Biological Essentialism and Young Planets, Act Blue, Redistricting in Virginia and How Social Media Pushes Porn Addiction

-- Biological Essentialism & Young Planets –

What is Biological Essentialism?  Cats are cats, bats are bats and apes and people do not have a common ancestor.  Horses, hydras and humans are examples of Essential Types of Life (ETL's).  Bio-essentialism is basically Aristotle's Biology: 

www.barnesandnoble.com/w/biological-essentialism-jay-hall/1140135320

Bio-essentialism would hold that trilobites and giraffes lived at the same time.  So, the majority of the rock record testifies to a single global cataclysm.  If catastrophism is the right approach to interpreting the rock record and there never was an "Age of Dinos" since all Essential Types of Life (ETL's) began at the start, then our lovely planet must be much much younger than mainstream science allows.  Let's all "Make Earth Young Again" (#MEYA)!

 

In the March 2021 issue of Microscopy Today, we learn of the discovery of nerve fragments from a Triceratops collected from the Hell Creek Formation in Montana.   How could these delicate nerve fibers remain intact after 66M years?  Maybe our home planet is young after all.  From dinosaurs, let's turn to pandas who live a dog's life.  They're loners, have high infant death rates, reach maturity slowly and the females are only receptive during a narrow time window.  John Gittleman, in a paper "Are the Pandas Successful Specialists or Evolutionary Failures?," dropped the kraken on the pandas' woes:

 

Both panda species [giant and red] are also susceptible to fatal infection by canine distemper virus and various bacteria and ecto-parasites.  These problems may be due to low levels of dietary protein and other nutrients potentially limiting function of the immune system or to small founder populations resulting in deleterious inbreeding effects. ...The red and giant pandas are therefore being hit from two sides.  On the one hand, life-history traits of small and slow-growing neonates are producing vulnerable young.  On the other hand, the two panda species face unusually strong sources of mortality - both intrinsic and extrinsic.

 

From the Young Earth standpoint, this is no conundrum.  For more information, see chapter 12 of my book, “Implications of Biological Essentialism.”

www.barnesandnoble.com/w/biological-essentialism-jay-hall/1140135320

If the Earth is young, what about the other planets?  Neptune has considerable internal heat, radiating more than twice the energy it receives from the sun.  If the Solar System is young, this is no problem.  The magnetic field of Neptune is about as strong as that of Uranus.  Magnetic fields decay with time, so Neptune says, “I’m young!”  Neptune’s magnetic field is not aligned with the rotation axis and does not pass through the center – an enigma for #Mainstream_Science

https://www.icr.org/article/solar-system-neptune

 

See chapter 13 of my book Is a Young Earth Possible? for arguments for young planets: “Straight Out of the Solar System.”

https://www.amazon.com/Young-Earth-Possible-Science-Youthful/dp/1088860788/

 

✩Now to the News✩

**ActBlue Acts #BAD !

The activist group ActBlue has been pleading the Fifth Amendment a lot lately.

The House’s Administration, Judiciary, and Oversight and Government Committees put out a report: “Fraud on ActBlue, Part II: Illicit Foreign Donations and a Cover-Up Spur Mass Resignations and Firings on ActBlue’s Legal and Compliance Team.”

In addition, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit against ActBlue for “misleading consumers about its unlawful donation processes that allow fraudulent and foreign donations to undermine the integrity of our nation’s elections.”

https://thefederalist.com/2026/04/20/new-house-report-details-actblues-illicit-foreign-donations-and-a-cover-up/

 

**VA Redistricting Fiasco

A Virginia court has declared the state's redistricting vote unconstitutional recently.

Certain requirements for referendums were not followed.  Several cases are challenging various aspects of the referendum. The Tazewell Circuit Court blocked  certification of the election and denied a motion to stay pending appeal.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/virginia-court-declares-states-redistricting-vote-unconstitutional-legal-win-republicans

 

We read the following in Audacity of Hope:

 

These days, almost every congressional district is drawn by the ruling party with computer-driven precision to ensure that a clear majority of Democrats or Republicans reside within its borders. Indeed, it’s not a stretch to say that most voters no longer choose their representatives; instead, representatives choose their voters.

https://studfile.net/preview/11962524/page:7/

 

Now for some Maths!

 

A compact shape is where the points on the boundary are as close as possible to the center.  A circle is the most compact and regular polygons are highly compact.

https://support.esri.com/en-us/gis-dictionary/compact-shape

 

A regular hexagon (all sides & angles =) is convex.  A star is not – you can take two points within the shape and connect them with a line and that line is not entirely within the star.  Hodge, Marshall & Patterson in their paper in The College Mathematics Journal from 2010 state, “Convexity-based measures of shape compactness provide an effective way to identify irregularities in congressional district boundaries. A low convexity coefficient may suggest that a district has been gerrymandered …”

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233685365_Gerrymandering_and_Convexity

Consider Illinois’ 4rth Congressional District, it has a wild shape.  There is a thin bridge connecting the Melrose Park region to the Cicero region because of the requirement that districts be contiguous (e.g. there’s 48 contiguous States).

https://news.wttw.com/2016/02/16/illinois-4th-congressional-district-candidates?mini=2020-02

The convexity coefficient indicates the likelihood that a district contains the line segment joining any pair of randomly selected points.  The convexity coefficient for the Fourth District of Illinois is 0.237 which is not good.[1]  Take a look at the Oklahoma Congressional Districts.  Nothing too crazy as for their shapes.  I would put the whole of Oklahoma county into District 5, but other than that I would give Oklahoma a good mark for the divisions.

https://www.mapshop.com/oklahoma-congressional-districts-wall-map/

 

By the way, Nobel Prize-winning economist Kenneth Arrow (d. 2017) demonstrated that there is no perfect voting system:

https://www.ams.org/publicoutreach/feature-column/fcarc-voting-arrow

 

** Social Media #SocMed & The Porn Pandemic

Social media’s addictive features have recently been on trial in California and Florida.  Will the #Tek_GiantZ change their ways and repent?  Are you suffering from anxiety, depression, dysmorphia fears and addictions?  Will you now sue the owners of #Tick_Tack #UToob and other major moguls?  Are you caught in a vicious cycle of #Doom and self-harm?  Certain internal documents show that companies designed platforms to be addictive.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/after-landmark-verdict-next-trial-over-social-media-harms-focuses-on-teen-boys-addiction-6007026?welcomeuser=1

 

According to the Lawsuit Information Center, “The presence of predators on social media and the sharing of explicit content can lead to cases of child sexual abuse.”

https://www.lawsuit-information-center.com/social-media-addiction-lawsuits.html#harm

 

Will there now be a flood of attorneys suing social media for porn addiction?

 

Be sure to check out our interview with Dr. Dan Biddle of Genesis Apologetics:

https://thenewscasters.com/podcast/true-truth-weekly-episode-5/

 

Feel free to connect with me on LinkedIn: Jay Hall M.S.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jay-hall-m-s-b64526a

 

We'd love to hear your feedback - pro or con, just go to TotalYouth.us

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You can find links to our books and other Social Media there.

 

Note:

1) “Gerrymandering and Convexity” by Jonathan K. Hodge, Emily A. Marshall & Geoff Patterson, The College Mathematics Journal 41(4):312-324, SEP 2010, p. 314.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233685365_Gerrymandering_and_Convexity

 

Our new podcast:

https://thenewscasters.com/true-truth-weekly/

I'm in Oklahoma City - if you can suggest anyone for a possible interview, just give me a holler. 

 

My site: https://totalyouth.us/

 

** kudos – graphic sources:

https://chatgpt.com/c/69ebe140-5e9c-83ea-aea0-134772a6529b

https://www.mapshop.com/oklahoma-congressional-districts-wall-map/

https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/microsoft-brings-bing-ai-to-more-browsers/

 

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