"There have been many attempts to indoctrinate the public to believe that modern birds are really dinosaurs. Time magazine, on April 26, 1993, had a front page cover of a “birdosaur,” now called Mononykus, with feathers (a supposed transitional form between dinosaurs and birds) based on a fossil find that had no feathers.  In the same month, Science News had an article suggesting this animal was a digging creature more like a mole.

In 1996, newspapers reported a find in China of a reptile fossil that supposedly had feathers.  Some of the media reports claimed that, if it were confirmed, it would be “irrefutable evidence that today’s birds evolved from dinosaurs.” One scientist stated, “You can’t come to any conclusion other than that they’re feathers.”  However, in 1997 the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia sent four leading scientists to investigate this find. They concluded that they were not feathers. The media report stated, concerning one of the scientists, “He said he saw ‘hair-like’ structures—not hairs—that could have supported a frill, or crest, like those on iguanas." Full text:  What Really Happened to the Dinosaurs?  http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/nab/what-happened-to-the-dinosaurs

Response to comment [from a Christian]:  "I've never suggested worshiping anyone but God..."

Yet, you accept man's opinion (evolution) over God's word (creation) as truth?  :idunno:  Nothing in observational science has ever contradicted the book of Genesis.

"...[O]bservational science confirms the biblical accounts of creation and Noah’s Flood..." Full text:  Where Darwin Got It Right

"...the smallest seed in the world, a hard domed sky with windows in it, a fixed earth . . . . I could go on."

...Demonstrating your biblical illiteracy?  I have no doubt you could go on.  :chz4brnz:  You call yourself a Christian but attempt to mock God and his word?  You are a fraud (Ga 6:7).

[...smallest seed]

And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you [Matt. 17:19–20].
"'Nothing shall be impossible unto you'—that is, nothing that is according to the will of God for you. It was God’s will that this boy be delivered from demon possession. Why couldn’t the disciples deliver him? Because they didn’t have the faith."
McGee, J. V. (1997, c1981). Thru the Bible commentary. Based on the Thru the Bible radio program. (electronic ed.) (4:97). Nashville: Thomas Nelson.

[Ge 7:10-12]

