* Blyth Institute Research on Mutation By Design: Bob Enyart interviews Jonathan Bartlett, the layman who founded the Blyth Institute (.org) after spending years researching the nature of mutations to understand the genetic disease that tragically took the lives of his two young children. It turns out that while many mutations are random and apparently neutral or often harmful, our body itself intentionally induces a large percentage of mutations and targets them often at miniscule segments of the DNA with beneficial and needed results.

* 2016 Update: As our go-to guy for targeted antibodies, Bartlett returned to RSR to explain the science behind the latest extraordinary cancert treatment results from a clinical trial in which 33 of 35 advanced-stage Leukemia sufferers have seen their disease go into remission!

* RSR Prediction CONFIRMED: Bob & Fred celebrate the Russians findings which confirmed their creation-based prediction! Those expecting to see millions of years of evolution in isolated Lake Vostok were disappointed with the hard scientific findings while the creationists were celebrating! See this prediction confirmation at rsr.org/creation-science-predictions!

* Bill Nye Irony: When Bill Nye said that creationists cannot make scientific predictions (that would be later confirmed), ironically, he helped publicize the many astounding confirmed predictions of creation scientists. And secondly, he helped make our very own Real Science Radio program more discoverable to the general public. UPDATE: For as of June 2015, for the web search: creation science predictions, Google ranks our own program, RSR's List of Creation Science Predictions, at #3 of 1.2 million pages! :)

* Liquid Water Below Antarctica; Comets in Space: The Real Science Radio co-hosts Bob Enyart and Fred Williams predict that the Russian scientists who evaluate the data obtained from their 2-mile deep bore hole into Lake Vostok in Antarctica will be surprised to find evidence that seems to contradict the old-earth belief that it has been sealed off from light and air for 15 million years (i.e., three times longer than it took to allegedly evolve humans from chimp-like creatures). Consider this in light of micro and macro-evolution. Lake Vostok has only been frozen over for a few thousand years, not millions, so microevolution has only this relatively small amount of time to influence any sealed-in microbes. And since macroevolution does not occur, that is, no new vital organs have ever evolved (which should be obvious), fundamentally new body parts and metabolic pathways have never emerged, and while changes to wing color and beak length occur over time (as per the creation model), no creature has ever evolved into another kind of organism.

* Butterfly Update and Where Did the Water Go? Bob and Fred discuss an article from the Institute for Creation Research that uses the latest NASA space photo of the Earth to help answer the question, Where did all the water from the global flood go? (See the image to the left centered on the Pacific Ocean.) The guys also discuss two articles in the current Answers Magazine about butterfly technology and about what triggered the flood. RSR suggests that meteors could not have triggered the flood because they are the result of the flood. And finally, in the same vein, the two take issue with space.com's claim that a black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy is devouring an asteroid about once a day. After all, asteroids are flying rock piles, and comets are dirty snow balls, and knowing their source really helps make the cosmos more understandable and our scientific predictions more reliable!

* Bob Enyart and Fred Williams Talk About Air and Life: The Real Science Radio co-hosts talk about animals, both on land and in the sea, designed to live comfortably with the enormous amounts of atmospheric and water pressure pressing in and down on us. The guys recommend that everyone subscribe to Answers Magazine from Ken Ham's Answers in Genesis ministry, where they found the article, Air Mass: A Weighty Topic in the 2012 winter edition.

* Florida Listener Asks about Amino Acids and Abortion: Isaac from Florida asked Bob and Fred to ponder the contradictory claims of many atheists regarding abiogenesis and abortion. By the way, abiogenesis is the study of how biological life might arise from inanimate matter through natural processes. (In their current debate on creation, Bob and the atheist AronRa both mentioned Lord Kelvin, a leading scientist who worked for decades after the publication of Darwin's Origin. Please consider his quote on abiogenesis from from the address he delivered as president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, when after referencing the "vast mass of inductive evidence" in science, Lord Kelvin wrote:

"I am ready to adopt, as an article of scientific faith, true through all space and through all time, that life proceeds from life, and from nothing but life." -Kelvin

So, comparing abiogenesis to abortion, our listener Isaac references a 1952 experiment in which Miller and Urey synthesized amino acids in a test tube. Talk about better living through chemistry! That was an important accomplishment. But while amino acids are the building blocks of biological molecules, amino acids are not life. So Isaac points out a contradiction:

1) That amino acids are claimed as a representation of life (yet there is not even a living cell). And:
2) The male or female embryo, so full of living cells with his or her own DNA, etc... is not human life.

Now, American Right To Life has an article about the atheistic abortion activists who would contradict themselves by claiming that acid is life but an embryro is not life.

* Bob and Fred on the League of Reason Debate: The RSR co-hosts talk about Bob's written creation/evolution debate with AronRa and the League of Reason's Soft Tissue Deniers. (See the photo from an actual T. rex at the right, an image of a biofilm below, and the great two-minute video below.) The tissue deniers are both fearful of and willingly ignorant of the many recent peer-reviewed journal reports confirming five soft-tissue dinosaur finds!

* AronRa's Statistics: Hear about Aron criticizing Bob for using the same number of U.S. doctors (34%), from the same study that 'Ra used (Finkelstein's), of those who prefer intelligent design over evolution! And then there's that completely fabricated 99.86% stat that atheists have been claiming for years...

