The news, RSR style. Bob Enyart and Fred Williams discuss Hurricane Harvey, the terrible death toll and suffering, why there were no hurricanes before the flood, and why Christians shouldn't claim that God targeted Texas. Then for some good news, this week the FDA approved a "living drug" for childhood leukemia as we discuss over at rsr.org/targeted-antibodies.

Post-show Note: By the way, our RSR/BEL YouTube channel is approaching 300,000 views! To help us hit that milestone, you might want to check out our brief impromptu cell phone video from Yellowstone on their now-removed misleading petrified tree exhibit:

Special Edition of Real Science Radio: Driving back from Real Science Radio's trip to totality in Nebraska, Bob called into a KHOW radio talk show. The start of today's BEL program rebroadcasts that call.

With today's standalone program (i.e., no need to first hear Part 1),  Real Science Radio concludes their reporting on the science, political correctness, and practicality of preparing for the Great American Eclipse! Bob Enyart and Fred Williams first chastise those claiming mystical significance to the eclipse, then discuss the appropriate viewing and travel warnings, the main astronomical fact (often obscured by the anti-design science media), and the politically correct complaining about the name of this eclipse by the libs over at AstronomyCast.

See Also: rsr.org/solar-system-formation-problems, rsr.org/star-formation-problems, and rsr.org/fine-tuning.

Dr. Jerry Bergman, author of 1,170 science papers, articles, and books, has now written the definitive book C. S. Lewis: Anti-Darwinist. One proof of a hundred in the book is what Lewis wrote to leading creationist Bernard Ackworth. "I wish I were younger... [I] think that you may be right in regarding it [evolution] as the central and radical lie in the whole web of falsehood that now governs our lives..." After reading about twenty of Lewis' books, RSR's Bob Enyart concurs with Bergman's conclusion and mentions the demonic character Prof. Weston from Perelandra whom Lewis describes as a devotee of "emergent evolution", the author's term for macroevolution.

Make sure to catch all of our rsr.org/jerry-bergman programs! 

* One of RSR's Favorite Lewis Quote: From rsr.org/historical-and-observational-science-equally-good...

On Scientific Thought, by C.S. Lewis
[Christian Reflections, page 77]

If popular thought feels ‘science’ to be different from all other kinds of knowledge because science is experimentally verifiable, popular thought is mistaken. Experimental verification is not a new kind of assurance coming in to supply the deficiencies of mere logic. We should therefore abandon the distinction between scientific and non-scientific thought. The proper distinction is between logical and non-logical thought. - Lewis

Hear also RSR's fun post-eclipse program and Bob's call to Ross Kaminisky, the atheist host at Denver's 50,000-watt KOA radio.

* Fossil Insect Ears Sound Warning to Darwinists: RSR co-hosts Bob Enyart and Fred Williams discuss a great David Coppedge story in the July - Sept., 2012 Creation magazine about fossilized insect ears. Darwinists have claimed that, prior to the (alleged) evolution of bats, early insects would be seen to lack ears. Lo and behold though, a study including by a scientist up the road from RSR, at the University of Colorado at Boulder, have found modern insect ears fossilized where they had expected to find deaf bugs.

Don't miss our DinosaurSoftTissue.com and YoungEarth.com sites!

* Jerry Coyne is a fruit-fly expert and evolution professor at the University of Chicago, well known for his opposition to creation and his website Why Evolution Is True. Bob Enyart is a young-earth creationist. So which man would you think, the evolutionist or the creationist, would more accurately understand and present the latest cutting-edge discoveries from the world of genetics, and which one would be in denial? See for yourself...

The following three screenshots are from Coyne's criticism of Real Science Radio in his Nov. 19, 2012 blog, with the third presenting his scientific criticism. Following them is the comment that Bob Enyart posted which Jerry has so far rejected from appearing on his blog. First, Coyne's heading...

Next, see Jerry's fun visual comparison of the logos (with RSR hoping that National Public Radio's SciFri sticks with their logo and doesn't copy ours ;)

And last, here is the main scientific criticism that Jerry Coyne chose to level against RSF.

So the question is, on this specific scientific matter, is the famed University of Chicago evolution professor correct, or is the fundamentalist Christian young earth creationist correct? Well, for starters, far from this being primarily a single-celled phenomena, even vertebrate genomes are so erratic and unwilling to be forced into a Darwinian lineage, that in their January 2013 journal, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reports that horizontal gene transfer must have "transformed vertebrate genomes."

