National Geographic's Central Tendency

A 2004 issue of National Geographic held a real surprise. The editor (or an editor) acknowledged in the first paragraph of a one page article that we did not descend from apes. No. You read it right! The most thoroughgoing evolution supporting magazine I can think of (other than The Smithsonian) contained such a revolutionary statement. Of course, once again, we had no evidence cited for this rare but true conclusion.

My good feelings about the temporary "sanity" of the richly illustrated magazine didn't last very long. A very long article followed about how Darwin was absolutely right about evolution. Supposed transitional forms were discussed as well as much evidence for micro-evolution--what ID people and creationists recognize as mutation, natural selection, and adaptation. But, of course, our argument isn't with micro-evolution; it is with macro-evolution or transition from one species to another. Micro-evolution within a type of organism accounts for the wide divergence of shapes, size, behavior, and color of dogs, sheep, people, birds such as Darwin's finches and all the other species expressing such differences. No surprise here. Macro-evolution, however, describes the change from a bird to a reptile or other such fanciful notion. This has never happened at any time through any process upon planet earth.

The good news one can glean from that issue of the yellow magazine is that there may be a slight backing off and redefinition of what evolution is in the light of rapidly improving technology that Darwin couldn't even imagine in his day. Not that National Geographic will jump off the horse of evolution it has been riding for about a hundred years just because the dam of false science is thoroughly breached and an overwhelming flood of good sense is rushing down.

The long article mostly defended micro-evolution. Could this be a strategy adopted by Darwinian evolutionists who are afraid their favorite myths can't stand up beneath new technology clearly revealing an intelligent design described in Genesis and elsewhere in the Bible? I think so. It looks like a finger from the hands strangling public education, true science, faith, and our culture has been pryed up just a little.

Following the Darwin story comes a story of people blending together Christian beliefs and catholicism with animism. The attack against Christ continues unabated.

Dracorex Hogwartsia (I Kid You Not.)

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May 23, 2006 — A dragon-like dinosaur named after Harry Potter's alma mater has performed a bit of black magic on its own family tree, say paleontologists who unveiled the "Dragon King of Hogwarts" on Monday in Albuquerque.


The newly described horny-headed dinosaur Dracorex hogwartsia lived about 66 million years ago in South Dakota, just a million years short of the extinction of all dinosaurs. But its flat, almost storybook-style dragon head has overturned everything paleontologists thought they knew about the dome-head dinos called pachycephalosaurs.


"What you knew about pachycephalosaurs -- you can chuck it," said Spencer Lucas, curator of paleontology at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History.


"Dracorex hogwartsia is a rather fantastic new dinosaur," affirmed paleontologist Robert Sullivan of the State Museum of Pennsylvania.

For years dinosaur experts had thought the classic dome-headed, head-butting sorts of pachycephalosaurs evolved from earlier flat-headed ancestors. The last thing they expected to find at the end of the Age of Dinosaurs was a dramatically flat-headed pachycerphalosaurs, or "pachy."


"If you were going to predict the kind of dinosaur that would live at that time, it would not be this," said Lucas.


Without so much as a nod of the head or the waving of a wand, hogwartsia has reversed the pachy family tree.


"Instead of going from flat-headed to domed, you're going from dome-headed to flat," Sullivan told Discovery News. Along with several colleagues, Sullivan co-authored the first detailed study of the new dinosaur, published this week in the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science Bulletin.


Dracorex hogwartsia, which translates as "Dragon King of Hogwarts," was unearthed in 2003 in the Hell Creek Formation of South Dakota by three amateur fossil hunters working in cooperation with the Children's Museum of Indianapolis. But it wasn't until it was at the museum, while the fossil was being carefully prepared, that renowned dinosaur researcher Robert Bakker happened to catch sight of it while visiting. Bakker then recruited pachycephalosaurs expert Sullivan and other paleontologists to take a closer look.


As for how it got its name? A group of children at the Children's Museum of Indianapolis drew the connection to the fanciful school of witchcraft that the famous fictional wizard Harry Potter attends and came up with the name hogwartsia..

"It's a very dragon-like looking dinosaur," said Sullivan.


J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series, has been notified and apparently rather likes the new name.


"I am absolutely thrilled to think that Hogwarts has made a small claw mark upon the fascinating world of dinosaurs," said Rowling, according to a museum press release. "I happen to know more on the subject of paleontology than many might credit, because my eldest daughter was Utahraptor-obsessed and I am now living with a passionate Tyrannosaurus rex-lover, aged three.

"My credibility has soared within my science-loving family, and I am very much looking forward to reading Dr. Bakker and his colleague's paper describing 'my' dinosaur."

