Note from Creation Vol 26 No. 4 According to BBC News, 31 May 2004
Interestingly we find that most evolutionists and progressive creationists believe that the big bang occurred 13.7 billion years ago. So how big would we expect the universe to be? Even if the universe expanded at the speed of light, then the radius of the universe should be 13.7 billion light-years as an upper limit, so the width of the universe is 27.4 billion light-years, right?
Wrong!
From new data collected from a space probe examining the Cosmic Background Radiation, astronomers estimate the universe is at least 156 billion light-years wide. Actually, it's long been known that the universe was a lot wider than 27.4 billion light-years; this latest research tells us how much wider.
According to researchers writing in the journal Physics Review Letters, the universe must have expanded much faster than light in its early stage. An atheistic physicist, Alan Guth proposed this over 20 years ago - the 'inflation' model. It's no wonder that 33 leading scientists have published an 'Open Letter to the Scientific Community' rejecting the big bang. They refer to 'fudge factors' such as the 'hypothetical' inflation idea, which needs a cosmic density 20 times larger than that required for the big bang to make the light elements.
Coming right back to Earth, Mannatech's Research Scientists are continuing to work in the area of glycobiology, one of the last frontiers of science to be conquered and are at the cutting-edge of a large number of discoveries and therapies. Science has already proven our bodies need Glyconutrients for optimal health.
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
Monday, June 18, 2007
How Many Ainimals on the Ark?
Skeptics often toss this challenge out, thinking there is no answer, but there is, and a simple one at that. There are two parts to the question - the number of animals and the size of the Ark.
Every species of living creature did not need to go on board. Only the animals that were air breathing. So fish did not go on; they are not air-breathing. Whales and dolphin did not go on either. Although they breathe air, they are not land-dwelling. Fish and whales survive under water, although some die during floods when sediment and other debris contaminate the water. We find many marine fossils that were buried during the Flood.
Insects were probably not collected and housed on the Ark. No doubt many insects hopped on board anyway. So, that reduces the number of species. But how many animals?
Take dogs, e.g. would Noah have taken two Alsatians, two cocker spaniels, two collies, two red setters, etc.? No, he would have needed just one pair of dogs, like the wolf kind, with much genetic variation, somewhat like mongrels today. We know that the different breeds of dogs have been produced from a wolf-like dog, and this only took a few thousand years. That is not evolution that's just variation within the original created kind. The animals have diversified in the 4,500 years since the Flood. The actual number of animals Noah put on board depends on what a biblical 'kind' is.
Woodmorappe in his book Noah's Ark: A Feasibility Study calculated that the number of animals would have been less than 16,000, assuming that a biblical kind is roughly equivalent to the group of animals we call a genus today. However, if the biblical kind is equivalent to the 'family' grouping, then there would have only been 2,000 animals. Probably it was somewhere in between.
The animals would have been easily housed ion small enclosures because most animals are small, on average the size of a rabbit. Even large animals, such as the biggest dinosaurs, began their lives small. In selecting creatures to repopulate the earth, it would make more sense to choose those that were young and healthy, rather than the older, mature ones.
And the size of the Ark? It was huge. It had capacity of over 500 railroad stock cars. enough to carry more than 120,000 sheep. So there was plenty of room on the Ark for the animals, for their food and water, and for Noah and his family.
Taken from Creation magazine Vol. 29 No. 2
Glyconutrients are generally missing from our diet but are necessary for optimal health in humans.
Every species of living creature did not need to go on board. Only the animals that were air breathing. So fish did not go on; they are not air-breathing. Whales and dolphin did not go on either. Although they breathe air, they are not land-dwelling. Fish and whales survive under water, although some die during floods when sediment and other debris contaminate the water. We find many marine fossils that were buried during the Flood.
Insects were probably not collected and housed on the Ark. No doubt many insects hopped on board anyway. So, that reduces the number of species. But how many animals?
Take dogs, e.g. would Noah have taken two Alsatians, two cocker spaniels, two collies, two red setters, etc.? No, he would have needed just one pair of dogs, like the wolf kind, with much genetic variation, somewhat like mongrels today. We know that the different breeds of dogs have been produced from a wolf-like dog, and this only took a few thousand years. That is not evolution that's just variation within the original created kind. The animals have diversified in the 4,500 years since the Flood. The actual number of animals Noah put on board depends on what a biblical 'kind' is.
Woodmorappe in his book Noah's Ark: A Feasibility Study calculated that the number of animals would have been less than 16,000, assuming that a biblical kind is roughly equivalent to the group of animals we call a genus today. However, if the biblical kind is equivalent to the 'family' grouping, then there would have only been 2,000 animals. Probably it was somewhere in between.
The animals would have been easily housed ion small enclosures because most animals are small, on average the size of a rabbit. Even large animals, such as the biggest dinosaurs, began their lives small. In selecting creatures to repopulate the earth, it would make more sense to choose those that were young and healthy, rather than the older, mature ones.
And the size of the Ark? It was huge. It had capacity of over 500 railroad stock cars. enough to carry more than 120,000 sheep. So there was plenty of room on the Ark for the animals, for their food and water, and for Noah and his family.
Taken from Creation magazine Vol. 29 No. 2
Glyconutrients are generally missing from our diet but are necessary for optimal health in humans.
Sunday, June 17, 2007
Twins - One White and One Black
Believe it or not, we have two beautiful little twin girls, born April 2005 in Nottingham, UK. One blue-eyed girl called 'white', while many would label her brown-eyed sister as 'black'.
The twins soon became the focus of much media attention. News reports (The Sunday Mail, Brisbane, 12 March 2006), described how both of their parents have white mothers and black fathers.
