No 'Oops!' In MY Genetic Code!

It seems like science fiction to suggest that if someone typed your name into a computer, misspelling your name, the computer would find it and correct it.

Yet the genetic code within each of your cells is an even more sophisticated information storage and transmission system. Not only does your genetic code store far more information in a microscopic space than our largest computers can, it has a built-in error correction system.

Scientists have found a number of key enzymes in the cell that have just one job – find and correct errors in the genetic code. Those errors can creep in because of radiation, chemicals or other reasons. These enzymes faithfully correct any errors, preventing mutations.

But these are the very ones scientists thought could cause evolution – before they discovered this process. One scientist who studied these enzymes said science has no explanation for how this process could have evolved naturally. Scientists also say they don't know how life could have continued without this genetic proofreading and correction.

Only our Creator could have been wise enough to design an information system that can correct errors within itself. Even we human beings have not figured out how to do this with our simplest computers. Asking us to believe that blind chance and natural law could have done it certainly strains the credibility of science!

Notes: Trends in Biochemical Science/Journal of Theoretical Biology/Creation Moments

2012 Christian Nature

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Beautiful Creation VIDEO!

How important is it for your children to see and appreciate the beauty of nature? I mean, even if they live in a concrete city, can you expose them to what God has created? Yes! As long as they have access to a computer, they can learn to love nature!


This video is breathtaking! Watch it yourself, or set it up for your older children to watch. It is a wonderful way to introduce your child to the beauty God created for us. No cartoons here!






As a result of possessing love for nature, your child will be calmer and concentrate better. That's just the beginning of nature's benefits!

2010-2012 Christian Nature

You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they were created and have their being. Revelation 4:11

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Kristy Interviews Jennifer Pharr Davis - Video

Jennifer Pharr Davis

I have met many people who have a passion for nature; but none can compare to the woman who set the record for the fastest hike of the ENTIRE Appalachian Trail. Jennifer Pharr Davis enjoyed every minute of the 2,180-mile trek from Maine to Georgia!

She saw 36 bears, moose, porcupines and just about every sunrise and sunset during her journey, which lasted exactly 46 days, 11 hours, and 20 minutes since she left Mount Katahdin in Maine on June 16.

Record-Holder, Jennifer

"Fastest is so relative," Davis said Tuesday after estimating she had slept about 30 of the past 48 hours. "My average was 3 mph. So what are you not going to see at 3 mph?"

She emerged from the woods with her husband by her side and walked to the granite slab on Springer Mountain in Georgia at the trail's southern end. There cheering for her were her parents and dozens of other family members and friends.

Since she carried less gear, her hike was quieter, allowing her to see more animals and to get more in sync with nature.

Davis also provided the boost she needed when she was ready to quit during the first days of the trip in Vermont after being chilled by a sleet storm in the White Mountains. He pointed out she was ahead of the record and would feel even worse if she quit.

"There's no way I could have done it without him," Davis said. "Not just the physical, logistical support, but his emotional support."

The Appalachian Trail winds its way through 14 states and gets close to 3 million visitors a year. About 1,500 of those people try to hike the entire trail in one trip, and about a quarter of them make it all the way, according to the Appalachian Trail Conservancy.

For many of the "thru hikers," the trail turns into a communal experience. But Davis' pace kept her chances at making new friends to a minimum. An average day had her up by 5 a.m. and asleep around 10 p.m. "I said good morning and good night to the sun every single day on the trail," she said.

But the solitude always made her appreciate nature's boundless beauty.

Here's Kristy Watts interviewing Jennifer






Now here is a woman who truly loves the Creation of God! Congratulations, Jennifer!

2011 Christian Nature

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New Tool Helps You Fight for Your Loved One

Portable EEG

What would you do if your loved one was inaccurately declared to be in a vegetative state, and you were encouraged to have your loved one euthanized? How could you dispute their claim?

A research team has recently found that 43% of diagnoses have been wrong! Families may now have a tool that will enable them to dispute what they believe is an inaccurate diagnosis that their loved one is in a "vegetative state" - a Portable EEG Machine.

Family members and friends of a loved one who is locked in a vegetative state (VS) and deemed by medical professionals to be awake but not aware now have recourse to a new brainwave-reading technology that may tell a story different from the doctor's diagnosis.

Researchers from the Brain and Mind Institute at The University of Western Ontario  unveiled a portable electroencephalography (EEG) machine that can simply and cost-effectively assess the consciousness of VS patients in their own bedroom.

Damian Cruse, lead writer for the research team, says that the new brainwave scanning technology is relatively cheap, portable, and widely available.

This means that we can now go out into the community and visit patients in their residential care homes or hospitals and provide a more accurate diagnosis than was previously possible," he said in a press release.

The team of researchers found that despite rigorous clinical assessment, up to 43% of VS patients have been misclassified.

Adrian Owen, one of the team's members who is a Canada Excellence Research Chair in Cognitive Neuroscience and Imaging at Western's Centre for Brain and Mind, has recently proved that a significant minority of "vegetative" patients are in fact consciously aware and, in some cases, can even communicate with the outside world using brain-imaging technologies.

It's astonishing," said Owen in a press release. "In some of these cases, patients who seemed to be entirely unresponsive to the outside world were able to signal that they were, in fact, conscious by changing their patterns of brain activity - sometimes hundreds of times."

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2012 Christian Nature 

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Copying The Great Designer

Human technology seems to be successful copying of designs we find in nature. Oh, don't get me wrong! I thank God for scientists who stick with it until they finally discover what The Great Engineer already knew; but then, again, man can't be expected to be smarter than God!

Science has long known that an object moving through water or air moves with the least resistance when the ratio of its length to diameter is four to one. This ratio is found in the fastest swimmers in the sea – like the tuna, dolphin and swordfish.

A Boeing 707, with a ratio of nine to one, experiences much more resistance than the larger, fatter 747, which has a ratio of six to one – much closer to the tuna and the dolphin.

Studies of the vision of the horseshoe crab, supposedly one of the earlier forms of life, have taught engineers how to produce a clearer, sharper television picture.

The United States Air Force copied a speed-sensing system from beetles to improve the ground speed indicators of their jets. The optics of a frog's eye showed them how to improve their radar.

The fly's multifaceted eye taught engineers how to design a lighting system that generates more light with less energy.

If, as we are continually told, evolution is a fact, why is it that human technology improves when we copy designs found in nature? If nature is really a giant trial-and-error experiment, we should not only find evidence of less-sophisticated designs in the distant past, but humans today should be able to improve on designs found in nature.

Humans are learning from, and copying, design solutions worked out by their Creator. The brilliant designs in our world are not the result of trial and error. Nope, they've been around a long time. They just haven't been 'discovered' yet!

2012 Christian Nature

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Music and Heart Disease

What is the number one killer in the United States? Heart disease! It is also the major cause of disability. And there are many different studies that speak to the healing of heart disease. But one stands out to me, a life-long musician.

In most of the findings, it was reported that listening to music can be a way of healing heart disease. This does not surprise me at all. Music is a vehicle that takes me anywhere I want to go. It is a magnificent stress-reducer! Got anxiety? Try music constructed according to the fibonacci numbers!

Joke Bradt, who works at the Arts and Quality of Life Research Center at Temple University in Philadelphia said that their finding suggests music listening may be beneficial for heart disease patients. But future studies are needed, because it also depends on the style and length of the music listened to. Music that has melody and has been composed with the fibonacci beat is extremely healing.

I've written much about music as a vehicle, as well as the fibonacci numbers. If you would like to learn more about God's gift of music, click on the links.
 
2012 Christian Nature

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