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Welcome to Real Science Radio: Co-hosts Fred Williams and Doug McBurney talk about science to debunk evolution and to show the evidence for the creator God including from biology, genetics, geology, history, paleontology, archaeology, astronomy, philosophy, cosmology, math, and physics. (For example, mutations will give you bad legs long before you'd get good wings.) We get to debate Darwinists and atheists like Lawrence Krauss, AronRa, and Eugenie Scott. We easily take potshots from popular evolutionists like PZ Myers, Phil Plait, and Jerry Coyne. The RSR Archive contains our popular List Shows! And we interview the outstanding scientists who dare to challenge today's accepted creed that nothing created everything.

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Finally, Behemoth Discovered! Plus a Genome Update.

Behemoth, aka Dreadnoughtus, finally discovered!* You heard it first on Real Science Radio! Bob Enyart reports on the discovery of the actual species of animal described by God in Job chapter 40 called Behemoth. The paleontologist who unearthed this largest of land animals, not knowing that he was looking at the remains of Behemoth, called it Dreadnoughtus. That's fine, since God and our audience know that it's actually Behemoth! Bob also adds Orphan Genes to RSR's List of Genomes that Just Don't Fit!

* Behemoth: God says in Job chapter 40: "Look now at the behemoth, which I made along with you [i.e., with man, on Day Six]; He eats grass like an ox [i.e., a vegetarian, like Dreadnoughtus]. See now, his strength is in his hips, and his power is in his stomach muscles. He moves his tail like a cedar... His bones are like beams of bronze, his ribs like bars of iron. He is the first [chief] of the ways of God...Surely the mountains yield food for him, and all the beasts of the field play there [i.e., unafraid because Behemoth is not a carnivore]. Indeed the river may rage, yet he is not disturbed", (Job 40:15-20, 23).

* Lacovera Thinks Behemoth Would Have a Hard Time Getting Up: "If you look at its really big ribs, there's no way they're going to withstand 65 tons of weight on top of them,” the discoverer and paleontologist Kenneth Lacovara said. “It would have been a catastrophic event in the life of a Dreadnoughtus if it fell over." Well, God's design amazes men all the time, and I don't know, elephants, while nowhere near the size, seem to get up just fine.


* Don't they say that bumblebees can't fly? Yet there they go. Ever since a French entomologist remarked that bumblebees can't fly, men have gazed in special awe at that little creature! God's engineering invariably astounds mankind. "I bet Behemoth could walk through a fruit grove," says RSR's Bob Enyart, "without knocking fruit off the trees if he didn't want to." And as listener Pat Shamblin pointed out, an elephant can tenderly pet a dog with his foot!


* If you love all this animal stuff
: If God amazes you in his design of the animals, you're in good company. Good impressed Himself! That's why He said that the creation was very good! If you'd like to study the Book of Job with Bob Enyart, and hear God brag about how he made the animals, you can get that from us in two parts, Vol. I, and Vol. II. And as with any of our BEL materials, there is a 30-day money-back guarantee, and if you can't afford it, just send what you can, and we'll send you the resource!

* RSR's List of Genomes that Just Don't Fit 2014 Update: Later in today's program, Bob adds orphan genes, those that have no known relationship to any other known genes, to the list of genetic discoveries that just don't fit in with the Darwinian tree of life belief system.

Elephant shrew DNA closer to elephants than to shrews* Elephant Shrew DNA closer to Elephant than to Shrew: Of course Darwinian evolutionists would put all the shrews on one branch of the "tree of life", and animals like giraffes and elephants elsewhere. However, contradicting that evolutionary story, a genetic analysis of the elephant shrew shows that this rodent is closer to an elephant, genetically, than it is to other shrews! Who knew (that is, other than God)?

