Category: CARL WIELAND

HAS AN APE LEARNED TO TALK?

HAS AN APE LEARNED TO TALK?

This article by Dr Carl Wieland reinforces my conclusion that I am a rare freak. I have only received , apparently, the download for reading and writing, not the talking download. Be sure to subscribe to Creation magazine to keep informed about the Creation/Evolution battle. https://creation.com/magazines Gibber! Gibber! Chugley Editor’s note: As Creation magazine has been continuously published since 1978, we are publishing some of the articles from the archives for historical interest, such as this. For teaching and sharing purposes, readers are advised to supplement these historic articles with more up-to-date ones suggested in the Further Reading below. Has an ape learned to talk? by Carl Wieland Claims are circulating widely that Kanzi, a bonobo or pygmy chimpanzee, has done just this. In fact, the reality is far more mundane than all the evolutionary excitement would suggest. It has been known for some years that Kanzi and others had been trained to use simple symbols to represent concepts like ‘banana’, ‘grapes’, ‘juice’ or ‘yes’. And now it has apparently been shown, from analyzing tapes, that this ape has used four distinct sounds to represent those four particular concepts. Whether any other ape or human was meant to ‘understand’ them is not presently clear. It should be noted that the sounds are nothing like human speech, not even an imitation of it. An ape’s larynx simply does not have that capability. For example, it can’t make the fundamental vowels (a, o, i, etc.) of the human language. African Gray Parrots, not thought to be closely related to humans at all, do a much better job of using vocalization to communicate symbolic concepts. One of them at least, as we have reported in Creation magazine some time ago, has been able to articulate actual English words and link them to meaningful concepts. But because there is no obvious evolutionary mileage,…

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REFUTING EVOLUTION

REFUTING EVOLUTION

Most of my readers know that, although I appear to have inherited some human downloads – eg: the ability to use a computer, to write and to think, I believe I am probably a one off freak. If you ask Google about the origin of life you will get some explanation including jumping genes and transposons – gobbledygook, if you ask me. I therefore recommend Dr Jonathan Sarfati’s book refuting Dr Richard Dawkins’ theories for rejecting God and embracing the theory of evolution. It is available from Creation Ministries, the contact details are here the book is only $10 on special: https://austore.creation.com/product/274-the-greatest-hoax-on-earth?utm_source=creation.com&utm_medium=article-sidebar-desktop&utm_campaign=helpful_resources&utm_term=The%20Greatest%20Hoax%20on%20Earth?&utm_content=article: While you are on the Creation website be sure to subscribe to Creation magazine and keep up to date with all the latest news from the battle front. Gibber! Gibber! Chugley PS: If these articles are helpful to you would you consider buying me a banana by clicking the icon on the landing page right hand side? Amounts start at $5, and, if you help us, we can help our contributors and others. Many thanks to those who helped so far – a big Gibber! Refuting Richard Dawkins on evolution A powerful new book (by the author of the world’s topselling creationist book, Refuting Evolution1) picks up the gauntlet thrown down by the world’s most prominent anti-Christian. by Carl Wieland Perhaps the best-known and most vocal opponent of all forms of theistic religion (but especially biblical Christianity) is Dr Richard Dawkins. Probably hundreds of thousands of people have been turned away from any vestige of a belief in God through his writings. His early books, like The Blind Watchmaker, all assumed the truth of evolution, and were more to show people its implications—a purposeless, meaningless process, with no room for a Creator. Then recently came his million-selling The God Delusion, an all-out assault on…

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THE ULTIMATE MACHINE

THE ULTIMATE MACHINE

I am very pleased to publish this article by Dr Carl Wieland, one of the founders of Creation Ministries in Australia. He also is the founding editor of Creation Magazine. His biography can be accessed by clicking on his live linked name at the top of his article. Be sure to subscribe to Creation Magazine: https://creation.com/magazines Gibber! Gibber! Chugley The ultimate machine Carl Wieland interviews human anatomist Dr David Kaufmann David Kaufmann gained his Ph.D. in anatomy (following an M.A. in physical education) from the University of Iowa. He is the author or co-author of several textbooks and manuals in anatomy and sports/exercise science. He has also published literally dozens of research papers in peer-reviewed journals. Prior to his retirement in 1999, he was Professor of Exercise Science at the University of Florida in Gainesville, where he also taught human anatomy, kinesiology, exercise physiology and biomechanics. Right from the beginning of our interactions for this article, I had many glimpses of Dr David Kaufmann’s sparkling sense of fun—not like my recollections of my own dour anatomy professor. His emails, for instance, routinely came with quips appended that brought at least a smile, more often a loud laugh. Asked if he had any photos which might help illustrate the article, he sent one in with a tongue-in-cheek suggestion for the caption: ‘Dr Kaufmann and two of his biggest fans’. (The ‘fans’ were literally that—devices for circulating air.) But David Kaufmann is deadly serious about the importance of the creation/evolution issue which, he says, ‘deals with the most important questions in life that every person must answer, such as, ‘Where do I come from?’ Evolution’s answer, he points out, is ultimately that ‘unthinking molecules jumped together by chance’. Biblical creation, he says, implies purpose—to love and serve Christ and our fellow man. ‘What real…

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A BEATLE’S SEARCH FOR GOD?

