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* RSR Programming Note on MS and the MRI: MRI inventor Raymond Damadian, whom we mentioned during Part 2 of our series on the Fathers of Science, will give an update on Friday, October 7th at 5 p.m. E.T. here on Real Science Radio regarding insights into multiple sclerosis which were enabled by Damadian's breakthrough development of the upright MRI.* Now for Scientists After Darwin: Real Science Radio hosts Bob Enyart and Fred Williams continue their discussion on the fathers of the physical sciences about scientists who worked before and after Darwin published his Origin of Species. As documented by leading science historians, many of the fathers of the natural sciences rejected naturalistic origins, including pioneering scientists such as Copernicus, Bacon, Kepler, Galileo, Pascal, Boyle, Newton, Cuvier, Dalton, all of whom worked before Charles Darwin. And those who did their work after the publication of Origin of Species included Faraday, Pasteur, Joule, Kelvin, Lister, Carver, each of whom continued to advocate for special creation and to reject evolution.* Answering the Atheist's Argument from Authority: Our list below of many of the fathers of science who believed in a creator is not an argument from authority. Rather, it is a REBUTTAL to logical fallacy committed often by  evolutionists when they make an invalid argument from authority. First, they severely misrepresent reality when they claim, as physicist Lawrence Krauss said to Bob Enyart, that "all scientists are Darwinists", for they are ignoring the 600,000 U.S. Ph.D.s, MDs, and professors, who reject the fundamental claim of materialistic origins. Secondly, while there is nothing wrong with quoting an expert on a topic, the bait and switch tactic of identifying experts in one topic and then without acknowledging the switch, proceeding as though they were experts in a different field, is one way of committing the logical fallacy of an invalid argument from authority. Being a pilot doesn't mean that you know how to make an airplane, let alone gravity. So we should take care not to commit the logical fallacy of argument from an invalid authority, like this: read more

* BTW, It's Not Too Late To Sign Up For Fred Williams NFL Office Pool: Really, it's awesome and free! Just click on over to officepoolstop.com!* Ten Years Later RSR Update: Real Science Radio hosts Bob Enyart and Fred Williams update an RSR show from ten years ago this week on the fathers of the physical sciences. As documented by leading science historians, many of the fathers of the natural sciences rejected naturalistic origins, including those who workedboth before and after Darwin. Pioneering scientists who rejected atheistic origins included Copernicus, Bacon, Kepler, Galileo, Pascal, Boyle, Newton, Cuvier, Dalton, all of whom worked before Charles Darwin. And those who did their work after the publication of Origin of Species included Faraday, Pasteur, Joule, Kelvin, Lister, Carver, each of whom continued to advocate for special creation and to reject evolution.* Answering the Atheist's Argument from Authority: Our list below of many of the fathers of science who believed in a creator is not an argument from authority. Rather, it is a REBUTTAL to logical fallacy committed often by  evolutionists when they make an invalid argument from authority. First, they severely misrepresent reality when they claim, as physicist Lawrence Krauss said to Bob Enyart, that "all scientists are Darwinists", for they are ignoring the 600,000 U.S. Ph.D.s, MDs, and professors, who reject the fundamental claim of materialistic origins. Secondly, while there is nothing wrong with quoting an expert on a topic, the bait and switch tactic of identifying experts in one topic and then without acknowledging the switch, proceeding as though they were experts in a different field, is one way of committing the logical fallacy of an invalid argument from authority. Being a pilot doesn't mean that you know how to make an airplane, let alone gravity. So we should take care not to commit the logical fallacy of argument from an invalid authority, like this:Scientists are experts in operational physics, chemistry, and biology. Most scientists believe in naturalistic origins. Therefore naturalistic origins must be true.It is a logical fallacy to claim, as Lawrence Krauss did to Real Science Radio, that success in operational science translates to deserved trust in origins. Our list of the fathers of science who believe in the Creator God is offered  to rebut the common claim, as made by countless atheists (including TOL's Stratnerd), that only uneducated people reject evolution.