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Evolutionists find turtle shell; invent story to go with it
(October 10, 2008)
Two paleontologists from natural history museums found pieces of a thin-shelled turtle in Triassic strata. From this, evos invented a whole lot of guesses about how important this was to understanding turtle evolution. Creation Safaris says that in the end they admitted that turtles, like so many other animals, appear abruptly in the fossil record and persist this way. Darn! For a minute there we thought evos must have actually found a genuine missing link at last. Why do they always let us down?

Gecko inspires researchers to come up with world's stickiest glue
(October 10, 2008)
Researchers who study gecko feet (now there's a job you don't see advertised every day) have come up with a glue that mimics the gecko's gravity-defying feats of stickiness. They claim it is the stickiest dry glue ever invented, and is 10 times stickier than a gecko's foot-pads. A smidgen of glue on a researcher's feet can allow him or her to walk vertically up a wall, and perhaps even walk upside down on a ceiling. The glue is expected to be in big demand from cat-burglars and eccentric pest exterminators. (See also our article God invented it first!)

Priest holds silent Masses until stingy parishioners give more
(October 9, 2008)
A priest in Poland has stopped speaking during Mass as a protest against his tightwad congregation. They wouldn't donate toward rebuilding the church's car park, so now he just stands silently in front of them. It has become awkward because some of the parishioners relied on him to tell them when to stop drinking the communion wine.

UFO promoter says aliens definitely landed at Roswell in 1947
(October 9, 2008)
The editor of a UFO magazine says he has examined a UFO landing site in New Mexico and is convinced aliens landed there. He said the area is surrounded by charred trees, and a strange blue bubbly substance dribbles down rocks there. Gee, we were convinced a few years ago that the Roswell UFO incident was just crash dummies in an experimental craft. Now we don't know what to believe. Before we panic too much we'd better read our own article, Where do UFOs come from?, once again.

Muslim with 86 wives has charges dropped
(October 8, 2008)
Authorities in Nigeria have dropped charges against an 84-year-old Islamic cleric accused of illegally having 86 wives, after his case was transferred to a criminal court, a court official said. Islamic law says it is illegal for men to have more than 4 wives. Muhammadu Bello Masaba also claimed to have seen Allah, which apparently is also illegal. To show that Muslim clerics have respect for the law, Muhammadu said that not only would he keep all his wives, but he was going to marry more.

Evolutionist waiters serve creationists in Japanese restaurant
(October 8, 2008)
A tavern in Tokyo has employed two pre-historic evolutionists to work for soybeans to serve their customers. As we all know, evolutionists in the Western world have evolved from apes and monkeys, with varying degrees of success, while the rest of the world's population was created by God through human parents. See whether you can pick the evolutionists from the creationists in this video.

Evolution doesn't work? Oh, what fun!
(October 8, 2008)
Scientists are wondering why large non-coding sections of DNA are very similar, or “ultraconserved,” from mice to man. Evolutionary theory would expect that non-functional genetic material would mutate more rapidly than genes. Yet for unknown reasons, the ultraconserved segments stay the same throughout the mammal order. Gill Bejerano commented about this finding, which goes against the expectations of evolutionary genetics, “Evolution is a lot of fun … In some ways it just doesn't make sense.” Creation Safaris comments, “Would you count on an evolutionist to know what makes sense? Their pet theory can be falsified right before their eyes, and instead of weeping in remorse, they call it fun.”

Croc-infested river drowns footballer getting rid of “bad spirits”
(October 7, 2008)
A Zimbabwean soccer player drowned in a crocodile-infested river during a ritual to cleanse his team of bad spirits before a match. Superstitious team motivators told 16 players to swim in the Zambesi River and that this would get rid of their bad spirits. Unfortunately it also got rid of an important team member.

Australians losing interest in climate change
(October 6, 2008)
Australians are getting bored with climate change, and many doubt whether it is actually happening, a new survey has found. Only 46 per cent of those surveyed said they would take action on climate change if they were making decisions for Australia, a dip from 55 per cent last year. A third of respondents said they had doubts about whether climate change was even occurring.