* Genomes that Expose the Error of Neo-Darwinism: See below for details and for the many peer-reviewed journal papers and expert sources for this data. And remember, all scientists work for Real Science Radio! So, genetic studies have revealed that:
Real Science Radio in your genes- An elephant shrew is closer to an elephant than to other shrews
- Horse DNA is closer to bats than to cows
- Mouse DNA is the same as 80% of the human genome
- Sponges share 70% of human genes including for nerves and muscles
- Kangaroo DNA unexpectedly contains huge chunks of the human genome
- Gorilla DNA is closer to humans than chimps in 15% of the genome
- Neanderthal DNA is fully human, closer than a chimp is to a chimp
- The chimp Y chromosome is "horrendously different" from our 'Y'
- The human Y is astoundingly similar all over the world lacking the expected mutational variation
- Mitochondrial Eve "would be a mere 6000 years old" by ignoring chimp DNA and calculating by mutation rates
- Roundworms have far more genes than Darwinist predictions,19,000, compared to our 20,500 genes
- The flatworm man-bug "ancestor" genome has "alarmed" evolutionists and is now dislodged from its place at the base.
- Snake DNA contains a quarter of the cow genome
- The leading evidence for Darwinism, junk DNA, is vanishing, as the journal Nature reports function for 80% of human genome, moving toward "100%"
- Genomes so challenge common descent that PNAS reports horizontal gene transfer must have "transformed vertebrate genomes"
- "Genetic diversity exploded in recent millennia" when "vast number of human DNA variants arose only in the past 5,000 years."
- Whale and bat DNA share identical astounding sequence: Ha! A wonderful discovery has documented the same echolocation genetic sequences existing in both the bat and whale genomes! Wow! wow! Wow! wow!
- The journal Nature reports that the vast majority of the diversity in the human genome has not accumulated over a million years but over only 200 generations. Likewise, the genome-wide diversity of the Dutch is explained in only 70 generations! Researchers also at the Max Planck Institute showed that Australian Aborigines did not require tens of thousands of years for their genetic (and linguistic) diversity, but only 4,000 to 5,000 years! Just like we creationists have been saying all along! Welcome aboard guys! :)
- For details on all this, just click on rsr.org/genomes-that-just-dont-fit!

I Love the Smell of Rain

So, the libs have said for a century that our sense of smell, as human beings, is lousy. We're only able to distinguish between at most 10,000 smells. Wait, wait! This just in: The journal Science reports that actually, we can distinguish more than a trillion different aromas! This is not surprising for as our friends at creation.com remind us, we are fearfully and wonderfully made!

Cal State Scientist Fired for Dino Photos, Now on RSR

* Mark Armitage on Real Science Radio: The scientist fired from California State University for publishing extraordinary photos of soft tissue from a Triceratops, talks to RSR host Bob Enyart. Attorney Brad Dacus, president of the Pacific Justice Institute, says on RSR that the smoking gun is the timing of Mark's firing with the date of publication of his paper in the prestigious peer-reviewed science journal Acta Histochemica.

* 2016 Update: Mark Armitage won a half-million dollar settlement for his religious discrimination/unlawful termination lawsuit against California State University! Congratulations Mark & PJI!

* Soft tissue dinosaur photo from Mark Armitage: Fulfilling his 2013 promise, Mark Armitage presented Real Science Radio with a formerly unpublished photo (right) of soft tissue in a Triceratops horn. It's beautiful! (Well, in the eyes of the beholder, anyway. But God Himself probably thinks it's pretty cool too!) Armitage and his co-author Dr. Kevin Anderson excavated a Triceratops horn from the Hell Creek Formation in Montana. As with scientists from Harvard, North Carolina State, and dozens of other universities and institutions, they broke it open and... Guess what!

Mark & Kevin in Acta Histochemica...* Paper at Acta Histochemica: One of the latest of hundreds of peer-reviewed papers published by Darwin Doubters and even by (say it's not so) creationists, the prestigious secular journal Acta Histochemica has published the paper by Mark Armitage and Kevin Anderson titled, Soft sheets of fibrillar bone from a fossil of the supraorbital horn of the dinosaur Triceratops horridus in Volume 115, Issue 6, July 2013, pp. 603–608; Mark Hollis Armitage, Department of Biology, California State University, 18111 Nordhoff Street, Northridge, CA 91330-8303, USA; Kevin Lee Anderson, Department of Biology, Arkansas State University Beebe, Beebe, AR, USA.