Genesis 7:10–12
"All of these preparations were completed on the “selfsame day” (verse 13) that the Flood came. The last grace period of seven days (verse 4) was ended, and the time of judgment had arrived. The exact date, in fact, was recorded—“the second month, the seventeenth day of the month.”
The dating of the coming of the Flood raises the question as to what calendar was in use then—or whether possibly the date might later have been editorially emended by Moses to correspond to the Jewish religious calendar. It is probably impossible to be sure about this; but since all Scripture is divinely inspired, there must have been some reason for recording the date with precision.
It is known that the Jewish civil year began in the late fall, as did most other ancient calendars, presumably to correspond with the agricultural harvest. The Jews, of course, had attempted to base their calendar on the date of Adam’s creation. The most natural interpretation of the chronological information in the early chapters of Genesis, in the absence of any other date, would be that the measurement of time began with the Creation. In this case, the data given would lead to the simple conclusion that the Flood came on the earth 1,655 years, one month, and seventeen days after Creation. However, a calculation with this precision would depend on the assumption that in Genesis 5 each named son was born on the exact named birthday of his father, an assumption which is quite unreasonable. Consequently, it seems unlikely that the purpose of this passage was to give the exact date after Creation when the Flood came.
It is still possible, however, that the month and day as given do refer to a calendar based on the date of Creation. In that case the inference would be that Creation took place in what would now correspond to the late fall, probably October, and then the Flood came in late November or December. On the other hand, if Moses later had superimposed the Jewish religious year calendar on the dates, then Creation was probably in April, the Flood in late May or June. This matter is discussed further in connection with Genesis 8:4.
In any case, the account stresses that on a certain particular day, marking the prophesied end of the antediluvian world, on that one day “were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.” It is clear that the geophysical implications of this event are enormous, and it is vital to both the scientific and Biblical understanding of earth history that we determine exactly what these statements mean.
We have already discussed (see on Genesis 1:6–8; 2:5, 10–14; 5:5; etc.) the fact that the antediluvian hydrologic cycle was sharply different from that of the present day. It seems to have been controlled by the two great reservoirs of water resulting from the primeval separation of the waters of the primordial “deep” (Hebrew tehom, Genesis 1:2) on the second day of Creation into “waters above the firmament” and “waters below the firmament,” the firmament in this case consisting of the atmospheric heavens.
The “waters above the firmament” (also called “waters above the heavens” in Psalm 148:4) constituted the vast vaporous canopy which maintained the earth as a beautiful greenhouse, preventing cold temperatures and therefore preventing wind and rain storms. Being in the vapor state, it was invisible and fully transparent, but nevertheless contained vast quantities of water extending far out into space.
The “waters below the firmament” became what is referred to as “the great deep” or “the great depths” of water. This was water in the liquid state, visible especially to the first man in the form of the antediluvian seas (Genesis 1:10) and rivers (Genesis 2:10–14). These rivers were not produced by run-off from rainfall (Genesis 2:5), but emerged through controlled fountains or springs, evidently from deep-seated sources in or below the earth’s crust. There is an interesting reference to the abundant supplies of water pouring forth from these fountains of the great depths in Proverbs 8:24, and probably another in Job 38:16.
Such subterranean reservoirs were apparently all interconnected with each other, as well as with the surface seas into which the rivers drained, so that the entire complex constituted one “great deep.” The energy for repressurizing and recycling the waters must have come from the earth’s own subterranean heat implanted there at Creation. This entire system must have been a marvelous heat engine, which would have operated with wonderful effectiveness indefinitely, as long as the earth’s internal heat endured and as long as the system of reservoirs, valves, governors, and conduits maintained their structure. The details of its design were not revealed, but such a system is quite feasible hydraulically and thermodynamically, and there is no reason to question the Creator’s ability to provide it for the world He had made.
When the time for the destruction of this world arrived, however, all that was required was to bring the two “deeps” together again, as they had been when first created. The waters above the firmament must be condensed and precipitated, and the waters below the crust must burst their bounds and escape again to the surface.
Exactly how God caused the great Flood has been the occasion of wide speculation by various writers. All sorts of catastrophes have been suggested: the sudden tilting of the earth’s axis, a bombardment of the earth by asteroids or meteorites, a sudden slipping of the earth’s crust, nuclear explosions detonated by extraterrestrial space travelers, gravitational and electromagnetic forces resulting from a near miss of the earth by a wandering planet or comet, and others. All are highly imaginative and, of course, completely incapable of proof.
It would be helpful to keep in mind Occam’s Razor (the simplest hypothesis which explains all the data is the most likely to be correct), the Principle of Least Action (nature normally operates in such a way as to expend the minimum effort to accomplish a given result), and the theological principle of the Economy of Miracles (God has, in His omnipotence and omniscience, created a universe of high efficiency of operation and will not interfere in this operation supernaturally unless the natural principles are incapable of accomplishing His purpose in a specific situation), in attempting to explain the cause and results of the great Flood.
There is no question that God could have accomplished the entire event miraculously (say, by special creation of the waters of the Flood and then by special “uncreation” of them when it was over), but this would be unnecessary and therefore theologically unlikely. By the same token, although a bombardment by asteroids or a series of orbital sweeps by an “astral visitor” would not necessarily require any supernatural interposition, except providential timing, these also would be unnecessary and, therefore (at least in the complete absence of any Biblical record of such phenomena as causing the Flood) most improbable.
The Bible specifically attributes the Flood to the bursting of the fountains of the great deep and the pouring down of torrential rains from heaven. These two phenomena are sufficient in themselves (in the light of related Biblical information, as discussed above) to explain the Flood and all its effects without the necessity of resorting either to supernatural creative miracles or to providentially ordered extraterrestrial interferences of speculative nature.
The breaking up (literally “cleaving open”) of the fountains of the great deep is mentioned first and so evidently was the initial action which triggered the rest. These conduits somehow all developed uncontrollable fractures on the same day. For such a remarkable worldwide phenomenon, there must have been a worldwide cause. The most likely cause would seem to have been a rapid buildup and surge of intense pressure throughout the underground system, and this in turn would presumably require a rapid rise in temperature throughout the system.
Too little is known even today about the nature of the earth’s deep interior and its thermal activity to decide exactly what might have triggered such a temperature rise. Nuclear reactions involving heavy elements, a slow buildup of temperature against some sort of insulating layer in the deeper crust followed by sudden fracture of the layer when the pressures and temperatures became too great, various combinations of seismic and volcanic activity—many possibilities might be conjectured. In any case there is surely abundant evidence in the earth’s crust, especially its “crystalline basement complex,” of intense igneous, metamorphic, and tectonic activity in the past, just the sort of evidence one might expect to find if such a sequence of events as outlined above had actually taken place. It is also possible that some of these phenomena could have been miraculous, in the sense of providential ordering of times and circumstances (if so, however, the providential miracles so involved would at least have been intraterrestrial and directly related to the Biblical explanation, not extraterrestrial and arbitrary).
Once the postulated pressure rise caused the first “fountain” to crack open, the pressurized fluid would surge through at this point and further weaken nearby boundaries, until soon a worldwide chain reaction would develop, cleaving open all the fountains of the great deep throughout the world.
The volcanic explosions and eruptions which would have accompanied these fractures would have poured great quantities of magma up from the earth’s mantle along with the waters.
Furthermore, immense quantities of volcanic dust would have been blown skyward, along with gigantic sprays of water and turbulent surges of the atmosphere. The combination of atmospheric turbulence, expanding and cooling gases, and a vast supply of dust and other particles to serve as nuclei of condensation would suffice to penetrate the upper canopy of water vapor and trigger another chain reaction there, causing its waters to begin to condense and coalesce and soon to start moving earthward as a torrential global downpour of rain.
This entire phenomenon merits much further research and analysis, but at least there is good reason to conclude that the simple statement of verse 11 provides the basic information needed to explain the physical cause of the great Flood, all of course under the providential supervision of the same God who created the earth and its lands and waters in the first place.
The phrase “windows” of heaven is very graphic, many translators rendering it by “floodgates” or “sluiceways” (though its usual meaning is simply “windows”). In any case, it certainly is intended to convey the idea of great quantities of water, formerly restrained in the sky, suddenly released to deluge the earth. The downpour continued at full intensity—exactly as God had predicted (verse 4)—for forty days and forty nights."
Morris, H. M. (1976). The Genesis record : A scientific and devotional commentary on the book of beginnings. Includes indexes. (193). Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books.

