with respect to what we call “science��?. The real rub is not what we see in nature, but how it got here. The debate is about origins. The creationist claims that the scenario that is presented by materialists is not credible. The spontaneous, that is, the natural and unguided origin of DNA, for example, can not, to date, be explained by anyone. Fact is, as afore-mentioned, the DNA in the mind-boggling, complex, living cell is, itself, constructed using proteins. But the code within the DNA is what produces those same proteins. You must have the DNA because it’s the only part of the cell that can reproduce the information to pass on to the next generation of cells.

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Wed, 2 September 2009

The Real Rub - 1 of 3

Whenever evolution – creation discussions come up you may take notice what are the actual issues being debated. If you compare, for example, a book about biology written by an evolutionist with that written by a creationist you will notice that 99% or better of the content of the two books is in agreement. They will both present the same details about DNA structure and replication, and the other mind-twisting complexities of the cell. Evolutionists and Creationists have no disputes regarding the complex coding and code-reading processes, and such things are fairly commonly known among those who study them.

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Mon, 31 August 2009

Monarch Butterfly - 3 of 3

We’ve been reviewing the amazing process of the development of a Monarch Butterfly, one of nature’s most beautiful creatures, literally transformed from the lowly caterpillar. But just as remarkable is the Monarch’s migration habits.

The monarch butterfly can fly thousands of miles to its wintering locations, and some tagged monarchs have been known to travel from Canada to the Neovolcanic Mountains of Mexico, a distance of 3000 miles and a two-month trip. Each Autumn, thousands of Monarch Butterflies gather in southern Canada to migrate south, just to winter in Mexico, Cuba, Pacific Grove, and Newark, California. This wintering period allows them to hibernate, thus conserving their energy. During this interval they eat and drink little, thus enabling some of them to live as long as one year. You can see them flying around and almost blocking the sky, and you will hear the fascinating sound of their wings flapping. During their long flight there is a great danger from predators. The monarch butterflies are the only insects on Earth to migrate annually over continental distances, and it is estimated that over 300 million of these fantastic creatures migrate to Mexico every year.

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