Hear the BB Doubters List at 24:40 In

* Nobody Doubts Darwin They Say: Theoretical physicist (emphasis on the theoretical) Lawrence Krauss told Real Science Radio that, "all scientists are Darwinists." However, he forgot Ben Carson. When you hear consensus, consensus, you might have reason to doubt the consensus. And aside from Carson, there are about twenty highly-credentialed anti-creationists at The Third Way who, regardless, acknowledge that the natural selection mechanism of neo-Darwinism cannot account for the diversity of life. These "Third Way" scientists include molecular biologists, etc., from institutions like Oxford, the University of Chicago, Tel Aviv University, MIT, University of Vienna, University of Bonn, UCLA, Princeton. RSR hosts Bob Enyart and Fred Williams review their ever-growing list of lists of educated and highly-educated Darwin doubters, including many thousands of Ph.D.s, scientists, and professors. The guys also have fun reporting on astronomers, astrophysicists and cosmologists who doubt the Big Bang. (Find this show summary at rsr.org/doubters.)

* Nobody Doubts Darwin, Except for These Guys: Those who have gone out of their way to declare their doubt about Darwin include the:
- 100 Ph.D.s listed at Australia's creation.com
- 200 scientists with master's degrees or Ph.D.s listed over at AiG
- 300 medical doctors at Physicians & Surgeons for Scientific Integrity
- 500 Ph.D. scientists at the Korean Association of Creation Research
- 600 advanced degreed scientist at the Creation Research Society
- 900 scientists who signified their opposition at DissentFromDarwin.org
- 3,000 scientists and professors, nearly, (most of whom hold a Ph.D. in some field of science) who reject secular Darwinism to varying degrees as named online by Dr. Jerry Bergman

* Another Scholar Doubting Darwin: A thousand evolutionists have incorrectly referenced Newsweek magazine to claim that 99.86% of scientists affirm Darwinism. (See RSR's original reporting and debunking of that misinformation, below.) In contrast to false reporting, consider that the famed atheist professor Thomas Nagel who wrote Mind and Cosmos: why the materialist neo-Darwinian conception of nature is almost certainly false. And in addition to the 5,000 or so scientists, Ph.D.s. and scholars above, those who think that almost all educated people affirm Darwin, are forgetting about these folks, all identified by carefully conducted research conducted by pro-Darwin institutions:

- 30,000 U.S. public high school biology teachers do not endorse Darwinism in class
- 100,000 college professors in the U.S. alone who, according to Harvard researchers, agree that "intelligent design IS a serious scientific alternative to the Darwinian theory of evolution."
- 570,000 medical doctors in the U.S., specialists in applied science, say God brought about or directly created humans. Whereas Darwinism is dominated by storytelling, the field of medicine is an actual applied science (see definition and applied science section below) within biology that is practiced by highly educated professionals. Thus it is significant that 60% of all U.S. medical doctors reject the strictly secular Darwinist explanation for our existence, with three of five docs agreeing that either God initiated and guided the process that led to human life or that God specially created human beings as we are.

* Honorable Mention:
2.5 Million U.S. scientists and engineers believe in a personal God. This number comes from the 40% who believe in a personal God as reported by the New York Times in 1997 (see below). That percentage had stayed constant over the 80 years since the survey was first carried out in 1917. If that result has stayed consistent again over the past 20 years, then based on our 2016 population of more than 6.2 million scientists and engineers, two and a half million of them believe in God!
- Gravitas. It is observed that "authorities" should not be counted, but weighed. So weigh them. (Not counting the two million just indicated, the two-thirds of a million PhDs, MDs, professors, and advanced degreed scientists listed above who doubt Darwin would weigh more than 100 million pounds. :)
- Consider also the RSR list of the many fathers of the physical sciences, both before and after Darwin, who rejected naturalistic origins, including Copernicus, Bacon, Kepler, Galileo, Harvey, Boyle, Huygens, Newton, Linnaeus, Cuvier, Dalton, Faraday, Pasteur, Joule, Kelvin, Lister, and Carver.