* And Then There's Lord Kelvin Himself: Check him out on RSF's KGOV.com/fathers-of-science#kelvin!

* Fish Fin Designed by God:  A dorsal fin, called an adipose fin, on some fish was thought by evolutionists to be a left over (vestigial) structure from its evolutionary past. Believing this to be so, biologists in fish hatcheries would cut these fins off thinking it would help the salmon survive better in the wild. It has now been shown that fish with that particular fin still attached are better swimmers. At one time, evolutionists believed that there were over 100 so-called vestigial organs, glands, or structures in the human body. Practically all have now been shown to have important functions with the trend indicating that the evolutionary assumptions here will have been wrong every time.

* Dinosaur Death Pose: Fossils of dinosaurs all over the world are found with their necks and heads bent backwards. Experiments show that the necks and heads of dead birds today that are buried in watery graves also bend backwards in the same manner. This is additional evidence supporting the creationist assertion that these articulated dinosaur skeletons were buried in a flood -- a big one. Bob asked if anyone in the audience would be willing to replicate one of the quail experiments mentioned. See this also at New Scientist.

* Old(er) Bird: Once again the evolutionary time line is set on its head. This time by a find in China in which a bird fossil is said to be much older than the supposed first bird, Archaeopteryx.

* Humming Bird Beaks: The beak of a humming bird is very flexible and can snap shut at an amazingly-fast speed (in just one-hundredth of a second), allowing for the bird to catch those pesky but very fast fruit flies.

* Did You Know that the Jellyfish-like Man-of-War Consists of Four Animals? Bob Enyart and Fred Williams describe the four symbiotic zooids that together form a colony making up the composite animal called the Portuguese Man-of-War. The guys present such complex interconnections as a challenge to those who believe in naturalistic origins. While these four zooids share the same DNA, unlike organs or limbs in our bodies, when separated, these individual zooids can survive on their own, admittedly though, not for long.

* Written Debate with Atheist AronRa Begins: The online written debate with well-known atheist AronRa began this week, so RSR describes Bob's first-round post and challenge about Isaac Newton to Aron. Stay tuned!

* Conclusion of the List: Today's program concludes last week's Part 1 of RSF's 2012 List of Not So Old Things which discussed the first half of these spectacular discoveries of dinosaur soft tissue, Adam & Eve in DNA, 3rd stage super novas, and carbon 14 everywhere it shouldn't be! Real Science Friday co-hosts Fred Williams and Bob Enyart observe their annual tradition by updating their growing list of scientific observations that challenge those who claim that the earth is millions of years old. Many of these scientific finds demand a re-evaluation of supposed billion-year ages:

* The Grand Canyon is Missing Millions of Years of Evidence of Erosion (and deposition) Here, Here, and Here: According to evolutionary geologists, there are MORE THAN 100 MILLION YEARS MISSING in the extraordinarily regular and straight layers of the Grand Canyon! Supposed geological layers entirely missing from the beautifully formed Grand Canyon strata include the Ordovician and the Silurian. The flat boundaries between strata provide hard evidence proving that millions of years of erosion DID NOT OCCUR, and that therefore, those millions of years DID NOT PASS, neither in the canyon nor anywhere on Earth, for they are an atheistic fiction.

* Dinosaur Soft Tissue, Adam & Eve in DNA, 3rd Stage Supernovas Nowhere, Carbon 14 Everywhere: Welcome to RSR's 2012 List of Not So Old Things! Real Science Radio co-hosts Fred Williams and Bob Enyart observe their annual tradition by updating their growing list of scientific observations that challenge those who claim that the earth is millions of years old.

* Original Dinosaur Tissue! Preparing for next Friday's show on our annual list of not so old things,  Real Science Friday co-hosts Fred Williams and Bob Enyart take time to discuss the growing number of soft-tissue dinosaur discoveries by world-renowned universities and as published in leading scientific journals. For links to sources, and more photos of actually dinosaur tissue, please see next week's program at KGOV.com/list!

Today's Resource: Have you browsed through our Science Department in the KGOV Store? Check out especially Walt Brown’s In the Beginning and Bob’s interviews with this great scientist in Walt Brown Week! You’ll also love Dr. Guillermo Gonzalez’ Privileged Planet (clip), and Illustra Media’s Unlocking the Mystery of Life (clip)! You can consider our BEL Science Pack; Bob Enyart’s Age of the Earth Debate; Bob's debate about Junk DNA with famous evolutionist Dr. Eugenie Scott; and the superb kids' radio programming, Jonathan Park: The Adventure Begins!

* "Impossibly Modern" Stars, "Primitive Cells," Hominid Fossils, and Information: Real Science Friday co-hosts Fred Williams and Bob Enyart discuss more great news stories from the winter 2012 edition of Creation magazine.

* Post-show Note: Bob and Fred Highly Recommend this New Astronomy DVD! What You Aren't Being Told About Astronomy, Volume II: Our Created Star and Galaxies. RSR says:

Spike, you've done it again. We're stunned. We didn't think you could match the powerful message in your first video Our Created Solar System. But Volume II in your series What You Aren't Being Told About Astronomy, on Our Created Stars and Galaxies is not only just as powerful, but this new DVD has even higher production value and is even more visually beautiful. May God bring Christians and atheists by the many thousands to enjoy this message from science and Scripture! Congratulations!

-Bob Enyart & Fred Williams