* Fathers of Science who Believed in the Creator God Philip Paracelsus, died 1541, Chemical Medicine Nicolas Copernicus, 1543, Scientific Revolution Francis Bacon, 1626, Scientific Method Johann Kepler, 1630, Physical Astronomy Galileo Galilei, 1642, Law of falling bodies William Harvey, 1657, Circulatory System Blaise Pascal, 1662, Probability and Calculators Robert Boyle, 1691, Chemistry Christiaan Huygens, 1695, Physical Optics Isaac Newton, 1727, Gravitation Carolus Linnaeus, 1778, Taxonomy, Modern Biology George Cuvier, 1832, Anatomy/Paleontology John Dalton, 1844, Atomic Theory For those who object that these brilliant men lived prior to the 1859 publication of Darwin’s Origin of Species, consider the following scientific giants all of whom in a time of more open debate, publicly rejected natural origins and Darwinian evolution, and indicated that the evidence supports belief in a supernatural Creator: Michael Faraday, died 1867, Electromagnetism Matthew Maury, 1873, Oceanography James Clerk Maxwell, 1879, Electromagnetic Radiation Louis Pasteur, 1885, Microbiology James Joule, 1889, Thermodynamics Lord Kelvin, 1907, Thermodynamics (preferred ID over Darwinism; see below) Joseph Lister, 1912, Modern Surgery G. W. Carver, 1943, Modern Agriculture* SEE ALSO the 600,000 Ph.D.s, Profs, and MDs Doubting Darwin: For the research on how many U.S. professionals in the operational sciences, medicine, professors, etc., do not accept the general claim of m

* Plasma, Fish, Tarantulas, Neanderthal, and Ice Men: Real Science Radio's Bob Enyart and Fred Williams share with the news headlines from the current issue of creation.com/magazine. (The guys highly recommend that you subscribe for yourself and a friend, child, or grandchild!) They discuss the relatively small moon Enceladus that's ejecting as much plasma as its giant planet Saturn; the tiny Mojave desert fish that hasn't been isolated from other fish for 13,000 years but for, well, per the journal Nature, maybe 100 years; the amazing blue tarantulas that stumped the evolutionists who now assume that these creatures evolved their nanostructural colorization eight separate times; Neanderthal brilliance; and Otzi the Iceman's lactose intolerance!* RSR's List of the Solar System's Transient Events: We just updated the written show summary for our fun 2016 program over at rsr.org/transient-events to include the new Enceladus plasma discovery! So if you enjoyed today's program, you just might love our Transient Events show!* RSR's List of Not So Old Things: Likewise, we've updated the show summary for our classic, List of Not So Old Things, over at rsr.org/not-so-old-things to include the Devils Hole pupfish that has been isolated not for 13,000 years, as previously alleged, but for as few as 100 years! Secular scientists default to knee-jerk, older-than-Bible-age dates. However a tiny Mojave desert fish is having none of it. Rather than having been genetically isolated from other fish for 13,000 years (which would, remarkably, make this small school of fish older than the Earth itself), according to a paper in the journal Nature, actual measurements of mutation rates indicate that the genetic diversity of these Pupfish could have been generated in about 100 years, give or take a few. So if you enjoyed today's program, you just might love our Not So Old Things show!* And In Case You've Been Living In A Cave Lately: In case you've never heard our RSR Cavemen and Neanderthal programs, and in honor of the journal Nature's publication in their Scientific Reports of the ability of Neanderthal to kindle fire on demand, here are a couple handy links and fun videos: - rsr.org/the-real-science-radio-caveman-show - rsr.org/most-informative-neanderthal-show-ever     read more

