Saturday, February 20, 2010
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Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Another Darwin Quote
"Often a cold shudder run through me and I have to ask myself weather I may have not devoted myself to a fantasy"
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Darwin Quotes
"Such simple insects such as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to over throw my whole theory"
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Akhenaton (Beloved of Aton) the Pharaoh that believed in One God
Amenhotep was a young Pharaoh who was married at the age of 12. When he turned 13 he became the new ruler of Egypt. In his first year of becoming Pharaoh, he became disgusted with the many gods of the Egyptians. He began to form his own understanding of GOD. Amenhotep noticed that there was only one sun and that it did not only give life and warmth to Egypt but to the whole world!! He then decided that there was only one GOD and that GOD was not only for Egypt but for the whole world to share and love! Amenhotep decided to call his beloved GOD Aton. Then he changed his name to Akhenaton which means "beloved of ATON"!! While Akhenaton studied his new GOD he wrote many psalms much like this one:
O living Aton, Beginning of Life!
Thy dawning is beautiful on th ehorizon of heaven.
Thou fillest every land with thy beauty; thou bindest them
With Thy love, How manifold are Thy works!
O thou sole God, whose power no other possesseth.
Thou didst create the earth according to thy desire.
Men and all cattle, large and small.
All that go upon their feet--- all that fly with wings.
The foreign countries of Syria and Kush (as well as)
This land of Egypt.
Thou settest every man in his place. Thou suppliest their needs
(Though) their tongues differ in speech, their forms likewise
And the color of their skins (thou art)
Lord of them all.
How excellent are Thy designs, O Lord of Eternity!
Thou art in my heart, for Thou art the duration of Life
By Thee men live.
O living Aton, Beginning of Life!
Thy dawning is beautiful on th ehorizon of heaven.
Thou fillest every land with thy beauty; thou bindest them
With Thy love, How manifold are Thy works!
O thou sole God, whose power no other possesseth.
Thou didst create the earth according to thy desire.
Men and all cattle, large and small.
All that go upon their feet--- all that fly with wings.
The foreign countries of Syria and Kush (as well as)
This land of Egypt.
Thou settest every man in his place. Thou suppliest their needs
(Though) their tongues differ in speech, their forms likewise
And the color of their skins (thou art)
Lord of them all.
How excellent are Thy designs, O Lord of Eternity!
Thou art in my heart, for Thou art the duration of Life
By Thee men live.
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Yesterday in science we discussed experimental error. Experimental error has to do with a mistake made in an experiment. There are a variety of ways that experimental errors can occur. Some cases can be prevented by turning an experiment in for peer review. Peer review provides a way for scientists to check experiments to make sure nothing is wrong. Here is an example of experimental error that caused great embarrassment for two scientists because they did not submit their experiment to peer review.
Fleishmann and Pons
Fleishmann and Pons
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
First published:
Creation 18(4):16–17
September 1996
http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v18/i4/neanderthal.asp
by A.J. Monty White
If we are ever asked to imagine what a Neandertal was like, most of us would think of some half-witted cretin. In fact, the word Neandertal is often used as a term of abuse. It generally signifies that the individual to whom reference is being made acts brutishly and has very little feeling for others. This is a pity, because the more we learn about the Neandertals, the more we are forced to conclude that although they may have looked brutish, they were very caring people, who looked after the sick and elderly members of their communities.
The Neandertals are named after the Neander Valley, not far from Düsseldorf in Germany. The fossilized remains of a Neandertal man were first found there in a cave in 1857. Since then, remains of Neandertals have been found in western Europe, the Near East, and western Asia. Compared with modern Europeans, the Neandertal people were rather robust, and so for almost a century it was mistakenly believed that they were half way between ape-like creatures and humans.1
The idea that the Neandertals were a link between apes and humans was reinforced by drawings which depicted them as stooping half-ape/half-human brutes ambling along on the outsides of their feet, like some oversized chimpanzee. This view persisted until the mid-1950s when a couple of American anatomists concluded that there was no valid reason for assuming that the Neandertal posture was different from that of modern humans. They went on to suggest that if a Neandertal man were bathed, shaved, and dressed in modern clothing he would probably pass unnoticed in a New York subway!2
It has also been suggested that much of the brutish appearance of the Neandertals, such as their eyebrow ridges, is due to the enormous chewing stress on the skull imposed by their powerful jaws. And this was due to the common eating of tough food. They are now placed in the same species as modern-day humans, being put into the sub-species Homo sapiens neanderthalensis (with us being in the sub-species Homo sapiens sapiens). However, the bony differences between them and modern people may be the result of trivial genetic differences. Similarly, people of modern ‘races’ today look more different than they are at the genetic level. Some ‘Neandertal’ bony characteristics are found in some Europeans today.
