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Obvious Design

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Location: Chicago, Illinois
Gender: Male
Age: 24
Status: Married
Education: College Grad
Interests: Philosophy, Science, Politics...
Defending Christianity, Creationism, and conservative philosophy.
My Latest Blog Entries [ Subscribe to this blog ] 1. The Cult of Liberalism
2. Creation vs. Evolution: A Look at the Evidence
3. Errorman's "Misquoting Jesus"
4. Hitler was a Christian!?
5. Common Objections to Christianity
[ View All Blog Entries ] Relevant Links: 1. Christian Thinktank
2. ApologeticsPress.org
3. Geoscience Research Institute
4. The Matrix of Life
5. BibleGateway.com
6. TalkOrigins Archive
7. Institute for Creation Research
8. Detecting Design
9. Christian Apologetics & Research
10. IDEAcenter.org
VIDEO CLIPS [links open in new window] 1. Starlight and Time [Dr. Russell Humphreys]
2. Our Solar System: Part 1/9 [Spike Psarris]
3. Our Solar System: Part 2/9 [Spike Psarris]
4. Our Solar System: Part 3/9 [Spike Psarris]
5. Our Solar System: Part 4/9 [Spike Psarris]
6. Our Solar System: Part 5/9 [Spike Psarris]
7. Our Solar System: Part 6/9 [Spike Psarris]
8. Our Solar System: Part 7/9 [Spike Psarris]
9. Our Solar System: Part 8/9 [Spike Psarris]
10. Our Solar System: Part 9/9 [Spike Psarris]
11. Is Naturalistic Biogenesis Scientific? [A.E. Wilder-Smith]
12. Life in our Universe [R. Collins, J. Richards]
13. Intelligent Design & NeoDarwinism [Stephen Meyer]
14. Questioning Evolutionism [Michael Behe]
15. Questioning Darwinian Evolution [Jonathon Wells]
16. Questioning Abiogenesis [Jonathon Wells]
17. The Inner Life of a Cell [Harvard Biovisions]
18. Incredible Creatures that Defy Evolution [Dr. Jobe Martin]
19. The Design Inference: Part 1/2 [William Dembski]
20. The Design Inference: Part 2/2 [William Dembski]
21. Geology Part 1/2 [Robert Gentry]
22. Geology Part 2/2 [Robert Gentry]
23. Polonium halos [Robert Gentry]
24. The Awesome Universe [A music video]
25. Darwinian Evolution [Lee Strobel]
26. The Fossil Record [Lee Strobel]
27. The Complexity of DNA [Lee Strobel]
28. Astrophysics and Astronomy [Lee Strobel]
29. Biochemistry [Lee Strobel]
30. Cosmology [Lee Strobel]
31. Origin of the Universe: Part 1 [William Lane Craig]
32. Origin of the Universe: Part 2 [William Lane Craig]
33. Origin of the Universe: Part 3 [William Lane Craig]
34. Origin of the Universe: Part 4 [William Lane Craig]
35. Origin of the Universe: Part 5 [William Lane Craig]
36. Origin of the Universe: Part 6 [William Lane Craig]
37. Darwin vs. Design: Origins [Lee Strobel, William Lane Craig]
38. Darwin vs. Design: DNA [Stephen Meyer]
39. Darwin vs. Design: Gravity [Lee Strobel, Richards]
40. Debate: Who is Jesus? [Shabir Ally vs. William Lane Craig]
41. What do the Rocks Reveal? [Dr. Walter Veith]
42. The Fossil Record Speaks [Dr. Walter Veith]
43. Origin of Variety [Dr. Walter Veith]
ARTICLES BY CATEGORY: [links open in new window]
Astronomy & Cosmology: 1. Speed of Light [Bowden]
2. Dark Matter [DeYoung]
3. Creationist Astronomy [Faulkner]
4. Discussion of Stellar Evolution [Faulkner]
5. Toward a Creationist Astronomy [Faulkner]
6. Starlight Travel Time [Hartnett]
7. Creationist Cosmologies [Hartnett]
8. Earth’s Magnetic Field [Humphreys]
9. Earth's Magnetic Field II [Humphreys]
10. Humphreys Answers Critics [Humphreys]
11. Is our Galaxy the Centre? [Humphreys]
12. Light Speed and the Redshift [Setterfield]
13. Solar System: Origins [Spencer]
14. Solar System Pt. 1 [Spencer]
15. Solar System Pt. 2 [Spencer]
Biblical and Creationist Issues: 1. Did God Make Viruses? [Bergman]
2. Animal Dispersion from Ark [C.A.net]
3. Was the Ark Big Enough [C.A.net]
4. Where Are All the Human Fossils? [C.A.net]
5. Fish Survived the Genesis Flood? [Cumming]
6. Is Our Retina Really ‘Bad Design’? [Gurney]
7. All ‘races’ arose from Noah's family? [Ham]
8. Where Did Cain Get His Wife? [Ham]
9. Was the Ark Seaworthy? [S. W. Hong]
10. Biblical Hebrew Creation Account [Boyd]
