Evolutionary failures 3

Final installment of the series, more on evolution

3. Proof of failed evolution

There is evidence from the ground that evolution is false, or at least evolutionary time. Carbon-14 is used for radioactive dating. Its half-life(time it takes for half of it to decay) is 5730 years. This means that it can only be used to date things that are 60,000 years and below (after the 10th half-life, there is no more carbon-14 to test). So, everything containing Carbon-14 should be less than 60,000 years old. However, every single source of oil in the world has been found to contain. Oil is supposedly created via anaerobic decay of million-of-years old fossils (hence fossil fuels), these should be more than 60,000 years old. So, by the reasoning that only 60,000 years and younger things contain Carbon-14, Oil is less than 60,000 years old, and so are dinosaurs.

One more problem is how continents still stand. Water covers 70% of Earth, it also erodes away land. The land currently available on Earth is not constant and decreases over time. At the current rate of erosion, the entire area of land known to man would have eroded away in a few hundred million years. The evolutionary time scale is a few billion years, so there should not be any land here at all. Why is there land? Because something is wrong with evolution

Evolutionary failures 2

Next about this topic, more problems with the theory

2. Progress

One tendancy of the universe is that it degenerates, and does not increase in complexity. As time passes by, things decay and go generally downwards instead of upwards. This trend is true with life. Evolution requires new information, as a man obviously is more complicated than an amoeba. As information is passed down in genetics, nothing passed down can possibly be new. Therefore the only way life can progress is if mutations can increase the complexity of life. But think about it. Mutation is a bad thing. Mutated things are degenerated, not more complex. Mutations are mistakes and mutated creatures tend to be deformed. So far there has been no record of a complexity-increasing mutation.

Problems with current examples of evolution. One very famous example and proof of evolution is how some beetles were put on a windy island. Because the wind blew away the beetles that had wings more than mutated beetles which did not have wings, eventually the wingless beetles became the dominant species of the island as they did not get blown away so often. Now, is this evolution? No. Why? Because evolution requires progress and more information. Beetles losing their wings is a decrease rather than increase of information. This kind of adaptation is natural selection and not really evolution.

The illustration of a mousetrap is used to explain "irreducible complexity". Picture this. A mousetrap consists of a base, spring, catch, etc. If any of these parts are not present, the mousetrap will not work. A trap without bait will not catch mice, neither will a semi-evolved creature be able to survive. The problem with evolution is the "intermediate stages" where the creatures are not fully formed, and are more disadvantaged than the original and so the evolutionary process will be broken

Evolutionary failures 1

I am a creationist, if you did not know. I can debate against evolution because I discovered a website which made me realize all of evolution's flaws. As an avid creationist, I can prove that evolution is not a valid explanation for life.


1. Origins


Starting from the beginning, we have already found a problem. Although it seems that the evolutionary proposition of primordial soup spawning life, this has been proven to not work at all. The experiment was very controlled, and did not accurately represent the real state of primordial Earth. And the only amino acids produced were very common and insignificant ones. The rest of the product was just formic acid, the chemical that makes ant bites painful. So this definitely could not have started life, it is not feasible. In fact, evolutionists are offering $1,000,000 to anyone who can suggest a feasible solution.

Oxygen is crucial for our survival now, but this was not the case last time. Oxygen tends to destroy long chains of molecules, which are the basis of cellular life. O2 is actually lethal to life. In our case, our bodies have already incorporated oxygen into our respiration, and cells have protection that does not allow oxygen to destroy the long chains of molecules. So, if life in the beginning had to begin without oxygen, how would it have formed in an environment which definitely had oxygen present? that is a very good question.

UV rays have two categories, good and bad. Good ones are completely neccessary for the formation of long chains of molecules. Bad rays destroy these chains. Unfortunately for evolution, bad UV rays account for about 99% of the rays that reach Earth. In order for evolution to work, the molecules must have somehow been exposed to only the precious 1% of UV rays. This is incredibly unlikely, so we can tell that this part of evolution has failed as well.

Contemplation on humans

Sometimes I enjoy writing on slightly deeper topics, this time it will be about humans

Humans are idiots.

Case closed.

History has proven many times that humans are generally selfish, inhumane(ironically), power-hungry and generally stupid.

