A New Theory of Climate Change
Wednesday, 18 March 2009 03:28
Atlanta Creation Group
This article is borrowed from our friends at the Institute for Creation Research. It offers good evidence to support the theory, unlike many Global Warming theories. (It blows Global Warming out of the water). http://www.icr.org/article/new-theory-climate-change/
A New Theory of Climate Change by Larry Vardiman, Ph.D.* Introduction Man-made carbon dioxide is generally thought to produce global warming. However, in a recent article entitled "Does Carbon Dioxide Drive Global Warming?" I presented several major reasons why carbon dioxide is probably not the primary cause.1 But if carbon dioxide is not the cause, then what is? Evidence is accumulating that cosmic rays associated with fluctuations in the sun's electromagnetic field may be what drives global warming. A new theory called cosmoclimatology that proposes a natural mechanism for climate fluctuations has been developed by Henrik Svensmark,2 Head of the Center for Sun-Climate Research at the Danish National Space Center.
* Dr. Vardiman is Chair of the Department of Astro/Geophysics. Cite this article: Vardiman, L. 2008. A New Theory of Climate Change. Acts & Facts. 37 (11): 10. This article was originally published November, 2008. "A New Theory of Climate Change", Institute for Creation Research, http://www.icr.org/article/new-theory-climate-change (accessed March 17, 2009).
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Evolution vs. creationism: What should kids know?
Monday, 02 August 2010 13:02
Atlanta Creation Group
by Rachel Lane/Times-Georgian A series of conversations to be held at the University of West Georgia will examine religion and science, a topic that was recently discussed at a recent Carroll County School Board meeting. The series is part of a grant program two university professors received earlier this year. “Many people think that religion and science don’t need to conflict,” said Dr. Mark A. Teitjen, an assistant professor of philosophy and religion at UWG and one of the recipients of the grant.
During a Carroll County School Board meeting last week, Bob Staples, a member of the Villa Rica Church of Christ and a high school and college math teacher, told the school board members that evolution is taught as fact in schools and creationism is not taught at all. Staples, who also has a bachelor’s degree in Bible studies, challenged board members to discover the truth of what is taught in the school system, explore the differences in the two teachings and express their personal opinions on the matter.
“Our country was founded on a biblical world view. For a 100 years ... those involved in education had a very Christian view,” Staples said. When the Darwinism theory of evolution became more prevalent, creationism was removed from the schools, he said.
“Evolution has been raised to the status of operational science. It’s a theory,” Staples said. “I think this issue reflects the way you live your life.”
Kathy Rogers, assistant superintendent of teaching and learning for Carroll County Schools, said evolution is taught for a couple of weeks at the junior high level as required by Georgia standard testing. Staples would like to see both evolution and the creationism taught in the schools. “They are mutually exclusive,” Staples said. “God made heaven and earth in six days. Six literal days, not six thousands of years.”
In Genesis, God said animal and man was created on the sixth day, not allowing time for evolution from an animal into a human, he said.
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Peer Reviewed ID
Tuesday, 17 August 2010 02:15
Atlanta Creation Group
A peer-reviewed paper, "Information and Entropy -- Top-Down or Bottom-Up Development in Living Systems?," by University of Leeds professor Andy McIntosh in the International Journal of Design & Nature and Ecodynamics expressly endorses intelligent design (ID) via an exploration of a key question in ID thinking: The ultimate question in origins must be: Can information increase in a purely materialistic or naturalistic way? It is not satisfactory to simply assume that information has to have arisen in this way. The alternative of original design must be allowed and all options examined carefully.
A professor of thermodynamics and combustion theory, McIntosh is well acquainted with the workings of machinery. His argument is essentially twofold:
(1) First, he defines the term "machine" (a device which locally raises the free energy) and observes that the cell is full of machines. Such machines pose a challenge to neo-Darwinian evolution due to their irreducibly complex nature.
(2) Second, he argues that the information in living systems (similar to computer software) uses such machines and in fact requires machines to operate (what good is a program without a computer to run it?). An example is the genome sitting on the DNA molecule. From a thermodynamics perspective, the only way to make sense of this situation is to understand that the information is non-material and constrains the thermodynamics so that the local matter and energy are in a non-equilibrium state.
McIntosh addresses the objection that, thermodynamically speaking, highly organized low entropy structures can be formed at the expense of an increase in entropy elsewhere in the universe. However, he notes that this argument fails when applied to the origin of biological information: whilst this argument works for structures such as snowflakes that are formed by natural forces, it does not work for genetic information because the information system is composed of machinery which requires precise and non-spontaneous raised free energy levels - and crystals like snowflakes have zero free energy as the phase transition occurs.
Last Updated ( Tuesday, 17 August 2010 02:26 )
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