The Top 5 Things About Biological Essentialism

1) It is consistent with the Genesis Kinds (baramin).  On #Day3 we get plants:

"The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good" (Gen. 1:12).

 

Noah's Ark by Donald Schwartz:

https://www.amazon.com/Noahs-Ark-Annotated-Encyclopedia-Species/dp/0765761106

How Many Animals Were on the Ark? ed. by Craig Froman:

https://answersingenesis.org/store/product/how-many-animals-were-ark/

 

 

2) There are two books on this topic with the exact same title‼

 

Biological Essentialism by Jay Hall (2021):

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

Biological Essentialism by Michael Devitt (Oxford Univ. Press):

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/biological-essentialism-9780198840282

 

Hall vs. Devitt:

https://youngearthscienceblog.blogspot.com/2023/08/biological-essentialism-vs-biological.html

 

3) Biological Essentialism is basically Aristotle's Biology.

 

The idea that biological natural kinds, particularly a species like dogs, have intrinsic underlying natures is intuitively appealing.  It has been shown to be widespread even among children (Keil 1989). It was endorsed by a great philosopher, Aristotle. ... For, the consensus among philosophers of biology, and a widespread view among biologists, is that this sort of “Aristotelian essentialism” is deeply wrong, reflecting “typological” thinking instead of the recommended “population” thinking (Sober 1980: 247–8). This essentialism is thought to arise from a naive and uninformed view of biology, indeed to be incompatible with Darwinism. ... I shall defend intrinsic biological essentialism. I think that the children are right and the philosophers of biology, wrong.

   -- Michael Devitt (Biological Essentialism, p. 1)

 

Amen & Amen!

 

4) Biological Essentialism and #YES Young Earth Science go hand-in-hand.  I argue that #BioEss leads to Catastrophism which naturally favors a youthful world (last chapter):

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

 

Dinos and Trilobites lived at the same time, so we must collapse conventional geochronology.

5) Do you really believe that the Blob Fish, platypus, hydra, 13-celled critter, redwoods, Sam from Sale$, honeyguide, Philetairus socius, Haleakalā silversword, tortoise and solar sea slug all have a Common Ancestor?  If there are distinct natural kinds, then Darwin was wrong and Kripke & Putnam (see Devitt p. 1) are right!  

 

my site: https://totalyouth.us

 

What is Biological Essentialism (video)?

https://youtu.be/3B9Y1XEUWVk

 

MOOORE on #Biological_Essentialism >>

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-007-6537-5_19

 

my site: https://totalyouth.us

 

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Young Earth Today 2032 - YES We Can ... Drop Deep Time!

Today we drop the Kraken on Origins by Robert Shapiro which focuses on the Origin Of Life #OOL ... it was endorsed by Isaac Asimov!

Also, we delve into the thought of anti-evolutionist Hilaire Belloc (d. 1953).  HG Wells wrote a whole book to refute his critique of Outline of History!

Before we get to Origins & Belloc, let's take jaunt into YES research.

 

Where do we go to find info that supports YES - Young Earth Science?  That is, the evidence from History and Science that points to a youthful world.

 

The first item on Qwant is pro-YES !!

https://www.qwant.com/?q=%22Young+Earth+Science%22&t=web

Bing Deep search >>  

"young earth science" definition

https://www.bing.com/search?q=%22young+earth+science%22+definition&shm=cr&form=DEEPSH&shajax=1

Four references to my work !!

