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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.

RSR airs every Friday at 3pm MST on AM 670 KLTT in Denver, Colorado. For rebroadcast times and podcast platforms, see our Affiliates page.

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Breaking: Leading Whale Fossils Faked

* Filmmaker's Bombshell Report -- Forged Whale Fossils: Bob Enyart speaks with Dr. Carl Werner about the filmmaker's interviews with the scientists who supplied the primary whale evolution "fossils" to the world's leading museums. (Which museums? Smithsonian, Carnegie, American Museum of Natural History, NHM London, NMNS Tokyo, Melbourne Museum, Canadian Museum of Nature, NHM Paris). Gingerich now admits that Rodhocetus had no blowhole, fluked tail, or flippers, so what millions of evolutionists believe regarding whale fossils is based on fabricated, and fully falsified, misinformation. Hear it, read the full press release, and see it for yourself below (rather than naively accepting the Darwinist misinformation like about Rodhocetus from princeton.edu). 


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Today’s Resource: You'll just love Carl Werner's  Evolution: The Grand Experiment DVD and his Living Fossils DVD! Want something else? Just browse the Science Department in the KGOV store for the best of the best in creation books, debates, and videos, or just call us at 1-800-8Enyart (836-9278).

 

* RSR Shows about Dr. Carl Werner's Work:
- June 2015 is Whale Month at RSR
What Museums Aren't Showing You
Rodhocetus: Whale of a Tail [related: RSR "hip bones and fetal teeth" show]
Dr. Carl Werner and the Living Fossils
Many Modern Birds Found in Dinosaur Layers
- Breaking News: Leading Whale Fossils Faked (this show)

RSR Wound Up Over a Molecular Clock

click to read this great ICR article by Dr. Jeanson* Ticked Over Talk: Time and again evolutionists get ticked over our talk on molecular clocks. Real Science Radio hosts Bob Enyart and Fred Williams report on Dr. Nathaniel Jeanson's new molecular clock research conducted over at the Institute for Creation Research. His paper, must reading for all informed creationists, New Genetic-Clock Research Challenges Millions of Years, is refreshing coming, as it is, from a scientist who received his Ph.D. in cell and developmental biology from Harvard University!

* "Noah" Box Office and Profitability: On the dove, the raven, and Russell Crowe, this disgraceful film has lost a lot of money! See below.

* Molecular Clock Criticism of "Darwin's Doubt": This post-show note quotes the relevant part of Bob Enyart's published review of Stephen Meyer's best-selling book Darwin's Doubt. "Meyer explains the failed Darwinist attempt to use sequencing to date divergence, for “the same or similar groups of molecules have generated dramatically different divergence times” (p. 107). He points out admissions from Dobzhansky prote?ge? Francisco Ayala, who says that such evolutionary calculations are 'fraught with danger.' And Berkley’s James Valentine joins others in acknowledging that 'the accuracy of the molecular clock is still problematical, at least for phylum divergences, for the estimates vary by some 800 million years.' Meyer then references a Michael Behe paper regarding DNA-packing histones, reporting that even with a dozen years of experiments in yeast showing that histones can tolerate dramatic deletions, regardless, across phyla histones remain highly conserved (i.e., minimally different). Meyer argues this against the Darwinists, showing their tendency to commit the cherry-picking fallacy, in this case by selectively ignoring data. But he doesn’t mention that IDers are guilty of the same failure, regarding the same evidence no less. The evolutionists assume their own conclusion in that, as Meyer points out, histones 'are never used as molecular clocks ... Because ... the small differences between histones yield an extremely recent divergence' (p. 107; emphasis added). By the way, how recently? He does not say. And neither did Behe offer an estimate for how long he believes plants and animals have existed with this extreme lack of mutation. Behe did point out, though, for example, that 'the green pea differs from that of mammals by only two conservative substitutions in 102' (Behe, 1990, p. 374). Yet intelligent design, Meyer explains, does not rule out common ancestry (p. 339), for, allegedly, a billion years ago a designer could have engineered a split between plants and animals. But Meyer cannot have it both ways. He wields the histone evidence against Darwinists but only by committing an equally circular, selective data fallacy. As with the intelligent design movement generally, Meyer's book fails to acknowledge this extreme lack of mutations as at least apparent evidence against these phyla having lived for hundreds of millions of years."

