The Progress of Science (weather)
No commentsBy Marcel Lafaoe
Progress consists in the reconciling of apparent contradictions. Unity and differentiation, heredity and variability, are apparently opposed. Yet a mammal is more truly a unit than an organism that suffers little from being cut in two because each part can do the work of all. A civilised state with interdependent specialised interests suffers from the incapacity or rapacity of its classes more than a company of Fuegans, each of whom can supply all his own wants.
Science is progressing in this way. Biology cannot advance without chemistry, geology leans on physics, and this interdependence is due to specialisation, to differentiation. In organisms and states intercommunication is essential to preserve this corporate life. Without nerves and blood-vessels an amoeba may possibly get on fairly well. Fuegans do not require railways or telephones. Science requires its blood-vessels and nerves, its railways and telephones. Each member requires what is elaborated by others to be collected and sorted and distributed for its use. It is most important that’ the work done in physical science in innumerable laboratories should be collected, digested, distributed for the information of the biologist, the chemist, the geologist.
The study of the properties of each kind of matter as related to energy and the ether has bearings on every department of science and on every kind of practice ; on agriculture and medicine the practical applications of biology, and on manufactures and engineering the practical application of physics and chemistry. Whether we are using the ether to transmit energy to ploughs, or measuring the irregular energy of the tissues of a patient by a thermometer, or taking nails out of wheat with magnets, or determining the physical changes produced in materials by small amounts of impurities, we require to understand physical science, and any day some advance in it may be of service in practice.
The connections, the railways, the nerves, in this department, are fairly well supplied by the technical journals, but on the purely scientific side there is risk that an undue development of specialisation, without sufficient nourishment and communication from other parts, may lead to local turgescence and inflammation, to the injury of the system and the ultimate atrophy of the parts.
In treating of the connections of physical science with other branches of science, we may either divide physical science in some systematic way, and study the connections of each division with other sciences, or begin by consideringthe other branches of science and see how each is connected with physical science. Without some systematic and rational method, we are sure to omit outlying and unfamiliar parts of any subject of investigation.
It is possible in the compass of a short article to go over only a very small number of the various connections between physical science and science in general, and no one individual could do justice to the theme ; it is only possible here to make some suggestions as to methods of systematic division of the subject, and to point out a very few of the connecting links that at present cry for strength. Physical science may generally be described as the study of the properties of matter, energy, and ether. It is divided from chemistry by being the study of each kind of matter by itself, while chemistry studies the actions of different kinds of matter upon one another. Of course no real line can be drawn, and the enumeration of the objects of physical study is for the purpose of dividing the subject itself rather than for the purpose of dividing it from other subjects.
The properties of matter and energy, of energy and ether, and of ether and matter, are the subjects of investigation in physical science. The matter and energy region is subdivided into (1) pure dynamics of solids and fluids, that branch where mathematics reigns supreme, whether we study the motions of the planets, or of vortex rings, where we deal with regular and reversible kinetic and potential energy ; and (2) the study of irregular motions of heat and turbulence, the kinetic theory of gases and the turbulent motion of a liquid, the first and second laws of thermodynamics, the laws of specific and latent heats, of temperature and entropy, viscosity, and the limits of elasticity.
This subdivision into energy as regular and irregular is fundamental, and pervades the whole of science ; it bears on cosmology when we study the action of tide production and tidal retardation of rotation, the circulation of water up the air and down the mountains and its erosions and grindings ; it bears on chemistry when we study chemical equilibrium and heat of chemical action ; it bears on biology when we study the regular production of mechanical work, of electric currents, of nervous stimuli, and when we study the production of heat, the viscous resistance to Mow of fluids. The relations of ether and energy are comprised in the study of electro-magnetism and light. As yet we know little about the relations of irregular energy and ether, and still less how this bears on cosmology, chemistry and biology. The bearings of electro-magnetism and light on the other branches of science are too many to enumerate and too familiar to be worth enumerating.
We are yet only on the threshold of what is to be known. The connections of matter and ether are even more obscure. Why do most vegetable substances turn the plane of polarisation of light one way and animal substances the other way ? Why is terrestrial magnetism so irregular, so variable ?
Marcel is interested in the sciences, and likes to share his knowledge with others.
Was Neanderthal Man The Missing Link?
By Russ Miller
Whenever I hear the words missing link I cannot help but think of the time a family member misplaced a cufflink and could not find it. Or the time at a barbecue when someone lost a link of prime sausage and could not find that either.
Those were truly missing links!
Now here is an irony for you. As far back as the 1950’s anthropologists using real science as their guide proved that Neanderthals were 100% human. Yet, even today, many Darwinists still claim them as a missing links.
Neanderthal Man was the name given to human bones found in 1856 in Germany’s Neander Valley. Many Darwinists still depict Neanderthal Man as a half-witted link between ape and man who lacked language skills and creative abilities.
Others say he was a dead-end in human evolution from our supposed ape-like ancestors.
However, the evidence has been around since the early 1900’s which proves that Neanderthal was a variation of modern humans, and he has been reclassified as Homo sapiens neanderthalensis, a particular kind of modern man.
The renowned pathologist Rudolf Virchow presented evidence that the Neanderthal specimens which showed a hunched-over stance and other features were influenced by rickets and arthritis.
However, due to the overwhelming Darwinian bias, which has been undermining scientific education and scientific research for the past 100 years, his conclusions were held back from the public for half a century!
Another example of Darwinian bias was that it took longer than twenty years for the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago to correct its display of Neanderthals even after their Neanderthal display was proven to be misleading Darwinian propaganda!
So much for honest science.
Darwinists still attempt to mislead anyone not on his or her toes.
For instance, although Neanderthal’s brain size was slightly larger than modern man’s, his brain is said to be of lower quality. However, this is just bias masquerading as science.
Evidence reveals that Neanderthal Man lived at the same time as modern man and that they likely interbred with each other. The discovery of a Neanderthal hyoid bone, related to the voice box, which was no different than that of a modern human, has led many scientists to the conclusion that Neanderthal Man had speech abilities just like that of humans today.
Other evidence reveals that Neanderthals conducted religious rituals and were very creative. A Neanderthal toddler was unearthed in Syria with a flint tool resting at about the spot where the infant’s heart had once beaten.
Tools and jewelry such as pierced animal teeth and ivory rings were discovered with a Neanderthal fossil in a French cave in 1996. Wooden spears and well-designed and crafted stone tools and stone spearheads have also been found.
These finds and many others contradict the Darwinian claim that Neanderthals were a less-developed missing link.
It has been concluded that Neanderthals lived with other variations of modern humans in the Middle East, and hybrids of Neanderthals and other humans are known from a number of areas around the world.
The only honest conclusion is that Neanderthal Man was 100% human.
Russ Miller is author of The GENESIS Report Series. Register at http://www.new-earth-thought.com to receive FREE his 50 Facts vs. Darwinism e-mail series.
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