THERE is no scientific proof that the earth is billions of years old despite the almost universal popular assumption, after years of evolutionary propaganda, that the issue is settled once and for all. There is evidence supporting both a very long span of time and strong evidence against it. As Don Batten writes at Creation.com:

No scientific method can prove the age of the earth and the universe …. Although age indicators are called ‘clocks’ they aren’t, because all ages result from calculations that necessarily involve making assumptions about the past. Always the starting time of the ‘clock’ has to be assumed as well as the way in which the speed of the clock has varied over time. Further, it has to be assumed that the clock was never disturbed.

There is no independent natural clock against which those assumptions can be tested. For example, the amount of cratering on the moon, based on currently observed cratering rates, would suggest that the moon is quite old. However, to draw this conclusion we have to assume that the rate of cratering has been the same in the past as it is now. And there are now good reasons for thinking that it might have been quite intense in the past, in which case the craters do not indicate an old age at all (see below).

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  SEE the report at DailyKenn.

  WHILE the recent story of gang rape years ago at a University of Virginia fraternity prompted national alarm despite a lack of formal charges or criminal evidence, there is relative silence, and virtually no feminist hysteria, in response to criminal charges of gang rape at William Paterson University in New Jersey last week. I wonder why. Just wait and see how little attention this story receives from the press. It offers zero opportunity for leftist political agitators, given that the men charged are black. If it is true, and it may of course not be true, I feel deeply sorry for the victim, not only because of the horror she experienced but because she will face a packed courtroom of the friends and relatives of the students charged who are all saying it couldn't possibly be true. If she is white, which I suspect she is, she will likely face even more intense hostility. The thousands of women who have been brutally raped and murdered by black men do not qualify as victims to the quasi-religious feminist cult of female victimhood. That's because this cult is ultimately about power, not real sympathy for women.

THE denial of sex differences, combined with a legal view that defines freedom as the opportunity to destroy oneself freely and freakishly, has once again produced bizarre results. Wyatt “Nicole” Maines, now in high school in Portland, Maine, that bastion of New England “gender” Puritanism, has been awarded $75,000 in a lawsuit against the school district because while in elementary school he was asked to use a unisex bathroom instead of the girls room. Maines has secured an important right at public expense: forgive the crudeness, the right for a boy to pee in the girls restroom. Down with discrimination! Only equality, nothing more and nothing less! Onward, Comrades!!

The ruling portends further mayhem in government schools around the country. Imagine the task of sorting the boys who claim to be girls from the boys who just want to go into the girls room. That’s exactly what happened in the elementary school Maines attended. Onward, Comrades!! 

The Portland Press Herald, which plays along in its reporting with the whole emperor-has-no-clothes political theater that says Maines from Maine, irreversibly male from birth, is now a girl, reports on the award:

Maines, now a 17-year-old high school senior in Portland, was a fifth-grader at Asa Adams School in Orono in 2007 when the guardian of another student objected to her use of a communal girls’ bathroom. Administrators intervened, telling Nicole to use a separate, unisex faculty bathroom.

Nicole Maines – born Wyatt Maines – had identified as a girl since as early as age 2. School officials became aware of her gender identification when she was in the third grade, when students and teachers began referring to Nicole as “she.” (more…)

TOM writes:

Check out Geert Wilders’ speech, posted at Galliawatch, along with news about popular uprisings in France.

Keep your eyes on France. Pope St. Pius VI prophesied after the French Revolution that France would lead the way back in the restoration of Christendom.

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ONE month after the gruesome discovery on an abandoned rural property of the body of 18-year-old Hannah Graham, the University of Virginia sophomore allegedly kidnapped and murdered by Jesse Matthews, a black non-student who had been kicked out of two colleges for rape allegations and had almost certainly also raped and murdered a Virginia Tech student, the UVA campus has been recently whipped up into a state of hysteria by an article, published in The Rolling Stone, describing the gang rape of a freshmen, identified only as “Jackie,” at a fraternity house.

Forgive me for not posting a link to the Rolling Stone piece. If you want to read it, you can easily find it online. It is trash journalism at its finest, a piece of political propaganda and soft porn. On both counts, it has gotten a lot of attention.