* NOAH Box Office Revenue vs. Cost: As of Sept. 24, 2014, the film Noah, thank you Lord, appears to have lost a lot of money. DVD sales will undoubtedly be depressed because of this film's mocking of the biblical account, but until those numbers are in, consider these numbers from the film's worldwide box office:

RSR's List of Missing Transititional Fossils

Charles Darwin being psychoanalyzed re transitional fossils in the roomReal Science Radio hosts Bob Enyart and Fred Williams take a survey of one of the most reliable kinds of testimony available in the history of mankind, that is, the contrary to interest testimony of hostile witnesses. Leading evolutionists for 150 years have admitted that the transitional fossils that should exist, if Darwinism were true, are missing. Evolution fails the fossil test. The guys also have a fun time talking about quote mining and the virtually complete nature of the fossil record.

* Darwinism Fails the Fossil Test: Fun! Yes, Darwinism fails the Transitional Fossils test, as evidenced in the quote below and, as of April 25, 2014, on Real Science Radio at rsr.org/missing-transitional-fossils! (See also more rsr.org/list-shows.)

* 2019 Update: Whales are claimed to present the "best" transitional fossil evidence. Well, check this out: rsr.org/whales

* 2018 Update from Genetics: As reported in phys.org and from Rutgers, the University of Basel, and the journal Human Evolution: Far from special: Humanity's tiny DNA differences are 'average' in animal kingdom! "Genetically, 'the world is not a blurry place.' It is hard to find 'intermediates' -- the evolutionary stepping stones between species. ... The research is a new way to show that species are 'islands in sequence space.' Each species has its own narrow, very specific consensus sequence..." Of course the "far from special" is a safe-space chant of evolutionists but in this case, it backfires, because what is not unique among biological kinds is that we were all specially created in the recent past, as young-earth creationists have always maintained.

Biology text, Campbell, Reece, et al., 2006, p290* The Essentially Complete Fossil Record: As our friend Walter ReMine points out, when paleontologists dig up a new fossil, or a thousand of them, they typically fit nicely into the existing and very well established framework of kinds of organisms (phylum, class, order, family, etc). Because this has been the rule for decades now, during which time millions of fossils have been dug up, this is powerful evidence that mankind possesses an essentially complete fossil record.

* Darwinists Aren’t Looking So Hard Anymore: Because the fossil record is essentially complete, evolutionists are not looking so hard anymore for all those breakthrough transitional “missing links” that had once been the great hope of the Darwinist. Researchers have catalogued the great extent of the length and breadth and depth of the entire fossil domain. (One of our confirmed creation science predictions was that Antarctica’s sealed-off Lake Vostok would not reveal 15 million years worth of evolution.)  When we’re searching for fossils, we’re not looking into infinity. There are only so many kinds of organisms that have lived on earth, and so, there is a finite number of fossils that are discoverable. However, let a Darwinist's imagination loose, and there’s a virtually infinite number make-believe creatures that he can invent.

* Single-Celled But No Two-Celled Life? From Walt Brown, "No fully developed form of life has 2, 3, 4, or 5 cells.a Forms of life with 6–20 cells are parasites, so they must have a complex animal as a host to provide such functions as respiration and digestion. If macro-evolution happened, one should find many fully developed forms of animal life with 2–20 cells—filling the gap between one-celled and many-celled organisms." more

Derek Victor Ager, 1974-76 president, UK's Geologists' Association* Brachiopoda Missing from the Presidential Address: On March 5, 1976, Derek V. Ager delivered the British Geologists' Association Presidential Address, published as The nature of the fossil record in the Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, Vol. 82(2). This avowed evolutionist nonetheless lamented
- the missing transitional fossils for Brachiopoda
- so much evolutionary evidence later "debunked"
and then
- declared himself an independent discoverer of Gould's puntuated equilibrium and again
- classified himself as a "neocatastrophist" who saw the fossil record as "like the life of a soldier [which] consists of long periods of boredom and short periods of terror".

Missing brachiopoda transitional fossils, per a past president of the UK's Geologists' Association

Ager stated, "It must be significant that nearly all the evolutionary stories I learned as a student, from Trueman's Ostrea/Gryphaea to Carruthers' Zaphrentis delanouei, have now been 'debunked'. [For one example, see flat and coiled oysters.] Similarly, my own experience of more than twenty years looking for evolutionary lineages among the Mesozoic Brachiopoda has proved them equally elusive."