* A Place in the History of Molecular Biology: At Cambridge University, anti-Darwinist Douglas Axe worked for some of the world's leading molecular biologists in the laboratory established by four Nobel laureates including the guys who discovered DNA's double-helix. Decades after Watson and Crick broke the field of molecular biology wide open, evolutionists at Cambridge were still publishing the claim that the recipe for building proteins had just a couple of rudimentary requirements. Doug's groundbreaking research showed that the "simple model" of protein construction was false. Further, shocking to evolutionists, Axe showed that the very particular order of hundreds of various amino acids was a very specific sequence needed for standard protein function (with a specific, different sequence needed for each kind of protein). Real Science Radio host Bob Enyart is honored to interview Dr. Axe!* To Get the Book: You can purchase Doug's fabulous book wherever great boooks are sold including at Amazon.com or elsewhere as listed at the book's website, UndeniableDesign.com! * Other RSR Discovery Institute Interviews: To hear our other fun and information interviews with Discovery Institute scientists and scholars, just click on over to rsr.org/di. * The Richard Dawkins 3-to-1 Evolution Challenge: Research for a debate on the Bible led Bob Enyart and his associate Will Duffy to Oxford University. While there, thinking about the popularity of RSR's graphical evolution challenges, such as the Evolution Vision Challenge and about the success of our PZ Myers Trochlea Challenge (click for that evolutionist's reply), the guys decided to hand deliver to the Oxford office of professor emeritus Richard Dawkins a printed copy of RSR's Dawkins 3-to-1 Challenge. (Dawkins still lectures there for a course titled, Science Literacy: Evolution for Non-Scientists.) Intelligent Design arguments based on complexity, like the flagellum argument offered by Michael Behe, are powerful yet that very complexity provides opportunities for opponents to obfuscate. (For example, if a cellular component is assembled from twenty parts, an evolutionist can make somewhat irrelevant comments about two or three of those parts, and get millions of evolutionists to claim that he has refuted that design challenge.) Thus Real Science Radio has been testing arguments based on the simpler, rather than the more complex, aspects of organisms. It appears that these inherently simpler arguments may more effectively demonstrate the inability of the materialist worldview to explain biology. (Our Myers Trochlea Challenge is just such an argument, focusing on one of the simplest parts of the human vision system.) So the graphic that we delivered to New College asserts that neither Richard Dawkins, nor any materialist, will ever be able to answer this simple Dawkins 3-to-1 Evolution Challenge:  read more

* Patrick Henry College Prof: Real Science Radio hosts Bob Enyart and Fred Williams interview Prof. David Lee from Patrick Henry College. The guys talk about the founder of geology, Nicolas Steno, the order of the fossil record, and what is it like to be a creationist in a secular academic university.* Fathers of the Natural Sciences Anti-Natural Origins: Many leading fathers of the physical sciences, both before and after Darwin, rejected atheistic origins, like Copernicus, Bacon, Kepler, Galileo, Pascal, Boyle, Newton, Cuvier, Dalton before, and after Darwin including Faraday, Pasteur, Joule, Kelvin, Lister, Carver, who continued to advocate for special creation and reject evolution. At rsr.org/fathers, we have this list...* Fathers of Science who Believed in the Creator God Philip Paracelsus, died 1541, Chemical Medicine Nicolas Copernicus, 1543, Scientific Revolution Francis Bacon, 1626, Scientific Method Johann Kepler, 1630, Physical Astronomy Galileo Galilei, 1642, Law of falling bodies William Harvey, 1657, Circulatory System Blaise Pascal, 1662, Probability and Calculators Robert Boyle, 1691, Chemistry Christiaan Huygens, 1695, Physical Optics  Isaac Newton, 1727, Gravitation Carolus Linnaeus, 1778, Taxonomy, Modern Biology George Cuvier, 1832, Anatomy/Paleontology John Dalton, 1844, Atomic Theory For those who object that these brilliant men lived prior to the 1859 publication of Darwin’s Origin of Species, consider