[Job 26:5-7]

He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing [Job 26:5–7].
"Much has been made of the fact that He “stretcheth out the north over the empty place.” Folk have attempted to point out that there is a void in the north, that there are no stars in a certain place in the north. In fact, it was called a “hole in the north.” However, since we have these very powerful telescopes, and especially the radio telescopes, we find that we cannot point a telescope in any direction in God’s universe without finding it filled with stars—other universes. Job is saying that God reached out in space and covered it—He can cover the empty place.
Also space is a creation of God. Here is one star which God has created. Billions and billions of light years over yonder is another star, and God has also created that one. What keeps them from rubbing together or banging into each other like cars do on our freeways today? Well, God put space between them. What is space? Maybe some people would answer, “Nothing.” Friend, it is something. I don’t know what it is, but it is something, and God created it to hold heavenly bodies apart. It is like a lubricant that He uses to keep the universes from banging into each other.
Listen to the apostle Paul. “For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present [that’s time], nor things to come [that’s future], Nor height, nor depth [that’s space], nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Rom. 8:38–39). “Nor any other creature” is literally “nor any other created thing.” Space is one of God’s creations. Friend, that gives us something to turn over in our minds. What is space?
It takes a long time to go to the moon. What is all this expanse between the earth and the moon? Don’t tell me it is nothing, because it is something. What is it? I don’t know; I’m no authority on that. I simply know that we call it space, God created it, and it is out there serving His purpose.
He “hangeth the earth upon nothing.” Who in the world told Job that? Remember that Job lived back in the age of the patriarchs, and yet this man knew that this earth is hanging out in space. That God suspends the huge ball of earth in space with nothing to support it but His own fixed laws is a concept unknown to ancient astronomers.
Job understood that He “hangeth the earth upon nothing.” There is no foundation under it. If it fell, what direction would it go? We talk about gravity, but that is a pulling down toward the center of the earth. When you get out far enough into space, there is nothing pulling on anything. So where is down and where is up? And what keeps it hanging there in space? We get an answer in Colossians 1:17: “And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.” The word consist is the Greek sunistemi, meaning “to hold together.” By Christ it all is held together. We are moving now into a great section of the Book of Job.
Job had a tremendous view of God as the Creator. Out there on the ash heap he was able to look at the stars at night, and he had spent time doing that in the past."
McGee, J. V. (1997, c1981). Thru the Bible commentary. Based on the Thru the Bible radio program. (electronic ed.) (2:632-633). Nashville: Thomas Nelson.

