October 27, 2006

Home price drop is largest in 35 years
WASHINGTON - The median price of a new home plunged in September by the largest amount in more than 35 years, even as the pace of sales rebounded for a second month.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061026/ap_on_bi_go_ec_fi/economy
...never mind the fact that when home prices were going through the roof that it was considered a bad thing because it was said no one could afford them any more. The "largest amount in more than 35 years" is irrelevant. This just proves the market is self-correcting, when prices reach a point where the consumer isn’t willing to pay the price, the price comes down.

Muslim leader blames women for sex attacks

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0%2C20867%2C20646437-601%2C00.html

New Jersey High Court Dictates Same-Sex 'Marriage' By Whatever Name
Acknowledging that it could not find that same-sex "marriage" is a fundamental right under the state’s constitution, the New Jersey Supreme Court has nonetheless ordered the state legislature to amend the state marriage statutes or otherwise enact a statutory structure within 180 days that provides "every statutory right and benefit of marriage."
http://www.afa.net/clp/ReleaseDetail.asp?id=133

Best Explanations
Scientist Francis Collins presents evidence for belief in God.
10/25/2006

RECENTLY ASTROPHYSICIST and stalwart Darwin-defender George Coyne lectured before the largest scientific organization in the world, the American Association for the Advancement of Science. As he railed against biological arguments for intelligent design (ID), I wondered what Coyne thought of the now-mainstream design arguments in his own field.

Luckily Francis Collins, who led the race to map the human genome, rose to the microphone and broached the subject for me. Collins probed Coyne as to why gravity is so "finely-tuned." That is, if the force of gravity was a tiny fraction smaller (one part in 10 to the 14th power) the universe would have kept expanding without forming galaxies (and thus we would not be here); yet if gravity were the same tiny fraction greater, matter in our universe would have glommed together and not expanded outward to form galaxies, stars, and planets (and thus we would not be here). And gravity is only one of many instances of fine-tuning. What Collins wanted to know was whether Coyne thought this evidence suggested luck or design.

It was a thoughtful question, but Coyne evaded it, saying it was not really a scientific issue.... (typical response from evolutionists)
complete article at http://spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=10539

This was another bad week for the global warmers.

Manufactured Global Warming Continues to Unravel
By Michael R. Fox Ph.D. , 10/25/2006

This is an excellent article, read it at e: http://www.hawaiireporter.com/story.aspx?ce354730-d5e3-4347-9d2f-26ba63784c23

Global Cooling Warnings From the 70’s
”The continued rapid cooling of the earth since WWII is in accord with the increase in global air pollution associated with industrialization, mechanization, urbanization and exploding population.” —Reid Bryson, “Global Ecology; Readings towards a rational strategy for Man”, (1971)

"In ten years all important animal life in the sea will be extinct. Large areas of coastline will have to be evacuated because of the stench of dead fish." —Paul Ehrlich, Earth Day (1970)

”This [cooling] trend will reduce agricultural productivity for the rest of the century." —Peter Gwynne, Newsweek 1976

”There are ominous signs that the earth’s weather patterns have begun to change dramatically and that these changes may portend a drastic decline in food production—with serious political implications for just about every nation on earth. The drop in food production could begin quite soon… The evidence in support of these predictions has now begun to accumulate so massively that meteorologist are hard-pressed to keep up with it.“ —Newsweek, April 28, (1975)

”This cooling has already killed hundreds of thousands of people. If it continues and no strong action is taken, it will cause world famine, world chaos and world war, and this could all come about before the year 2000.” —Lowell Ponte in “The Cooling”, 1976

Scientists Find Lamprey A 'Living Fossil': 360 Million-year-old Fish Hasn't Evolved Much

Science Daily.com ^ | October 26, 2006 | University of Chicago Medical Center

Scientists from the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, and the University of Chicago have uncovered a remarkably well-preserved fossil lamprey from the Devonian period that reveals today's lampreys as "living fossils" since they have remained largely unaltered for 360 million years...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1726431/posts
They are finding more and more of these "living fossils" that "haven't evolved much"...

Neo-catastrophism

...Evolutionists have always been perplexed by “living fossils.” These creatures are clearly well-fit to survive; they were complete and complex from their first appearance; and they have remained unchanged throughout vast stretches of presumed evolutionary time...

http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/cfol/ch3-neo-catastrophism.asp

Salamanders are ‘living fossils’!