RSR: Eyewitnesses Not Needed for Execution

Update: "Over at creation.com beneath a great article by Dr. Sarfati, CMI has posted Bob Enyart's argument that to impose capital punishment, the Bible does not require three eyewitnesses, but only three witnesses (which can include physical and circustantial evidence). See there and below for details. Thank you CMI for your mighty work!" -RSR

* Shocking Eels and Atheist Heels: While paging through the ever-fabulous Creation magazine, Bob Enyart and Fred Williams discuss the unsolvable dilemma Darwinism has in trying to evolve electric eels. And then the guys turn to the article, What about bad things done by the Church? Jonathan Sarfati hits back at atheists, hard, with solid rebuttals to their attempt to portray Christianity as bad for the human race. Caution though. If you're a big-time Sarfati fan, like we are, watch out, because the guys think they've found two errors that Jonathan made, regarding criminal justice, in an otherwise tremendous article.

* Eyewitnesses Not Necessary for Conviction & Execution: Some Christians have been taught that the Bible requires two or three eyewitnesses who testify that they saw a murder being committed in order for a convicted criminal to be executed justly. The Bible does not teach this however. God even describes a capitol case where there were not two or three eyewitnesses, yet He commanded the death penalty upon the conviction of the criminal (Deut. 22:25-27). The confusion comes in because the term "witness" is confused for "eyewitness". Our western mindset causes us to read text hyper-literally, as though we were lawyers, whereas the eastern mindset of Scripture expects more of the reader. The Bible emphasizes the need for multiple "witnesses", so while the criminal court is making careful inquiry (Deut. 19:18) into the specifics of the crime, the crime scene, motive, circumstances, the fingerprint of the accused in the victim's blood, etc., the court is to decide what evidence rises to the weight of a "witness" to the crime. Testimony does not only come from eyewitnesses (which is part of what the "Ark of the Testimony" was all about, with the physical evidence within it including a quart of manna and Aaron's walking stick that blossomed.)

* Multiple Witnesses Required for Any Criminal Proceeding: The requirement for "two or three witnesses" is not just for executing criminals, as it is often presented, but the Biblical standard of multiple "witnesses" applies to any court's hearing of any charge against the accussed, and certainly therefore, it is a requirement for rendering a guilty verdict for any kind of a crime, capital or otherwise. "One witness shall not rise against a man concerning any iniquity or any sin that he commits; by the mouth of two or three witnesses the matter [any conviction] shall be established" (Deuteronomy 19:15). So this requirement of multiple witnesses, whether physical evidence, circumstantial evidence, or eyewitnesses, applies across the board, even regarding the hearing of an accusation against an elder in the church (1 Timothy 5:19). Of course, otherwise, someone with a vendetta could cause great harm by simply making an unfounded accusation. Whereas criminals, and especially murderers, typically do not commit their crimes before eyewitnesses.

* Biblical Command for a One Eyewitness Execution: Oftentimes, eyewitnesses have been unreliable whereas forensic evidence has provided far greater certainty. (See rsr.org/forensics for a reconsideration of the creationist argument regarding "historical" and "obsevational" science.) In the illustration provided in Deuteronomy, while physical evidence could testify as additional witnesses, the only eyewitness available was the victim, and yet God specifically commands the death penalty for the culprit upon conviction:

"But if a man finds a betrothed young woman in the countryside, and the man forces her and lies with her [rape], then only the man who lay with her shall die [execution]. But you shall do nothing to the young woman; there is in the young woman no sin deserving of death [presumption of innocence], for just as when a man rises against his neighbor and kills him, even so is this matter. For he found her in the countryside, and the betrothed young woman cried out, but there was no one to save her." Deut. 22:25-27

In ancient cities, economics and security concerns led to extremely close quarters. A woman attacked in the city would be expected to cry out for help. For the sin of fornication committed by an unmarried couple, the strong recommendation in the Bible was that they get married. However, if it were learned that a married woman had been with another man, to escape prosecution there was the possibility that she might claim to have been raped. This suggests that if she were being assaulted, her neighbors may hear her cry out. (The Bible rejects the victim mentality promoted by our culture and even in such a horrific instance teaches women to resist an aggressor). One way that this crime scenario could have unfolded is that the accused may claim, "I have never seen this woman in my life." And he may deny ever having been out in the field where she was assaulted. But the judges inspecting the crime scene may notice a torn strand of fabric that matches a tear in his garment. And the woman may describe a scratch that she put on his shoulder. That fabric becomes a witness. The scratch is a witness. And the woman is an eyewitness. Thus, by the testimony of two or three witnesses the matter is established and the accused is convicted and executed.

