When you look at text books they say one thing. When you get to the real studies, you see the problems with all of the theories that are treated as fact. Not only are almost all mutations harmful and almost all beneficial mutations only slightly beneficial (most, if not all, are actually lost information that makes them survive better in a particular environment, but less fit overall when considering all environments), so they cannot be selected for, but also DNA is so complex that many sections do one thing when read in one direction, another when read backwards, and yet another when you start reading in the middle. A mutation that might be beneficial in one of those spots is pretty much guaranteed to break it when read in another way for another function. Also the mutation rate is putting so many harmful mutations into the genome that, if we had actually been around for millions of years like we're told, we should have so many mutations that nobody should be able to live. Evolution only makes sense when you look at it from a birds eye view and don't look at the details. That doesn't even take into account how nobody has ever even gotten close to figuring out how the first cell came into existence. One of the best proven scientific laws is abiogenesis, life only comes from life and not non-life.

Textbooks are for indoctrination. They have lots of out-of-date science that has been disproven.

I love all your pictures of flowers. Our flower season is pretty much over as we are regularly getting down to low 40s and high 30s. I'm already wondering when we will be getting our first snow.

Last night we got some thunder. My son doesn't like thunder. My husband farted and my son asked if that was thunder. I made the mistake of saying, "No, it was butt thunder." For the past 24 hours, I have heard talk of butt thunder constantly.

Ignoring reality before and after socialism

Amen

We are told that ice ages are caused by cold temperatures, but there are major problems with that simplified view.

Cold air doesn't hold much water. The colder the air, the less moisture it holds. If you have very cold temperatures, you have very little snowfall. To get large snow buildup, especially over a relatively short time frame, you need hot oceans (so you get lots of evaporation) and cool summers (like are caused after major volcanic eruptions put ash and gases into the atmosphere). During the global flood, with the breaking up of the waters of the deep, when the crust split and moved exposing magma to sea water and causing massive volcanism (as shown in the geological record), you would get just these conditions, causing an ice age.

This theory actually explains the evidence better than the consensus theory.

#grownostr #christian #science #evidence #iceage

https://www.icr.org/article/14295/

We are sold socialism by being told it is about being caring when it is really about envy by the average people and tyranny by those in power. It is as far from moral and good as you get.

True, free-market capitalism (not the crony capitalism/corporatism that we are told equates to capitalism) is the most moral system because all transactions are voluntary and only happen when both parties are happy with the transaction (whether you mean one person buying a good/service or if you mean one person working for another in exchange for compensation). In true capitalism everyone wins and those who do best are those who best provide for others.

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I'm not the math genius that my son is, but I'm still a geek who likes reading on most scientific subjects, history, economics, the Bible, math, and gardening. I'm currently reading a >1000 page book on geology and its catastrophic cause, a book on genetics and the link between races, "Traced", and Calvin's "Institutes of the Christian Religion". When I tell most people about what I am reading, their eyes either open in amazement or glaze over in total disinterest. I look at it as "if you aren't learning, you are already one foot in the grave". I just read an article about a study that said if you are over 50 and read >3.5 hours a week, then you are 20% more likely to stay alive over 12 years, so I guess there is some "scientific" evidence for my theory.

I can't understand people that ignore facts and logic. If anyone uses emotion to try to convince me of something, I am so turned off, I sometimes ignore them out of hand even when I should consider it. It is just so often that, those who use emotion instead of facts, are lying or are tyrants.

I have better control of my tongue than my facial expression. I don't have a poker face.

This article talks about planetary magnetism predictions based on what the Bible says. The article itself doesn't go into enough detail for anyone to judge (or even fully understand) the predictions. The book mentioned at the end of the article, Humphreys, D. R. and M. J. De Spain. 2015. Earth’s Mysterious Magnetism: and that of other celestial orbs. https://www.creationresearch.org/store/products/bk%20-%20earth's%20mysterious%20magnetism?taxon_id=2 does a great job of explaining it and amazing you. I've read the book and highly recommend it.

#bible #creation #science #geekout

https://www.icr.org/article/14293/

Some interesting research showing that Human & Chimp DNA are not the purported 98.5% similar. Those numbers come from old, inaccurate testing methodologies, contamination, using human DNA as a scaffold for putting together DNA snippets, and throwing out DNA that is completely dissimilar. The real number, reached independently with different methods by a Creation Scientist and an Evolutionary Biologist, is < 85% similar. This is too dissimilar for Evolution to be possible in the time assumed based on mutation rates of humans and chimps.

FYI, this article is an easy read. Other articles I've read on the same subject have given more details than are given in this article.

#grownostr #christian #science #bible #evolution

https://www.icr.org/article/14289/

He is in a math club.

When he started taking college classes at the local community college class, the professor had them do a group project (I think it was calculus). He came home all surprised and said "I just found out that not everyone is excited about math as I am." I am a geek and love math and science and history and stuff, but he makes me look normal.

I understand the old migrants not liking the new migrants. I lived in South Florida for 7 years. The first wave Cuban immigrants were hard working and frequently business owners (one of my closest friends were a Cuban couple that owned several Cuban restaurants). The later wave Cuban immigrants were lazy, disrespectful dregs of society. The first wave Cubans hated them because they gave them a bad name. The first wave Cubans were absolutely wonderful people. The later Cuban immigrants were leaches that destroyed everything they touched. I've been gone for >20 years so I don't know what things are like today.

I think of many things, but your post made me think of my son who just went off to college to study computer science. We were having a video call with him and asked for him to show his dorm room. He spun the camera around to quickly to get a great view, but my husband asked if he had anything on the wall. He said his roommate did, but he didn't. My husband said he should probably have something on his wall. My son replied, "what? like the Mandelbrot set?" That's how my son thinks and the rest of us are enough like that to know exactly what he was talking about. I think my son is getting a Mandelbrot set poster for Christmas.

Exactly. People can choose between not being paid as much as they want or not having a job and having nothing. People are much better with a lower wage, but having a job rather than having no job and no income because the government mandated wages higher than what employers can afford to spend and/or higher than their productivity to that business.

Did anyone realize how beautiful tumble weed could be before it dies and starts tumbling?

#grownostr #nature #fallcolors

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A nice afternoon walk. I love the fall colors even if they haven't reached their peak yet.

#grownostr #fall #fallcolors #nature #pictures

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A beautiful vine on my fence. I don't know what it is, but it sure is beautiful in the fall. The picture doesn't even do it justice. The red leaves seem to glow.

#grownostr #fall #fallcolors

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I so agree. I use leggings under my dresses to stay warm in the winter and to prevent pulling a Marilyn Monroe because of my windy location, but they are not pants.