Neandertal facts
*
The spellings Neandertal and Neanderthal (with the added h) are both correct. Different authorities have adopted their own preferences.
*
Both Oxford (UK) and Webster’s (US) dictionaries have traditionally favoured the pronunciation of the word as nee-AN-der-tal, even when spelt with the h. In recent years the pronunciation nee-AN-der-thal has become common, and is the only pronunciation listed in Australia's Macquarie Dictionary.
From their remains, it has been discovered that some of the Neandertal people suffered from rickets. Rickets is a disease of childhood resulting from a deficiency of Vitamin D. Because this vitamin helps the absorption of calcium from the food we eat, people suffering from rickets have soft bones which cause them to have swollen joints and distorted limbs—sometimes they are extremely bow-legged, but in more severe cases they are completely crippled and unable to walk.
Vitamin D is found in fish oils, milk, and dairy products. If your diet is deficient in these, you may develop rickets. The fact that some Neandertals suffered from rickets indicates that they had a diet which lacked these products. However, you can get Vitamin D another way—Vitamin D is made in the skin when it is exposed to sunlight. From this we are able to conclude that the Neandertal people who had rickets must have lived at a time when they would not have been exposed to much sunlight—such as during the Ice Age.
Some of the Neandertal people suffered from arthritis, while others sustained injuries during their lifetime - perhaps by falling over when hunting. Broken bones were not uncommon. Although such people were no longer productive members of their community, they were cared for by other members of their tribe. Their bones demonstrate that they kept on living long after the onset of their disability. This shows that these people had tender feelings for each other—sometimes apparently providing support for those they knew would never get better.
From the evidence discovered, it can be deduced that the Neandertals were good hunters, making and using rather elegant stone tools effectively. They lived in huts which they sometimes located in caves. They kept warm with fires on which they burned bones—because it was the middle of an Ice Age, when there were not many trees growing in Europe. They cooked their food on fires, sometimes using stone hot plates. They wore clothes which they made by sewing animal skins together. In fact, far from being dull-witted brutes, these people were quite sophisticated—there is even evidence of a form of writing!
The Neandertal people also had a sense of the after-life—they buried their dead with ceremony and arranged flowers around the bodies of their dead. A pollen analysis of one grave from the Shanidar cave in the Zagros Mountains in Iraq has revealed the presence of yarrow, cornflower, St Barnaby’s thistle, ragwort, grape hyacinth, hollyhock, and woody horsetail. Most of these plants are known to have herbal and medicinal properties, so it appears that the Neandertals had some knowledge of medicine.
None of this is surprising when we consider that they were not primitive evolutionary ‘links’. They were people, forced to live in harsh conditions, after the dispersal of humanity at Babel, during the great post-Flood Ice Age.3
A.J. Monty White, B.Sc., Ph.D., C.Chem., MRSC, is a well-known author and creation speaker in the United Kingdom. He is the author of the book Wonderfully Made, which deals with the origin of people. Return to top.
Creation 18(4):16–17
September 1996
http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v18/i4/neanderthal.asp
by A.J. Monty White
If we are ever asked to imagine what a Neandertal was like, most of us would think of some half-witted cretin. In fact, the word Neandertal is often used as a term of abuse. It generally signifies that the individual to whom reference is being made acts brutishly and has very little feeling for others. This is a pity, because the more we learn about the Neandertals, the more we are forced to conclude that although they may have looked brutish, they were very caring people, who looked after the sick and elderly members of their communities.
