Elijah's World

2010-05-08T10:00:00.001-07:00

We Went to the Creation Museum today!!!!!!

2010-02-20T19:00:00.000-08:00

Thursdays I have pottery class with Jess.......

2010-02-16T09:31:00.000-08:00

Another Darwin Quote

2010-01-27T13:00:00.000-08:00

"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

Darwin Quotes

2010-01-26T12:53:00.000-08:00

"Such simple insects such as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to over throw my whole theory"

Akhenaton (Beloved of Aton) the Pharaoh that believed in One God

2010-01-19T13:38:00.000-08:00

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.

Today's Memory Verses

2010-01-07T08:13:00.000-08:00

Psalm 119:9-16

9 How can a young man keep his way pure?
By living according to your word.

10 I seek you with all my heart;
do not let me stray from your commands.

11 I have hidden your word in my heart
that I might not sin against you.

12 Praise be to you, O LORD;
teach me your decrees.

13 With my lips I recount
all the laws that come from your mouth.

14 I rejoice in following your statutes
as one rejoices in great riches.

15 I meditate on your precepts
and consider your ways.

16 I delight in your decrees;
I will not neglect your word.

2009-12-08T06:44:00.000-08:00

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

Why is Oxygen Not a Good Friend?

2009-12-03T09:48:00.000-08:00

2009-12-02T09:15:00.001-08:00

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

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The spellings Neandertal and Neanderthal (with the added h) are both correct. Different authorities have adopted their own preferences.
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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:

From Darwin's Plantation......

2009-12-01T06:10:00.000-08:00

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/

2009-11-30T08:18:00.001-08:00

2009-11-27T06:25:00.001-08:00

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!☺

Cool Myspace Generators

Water is a Polar Molecule!!☻

2009-11-26T07:18:00.000-08:00

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

Happy Birthday from Mom and Dad.... the Big 13!!!!!!!

2009-11-18T09:34:00.001-08:00

Family Fun!

2009-11-18T09:28:00.000-08:00

Check this out!!! It's awesome!

2009-10-31T09:34:00.001-07:00

I am learning about atmospheric pressure in Physical Science

2009-10-31T09:19:00.000-07:00

2009-10-28T10:39:00.000-07:00

These are some quick examples from the Ota Benga book I'm reading. Samuel Verner was a missionary who went to Africa and while he was in London, a chimney fell and destroyed the chair that he had just risen from seconds before!! He also brought two African boys named Kassongo and Kondola back to America with him so that they could be educated. One day, at a meeting that Kassongo attended, two men began to fight each other for a seat, when a woman in the crowd noticed she yelled "FIGHT!" but everyone thought she had said "FIRE"and Kassongo was trampled to death in a rush to the exits.

The Chapman Cycle

2009-10-21T10:56:00.000-07:00

The Chapman Cycle is the process of the creation of O3 in the ozone layer. When the UV rays enter the ozone layer they split the O3 molecules and create an O1 and O2 molecule which then fuse with other split ozone molecules.

Check out this animated link:http://sunshine.chpc.utah.edu/labs/atmosphere/ozone_main.html

Psalm 15

2009-10-19T05:22:00.000-07:00

¹ LORD, who may abide in Your tabernacle?
         Who may dwell in Your holy hill?

² He who walks uprightly,
         And works righteousness,
         And speaks the truth in his heart;
³ He who does not backbite with his tongue,
         Nor does evil to his neighbor,
         Nor does he take up a reproach against his friend;
⁴ In whose eyes a vile person is despised,
         But he honors those who fear the LORD;
         He who swears to his own hurt and does not change;
⁵ He who does not put out his money at usury,
         Nor does he take a bribe against the innocent.