[Kinds]

"For land animals and birds, the created kind most often corresponds to the conventional classification rank called “family,” which includes many species. There is evidence that the camel, horse, cat, dog, penguin, and iguana families are each a created kind.  Like Nelson, I would put the coyote, wolf, jackal, and dog in the same kind, and I would include the fox. I would put the lion and house cat in another kind, and the llama and camel in yet another kind. Today these species (i.e., llama and camel) look amazingly different, but they seem to have been generated after the Flood from information already present within their parent kind. Lions, coyotes, and dromedary camels were probably not on the Ark but were born to parents within the cat, dog, and camel kinds."  Full text: Two of Every Kind  http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/am/v2/n2/two-of-every-kind

Response to comment [from a Christian]:  "[A] literal six days as history, there is no evidence."

"Outside Genesis 1, yom is used with a number 359 times, and each time it means an ordinary day.  Why would Genesis 1 be the exception?" Full text:   Could God Really Have Created Everything in Six Days?

"I am not mocking anything aside from you."

You said:  "I could go on."  For what purpose but to continue to undermine God's word?  Are you claiming that you point people to Jesus?  Are you claiming that God's word is trustworthy?  

With "friends" like you, who needs enemies?  (Jn 15:15) 

[Augustine]

We are to trust God's word not men influenced by Greek paganism (Ps 138:2). 

"Someone needs to tell the AiG writers that humans, chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans are all in the same conventional family designation."

Ad hominem.

"The secular-humanist worldview (sometimes called “man’s view”) begins with the assumption that physical matter is the only thing that exists. According to this view, everything that exists was created at “the big bang,” where all the matter of the universe appeared in a violent explosion out of nothing. (No one claims to know what caused this explosion, but they do claim that it happened and that’s where time and space began.) Somehow, the matter that came from nowhere spontaneously arranged itself (with no outside influence or organization) into the first complex living cells over the course of billions of years and the random interaction of chemicals and molecules. Then, over the next hundreds of millions of years, these simple cells are believed to have “evolved” by natural processes into the forms we see today. That process of evolution supposedly took place through chance genetic mutations and a process called “natural selection” in which only the fittest of organisms survive long enough to reproduce. [For a complete rebuttal of this concept, see Evolution Exposed online.]

The late Dr. Carl Sagan said, “The secrets of evolution are time and death.”1 He believed that the process of death and bloodshed, over millions of years, had the result of one kind of organism changing into another, with one kind of animal changing into another, and eventually humans evolving from primates.

In order to try to categorize life and explain how evolution has progressed, secular scientists have attempted to create a “phylogenetic tree” that traces the history of life. In reality this is a “tree of death” because it is based on natural selection (where the weaker organisms are killed), passing on to the next generation only the supposed benefits of genetic mutation. (In the vast majority of cases, however, genetic mutations weaken, rather than strengthen an organism . . . a fact that makes this theory mathematically impossible.)

Those who cling to the theory of evolution often appeal to circumstantial scientific “evidence” to prove their point—but I find time and time again that they are not motivated by the evidence at all. A proper interpretation of the same evidences (including an awareness of the most foundational laws of physics) leads one to conclude that matter and life must have been caused by an outside influence that both designed and created it. That “outside influence” implies that there is a God, and what I observe is that many evolutionists object to the idea of God on moral or philosophical grounds first, and then attempt to disprove “God” with science.

The moral/philosophical objection is often stated as the question “If God is all-powerful and loving, why do we see children dying, people suffering, and bad things happening to good people?” Surely such suffering and evil means that either He is not powerful or good, or that He doesn’t exist at all. If there’s a God of love and you say He is a merciful God and the Bible says God alone is infinite, why does He let all this death and suffering go on? Is He not powerful enough to overcome it? Surely an all-powerful God could stop all this death, destruction, and decay.”

Many people have asked these questions with sincerity. Many have not been able to answer them sufficiently, and they have rejected the “idea of god,” turning to the secular-humanist worldview based on evolutionary theory as their new foundation for life. In response to painful and difficult circumstance (often the untimely or painful death of a loved one, or an unjust personal abuse suffered) they begin to interpret everything in a way that attempts to disprove God’s existence. While our debates with the evolutionists tend to focus on science and evidence, this is not always the true objection they have against God. Their arguments are usually fueled with passion and pain. Many lash out in great agony over a great loss or “injustice” in their personal lives; many feel neglected or abandoned by people, the Church, or God himself . . . and I can relate. I have been there with the likes of Charles Darwin and Ted Turner. I, too, have had to face the questions." Only Time and Death?  http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/hcalg/only-time-and-death

Response to comment [from a Christian]:  "I never said a day doesn't mean a day. I'm saying the entire creative week is a figurative representation of creation."