* Percent of Faithful Scientists Constant from 1917 to 1997: The New York Times reported in their article, Survey of Scientists Finds a Stability of Faith in God, on an old survey repeated verbatim 80 years later in 1997. "To the extent that both surveys are accurate readings, traditional Western theism has not lost its place among U.S. scientists, despite their intellectual preoccupation with material reality.” The 1917 atheist who conducted the original research, "predicted that more and more scientists would give up their belief in God, as scientific knowledge replaced what he considered to be superstition." However, as the NYT updated the story, eight decades later, "A full 40 percent of scientists believe in a personal God and afterlife, according to a 1997 study." 

* Of Course There's Overlap: Admittedly the lists above contain some overlap but the orders of magnitude difference in the numbers indicate that the vast majority are not duplicates.

* Answering the Atheist's Argument from Authority: This list above is not an argument from authority. Rather, it is a REBUTTAL to the logical fallacy committed often by evolutionists (including Krauss) when they commonly make their invalid argument from authority. There is nothing wrong with quoting an expert on a topic. But evolutionists frequently use the bait and switch tactic of identifying experts in one topic and then without acknowledging the switch, proceeding as though they were experts in a different field, which is one way of committing the logical fallacy of an invalid argument from authority. Being a pilot doesn't mean that you know how to make an airplane, let alone gravity. So we should take care not to commit the logical fallacy of argument from an invalid authority, like this:

Scientists are experts in operational physics, chemistry, and biology.
Most scientists believe in naturalistic origins.
Therefore naturalistic origins must be true.

Aside from the severe misrepresentation that "all scientists are Darwinists", it is also a logical fallacy to imply that success in operational science translates to authority regarding origins.

* Summary of the DI's Scientific Dissent from Darwinism: The Discovery Institute describes the hundreds of scientists who have signed their statement of dissent as made up of those holding "doctorates in biological sciences, physics, chemistry, mathematics, medicine, computer science, and related disciplines from such institutions as Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, Dartmouth, Rutgers, University of Chicago, Stanford and University of California at Berkeley.  Many are also professors or researchers at major universities and research institutions such as Cambridge, Princeton, MIT, UCLA, University of Pennsylvania, University of Georgia, Tulane, Moscow State University, Chitose Institute of Science & Technology in Japan, and Ben-Gurion University in Israel."

* Non-religious Darwin Skeptics: As reported by Casey Luskin in the Christian Research Journal, the Non-Religious Skeptics of Darwinian Evolution include Rutgers' Jerry Fodor, National Academy of Sciences member and biology professor Lynn Margulis, Thomas Nagel, molecular biology post-doctoral fellow at Columbia University David Berlinski, the University of Warwick's Steve Fuller, and NAS member Philip Skell.

* Oxford Biology Professor Rejects Neo-Darwinism: In 2013 a British biology professor, Oxford University's Dr. Denis Noble, argued against Neo-Darwinism in the journal Experimental Physiology. Of great significance, partly because Noble remains a committed evolutionist, nonetheless, he acknolwedged, "that all the central assumptions of the Modern Synthesis (often called Neo-Darwinism) have been disproved."

* Even Evolution Journal Admits Doubt of Primary Evidence: Many evolutionists including Dawkins (as in his extrapolation from canine diversity) oversell the claim to the public that small changes within species prove that over long periods, the species themselves arose naturally. However, out of the hearing of the general public, evolutionary biologists themselves are more honest. As in the Journal of Evolutionary Biology itself, "A persistent debate in evolutionary biology is one over the continuity of microevolution and macroevolution – whether macroevolutionary trends are governed by the principles of microevolution." In house, this is a debate. Outside, Darwin marketing reps like Dawkins, Coyne, PZ Myers, and Krauss pretend this is settled science. As Nagel concluded "Mind and Cosmos", today's evolution "consensus... will come to seem laughable in a generation or two."