         He who does these things shall never be moved. (Psalm 15, New King James Version)

Joseph - Louis Larange 1736-1813

2009-10-12T15:39:00.000-07:00

Joseph Louise Larange was born on January, 25, 1736 in Turin. Joseph Larange lived most of his life in Prussia and France. He was a mathematician and astronomer. He became the director of sciences at the Prussian Academy in Berlin.

http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Lagrange.html
http://www.answers.com/topic/joseph-louis-lagrange

2009-10-12T14:11:00.000-07:00

Last Friday I attended an art show. The art show was called Creative Soul of Dayton. The Creative Soul of Dayton is sponsored by many organizations. For example one of the organizations is Dayton Create which try's to enlarge the regions economic competitiveness. The show was held in the second floor of the Armory Building on 201E. Sixth Street,Dayton, OH.

The reason we attended the art show was because a friend of the family was one of the artists on exhibit. Her display had a projector shining pictures through the windows of three slowly spinning doors onto the wall. The pictures were from her two sons coming of age trip. For the trip each of her two sons traveled to fifteen or more states by route 66. They both went on the 2 month long trip when they turned 13.

Pink One By: Joshua Baskin (acrylic on canvas)

Going Green By: Carol Stoops (acrylic)

Vot! By: Charles Stough (wood burn print on paper)

White Elephant By: Wayne Lundberg (sculptural fabric machine)

Here are some of my mom's favorites:
Patty Emerson, Waiting for Peace, Ceramic

George Armstrong, All Fathers Have Boats in Heaven, Mixed Media

Charles Stough,Dayton Skyline No.2,Ink on Canvas

City of Kettering~ Meet the Candidate -School Board

2009-10-06T18:46:00.001-07:00

http://www.mvcc.net/streaming-video/meet-the-candidates-2009-kettering-school-board.html

City of Kettering ~ Meet the Candidate

2009-10-06T18:41:00.000-07:00

http://www.mvcc.net/streaming-video/meet-the-candidates-2009-kettering-city-council.html

2009-10-04T18:05:00.000-07:00

Friday Night

Attended a community art exhibit

Creative Soul

2009-09-30T14:54:00.000-07:00

Here is an e-mail that I received today about the volunteer time that I put in yesterday at
Miami Valley Communication Council

Elijah,

Our Meet the Candidates election forums are perhaps the most important series MVCC produces each year. Your help and training made these challenging, very busy productions run smoothly.

Kudos for assistance on this important civic television series!

-Richard Diaz, MVCC Government Producer

A day of filming..........

2009-09-29T19:34:00.000-07:00

Today I was involved in producing a few community programs for a variety of cities in the Miami Valley. I have been trained by Miami Valley Communication Council's production class. This training allows me to borrow the equipment and film things outside the studio. I can then take the film and add effects to it and make my own video! {:^) When I got to the studio I was assigned to camera:1. On the camera there is a screen that you look into and that shows you what you are filming. I stayed and helped them to film 3 live shows.

2009-09-26T18:34:00.000-07:00

On Saturday night my mom, my mom's friend Jessica, a kid named Jonah(I know what your thinking, and NO he didn't get swallowed by a whale) and I went on this owl watch hike. The first time I went on the owl watch I didn't see any owls until it was time to go . Then I saw two baby owls and their parents. We followed the owls for maybe 10 minutes.

Owl watchers meet in front of the woods by the parking lot. When everyone gets there the guide tells you some facts about owls. Some of the things that are taught are that owls wings have fringed feathers so that they can sneak up on their pray. We also learned that when we go on owl walks we are disturbing nature by making owl calls because it makes the owls think that their neighbor is invading their territory.

2009-09-24T11:25:00.000-07:00

Hey I am sooo board right now so I have come up with an idea(me so smart). Can you name every Veggie Tales character or episode? Hmmm.... ;^)

See you at the pole......

2009-09-24T08:15:00.000-07:00

As most of you know yesterday was See you at the Pole Day but if you live under a rock I'm sorry you missed it(NOT). Since I don't go to a public school(lucky me) a ton of our home school group came. Well....only three family's(including mine) showed up. Anyways See you at the Pole Day is when a group of people gather around a flagpole(usually at a schools flagpole) to pray for the U.S.A, it's citizens, the government, and the President. This years theme was Engage which is based on the verse 2Kings 22:13.