The Neandertals are named after the Neander Valley, not far from Düsseldorf in Germany. The fossilized remains of a Neandertal man were first found there in a cave in 1857. Since then, remains of Neandertals have been found in western Europe, the Near East, and western Asia. Compared with modern Europeans, the Neandertal people were rather robust, and so for almost a century it was mistakenly believed that they were half way between ape-like creatures and humans.1
The idea that the Neandertals were a link between apes and humans was reinforced by drawings which depicted them as stooping half-ape/half-human brutes ambling along on the outsides of their feet, like some oversized chimpanzee. This view persisted until the mid-1950s when a couple of American anatomists concluded that there was no valid reason for assuming that the Neandertal posture was different from that of modern humans. They went on to suggest that if a Neandertal man were bathed, shaved, and dressed in modern clothing he would probably pass unnoticed in a New York subway!2
It has also been suggested that much of the brutish appearance of the Neandertals, such as their eyebrow ridges, is due to the enormous chewing stress on the skull imposed by their powerful jaws. And this was due to the common eating of tough food. They are now placed in the same species as modern-day humans, being put into the sub-species Homo sapiens neanderthalensis (with us being in the sub-species Homo sapiens sapiens). However, the bony differences between them and modern people may be the result of trivial genetic differences. Similarly, people of modern ‘races’ today look more different than they are at the genetic level. Some ‘Neandertal’ bony characteristics are found in some Europeans today.
Neandertal facts
*
The spellings Neandertal and Neanderthal (with the added h) are both correct. Different authorities have adopted their own preferences.
*
Both Oxford (UK) and Webster’s (US) dictionaries have traditionally favoured the pronunciation of the word as nee-AN-der-tal, even when spelt with the h. In recent years the pronunciation nee-AN-der-thal has become common, and is the only pronunciation listed in Australia's Macquarie Dictionary.
From their remains, it has been discovered that some of the Neandertal people suffered from rickets. Rickets is a disease of childhood resulting from a deficiency of Vitamin D. Because this vitamin helps the absorption of calcium from the food we eat, people suffering from rickets have soft bones which cause them to have swollen joints and distorted limbs—sometimes they are extremely bow-legged, but in more severe cases they are completely crippled and unable to walk.
Vitamin D is found in fish oils, milk, and dairy products. If your diet is deficient in these, you may develop rickets. The fact that some Neandertals suffered from rickets indicates that they had a diet which lacked these products. However, you can get Vitamin D another way—Vitamin D is made in the skin when it is exposed to sunlight. From this we are able to conclude that the Neandertal people who had rickets must have lived at a time when they would not have been exposed to much sunlight—such as during the Ice Age.
Some of the Neandertal people suffered from arthritis, while others sustained injuries during their lifetime - perhaps by falling over when hunting. Broken bones were not uncommon. Although such people were no longer productive members of their community, they were cared for by other members of their tribe. Their bones demonstrate that they kept on living long after the onset of their disability. This shows that these people had tender feelings for each other—sometimes apparently providing support for those they knew would never get better.
From the evidence discovered, it can be deduced that the Neandertals were good hunters, making and using rather elegant stone tools effectively. They lived in huts which they sometimes located in caves. They kept warm with fires on which they burned bones—because it was the middle of an Ice Age, when there were not many trees growing in Europe. They cooked their food on fires, sometimes using stone hot plates. They wore clothes which they made by sewing animal skins together. In fact, far from being dull-witted brutes, these people were quite sophisticated—there is even evidence of a form of writing!
The Neandertal people also had a sense of the after-life—they buried their dead with ceremony and arranged flowers around the bodies of their dead. A pollen analysis of one grave from the Shanidar cave in the Zagros Mountains in Iraq has revealed the presence of yarrow, cornflower, St Barnaby’s thistle, ragwort, grape hyacinth, hollyhock, and woody horsetail. Most of these plants are known to have herbal and medicinal properties, so it appears that the Neandertals had some knowledge of medicine.
None of this is surprising when we consider that they were not primitive evolutionary ‘links’. They were people, forced to live in harsh conditions, after the dispersal of humanity at Babel, during the great post-Flood Ice Age.3
A.J. Monty White, B.Sc., Ph.D., C.Chem., MRSC, is a well-known author and creation speaker in the United Kingdom. He is the author of the book Wonderfully Made, which deals with the origin of people. Return to top.
My thoughts:
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
From Darwin's Plantation......
Below is a Punnett Square of theoretical situation where both parents are of medium skin tone. This shows that although the parents display a certain appearance they have the ability to produce a variety of skin colors in their offspring including very light as well as very dark skinned children and everywhere in between.