Naked school children incident to be investigated
(October 6, 2008)
A school principal in Melbourne, Australia, is to be investigated after she allowed controversial photographer Bill Henson to search for models at her school last year. Police shut down an exhibition of Henson's work in May because it featured pictures of a naked schoolgirl.

Carlos Santana plans to become a church minister
(October 6, 2008)
Legendary rock guitarist Carlos Santana is giving up his guitar to become a minister and start a church in Hawaii. Explaining why he is turning from the age of Rock to the Rock of Ages, Santana said, “The real God is beauty, grace, dignity and unconditional love. And I'm the kind of motivator who can motivate people to believe that what I'm saying is good for them.” Hmm. We hope there's more behind his church than that.

Should you vote for Obama? Take this test and find out
(October 5, 2008)
A best-selling author and former political consultant has created a test that is designed to help people decide if they should vote for Barack Obama in the upcoming election. See whether you should vote for Obama.

Plain sailin' for Palin in debate
(October 3, 2008)
The Democrats and Republicans both think their candidate won today's vice-presidential debate, but Justin McAffee from RightPundit was one of the few who quickly noticed that Joe Biden continued to get his facts wrong. Democrats don't seem to know or care that Joe Biden is lucky to get his own name right sometimes. If he gets to be vice president he may forget which country he is helping to run. Sarah Palin exceeded expectations and made no major gaffes.

Religious people are nicer, study finds
(October 3, 2008)
A major study over three decades has revealed that people who believe in God and who frequently pray and attend religious services are more helpful, honest and generous than those who don't. While we agree that this is generally true, we suspect that this study didn't test anyone from the Taliban, Al-Quaeda, or the suicide bomber recruitment agency.

Why we see patterns even when there are none
(October 3, 2008)
When we feel like we don't have command of our own fate, our brains often invent patterns that offer a sense of self-control, Scientific American reports. Researchers tested students in 6 experiments to see their reactions to uncertainty. Time and again the students filled in gaps by seeing images that didn't exist and patterns in life where there were none. That helps us understand why evolutionists believe there are links between creatures where none exist.

Over 31,000 Americans to handwrite next NIV Bible
(October 2, 2008)
To commemorate the 30th anniversary of the New International Version (NIV) Bible, Zondervan publishers are travelling across the United States to get 31,173 Americans to each hand-write a Bible verse on thin-stock Bible paper for a special edition of the NIV. Most of the contributors will be ordinary Americans, but the publishers will also invite a few prominent Christians, such as George W. Bush and the Rev. Billy Graham, to contribute.

Radical Muslims warn of further attacks after publisher is firebombed
(September 29, 2008)
In an effort to possibly shake off false accusations that some Muslims are intolerant, three men dressed in black allegedly firebombed the London home of a publisher who bought the rights to publish a novel about the prophet Mohammed's relationship with his 9-year-old bride Aisha. Random House had earlier abandoned plans to publish the fictional account after an Islamic scholar told them it was “soft-core pornography”.

Catholics tolerate pain better than atheists
(September 29, 2008)
Researchers at The Oxford Centre For Science Of The Mind found in an experiment that Catholics looking at a picture of the Virgin Mary were able to tolerate much more pain than atheists. The researchers “tortured” 12 Catholics and 12 atheists with electric shocks as they studied a painting of the Virgin Mary. The Catholics were able to block out much of the pain, The Daily Mail reported. [See also our article Advantages of being a Christian.]

Chinese farmer jailed for faking rare tiger photos
(September 28, 2008)
A Chinese farmer who received thousands of dollars for photographs of a tiger that hasn't been seen for 20 years has been jailed for 2-and-a-half years for faking the photos. Zhou Zhengdong, 54, cut out a photo of the South China tiger from a poster 12 months ago and photographed it in various poses. No-one seemed to notice at the time that the tiger stayed in exactly the same pose in every location. [See Zhou's fake photos of the South China tiger on our DinosaurCam pages.]

