News to Note, July 4, 2009: A weekly feature examining news from the biblical viewpoint

AiG ^ | July 4, 2009

[GodGunsGuts]

Read the following news stories and much more by clicking the excerpt link below:

1. New York Times: “Paleontology and Creationism Meet but Don’t Mesh”

In covering a visit by paleontologists to our Creation Museum, a New York Times’ article spreads some misunderstanding including in an associated blog by the reporter).

2. Washington Post: “Among Many Peoples, Little Genomic Variety”

A new genetic study of 53 human populations shows that each falls into one of three genetic groups—yet that the three groups aren’t as different as was thought. The legacy of Shem, Ham, and Japheth (Noah’s three sons), perhaps?

3. BBC News: “Dinosaur Mummy Yields its Secrets”

A “mummified” dinosaur with soft tissues fossilized—evidence of watery disaster?

4. ScienceNOW: “How the Piranha Got Its Teeth”

How did the piranha end up with such a vicious jaw—and what does it have to do with Genesis?

5. ScienceDaily: “Study of Flower Color Shows Evolution in Action”

Changes in the color of columbine flowers: another example of “evolution in action” that has little to do with Darwin...

[GodGunsGuts]

[GodGunsGuts]

Ping!

[RegulatorCountry]

I've seen an old genealogy of my surname, tracing it from England, to Wales, and then back to Ireland, through one of the old warrior "kings" who holed up in Co. Wicklowe, resisting the Anglo-Saxons and the Vikings before them, back through the Tuatha De Danann to Silesia in modern-day Spain, back to Scythia and eventually back to Japheth, son of Noah.

These things were apparently fashionable at one point back in the middle ages, but the Irish do take their ancestral lineages quite seriously.

Am I a descendant of Japheth?

Maybe so.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!