AaBb x AaBb
AB Ab aB ab
AB AABB AABb AaBB AaBb
Ab AABb AAbb AaBb Aabb
aB AaBB AaBb aaBB AaBb
ab AaBb Aabb aaBb aabb
Adam and Eve could not have been “black” or “white”. If Adam and Eve were white then everyone today would be white. If Adam and Eve were black then we would all be black. This shows that Adam and Eve would have been middle brown. The reason why is because white people can no longer have black babies and black people can no longer have white babies. Now middle brown people can have any color of baby!!
Check out these "Twincredibles"
http://blogs.answersingenesis.org/aroundtheworld/2009/01/04/another-set-of-black-and-white-twins/
AaBb x AaBb
AB Ab aB ab
AB AABB AABb AaBB AaBb
Ab AABb AAbb AaBb Aabb
aB AaBB AaBb aaBB AaBb
ab AaBb Aabb aaBb aabb
Adam and Eve could not have been “black” or “white”. If Adam and Eve were white then everyone today would be white. If Adam and Eve were black then we would all be black. This shows that Adam and Eve would have been middle brown. The reason why is because white people can no longer have black babies and black people can no longer have white babies. Now middle brown people can have any color of baby!!
Check out these "Twincredibles"
http://blogs.answersingenesis.org/aroundtheworld/2009/01/04/another-set-of-black-and-white-twins/
Monday, November 30, 2009
Friday, November 27, 2009
This is my dummies book cover page! When I finish my whole dummies book I will post it . Can anyone who reads the dummies book please give me an A, B, C, D, or F (if you give me an F I will hunt you down and well you get the point). With that said please grade fairly!☺
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Thursday, November 26, 2009
Water is a Polar Molecule!!☻
Yesterday in Physical Science we learned about the structure of a water molecule. The water molecule is a polar molecule. A polar molecule is a molecule that has slight positive and negative charges due to an imbalance in the way electrons are shared. In the case of a water molecule, the Oxygen atom has a slight negative charge while the 2 Hydrogen atoms have a slight positive charge. These charges give water it's specific properties. Some properties of water are: tasteless, odorless, it is a good solvent,it's cohesive, it has a high boiling point(100 degrees Celsius), it has a low freezing point (0 degrees Celsius).
Other molecules with similar atomic structures that "look like" water but are not polar have very different characteristics. Here are some examples:
Hydrogen sulfide
Hydrogen sulfide (or hydrogen sulphide) is the chemical compound with the formula H2S. This colorless, toxic and flammable gas is partially responsible for the foul odor of rotten eggs and flatulence.
freezing: -85.6 degrees C
Boiling: -60.3 C
Hydrogen selanide
Hydrogen selenide is H2Se, the simplest hydride of selenium. H2Se is a colorless, flammable gas under standard conditions. It is the most toxic selenium compound with an exposure limit: 0.05 ppm over an 8 hour period. This compound has a very irritating smell of decayed horseradish.
freezing: -66 degrees C
Boiling: -42 C
Hydrogen Telluride
Hydrogen telluride is the inorganic compound with the formula H2Te. The simplest hydride of tellurium, it is rarely encountered because of its tendency to decompose to the constituent elements. Most compounds with Te-H bonds are unstable with respect to loss of H2. H2Te is chemically and structurally similar to hydrogen selenide, both are acidic species with H-X-H angles approaching 90°.
freezing: -49 degrees C
Boiling: -2 C
Other molecules with similar atomic structures that "look like" water but are not polar have very different characteristics. Here are some examples:
Hydrogen sulfide
Hydrogen sulfide (or hydrogen sulphide) is the chemical compound with the formula H2S. This colorless, toxic and flammable gas is partially responsible for the foul odor of rotten eggs and flatulence.
freezing: -85.6 degrees C
Boiling: -60.3 C
Hydrogen selanide
Hydrogen selenide is H2Se, the simplest hydride of selenium. H2Se is a colorless, flammable gas under standard conditions. It is the most toxic selenium compound with an exposure limit: 0.05 ppm over an 8 hour period. This compound has a very irritating smell of decayed horseradish.
freezing: -66 degrees C
Boiling: -42 C
Hydrogen Telluride
Hydrogen telluride is the inorganic compound with the formula H2Te. The simplest hydride of tellurium, it is rarely encountered because of its tendency to decompose to the constituent elements. Most compounds with Te-H bonds are unstable with respect to loss of H2. H2Te is chemically and structurally similar to hydrogen selenide, both are acidic species with H-X-H angles approaching 90°.
freezing: -49 degrees C
Boiling: -2 C
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