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Welcome to Sherlocks
Newsletter
The purpose of this page is to
logically think through what public education, the media, Hollywood, and TV has to offer
with regards to origins. It seeks to point out improbable assumptions in evolutionary
thinking. It must be pointed out that everyone has a bias when
it comes to origins. Anyone who says he does not have a bias on this issue is just not
telling the truth! I would say that the point is to
arrive at the correct bias! My bias is that the Bible including the first 11
books of Genesis is a reliable account of beginnings and earth history
revealed to man by the Creator who was an eyewitness of the past.
It must be recognized that the
alternative to evolutionary origins is creation by a personal God. Some
people actively or through self deception, or indifference just don’t want
to face the latter option. The thought that one may have to stand before
Jesus Christ at the end of one’s journey is not a comforting one.
Although it can be, as the God of the Bible's first
desire is to give people a pardon and a fresh start in life. In fact, He
will give you as many fresh starts as you need as you learn to walk with Him
in His ways! He even supplies the power!
We are now living in a world where we are inundated
by "experts". The explosion of knowledge in this century has raised up experts
everywhere. Now the problem is, that among the good and helpful experts, we have those who
may be absolutely wrong in their area of expertise. These
have studied and adopted an established framework of reality in which to
view the world. Origins and the study of human behavior are two areas which are prone to vain paths of efforts if
much of the foundation of your
theory is not true. Did
we evolve by time, chance and random processes or are we a unique amazing
creation of God. Are we basically good or are we marred by what scripture
calls the power of sin. With the right foundation you will find the truth,
with the wrong foundation you will drifting around in the
sea of ideas with no solid mooring.
We now live in a world, which has a media which is
so biased that certain views are actively censored. This is especially true with regards
to creationist views as well as anything to do with true Christianity. Oh yes, the media
will bring on a religious person who claims to represent real Christianity but they more
than likely have watered down certain parts of God's word
so as not to offend certain groups. They are held
up as open minded or inclusive or non-judgmental. But really are you showing
love to someone to deny them knowledge of the pardon provided for them on
the Cross and the heavenly way to be delivered from sinful practices?
Seeing, if you want, past the
agenda’s, bias, concealed assumptions, illogical conclusions, and discerning
the truth requires a more investigative approach. Everybody disseminating
information (including yours truly) has a worldview that greatly affects
their conclusions and choices in life. If your worldview is wrong then your
words and actions will be like the blind leading the blind into the ditches
of life.
It is a great tragedy that the public school systems
of North America are indoctrinating the children with atheistic evolutionism.
It has now been taken a step further to try to turn children into global
citizens and environmental zealots. The God of the Bible we find has a plan
for this world and is against globalism and has a much different
environmental cleanup program after he judges the earth. You can read what's
on the horizon in Revelation chapter 6 to 19. Jesus is soon to begin a
7 year intervention program.
Of course its
not just educators who are at fault but many parents who have abdicated responsibility for
raising up their children in the way that they should go.
They likely don't even know the way themselves! They just give them to the
system. We now have an educational system which actively leads vulnerable children away
from seeking a restored relationship with God through Jesus Christ. Instead it actively
promotes behavior which strengthens the power of sin in childrens lives. This is the
same anti-God philosophy that Communist nations used to
indoctrinate their populations.
Everyone has seen the tragic results and destruction within those nations who attempted to
throw God out. The break up of the public education monopoly in North America should be
implemented to give all worldviews their rightful share of taxpayer dollars.
I say these things not to promote bad religion or
limit good science but to free up the education dollars that are currently being
monopolized by one worldview, which I believe, is sharply at odds with true reality. And
also to let educators and scientists follow their consciences without having to
follow the
party line of "atheistic secular humanistic evolutionism" in order to keep their
jobs.
All my thoughts expressed here and in this web site
are due to Gods kind grace, spiritual sight and hopefully are true to His word. If
any are not or do not correctly represent the God of the Bible then I take credit for
those.
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Triceratops
Horn Yields Fresh Unfossilized Stretchy Bone Tissue
Microscopy expert Mark H. Armitage M.S, Ed.S.,
in May 2012 discovered a Triceratops horn in the Hell Creek
formation in Montana. Upon examining sections of the horn it was
found layers that were fresh and stretchy and not requiring
decalcification. In other wards more fresh dinosaur tissue which
again calls into question the age of the dinosaurs.
Photos below are from Mark's expert and
rigorous microscopy analysis of the Triceratops horn.

