Around and about

Some pictures from yesterday afternoon and today...

The supermoon over our church's parking lot last night.

 Models of fossils that were on display in the church lobby in advance of the evening presentation on "Dinosaurs and the Bible".

Fossil model of a Tyrannosaurus

Fossil model of Triceratops

Fossil model of Velociraptor (one of our fellow church members in front gives scale).

Another view of the Velociraptor fossil model.

 Behind the Velociraptor is the area of the lobby that's affected by the building addition. We don't always have plastic hanging to separate the parts of the lobby!

The lecture on "Dinosaurs and the Bible" from Brian Thomas of Institute for Creation Research (ICR) was quite interesting! He was a non-believer in creationism until a friend of his challenged him on the way that the age of rocks and fossils is determined. The friend said that paleontologists say that fossils are "x" many years old because the rocks they are found in are claimed to be "x" many years old; the geologists say that the rocks are "x" many years old because the fossils found in them are claimed to be "x" many years old. He denied that to his friend and set out (unsuccessfully) to prove the friend wrong. Once that crack in his logic was exposed, he started looking at other information and came to believe that the Biblical record of creation and the flood fit with the data, for example: the fossil record is laid down in a rock layer that is consistent across all continents, a characteristic that would argue for a worldwide cataclysmic event such as the flood. Art in many cultures (China, European) illustrate "dragons" that bear quite a resemblance to dinosaurs (providing an argument that the dinosaurs existed at the same time as man). There are substances in the fossils (collagen) that should have disintegrated by now if the fossils were as old as scientists identify them to be.

I think what has been most frustrating to me, a science-girl, physics major from way back last century, is that I don't understand why scientists are so willing to put a theory on these things that doesn't fit the facts - and then present it as fact! I'm disappointed in secular scientists!!!

Ok, off my soapbox... today while walking around the campground...

I think that's a hawk up on the light pole. My niece could probably do a good job of identifying him if I had a clearer picture!