Real Science Radio hosts Bob Enyart and Fred Williams concludes their series on this interesting biblical and scientific question: Did it rain before the flood! For Part 1 see rsr.org/rain and check out Dr. Walt Brown's article on the topic.

Today's Resource: Get the Best Creation Science Book Ever Written! Just click on the cover of Dr. Walt Brown's book to purchase it from RSR (which also helps us to continue broadcasting)!

* Check Out RSR's HPT Programs (and other resources from rsr.org/flood):
- Plate Tectonics: Subduction Does Not Happen
- RSR on the Origin of Trans-Neptunian Objects
- List of Answers to Hydroplate Objections
- Bryan Nickel's HPT Tutorial YouTube Series
- Dr. Spencer, PhD in nuclear physics, on HPT objections
- The 360-Day Year on RSR & 360dayyear.com
- Jane Albright's Global Flood Article Series 
- CPT's Wrong: Magma Below Crossover Depth Sinks
- RSR's observation that, "All scientists work for Walt Brown" comes from rsr.org/predictions#hpt, our program that defies the claim of Bill Nye and Neil deGrasse Tyson, who have said that creationists cannot make science predictions based on the Bible. Ha!

* The Original Walt Brown Week on RSR: originally aired on five consecutive programs:
- Dr. Walt Brown on Evolution
- Dr. Walt Brown on Hydroplates
- Walt Brown on the Grand Canyon
- Walt on Where the Water Went & Where it Came From
- The Walt Brown Effect: Q&A

* Flood Programs with HPT expert Kevin Lea:
- Origin of Comets on Real Science Radio
- Real Science Radio on Frozen Mammoths
- Liquefaction Made Most of the Paper Thin Fossils
- RSR: How Earthquakes Gave Us a 365-Day Year

* See RSR's COMPLETE Global Flood and Hydroplate Theory: New in 2018, we've made available online for free our full, best-selling flood video. (Also available on DVD & Blu-ray for sharing with friends. And to help underwrite making this more widely available, please consider a donation. Thanks so much!) We hope you enjoy this:

Real Science Radio hosts Bob Enyart and Fred Williams continue discussing the interesting biblical and scientific question: Did it rain before the flood? For Part 1 see rsr.org/rain. Next week we plan to conclude this discussion with Part 3!

Today's Resource: Get the Best Creation Science Book Ever Written! Just click on the cover of Dr. Walt Brown's book to purchase it from RSR (which also helps us to continue broadcasting)!

* Check Out RSR's HPT Programs (and other resources from rsr.org/flood):
- Plate Tectonics: Subduction Does Not Happen
- RSR on the Origin of Trans-Neptunian Objects
- List of Answers to Hydroplate Objections
- Bryan Nickel's HPT Tutorial YouTube Series
- Dr. Spencer, PhD in nuclear physics, on HPT objections
- The 360-Day Year on RSR & 360dayyear.com
- Jane Albright's Global Flood Article Series 
- CPT's Wrong: Magma Below Crossover Depth Sinks
- RSR's observation that, "All scientists work for Walt Brown" comes from rsr.org/predictions#hpt, our program that defies the claim of Bill Nye and Neil deGrasse Tyson, who have said that creationists cannot make science predictions based on the Bible. Ha!

* The Original Walt Brown Week on RSR: originally aired on five consecutive programs:
- Dr. Walt Brown on Evolution
- Dr. Walt Brown on Hydroplates
- Walt Brown on the Grand Canyon
- Walt on Where the Water Went & Where it Came From
- The Walt Brown Effect: Q&A

* Flood Programs with HPT expert Kevin Lea:
- Origin of Comets on Real Science Radio
- Real Science Radio on Frozen Mammoths
- Liquefaction Made Most of the Paper Thin Fossils
- RSR: How Earthquakes Gave Us a 365-Day Year

* See RSR's COMPLETE Global Flood and Hydroplate Theory: New in 2018, we've made available online for free our full, best-selling flood video. (Also available on DVD & Blu-ray for sharing with friends. And to help underwrite making this more widely available, please consider a donation. Thanks so much!) We hope you enjoy this:

Part 1: Real Science Radio hosts Bob Enyart and Fred Williams take on the interesting biblical and scientific question: Did it rain before the flood? Part 2 is even more compelling and then Part 3 concludes the series.