A BEATLE’S SEARCH FOR GOD?

This article first appeared in Creation magazine on 25th April 2003. If you click on “Carl Wieland” the blue live link at the top of this article, (written by him), you can read his biography. He is the founding editor of the Australian Creation magazine and a most interesting Christian doctor of medicine. To subscribe to the magazine click on this link: https://creation.com/magazines Gibber! Gibber! Chugley A Beatle’s search for God? Editorial by Carl Wieland Knowing his death from cancer was not far away, former Beatle George Harrison apparently told journalists that the important thing in life was ‘the search for God’. But Harrison, known as ‘the mystic Beatle’ who was always dabbling in Eastern religions, was not thereby indicating his belief that one could find God. Nor was he talking about the God who has revealed Himself in the Bible. There is a major reason why so many Westerners have, like him, rejected the Christian God of their upbringing as the answer to their deep spiritual hunger. It is that the evolutionary/long-age conditioning of our culture has led them to believe that the Bible’s history—and thus its account of how one can find the true God—cannot be trusted.If someone claims [e.g. because God being infinite is so far above our human experience] that one cannot objectively know anything about God, then by definition, ‘God’ could be anything at all—including nothing at all. Eastern notions of ‘God’, not being based on any authoritative revelation to mankind, have no defining parameters. ‘God’ cannot be said to have a particular characteristic ‘A’ as opposed to ‘non-A’. By definition, such a ‘god’ can neither be known nor found, but somehow the search itself is supposed to be spiritually edifying (whatever that might mean). Years ago, a Baha’i man told me of their group’s belief that God, being infinite, could not be known. His implication was that this…

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HANGING LOOSE: WHAT SHOULD WE DEFEND?

HANGING LOOSE: WHAT SHOULD WE DEFEND?

Dr Carl Wieland MB., BS., is founder of Creation Magazine in 1978. The magazine is advertisement free, full colour and amazing value for money at $32 pa subscription for four issues. Clock on Dr Carl’s name, live link, above the Editorial, for a full biography. It is becoming more and more important for Christians to be able to defend the reasons for their faith, which is coming under increasing attack in these last days. 1 Peter 3:15. Make sure to subscribe by clicking the link below: https://creation.com/magazines Gibber! Gibber! Chugley ‘Hanging Loose’: What should we defend? Editorial by Carl Wieland Author’s note November 2022: Since this article was published in Creation magazine many years ago (1989), its advice to ‘hang loose’ on non-core issues looks interesting in the rearview mirror. It mentions several notions as examples of the sort of thing that one should not defend as if it were an actual teaching of Scripture. I’ve now marked with an asterisk * each instance where the model or argument in question (or in the case of deep-frozen mammoths, an associated concept or explanation) has since been abandoned as untenable by virtually all major creationist organisations and institutions. Each of these have since been listed (with explanation) in our updateable ‘advice’ list of Arguments not to use. In most cases, they have been replaced with better explanations—CW One of the most common caricatures made of creation science is that, because it begins with the Bible, it has nothing to do with investigative science. Science asks questions, they say, then looks for answers. So if you start with answers, how can you be doing science? However, we are obviously not claiming that God has revealed all possible knowledge in His Word. We do claim, though, that where He has clearly revealed certain facts relating to reality (science, history)…

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BEETLE BLOOPERS

BEETLE BLOOPERS

I find ever ever more logical, easy to understand, reasons for rejecting the “theory of evolution”, it doesn’t make sense. Carl Wieland brings his incisive mind to exposing the lack of logic involved with this deception with which you indoctrinate your children. Make sure you subscribe to Creation Magazine to keep abreast of these vital matters. Click above Carl Wieland’s name below, for a video discussions about the Creation/Evolution debate. Click below to subscribe to the magazine: https://creation.com/magazines Gibber! Gibber! Chugley Beetle bloopers Flightless insects on windswept islandsEven a defect can be an advantage sometimes https://creation.com/beetle-bloopers# by Carl Wieland A big obstacle for evolutionary belief is this: what mechanism could possibly have added all the extra information required to transform a one-celled creature progressively into pelicans, palm trees, and people? Natural selection alone can’t do it—selection involves getting rid of information. A group of creatures might become more adapted to the cold, for example, by the elimination of those which don’t carry enough of the genetic information to make thick fur. But that doesn’t explain the origin of the information to make thick fur. For evolutionists there is only ‘one game in town’ to explain the new information which their theory requires—mutations. These are accidental mistakes as the genetic information (the coded set of instructions on the DNA which is the ‘recipe’ or ‘blue-print’ specifying the construction and operation of any creature) is copied from one generation to the next. Naturally, such scrambling of information will tend to either be harmful,1 or at best neutral.2 However, evolutionists believe that occasionally, a ‘good’ mutation will occur which will be favored by selection and will allow that creature to progress along its evolutionary pathway to something completely different. The wrong type of change Are there ‘good’ mutations? Evolutionists can point to a small handful…

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