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Logic informs us the corollas are not afloat

Monday, December 10, 2018

Who Deserve the Epithet "Bird Brain" for Pejorative Meaning -- Birds or Evolutionists?

Use of an abusive epithet like "bird brain" is an injustice against avian species, certainly so as respects New Caledonian crows; their brains afford them ability to make tools they can use in solving a problem that confronts them, as when food remains out of any immediate reach afforded them merely by their extending their beaks and talons toward the food. What kind of tool can they make for securing food out of their reach? They can use the product of their own compound tool manufacture! See below. (All bolding of text below is by me (Al Kidd) for sake of emphasis.)

"An international team of scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Seewiesen, Germany, and the University of Oxford have revealed that New Caledonian crows are able to create tools by combining two or more otherwise non-functional elements, an ability so far observed only in humans and great apes.

"The new study shows that these birds can create long-reaching tools out of short combinable parts -- an astonishing mental feat. Assemblage of different components into novel functional and maneuverable tools has, until now, only been observed in apes, and anthropologists regard early human compound tool manufacture as a significant step in brain evolution. [Apparently wrongfully so regarded by evolutionists! A truly parsimonious explanation is that the creature's abilities were determined by the Creator, not by purposeless, non-teleological, random mutations in a creature's genome. (The bracketed excursus here is mine, Al Kidd's.)] Children take several years before creating novel tools, probably because it requires anticipating properties of yet unseen objects. Such anticipation, or planning, is usually interpreted as involving creative mental modeling and executive functions.

"The study demonstrates that this species of crow possess highly flexible abilities that allow them to solve complex problems involving anticipation of the properties of objects they have never seen. 'The finding is remarkable because the crows received no assistance or training in making these combinations, they figured it out by themselves,' says Auguste von Bayern, first author of the study from the Max-Planck-Institute for Ornithology and University of Oxford." 

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/…/10/181024112201.htm…



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"The finding that a bird species has the capability to rapidly discover how to construct novel, functional tools through assemblage of different, otherwise non-functional, parts [for construction of a long-distance reaching aid], matches and exceeds present evidence for this ability in non-human primates."
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-33458-z

[Second bracketed Excursus by me (Al Kidd): Evolutionists have the mathematically untenable -- hence unreasonable and unscientific -- and naive hypothesis that compound tool manufacture in the New Caledonian crows is co-evolution at work. Their claim is just so much word salad, word magic. This crow's ability under review here is result of the properties of agency that the Creator put into its brain; yes, for the crow's brain to ground "creative mental modeling and executive functions." The crow's brain did not come by its compound-tool manufacturing ability through blind, random mutations in some supposed genome belonging to a creature from which the crow supposedly evolved. And what? Supposedly the ability for compound-tool manufacture co-evolved through species supposedly ancestral to humans, but not even then with the depth of the crow's ability when it supposedly reappeared in primates supposedly ancestral both to humans and chimpanzees?! Clearly, the properties that are inherently present in an animal's brain are not necessarily predictably ensconced within a hierarchical taxonomy that supposedly lays out some progressively ascending pathway in an evolution of species when there is display of more complex cognitive functions than was so for alleged ancestral species. It all depended upon the Creator's good pleasure as respects what He did or did not do when He was creating a set of inheritable properties that informs the brains in the specially created, original exemplars/progenitors of some genus.]










Sunday, November 25, 2018

From VĂ©lodrome d'hiver to Drancy to Auschwitz




                                              SOURCES:
re testimony about Auschwitz, see the non-truncated "Felix Opatowski: Gatehouse to Hell," at: 
https://vimeo.com/47936118

re the video track for “The Vel d'Hiv Roundup of 1942,” see Haley Scholz’s YouTube Presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5SY9...

re the audio track I used for the edit of Haley Scholz's “The 
Vel d'Hiv Roundup of 1942,” the music is titled "Ameno," 
by songwriters Eric Levi and Guy Protheroe (1996), and performed here by Dee Yan-Kee, which may be accessed 
here: https://freemusicarchive.org/search/…

re opinion written in the red text on yellow background (see below), it is what was essentially given March 2010 in 
Munich, by Mordechay Lewy, the then-Israeli Ambassador 
to the Holy See, on the silence of Pope Pius XII regarding 
the Holocaust and his failure to condemn publicly anti-
Semitism. 

For the full article that was used for presentation below of Ambassador Mordechay Lewy's educated opinion, see THE JERUSALEM POST at https://www.jpost.com/…/Why-was-Pope-...

The video is entirely for educational purpose, and I have 
made it available free to the public -- completely free of 
any transactional basis whatsoever.








This video (click on the video's play button above) is about French collaboration with the Nazis for the deportation of Jews to the death camps. Pope Pius XII knew that the Holocaust was happening, but he chose to remain silent and "neutral," supposedly so as not to disturb Roman Catholics in Germany, and thereby bring on Nazi reprisals against the Church should German Roman Catholics become hostile to the Nazis. The German populace, however, was already well acquainted with the fact of the Holocaust; neither the Roman Catholics nor the Lutherans were disposed to shed their anti-Semitism and raise an extraordinary, public outcry against the Nazis' treatment of the Jews and other persecuted groups (e.g., Gypsies and Jehovah's Witnesses).


Thursday, November 22, 2018

Can the God of the Bible Ever Approve a Cover-up of Men's Wicked Deeds?



What a contrast is drawn between the fears (lack of peace) and horrors/atrocities evidenced in manmade, Satan-controlled governments, on the one hand (see below), and, on the other hand, the rulership and peace of Jehovah God's heavenly government in the hands of Jesus the Messiah whose governance of God's people will be by "justice and righteousness from now on and forever" (Isaiah 9:7)!