These two little girls help answer one of the questions that has troubled many people about the Bible. If there was just one man and one woman at the beginning then where did all the 'races' come from, with their 'different skin colours'? The twins prove that it is simply a matter of genetics - with the right genes, all the different complexions can appear in one generation.
So if Adam and Eve had a middle-brown complexion due to a mixture of 'light' and 'dark' genetic information, similar to these twins parents, all shades from the darkest through to the lightest could be accounted for in their children and future generations.
These beautiful twins also illustrate the biblical truth that we are all related - we all belong to the same family through Adam and Eve, and through Noah and his family too, just as the Bible says.
An interesting item read in Creation magazine Vol. 29 No. 2
Mannatech products are at the cutting edge of nutritional science giving us Glyconutrients, which are generally missing in our diet but are necessary for optimal health and wellbeing in humans.
The twins soon became the focus of much media attention. News reports (The Sunday Mail, Brisbane, 12 March 2006), described how both of their parents have white mothers and black fathers.
These two little girls help answer one of the questions that has troubled many people about the Bible. If there was just one man and one woman at the beginning then where did all the 'races' come from, with their 'different skin colours'? The twins prove that it is simply a matter of genetics - with the right genes, all the different complexions can appear in one generation.
So if Adam and Eve had a middle-brown complexion due to a mixture of 'light' and 'dark' genetic information, similar to these twins parents, all shades from the darkest through to the lightest could be accounted for in their children and future generations.
These beautiful twins also illustrate the biblical truth that we are all related - we all belong to the same family through Adam and Eve, and through Noah and his family too, just as the Bible says.
An interesting item read in Creation magazine Vol. 29 No. 2
Mannatech products are at the cutting edge of nutritional science giving us Glyconutrients, which are generally missing in our diet but are necessary for optimal health and wellbeing in humans.
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Giant Bug Mystery
Insect Inspiration Solves Giant Bug Mystery by David Catchpoole - Excerpt from Creation Magazine Vol. 27 No. 4
'Can you imagine a time when mayflies were over five time bigger than today, and the ground was walked by giant ants - their queen bigger than a hummingbird? What about if insects looking somewhat like gigantic flying cockroaches with 43 cm wingspans came into your kitchen? Would you have felt uneasy with gargantuan dragonflies - wingspans as wide as a hawk's- darting around you?
Sound impossible? In fact, all of these examples are known from actual fossils - so at some time in the past such creatures were living on this earth. The largest fossil insect found so far, the dragonfly Meganeura, had a wingspan of 71 cm (nearly 2ft 5 in).
For years, scientists have puzzled over how such giant insects could have existed at all, let alone fly. The problem was lack of oxygen. Biology textbooks have long taught that insects don't breathe - at least, not like we do. Instead of lungs sucking in air via nostrils or mouth, insects have a network of tiny air tubes (tracheae) which open to the outside air via a row of small holes (spiracles) along each side of the body. It was understood that insects don't actively inhale or exhale; so it was taught that air only seeps in and out of the insects' air tubes passively. Obviously, such 'passive diffusion' is a very slow process. And it only works over short distances....
Researchers used new X-ray technology to look inside live insects - which showed that insects pump their air tubes much as humans expand and contract their lungs. ...
Even while at rest, the insects exchanged up to half of the air in their main tubes about every second. As Dr. Westneat leader of a research team observed. 'They are really pumping some gas. (This is comparable with birds and mammals - e.g. humans at rest have a lung ventilation of about 10%, but this may reach 75% during exercise).
This remarkable discovery solves the mystery of how colossal insects could have existed in the past, without the need for higher oxygen levels in the atmosphere.'
The insects on earth are really amazing as well as the human capacity being incredible.
Glyconutritionals are generally missing from our diet but are necessary for optimal health and wellbeing in humans.
'Can you imagine a time when mayflies were over five time bigger than today, and the ground was walked by giant ants - their queen bigger than a hummingbird? What about if insects looking somewhat like gigantic flying cockroaches with 43 cm wingspans came into your kitchen? Would you have felt uneasy with gargantuan dragonflies - wingspans as wide as a hawk's- darting around you?
Sound impossible? In fact, all of these examples are known from actual fossils - so at some time in the past such creatures were living on this earth. The largest fossil insect found so far, the dragonfly Meganeura, had a wingspan of 71 cm (nearly 2ft 5 in).
For years, scientists have puzzled over how such giant insects could have existed at all, let alone fly. The problem was lack of oxygen. Biology textbooks have long taught that insects don't breathe - at least, not like we do. Instead of lungs sucking in air via nostrils or mouth, insects have a network of tiny air tubes (tracheae) which open to the outside air via a row of small holes (spiracles) along each side of the body. It was understood that insects don't actively inhale or exhale; so it was taught that air only seeps in and out of the insects' air tubes passively. Obviously, such 'passive diffusion' is a very slow process. And it only works over short distances....
Researchers used new X-ray technology to look inside live insects - which showed that insects pump their air tubes much as humans expand and contract their lungs. ...
Even while at rest, the insects exchanged up to half of the air in their main tubes about every second. As Dr. Westneat leader of a research team observed. 'They are really pumping some gas. (This is comparable with birds and mammals - e.g. humans at rest have a lung ventilation of about 10%, but this may reach 75% during exercise).
This remarkable discovery solves the mystery of how colossal insects could have existed in the past, without the need for higher oxygen levels in the atmosphere.'
The insects on earth are really amazing as well as the human capacity being incredible.
Glyconutritionals are generally missing from our diet but are necessary for optimal health and wellbeing in humans.
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