the following scientific giants all of whom in a time of more open debate, publicly rejected natural origins and Darwinian evolution, and indicated that the evidence supports belief in a supernatural Creator: Michael Faraday, died 1867, Electromagnetism Matthew Maury, 1873, Oceanography James Clerk Maxwell, 1879, Electromagnetic Radiation Louis Pasteur, 1885, Microbiology James Joule, 1889, Thermodynamics Lord Kelvin, 1907, Thermodynamics (preferred ID over Darwinism; see below) Joseph Lister, 1912, Modern Surgery G. W. Carver, 1943, Modern Agriculture* SEE ALSO the 600,000 Ph.D.s, Profs, and MDs Doubting Darwin: For the research on how many U.S. professionals in the operational sciences, medicine, professors, etc., do not accept the general claim of materialistic origins, see Real Science Radio's List of Scholars Doubting Darwin & the Big Bang. read more

* Ray Comfort Interviews and Resources Here at BEL: - 2009 Ray Comfort on Leading an Atheist to Evidence - 2011 Ray Comfort about his stunning abortion film, "180" The Movie - 2013 Ray Comfort on BEL about his film Evolution vs God - 2015 Embedded atop our rsr.org/homosexuality page see Ray's film: Audacity - 2016 Ray Comfort on his film The Atheist Delusion: Why Millions Deny the Obvious.Today's Resource: Here at RSR, we offer Ray Comfort's video, produced with Kirk Cameron, Hell's Best Kept Secret. BTW, one of our dearest friends, pro-life missionary Cal Zastrow smuggled into China boxes of Ray's Way of the Master book! And check out this list of atheists whom we've debated here at Real Science Radio. read more

* Interview-Based Review of Flood Models: Jane Albright concludes her report to RSR on the 16 interviews she conducted with creation scientists and leaders for her article series exploring the leading flood models, the science, the Scripture, and the controversy. In today's Real Science Radio broadcast, Bob Enyart and Albright, who is a working professional engineer formerly with the U.S. Navy nuclear engineering program, discuss the personal and organizational relationships surrounding the controversy over the three leading flood models, the Vapor Canopy Theory (VCT), the Hydroplate Theory (HPT), and Catastrophic Plate Tectonics (CPT).* Help Bob Build a List of Scientists and Engineers Supporting HPT: Please email [email protected] if you are a degreed scientist or a professional engineer (or if you know of one) who supports Dr. Walt Brown's Hydroplate Theory!* Help Bob Identify HPT Scientists & Engineers: Please email [email protected] if you are a pro-HPT scientist or engineer. * Enjoy Jane Albright's Series: R ight here on RSR... - albright-flood-series-1-VCT.pdf - albright-flood-series-2-HPT.pdf - albright-flood-series-3-CPT.pdf - albright-flood-series-4-controversy.pdf * RSR's Albright Broadcast Series: Bob and Jane discuss her article series on these three programs: - Pt. 1: The Vapor Canopy and the Hydroplate Theory (covering Albright's first two articles) - Pt. 2: Catastrophic Plate Tectonics (Albright's 3rd article) - Pt. 3: The Cntroversy over VCT, CPT, & the HPT (this program, Albright's 4th article)* Today's Resource: For online resources, go to rsr.org/flood. But to order RSR's #1 best-selling video, just click...The Global Flood and the Hydroplate Theory Blu-ray, 2-DVD Set, Stream or HD Download!Real Science Radio co-host Bob Enyart presents the scientific evidence for Dr. Walt Brown’s model of the global flood, along with the relevant biblical material. Enyart also discusses Brown's opponents and contrasts both the vapor canopy and catastrophic plate tectonics with the hydroplate theory. DVD Vol. 1 1. Walt Brown, Creation Leaders, and Scripture 2. Hydroplate Theory & Scientific Evidence DVD Vol. 2 3. Hydroplates vs. Plate Tectonics Bonus: Origin of Earth's Radioactivity The Blu-ray disc contains all parts on one disc. And for now, save $10 with our special introductory pricing which discounts the $50 retail price to $39.99!* Get the Best Creation Science Book Ever Written: Just click on the cover of the book to purchase it from RSR (which also helps us to continue broadcasting)... read more

