* Did the whole world once use a 360-day calendar? If so, why? Also, does Dr. Walt Brown's hydroplate theory (HPT) explain the relevant evidence? RSR hosts Bob Enyart and Fred Williams look at the Mayans, Egyptians, Aztecs, Indians, Sumerians, Babylonians, Greeks, Romans, Chinese, and the Hebrew Bible to answer the first question: Yes, ancient civilizations used a 360-day calendar. To answer the question why, one must keep in mind the sophistication of ancient astronomers. Nasa reports that in 650 B.C., "Mayan astronomers [made] detailed observations of Venus, leading to a highly accurate calendar." And the Encyclopedia of Time says of the Aztecs that, "they carried on and further developed calendrical traditions that had their roots some 2,000 years before their own time." Real Science Radio investigates the reason why the ancient world used a 360-day calendar and discusses a mechanism for speeding up the rotation of the Earth that in historical times could add 5.24 days to the year. See more at 360dayyear.com.

* RSR on YouTube: You're invited to check out today's HPT-based, 360-day year program turned into this important YouTube video:
 

* The Calendar is one of the Greatest Monuments of a Culture: Along with language, the calendar is one of the greatest monuments of a culture. Ranke, as quoted by Norman Lockyer (The Origin of the Year, 1982, Nature, p. 487) wrote, "The calendar may be considered the noblest relic of the most ancient times which has influenced the world." And in 1903 Emmeline Plunket judged (Calendars and Constellations of the Ancient World, 1903, p. 188) that interest in ancient calendars is a necessary part of being "interested in the history of the human race".

* Would You Consider Purchasing a Rare Research Book for RSR: [See kgov.com/wish-list for the latest status.] Over at Amazon.com, to further our investigation of one of Bob Enyart's favorite topics, the 360 day year, we've created a KGOV Research Amazon Wish List. We hope to procure an important and rare research book, The Cultic Calendars of the Ancient Near East. The text of this book is not available online, and there is a used copy of the book currently available, as of January 2016, that is $600 less expensive than the other copies also for sale. So if you're considering helping RSR continue to press forward on this significant topic, then please consider purchasing that book by clicking on our Wish List link just above. And for shipping, you can use the address at the Wish List. Thanks so very much for considering this! -Bob & Fred

* Other RSR 360 Shows and Related Links:
- The 360 Day Year on RSR (this show) and then Part 2 of today's program
- Astronomer Danny Faulkner on the 360-Day Year with Bob Enyart
- Danny's CRSQ paper rejecting the widespread belief among many creationists (including RSR, Henry Morris, Walt Brown, etc.) that God originally created the Earth with a 360-day year and 30-day months
- Danny's paper rebutted in CRSQ by Enyart
- How Earthquakes Gave Us a 365-Day Year with HPT expert Kevin Lea
- How the Moon's Orbit Changed from 30 to 29.5 Days by a professor of astronautics at the U.S. Air Force Academy
- On the origin of the world's first-known number system (a hybrid decimal/base 60 system)
- 24 Hours in a Day -- How Ancient is Jesus' Measurement?
- Seven Days in a Week -- How Ancient is the 7-day Week?
- 30 Days in a Month -- How Ancient is the 30-Day Month?
- RSR's 360 Day Year show on YouTube
- The Length of Earth's Preflood Day
- rsr.org/predictions#lunar-libration
- The Genius of Ancient Man
- The Ancient Base 60 (fascinating!)
- 360dayyear.com
- rsr.org/300
- rsr.org/3

* There is born a Savior, Christ the Lord: The few remaining Christians in Bethelehem will be remembering next week the birth of the Christ Child 2,000 years ago. We join them, and the hundreds of millions around the world, who with gratitude in their hearts, remember the gift that God gave to Man, the Babe in the manger.

* The Christmas Tree: Consider our program on why God just might like the Christmas tree! :) And Merry Christmas from Bob, Fred, Jamie, Darrell, Larry, and the whole team at Real Science Radio!

A Christmas Gift for Bob: Here at KGOV, we've noticed that over at Amazon, Bob recently put on the KGOV Research Amazon Wish List a book for further investigation of one of his favorite hobbies, the 360 day year! Of course for research purposes, a used copy is just as valuable as a new copy. So if you're considering getting Bob a gift for Christimas, please consider purchasing that book, Calendars in Antiquity: Empires, States, and Societies. For shipping, you can use the address at the Wish List. Thanks so much!