Horn was found a couple feet below ground in a sandstone formation with
no special preservation features – was exposed to water,
freezing and thawing, mud, plants, bacteria, environmental
radiation

Fresh soft and
stretchy dinosaur tissue which did not require decalcification

Fresh soft and stretchy Triceratops horn
tissue which did not require decalcification

Forceps show pliability of the
Triceratops horn tissue

Interior of Triceratops horn showing
fresh blood vessels after decalcification

Fresh unfossilized Triceratops horn osteocyte cell

Incredibly detailed and still intact unfossilized Triceratops horn osteocyte cell
Mark H. Armitage, M.S., Ed.S. had
started his own non-profit organization to bring to light more
examples of dinosaur soft tissue around the globe.
Mark has setup an run a number of
electron microscopy labs and his micrographs have appeared in
many scientific journals.
https://dstri.org/index.html - Dinosaur Soft Tissue Research
Institute
Fresh Fossil Jurassic Squid Ink
That You Can Still Write With Claimed to be 150 Million Years
Old!
I am thinking this find is pointing to
a younger date, what about you? Can we entertain other
possibilities as to where the
evidence leads? Can we allow a "divine foot in the door" so to
speak?

Fresh Jurassic Squid Ink
by Brian Thomas, M.S. *
Over the past decade or so, scientific
research has revealed surprisingly young-looking features in
fossils and other artifacts dated in the millions of years. The
discoveries include blood vessels in T. rex,(1) and hadrosaur
fossil femurs,(2) mummified dinosaur stomach contents,(3)
mummified dinosaur skin,(4) live cells from amber deposits,(5)
fresh cellulose fibers in supposedly 250 million-year old salt
deposits,(6) DNA molecules from Neanderthal skeletons,(7) and
fossil feathers with clearly visible stripes.(8)
Now "150 million-year–old" squid ink, which
was so fresh that scientists used it to write with, adds further
doubt in deep time.
A one-inch-long squid ink sac, still
black, was discovered when UK paleontologists cracked open a
rock in Trowbridge, Wiltshire. After mixing its contents with
some liquid ammonia, the scientists were able to draw on paper a
picture of the extinct squid using its own ink.
Other similarly preserved creatures were
discovered nearby. Excavation leader Dr. Phil Wilby stated that
"throughout the world there are perhaps a few dozen examples of
soft parts being preserved, but this is really special. I can
dissect them as if they are living animals. You can even tell
whether it was a fast or slow swimmer, by looking at all the
muscle fibres."(9)
It is as though fossils from around the
world and from strata at various depths are telling scientists
that they were all formed recently and rapidly in a catastrophic
event such as the global Flood described in Genesis.
Wilby also provided an inadvertent but
powerful admission of the young age of the earth by saying that
the squid ink was "fossilized so beautifully well that you can
actually still write with it. It still looks as if it is modern
squid ink. It's absolutely incredible to find something like
this."(9)
It is only "absolutely incredible" if
present geologic processes are presumed to have formed the rock
record. If the various strata represent millions and millions of
years, then "modern squid ink" in a fossil would be absolutely
incredible. In contrast, according to the creation science
model, most of the earth’s sedimentary strata were formed during
the year-long great Flood. Thus, news of fresh "Jurassic" ink is
perfectly consistent with a history based on the biblical
account.
References
(1) Schweitzer, M. H. et al. 2005.
Soft-Tissue Vessels and Cellular Preservation in Tyrannosaurus
rex. Science. 307 (5717): 1952-1955.
(2) Schweitzer, M. H. et al. 2009.
Biomolecular Characterization and Protein Sequences of the
Campanian Hadrosaur B. Canadensis. Science. 324 (5927): 626-631.
(3) Thomas, B. The Dinosaur Mummy. ICR
News. Posted on icr.org September 25, 2008, accessed August 19,
2009.
(4) Manning, P. L. et al. 2009.
Mineralized soft-tissue structure and chemistry in a mummified
hadrosaur from the Hell Creek Formation, North Dakota (USA).
Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Published online before
print July 1, 2009.
(5) Greenblatt, C. L. et al. 2004.
Micrococcus luteus - Survival in Amber. Microbial Ecology. 48
(1): 120-127.
(6) Griffith, J. D. et al. 2008. Discovery
of Abundant Cellulose Microfibers Encased in 250 Ma Permian
Halite: A Macromolecular Target in the Search for Life on Other
Planets. Astrobiology. 8 (2): 215-228.
(7) Krings, M. et al. 1997. Neandertal DNA
Sequences and the Origin of Modern Humans. Cell. 90 (1):19-30.
(8) Vinther, J. et al. 2008. The colour of
fossil feathers. Biology Letters. 4 (5): 522-525.
(9) The 150 million-year-old squid fossil
so perfectly preserved that scientists can make ink from its ink
sac. Archaeology Daily News. Posted on archaeologydaily.com
August 18, 2009, accessed August 19, 2009.
* Mr. Thomas is Science Writer at the
Institute for Creation Research.
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Think through these three Petroglyph's from Answers in Genesis. Did the natives create
their rock art from seeing a living version of these? What does
that say about the age of the earth?