* Scientists Doubting or Rejecting the Big Bang: Unlike as with Darwinism, big bang cosmology is relatively insulated from real-world feedback because millions of professionals do not work in related fields as with biology. If hundreds of thousands of professionals received actual astronomical feedback in the same way that farmers, veterinarians, and physicians do daily while working with biological systems, then surveys might show a picture similar to that regarding Darwinism. That is, if professionals interacted daily with all the astronomical data that challenges and undermines the expectations of big bang theory, then the world would likely see a similar percentage of professionals in related scientific fields rejecting the big bang too. Cosmological dogma, further removed from human observation than are theories on anatomy, "benefits" in a backward sense, from the herd mentality that reinforces the tendency to believe authorities because most people lack daily experience with first-hand evidence that may contradicting (or support) the received account. Thus when that theoretical physicist (emphasis on the theoretical), Lawrence Krauss told RSR that, "All evidence overwhelmingly supports the big bang", he of course was ignoring all the apparently contradictory evidence.  So he asks expects everyone to "Trust us", i.e., trust those with the inscrutable knowledge. Scientists who doubt or outright reject the big bang include:
- acclaimed astronomer Fred Hoyle, father of stellar evolution theory (whom Stephen Hawking pointed out also rejected Darwin; see biography, A Life in Science)
- acclaimed astrophysicists Margaret and Geoffrey Burbidge
- the 50 astronomers and physicists at the 2nd Crisis in Cosmology Conference
- the 100 Ph.D.s listed at Australia's creation.com
- the 200 scientists with master's degrees or Ph.D.s listed over at AiG
- the 500 Ph.D. scientists at the Korean Association of Creation Research
- the 600 advanced degreed scientist at the Creation Research Society
- the National Academy of Sciences which in 2003 published an alternative model for a bounded universe and the
- hundreds more secular scientists who have signed the extraordinary declaration at cosmologystatement.org including those working at leading institutions such as the Max-Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Sheffield University, George Mason University, Jet Propulsion Laboratory at CalTech, Cambridge University, Lawrenceville Plasma Physics, Penn State, Cal State Fullerton, University of Virginia, European Southern Observatory, and scores of other prestigious institutions.

RSR: Europa, the Pig, and his Family

Real Science Radio hosts Bob Enyart and Fred Williams talk about one of the many unexpected transient events in our solar system, Europa’s powerful water geyser! The guys also explain why the presence of water is not an indicator of the existence of life, why the New York Times probably did not show a photograph of one particular pig and his family, and a DNA discovery made by a young-earth creationist studying genetics at Oxford.

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The Global Flood and the Hydroplate Theory
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Real Science Radio co-host Bob Enyart presents the scientific evidence for Dr. Walt Brown’s model of the global flood, along with the relevant biblical material. Enyart also discusses Brown's opponents and contrasts both the vapor canopy and catastrophic plate tectonics with the hydroplate theory.

DVD Vol. 1
1. Walt Brown, Creation Leaders, and Scripture
2. Hydroplate Theory & Scientific Evidence

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Now Oil Goes On the List of Not So Old Things

* Real Science Radio hosts Bob Enyart and Fred Williams: The guys decide to add another item to their classic List of Not So Old Things. Creation magazine alerted the guys to the accomplishment of one of our national laboratories, turning algae into useful crude oil in minutes, by using exactly that which would have been in plentiful supply in the Earth's crust during the global flood: high pressures and temperatures. Also, Fred reports on his trip to the Creation Museum, and the guys discuss Bill Nye, exoplanets, and pollen.

* The Shocking Aftermath of Bob's Debate with James White: On the official debate webpage, see the Aftermath section which presents comments from R.C. Sproul Jr. & James White. Both men, startlingly, deny that God the Son took upon Himself a human nature. Sproul: "God the Son does not now nor has He ever had two natures." White: "God the Son does not have two natures. I did not 'admit' that He did/does/will etc." Of course neither of these men, who love the Lord, have ever previously made such shocking statements. Why are they currently undermining the most central doctrine of Christianity? We hope and believe that this is merely temporary, and that they will simply retract their comments. In trying to spin the event and, in the aftermath, win a debate point, they are defending the claim from Plato devotee Augustine that God is timeless (thus without sequence) and that He is utterly immutable, against the clear biblical teaching that God the Son in fact now has a second nature, that is, a human nature. Please pray for these men who clearly love the Lord but who are subordinating the biblical Incarnate Son of God to Platonic timelessness and utter immutability.