Before I get labeled as a hypocrite for insulting my own race, I would like to point out that humans are proud creatures who dilike criticism.

All the great people of history, people like Gandhi, Mother Teresa and whatnot, are those who recognized the flaws of humans and decided to change the world, overcoming problems with society and people in general.

Very nice and perfectly workable plans like communism are ruined by the greed of humans, and the flaw of power corrupting people so easily. Stalin ruined the communist Russia, for although productivity was high, which is a strong point of communism, people were completely disregarded by the government. How sad it was that everything was ruined by the flaws of human nature.

More about humans, we tend to trick ourselves into a box. Limitations. If you say something is impossible and believe it, it becomes impossible. Similarly, if you truly believe that you can do something, you will be able to do it. This probably sounds very corny but it is true.

Overall, the human race is more or less hopeless, and is degenerating. Fast. I cannot say that I am spotless, but now I have acknowleged my weaknesses, I can try to correct them.

Sabaticals: Day 1

Rule 1: Posts must maintain a level of neutrality, displaying no panic and/or personal feelings unless required or in brackets (yay)

Rule 2: I haven't really thought about rule 2, but it would probably go somewhere along the lines of not breaking rule 1

Rule 3: A joke in every post? The only reason I add rule 3 is because rules always come in 3s (or more).

Anyway, I will try to conduct my blogs like this because, it's more um... politically correct to not comment (racistly or prejudicedly. Wow. That's really bad English) on public platforms like blogs. So, back to the point, (one more thing to notice is how I tend to talk about something completely unrelated to the topic before actually starting. It's a way to decrease boringness and increase word count. muhahaha. PS: Go and read the "so back to the point" part again, if not the sentence will make no sense) this week is sabbatical week, good and bad in its own ways.

The most obvious point, would be that there is no need to continue with formal lesson (good), the next point is that we can learn something new (also good. By the way, sabbaticals are activities organized by the school to "supplement" learning. You get to choose what you want to learn for the next week, but you must bid for what you want with points so that one sabbatical isn't empty while the other is brimming with students). You also get the chance to earn extra credit points if you choose a specific sabbatical (definitely good). On the other hand, lost lesson time means lost study time and therefore lost preparation time for exams (Woe to the students in the elitist society of Singapore). Then there's also the question of efficiency, and whether a week is sufficient. Of course there's also the fact that I bid 299 points too many for my sabbatical (so wasted). My choice, was debate, and now to tell the story of my first day.

My problems started early in the day, when I lost my way and completely confused the venue of my sabbatical. I arrived 5 minutes late, which wasn't so bad because the instructors (sec 4s) started 10 minutes early. I was issued a "debate file" which was not really a file but a huge stack of papers. The first question was "what is debate?" to which I replied "It's dething you use to catch defish with", eliciting smiles from my peers and a "i'll give you 5 points for humor" from my senior. We then went on to explaining more and more about debating, its applications and usages (did i mention the air-con was broken, and that I fanned myself with the debate file?). Before long it was break time, and I took pride in the fact that I had actually learnt something.

During break, I learnt that one of my instructors was a peer-pressure immune, perfect English-speaking perfectionist, and the other also spoke Queen's English and was a Pokemon addict as well. I was shocked to see that they were watching debates on youtube, instead of funny videos and Japanese gameshows. They were something else...

Afterwards we were transferred over to an air-conditioned room *contented sigh* but soon realized that it was too cold to concentrate *brr...*. We were then subjected to a series of presentations (which normally would not be an issue, but I didn't sleep early the night before and almost dozed of in class on multiple occasions). Unfortunately the lights were turned off (i have difficulty concentrating in the dark) though my group still managed to come first in a mini-debate. We learned about logical arguments and invalid arguments (such as: God is Love;Love is blind = God is blind?) and how anything can be argued against (math argument:

a = b

a^2 = ba

a^2 - b^2 = ba - b^2

(a + b)(a - b) = b(a - b)

a+b = b

2 = 1? (if a = b = 1) 

try and figure this out

Then we were briefed on a topic to present on on Thursday, mine being "Do you support GM food?". I didn't think that debating would be fun, but in the end...it wasn't. But hey, today's only the first day ;-p 