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Designer Moths
Confound Evolutionary Worldview
Have a look at
these 2 moths and tell me if time, blind chance, random mutations, and
natural selection could account for this artistry? Does natural selection
possess the intelligence to recognize the very very rare beneficial mutation
and somehow discard the far greater bad mutations until the picture is
painted? Natural selection explains the "survival of the
fittest" but does it explain the "arrival of the fittest"?

Atlas Moth Photo by Robert Perry,
Victoria, BC

Can you guess what this is? See the
next photo.

Although not the same Emperor Moth you
get the picture. Note
even the lighting in the dark pupil of
the eyes.
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Dinosaur Fossil Yields Pliable Soft
Tissue and Blood Vessels!
In the March 25, 2005 issue of
"Science" it was reported that Dr. Mary Schweitzer and her team found Dino
soft tissue and pliable blood vessels after the hind limb of a T-REX was
cut up in order to transport it from the field. The T-Rex fossil
(allegedly 68 million years old) was found in the Hell Creek Formation of
Montana within a soft (read porous) sandstone. The fossil was found in a
"disarticulated" state and the sandstone was interpreted as "estuarine" in
origin. Don't be dismayed by the technical words. Disarticulated means the
fossil had been broken apart and estaurine means the fossil had been found
in sediments sorted and laid down by flood waters. Kind of reads better
without the technical words eh! How would your body stay together being
pounded by mud flows in fast moving water!
Anyways, it was quite a surprise to
find soft tissue and pliable blood vessels and possibly some blood cell
remains in an allegedly 68 million year fossil. It was thought that at
the outside the tissue and blood vessels could have lasted no more than
100,000 years. As you might
guess, a seeming contradiction to the evolutionary model for earth history.
But on the other hand fits the creation model of most dinosaurs perishing in
flood laid deposits some 4,400 years ago very well!

A: The arrow shows that the
demineralized tissue fragment is flexible and resilient and, when stretched
returns to its original shape.
B: Parts of demineralized bone which
could endure repeated hydration and dehydration and remain elastic
C: Parts of the demineralized bone
showing fibrous nature which should not exist if this fossil was millions of
years old

Photo credits: Dr. Mary Schweitzer
Soft flexible dinosaur blood vessel
and cellular remains within
Dr. Schweitzer has been looking at a
number of potential processes that might have allowed the tissue to survive
millions of years ie the presence of iron. But in my mind they are not
convincing, to me anyways. The most straight forward explanation is that the
fossil is young. Dr. Schweitzer has embarked on a hunt to find similar
evidence in other fossils. Her find has sparked a new direction using
biochemistry techniques in examining fossils. As at 2019 there have been
around 100 cases of viable biological material found in fossils!
Schweitzer MH, Wittmeyer JL, Horner JR,
Toporski JB. 2005. Soft Tissue Vessels and Cellular Preservation
in Tyrannosaurus rex. Science 307: 1952-1955.
Link below has a free condensed version with low
resolution photos of Dr. Schweitzer's research work. The
"Science" web site has a paid version ($30) to look at the whole
work.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/7944782_Soft-Tissue_Vessels_and_Cellular_Preservation_in_Tyrannosaurus_rex
Short
video as Dr Mary Schweitzer is interviewed here!
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THE INFAMOUS ROYAL TYRRELL
MUSEUM Great Fossils Bad Story
December 16, 2000