* BEL YouTube Channel: Here's a small request. If you'd like us to reach our next small goal of 175,000 views, please click this link to watch a video, maybe one of our RSR science vidoes, on our BEL YouTube channel! * Interview-Based Review of Flood Models: Jane Albright continues her report on the 16 interviews she conducted with creation scientists and leaders for her article series exploring the leading flood models, the science, the Scripture, and the controversy. In today's Real Science Radio broadcast, Bob Enyart and Albright, who is a working professional engineer formerly with the U.S. Navy nuclear engineering program, discuss Catastrophic Plate Tectonics (CPT), the flood model based on the secular Plate Tectonics model and affirmed by the leading creation groups. Virtually all observers (including of course creationists), acknowledge that Earth's crustal plates move in relation to one another. Specifically, however, Plate Tectonics (PT) is the model based on seafloor spreading and subduction. So the PT model stands or falls (as does CPT) based upon whether those two claimed mechanisms are actual.* Help Bob Identify HPT Scientists & Engineers: Please email [email protected] if you are a pro-HPT scientist or engineer. * Enjoy Jane Albright's Series: R ight here on RSR... - albright-flood-series-1-VCT.pdf - albright-flood-series-2-HPT.pdf - albright-flood-series-3-CPT.pdf - albright-flood-series-4-controversy.pdf * RSR's Albright Broadcast Series: Bob and Jane discuss her article series on these three programs: - Pt. 1: The Vapor Canopy and the Hydroplate Theory (covering Albright's first two articles) - Pt. 2: Catastrophic Plate Tectonics (this program, Albright's 3rd article) - Pt. 3: The Cntroversy over VCT, CPT, & the HPT (Albright's 4th article)* Comment from an RSR Listener: A Lutheran Sunday School teacher with 15 years of experience who teaches kids from 5th to 8th grade sent in the following message:Dear Bob and Fred and the RSR Crew, The kinds of scientific discoveries that you guys report, much of it published in leading science journals that support young-earth creation, is the only thing that I have found that actually reaches the young kids that I work with. In the 7th grade, these boys and girls go through the Lutheran confirmation process. Afterward, I quiz them. They have learned almost nothing. More significant though is that the entire experience is meaningless to them. It's not that it has no meaning. It's worse than that. To them it is meaningless. The only way that I have found to break through to them about the important of God's Word and the Gospel of Jesus Christ is with the amazing scientific discoveries that Real Science Radio shares that demonstrate that God is indeed our Creator! Thank you so very much for your work! And may God bless your continued outreach!In Christ, _ _ _ _ _   _ _ _ _ _ Lutheran Sunday School Teacher* Help with RSR Research? At Real Science Radio, we always have way more research than we have the time or money to accomplish. You can help with one or both if you'd like to! For example, you can consider purchasing a book from our Amazon.com Research Wish List. Watch out though! They're not inexpensive. You could either read the book yourself to prepare a report (to send off to us at [email protected] of your assessment of what information may be helpful in our apologetics outreach) or you can just let Amazon deliver the book right to us (where our crack staff, namely Bob or Doug, will give the book an initial read to evaluate its information). So, if you can, please help! And whether you can or not, thanks and may God continue to bless you!* Today's Resource: For online resources, go to rsr.org/flood. But to order RSR's #1 best-selling video, just click...The Global Flood and the Hydroplate Theory Blu-ray, 2-DVD Set, Stream or HD Download!Real Science Radio c