Changes to the blog

To be honest, I didn't think that the expectations on a student's blog would be so high. I used to think that my blog posts were fairly long, as they spanned an entire page. That was until I saw the posts from another class where you could scroll down until the cows came home and still be on the first paragraph. So... I was also in shock and awe at the other people who somehow managed to write a few thousand words about multiple intelligences and even more about a day at CCA. These are the kind of people who would be able to make a hundred and one observations about a burning candle and a hundred and two about one extinguished, an important life skill known as the "ability to use extemporaneous language which may be excessive to some extent though keeping a certain level of adherence to the topic of interest" (I was going to write bullshitting but that's not a nice word). But jokes aside, I've really been thinking on another standard here, so maybe I should increase my word count for my blog posts(what happened to short and sweet?). Anyways, back to the point, these are the changes I have made to my blog.


1. Change of the blog itself 

Unfortunately, I have forgotten the password of last year's blog. I have tried every conceivable combination and every password I ever used. To no avail. So, no use crying over spilled milk right? I have created another blog titled lookieoverhere.blogspot.com, which I feel is cuter than the previous name, gremlinsonfire.blogspot.com. So I took this as an opportunity to start anew, with a completely new blog. New layout, new content, new everything I guess... By the way, i designed a profile picture for my previous blog:

You probably didn't think I meant gremlins on fire literally


2. New layout


As mentioned above, I've completely redone my blog scheme. It may look slightly dull, but I don't really know how to use the custom made schemes. I will be livening it up a bit in the next few weeks. The words contrast well with the background colour, so it should be no problem at all to read my blog. But then again, I don't really like the dark blue colours. In fact, I've just changed my blog colour scheme to something more colourful and cheerful, like light
blue on a green background. There's a theory that you should look at greenery after being at the computer for some time, so why not make the blog green and kill two (mocking)birds with one stone? Yeah, and I added some new "gadgets" too


3.New gadgets


I've added and taken away some gadgets from my blog. In case you do not know, gadgets are the so-called "apps" on the (normally) right side of the blog. I've added a message box called cbox so that people can post constructive comments on my blog. On the other hand, the posters are allowed complete and total anonymity, allowing them to post somewhat offensive comments such as "aah nerd topics my eyes burn". This, however, is also feedback, so I should de-nerd my topics so no one gets burnt eyes because of me. I removed a gadget which displays a joke everyday because the jokes were all extremely immature and offensive. I also got a hit counter, which displays the number of people who visit my blog. The current number is 22, not very encouraging. But it's a good way of tracking the number of hits, so I can see how popular the blog gets. (wonder if i get extra points if my blog becomes a celebrity blog).


4. New content


I've kind of changed my writing style in blogging (if you think it's boring now you should have seen last year's blog). I try to maintain a level of formality at all times (sometimes unsuccessfully) while at the same time keeping it interesting (not that successful either). I also try my best to write proper English, though in order to not be called a nerd, I have to include some slang into my writing. It's alot harder than it looks!


5. New everything I guess...


Well, considering that this is a new blog, I can't deny that everything is new. From layout to gadgets, there is nothing that has been kept the same save the hit counter. There is an element of fun to designing a blog, and although I don't think so much effort should be put into something like this, the fact that someone actually reads your work helps your ego. Thank you if you have read everything until now, and if all you did was skip until this point, you've missed out on a lot so go back up and read it again.

Holiday woes - How do they work

The holidays began simply enough, going off with a bang when the bell rung. I felt like I had finally been released from the shackles of school. The top of my to-do list was, without a doubt, computer games. It was simply wonderful to feel all the exam stress melt away. And away. And away. And away. Before long, life was boring. Never mind the talks given before the holidays about how we should spend time productively, of course it isn't possible to be 100% active throughout the holidays. That's what school is for. The kind of boredom you experience during holidays is of a special kind. You want to do something, at the same time you don't, and would instead prefer to laze the day away. Then before you know it, the holidays end and life returns to normal. Ah, the woes of a holiday is that the minutes stretch but the days fly by, that's the irony of a holiday. Okay. Now that I've cleaned all the emoness out of me, I'll just enjoy my holiday, or what's left of it :) 

Interpersonal[1]

Me: So what are your views on prejudice and discrimination?

Friend: What do you mean by that?

Me: I mean to ask about how you feel about racial discrimination and prejudice based on appearance.