It is amazing how many warm water
fossils are found in the Arctic and Antarctic regions as well as the prairies of Western
Canada. How did these get there? Of course without a canopy protected pre-flood world,
giving moderate weather from pole to pole, you have to dream up all kinds of improbable
impossibilities. Did continents really spin around like a ball bearing every so often to
give each continent their share of time in the tropics?
In my mind a seemingly physical, mathematical
and engineering impossibility! Is it because the
collapse of the canopy at Noah’s flood brought tremendous climatic change
and the flood fossilized warm weather animals and plants in areas of the
world which had previously been protected by that canopy?
Did the canopy collapse cause a small ice age at the north and south pole
for a time extending down into lower latitudes then melting back to present
conditions?

XIPHACTINUS
This fish is said to have died swallowing another
fish whose fossilized remains can be seen within the bigger fishs digestive cavity.
If any fossil typifies sudden, rapid burial in sediments laid down by water this one does.
The problem here is that there are literally billions of fish in fossil beds around the
world, which have been suddenly entombed in like manner. Some have died half eating
another fish! Talk about the "Last Supper". As the creation model has pointed
out you only get fossils by rapid burial and lithification in sediments laid down by
water. The whole world is full of these fossil beds. Noahs flood with an internal
meltdown of the earth and subterraneum water inundating
the surface of that world would provide ample power and energy to accomplish this.

The caption reads, "The
development of the horse provides a classic example of evolution. Like most animals horses
have a long history. But horses are different because we have a remarkably complete record
of their evolution."
This display at the Royal Tyrrell
(presently taken down) is almost as
flawed as the fictitious ape-man series they used to have with the Queen of England at the
end of the line. The "Horse Series" is a speculative
assembley of a rock badger or African Hyrax with
possibly various members of the horse "kind" plus perhaps two other "kinds"
arranged to indicate an evolutionary lineage of horses.
QUESTIONABLE EVOLUTIONARY ASSUMPTIONS USED:
1. No creator,
therefore everything had to come about by time, chance, and random
processes. In other words you came from a big rock cooling down in space,
which somehow was rained upon for a long period, which somehow generated the
first living cell out of non living material, in which the first living cell
in almost a miraculous way programmed its DNA to an every increasing complex
software beyond man's ability to yet comprehend all its facets!
2. Sedimentary layers were laid down over immense
periods of time therefore fossils in different layers lived at different times.
3. Common structures (homology) such as arms, legs,
wings, etc. mean that fossils are related to one another by some unknown evolutionary
process.
These assumptions, if accepted, lead to
"proving" evolution by ordering fossils
based on these assumptions.
Each of the above assumptions
I believe should be rejected.
Sediments were laid down at virtually the same time during and after Noahs flood
engulfing billions of fossils along the way. This means that there is no great time span
available and the fossils lived at the same time. Common structures just mean that living
things were designed to live in a common world therefore common designs for a common
world. Ordering the horse series from smallest to largest and from 3-toed to 1-toed is
arbitrary and offers no evidence for evolution except in the minds of those so engaged.
They all lived contemporaneously just as the Shetland pony, the Clydesdale and the Hyrax
do today.
The physical fossil evidence contradicts even
evolutionary assumptions.
Different horse fossils have been found in the same rock layers showing
that they were contemporaneously living at the same time.
National Geographic (January, 1981, p. 74)
identifies the so-called early horse Pliohippus and the allegedly "modern" horse
Equus as contemporary in a volcanic site in Nebraska.
Creation Research Society Quarterly (vol. 10, March,
1974, p. 196) In NE Oregon a 3-toed Neohipparion and a 1-toed Pliohippus were found in the
same rock formation.
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FOSSILS ALLEGEDLY MILLIONS OF YEARS OLD VERSUS THEIR
LIVING COUNTERPARTS
July 29, 1999
The following photos are courtesy of Dr. Joachim
Scheven and highlight examples of fossils with their living counterparts (or cousins). Dr.
Scheven has a creation web site at:
http://www.lebendigevorwelt.de
We are not saying that these examples are exactly
the same (in some cases more like cousins). We do acknowledge "variation within a
kind" already built in by genetic programming. What we intend for you to ask yourself
is, are these basically the same? These fossils allegedly lived millions of years ago but
is there any evidence of evolution between the fossil and its living counterpart? If the
basic form of each is the same, would this not fit well with fossils formed only 4,300
years ago in flood laid sediments?