 

* Is the future settled or open? Consider the question of the above debate. First, If God is eternally free, and will forever be able to think new thoughts and write new songs, then how could the future be settled? Secondly, if God is not eternally free, what possible reason could He have had for trading away His freedom? Watch above, or read the transcript of Bob's opening statement which has been well received by some of today's more well-known theologians.

Richard Holland: God, Time, and the Incarnation Pt 7

* Now the Conclusion of this BEL Broadcast Event: Today we air the conclusion of the most important series of author interviews ever produced in the 24-year history of Bob Enyart Live. Richard Holland is assistant professor of apologetics and theology with Liberty University Baptist Theological Seminary. Dr. Holland authored the new book, God, Time, and the Incarnation to explore the impact of God the Son becoming a man on the philosophical doctrines of divine timelessness and utter immutability.

* Enjoying a Coffee Shop Visit: Rather than conducting a typical author interview and squeezing an overview of a book into a single show segment, instead, Bob and Richard agreed that they will take their time and review the material as though the two men had half a day free to sit next to a fireplace in a coffee shop to consider one of the most far-reaching observations that any human being can make. Consider the insight into ultimate reality provided by the Incarnation of God the Son! We hope you enjoy this 7-interview series as much as we have enjoyed producing it.

* See All of Our Richard Holland Interviews: right here on BEL.

* Stand To Reason's Greg Koukl: In a great article, Is God In Time? Koukl writes that, "The Scriptures seem to identify a God in time..."

Today's Resource: To order Dr. Holland's book, and receive with it a CD of Bob Enyart's complete interview with Richard, please call 8-080-8Enyart,  that's 800-836-9278. The book with the CD is $33. As always, BEL offers a 30-day money-back guarantee, and for repeat customers, if you don't love the book, we'll double that, for a double-your money guarantee! That's how much we love this book and think that you will be blessed if you read it also!

 

Richard Holland: God, Time, and the Incarnation Pt 2

* A Special Edition of Real Science Radio: Today we air Part Two of what our staff believes is the most important series of author interviews ever produced in the 24-year history of Bob Enyart Live. Richard Holland is assistant professor of apologetics and theology with Liberty University Baptist Theological Seminary. Dr. Holland authored the new book, God, Time, and the Incarnation to explore the impact of God the Son becoming a man on the philosophical doctrines of divine timelessness and utter immutability. You're invited to enjoy Part 1 also.

* Isaac Newton, McTaggart, and Cullman: Bob and Dr. Holland discuss Isaac Newton, John McTaggart, and Oscar Culllman. Holland describes Newton's concept of absolute and relative time, as Enyart, with three centuries of hindsight circumspectly suggests what Newton may actually have been referring to. John McTaggart contributed the philosophical terminology of time as the "A Series" (the traditional, tensed view of time) as compared to his own (and incorrect) "B Series" of time as static, not unlike the ordered though atemporal positions of numbers on a number line. Holland then describes Oscar Cullman's analysis of the Greek vocabulary showing that, as we've long reported at rsr.org/time, the New Testament terminology regarding God and time does not support the philosophical claim that He exists outside of time, as Bob adds, but rather, quite the opposite.

* Enjoying a Coffee Shop Visit: Rather than conducting a typical author interview and squeezing an overview of a book into a single show segment, instead, Bob and Richard agreed that they will take their time and review the material as though the two men had half a day free to sit next to a fireplace in a coffee shop to consider one of the most far-reaching observations that any human being can make. Consider the insight into ultimate reality provided by the Incarnation of God the Son! We hope you enjoy this 7-interview series as much as we have enjoyed producing it! So, brace yourself.

Today's Resource: To order Dr. Holland's book, and receive with it a CD of Bob Enyart's complete interview with Richard, please call 1-800-8Enyart, that's 800-836-9278. The book with the CD is $33 As always, BEL offers a 30-day money-back guarantee, and for repeat customers, if you don't love the book, we'll double that, for a double-your money guarantee! That's how much we love this book and think that you will be blessed if you read it also!