Friend: Well, I don't think it's right to be biased against someone just because of their skin colour or outward looks.

Me: How do you feel about how the African Americans were treated during the 1930s?

Friend: I don't believe in the "white supremacy" thing. After all, everyone is still human and character is always more important.

Me: So you don't think that it was fair for the blacks?

Friend: No, it wasn't fair at all. They were only considered to be two thirds of a human being, this is obviously not true. All men are created equal.

Me: So how do you feel about the trial of  Tom Robinson in the book 'To Kill A Mockingbird"?

Friend: The trial was extremely biased, the entire jury was made up of white people who would vote in favour of whites anytime.

Me: Then how do you feel about the parallel case, the Scottsboro boys trials?

Friend: That was also unfair, there was no evidence to support that they were guilty, in fact, there was evidence that they were not guilty. Yet, they were falsely accused and charged with rape.

Me: Okay. Then how do you feel about prejudice against people who are feared because not much is known about them? Basically, fear of the unknown.

Friend: I don't think one should judge a book by it's cover and discriminate against a person they do not know.

Me: How about the behavior of the residents of Maycomb towards Arthur "Boo" Radley?

Friend: I think it's really immature of them to just spread rumours about him just because they do not know him well.

Me: Okay, and how about the rumours about Mrs Dubose?

Friend: They are also not true and spread a bad image about her

Me: Okay, thank you for your honest opinions in this interview.

Linguistics[2]

"One-Shot Finch" saves the day

Yesterday, our town of Maycomb was threatened by a mad dog, Tim Johnson. This may be hard to believe considering that it is the middle of February, but the sheriff, Mr. Heck Tate has confirmed this to be true. He also tells us that it was not he who saved us, but town resident and lawyer Mr. Atticus Finch. Thanks to the vigilance of these men and the efforts made by Miss Eula May to inform everyone of the threat, no one was hurt. But let this be a reminder for us to stick together in these times, for that was the reason behind our success.

Tim Johnson, the pet of Maycomb, was shot yesterday as he had gone mad. Tim belonged to Mr. Harry Johnson, driver of the Mobile bus. The dog was first seen by Jean and Jeremy Finch a distance away from the Radley house, they alerted their cook, Calpurnia, who then proceeded to warn Mr. Finch and Miss Eula May. Soon afterwards, Mr. Heck Tate arrived onto the scene, gun in hand. Tim Johnson was identified as a mad dog and deemed a threat to Maycomb County. All doors were locked shut, with the exception of the Radley house, as the dog approached. It was still in the twitching stage when seen. The sheriff was accompanied by Mr. Finch in his black ford.

Mr. Heck Tate was unable to take the shot due to the long distance between him and Tim Johnson. He passed the gun to Mr. Finch due to issues concerning the safety of the Radleys. Mr. Finch was reluctant to walk again the path he had abandoned thirty years ago. He walked to the middle of the street and took aim, throwing off his glasses that got in the way. Seamlessly, Mr. Finch took aim and fired a round into the mad dog, who died instantly.

Mr. Heck Tate then went over to check the body, confirming that Tim Johnson was dead. Mr. Finch remained composed and calmly reminded his son not to approach the dead dog. Zeebo the town garbageman arrived in his garbage truck to dispose of the dog and disinfect the area, ending another chapter in Maycomb's history.

MI Test

Umm, this is my MI test results. MI stands for multiple intelligences so my results show that I'm kind of skewed towards interpersonal and linguistic skills. About the Multiple Intelligences test, I think it's quite a good way to find out the best ways for you to learn as an individual. For example, someone good at music can use music and songs to learn, and a spatial learner can use more varied forms of studying and learning involving drawings and diagrams and stuff like that. So MI may prove to be a more efficient way to learn as it is based on personal learning styles. This may not be the best way, however, as when the MI questions are inaccurately answered, the result will also change, thus causing a person to have an unsuitable learning style. That's my view on MI. Ta-da... 