Sassafras (root beer tree) fossil
version/ living version

Zacryptocerus Ant in Caribbean
Amber (allegedly 25 to 40 million years old) fossil version
Zacryptocerus Ant (Mexico) living version

Prawn fossil (allegedly 150
million years old)
Prawn living version
Mosquito fossil version
(allegedly 25 to 40 million years old)
Mosquito living version
Do these all look basically the same even though
there is supposed to be millions of years between them? Where do your conclusions lead?
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BIBLE PROPHECY
PREDICTING THE FUTURE IN ADVANCE??
Posted February 26, 1999

The European Community Commemorative
Coin and Stamp reveals some interesting features. Notice the coin has a WOMAN riding a
SCARLET BEAST over WATER. Notice the stamp has a WOMAN riding a SCARLET BEAST over 7
hills. Now go read Daniel chapter 7 and Revelation chapter 17. These verses call for a
Revived Roman Empire united with a false religious system headquartered in Rome (the city
of 7 hills). This political/religious empire is identified as the last one before Christ
returns. Is the European Unions choice of symbolism a coincidence??
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WHAT IS THIS? A PLESIOSAUR OR
A BASKING SHARK?
Posted February 26, 1999

Looks like a Plesiosaur to me,
the shark diagram I found done by an unbiased evolutionist looks PRETTY LAME to me! Japan
thought so also, see the commemorative stamp below.
On April 25, 1977 the Japanese fishing ship Zuiyo
Maru caught this decomposing carcass in its nets off the coast of New Zealand. It was
photographed and some tissue samples were taken but the carcass was thrown back overboard.
Japan even issued a commemorative stamp of a Plesiosaur (see below). However, a great hue
and cry came up from the evolutionists that this could not be a Plesiosaur but must be a
basking shark. Well, Sherlock, what do you think? Could a Plesiosaur have survived
extinction if Noahs flood happened only some 4,300 years ago?

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SCIENTISTS KEEN TO STUDY DINOSAURS INTERNAL
ORGANS
Calgary Herald, March 26, 1998
This article states that they have found a
fossilized baby dinosaur with muscle fibers and some internal organs also present in
fossilized form. The article states that this dinosaur lived 113 million years ago in
southern Italy.
Lets take some time to think about what this
article is saying and the worldview it is based upon. First of all, how do you get a
fossil? Evolution says that things were slowly buried over millions of years or they might
acknowledge a river flood but definitely localized. You can only get this
type of fossil if the creature was rapidly buried under catastrophic
circumstances involving mud, water and cementing agents. The creature must
be buried quickly so oxygen and the normal decay processes cannot begin
their work. If this creature died and lay on the surface the body and bones
would decay to dust very rapidly leaving no trace! Did you realize the world
is full of billions of fossils in innumerable graveyards buried in a tangled
mess in water deposited sediments?
Consider the age of the fossil as being 113 million
years. You know fossils arent found with a date on them. Do you know how this date
was arrived at? It may surprise you. This date is based on a "geologic column"
invented in the 1800s by Charles Lyell. It is based upon Lyells BELIEF in
evolution. It was created to show simple life forms at the bottom with more complex life
forms at the top. Then each group was assigned a hypothetical age ASSUMING EVOLUTION WAS
TRUE! This hypothetical column does not exist in the real world of sediments and rock
layers. In the real world you find missing layers, out of order layers (simple fossil
layers lying on top of complex fossil layers), continuous deposition features etc.. There
is no real scientific evidence to support the dates on the geologic column.
Does the fossil evidence mentioned above support a
worldview of evolution or the Biblical worldview of a young earth and the worldwide flood
recorded by Noah? Think about it as someone who is given a supposedly eye witness account
(Genesis) of a worldwide flood destroying all life? As an astute investigator where does
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