* RSR Interviews a Leading Expert on Fresh Fossils: Real Science Radio host Bob Enyart interviews Dallas science writer Brian Thomas (masters in biology), the dinosaur soft tissue expert with the Institute for Creation Research. Thomas talks about the December 2015 peer-reviewed paper in the Journal of Proteome Research that breaks new ground, vocabulary wise, and without beating around the bush, or unnecessary caveats, reports directly on "Blood Vessels from Dinosaurs"! Many scientists agree with Brian and Bob's obvious assessment that dinosaur soft tissue discoveries falsify the claim that these fresh fossils are millions of years old. Bob also discusses the astounding discoveries reported on in Creation magazine, on Bats and Pitcher Plants, with the article's author, again, Brian Thomas!

* Today's Program Updates our 2013 Interview: RSR invite you to enjoy also our 2013 interview with Brian.

* A Christmas Gift for Bob: Here at KGOV, we've noticed that over at Amazon, Bob recently put on the KGOV Research Wish List a book for further investigation of one of his favorite hobbies, the 360 day year! Of course for research purposes, a used copy is just as valuable as a new copy. So if you're considering getting Bob a gift for Christimas, please consider purchasing that book, Calendars in Antiquity: Empires, States, and Societies. For shipping, you can use the address atop the Wish List. Thanks so much!

* Factors that Lead to Tissue Decomposition: The folowing list is based on Brian Thomas' presentation at a Pittsburg creation conference in August 2013. Of the suggestions proposed by evolutionists to explain the apparent contradiction of soft tissue in allegedly million-year-old fossils, Real Science Radio suggests that you do your own scientific analysis, and figure out which of these factors are addressed by the various old-age rescue devices:

- Hydrolysis
- Chemotropism
- Microbes
- Friction
- Oxidation
- Autolysis
- Radioactive decay
- Temperature changes
- Molecular motion

* Three Related Lines of Evidence Shoring Up the Young Earth Interpretation: To complicate matters for old earthers, there is an intersection in the date regarding dinosaur soft tissue, unracemized left-handed amino acids, and short-lived Carbon 14, which must all be explained to understand the true age of fossils. (1) Significant amounts of short-lived 14c is measured in diamonds, dinosaur fossils, natural gas, and coal. (2) There's mostly left-handed amino acids (not yet decayed to a 50/50 right-to-left ratio as should happen in only thousands of years) in chert and dinosaur eggshells. (3) There's flexible and even transparent blood vessels, cells, and even T. rex and hadrosaur DNA (with a half-life of ~521 years) in dinosaur soft tissue fossils. Many such lines of evidence (multiplying as at youngearth.com) undermine the claim by evolutionists that soft tissue can last for hundreds of millions of years, and that the plentiful 14c in "ancient" specimens must come from contamination or neutron capture. This three-fold evidence helps to confirm the young earth interpretation of the data.

* Some Handy Fresh Fossils Links:
- RSR's clickable version of ICR's list of peer-reviewed papers reporting biological material
- The fabulous ICR.com/fresh-fossils page of articles by Brian Thomas
- ICR's Acts & Facts fun article, How does a dog smell fossils?
- The web's most comprehensive survey of published papers, RSR's List of Dinosaur Soft Tissue Finds
- Hear next week's conclusion, now online, of this List of Fresh Fossils program.

* BREAKING NEWS: Real Science Radio hosts Bob Enyart  and Fred Williams share nationally-significant breaking news on the Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood abortion clinic shootings and discuss the latest science news on dinosaur soft tissue archaeology and from Creation magazine.

* Hysterical Historical Radiometric Dating Saga: Real Science Radio host Bob Enyart and Fred Williams conclude their discussion of the hysterical radiometric dating saga of the famed fossil Skull 1470. And as the story unfolds, from the pages of the world's most prestigious peer-reviewed science journal, the guys can't help but notice the astounding flexibility of radiometric dating.

SPECIAL EDITION OF REAL SCIENCE RADIO!

Bob Enyart interviews web designer and Christian homeschool dad Nathan Rambeck on the software tools and best practices for keeping our kids (and their parents) protected from online and film pornography. Of course, if you watch entertainment that includes nudity you are guilty of sexual sin, and if you let your children consume entertainment with nudity, you are guilty of child abuse. 

TIP: Want to be able to relax while you enjoy what should be family-friendly films? Then just click here, because Bob Enyart recommends VidAngel. Overtime we presume that they will produce apps to make using their service even easier, but for now, the way the Enyart family watches VidAngel films is by:
- hooking up one of our computers to our family TV.
Folks can also watch VidAngel's filtered films:
- directly on a computer, tablet, or smartphone
- or if they have a very smart TV that allows them to browse to their website, vidangel.com, and to watch from there.