RSR's List of Answers to Hydroplate Objections Pt. 2

* QuakeFinder's Tom Bleier on Earthquake Prediction: The mission of QuakeFinder is to save lives by finding a way to forecast major earthquakes. Real Science Radio appreciates that mission and its included goal of better understanding our Earth. And as we better understand the globe today, that can help our understanding of the past. So RSR host Bob Enyart interviews Tom Bleier, a QuakeFinder official. Bleier is vice president of aerospace engineering firm Stellar Solutions which operates QuakeFinder as a humanitarian research project. The project’s goal is to develop technology and methods for detection and analysis of electromagnetic earthquake precursors to produce earthquake forecasts based on sound scientific theory and practice. RSR hopes QuakeFinder will succeed in providing earthquake warnings, and has interest in this project as it relates to the Hydroplate Theory and the origin of earth's radioactivity.

* Earthquake Lights Post-show Update: Earthquakes produce piezoelectric lightning flashes in the ground and also, coming out of the ground. (See also rsr.org/radioactivity.)

- 2016 Video (see below) of earthquake lights surfaced, with these reports arising from New Zealand's magnitude 7.8 quake epicentered between Christchurch and Wellington. (The lights are visible at 0:20 at the top left partly beneath the camera's timestamp.)

 
- 2014 A paper in the journal Seismological Research Letters is reported on in USA Today's Scientists find records of rare 'earthquake lights'. Later that year, witness reports of light flashing in the sky during the Napa Valley earthquake were documented by CBS San Francisco.

- 2013 This may be the phenomena causing the apparent pre-quake disturbances in the ionosphere that led scientists to consider a possible earthquake warning system, as reported in 2008 by BBC News, and pursued by the U.K. and Russia in 2011 and generating continued interest and research in 2013 in a European Geophysical Union conference presentation

* Real Science Radio's Ulterior Motive: In addition to the humanitarian aspect and science newsworthiness of the QuakeFinder project, RSR had an additional agenda in bringing this story to our audience. Many in the large creation organizations reject Dr. Walt Brown's hydroplate theory flood model in support of John Baumgardner's Catastrophic Plate Tectonics. (For a refutation of CPT, see RSR's The Global Flood and the Hydroplate Theory in Blu-ray, DVD, or downloadable video.) As we reported on our RSR's List of Answers to Hydroplate Objections program, Dr. Baumgardner objects to Walt Brown's matter-of-fact claim that the earth's crustal rocks generate great voltages. In a 2011 author-to-author critique in the 1600 page Flood Science Review, Dr. Baumgardner argued that Dr. Brown must be wrong about the ability of granite to produce giga-voltages because, "there is no observational evidence that the quartz crystals in granite have ever been aligned as Brown postulates." And that, "This ought to represent a fatal problem for Brown’s claim that such extreme voltages will essentially arise automatically." Yet as our interview with Tom Bleier of QuakeFinder demonstrates, even minor quakes generate tremendous voltages. Thus we have two recommendations. For Dr. Baumgardner, considering then the enormously greater tectonic stresses during the global flood which would produce voltages orders of magnitude greater than those today, we urge John to retract this particular objection to the Hydroplate Theory. And to our listeners, we recommend our GF&HPT video, which comes with our 30-day money-back guarantee.

Bob asks you: If you love RSR, could you purchase this to help us stay on the air?Today's Resource: Please check out our newest science resource...

The Global Flood and the Hydroplate Theory
Blu-ray, 2-DVD Set or HD Download

Real Science Radio co-host Bob Enyart presents the scientific evidence for Dr. Walt Brown’s model of the global flood, along with the relevant biblical material. Enyart also discusses Brown's opponents and contrasts both the vapor canopy and catastrophic plate tectonics with the hydroplate theory.

DVD Vol. 1
1. Walt Brown, Creation Leaders, and Scripture
2. Hydroplate Theory & Scientific Evidence

DVD Vol. 2
3. Hydroplates vs. Plate Tectonics
Bonus: Origin of Earth's Radioactivity

The Blu-ray disc contains all parts on one disc. And for now, save $10 with our special introductory pricing which discounts the $50 retail price to $39.99!