CNY - A recount

A sea of red and yellow burst from the bus, flowing as a single body into the school gate. I blended into the crowd, a simple task as I was just as colourful as everyone else. Saying hi to friends and wondering why the student behind me wore black on Chinese New Year came next. As a student, expectations of me include total compliance and a certain level of "enthu"ness. Of course, this wasn't the case for most of the student body and only a precious few were truly showing the Chinese New Year spirit, which strangely resembled the actions of someone who had just discovered an ant's nest in his clothes. 7.40am. 2 hours later, the time was 7.45. There are not enough letters in the word "slow " to describe the speed time passed. Finally we were permitted to move, the mass migration of students to the hall where we reluctantly took our places again. A stuffy atmosphere filled the area, and I envied the teachers who sat in the privileged position under the fan. The performance started soon enough, and I busied myself in reading a book before the programme REALLY got started. As it turns out., the programme never really got started. Although it was entertaining to see teachers dressed up like Lady Gaga and Michael Jackson, my attention was never truly captured. The Chinese Orchestra segment was quite nice, and I whistled t the pitch of a dog whistle and watched everyone turn around in confusion. The wushu segment was also nice, watching the performers do dangerous stunts with various sharp objects was entertaining in the least. But the most anticipated, greatest moment had finally arrived. The moment everone waited for with glee. Every tick of the clock brought us closer to that crucial time. Dismissal.

Appendix the useless organ? Maybe not

I'm sort of spamming posts now because they are all due tomorrow, something the English teacher failed to mention. As I care fully pondered on what to write about, it suddenly hit me that people enjoy reading things that capture attention. Isn't that a surprise? So naturally I thought of a controversial topic that makes people shocked (no, I'm not talking about Toyota). Well, truth is that I'm a creationist (don't believe in evolution), and I actually do research on it. Call me a nerd, but the human appendix isn't really useless. Yay. Here's the link if you want to see more: http://creation.com/your-appendix-its-there-for-a-reason. Nice URL right? Anyway, for those who do not already know, the appendix is either a small, worm-like organ located at the under the gut or the section at the back of a book. We're talking about the first one here. Most people think it's useless, but actually the appendix is part of the immune system, it's function? To repopulate the gut when disease wipes out all the good bacteria. It may also help to identify between good and bad bacteria. Now that you've heard my dumbed-down explanation, here's what the experts have to say:

"Today, the appendix is recognized as a highly specialized organ with a rich blood supply. This is not what we would expect from a degenerate, useless structure.

The appendix contains a high concentration of lymphoid follicles. These are highly specialized structures which are a part of the immune system. The clue to the appendix’s function is found in its strategic position right where the small bowel meets the large bowel or colon. The colon is loaded with bacteria which are useful there, but which must be kept away from other areas such as the small bowel and the bloodstream.

Through the cells in these lymphoid follicles, and the antibodies they make (see box below), the appendix is ‘involved in the control of which essential bacteria come to reside in the caecum and colon in neonatal life’.⁶ Like the very important thymus gland in our chest, it is likely that the appendix plays its major role in early childhood. It is also probably involved in helping the body recognize early in life that certain foodstuffs, bacterially derived substances, and even some of the body’s own gut enzymes, need to be tolerated and not seen as ‘foreign’ substances needing attack."

Wow. I think I just exceeded my word count. So today you have learnt something new so smile and share it with the world! (If you would prefer a less biased source, go to this website: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=what-is-the-function-of-t

Zzz? Blogging again? I Forgot...

I'm not sure how people can bring themselves to blog frequently. Seriously, it's a whole lot harder than it looks. Blogging may have been a good way to write about life last time, but times have really changed, and blogging has to move aside to make way for social networking like Facebook and Twitter. I remember reading an article on this somewhere, but sadly the memory of the exact location has fallen to the ravages of time. So I googled "blogging decreases in popularity" but found nothing until I went to the next page, where the first result was:

Blogging Decreases Among Teens, Young Adults | TopNews New Zealand

 I'm not from New Zealand and I doubt this link will actually be clicked so I'll just sum up...

In 2006, 28 percent of teens ages 12 to 17 and young adults ages 18 to 29 were bloggers, reported the survey results released Wednesday by the Pew Research Center.

Well, problem solved. Apparently the great Blogging has fallen to more convenient ways of communication like mobile phones and tweets. So now I question the point of blogging, and if the teachers give assignments, shouldn't they be on facebook and twitter? Not in my lifetime. As far as I know, blogging won't die without a fight, but hey, as long as I get extra credit for blogging, I don't mind one bit ;p

Bad things come in fours?