Creation Mag Headlines & Another Prediction Confirmed!

* Another Code Revealed Withiin DNA Code: Real Science Radio hosts Bob Enyart and Fred Williams enjoy the latest science news from Creation magazine. They celebrate God's brilliance demonstrated by His embedding into DNA yet another newly discovered code (you'll love the "vowels" analogy)!

* An Oil Field That's About 14,000 or 370 Million Years Old: And the guys chuckle about secular dating of an oil field based on the age of fossils which range, allegedly, from only thousands of years to 370 million years!

* Another Astounding RSR Prediction Confirmed: Bob and Fred's latest creation prediction has been confirmed by the March 2014 issue of the Journal of Paleontology! So, falsifying Bill Nye's claim that Christians cannot make science predictions bsaed on the book of Genesis, once again, an astoundingly specific and counter-intuitive RSR prediction has been confirmed by a peer-reviewed paper. On February 21, 2014 the RSR hosts made this written and broadcast prediction: Original dinosaur soft tissue, etc., will be found largely independent of the claimed age of the fossil. This was confirmed in March 2014! See the upcoming RSR update on this paper in the Journal of Paleontology that has confirmed original soft tissue in a fossil allegedly 530 million years old!

RSR Offers Bet to Governor; Neonatologist on Our Side

* Dick Lamm's buddy accepted Bob Enyart's challenge. "Duty-to-die" Dick, a former Colorado Governor (and life-long advocate of suicide, euthanasia, and dismembering unborn children) moderated a panel on "assisted suicide" (i.e., medical homicide) at the University of Denver on Thursday evening. One of the four panelists, Bob Enyart, offered $10,000 dollars to Dick Lamm's favorite charity if there were no instances of recovery among patients declared "brain dead". Asking the governor if he would give $10,000 if such recoveries have occurred, Dick Lamm said absolutely not! Later, when challenged, another panelist, "Hemlock Society" board member Charles Hamlin, said that he would donate that $10,000 to our favorite charity if Enyart were correct. Victory! See Dunlap at rsr.org/brain-dead.

Jahi McMath* On Those Who Recover from Being Brain Dead: Real Science Radio's Bob Enyart interviews Paul Byrne, M.D., board certified neonatologist and pediatrician, founder of the NICU at the Children's Medical Center in St. Louis and clinical professor of Pediatrics at the University of Toledo. Bob and Dr. Byrne discuss Jahi McMath, her condition, that she is not dead, and others who have recovered from being diagnosed as "brain dead".

* Thanks to LifeSiteNews.com and Other Outlets: The world is learning of the specific people who have been alleged to be "brain dead" who have then recovered. For details, see rsr.org/brain-dead.

The Most Informative Neanderthal Show Ever!

* The guys find something you can really gnaw into: Part 2. So, Bob & Fred really did stumble upon the most informative interview ever in the study of Neanderthals. Real Science Radio hosts Bob Enyart and Fred Williams report also on the latest genetic research that shows that Neanderthal are closer to human than a chimp is to a chimp, which powerfully corroborates Dr. Jack Cuozzo's anatomically-based conclusion from the 1990s that Neanderthal were human. Dr. Cuozzo has studied firsthand and x-rayed more Neanderthal skulls than anyone else, ever. For part 1 of Dr Cuozzo's interview, click here.

* Two Thumbs Down on Noah; Thumbs Up on God's Not Dead: As a result of watching Ken Ham's program, RSR has decided to recommend against seeing the movie Noah, which portrays Noah as a psychopathic failure and God as worse. However, we highly recommend the movie God's Not Dead!

* Enjoy RSR via SoundCloud: Here's another way to listen to Real Science Radio on your smartphone or iPad. Just click for RSR on the SoundCloud app!

* And from the RSR Caveman Show:

* DNA Doesn't Lie! Neanderthals were MAN: Now that geneticists have sequenced the entire Neanderthal genome, they have proved wrong many of the world's leading evolutionists who had long claimed that Neanderthals were not Homo sapiens. [Update: Of course this corroborates Dr. Jack Cuozzo's creation-based findings from two decades earlier!] The young age of the earth, and that life had to be specially created because it is  information based, prove that Man was specially created and that there never was such a thing as an ape/human ancestor. Now, DNA proves that Neanderthal men and women were fully man, that is, they were Homo sapiens, because along with many other indicators, genetically they are closer to modern humans than two living chimps of the same species are to one another!

