Real Science Friday: Bob Has a Great Weight on His Shoulders

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Bob Has a Great Weight on His Shoulders

This is the show from Friday, February 24th 2012.

BEST QUOTE OF THE SHOW:
The world’s many science historians believe Isaac Newton was the greatest scientist who ever lived. Often that’s asserted by science historians. So to come up with a definition of a creationist that would exclude Isaac Newton as a creationist is an intellectual temper tantrum.

SUMMARY:



* Bob Enyart and Fred Williams Talk About Air and Life
: The Real Science Friday co-hosts talk about animals, both on land and in the sea, designed to live comfortably with the enormous amounts of atmospheric and water pressure pressing in and down on us. The guys recommend that everyone subscribe to Answers Magazine from Ken Ham's Answers in Genesis ministry, where they found the article, Air Mass: A Weighty Topic in the 2012 winter edition.

* Florida Listener Asks about Amino Acids and Abortion: Isaac asked Bob and Fred to ponder the contradictory claims of many atheists regarding abiogenesis and abortion. By the way, abiogenesis is the study of how biological life might arise from inanimate matter through natural processes. (In their current debate on creation, Bob and the atheist AronRa both mentioned Lord Kelvin, a leading scientist who worked for decades after the publication of Darwin's Origin. Please consider his quote on abiogenesis from from the address he delivered as president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, when after referencing the "vast mass of inductive evidence" in science, Lord Kelvin wrote:

"I am ready to adopt, as an article of scientific faith, true through all space and through all time, that life proceeds from life, and from nothing but life." -Kelvin

So, comparing abiogenesis to abortion, Isaac from Florida references a 1953 experiment in which Miller and Urey synthesized amino acids in a test tube. Talk about better living through chemistry! That was a great accomplishment. But while amino acids are the building blocks of biological molecules, amino acids are not life. So Isaac points out a contradiction:

1) That amino acids are claimed as a representation of life (yet there is not even a living cell). And:
2) The male or female embryo, so full of living cells with his or her own DNA, etc... is not human life.

After visiting the Denver Museum of Nature and Science with dozens of creationists and a local reporter, Bob pointed out a misleading exhibit headline referring to the 1953 Miller/Urey synthesis of amino acids which read: Life Created in the Lab? Bob wrote a letter to the editor to the Colorado Springs Gazette asking, "It's been fifty years since that Miller experiment! Don't they know if they made life yet or not?"

* Student from the School of Mines Weighs in on AronRa: Bob and Fred interview a local engineering student, Mark Bernhardt, about Bob's current debate with AronRa. It's fun!

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