"In 1990, Soviet President Gorbachev admitted that the Soviet Union was responsible for the murders of [22,000] Polish prisoners of war at Katyn in 1940. No one was ever prosecuted. 

"In 2012, declassified documents proved that the U.S. suppressed information that attested Soviet guilt. "No British government has ever publicly charged the former Soviet Union with responsibility for the Katyn Massacre. 22,000 Polish prisoners of war were murdered in the Katyn Massacre. More murders followed in the years after the Massacre in an effort to keep the truth buried forever."

The cover-up was approved by Churchill and FDR, "a subterfuge seen as a necessary evil in order to maintain the delicate political balance for the greater good."




The photograph was made in 1943, and shows German soldiers uncovering a part of the mass grave in which the Soviet NKVD had buried in 1940 their executions of 22,000 Polish soldiers and Polish elite (intellectuals and professionals).




Sunday, November 11, 2018

No Firm Evidence That T. Rex Bore Feathers





The video portrayal of T. rex at https://youtu.be/DFmvJqzHW6U does not give us an accurate portrayal of T. Rex skin.
Brigit Katz, in her article T. Rex Was Likely Covered in Scales, Not Feathers, June 8, 2017, wrote the following: 

“An international team of researchers studied skin impressions taken from T. rex fossils found in Montana. They then compared those impressions to fossilized skin patches of other tryannosaurs, like the Albertosaurus, Daspletosaurus, Gorgosaurus, and Tarbosaurus. The samples represented parts of the dinosaurs’ stomach, chest, neck, pelvis, and tail, according to Ben Guarino of the Washington Post. And none bore any traces of feathers.” (The bolding of the last 7 words in this quote is by me, and was done for emphasis.)

Apparently, an earlier team of researchers, which thought that T. rex certainly had some plumage, had not studied the fossils thoroughly enough. How many more erroneous studies of fossils are there that need to be exposed, but are invoked as support by those who accept macroevolutionary theory?

Fossilized skin from the neck of a Tyrannosaurus rex. (©2004 Black Hills Institute of Geological Research, Inc., Hill City, SD) This photograph is reproduced here for educational purpose only. You may follow Smithsonian Magazine on Twitter @SmithsonianMag.

Read more: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t-rex-skin-was-not-covered-feathers-study-says-180963603/#dCvQ5GvrSo58Vxzi.99

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TRUE CHRISTIANITY'S NEIGHBORHOOD IS INTERNATIONAL -- GLOBAL!

A Christian's neighborhood is more than those who dwell in close proximity to him. His neighborhood, as viewed through God's eyes, will consist of all those for whom the Christian has compassion, and for whom he seeks to show that compassion. So, then, a true Christian's neighborhood is an international, global neighborhood.
How divested -- disowning -- of ourselves must we be in a love for neighbor so that it is love that counts with God? How widely embracing must that love for neighbor be? Does it mean that we are to show love for those who hate us, who persecute us, who speak evilly against us? May we love neighbors as we might want to define them, and then hate in return those who we know have taken us to be their enemies and not their neighbors? See Luke 18:20-22; Matthew 5:43-48. 
Even if a Law of Moses might have been given as large in its code as what is contained in the Jewish rabbis' Talmud, an Israelite's striving for obedience that measures up to the letter of such a Law would not necessarily have revealed what was in his heart toward his neighbors, whether he had compassion and genuine love for them; an Israelite's striving for obedience to the very letter of the Law might not be with the right motive. What is required is our discerning the spirit-- the underlying principles -- of the Law, and then wholeheartedly living according to that spirit, for in that is the fulfillment of all the Law and the holy prophets. Then is when our obedience to God's laws a thing done out of faith in the gracious character of our God, Jehovah. Then is when it is shown that our obedience is faith that operates through love. Then is when we show that "for our part [, which has nothing to do with misguidedly trying to justify ourselves by living according to the letter of some written code of many laws], we are by spirit eagerly waiting for the hoped-for righteousness resulting from faith . . . [because the thing of real value with God is our] faith operating through love" (Galatians 5: 6). (Oh, yes, doing the fine works of God's will out of real love for God and neighbor is necessary for salvation -- though it could never be sufficient to earn us salvation. That is God's free gift on the basis of Jesus' shed blood for forgiveness of sins, and which we may appropriate by our faith in that ransom sacrifice.) To use the God-inspired words recorded in the Bible at Micah 6:8, "He has told you, O man, what is good. And what is Jehovah requiring of you? Only to exercise justice, to cherish loyalty [or, "to be kind and loyal in your love"], And to walk in modesty with your God."

Tuesday, March 27, 2018

Evangelicals' Hypocrisy



Presidents Bill Clinton and Donald Trump claim a fine relationship with the God of the Bible. I reject those claims that they make. Their conduct and their claims, however, are not my primary focus/concern in this post. What is? It is the conduct of Evangelical clergymen because they claim to be teachers of God’s Word the Bible, but their blatant hypocrisy, which is shown forth in their double standard in the selective way they handle the moral offenses of politicians, sends forth a message that they want us to believe has God’s approval. Their false religious message is to the effect that Christians need not concern themselves with the idea that they might incur God’s wrath when they make themselves the friends of those who falsely claim to be Christians, but who unrepentantly practice lying and sexual immorality. Those Evangelical clergymen have the greater sin. 

What is the truth here? The Bible warns false religious teachers in these words: “But according to your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath and of the revealing of God’s righteous judgment. And he will pay back to each one according to his works, everlasting life to those who are seeking glory and honor and incorruptibleness by endurance in work that is good; however, for those who are contentious and who disobey the truth but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and anger. There will be tribulation and distress on every person who works what is harmful 
. . . but glory and honor and peace for everyone who works what is good . . . For there is no partiality with God” (Romans 2:5-11).