Linked through Twitter, I stumbled upon an article about a young 9 years old girl questioning the age of a moon rock, being taught by Creationists. To be honest, I never heard of Creationists before — here in Europe, we don’t get to hear about them (maybe they don’t even exist here, I dare to hope). Following the article’s mention of Ken Ham and the Answers In Genesis website, I looked for, and found it. Out of curiosity, I opened the first blog link on their website. It was “Dinosaurs and the Bible”.
Reading through the first few paragraphs, I was intrigued — the writer was not refusing to accept their existence. But the left hook strike came a few more paragraphs later, under the sub-headline “When did Dinosaurs live?”:
When Did Dinosaurs Live?
The story we have all heard from movies, television, newspapers, and most magazines and textbooks is that dinosaurs lived millions of years ago. According to evolutionists, the dinosaurs “ruled the Earth” for 140 million years, dying out about 65 million years ago. However, scientists do not dig up anything labeled with those ages. They only uncover dead dinosaurs (i.e., their bones), and their bones do not have labels attached telling how old they are. The idea of millions of years of evolution is just the evolutionists’ story about the past. No scientist was there to see the dinosaurs live through this supposed dinosaur age. In fact, there is no proof whatsoever that the world and its fossil layers are millions of years old. No scientist observed dinosaurs die. Scientists only find the bones in the here and now, and because many of them are evolutionists, they try to fit the story of the dinosaurs into their view.
That made me speechless. Not a single mention of the radiometric dating technique. We’ve been taught this in 9th grade in physics class, it’s not like it’s something secret, or even difficult to comprehend. Dear Ken Ham, the bones do have labels attached to them telling how old they are. The detailed description of what radiometric dating is can be found in the article linked first in this post.
I wanted to say that to him directly. Tell him that the bible is too, just a book, and he wasn’t there when Jesus supposedly lived and died. I wanted to e-mail him — yet he provides no public e-mail address. The feedback tool on their website requires my full name and address to leave them a message. I’m speechless. All I could do is write this up.
Announcing something for artists, commissions involved
Hey guys, I’m here to announce something nifty. I’m working on a site called Artists&Clients, which is a platform/marketplace for artists who seek to be hired for a commission and people who need an artist to do a commission. Basically, the idea came out of the common way of processing commissions and looking for artists being terrible; I went and thought of a way to make it convenient for both sides.
I researched before I started planning it out, I talked to a bunch of different people. I already had people asking me whether this is “like Behance Network”, and I already proved that no, it isn’t. In fact, it’s not a personal shop or portfolio. It’s a directory of services. As an artist, setting up slots (custom-priced, different types of work you offer) is a breeze; as a client, browsing and requesting is easy; and for both, paying and getting payed is very straight-forward.
The platform is in heavy development. Meanwhile, a teaser page is up — where you can sign up to be notified when the site launches. I strongly suggest and ask you to sign up, as while I have proved through my numerous previous webapps that your e-mail address is safe with me, each subscribe gives me the motivation in from of a warm and fuzzy feeling inside.
Remember: http://artistsnclients.com is the address (Go there)
I will answer all your questions here or via e-mail at hello@artistsnclients.com. I hope that you as my audience trust me on making great things on the Internet, and since this one is very dependent on people, I would greatly appreciate any attention, feedback, kind words and love
The mascot of Artists&Clients was kindly provided by the artist Jin0410. The robot is on Twitter and Facebook too. (Yes, already. What if somebody would snatch the name away?)