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- 05/20/09
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It’s Over. Evolution Wins
Or that’s what we’re now supposed to believe. “The search for a direct connection between humans and the rest of the animal kingdom has taken 200 years - but it was presented to the world today at a special news conference in New York. The discovery of the 95%-complete ‘lemur monkey’ - dubbed Ida - is described by experts as the ‘eighth wonder of the world.’”
36 Hours in Toronto
It’s always interesting to read an outsider’s perspective on your city. Here the NY Times spends 36 hours in Toronto.
Kids, baseball, neighbors — and honesty
“Baseball is a distinctly American sport. It speaks the universal language of our nation. On the surface, it may appear to be just some kids playing catch, but on a deeper level baseball is hard work, patience, determination, courage and focus. In the end, baseball is about character in community. ”
The Praise Factory
The Praise Factory is a site run by Connie Dever (Mark Dever’s wife). “A resource for affordable, flexible, quality Christian curriculum for pre-school and elementary age children. Browse the website for curriculum, music and helpful articles for teachers and families.”
Or that’s what we’re now supposed to believe. “The search for a direct connection between humans and the rest of the animal kingdom has taken 200 years - but it was presented to the world today at a special news conference in New York. The discovery of the 95%-complete ‘lemur monkey’ - dubbed Ida - is described by experts as the ‘eighth wonder of the world.’”
36 Hours in Toronto
It’s always interesting to read an outsider’s perspective on your city. Here the NY Times spends 36 hours in Toronto.
Kids, baseball, neighbors — and honesty
“Baseball is a distinctly American sport. It speaks the universal language of our nation. On the surface, it may appear to be just some kids playing catch, but on a deeper level baseball is hard work, patience, determination, courage and focus. In the end, baseball is about character in community. ”
The Praise Factory
The Praise Factory is a site run by Connie Dever (Mark Dever’s wife). “A resource for affordable, flexible, quality Christian curriculum for pre-school and elementary age children. Browse the website for curriculum, music and helpful articles for teachers and families.”
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Comments (9)
‘eighth wonder of the world.’”!?
Looks like no big deal to me. But when i look up at the stars at night, that’s a awesome big deal! Where’s all those trillion times a trillion stars come from. And even greater and huger than that is life itself on planet Earth.
Evolution is accepted big time by the world, and now ny the Church. Sad.
The report in the scientific journal says something quite different than what the media would have us believe:
“We do not interpret Darwinius as anthropoid, but the adapoid primates it represents deserve more careful comparison with higher primates than they have received in the past.”
That hardly sounds like ” The missing link has been found!”
It’s interesting to read an adult’s perspective on a city I visited as a child growing up while my grandparents lived there. My memories of Toronto include the complex QEW, milk that comes in bags and tennis courts that turn into icerinks for neighborhood hockey games in the winter time. No mention was made by Time of the camels in the zoo or the CN tower with trains running underneath. One thing the article and my memories shared was the diversity found in Toronto. Growing up in a rural town, I remember being impressed with the variety of people there.
It’s interesting to read an adult’s perspective on a city I visited as a child growing up while my grandparents lived there. My memories of Toronto include the complex QEW, milk that comes in bags and tennis courts that turn into icerinks for neighborhood hockey games in the winter time. No mention was made by Time of the camels in the zoo or the CN tower with trains running underneath. One thing the article and my memories shared was the diversity found in Toronto. Growing up in a rural town, I remember being impressed with the variety of people there.
Everything I’ve read indicates that SkyNews egregiously botched and overblew that story. No actual scientist is claiming that it’s a direct connection — quite the opposite.
Most science reporting is so bad, that I think that scientists get blamed for a lot of nonsense that has nothing to do with them. Certainly they’re sometimes guilty of nonsense as well, but I’m learning to take everything reported about science that is not a direct quote from an actual researcher with a grain, if not a pound, of salt.
Google now has this 8th wonder as their logo!? Inconceivable!
You know it’s big news when Google changes their logo!http://www.newsy.com/videos/missing_link_makes_its_big_debut
If you fail to mention the Gardiner, Toronto will always seem wonderful.
Answers in Genesis gives an (obviously) different take.
“So despite the treatment most media reports are giving Ida, the research team behind Ida was asked to remove their speculation from their peer-reviewed paper! Even so, the Guardian also reports, “There is even talk of Ida being the first non-living thing to feature on the front cover of People magazine.” Indeed, it seems that the pitch of Ida as the missing link is full-out sensationalism by people who are bypassing the scientific community with a direct-to-the-public appeal on behalf of Darwinism….All of this seems a departure from the normal turn of events, where researchers study their subject and publish their findings, and let the media chips fall where they may.”