Friday, August 24, 2012

Mars Hill Radio Broadcast - Guest Julius Csotonyi

Mars Hill Radio Broadcast: 8/23/2012 

My guest tonight was Julius Csotonyi.   He’s a freelance paleoartist working with various museums to reconstruct life-sized murals of various prehistoric animals and ecosystems based on his study of the fossil record.  His work is viewable in the Royal Ontario Museum's exhibit "Ultimate Dinosaurs: Giants from Gondwana", the new Hall of Paleontology at the Houston Museum of Natural Science, the new Dinosaur Hall at the L.A. County Museum of Natural History, and many others, such as the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology. 
He also has a scientific background with a M.Sc. in Ecology and Environmental Biology and a PhD in microbiology.  He’s performed research in biological sciences for 14 years.  He’s also a published author in various scientific journals.  He did start out as a fundamentalist young-earth creationist, but over time changed his position to an agnostic-atheist.



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This is a followup commentary on my interview with Julius

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This is my response to Julius' request that I refrain from using the Bible, my faith and believes when I talk about science issues.



After a lot of prayer and thinking, I decided to go ahead and un-ban Julius Csotonyi. At first, his request was so appalling to me that I decided to make a point and prevent him from posting anything further, but in the end, it really doesn't matter if someone makes a similar request because I will continue to post what I want on regardless of requests. It also didn't align with the intent of my ministry. I felt like I was slamming the door shut when I banned him. Therefore, my apologies to Julius for my hot-tempered reaction. For me as a Christian, I’m not perfect (far from it); I’m just forgiven. 

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Jeff's Show Notes:

My comments and the article mentioned about Dr Colin Patterson can be found on page 58 (ch 14 - Discussion Thread: Dr Colin Patterson quote / misquote) in the ebook: 
These are the words of Dr. Colin Patterson as he spoke before a large body of evolutionists and has been confirmed by attendees and Dr. Patterson himself.   
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Julius Csotonyi's Show Notes


http://csotonyi.com/
- My personal online gallery (requires considerable update, due to having been extraordinarily busy lately, but it'll do).


http://evolutionaryroutes.wordpress.com/
- My blog (Evolutionary Routes).


www.scirus.com
- A good search engine for original scientific research in peer-reviewed journals (clicking on "Journal Sources" on the left of the results of a search displays this original research).


http://ncse.com/evolution/education/definitions-fact-theory-law-scientific-work
- a nice concise explanation of theory, hypothesis, facts and laws in science


http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evosite/footshooting/Iterminology.shtml
- Additional nice explanation of some commonly misunderstood terms in science, such as hypothesis, theory, belief versus acceptance, proof versus evidence and purpose versus function.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HeLa
- Wikipedia introduction to the "HeLa" cancer cells of Henrietta Lacks that will be accessible to many readers.


http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2210776211003425
- A scientific research article (requiring subscription for viewing the full piece) on evolution in Tasmanian devil facial cancer.
- Wikipedia provides an introduction to the phenomenon that is accessible to many readers:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil_facial_tumour_disease


http://www.cell.com/retrieve/pii/S009286741200462X
- Recent research on the possible role of a partial gene duplication event in early human increase in intelligence.
- Here's a pretty good popular write-up about the article, because you need a subscription to the journal to view the original paper, and this popular write-up is probably better suited to most viewers of the show:http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120503125720.htm


http://www.macroevolution.net/polyploid.html
- Some examples of speciation by the process of polyploidy (genome duplication).


http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/07/110705211022.htm
- Example of a ring species, in which breeding, and therefore gene flow, is initially possible between adjacent populations, but impossible when the populations again meet after spreading around a large geographic barrier.


http://mbe.oxfordjournals.org/content/23/8/1465.long
- Scientific article on a gene duplication event followed by mutation, responsible for evolution of altered mode of digestion in leaf-eating colobine monkeys.


"What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters", by Donald Prothero
A really good book on evolution and the fossil record written by a prominent paleontologist, loaded with well-illustrated examples of many of the evolutionary series I mentioned near the end of the show (radiolarians, foraminifera, fish-to-tetrapods, evolutionary radiation of synapsids [often called mammal-like reptiles], land-dwelling hoofed mammals-to-whales, etc).

Saturday, August 18, 2012

Mars Hill Moments - Does Evidence have a place?

Broadcast: 8/17/2012

When you preach the Gospel, do you use evidence to confirm the message? We'll talk about that on this edition of Mars Hill Moments

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Friday, August 10, 2012

Mars Hill Moments - How Long O' Lord

Broadcast: 8/9/2012

We have begun a companion project to Mars Hill Radio called Mars Hill Moments.  This is a companion show where we discuss various topics that come up during my interviews with non-Christians. 

This episode discusses the issue of how long a Christian should witness to a non-Christian. Let me know if you like it. I hope to do this on a more regular basis since it's difficult to find non-Christians that want to have a debate/discussion.  

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