A parent's guide to protecting your family from online pornography

11 years old. That's the average age American children are exposed to pornography online. Most of this early exposure is unintentional, but with 12% of all websites on the Internet being purely pornographic, it is hardly any wonder.

* Hysterical Historical Radiometric Dating Saga: Real Science Radio host Bob Enyart and Fred Williams discuss the hysterical dating saga of the famed fossil Skull 1470. And as the story unfolds, from the pages of the world's most prestigious peer-reviewed science journal, the guys can't help but notice the astounding flexibility of radiometric dating.

* A Skull in the British Museum: Bob Enyart photographed the "Broken Hill skull" during his travel to England in preparation for his debate against the King James Only false teaching. This skull is said to be of a Homo heidelbergensis but we highly recommend that if you'd like to gain reliable information on early human remains, that you listen to the program: The Most Informative Neanderthal Show Ever.

While Bob Enyart is recovering from his epic debate, with Will Duffy, vs. a leader of the King James Only movement, Fred Williams interviews paleontology professor Marcus Ross of Liberty University. Dr. Ross founded Cornerstone Educational Supply and co-authored the creationist geology textbook, "The Heavens & the Earth," with RSR friend Dr. Danny Faulkner, and others, for college and high school classrooms. The text upholds a young Earth and God's glory in creation!

* A Special Edition of Real Science Radio: RSR co-host Fred Williams recommended that we inform our science audience of the high-profile debate that his co-host Bob Enyart is in right now, over at TheologyOnline.com. (Our own main page for the debate is at rsr.org/kjo-debate.)   

* Bob and Doug Report on the Debate: This program re-airs the recent BEL show that Bob and Doug McBurney did on the debate. Bob and his former producer Will Duffy are debating one of the leading advocates of the King James Only movement, Will Kinney. To check out the debate, just click this TOL link or click on the graphic jut below. (And for the show summary for today's program about the debate, just scroll down the page a bit.) Oh yeah, and if you're like us, and can't hardly get through the day without some fun scientific observation to think about, don't fear: Just below we have the Dawkins 3-to-1 Evolution Challenge that Will Duffy and Bob Enyart dropped off at Richard Dawkins' faculty mailbox at New College. So, click here to check it out. You'll love it!  

* Bob & Will Duffy Travel to England: As explained below, in preparing (or should we say repairing... no... preparing :) for this debate, our research has led us to Oxford University in the United Kingdom. Our time there bore much fruit, so much so that we canceled our plans to heading out to Cambridge so that we could continue our work at Oxford.

* Help BEL Prepare for the KJO Debate: If you'd like to help the BEL team prepare for this debate:
* If you live in Colorado, contact service@kgov.com to find out about our Monday night preparation meetings.
* If you are known to the BEL crew and want to help with research (reading/viewing videos/etc) email Bob@kgov.com.
* If you'd like to help financially you can consider:
  - A few more books needed as of Sept. 30, 2015! We've rec'd almost all the reference books needed for the debate that we listed at KGOV's Amazon.com Wish List and there are just two more that we could make great use of. Please consider purchasing that for this debate effort. Thank you guys!
  - Help finance our research trip to England. [Update: This trip was wonderfully successful! - B.E. & W.D.] This is a tough one, we know, because it seems like it'd be financing someone's vacation, except that, while this will be a wonderfully enjoyable trip, this is no vacation but an extremely valuable project. Our ongoing debate research is leading Will Duffy and Bob Enyart to travel to England beginning on September 13th to access documents otherwise unavailable to the public. Regardless of how fun the trip seems, Will had to insist that Bob join him, for there is a possibility that if this research goes well, it could add real value to the collective knowledge of the Body of Christ about church history regarding Bible translation. So please consider helping by calling 800-8Enyart (836-9278) or consider giving online. Thank you SO much!

* Please pray that the correct side in this debate will prevail and that this will become a leading resource for those involved with this controversy.
* P.S. To make full use of our time in England, our Real Science Radio producer has also arranged for Bob to interview in person professors from the Universities of Liverpool, Leeds, and Portsmouth, and perhaps one from Oxford. So please pray too for the effectiveness for these toward the saving of souls and the further equipping of believers to share the Gospel!

* RSR's Dawkins Evolution Challenge: