Corvette Museum

My life is now (almost) officially complete. I have seen nearly every single model of Corvette in existence. I'm one of those people who stops thinking, moving and sometimes breathing when they see a sports car. I want everyone else around me to share my enthusiasm as well. Say a Corvette passes by, I use what I call P.O.R.S.C.H.E (Pause. Observe. Run. Shout, "Corvette!!", and Hop Enthusiastically).

So as you can imagine, a place like the Corvette Museum is about as close to heaven as you get.

The first thing we realized when we arrived was that we forgot the camera. So we had to buy a disposable camera. So, if the pictures are a little fuzzy, that's the reason. The next thing we saw was this concept Corvette that looks like Speed Racer.

Inside the main lobby was a Corvette that you could sit in.

After seeing those cars, we entered the Museum itself.

The Corvette Museum holds some of the most rare, old, and overall cool Corvettes in the world.

There is a very large section of the museum dedicated to the history and improvements on the Corvette since it's release in 1953. There were many trivia machines spread out through the museum to help you learn (we missed nearly all of them. I'm not THAT much of a fan.)

After we examined all the history of the cars, we looked at the gallery of Corvettes. They had every kind of Corvette through the years, also the most popular. This also included the pace cars from the Indianapolis 500.

Past that, came the non-stock cars. These cars had been improved by their previous owners before being donated to the museum.
Then, unfortuantely, the tour was over. We had to leave. I wept. Unfortunately, they weren't giving away free samples either. There was a way to enter for a chance to win a Corvette (for just $200). Hmm....

A Case for Creation

Evolution: the idea that all life has come about through descent with modification from a single-celled common ancestor over billions of years. Creation: the idea that the world and everything in it was created by an intelligent designer in 6 days, not billions of years. These two ideas are the most-believed throughout the world. Though only one is being accepted right now. The theory of evolution. This theory is taught everywhere. Museums, schools, National Parks, even tv and movies. According to the mass media and a large group of studied experts, there are absolutely no problems with this theory, and that it is the only correct explanation for how life began. If you question their theory, then you are a misinformed, delusional religious fanatic and in violation of the Separation of Church and State. There are many problems with this theory, however. Hopefully this post will shed a little light on the subject. We will examine a few of the problems with the concept of evolution later in the post, but for right now what I'm going to do is try to fix some of the potential problems that evolutionists have raised against Creation.





The first potential "problem" is that evolutionists say that they can date rocks back to billions of years ago. How do they do this? Through a supposedly infallible process called carbon dating. The only problem with carbon dating is that the conductors make a ton of assumptions when they conduct it. When they first start the carbon dating, their assumptions effect the outcome. So, for example, if they believe the earth is 3 billion years old, they are going to get an estimate relative to that assumption. For example, there was a recent test conducted on rocks that had been formed during the Mt. St. Helens eruption. We know how old those rocks are, since that event was fairly recent (1980). The conductors were able to calculate them through carbon dating based on current assumptions to be over 100,000 years old. So carbon dating is not the most effective method of dating.




Another problem is the fact that helium has been found in rocks dated to be millions of years old. What does this mean? That they cannot possibly be that old. Helium is constantly leaking out of rocks. So, that means that the helium would have been gone within thousands of years of when it was formed. Billions of years=no helium.





A common problem often referred to by evolutionists is the Grand Canyon. Slow erosion must have taken millions and millions of years to erode all that rock. My answer is, not really. Again referring to the Mt. St. Helens eruption, canyons were formed hundreds of feet deep in days. Imagine, if a cataclysmic event (such as, say, a global flood like that described in the Bible) could have carved those canyons? If the eruption of Mt. St. Helens carved canyons only 40 times smaller than the Grand Canyon in days, think of what a major event like a global Flood could have done in a year!





The argument most would raise against this is that there is no evidence that such an event ever occurred. Actually, the evidence is everywhere. How else do you explain fish remains found atop mountains a mile above sea level? Or the excessive amounts of coal found all around the world caused by uprooted and waterlogged trees buried quickly by sediment? Or explain resulting stories from every culture in the world of a global flood (the epic of Gilgamesh, Chinese legends, even Native American stories)!





You might say, "Scientists have found all kinds of missing links between man and ape!" No, not really. Consider all the fraudulent ape-men that have arisen in the past. Nebraska man turned out to be a wild pig, Neanderthal Man was a rather large human. Now, it seems, we have Lucy. Now I'm not an expert on ape/human anatomy, but I do know that apes have a sloped face, no nose bones, and you can't see the orbits of their eyes from the side. Humans have a relatively flat-sloped face, have nose bones, and you can see the orbits of their eyes from the side. Look at this picture of Lucy and compare to a human skull and tell me if she's an ape or human.

To add further to the problems with Lucy, the knee joint that evolutionists used to prove Lucy walked upright was found 2 miles away and further down in the ground then the rest of the bones. Either Lucy was the first discovery of nitroglycerin or the whole thing is a hoax.

Now that we have hopefully addressed some of the issues with Creation, let's move on to confront some unspoken issues with evolution.


The magnetic field surrounding earth is slowly decaying. This continuous decay would have made the earth unlivable only 1.5 million years ago! So the earth cannot have formed billions of years ago, because we're still alive today.





Comets. Comets deteriorate every time they pass the sun. Which means that there would be no more comets today, because they would have all evaporated millions of years ago. Since there are still relatively large comets out there, evolutionists have to assume that comets form spontaneously. Spontaneous formation has never been observed, however. Neither, consequently, has star formation. Blue stars cannot last millions of years. Since there are still several known blue stars out there, and stars have never been observed forming, we can safely assume they have been there since the dawn of creation. That means the universe was not made millions of years ago. Hmm......





Another problem would be salt in the ocean. Every year, there is more salt going into the ocean than is going out. Which mean that if the earth is billions of years old, we would practically be able to walk across the Atlantic because it would be pure salt.





There is an inconsistency in the arms of spiral galaxies. If they are billions of years old, they should have no arms. The fact is, the arms spin slower than the core of the galaxy. Which would result that the arms would be twisted beyond recognition if the universe were as old as evolutionists state. Yet all the known spiral galaxies are still in spiral form.





The moon is slowly drifting away from Earth. Based on this effect, the moon would have been closer to the earth in the past. Not a problem if the earth is only about 6000 years old, because that would mean the moon has only moved about 800 feet. Most evolutionists profess the moon to be over 4 billion years old. However, just over a billion years ago, the moon would have had to be touching the earth!





You might ask why I am bringing up points on the age of the earth. Without age, evolution does not work. Evolution has to be a slow, progressive process involving millions of years. Thus, if there are no millions of years, evolution does not work.

Besides all this is the fact that you cannot have a partial organism. You cannot simply go from simple to complex, even with a supposed millions and billions of years. You can't have a fully functioning heart and no lungs. You can't have a fully functional brain without a heart. You have to start with a complete, fully functional human. Consider this analogy, a tornado sweeps through a city. The vortex travels through until it reaches the city dump. The vortex then hovers over the dump for months and months. Finally, the tornado dissipates, leaving behind a fully functional supercomputer (with it's own Facebook account). Would you believe this story? Absolutely not. However, you would be willing to believe that a random series of extremely fortunate events formed a living organism, which is more complex then even the most advanced supercomputer.



As Christians, we cannot edit the Bible to say that maybe God created the earth through evolution. The Bible says that God created the earth in six days-literal days. If He had created the earth over millions of years, death and sin would have existed in the world long before the Curse. No animal has been found who lived over a million years. This means they would have died even before Adam and Eve ate the Fruit. If we do not take the Bible for it's literal word, why should we believe it when it says Jesus came to earth and died for our sins? We should never try to fix scripture, despite the proclaimed "truths" of our culture! As for the argument of Religion vs. Science, the definition of religion is: Something someone follows devoutly, with faith. I think that believing that all life randomly generated from nothing with no intelligent movement or purpose requires just as much faith, if not more, then the converse. Just because we don't believe the theory of evolution doesn't mean we have to ignore science (which was hopefully demonstrated in this post).

If you want to learn more about the science of the Bible, you should visit some of these links from AnswersinGenesis.com.
http://www.answersingenesis.org/get-answers/features/young-earth-evidence/?utm_source=aighomepage&utm_medium=bigbanner&utm_content=Six_Evidences_of_a_Young_Earth&utm_campaign=MonthlyCampaign
http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/nab2/humans-evolve-apelike-creatures
http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/nab/does-c14-disprove-the-bible


Coragon, signing off once again.

Oil Spill

As you all probably know, a BP oil rig recently spilled tons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. And, lo and behold, the Obama administration and environmentalists are already trashing off-shore drilling. The oil spill is tragic, yes, but why aren't they letting the fishermen and other people do something? Why are they just sitting on the beach and not doing anything? The only people who have taken any action are the people at BP. What can the environmentalists and the Government (one and the same) stand to gain from this? Dead fish. Dolphins. All kinds of dead plants and other marine life. One of the main campaigns of environmentalists is ending offshore drilling. So, if they play this up to be a huge catastrophe, they can use it as a major weapon to outlaw offshore drilling. Or, maybe not all offshore drilling, but destroy BP (a non-governmental company).

That statement is not as controversial as you might think. Why else would they be making all these halfhearted efforts to stop the spill. If the government really wanted to stop the spill, believe me, they would. What would be a really controversial statement would be saying that the government created the incident. I guarantee that if it was a Republican administration, that's exactly what everyone would be saying. "BUSH DID IT!!!"

Speaking of finger pointing, Obama recently spoke (this guy doesn't know when to be quiet, does he?) about how BP should not be pointing fingers at him for anything. He then turned around and proceeded to blame Bush for any bad thing that's ever happened during his term in office. That's hypocrisy at its highest level.

Speaking of hypocrisy, I'm sure every one of you has heard of Michelle Obama's anti-obesity campaign. First off, I don't call a couple of appearances on Sesame Street a campaign. Secondly, Sesame Street covers a whole 6% of kids. If I was four-years old and watching Sesame Street, I would be saying, "Who are you and why are you lecturing me? Bring out the cookie monster." While she is doing all that, however, Obama is eating burgers left and right. I can see it now, Obama sitting in the Oval Office eating and Michelle bursting in wielding a bottle of hairspray and screeching, "PUT DOWN THE BIG MAC!"

Also, where did the recent rise of environmentalism come from? Back a hundred or even fifty years ago, you could go out, shoot a cow, cook a burger and eat it and not be condemned by the media. But now, it seems, the life of a small, non-significant little fish is more important than the lives of hundreds of farmers out in California. When you put these things in the right perspective, they seem rather ridiculous to me. For example, the fact that the majority of people who are so worried about the environment fly their private jets to the conference in Copenhagen (where, by the way, they couldn't land because of the snowstorms). Now, let's see, wouldn't you say that flying a private jet to get somewhere creates a significantly bigger carbon footprint than us driving in our trucks to get somewhere. If they really wanted to be environmentally friendly, they could drive a lawn mower (sorry, I meant Smart Car) everywhere they go. But do they do that? The unsurprising answer is no. So why should they expect us to do something that they won't?

I think that we do need to keep our planet clean. God gave us dominion over the earth, and made us stewards over his creation. Taking it to this level, however, is simply ridiculous.

Coragon, over and out.

PandeMOMium

My mom is slightly paranoid at times. Of course, I suppose all moms are. Just yesterday we were in Philadelphia and we were trying to get into a parking garage. We were worried that we wouldn't fit (Go figure. Being a slightly average sized tank it's hard to fit in anywhere.) Then, suddenly, some nice guy came up and said, "I think you've got about a foot left." Mom was opening her door to look at the roof and when she saw the guy she let out a blood-curdling scream. "AAAAAAHHHH!!! You scared me to death!" I really felt for the guy. He must have thought he was really scary-looking.





Along those lines, sometimes I go to bed after mom has gone to sleep. Now, Mom doesn't like me going to bed without telling her goodnight. So I walk into the bedroom and try to wake her up. I try to be quiet. That doesn't work. Ever. She does not wake up to the sound of any voice. Here's my dilemma. If I tap her on the shoulder or something, she nearly has a heart attack. If I raise my voice, however, she nearly jumps out of the bed to grab a fire extinguisher. So what do I do? One poison or the other. So, I tap her on the shoulder. She gasps and wakes up, wide-eyed. "Oh, Cory, you scared me. Don't scare me like that!" *sigh*









Mom also seems to inflict fear on everyone else when we are in the car. Sometimes, as happens to everyone, somebody stops right in front of you. Now, panicking doesn't help anything. That's exactly what Mom does. "Oh, you're going to HIT HIM! BRAKE!" She then gasps loudly and grabs the armrests of the car tightly. After the crisis is averted, and everyone hearts are still pounding, she straightens up and immediately changes the subject. "Oh, look. What a pretty bird."She then proceeds to throw everyone into a panic by gasping again, "GASP!!! Look at that dogwood tree!" Dad of course slams on the brakes as soon as he hears the gasp, but then gets mad when he hears what she gasped about.

Maybe all moms are this way. Does every mom gasp when someone drops an empty paper bag on the way to the trash can?

New York City

Forget anything I ever said about L.A. being my favorite city. NYC has to be the best city ever. I mean, Hollywood is ok, but the rest of LA can't compare. Don't get me wrong, I still love LA. However, it simply can't compare to New York. Now, New York City isn't exactly the cleanest city in the world, but there are lot more things to do there. Besides that, it may not be as big as LA, but it is big enough for me.

First, we got on the tour bus to ride into the city (since we couldn't exactly take the trailer into NYC. We had to stay outside of the city and take a tour into it). The tour bus took us on a 75 minute drive into NYC. The first stop, Ellis Island. I thought it was very interesting to be able to see where so many immigrants came to start their new lives as American citizens. The museum had graphs of every kind about the immigration into America. What race, where they were from, height, gender, and just numbers in general. Unfortunately, we could not stay long, because we wanted to catch the next ferry to the Statue of Liberty. She really is a impressive monument. However, I have noticed that most statues are a lot uglier up close. For example, Lady Liberty's nose is slightly too big, and her arms look similar to the arms of a sturdy sailor (I guess holding that torch up for over a hundred years really works your arm muscles). We walked around the base and admired the architecture of the statue. The island also gave us a beautiful view of New York City from across the bay.After touring the island, we ate lunch (Great restaurant, by the way. Usually food is extremely overpriced at these kind of places, but this one was very reasonable.) After taking a look around at the statue we took ranger-led tour that explained the history of the island, the statue, and a little bit about other American history as well. Speaking of which, I'm going to do a poll of how many people know what the seven prongs on the Statue's Crown signify. Hopefully, some people will ANSWER IT *glares out at empty room*.

We then took the ferry back to where the tour bus was waiting to take us to Ground Zero, the site of 9/11. After touring the site of the towers, we went into the church where some of the rescue workers stayed while they worked. St. Paul's Church, where we stayed, also was one of only two buildings around the World Trade Center that had no damage from the blast. Not even a crack on one of the windows.

I will give you a little advice based on experiance. If you do what you're supposed to do in NYC, you will get run over. For example, waiting for the walk signal at the street corner. Apparently, New Yorkers don't wait for signals. They walk when they want to. That means anyone standing at the corner like a good boy is going to get run over. Don't look up at the sights, either, or at least wait until you are out of the way. Seemingly, New Yorkers also like to annoy tourists. "Oh, look. A tourist. Let's bump into him three times in a row."

After we left the church, we walked along the streets where the people ran away from the blast. We saw a memorial wall erected to the firefighters and policemen who died in the buildings. We also saw one of the T beams from the building in the shape of a cross that had been dedicated to remembering the victims of 9/11.

When 9/11 happened, I was in the living room of our house watching TV. Then, Mom ran in and turned on the news. I was too little to really comprehend what was going on, but the memory of that day has never gone away. The tour guide said that all New Yorkers are honored and delighted that for one day, no matter where you came from or where you were, everyone was in New York for one day. That everyone all over the world was with them, no matter the race, color, country of origin, or belief.


We met up with the bus again and it took us past Rockefeller Center and finally into Times Square. I did not want to leave. I loved Times Square. All of it. Broadway, and just the Square itself. The square feels very alive. We bought a hot dog and sat at a table in the middle of the square and just looked around. That was probably my favorite part. Just being able to look around without getting bumped. We then went into a restaurant and got some cheesecake (not New York style cheesecake, just New York cheesecake). The chocolate cheescake was delicious. The restuarant also provided a great veiw of the Square.

Then, unfortunately, we had to head home. Time was up on our grand adventure in New York. I was comforted by the notion that we might come back someday. I look forward to it. If you ever happen to be in the area, don't pass up the opportunity to go there. While you're there, be sure to get a hot dog. You can't say you went without doing so. Now I believe I can truly say "I <3>

That makes no sense whatsoever.

I find myself saying that phrase quite a lot. For one, there are infomercials. My favorite (meaning the one with which I spend the most time yelling at the TV) is the HD sunglasses. They are sunglasses which advertise to not only protect your eyes but somehow allow you to, quote, "See the world in HD!" Alright, first off, HD means that the definition resolution is at it's highest. ON A TV. You can't just put on sun glasses and see colors better. Your eyes already see the world in REAL definition. The whole point of High Definition is to make it look MORE like REAL definition. Definition doesn't get any more high than REAL.







Also, I heard a story on Fox News about some company thinking about putting chocolate in baby formula. And that quote, "Some parents are outraged." Number one, I notice that people get outraged about a lot of things nowadays. ("Someone forgot to flush. Some people are outraged.") I suppose that they have some reason to be outraged. Childhood obesity is a big problem in the U.S. However, I highly doubt that giving kids chocolate formula is going to get them hooked on chocolate for the rest of their lives ("Nobody move! This is a hold-up! Hand over all your chocolate Blizzards! NOW!"). Besides that, if you don't like the formula, DON'T BUY IT. There are plenty of other formulas to choose from, and this same company (enfagrow) has many other flavors that no one is quite "outraged" about. So, obesity is not going to be a problem. I didn't see anyone outraged when Nesquick came out with chocolate milk.

On another note, I am getting really sick of the Bachellor and the Bachellorette on ABC. I can't believe people actually watch it. I might understand if you watch it for one season, but if you are coming back for season 5,346, I have to question your taste in television. Honestly, it's the same plot over and over. A bunch of women compete to marry a random guy whom they have never met. Tears, people go home, Mr. Bachelor has trouble making up his mind. Enter 3-hour season finale. Then, the lucky winner drives off into the sunset with Sir Smoochesalot, and they live happily ever after. We assume such, as we don't hear from them again. Then, one of the rejects gets a season all to herself. Repeat process indefinitely until we have successfully driven the guy population of the world insane.

Where oh where did The Dick van Dike show go?

Lobster cooking

Right now I'm here in Maine. And I would not be surprised, I kid you not, I would not be a bit surprised if there was a lobster flavored baby formula up here. They have lobster everything. Lobster pizza, lobster ice cream (not kidding), and then just plain lobster. I have been fully educated on everything involving or having anything to do with lobster. I have been on a lobster fishing boat, cooked, butchered, and fully demolished and consumed a lobster. Now, cooking a lobster yourself is...well...an experience. Luckily, it is hard to pity a lobster, being a fully unfeeling and thoughtless creature. But...then there are the eyes. Those horrible little eyes. As long as you don't look at the eyes, eating a lobster can be quite fun. First, you have to boil them. For this you need a cooker (you don't actually have to have a genuine lobster cooker. A turkey cooker works as well. And you probably won't burn your house down. Probably.). Luckily, our campground supplied one free. Then, when the water starts to boil, you tie the lobsters up in a bag, and put them in the water. When the water starts to boil again, you cook them for 13 minutes.
Then, you are ready to eat. Personally, the claws are my favorite, but the whole lobster is good too. First, you twist off the claws. Then, to get the meat out, you simply pull down on the lower pincher. This open a hole which you can cut with a knife down the rest of the claw to expose the meat. Then, using a small fork, you can pull out the claw meat. The tail or the lobster, though, is considered the delicacy (now, I consider delicacy to be a relative term. You might say that in some parts of the world, snails are also considered a delicacy). First, you cut down the middle of the tail. Then, you twist the tail off the main body. Then, you tear off the sides and pull out the meat. You will now see green goo. This is a subject of debate. Some that are brave (or just plain odd) enough to try it think that it is good. I frankly don't care. I just wiped it off with a napkin and continued the demolishing of my lobster. Now comes the moment of truth (and no, this is not a Verizon commercial). Are you willing to tear the lobster open and in doing so break the head off? My answer was, heck yeah. Meat can be found in the legs and on the inside of the lobster's sides.
Now you've eaten pretty much every part that can be eaten on a lobster. Now the question is, who found out all this? Who was so desperate for food that they would dive down, find this creature that looks kind of disgusting (not to mention they can break your finger off) and decide, "Hey, that looks really good. I bet there is some meat on the inside of that bone breaking claw!"