* Interview-Based Review of Flood Models: Jane Albright interviewed 16 creation scientists and leaders for this project. Another 17 declined to be interviewed. Now, Real Science Radio co-host Bob Enyart interviews Albright, a working professional engineer formerly with the U.S. Navy nuclear engineering program, on her resulting articles about the most prominent flood models. - The Vapor Canopy Theory (VCT, built on a secular theory and now rejected by the leading creation groups). - The Hydroplate Theory (HPT, built on the floodwaters coming from just beneath the crust). - Catastrophic Plate Tectonics (CPT, built on the secular PT model and affirmed by the leading creation groups).* Help Bob Identify Scientists & Engineers Supporting HPT: Please email [email protected] if you are a scientist or an engineer (or you can tell us of one) supporting Dr. Brown's Hydroplate Theory!* Enjoy Jane Albright's Series: R ight here on RSR... - albright-flood-series-1-VCT.pdf - albright-flood-series-2-HPT.pdf - albright-flood-series-3-CPT.pdf - albright-flood-series-4-controversy.pdf* RSR's Albright Broadcast Series: Bob and Jane discuss her article series on these three programs: - Pt. 1: The Vapor Canopy and the Hydroplate Theory (this program, discussing Albright's first two articles) - Pt. 2: Catastrophic Plate Tectonics (discussing Albright's 3rd article) - Pt. 3: The Cntroversy over VCT, CPT, & the HPT (discussing Albright's 4th article)* Today's Resource: For online resources, go to rsr.org/flood. But to order RSR's #1 best-selling video, just click...The Global Flood and the Hydroplate Theory Blu-ray, 2-DVD Set, Stream or HD Download!Real Science Radio co-host Bob Enyart presents the scientific evidence for Dr. Walt Brown’s model of the global flood, along with the relevant biblical material. Enyart also discusses Brown's opponents and contrasts both the vapor canopy and catastrophic plate tectonics with the hydroplate theory. DVD Vol. 1 1. Walt Brown, Creation Leaders, and Scripture 2. Hydroplate Theory & Scientific Evidence DVD Vol. 2 3. Hydroplates vs. Plate Tectonics Bonus: Origin of Earth's Radioactivity The Blu-ray disc contains all parts on one disc. And for now, save $10 with our special introductory pricing which discounts the $50 retail price to $39.99!* Get the Best Creation Science Book Ever Written: Just click on the cover of the book to purchase it from RSR (which also helps us to continue broadcasting)... read more

* Hey Brian: Real Science Radio host Bob Enyart interviews in studio fossil expert Brian Thomas. Even though radiocarbon only lasts thousands of years, and not millions, Carbon 14 is found everywhere it shouldn't be! About the extraordinary persistence of 14c in marble, coal, oil, natural gas, dinosaur bones, and diamonds, Bob asks this Institute for Creation Research fossil expert about possible contamination as compared to endogenous 14c. The discussion is fascinating!* Please Support ICR: To help the biblical creation movement continue to grow, please consider purchasing some of their fabulous resources for yourself and to give as gifts to others! You can do this at store.icr.org!* Another RSR Prediction: On today's program, Bob Enyart and Brian Thomas predict that chert, even though it is often dated at more than a billion years old, will contain short-lived Carbon 14! * Learn About Carbon 13 in Fossil Bones: If you love science and learning about fossils, you'll just love what Brian Thomas explains to us about the various Carbon isotopes in fossils, and the ratio of Carbon 12 and Carbon 13, and what that tells us about the diet of a dinosaur (or other creatures) and whether or not these Carbon isotopes reveal contamination, or a lack of contamination, in fossils that also include endogenous biological material!  * RSR HIGHLY Recommends this Special CRSQ Edition: Long-time RSR listeners may recall Bob Enyart's paper published in the peer-reviewed journal, Creation Research Society Quarterly, Dobzhansy: 40 Years Later Nothing Makes Sense. Now, see the highly recommended iDINO Project Special Report that includes a fabulous radiocarbon paper by Vance Nelson and Brian Thomas! You can click to view the abstracts but RSR highly recommends purchasing this important and historic issue, which you can find also at tiny.cc/crsq-dino-soft-tissue-ed.* Compound Interest: (post-show note) "If you're interested in economics, or you just want to understand your own finances, you just might love this book fascinating little book, Compound Interest, by Will Duffy." - Bob Enyart* Post-show Statement: Bob Enyart and his guest Brian Thomas join the world grieving over the murder of scores of innocent people in Nice, France. Today's program, incidentally, was recorded before yesterday's horrific crime occurred. read more