I think I'm beginning to go overboard with this "freedom of speech" thing. But it's a stage all bloggers go through so I won't bother with it (I feel the power raging inside me because no one will ever know who I am, Muhahahahahahahahhaha). So... On to the main topic... ._. (where are the stupid emoticons when you need them?). *ahem* It was a dark and stormy night when I clicked on the "next blog" link cos' I was ultra bored. All of a sudden, the computer screen flashed and I was instantly teleported to a new blog. As I attempted to explore this mysterious new territory, something caught my attention. Making sure not to startle the strange object, I crept slowly towards it, trying my best to stay hidden in the shadows. But it's acute senses found me out and I was only able to catch a glimpse of it before the elusive rarity disappeared (you can stop humming the jaws theme music now). The first time I had seen something so beautiful, yet so dangerous... "KNITTING!!!!!!". Haha, that was interesting wasn't it? Aaanyway, I found a blog about knitting and had no interest in it whatsoever. So I skipped it and pressed the button again. To my extreme surprise, it was about knitting again. So I laughed it off and blamed it on coincidence, pressing the button again. And once again, knitting had followed me to the next blog, and I slapped my forehead. GO AWAY KNITTING!!! Then I pressed the button again and (let's say it together) "knitting!? What on Earth is going on here?" So now I'm completely convinced that the number 4 is evil. Forget Friday the thirteenth, just include Thursday the fourth into your calender so it doesn't take you by surprise. I have yet to find other evidences that 4 is cursed, other than the fact that if you break four mirrors you'll get 28 years of bad luck (speaking of which, if breaking a mirror is bad luck, shouldn't making a mirror be good luck? Therefore glass companies are the luckiest places on Earth where leprechauns have tea-breaks and plant four-leaf clovers? And all the employees win the lottery and have a unicorn to escort them back home everyday?), and that four idiots are four times as stupid. Meanwhile I shall try and find out why there are so many blogs about knitting but so few on games.
(Finish the sentence: A lion wouldn't cheat on his wife,.....
Ans: But a Tiger Wood)

Why do I torture myself like this?

By now, you should be beginning to wonder why I do something like blogging when it causes so much pain to me. Woe is me that I have to write a blog, It's like a diary, or a log, on the web. But I think it's closer to a log than a diary, because if the inventor of blogs wanted them to be privacy-free diaries, I would be writing in a bdiary now. As I attempt in futile hopelessness to write something good right about now, I fail miserably, yet I succeed because people enjoy comparing their crappy lives to other people's crappier lives for some strange reason. Why else would people read blogs? For fun? Get real. I'm sleepy, tired and my needle-sharp memory has just gone through a major lag (Did I mention I was sleepy?). Well anyway I just noticed how far I've digressed from the original topic. Didn't the thirteenth amendment say something about banning slavery or forcing people to work (Unless blogging is considered community work of course)? Oh wait, thaaaat's right, this isn't America, is it? So I'm going to sleep now and you have just wasted 30 seconds of your life by reading this. I hereby award you with the prestigious "no life" badge, given only to a special few. Remember to become a follower because then you can get another highly sought after award. Goodnight.

Hello everybody. I may sound cheerful but in reality I'm rotting away in my chair. So anyway, this is my second blog (cue the drum roll), which makes me sound like a pro, but I'm not, because the only reason I set up this second blog is because I forgot the stupid google email address thingie and my teacher wants the entire class to get a blog, so to alllllll the people who have nothing better to do with their lives other than read blogs made by other bored people, I suggest you should do something more meaningful, like teaching a monkey to climb or a fish to swim. I type slower than a monkey (like the one million monkeys at typewriters who randomly smash on the keyboard for hundreds of years, except that there's only one monkey, keyboards replace typewriters, I only have one night to randomly smash and I have no intention of typing down the entire works of Shakespeare)* so don't expect many posts. On the plus side, I'm allowed to be as sarcastic as I want on this website so let's all shout hooray and jump for joy. If, for some reason, you have not understood any of the sarcasm in my statements, I suggest you go down to the nearest book store, purchase the book: "Common sense for idiots", and take a good long read beside a fireplace while heaving sighs of contentment. But seriously, don't do that. I was being sarcastic.

*it's completely understandable if you don't understand the monkey part. Here's the link if you want: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem. The infinite monkey theory... that sure sounds strange...