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IN 1873, Orestes Brownson, the New England intellectual, wrote that the theory of evolution, “like the modern theory of progress, is untenable, and must be dismissed.” According to Brownson, Darwin had committed a crime worse than murder by presenting his conjectures as science:

“We have read Mr. Darwin’s books with some care, and, though not an absolute stranger to the subject he treats, or to the facts he narrates, we are a little surprised that even a professed scientist could put forth such a mass of unwarranted inductions and unfounded conjectures as science. Not one nor all of the facts he adduces, prove the species originate in natural or artificial selection. In all his inductions he is obliged to assume the progress of the species as the principle of his induction, while he ought to know that the assumption of the progress of the species negatives the origin of species in selection. But, and this is fatal to his theory, he nowhere adduces a single fact that proves the species is progressive, or a single instance in which a lower species by its struggles for life, as he pretends, approaches a higher species, or in which the individuals of a lower species lose any of the characteristics of their species, and acquire those of a higher or a different species.

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LINDA N. writes:

The first thing I thought of when I saw your image of the EU headquarters in Strasbourg was Breugel the Elder’s Tower of Babel.

Spooky.

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DON VINCENZO writes:

In September of 2013, I wrote of the three Barilla brothers, owners of the largest pastificio (pasta manufacturer) in Italy, who had refused to alter their ads celebrating the traditional family, refusing to relent in the storm that gathered around them for their impudence in questioning the new morality. That was then, now is now. According to  The Washington Post, after steadfastly refusing to show a same-sex couple in an ad, the company has “…now journeyed from gay rights pariah to poster child…”

Barilla, which also has production factories in Illinois, joins Starbucks, Nike and Microsoft, which have also endorsed homosexual marriage. (more…)

  FOR a full report on this latest act of apostasy by Jorge Bergoglio, go here.

THE darkness of winter corresponds so well to spiritual tenor of Advent, which starts today, that it is reasonable to think of God fashioning this annual darkness and barrenness so that we could better perceive with our limited supernatural sight the blazing light and warmth of the Incarnation of the Word. In his work, The Liturgical Year, the nineteenth-century French Benedictine monk, Dom Prosper Guéranger, writes:

[W]e find that the Mystery of this Coming, or Advent, of Jesus is at once simple and threefold. It is simple for it is the one same Son of God that is coming; it is threefold because He comes at three different times and in three different ways.

‘In the first coming,’ says St. Bernard, ‘He comes in the flesh and in weakness; in the second, He comes in spirit and power; in the third, He comes in glory and majesty; and the second coming is the means whereby we pass from the first to the third.’  (more…)

HERE are protestors in Oakland, California yesterday, angry that a black teenager who assaulted and possibly tried to kill a police officer in Missouri was shot and killed in the encounter. Not far from where they protested, a 72-year-old woman, Nancy Jo McLellan, was stabbed to death in October. An 18-year-old black teenager has been charged in her murder and was reportedly seen stabbing her while trying to steal her car. He apparently became enraged when the car wouldn’t start. McLellan was returning to her car after a wedding and had never assaulted anyone. She was attacked in broad daylight and there has never been a single protest related to her vicious murder. The truth is, black lives matter more to these protestors, and innocent whites killed in horrific crimes don’t matter at all. The many blacks killed by other blacks don’t matter either. At best, these protestors are racist, mindless sheep and spoiled brats seeking an excuse for righteous misbehavior. They have the same mentality as Nazi youths. At worst, they are evil liars who want to destroy everything good and are motivated by nihilism. See a round-up of protests yesterday here.

These protests will almost certainly lead to more violence and viciousness by black criminals against both whites and blacks, as violent blacks become ever more enraged, impulse-driven and entitled.

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JORGE BERGOGLIO visited the headquarters of the EU in Strasbourg, France this week. The European Parliament building is a sort of Cathedral for Bergoglio’s Cult of Man. He richly praised the statist project of the God-less EU. There was almost nothing Catholic in his message. It was the usual Marxist, humanist bilge with some scolding of European nations for not obliterating their borders and not solving the problem of inequality. In fact, he only mentioned the word “Catholic” once.

The Cult of Man, not God, must rule Europe:

The motto of the European Union is United in Diversity. Unity, however, does not mean uniformity of political, economic and cultural life, or ways of thinking. Indeed, all authentic unity draws from the rich diversities which make it up: in this sense it is like a family, which is all the more united when each of its members is free to be fully himself or herself. I consider Europe as a family of peoples who will sense the closeness of the institutions of the Union when these latter are able wisely to combine the desired ideal of unity with the diversity proper to each people, cherishing particular traditions, acknowledging its past history and its roots, liberated from so many manipulations and phobias. Affirming the centrality of the human person means, above all, allowing all to express freely their individuality and their creativity, both as individuals and as peoples. [emphasis added]

Liberated from “manipulations and phobias?”