* Two Chimps Are More Different than Neanderthals Are To Us: Regarding Georgia Purdom's report that, "two modern chimps of the same species will have more DNA variation than Neanderthals or Denisovans have to modern humans," see creation geneticist Dr. Robert Carter in the Journal of Creation 23(1) 2009, p. 40-43, The Neanderthal mitochondrial genome does not support evolution, along with Becquet, C. et al., Genetic structure of chimpanzee populations, PLoS Genetics 3(4):617–626, 2007, as reported at Science Daily and Kaessmann, H., Wiebe, V. and Pääblo, S., Extensive nuclear DNA sequence diversity among chimpanzees, Science, 286:1159-1162, 1999 as reported in a 2007 AAAS news release.

The Most Informative Neanderthal Show Ever!

(Updated August 2, 2021)

* How To Get Your Hands on a Neanderthal Skull: Did the guys just stumble upon the most informative interview ever in the history of the study of Neanderthals? In the year 2000, television and radio teacher D. James Kennedy conducted a groundbreaking interview on the subject. But by producing today's program in 2014, Real Science Radio hosts Bob Enyart and Fred Williams get to incorporate the latest genetic research while interviewing Dr. Jack Cuozzo, the jaw and teeth expert who has studied firsthand and x-rayed more Neanderthal skulls than anyone else, ever. For part 2 of Dr Cuozzo's interview, click here.

* Neanderthals took Aspirin and Penicillin: Aches and pains? According to a 2017 paper in the journal Nature, Neanderthals chewed on poplar bark. And a throat infection? Research indicates they ate moldy bread to treat various ailments. (Related: rsr.org/genius-of-ancient-man.)

* Neanderthal Blood Type: A July 2021 paper in PLoS One surprised evolutionists. For Neanderthal went extinct allegedly 40,000 years ago yet now we find out that they did not have only type O blood but that they had blood types A, B, and O, just like your family (and the Denisovians too).

* Neanderthals Made String: According to a 2020 paper in the journal Nature, Direct evidence of Neanderthal fibre technology and its cognitive and behavioral implications, these ancient men manufactured strong and fine string with strands "seperated and twisted clockwise (s-twist) [then] twined counterclockwise (Z-twist) to form a cord" with the kind of experience that "requires detailed knowledge of plants, seasonality, planning, retting [i.e., microbial actions reducing plant material to fibers, and] an understanding of mathematical concepts". CMI's Creation magazine adds that these Neanderthal artisans had to possess "considerable dexterity; each composite strand need[ed] to have the right thickness, the right twist--and the right tension, adjusted and maintained throughout."

* DNA Doesn't Lie! Neanderthals were MAN: Jack Cuozzo's 1979 museum work beginning in Paris is effectively a dated creationist prediction, as reiterated in his 1998 book Buried Alive, as are other creationists' writings. About three decades later, geneticists sequenced the entire Neanderthal genome and in 2013 they have doubly confirmed that Neanderthals used spoken language (of course), and with these scientific observations, they have confirmed the creationist prediction and proved wrong many of the world's leading evolutionists who had long claimed that Neanderthals were not Homo sapiens. The young age of the earth, and that life had to be specially created because it is information based, prove that Man was specially created and that there never was such a thing as an ape/human ancestor. Now, DNA proves that Neanderthal men and women were fully man, that is, they were Homo sapiens, because along with many other indicators, genetically they are closer to modern humans than two living chimps of the same species are to one another! Also, Dr. Cuozzo's work provides scientific reinforcement of the implication of Genesis that today's Homo sapiens age much more quickly than did human beings from a few millennia ago.

Denisovian finger, just like a modern finger2019 Update: Denisovians reproduced extensively with Neanderthal. So this report from ScienceNews is fun! "This ancient Denisovan finger bone is surprisingly humanlike". Exactly, though, surprising to those who have less understanding. :)

2020 Update: Not only are modern humans closer to Neanderthals than chimps are to other chimps, but also, we are closer to Neanderthals than polar bears are to brown bears!