11. The Early Church: Age of Earth [Bradshaw]
12. A View of Creation [Camp]
13. Six Day Creation [Dunn]
14. In the Space of Six Days [Gentry]
15. Are biblical creationists ‘cornered’? [Ham]
16. Days of Creation in Genesis 1 [Hasel]
17. Chronogenealogies of Genesis 5, 11 [Hasel]
Biochemistry and the Origin of Life: 1. The Origin of Life [Aw]
2. Why Abiogenesis is Impossible [Bergman]
3. Abiogenesis: A Theory in Crisis [Chadwick]
4. The Origin of Information [Eastman]
5. Life: An Evidence for Creation [Javor]
6. Origin of Life: 20th-Century Thinking [Javor]
7. Origin of Life: Surface Metabolism [Javor]
8. The RNA World [Klyce]
9. DNA and the Origin of Life [Meyer]
10. the Death of Materialism [Meyer]
11. Which came first: DNA or Protein? [Pitman]
12. The Myth of Chemical Evolution [Rosevear]
13. Instability of Building Blocks [Sarfati]
14. DNA and Design [Thaxton]
15. Organization: Origin of Life [Walton]
16. Earth's Original Atmosphere [Walton]
Dating Issues: 1. Radiocarbon Dating Myths [Aardsma]
2. Excessively Old ‘Ages:' Lava Flows [Austin]
3. The Sea’s Missing Salt [Austin]
4. Discordant Potassium-Argon Model [Austin]
5. Unique Enigmatic Helium [Brown]
6. Radioisotope Age [Brown]
7. Carbon-14 Dating [Brown]
8. Various Questions Answered [C.A.net]
9. C-14 Content of Fossil Carbon [Giem]
10. Near Eastern Chronology [Hasel]
11. Helium Diffusion Rates [Humphreys]
12. Tree Rings and Biblical Chronology [Lorey]
13. Radiocarbon & Tree-Ring Dating [Major]
14. Amino Acid Racemization Dating [Pitman]
15. Ancient Ice [Pitman]
16. Carbon-14 [Pitman]
17. Fossilized DNA [Pitman]
18. Reply to Dr. Henke [Plaisted]
19. Radiohalos [Snelling]
20. Achilles Heel: Volcanic Rocks [Snelling]
21. Isotope Systematics [Snelling]
22. Bacterial Life in Ancient Salt [van der Heide]
23. Genesis and Time [Webster]
Flood Models and Processes: 1. Catastrophic Plate Tectonics [Austin]
2. Physics behind Genesis Flood [Baumgardner]
3. Large-Scale Tectonics [Baumgardner]
4. Patterns of Ocean Circulation [Barnette]
5. What About Continental Drift? [C.A.net]
6. Scientific Paradigm for Genesis Flood [Noel]
7. Flood Models [Tyler]
8. Evolution; God’s Creation [Ashcraft]
9. Genetic Variability by Design [Ashcraft]
10. Declining Power of Volcanoes [Austin]
11. Rapid Uplift of Mountains [Baumgardner]
12. Biogeography: Living Vertebrates [Gibson]
13. Biogeography: Fossil Vertebrates [Gibson]
14. Post-Flood Ice Age Model [Oard]
15. A Faulty Climate Trigger [ Vardiman ]
16. Post-flood Ocean Cooling [Vardiman]
17. Hot Mid-Ocean Ridges [Vardiman]
18. Speciation Conference News [Wieland]
19. Rapid Post-Flood Diversification [Wood]
Geological Features & Phenomena: 1. The Yellowstone Petrified ‘Forests’ [Coffin]
2. Fossil Binding in Ancient Reefs [Hodges]
3. The Intriguing Dinosaur [Kennedy]
4. Extinction of Dinosaurs [Oard]
5. Extinction of Wooly Mammoth s [Oard]
6. False Fossils [Roth]
7. Coral Reef Growth [Roth]
8. Fossil Reefs and Time [Roth]
9. the Kodachrome Basin [Roth]
10. Grand Canyon Lava Dams [Rugg]
11. Polonium Radiohalos [Snelling]
12. Evidence for Noah’s Flood [Snelling]
13. Regional Metamorphism [Snelling]
14. Regional Metamorphism II [Snelling]
15. Deep Sea Floor Sedimentation [Vardiman]
16. the Bridgewater Fossil ‘Forest’ [Webster]
17. Pre-Flood/Flood: the Grand Canyon [Wise]
Human Origins: 1. Vestigial Structures in Humans? [Bergman]
2. The irreducible knee joint [Burgess]
3. Where did races come from? [C.A.net]
4. Thinking About the Brain [DeYoung & Bliss]
5. Alleged Apemen Part 1 [Line]
6. Alleged Apemen Part 2 [Line]
7. Neanderthals: Our Ancestors [Lubenow]
8. Neanderthals: Our Ancestors II [Lubenow]
9. Evidence of ‘Missing Links’? [Lubenow]
10. Recovery of Neanderthal mtDNA [Lubenow]
11. Coexisting Ancestors [Lubenow]
12. Human Origins [Luskin]
13. The Origin of Peoples [Major]
14. Origin of Language [Miller]
15. Neanderthals Are Still Human [Phillips]
16. Early Man [Pitman]
17. Origin of the Mind [Thompson]
18. Origin of Mind II [Thompson]
19. The Origin of Races [Thompson]
20. Human Baraminology [Wise]