Amazing transitional fossil not so amazing and not so transitional
(September 27, 2008)
Tiktaalik is a fish-fossil that allegedly shows key aspects of the evolutionary transition from fish to 4-legged tetrapods. Creationists have always known this to be baloney, and now evolutionists admit it is not such good evidence after all. It's only taken 375 million years for them to find out, but evolution's chief proponents are a bit slow when it comes to evaluating fossils they think will prop up their theory. Casey Luskin from the Discovery Institute points out that evolutionists only admit this sort of thing when they think they have something better — in this case Panderichthys. But Luskin and other non-evolutionists predict the same thing will happen with Panderichthys before long.

About that Sarah Palin witchcraft video
(September 26, 2008)
Journalists who have been trying to dig up dirt on Sarah Palin swooped on a video on YouTube today that showed Palin being blessed by a Kenyan pastor who prayed for her protection from “witchcraft.” With mocking tones, some journalists implied there was something weird about this. We would make two points: 1. A Harvard professor of African studies rightly pointed out that the Kenyan pastor was reflecting his African background, in which witchcraft in Africa is a constant terrifying danger. 2. The prayer obviously was answered, because Sarah Palin has had no trouble from witches since the pastor's prayer.

Robbie Williams turns from UFOs to Bigfoot
(September 26, 2008)
Singer Robbie Williams announced two weeks ago that a UFO had flown into his recording studio while he was recording a song about alien abductions. Now Williams, who seems about as normal as a 29-hour day, has been seen walking around Los Angeles dressed as Bigfoot. The manager of a fancy dress store said Williams bought a gorilla outfit from him for $70. [See also our articles on UFOs and Bigfoot.]

Egypt cleric says “Mickey Mouse Must Die” comments tarnish Islam's image
(September 25, 2008)
A Saudi cleric's comments that Mickey Mouse is an agent of Satan who should die are damaging to Islam's image, an Egyptian Muslim scholar said. Sheikh Mohamed al-Munajid said household mice and their animated counterparts must be rubbed out. Islamic law calls for the extermination of all mice, the sheikh said, and that includes Mickey Mouse. Female Muslim scholar Suad Saleh responded that the sheikh's ruling “tarnishes Islam's image.” [And don't mention the Three Blind Mice in the nursery rhyme — they should have had more than their tails cut off.]

Joe Biden dumber than he looks
(September 25, 2008)
In what will go down as one of Joe Biden's dumbest statements so far, the Democratic vice-presidential nominee told CBS's Katie Couric: “When the stock market crashed [in 1929], Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed.” The problems in Biden's short statement, Peter Foster from the Financial Post noted, are that first, Franklin Roosevelt didn't become president until 1933, and second, there was no commercial television at that time! [See the clip on YouTube.]

Ex-Muslim says the goal of global jihad is to take over the world
(September 24, 2008)
An Egyptian who fled Islam and now lives under that religion's sentence of death says the goal of global jihad is to take over the world. He says Islamic tradition teaches that those who leave Islam should be killed, and the events of September 11, 2001 were the actions of people who were following the Quran closely. Meanwhile, evolutionists like Richard Dawkins are worried about bigger things, such as creationists believing the world was created.

10-year-old Muslim bride divorces brutal 30-year-old husband
(September 24, 2008)
A 10-year-old Muslim girl whose father pulled her out of second grade and married her off to a sexually abusive man three times her age has become one of the youngest-known divorcees. She refused to accept the marriage to a man who beat her mercilessly and sexually abused her, and with the help of her aunt has now managed to get a divorce. Meanwhile, evolutionists in America continue to attack creationists for believing there is intelligent design in the universe.

Is that a Stegosaurus carving on an 800-year-old temple?
(September 23, 2008)
There were no dinosaur picture books around 800 years ago when stone carvings were made on a temple at Angkor in Cambodia. But one of those carvings, CMI notes, seems to clearly depict a stegosaur, a dinosaur that evolutionists believe died out many millions of years ago. So how did the stone-masons at Angkor know what a stegosaur looked like, you ask? Well, we say it's because the stone artist saw a living stegosaur. What's your explanation?

Biden says he is honored to speak at pro-homosexual gala
(September 23, 2008)
Pro-family activist Peter LaBarbera has a way with words. He told OneNewsNow that Democratic vice-presidential candidate Joe Biden's upcoming appearance at the national dinner for the largest homosexual civil rights group shows that the Democrats “are now fully in bed with the homosexual activist lobby.”

