“Fairy tales make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.” ~ G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy #grownostr #plebchain #apologetics #quotes #God

Caravaggio, The Taking of Christ, c. 1602  #grownostr #plebchain #Jesus #Christianity #paintings

SQUID DRAWN WITH FOSSIL INK An illustration of a squid was penned with supposedly 150 million year old squid ink. The ink was extracted from a fossil of a squid named Belemnotheutis antiquus. The remains of the squid still has its ink sac intact and it was unfossilized. The ink was fresh enough to be mixed with ammonia and used. #grownostr #plebchain #Christianity #Bible #science #dinosaurs #creation #youngearth #evolution Fossilized Squid Ink Sac

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Drawing the Wrong Conclusion: Squid Ink Cannot Last 150 Million Years - Apologetics Press

The sketch of a fossilized squid named Belemnotheutis antiquus is unremarkable in many ways. The “uninformed” observer would think that it is j...

NOT YOUR AVERAGE RIPPLES ON THE BEACH An aerial photograph of the West Barr area on the western side of the Columbia River in Washington state. This area is a large version of the current ripples you may see at a beach or river. However, these ripples are over 24 feet tall and spaced 360 feet apart and were formed by huge floods that carved out a large part of the state. The massive current required to form these giant ripples would have been at least 600 feet deep and flowing at over 65 miles an hour. #grownostr #plebchain #science If you find value in my notes, please like, boost or follow! Zaps are always great too! Image from the Washington Geological Survey (Washington State DNR)

“I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.” ~ Isaac Newton #grownostr #plebchain #quotes #beach If you find value in my notes and articles please like, boost or follow! Zaps are always appreciated!

PIGEON POOP LEADS TO A UNIVERSAL DISCOVERY The biggest piece of evidence for the viability of the  Big Bang theory came in 1964 when Bell Labs scientists Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson were conducting research at the Bell Laboratory, Holmdel Horn Antenna. During their work recording the microwave radiation of the Milky Way galaxy, an unusually high background microwave radiation was detected. The source of the excess radiation could not be determined and they thought that it could be the leftover radiation from a high altitude nuclear explosion that was conducted a year earlier. However, the radiation measurements didn’t decrease as time passed so it was ruled out as a cause. Even the pigeon droppings that were all over the inside of the antenna, described as “white dielectric material” by Penzias, was cleaned out and examined to see if it was the cause of the excess radiation. In the end, no terrestrial cause of the radiation was found and it was determined that the radiation was coming from the universe itself. This radiation was the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) that was left over from the big bang event and was later shown to be almost uniform throughout the universe. This evidence placed the Big Bang Theory as the prominent theory of the origin of our universe and is dominant to this day. #grownostr #plebchain #physics #science #engineering If you find value in my notes and articles please like, boost or follow! Zaps are always appreciated! Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson at the Bell Laboratory, Holmdel Horn Antenna

ANGKOR WAT STEGOSAUR Many cultures around the world have stories involving dragons and large serpents. This stone carving at Cambodia’s Angkor Wat temple, Ta Prohm bares a remarkable resemblance to a stegosaur. It was carved around 1200 AD. #grownostr #plebchain #dinosaurs #history #youngearth #cyptid If you find value in my notes and articles please like, boost or follow! Zaps are always appreciated!

“There are enough evidences of supreme skill in the structure of the human hand alone to prove the existence, intelligence and benevolence of God in the face of all the sophistry of infidelity.” ~ A. B. Simpson #grownostr #plebchain #God #apologetics #quotes If you find value in my notes and articles please like, boost or follow! Zaps are always appreciated!