Supposed Evidence of Common Descent: 1. Homologies [Brand]
2. 29 Evidences for Evolution? [Camp]
3. Pseudogenes and Origins [Gibson]
4. Creation and Evolution: Evidence [Gibson]
5. Genetic Phylogeny [Pitman]
6. Donkeys, Horse Evolution [Pitman]
7. Pseudogenes [Pitman]
8. Functional 'Junk' DNA [Standish]
9. Homology in Biology [Wells]
The Fossil Record: 1. Stratigraphic footprint distribution [Brand]
2. Reappraising the Crown Jewel [Camp]
3. Analysis of Fossil Patterns [Gibson]
4. Polyphyly: Cambrian Explosion [Gibson]
5. Biology’s Big Bang [Meyer]
6. The Fossil Record [Pitman]
7. The Geologic Column [Pitman]
8. Incomplete Ecosystems [Roth]
9. Gaps in the Sedimentary Layers [Roth]
10. Life in the Deep Rocks [Roth]
11. Fossil Birds [Standish]
12. Foraminifers in the Fossil Record [Tosk]
13. Punctuated Eq: Creation-style [Wise]
14. The Geologic Column [Woodmorappe]
15. Bird Evolution [Woodmorappe]
16. Walking Whales!? [Woodmorappe]
The Philosophical Underpinnings of Darwinism: 1. What is Darwinism? [Johnson]
2. Unraveling Scientific Materialism [Johnson]
3. How to Sink a Battleship [Johnson]
4. Heresy in the Temple of Darwin [Johnson]
5. The Neo-Darwinian Paradigm [Klyce]
6. The Meanings of Evolution [Meyer]
7. Jettison the Arguments or the Rule? [Nelson]
8. Methodological Naturalism 1 [Plantinga]
9. Methodological Naturalism 2 [Plantinga]
10. Detecting Design in Nature [Standish]
The Problematic Darwinian Mechanism: 1. Bacterial Resistance [Anderson]
2. Flawed Evolutionary Algorithms [Anderson]
3. A Response to Critics [Behe]
4. The Evolution of Feathers [Bergman]
5. ATP: the Perfect Energy [Bergman]
6. Inventions, Algorithms, and Design [Bracht]
7. Viable Alternative to Naturalism [Brand]
8. Theory of Natural Selection [Brand]
9. Irreducible Complexity [Dembski]
10. Evolutionary Mechanism? [Dembski]
11. Response to Ken Miller [Dembski]
12. Nat. Selection and Design [Dembski]
13. Darwin’s Black Box [DiSilvestro]
14. The Breath of Life [Harrub]
15. DNA Mutation Rates & Evolution [Pitman]
16. Evolution of the Human Eye [Pitman]
17. Evolution of photosynthesis [Swindell]
18. The Origin of Gender [Thompson & Harrub]
19. The Origin of Gender II [Thompson & Harrub]
20. The Problem of Information [Truman]
World History: 1. Archaeology and the Old Testament [AP.org]
2. Archaeology and the New Testament [AP.org]
3. Egyptian History and the Flood [Bass]
4. Challenges to Biblical Credibility [Brantley]
5. Scriptural Historicity [Thompson] Note: This page is intended for those who are actually seeking information. You can likely find the answer to any question (regarding Biblical doctrine) at THIS SITE . If you cannot find an answer there, check some of the other links on this page, or send me a message. I'll be glad to help you search for the truth.
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The Cult of Liberalism

