Date: 2009/09/26 – 2009/09/26
Time: 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Venue: NRC Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory 717 White Lake Road Penticton, BC
Several of us took the morning down at the Observatory, checking out the equipment and listening to lectures by the scientists who work there. Good geeky fun.
Categories: Astronomy · Astrophysics · Events · Radio telescopes · Universe
This Friday night lecture is part of the UBC-O “Dean’s Series.” Of all the ones offered this autumn, this seemed perhaps of the most interest to our group. For one thing, it would certainly provoke thoughtful prayer for our community.
| Oct. 23 | Dr. Marvin Frank, Dean, Graduate Studies |
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Adolescence and Substance Abuse – Why Prevention Fails
Despite the best of intentions, prevention programs fail to protect many of our youth from the dangerous path ahead of them. In this talk I will review some of the recent findings that explain why so many miss the point. The answer lies in individual differences in personality, social context, current activities, and cognitive capacity. The prevention approach that might work for one person would not work for another. Individual differences in risk require targeted messages. Classic universal prevention approaches inundate youth with too many messages many of which are not relevant and some of which are counterproductive. Fortunately, new web technologies will allow us to ask, assess, and advise on an individual basis. |
Categories: Events · Medicine · Postmodernism
New Life Church is hosting a series of seven lectures this winter. Our group has no affiliation with them. However, for the month of February, it might make a nice alternative (since our usual Wednesdays are cancelled this month).
The fifth lecture (Feb 9th) will be:
Increases in functional complexity of organisms needed for the theory of
evolution to be true is shown to violate the Second Law of Thermodynamics.
The concept of “irreducible complexity” is examined in detail with
examples from structures in unicellular organisms. Incredible design
features from various animals are presented to illustrate the necessity
for an intelligent designer.
Address:
New Life Church
“The Fridge” (Outside access on West side of building)
2041 Harvey Avenue
Kelowna, B.C.
No charge for admission. (Opportunity will be made for a donation.)
For more information contact Greg at 250-868-0532 or email cfmin@telus.net
January 7th is in the middle of our church’s ‘Week of Prayer.’ The group will not be meeting that week.
Please go to the church around 6:30 pm for a prayer time.
Categories: Events
SCIENTIFIC CASE FOR INTELLIGENT DESIGN. Lecture by Frank Sherwin,
science editor at the Institute for Creation Research (www.icr.org).
This lecture will discuss the issues raised in the recent documentary film, Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed (www.expelledthemovie.com)
Date: Friday, Aug. 29
Place: New Life Church, 2041 Harvey Ave, “Oak Room”.
Time: 7 p.m.
Suggested donation: $5.00
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Scientific discoveries continue to erode Darwinism, says zoologist
From August 24- 31 Frank Sherwin, Science Editor at the Institute for Creation Research (Dallas, Texas), will be lecturing in four Okanagan communities. He is the author of “The Ocean Book” (2004) and co-author
of “The Human Body: An Intelligent Design” (2001).
Sherwin has a B.A. in Biology from Western State College in Colorado (1978 ) and an M.A. in Zoology from the University of Northern Colorado (1985). He discovered a new species of parasite, a nematode of the family Acuariidae, and published his research in the Journal of Parasitology with the late Dr. G. D. Schmidt. Before his appointment to the Institute for Creation Research (www.icr.org) Sherwin taught Human Physiology & Anatomy, Medical Microbiology, Parasitology, General Biology I & II and Cell Biology for 9 years at Pensacola Christian College. He is a member of the American Society of Parasitologists and the Helminthological Society of Washington.
Sherwin says one of the more spectacular discoveries that has done much to dispel the myth of dinosaurs living many millions of years ago is the unearthing of soft dinosaur tissue by Mary H. Schweitzer of North
Carolina State University; Schweitzer discovered flexible blood vessels inside the fossilized thighbone of a “68-70 million year old” Tyrannosaurus rex in eastern Montana. (Science, vol. 307, no. 5717, pp. 1952-1955, 25 March 2005.) Sherwin asks, “How could dinosaur tissue remain soft for 70 million years?”
Sherwin writes in his July 2008 article, “Tiny Bacteria’s Big Challenge to Darwin” (Acts & Facts magazine): “Secular scientists have no credible idea how the DNA molecule may have evolved from non-life–especially without the aid of proteins (which must be coded by DNA) or the critical DNA repair system.”