...the latest animal to be pronounced a living fossil is one that has been familiar to generations of people for as long as anyone can remember; namely, the salamander.

So how can something long known to be living, suddenly be dubbed a ‘living fossil’?

The circumstances behind this, and the rationale for it, are described in a scientific paper in the journal Nature, by researchers who found fossils of juvenile and subadult salamanders in Upper Mongolia, China.2

The gist of the story is that these fossil specimens are from the Cryptobranchidae salamander family, which includes the modern-day Asian giant salamander (Andrias) and the North American hellbender (Cryptobranchus). Until this recent discovery, the earliest cryptobranchid salamander fossils were dated by evolutionists to around 60 million years ago, but these salamander fossils from Upper Mongolia are said to predate them ‘by a remarkable 100 million years’.3 And, with an assigned age of 161 million years, ‘the new cryptobranchid shows extraordinary morphological similarity to its living relatives’, which ‘underscores the stasis within salamander anatomical evolution’.2 Stasis means ‘a period or state of inactivity or equilibrium’.4 However, major evolution should have happened in 160 million years! That’s why the researchers conclude that cryptobranchid salamanders alive today ‘can be regarded as living fossils’.

Now that’s strong evidence for the biblical account of creation—living things were created to reproduce ‘after their kind’, i.e. salamanders have always been salamanders, which explains why living and fossil forms are identical...

http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v26/i2/salamanders.asp

More on “Living Fossils”:

http://www.answersingenesis.org/e-mail/archive/answersupdate/2004/1211.asp

http://www.answersingenesis.org/e-mail/archive/answersupdate/2005/0319.asp

http://www.answersingenesis.org/docs2005/0418turtles.asp

http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/bios/j_scheven.asp

http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v17/i4/fossils.asp

http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v15/i4/livingfossils.asp

http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v15/i4/livingfossil.asp

http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v16/i1/livingfossils.asp

http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v16/i2/fossil.asp

http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v18/i3/fossils.asp

http://www.answersingenesis.org/docs2/4416livingfossil_tree12-25-2000.asp

The Unconscionable Claims of Michael J. Fox
October 25th, 2006

The popular and appealing actor Michael J. Fox has taken to the airwaves in Senate battleground states Missouri, Maryland, and New Jersey with a highly misleading ad urging defeat of Republican Senatorial candidates opposing the use of taxpayer dollars to fund new embryonic stem cell line research. He states,

“Stem cell research offers hope to millions of Americans with diseases like diabetes, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s…. But George Bush and Michael Steele would put limits on the most promising stem cell research.”

..The only limits in question are on federal funding of new embryonic stem cell lines, requiring the sacrifice of new embryos. Private and state-funded research (California voters are spending six billion dollars borrowing money to fund this) is ongoing. The implicit claim that research based on new embryos is “the most promising” is absurd, completely unsupported by the scientific literature, and an insult to voters, based as it is on the assumption that they are incapable of understanding the issue. Too stupid to tell the difference, is the elitist assumption underlying this campaign.....

...The plain fact is that embryonic stem cell research is proving to be a bust. There are currently 72 therapies showing human benefits using adult stem cells and zero using embryonic stem cells. Scientifically-minded readers can review this medical journal article on the status of adult stem cell research. Adult stem cell therapies are already being advertised and promoted while no such treatments are even remotely in prospect for embryonic stem cell research...

...The fact is that adult stem cells have already produced remarkable cures, whereas embryonic stem cells have failed. This should come as no great surprise to anyone with a background in high school biology...

...These adult stem cells are multipotent: they have the ability to turn into a variety of types of tissues. Successful stem cell therapies cause the DNA in the adult stem cells to further differentiate into more specific types of cells. There is no point in getting the adult stem cell to turn into a less differentiated type of cell, or using the more primitive embryonic stem cells. This would be going backward, in the opposite direction of providing a clinically useful therapy....

...In short, the claims made in the Michael J. Fox political ads are false and reprehensible, an insult to the voters of Maryland, Missouri and New Jersey, and to all Americans.

Mary L. Davenport, MD is an obstetrician and gynecologist, and a Fellow of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

more at http://americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=5977&search=Fox

Getting Medical Insurance from Your Boss is a Bad Idea
By John Stossel
October 25, 2006

Interesting!

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2006/10/getting_medical_insurance_from.html

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