Not surprisingly, the Man Who Would be Pope (if only he professed the Catholic faith) did not visit the Strasbourg Cathedral with its sublime message for Europe. The Cathedral was completed in 1439 and now is a temple of the Protestantized happy talk known as Novus Ordo worship, not a bastion of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, which was a Revelation from God and without which European civilization would never have become European civilization.

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AMONG the many things I am thankful for are the wise and perceptive readers of this site. Happy Thanksgiving to all!

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AMONG THE THOUSANDS of people protesting the Ferguson decision in the last two days are those carrying signs that read, “Black lives matter.”

That is very true. Black lives do matter. And they have probably never mattered anywhere more on earth than in America, where blacks are treated with a level of judicial respect and given civil rights that have been historically unknown in much of Africa, where murder is still often treated with indifference.

Almost every single day in the week, a black person in America is killed by another black person. Most of the time it is white policemen who find and apprehend the people who kill blacks, often at the risk of their own safety. And black violence has gotten worse under the reign of judicial leniency and concepts of racist injustice.

The striking thing about Darren Wilson’s testimony to the grand jury is the contempt Michael Brown, assuming the testimony is true, showed from the very beginning of their encounter on the street. That’s not to say that Wilson had to shoot Brown. It was tragic that he did, but his reaction appears to have been within the limits of reasonable self defense. 

Every person protesting the grand jury’s decision should be forced to live in a black neighborhood without white police protection. Let them have their own country. Then they may discover just how little both white lives and black lives matter.

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SEE Jared Taylor’s commentary on Obama’s entirely predictable reaction to a grand jury’s refusal to indict Darren Wilson and the subsequent rioting last night:

Mr. Obama spoke for nearly 10 minutes, and spent about seven of them blaming the police. He said protesters have “legitimate issues of how communities and law enforcement interact,” and called anger over the refusal to indict “an understandable reaction.” He explained that Ferguson is an example of the “broader challenges that we still face as a nation.” He said he has “instructed Attorney General Holder to work with cities across the country . . . to train law enforcement so it conducts itself in a way that is fair to everybody.”

“This is not just an issue for Ferguson, this is an issue for America,” he explained, adding that the country can look forward to “tackling much-needed criminal justice reform.” “America isn’t everything that it could be,” he said sorrowfully, but “we can make progress not just in Ferguson but in a lot of communities and cities around the country.” (more…)

MANY CHRISTIANS have tried to reconcile the belief in an omnipotent Creator with Darwinian theories of evolution. Discussion continues in a recent entry on this subject. A reader contends that God could have used randomness to create life forms slowly over time and suggests that this view is compatible with Christian belief. The reader, Mike, writes:

Randomness is a tool that can be used creatively, and if it’s available to humanity I hesitate to say that it’s not available to God.

But the idea that randomness in any meaningful sense brought about the complexity and interdependence of higher, or even lower, life forms is untenable. There is no convincing scientific evidence that randomness was part of the origins of life. There is abundant evidence of conscious intention and design.

Furthermore, why would God choose to operate in this way, essentially playing a game with seeming randomness? For what reason? That God somehow fashioned life slowly and gradually, discarding lower forms for higher, is entirely incompatible with Scripture. If Genesis is pure myth, then why couldn’t the Incarnation be pure myth? Why would God choose to confuse and virtually deceive us in this way?

This view of an evolutionary God demolishes the concept of Original Sin. According to Genesis, Original Sin brought about death. If many quasi-human beings preceded the first human being — something which has never been proved by the fossil record or archaeology — how was death anything new or a divine punishment for Original Sin?

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  PAUL writes: Perhaps only God or Satan could harden the hearts of Americans to the extent we have been seeing for decades.  In Ferguson, Missouri a grand jury with many blacks on it decided not to indict a white police officer despite the whole black and liberal white community wanting the officer to be indicted.  The State of Missouri is in an alert status, while five dead whites were murdered in St. Louis, Missouri on September 2nd by a black, habitually-violent criminal, and the Media and politicians said nothing about it.