Web articles by Sherwin include:
“The Devastating Issue of Dinosaur Tissue” (www.icr.org/article/2033/), “Stalling over Transitional Forms”
(www.icr.org/article/3148/), “Scientific Discoveries Continue to Erode Darwinism” (www.icr.org/article/3191/), and “Optimism in Evolution?” (www.icr.org/article/4031/)
Summerland: On Saturday, Aug. 30 he will be giving two lectures at
Summerland Pentecostal Church (9918 Julia Street): “Dinosaurs and the
Flood” (9:30 a.m.) and “Wonders of the Human Body” (11:00 a.m.) which
will discuss the body’s 11 interacting systems.
Evening lectures by Frank Sherwin at the Faith Mission Centre (4690
Hoath Road, Falkland, BC.)
7:00 p.m. $5.00 per person per lecture.
Sunday, August 24: Scientific Evidence for Creation/Design in Nature
Monday, August 25: Wonders of the Human Body
Tuesday, August 26: Evolution is Against the Law
Wednesday, August 27: Mount St. Helens
Thursday, August 28: The Mighty, Wonderful Oceans
The tour is being sponsored by the Creation Science Association of British Columbia (www.creationbc.org)
Categories: Debate · Design · Earth's Age · Events
The movie on Intelligent Design, ‘Expelled‘ will be playing in Kelowna this week. If the group agrees, I think we should have a field trip on Wednesday! Showtime 7 pm, at the Grand10.
http://expelledthemovie.com/home.php
Slight change from our previous plan, but it’s still an ID movie!
Categories: Biochemistry · Complexity · Debate · Design · Events · Evolution · Movie Night
the ubc okanagan Distinguished SPEAKER SERIES
John Acorn, TV’s The Nature Nut, author, and instructor of wildlife biodiversity and ecology at the University of Alberta, on November 27, 2007. In his evening lecture, Acorn looks at the recent discovery of feathered dinosaurs, and other connections between the first birds and early two-legged meat eating theropods.
Acorn will also speak to high school biology students at UBC Okanagan in the afternoon of Nov. 27, in a presentation on the impact of invasive species on ecosystems.
Date: November 27, 2007
Time: 7 p.m.
Location: Rotary Centre for the Arts — 421 Cawston Ave, Kelowna, BC (aka Mary Irwin Theatre)
~ Should be MOST invigorating for discussion, don’t you think ??? ~
Pre-reading suggestions linked below. Please choose ONE and read it thoroughly so you can use it for discussion post-lecture. One copy of each will be available in my box at KCC. TAKE one article to read (that way everybody gets something different).
Microscopic Bone Evidence Supports Dinosaur-Bird Evolution Link
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/08/000810071719.htm
Bird evolution?
http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/re1/chapter4.asp
Did birds really evolve from dinosaurs?
http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/faq/dinosaurs.asp#birds
Demise of the “Birds are Dinosaurs” Theory
http://www.godandscience.org/evolution/dinobird.html
Critical book review:Mistaken Extinction. Dinosaur Evolution and the Origin of Birds, The
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3793/is_199904/ai_n8844787
Dinosaurs vs. Birds: The Fossils Don’t Lie
http://www.icr.org/article/2902/
Bird Evolution: The Evidence (2007 article)
http://www.reasons.org/chapters/seattle/newsletters/200709/200709.pdf
Categories: Design · Dinosaurs · Events · Evolution · Physiology · Speciation
Anybody want to go to Naramata Aug 27?? Might be a cool outing if anyone’s not too worried about work the next morning.
I think we will attend this lecture and therefore cancel our regularly scheduled meeting on that Wednesday (Aug 29th). The giraffes reading will hold over into September, instead.
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August 12, 2007 / 7:30 am
A guest speaker will be in the South Okanagan later this month to talk about stars with interested residents.
Doctor Edward Churchwell of the University of Wisconsin, will be in Naramata on August 27 to host a lecture on the Milky Way.
New images from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope will be shown.
After Dr. Churchwell, Penticton’s own Dr. Ken Tapping, well known astronomer from the White Lake Observatory, will give details of the eclipse of the Moon that will be visible from the Okanagan in the early hours of the next morning.
The lecture takes place at the Columbia Hall in the Naramata Centre and runs from 7:30 until 9 p.m. This is a free public event.
Seems interesting. If we all showed up, they’d no doubt be surprised 
A lecture on BeThinking about the origins of the Universe is here (audio or text available):
Beyond the Big Bang by W.L. Craig http://www.bethinking.org/resource.php?ID=51
Also one by Hugh Ross on Astrophysics, too. http://www.bethinking.org/resource.php?ID=276&TopicID=2&CategoryID=1
Either one would be a good bit of reading before the 27th.
Categories: Astrophysics · Design · Events · Radio telescopes · Universe