2021 Updates:

Neanderthal toe bone
Neanderthal toe bone

- The plethora of fossil soft tissue (as listed at bflist.rsr.org) shows that dinosaurs are young. Likewise, genes sequenced from a Neanderthal toe bone that are "comparable in quality to those sequenced from living people" indicates that the Neanderthal who lost his toe didn't live 50,000 years ago but just a few thousand years ago.
- Bob's wife Cheryl has up to a thousand times more American Indian DNA than does Pocahontas (i.e., Elizabeth Warren). And worldwide, humans have an average of about 2% Neanderthal DNA. That is, 2000 times Pocahontas' Indian DNA. Thus as the Encyclopedia Britannica puts it, "modern humans and Neanderthals [are] not two different biological species, despite most classifications treating them as such."

* Film at 11: If you prefer, instead of just listening to today's Neanderthal program, you can watch it, here: 


* From the RSR Caveman Show:

* Two Chimps are More Different than Neanderthals are to Us: Regarding Georgia Purdom's report that, "two modern chimps of the same species will have more DNA variation than Neanderthals or Denisovans have to modern humans," see creation geneticist Dr. Robert Carter in the Journal of Creation 23(1) 2009, p. 40-43, The Neanderthal mitochondrial genome does not support evolution, along with Becquet, C. et al., Genetic structure of chimpanzee populations, PLoS Genetics 3(4):617–626, 2007, as reported at Science Daily and Kaessmann, H., Wiebe, V. and Pääblo, S., Extensive nuclear DNA sequence diversity among chimpanzees, Science, 286:1159-1162, 1999 as reported in a 2007 AAAS news release.

Philosopher of Science Paul Nelson on Bird Flight

* The Design Implications of Flight: Real Science Radio's Bob Enyart interviews Paul Nelson, fellow with the Discovery Institute who was an associate of the famed Phillip Johnson of UC Berkeley who wrote Darwin on Trial. Dr. Nelson also organized the Mere Creation conference (1996), where the modern intelligent design research community first formed. Bob talks with Paul about the really fun Illustra film, Flight: The Genius of Birds, available from RSR on DVD or in a Blu-ray combo with another great video, Metamorphosis!

* How BEL Learned of Illustra Films: A decade ago in early 2004 one of our listeners from Colorado Springs called into the program to say that she had just watched on her local PBS Public Television station a documentary, Unlocking the Mystery of Life, that suggested that Darwin was wrong and that the evidence showed that that life must have been designed. We had a hard time believing that this was possible. How could a PBS station air so much simple common sense on a single program? Of the scholars and scientists in the film, Paul Nelson has been a major force in the Intelligent Design movement and appears in four Illustra films including their newest, Flight: The Genius of Birds.

* Paul Nelson Bio: Dr. Nelson is a Fellow with the Discovery Institute and an Adjunct Professor for the masters program in Science & Religion at Biola University. With a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in the philosophy of biology and evolutionary theory, Paul Nelson was an associate of the famed Phillip Johnson of UC Berkeley, who wrote Darwin on Trial, and Paul organized the Mere Creation conference (1996), where the modern intelligent design research community first formed.

Paul Nelson, Discovery Institute* Discussion Topics: Bob Enyart and Paul Nelson describe:
- the groundbreaking animation in the Flight video of the hummingbird's astounding tongue, which does not use capillary action, as previously assumed, to drink nectar, but using an shockingly sophisticated mechanism of opening and closing compartments.
- the stunning animation and video of bird embryos developing within the egg.
- the 24,000-mile round-trip migration of Arctic Turns from Greenland to Antarctica and whether "instinct" resides in DNA (Bob Enyart thinks not), or perhaps somewhere in the epigenetics of the organism. (See quote below. Epigenetics is a kind of catchall phrase for all the information bound up in an living organism that does not reside in the DNA.)
- the stunning video of the murmuration of hundreds of thousands of starlings, flying as if choreographed in a awesome display of style and beauty. As Dr. Nelson said in the film, our response to this amazing phenomenon transcends words as we respond, like we do to great art, with our emotions and our soul.
- the fun animation of a single feather, which has as many as a million separate, amazingly integrated, parts.
- the animation of a bird's specialized muscles (which reminds Bob of his PZ Myers Trochlea Challenge, which Myers responded with an admission that he could not answer that simple question regarding natural selection's ability.
- though off topic, because Bob was one of hundreds in attendance in Pittsburgh in August 2014 when Dr. Nelson spoke to many scientists, authors, researchers, and engineers, he asked Paul to describe the genetic sequencing of ants and the most astounding discovery about their so-called orphan genes!