LANGUAGE, CREATION, AND MEANING When someone is walking along the beach and looks down to see the words “I Love You”; they do not think it was a random accident of the wind or the waves. The symbols that make up the writing convey a deeper meaning that passes information to us in a metaphysical way. We know that the phrase means that two lovers have gone before us and stopped to write in the sand. It would be preposterous to think it was the wind that carved them. It is by that transfer that we know the words were written on purpose and by an intelligence. That purpose is language. You have in you a similar language. It is written in every corner of your being, every cell and tissue have it written throughout them. The language is far more complex than the words that were previously discovered in the sand. It requires billions of characters to convey its message. The language is DNA. It is the molecule that is the instructional blueprint for the assembly of proteins that are the building blocks for all cells and is formed by four distinct bases: adenine (A), cytosine (C), guanine (G) and thymine (T). The bases act as letters in a four-letter alphabet transferring information to build a specific protein. The bases are assembled into a long strand that we know as the DNA double helix. Just as we know that the simple phrase in the sand conveys the love between the two beachgoers. Similarly, we should understand that the far more complex writing in us conveys a vast love between a creator and its creation. The DNA language inside you was written not just for you, but it is you. It wrote another being into existence. Something that the words in the sand could not do. Yet, some scoff that the language that has the power to bring things into existence was yet an accident of physics and chemistry. Those words had a meaning lovingly penned by the Creator, and that meaning is you… #grownostr #plebchain #God #philosophy #apologetics If you find value in my notes and articles please like, boost or follow! Zaps are always appreciated!

TYRANNOSAURUS REX PRESERVED BLOOD CELLS Mary Schweitzer was working as a researcher at the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, Montana. While cleaning some T. rex bones Schweitzer and an assistant found something remarkable. What they found inside the bone matrix was what appeared to be unfossilized blood cells within blood vessels and other tissues [1]. The tissue was in remarkable preservation for being estimated to be over 65 million years old. This means that the blood cells and vessels would have to remain relatively uncorrupted for that vast amount of time in bones that were exposed to the elements. The research done by Michael Buckley of Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre has estimated the limit for the survival of collagen in optimal conditions is 700,000 years [2]. Collagen is the protein that makes up around 25%-35% of body tissues and when decayed the tissue would not be recognizable. Schweitzer’s T. rex blood cells and vessels would have decayed long ago if the age of the bones were indeed over 65 million years old. This represents a major problem between the assumed age of the dinosaurs and the survivability of the soft tissues that are contained within their unfossilized structure. This problem could possibly be written off as an outlier is this was the only case of soft tissues found within dinosaur bones but it is not, it is quite common in paleontology. [1] Schweitzer, Mary & Wittmeyer, Jennifer & Horner, John & Toporski, Jan. (2005). Soft-Tissue Vessels and Cellular Preservation in Tyrannosaurus rex. Science (New York, N.Y.). 307. 1952-5. 10.1126/science.1108397. [2] Buckley, Michael & Collins, Matthew. (2011). Collagen survival and its use for species identification in Holocene-lower Pleistocene bone fragments from British archaeological and paleontological sites. Antiqua. 1. 10.4081/antiqua.2011.e1. #grownostr #plebchain #science #dinosaurs #youngearth #apologetics If you find value in my notes and articles please like, boost or follow! Zaps are always appreciated! Samples of the T. rex blood vessels G and I are compared visually to modern ostrich blood vessels H and J. [1]

Caravaggio, The Conversion of St. Paul, c. 1600-1601 #grownostr #plebchain #Christianity #paintings

BISHOP BELLS DINOSAURS Carlisle Cathedral in the United Kingdom is the final resting place of Bishop Richard Bell. Bell who was laid to rest around the year 1496 AD was buried within the stone floor of the cathedral. Brass strips are inlaid in the floor as a border for his tomb. The strips have various contemporary animals skillfully engraved on them. The animals are easily identified as a bird , a pig, a dog, and even an eel. All of the animals would have easily been identified within the medieval period in which they were engraved. However, there are animals that are curiously out of place and resemble sauropod dinosaurs. The animals are of such detail that they can be identified as possibly vulcanodon and shunosaurus due to the spikes on its tail. #grownostr #plebchain #science #dinosaurs #evolution #creation #youngearth If you find value in my notes, please like, boost or follow! Zaps are always great too!

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Dinosaur carving found on Middle Ages tomb proves evolution is WRONG

A BRASS carving of a dinosaur-like creature adorning a 500-year-old tomb in a cathedral in England can prove dinosaurs once roamed the Earth alongs...

Why do we always assume that the aliens, ghosts, etc (if they exist). are telling us the truth? We never think that they are lying to us.

