True Horizon

… a further continuation of No Engines, No Wings – Won’t Fly

Earlier I compared Darwinian Evolution to a simulator that gives us what seems to be a reasonable explanation of life on Earth but, when exposed to further scrutiny, turns out to be a fraudulent. It looks good but it won’t fly. First, the Darwinian model has no power to get started because it lacks an explanation for the Origin of Life. But that’s not all.

Beside the notable absence of a Darwinian engine to get it off the ground, there is an equally glaring lack of evidence for its ability to explain the wide range of biological diversity we see in life on Earth. Darwinian evolution has no wings to keep it airborne.

In a nutshell, Darwin’s Theory assumed that life began in the aforementioned “warm little pond” with a simple, single-celled organism and then, through eons of gradual, adaptive change, underwent differentiation that led to all the various forms of life we see today. Descent with modification was the phrase Darwin used to describe the growth of his evolutionary tree. (Read on …)

Research psychologists are digging deeper into a phenomenon that first entered the psychology lexicon in 1998 when they published the book, “Inattentional Blindness.” Their book, named for the phenomenon they uncovered, exposed some striking discoveries regarding how the mind actually perceives what the eyes see.

Mack and Rock’s standard procedure was to present a small cross briefly on a computer screen for each of several experimental trials and asked participants to judge which arm of the cross was longer. After several trials, an unexpected object, such as a brightly colored rectangle, appeared on the screen along with the cross.—busy paying attention to the cross—often failed to notice the unexpected object, even when it had appeared in the center of their field of vision. When participants’ attention was not diverted by the cross, they easily noticed such objects.

There are three reasons this study got my attention. The first is personal … (Read on …)