Is there a "cult of indiscriminateness" among liberals? Does the modern liberal unconsciously choose nihilism as his religion? The liberal view of good versus evil is very interesting. If y...
Posted by Obvious Design on Fri, 18 Jan 2008 12:26:00 PST

Creation vs. Evolution: A Look at the Evidence

This post is adapted from an article by Jim Gibson.  I tried to edit it down to a more manageable length.  Hopefully you'll take the time to read it (and the check out the links). Defining s...
Posted by Obvious Design on Tue, 15 Jan 2008 10:55:00 PST

Errormans 'Misquoting Jesus'

A few years ago, Bart Ehrman published a book called Misquoting Jesus. I picked it up from the library and read it when it was a new release.  For some reason, it took two and a half years f...
Posted by Obvious Design on Mon, 07 Jan 2008 11:29:00 PST

Specified Complexity

Check out these videos and pay attention to the intricate machinery. Notice how all the individual parts work in harmony with the others: If this animated music machine was built, it would be...
Posted by Obvious Design on Wed, 08 Aug 2007 10:20:00 PST

Hitler was a Christian!?

It's hard to believe, but some people are actually arguing that Hitler was a Christian.  One of the few making this claim is a guy by the name of Jim Walker.Although I realize it c...
Posted by Obvious Design on Sat, 06 Oct 2007 10:17:00 PST

Common Objections to Christianity

Common Objections: The God of the Bible is not worthy of my respect: The God who 'created' nature is cruel God practices genocide, and even endorses anti-Semitic writings in the New Testament (John...
Posted by Obvious Design on Mon, 17 Sep 2007 07:33:00 PST

Afterthoughts: Path of Least Resistance II

This is a hodge-podge blog entry (elaborating on some of the issues discussed in a previous entry). _______________________________If you are indeed an atheist, and you believe that all life evolved w...
Posted by Obvious Design on Wed, 04 Jul 2007 11:10:00 PST

Animal Instinct

There are so many layers of complexity in living systems. Not only does the atheist have to contend with the sheer improbability of physiological traits, but he also must consider the immaterial quali...
Posted by Obvious Design on Wed, 04 Jul 2007 11:28:00 PST

The Path of Least Resistance?

Have you ever considered what it means to "take the path of least resistance?"  This is a very simple, yet profound observance in nature. Water flows downhill because it complies with gravity.&nb...
Posted by Obvious Design on Thu, 24 May 2007 12:20:00 PST

Logical Thought and Creationism

Here are some arguments for creationism (from a Christian perspective) based almost entirely on logic.  Logic is the most important scientific tool we humans have at our disposal.  ...
Posted by Obvious Design on Fri, 11 May 2007 09:59:00 PST