-Commentary-

Dracorex Hogwartsia (I Kid You Not)

Lo and behold, we have another dinosaur skull herded through our brain. This one has the distinction of being named after a fictional character (or something) from the very magical, cultic book series about Harry Potter. Evidently a Hogwarts is some fantastic little something or other in one or more of the books written by Rowling. Fans of the series might want to correct me on this. Problem is . . . I couldn't care less about the Potter cult books.

Dracorex Hogwartsia has the charming translation, Dragon King of the Hogwarts. It is a pachycephalosaur with a flat head that should have been dome-shaped if it followed the imaginary line of other pachys. My evolutionist friends will have to forgive me; this all seems confusing. Evidently this article originated from paleontologists among the nine-percent of the American people who believe in literal Darwinian evolution. It seems as if this pachy thing has a flat head and dragon-like features. Their find--if anything has really been found--belongs firmly in the culture of wow-myths. It is said to be sixty-six million (unusual number) years old, give or take a billion years. A wow-myth thrives on millions and millions of years like a cow eating corn.

The thing supposedly has a flat head, not at all like the prodigious brow of Charles Darwin. Thought I'd throw this in just for the sake of the cause. Sometimes I wonder if artists haven't done a little frontal lobe alteration on Charles. His high brow shames some of us flatter-headed homo sapiens, but then look at what wierd theories are spawned in some of those big brains. I haven't looked at the head of Harry Potter's author, but it must also have ample space for mind-mist. Now they mutually share Dracorex Hogwartsia. Religion marries myth and begets postmodernism.

Darwinism couldn't howl down us ninety-one percent who hold to literal creation or, at least, intelligent design. Darwinism couldn't invent or falsify enough evidence to bring us over, so its proponents hooked their wagon to pleasant fictions. If the trend continues, the next lot of bones might be named after something from Star Wars, maybe a Java the Hut frog turning into an elephant or a Wookie becoming a man. No use to give Darwinians any ideas, though. They spin stuff pretty liberally as it is. Dracorex Hogwartsia indeed!

These blog articles usually debate the science or scientific methods used by Darwinian paleontologists, anthropologists, zoologists and the like, but there is almost nothing solid in this Hogwartsia thing to work with. That item about turning the pachy tree upside down? What on earth does that mean? How can they prove right side up or upside down? Are we going to hear the same old song about them being the experts and we peons having to listen to them? Are the people who now give us dome-headed and flat-headed pachycephalosaurs from the same tribe who gave us the Nebraska Man, Haeckel's fake embryos, fake horse genealogies, and uncounted speculations and just plain guesses about our origins? Please cease and desist! This poison could give an aspirin a headache.

Before the sad ship Darwin sinks into the furthermost depths of the stygian sea (and it must if people care a pin about truth and real science), where will its sailors jump to next? Obviously, they can't offload to the Ark or any other ship with an intelligent design. Some vessel flying the skull and crossbones, or a ghost ship such as the Flying Dutchman, or a vessel headed for Neverland might serve them, however.

What would you do if you discovered most everything you previously worked for was now universally branded "tommyrot," if you knew most of the accumulated "knowledge" dug up in your field was rubbish? Who would take you in after your naturalistic paradigm died and was buried in a common grave with your decayed world view? Who would employ you? Not a pretty picture. You worshipped Darwin and built upon his theory; 1859 was the birthday of your soul. Then came twenty-first century science and knocked your religion in the head. God's Word had found you out already. Now, nowhere man, where are you going to hide? Who can trust you?

Look for diehard Darwinians in tattoo parlors, in palmistry shops, front rows at magic shows, acting in Hollywood, writing fantasy and horror stories, buried in cults, drunk out of their skulls, shooting-up in alleys, enlisting in the AntiChrist's army.

But look for emancipated former evolutionists working alongside the Phillip Johnsons, the Gary Parkers, the Ken Hams, the Duane Gishes, the Michael Dentons, the Michael Behes, and others living to eradicate the blight of a baleful religion famous for brutalizing true science.

It won't be easy. Satan won't surrender the stronghold of evolution without a fight. After all, it undergirded communism, was instrumental for genocide in Nazi Germany, decimated the Aborigines, suppressed knowledge of God, has powered the abortion mills, has granted permission for homosexuality, tainted the humanities and the arts around the world, aided and abetted a horror of suicides, and generally enlarged hell. This awful propaganda has been forcefed to our children from the cradle on through our public schools, sponsored by our government, archived on computers and in libraries, been lauded by the UN and the EU, glorified in most of our institutions, and has even forced its way into God's church. Many co-opted ministers preach from evolution distorted world views.

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