As promised, I want to post a few thoughts on Nijay Gupta's posted reviews of the four views book on the Historical Adam. These comments presume you have read the reviews (here and here). On Lamoureaux's view ("Evolutionary creation and no historical Adam"): 1. I...
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Modern Nephilim Nonsense: A Comparison Chart
For those Christian readers out there (and anyone else who follows this subject), I recently saw this essay come up in my Twitter account (thanks to Guy Malone for tweeting it). The "modern nephilim" idea -- that there is currently either a military effort to produce...
Historical Adam and Genetic Adam and Eve: Update
In light of the discussion on this blog some time ago about recent research in human genetics and the historical Adam, I thought readers might find two recent items on "genetic Adam and Eve" of interest. "Genetic" Adam and Eve Could Have Been Contemporaries?...
Thoughts on the Atacama (non) Alien and Unidentified DNA
If you've been reading the comments to the posts I've written about Steven Greer's alleged six-inch alien specimen, you'll notice that several folks have presumed that the 9% unidentified DNA means the specimen is alien or an alien-human hybrid. That isn't the case....
Robert Ripley: A More Honest Showman Than Steven Greer
I just blogged this over at UFO Religions so I thought I'd reproduce this here. >> In the latest twist to the Steven Greer ET disclosure shell game (hat tip to BK), Greg Newkirk of the Who Forted? blog and Lee Spiegel of the Huffington Post (photo credit for the...
Atacama Human-Not-Alien Specimen Update
Thanks go to Cris Putnam for sending this link my way today. It's from the Stanford Daily . . . as in Stanford University . . . as in that place that employs Dr. Garry Nolan, the guy who did the DNA analysis of the Atacama "alien". The story once again has both Dr....
DNA as Indicative of Intelligent Design: New Peer-Reviewed Journal Article with a SETI Twist
The Uncommon Descent blog reports that "in the planetary science journal, Icarus, two scientists argue that the genetic code bears the hallmarks of an intelligent cause." The blog quotes the abstract which reads in part: It has been repeatedly proposed to expand the...
More Functions for Junk DNA
In another blow to the "junk DNA is vestigial extraterrestrial DNA that proves aliens made us" buffoonery, Science Daily recently posted an overview of a new scientific paper in the peer-reviewed journal Genome Biology that demonstrates that junk DNA is (wait for it)...
The Humanity of Jesus: Could Jesus Have Been Married?
I'm sure by now readers have heard the recent announcement that Dr. Karen King of Harvard has announced (in Rome at a conference) that she is in possession of a small fragment of a Coptic manuscript that has Jesus addressing his wife (the line reads: ...Jesus said to...
Taking Genesis 1-3 at Face Value: Is it Compatible with Recent Genome Research?
[Addendum 7/27/2012: I hope readers will have a look at the comments on this post when they are done reading the post. There are some good, coherent questions asked. I hope readers will see that these questions only *appear* problematic *since* they are asked from the...
Alien Resistance Explains “What We Don’t Believe”
For those new to "Christian Ufology," AlienResistance.org is a Christian ministry whose mission is as follows: Our mission is to provide orthodox biblical perspectives on the modern UFO and "alien" phenomenon, exposing proven deceptions, and equipping the church to...
News Flash: Junk DNA Isn’t Junk — And It’s Human
A month ago I appeared on Coast to Coast AM. I've been on the show many times, and when I'm a guest, I try to set up a hub on my homepage for listeners to get quick access to areas on my websites and blogs that will no doubt come up in the course of the conversation....
More Journalistic Incompetence in Reporting on "ET DNA"
You may have heard about the recent NASA news conference. Apparently the people at the Examiner couldn't process the simple centerpiece of the new event. The Examiner is an online twaddle rag akin to the Weekly World News. Here's the Examiner's headline: DNA,...
Junk DNA as Evidence of ET Life in our Genes? Try Again.
There have been a number of news items and articles recently (last year - I collect them) on how "junk DNA" is now known to not be junk. Here's an example. As genetic research continues to advance, this previously-assumed junk DNA (called so because it had no...
Ancient Egyptians and Race
Some of you may have noticed in the comments that I replied to a commenter that the idea that ancient Egyptians were Negroes is nonsense (er, paleobabble). I thought I'd direct anyone interested in this to some resources. Here is a scholarly article that does a nice...