“Scientists have no proof that life was not the result of an act of creation, but they are driven by the nature of their profession to seek explanations for the origin of life that lie within the boundaries of natural law.” ~ Robert Jastrow, The Enchanted Loom (American astronomer and planetary physicist) #grownostr #plebchain #God #astronomy #philosophy If you find value in my notes, please like, boost or follow! Zaps are always great too!

UNFOSSILIZED SOFT TISSUE HAS BEEN FOUND IN DINOSAUR FOSSILS “It smelled just like one of the cadavers we had in the lab who had been treated with chemotherapy before he died.” That was the description that Mary Schweitzer gave to describe the odor that was coming from a Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton that was excavated from the Hell Creek Formation in Montana. Schweitzer was working as a researcher at the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, Montana and was examining the medullary bone of that skeleton when an assistant put a fragment of the bone in dilute acid to clean deposits off. What they found in the decalcified bone was soft stretchy material something not expected in solid mineral deposits. This led them to decalcify other bone samples, what they ended up finding was a soft stretchy fibrous matrix that was inside of the bone when the T.rex was alive. [1] [1] Schweitzer, Mary & Wittmeyer, Jennifer & Horner, John & Toporski, Jan. (2005). Soft-Tissue Vessels and Cellular Preservation in Tyrannosaurus rex. Science (New York, N.Y.). 307. 1952-5. 10.1126/science.1108397. #grownostr #plebchain #science #dinosaurs If you find value in my notes, please like, boost or follow! Zaps are always great too!

@tooright Thank you, for the thoughtful picture of my inner gadfly! Here is a picture of me for everybody to compare... Looks just like me!

THE CREATURE IN THE NILE MOSAIC OF PALESTRINA The Mosaic was originally in Palestrina, Italy as part of an ancient floor mosaic. It dates to 100 B.C. and it depicts life in Ptolemaic Egypt during the flooding of the Nile River. Along the landscape there can be seen a variety of animals that were common to the Nile at that time and their corresponding Greek name. There is one animal that is curiously strange in its appearance and name. The label is translated from the Greek as “crocodile leopard” and it is located on the right middle portion of the mosaic. It does not resemble any known animal living in the region at that time and as the name suggests it is an animal that resembles a crocodile but with distinctive features setting it apart. This remains a fascinating possible crypid animal captured within the mosaics tiles that has strong resemblance to the Eotitanosuchus dinosaur. #grownostr #plebchain #science #dinosaurs #cyptid If you find value in my notes, please like, boost or follow! Zaps are always great too!

“PRESERVATION OF FAVORED RACES IN THE STRUGGLE FOR LIFE” You never hear that subtitle for “The Origin of Species” written by Charles Darwin. The outward racist beliefs of Darwin are never talked about or mentioned when genuflecting to his evolutionary theories. His views grew roots in the fertile soil of hatred in the twentieth century and allowed for the extermination of our fellow man because of a self appointed superiority. “At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace throughout the world the savage races. At the same time the anthropomorphous apes, as Professor Schaaffhausen has remarked, will no doubt be exterminated. The break will then be rendered wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilized state, as we may hope, than the Caucasian, and some ape as low as a baboon, instead of as at present between the negro or Australian and the gorilla. ” ~ Charles Darwin, “Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex” “I could not have believed how wide was the difference between savage and civilised man… Viewing such men, one can hardly make oneself believe that they are fellow-creatures, and inhabitants of the same world. It is a common subject of conjecture what pleasure in life some of the lower animals can enjoy: how much more reasonably the same question may be asked of these barbarians!” ~ Charles Darwin, “Voyage of the Beagle” #grownostr #evolution #philosophy If you find value in my notes, please like, boost or follow! Zaps are always great too!

“He [God] is Eternal and Infinite, Omnipotent and Omniscient; that is, his duration reaches from Eternity to Eternity; his presence from Infinity to Infinity; he governs all things, and knows all things that are or can be done. He is not Eternity or Infinity, but Eternal and Infinite; he is not Duration or Space, but he endures and is present. He endures for ever, and is every where present; and by existing always and every where, he constitutes Duration and Space.” ~Isaac Newton, “Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica”, (1687) #grownostr #plebchain #science #God If you find value in my notes, please like, boost or follow! Zaps are always great too!