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Whew, my wife and I have been so busy lately that it has been a while since my last post. I have been posting a series called “The end times.” However, I am going to take a quick break to discuss an article on AOL today, and also address a skeptic claim.

Hopefully, I will be back on to the “end times” topic soon, as I do enjoy that (even though it does seem to take more time to write about).

Critiquing an Evolutionary Article on AOL Today

AOL published an article today that was quite absurd to say the least. I wish this was one of my “joke” type  articles, but this is a real article I assure you. An evolutionary biologists thinks he has found the “Real Reason” we cry.

What a relief! I am glad to see that cancer research is being placed on the back burner for now, because it is obvious that tears have such a high priority in modern medicine.

I mean, after all, we need to make sure our tax dollars for medical research are funding studies that will shed light on such important topics that will aide the human race such as tears (although this was at a university in Israel). I can’t wait to see what they roll out next week, perhaps they will tell us how our flatulence has evolved from smelling like roses to having an odor, or why broccoli isn’t enjoyed by most people despite being a healthy food.

According to this article, some brilliant evolutionist (aren’t they all so brilliant), says the following (and I quote):

Dr. Hasson notes that by blurring one’s vision, tears lower defenses, thereby handicapping aggressors and evolving into a sign of submission.

Isn’t that brilliant! This guy has the answer! Tears have evolved to simply keep us safe from people harming us. It shows people we are submitting to them, so they won’t kill us. Wow. This makes perfect sense, and is easily observed in nature.

After all, when people cry at a funeral, isn’t it obvious that the real reason they are crying is not from sadness, because they are fearing the corpse may spring back to life and strangle them? Thank you evolution for keeping us covered on that one from another potential aggressor.

And let me remind you, this comes just 1 day after AOL published another article about a man who slapped a child in a store because she would not stop crying. (WOW).

So which is it AOL? Does crying cause people to be aggressive to you, or prevent it? LOL….Get your story straight people! Crying actually tends to make people MORE aggressive in most cases. I know it sure annoys me to hear someone sniffling their nose at a movie, or a child crying non-stop for an hour.

Even Jim Carry had it right in the movie “Dumb and Dumber” when he goes: “Want to hear the most annoying sound in the world?….Whaa….Whaaaa..”

In reality (a place most evolutionists don’t like to dwell), matured people rarely display crying publicly if they can avoid doing so. Many people cry privately, and do everything they can to prevent crying in public (except for children, funerals, etc.). Out of all of the times I have cried in my whole life, most of it was done in private or late at night, as I recounted the loss of someone I cared about, or thought about the sad parts of life.

If crying is supposed to be a sign of vulnerability that simply evolved to help us stay protected from aggressors, then it is a severely malfunctioned process at best. If someone came up to me to try to fight or kill me, crying is the last thing I would do. My “flight or fight” sense would kick in, and I would either be running for my life or trying to use self defense. I would not be bawled up like a child in a corner sobbing.

Also, the article doesn’t even touch on the fact that crying has other biological benefits. When a newborn child cries, a mother will actually start secreting milk. Children often cry if they are hungry, scared, hurt, etc.

Then, in this same article, another “doctor” makes a brilliant statement:

“Pain is something people feel in their brains. We can shut off pain with medication but we can’t shut off crying,” notes Eric R. Braverman, M.D.

Okay did you catch that? Pain can be shut off, but crying can’t. What?? That makes no sense whatsoever. I have only cried in my life for 2 reasons:

1. I was sad (mental pain)
2. I was hurt (physical pain)

To stop crying at any point in my life, all I had to do was simple:

1. Remove the pain (the physical stimulus)
2. Remove the sadness (by getting over it, or accepting it)

After removing the stimulus, my crying seized with it. But this doctor makes it clear that crying simply cannot be shut off, even with medication. Interesting. Next time I hear a child crying in the store, I will go up to the parent and  say the following:

“Gee ma’am, did you know that your child’s crying simply cannot be shut off right now. The evolutionists have proven it scientifically. You can stop pain, but not crying, so don’t fight it.  In fact, your child is submitting to you right now and it is all good ole evolution in action. You will be glad if someone tries to mug you in the parking lot, because they will see you child’s tears and stop.”

On a serious note, it does frustrate me quite a bit that people publish such nonsense. Why are they even trying to research why we “cry” anyway. Will that do one thing to help anyone?

If they spent the same energy on another topic, we would have electric cars, cures for cancer, and we might even get the economy in shape. But heaven forbid we do that.

Instead, let us use our (evolved) brains and spend our time and money on really important topics such as why we cry, to make sure we research this and then publish a bogus article (probably so we can get press attention and get another grant). After all, this one has really stumped the average person for ages.

In reality, the only person I can recall ever NOT KNOWING why we cry is Arnold Schwarzenegger as the Terminator (in Terminator 2). And that was because he was a machine. I think we ”humans” know why we cry already, without having to spend time and research to figure it out. Just one more great example of an evolutionists with nothing more to do.