School textbooks promote lies, historian finds
(September 22, 2008)
The myth of a government conspiracy in the September 11, 2001 attacks has joined the ranks of lies taught in public schools, author and historian Larry Schweikart of the University of Dayton, Ohio, says. Schweikart examined hundreds of resources used in public schools, and says a bias is corroding American education. He contends that most of the teachers who use these resources actually believe that everything in the books is true.

Homosexual lifestyle strongly linked to depression and suicide, study finds
(September 22, 2008)
A new study in the United Kingdom has found that homosexuals are about 50 per cent more likely to suffer from depression and engage in substance abuse than the rest of the population, Health24.com reports. After analyzing 25 earlier studies on sexual orientation and mental health, researchers, in a study published in the medical journal BMC Psychiatry, also found that the risk of suicide jumped more than 200 per cent for homosexuals.

Superstition — is it a product of evolution?
(September 21, 2008)
The development of superstitious beliefs was probably selected for during evolution, an article in the Royal Society journal Biological Sciences claims. A SciAm report on the article says that breaking a mirror, spilling salt, and having a black cat cross your path have an evolutionary explanation in the “it's better to be safe than sorry” category. But as a SciAm reader pointed out, many of these so-called superstitions actually had their origin in behavior control that had a reason behind it. Don't spill salt or break a mirror (because they were expensive and valuable when the sayings originated); don't whistle backstage (because early rigging systems were signaled with whistles so you might have a backdrop fall on you), and so on. That puts the score at Commonsense 1, Evolution 0, as usual.

Errors found in one-half of dinosaur names
(September 20, 2008)
If you think you know dinosaur names, think again. Nature.com reports that two new studies into dinosaur nomenclature found that of the 1401 names given to dinosaur species from 1824 to 2004, about 16 per cent of names were duplicates, and 32 per cent had errors of some other sort. Darn! And we've just learned how to spell Thesaurus.

Studies find nervous people likely to be Republicans; Mentally unhealthy people likely to be Democrats
(September 19, 2008)
Two interesting articles on American voters' psychological make-up appeared almost together this week. One study on political attitudes found that right-wing voters are more likely to be fraidy cats — more easily startled by loud bangs or gruesome pictures. The other article looked at a Gallup Poll from last November that found 58 per cent of Republicans seemed to have excellent mental health but only 38 per cent of Democrats did. There's a trade-off here: If you're a Republican you'll jump when a car backfires but you'll make sensible decisions and sleep well at night. If you're a Democrat you'll remain calm when a car backfires, but that's because you think it's someone breaking wind.

Ancestral ant stymies evolutionists
(September 19, 2008)
A new species of subterranean ant discovered in Brazil is so weird that biologists have classified it as the sole representative of a new subfamily. While gullible news headline writers said this discovery would shed light on ant evolution, actually it has done the opposite. Evos say that ants evolved from wasps, but this thing is nothing like a wasp, and has been put out to dry on an evolutionary limb of its own — unconnected to other ants, and even more unconnected to wasps. Isn't it amazing that this happens every time, yet evos continue to not notice that their theory gets shakier, not stronger, with each new discovery.

Hacker breaks into Sarah Palin's Yahoo email account
(September 19, 2008)
The FBI and Secret Service are on the warpath looking for the person responsible for hacking into vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin's Yahoo email account. Screen captures were posted on wikileaks.org, the anonymous whistleblower website, which was taken offline apparently by U.S. authorities in a censorship effort. No dirt was found among the emails, so this news story is pretty tame. It shows that hackers are evil and untrustworthy, Sarah Palin is good, and the FBI and Secret Service are doing their job even if we don't know whether they are evil or good.

Oldest living man turns 113, says not drinking alcohol is key to longevity
(September 18, 2008)
A Japanese man who is believed to be the oldest in the world has celebrated his 113th birthday. He told reporters the key to long life is abstaining from alcohol, Reuters reports. He eats mostly vegetables, drinks milk every day, and has no major illnesses. [Note: The Bible says the oldest patriarch was Methusaleh, who lived 969 years. Interestingly, Methusaleh's diet would have been similar to the Japanese man's.]

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