Real Science Radio Loves the Journal Nature

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Real Science Radio Loves the Journal Nature

This is the show from Friday February 15th, 2013

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* Journal Nature: Past 5,000 years prolific for changes to human genome: Real Science Radio's Bob Enyart and Fred Williams enjoy talking about what evolutionary geneticists have now admitted, that the human genome experienced the vast majority of its diversity in just the last 5,000 years, a time frame that fits well into the biblical chronology.

* Journal Nature: Dating features on the moon and Mars is guesswork: That's in space. But how about here on Earth? According to Nature, "Radiometric dates are some of the trickiest, most delicate and most disputed measurements on Earth."

* Leech Cocoon Helps Confirm a Young Earth: An allegedly 200-million year-old rock contains a leech cocoon, which preserves a protozoan which looks exactly like an extant species.

* The Perversion of Homosexuality Harms their Kids (of course): Mark Regnerus, of the University of Texas at Austin, after studying 3,000 American adults 18 to 39 published in a peer-reviewed social science journal his finding that those raised by homosexual parents had poorer mental and physical health, lower income levels, and more troubled personal relationships than those raised by intact heterosexual families. "This data overturns conventional wisdom," said Regnerus.



* After 500 Dinosaurs went POOF, the Remaining Ones Lost Weight: It turns out that not only did paleontologists over count the number of dinosaur species by about double, they now have found out that the dinosaurs were far less heavy than previously thought. For example, instead of Brachiosaurus weighing 80 tons, it is now believed that they would have weighed about 23 tons.

* Our 2013 RSR "LIST" Shows: Starting with last month's List of Not So Old Things, through to our November List of the Fine Tuning of the Universe, we're looking forward to continuing our tradition of annual shows, including:
January: List of Not So Old Things
March: List of Peer-reviewed Dino Soft Tissue Papers
May: List of Evidence Contradicting the Big Bang
July: List of Genomes that Just Don't Fit
Sept: List of Scholars Doubting Darwinism and the Big Bang
Nov: List of the Fine Tuning of Creation
Another? If you have a suggestion for another RSR LIST show, please forward it to Bob@RealScienceRadio.com. Thanks!



Today’s Resources: Get the Spike Psarris DVD What You Aren't Being Told About Astronomy and Vol. II, Our Created Stars and Galaxies! Have you browsed through our Science Department in the KGOV Store? Check out especially Walt Brown’s In the Beginning and Bob’s interviews with this great scientist in Walt Brown Week! You’ll also love Dr. Guillermo Gonzalez’ Privileged Planet (clip), and Illustra Media’s Unlocking the Mystery of Life (clip)! You can consider our BEL Science Pack; Bob Enyart’s Age of the Earth Debate; and the superb kids' radio programming, Jonathan Park: The Adventure Begins! And Bob strongly recommends that you subscribe to CMI’s tremendous Creation magazine!
 

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Real Science Radio Loves the Journal Nature

This is the show from Friday February 15th, 2013

SUMMARY:



* Journal Nature: Past 5,000 years prolific for changes to human genome: Real Science Radio's Bob Enyart and Fred Williams enjoy talking about what evolutionary geneticists have now admitted, that the human genome experienced the vast majority of its diversity in just the last 5,000 years, a time frame that fits well into the biblical chronology.
And the remaining 27% changes that don't fit well into the biblical chronology, plus all the other genetic data that also doesn't fit well into the biblical chronology, suggest what?
* Journal Nature: Dating features on the moon and Mars is guesswork: That's in space. But how about here on Earth? According to Nature, "Radiometric dates are some of the trickiest, most delicate and most disputed measurements on Earth."
A pity that this conflates two entirely different observations concerning dating of extraterrestrial material. If the cited article had been read carefully, this misleading conflation could have been avoided.
* Leech Cocoon Helps Confirm a Young Earth: An allegedly 200-million year-old rock contains a leech cocoon, which preserves a protozoan which looks exactly like an extant species.
A citation would help confirm the identicality of this protozoan to extant species. It is also worth noting that 'looks exactly like' does not mean the same as 'is exactly like'.
* The Perversion of Homosexuality Harms their Kids (of course): Mark Regnerus, of the University of Texas at Austin, after studying 3,000 American adults 18 to 39 published in a peer-reviewed social science journal his finding that those raised by homosexual parents had poorer mental and physical health, lower income levels, and more troubled personal relationships than those raised by intact heterosexual families. "This data overturns conventional wisdom," said Regnerus.
A pity that Regnerus's caveat about false correlations was not also quoted:

'Author Mark Regnerus emphasizes the traditional caveat in social science, warning against leaping to conclusions regarding "causality." In other words, just because there are statistical correlations between having a homosexual parent and experiencing negative outcomes does not automatically prove that having a homosexual parent is what caused the negative outcomes--other factors could be at work.'

* After 500 Dinosaurs went POOF, the Remaining Ones Lost Weight: It turns out that not only did paleontologists over count the number of dinosaur species by about double, they now have found out that the dinosaurs were far less heavy than previously thought. For example, instead of Brachiosaurus weighing 80 tons, it is now believed that they would have weighed about 23 tons.
Again, a citation would be helpful. Also, is one supposed to conclude that, because palaeontologists have extended and revised their understanding of dinosaurs, this axiomatically validates 'young' Earth creationism?
 
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