What is that saying? An idle mind is the devil’s workshop (or playground)…

But then again, this was written by a man who apparently thinks his relatives are primates and researches this for a living, so what can I say? Perhaps crying should be added to those really hard questions in the universe such as:

1. Why are we here?
2. Where did we come from?
3. How can we cure cancer?
4. How can we save the economy?
5. How can we have world peace?
6. What can we do to stop Aids and other diseases that are killing people right now?

Oh wait guys…those other questions can wait, another more important questions just came in:

     7. Why do we cry?

So let’s focus in on that one for a while guys!

Then once again the article goes on to tell us information that is supposedly “just discovered.” Here is the next brilliant statement it makes:

“The research points out emotions as important clues [as to] how humans interact.” Essentially, the research demonstrates that we communicate non-verbally. “

We need a study to tell us that we communicate non-verbally? What? Um, what is this world coming to? Has that not been common knowledge since man has been in existence? I think so…

God help us all and please have mercy on us.

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I don’t know why, but I really like this creationist guy by the name of Kent Hovind. He is all over the web, and if you have never watched one of his debates or creationists presentations, I would highly recommend it. I have watched several of his debates and presentations over the past few weeks.

I wouldn’t recommend it necessarily because I believe or agree with everything he says (and you probably won’t either), but rather, he just makes some really good points at parts, and is quite entertaining.

He really has this “In your face evolutionists” Swagger that can’t be matched by other creationists or evangelists. That is perhaps the thing I find most entertaining about him. To watch his “video number 1″ on creation, click below. His entire video series can be found online.

Who Is Kent Hovind Anyway? The Good and the Bad

According to Kent, he turned his life over to serving Christ in his late teens. He then went to college, and got a degree in religious education, a master’s degree in education, and then a Ph.D in education. He taught high school math and science for 15 years before getting full time in his ministry.

And before all of the atheists try to tear him down, yes, some of those degrees did come from a non-accredited study course. But hey, does it really matter? There are tons of scientists with a degree from accredited universities that also reject evolution, so what’s the big deal? Does an accredited degree mean jack squat in the grand scheme of things? Um, no! And to be honest, a 5 year old could probably refute evolution.

Anyway, he runs some creationists museum, and goes around evangelizing about creation science. He is a “young Earth” creationist, and frequently debates with many secular people, and occasionally even other Christians (such as the old Earthers). Some of his material is really good, and his debates are also great.

In one debate, he blows Michael Shermer out of the water (and everyone knows it). Michael Shermer is a prominent atheists and writer of “skeptic magazine.” To watch the debate, make sure to click the link below. It is quite good and I enjoyed it. So if you like to see evolutionists and creationists lock horns, check it out.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1410330225420430733

Why Kent Hovind Is In Prison/Jail?

Kent Hovind was sentenced to jail after neglecting to pay quite a large amount of his taxes, and a few other things (such as building code violations). This, of course, was wrong on his part, and I think he is paying the price for it (and probably with lots of penalties and interest). Even the bible says to pay our taxes!

He is still in Jail, and may have to serve another 3-5 years before getting out. But to be honest, I can’t wait until he gets out. Why? I miss him! I want him up in the faces of these evolutionists with that “Hovind Swagga” that I have come to enjoy. In fact, I think he is perhaps Richard Dawkin’s arch enemy. I think we need guys like Hovind out there doing what he does.

He calls them out on the holes in their theory, and shows them the fallacies of it in a humorous way (at least, I always laugh). In fact, I know they hate to admit it, but he really gets their blood pumping. So much in fact, that many atheists have taken the incredible time to set up entire websites and YouTube videos just trying to make the guy look bad, refute some of his theories, and so forth.

They have probably put in so many man-hours of watching his videos and trying to refute his theories that they probably could have cured cancer by now. You know you are doing something right when atheists go that far! That means you are getting to them! They can’t stand him, and I love it.

So I am not going to sugarcoat the fact that the man was fallible and made a big mistake. He should repent (and probably has), and should pay his taxes from this point forward. I am also not going to say I agree with everything he teaches either, because I don’t agree with some of his theories, and others that he stresses I simply don’t think are important.

But just because he made a mistake, it does NOT erase the work he has done for God, nor does that mean everything he has done is a fraud. The atheists love to insinuate that since he broke the law, the whole guy is a fraud and everything he has ever taught (which appeals to an obvious logical fallacy and they know it).

If that were true, then I guess we have to discount every discovery, teaching, or anything else in history because that person too at some point broke the law, sinned, or did something fallible. Isaac Newton even recorded his sins in a book once. Gasp! Let us throw out his work on gravity, calculus, and more (according to the same logic).

Rather, with Hovind I think Christians need to (to quote Hovind) ”eat the meat, and spit out the bones.” Take the good parts, and ignore his flaws. Pick out the good points for the truth he teaches, and disregard his bad points or mistakes for what it is.  Heck, I don’t agree with the guy on ever single point, but I appreciate the work he does. I think you have to take the bad with the good with any/everyone.

But I can’t wait for this guy to serve his time, settle his debts, and get back on the scene. I love his work! He is dedicated, and sticks with the bible without budging. I admire his faith.

So I am definitely a Hovind fan. Watch some of those videos, and perhaps even some of you will come to admire his sarcastic “you came from a rock if you evolved” swagger.

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