"I never said..."? "I'm saying..."?  Well, that must be the end of it then.  Our resident scientist has spoken   Was Jesus' death and resurrection figurative, too?

For the rest of us who do not worship "self" but rather the creator God, a six day creation week--means a six day creation week.  There is no reason to think otherwise.

You claim to be a Christian, when do you start believing the Bible?

"You don't have to believe what I'm saying. It's not essential to faith either way."

You impugn the veracity of God. It is a characteristic of someone turning against God not toward him (Heb 3:12). First men dismiss his word, then they depart from it.

"[W]e are Christians..."

So you say. If you were brought into court on the charge of being a Christian, would there be enough evidence to convict you?

"I think you're worshiping the six-day interpretation rather than God."

I'm telling the truth (Jn 5:47). I think you worship yourself, which leaves you with a fool for a deity (Gresham).

"I believe the Bible."

Lie of the day (Ingraham).

"God's word is truth."

Truth that you don't believe (Ps 106:24).  Unbelief is no small thing (Joh 12:37).  It affects one's:  worldview, fellowship, and spiritual rest.  It is not wise to stagger the promises of God ( Ro 4:20).  Being a scientist is no excuse.  There is plenty of young earth creation evidence out there.  Unbelief in God's word is not an intellectual issue.  It is a heart issue (Heb 3:10). 

You reject God's word--plain and simple.  You seem to work for the enemy.  If we all wore uniforms, I wouldn't be surprised if you played for the "Devils".  I don't know why you work to deceive others.  I only know that you won't get away with it (Prov 20:17).

"They are all part of the culture war—a war between two worldviews. One view is based on a biblical understanding of history, the other on pure naturalism..."  Full text:  War of Worldviews

"[I]t must be understood in context and in light of other scripture, in balance with other scripture."

Maybe the one balancing the scales offends you (Jn 5:47).

"...[T]he man Christ Jesus."

Jesus is:  100% God 100% man.  The second person of the trinity (Jehovah God) took on an all-new nature at the incarnation (1 John 4:1–6).  He is always one step ahead of devil-types.

"You choose out a verse or two we disagree on..."

Ge 1:1 (Note:  no scientists were there.  They were created and began worshipping themselves later).

"Where is your love SD?"

Love for lies?  (Prov 27:5).

Response to comment [from a Christian]:  "Believing something different about Genesis 1 does not equal general unbelief."

Keep telling yourself that as you depart from God (Heb 3:12).  What kind of a Christian rejects Christian joy (Heb 3:19; 4:11).

"And yes belief does involve the intellect...[I]f you cannot intellectually accept something, you cannot believe it."

Start believing and God he will help you with your unbelief (Mk 9:24).  God clears up errors (Heb 3:10).

My science has not affected my belief of the central tenets of Christianity.

"Men study science as God not the God of science." ~ A. Rogers

[Apostle's Creed] "Note there's nothing about creation in six days in this or any other ancient creed."

Your point?  If you are determined to believe lies, you will.  "The opposite of truth is not error. It's sin." ~ A. Rogers

"I don't think Proverbs 20:17 has anything to do with me..."

You sell this bread.  I'm not buying (Ga 5:9). 

"[H]ow am I gaining something by deceit?"

I don't know what you gain.  Ego perhaps?  (Jn 5:44).

[Diety] "Hey lunkhead . . .that was a scripture quotation...You might want to read your Bible more often. There's no reason for you to go off explaining the trinity to me (which I fully accept) over a verse you apparently haven't read enough to recognize."

Be clear.  People pour different meanings into just about every Bible verse.  Maybe you've noticed?

"I have a problem with Genesis 1:1 how?"

God created.  Not goo--to zoo--to you (A. Rogers).

"You know science looks at the evidence left behind right?"

...Which points to a young earth and creation.  Same data.  Different interpretation.

"Continue to call me a liar SD, God will repay you for your lies."

You are responsible for the excrement you're shoveling.