YANDEX search >>

"young earth science" definition

https://yandex.com/search/?text=%22young+earth+science%22+definition&lr=109918

 

YEP is more fair to YES than many other searchers!!

https://yep.com/web?q=%22young%20earth%20science%22%20definition

 

PreSearch shows several pro-YES items and my book YES - Young Earth Science appears twice !!

https://presearch.com/search?q=%22young+earth+science%22

 

YES Virginia, there really is Young Earth Science ... #Got_ACROnymz ?

https://www.allacronyms.com/YES/Young_Earth_Science

A classic argument for a youthful world is the downgrade of Earth's magnetic field.  It has long been understood that Earth’s magnetic field is decaying at a rate of  5% per century.  However, as reported by Forbes, the Swarm system of satellites (Alpha, Bravo & Charlie) has discovered that the actual decay is 5% per decade!

https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2018/03/29/is-earths-magnetic-shield-eroding/#23f14319385b

 

One reasonable conclusion from this data is that the earth is newer than many people think:

https://www.icr.org/article/371

 

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Robert Shapiro wrote Origins: A Skeptic's Guide to the Creation of Life on Earth which came out in 1986: 

https://www.amazon.com/Origins-Skeptics-Guide-Creation-Earth/dp/0553343556

 

It was praised by Ashley Montagu (who favored the unity of humanity), Isaac Asimov and Lynn Margulis (Carl Sagan's first wife). Shapiro speaks of the Eskimo's Creation Story (pp. 15,16), but what about the Deluge?  A number of tribes from the "Great Snowy North" such as Eskimos, Inuits, Yup’iks and Aleuts have traditions of the Global Flood.  Flood traditions of the Northern North American indigenous tribes:

https://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/flood-myths.html#Innuit

Hilaire Belloc (d. 1953) took on Darwin & HG Wells (War of the Worlds, Things to Come) in A Companion to Mr. Wells’s Outline of History. Belloc, was born in France, but died in England. He wrote over 150 books on a wide range of topics.

His travelogue The Path to Rome was a bestseller. He also wrote satiric novels that were illustrated by his close friend G.K. Chesterton! He was unjustly denied a fellowship at Oxford due to his religious views. You can read about him in Jerry Bergman's most excellent Silencing the Darwin Skeptics (p. 114):

https://www.amazon.com/Silencing-Darwin-Skeptics-Slaughter-Dissidents/dp/0981873480

 

A companion to Mr. Wells's "Outline of history" by Hilaire Belloc:

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/74534

 

Hilaire Belloc seems to accept the long ages of mainstream Geology, yet he  recommends Aquinas, but Thomas falls into the YES camp!!  The famed astronomer Ptolemy (d. ~170 AD) held that the constellations of the  zodiac will have finished a complete rotation in 36K years.  Aquinas responds that (pp. 361,362):

 

This reason seems unsuitable, because if there were any movement (revolution) in the sky which does not finish sooner than after 36 thousand years it would follow that the universe would have to last that long, which does not seem probable (quod non videtur probabile).

https://www.academia.edu/121775481/Was_Thomas_Aquinas_a_Young_Earth_Creationist

 

In addition, Aquinas believed in Creation in Six (real) Days #CISD

HG Wells wrote a book in response to Belloc and pushes Darwinism.  The opposite of evolution is Biological Essentialism.  My thesis is the stasis of Essential Types of Life (ETL's).  Examples of ETL's include horses, hydras and humans.  I think Belloc would agree with me since he stated,  

 

It is true that humanly recorded historical experience covers but a very brief fraction of the total time allowed for even the shortest estimates of the past of this world. None the less, it is sufficient to prove that types once achieved are permanent. Call it five thousand years (perhaps man-made prehistoric [sic]  pictures may extend that limit), even that short period is enough to prove the existence of stable types. For if during five million years some animal form existing at the moment has been forever slowly changing by a process such that its present apparent fixity is an illusion, and is still proceeding to further slow changes indefinitely, then five thousand years ought to show a perceptible fraction of the movement; only a thousandth of it, no doubt, but one in a thousand is measurable: tiny, but measurable. Yet no fundamental change, still less any progressive change, is apparent. During all the historical epoch fixity of type is invariable. [see Ch. 2]

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/74534/pg74534-images.html#Page_9

 

Belloc further defends the fixity of types in the fossil record:

 

The geological record also shows us nothing but Fixed Types. Each may have come by a transition more or less rapid out of some other—but at any rate fixed they are, and the longer the time demanded by the modern geologist for his periods, the longer the Fixed Type can be proved to exist. Some few survive  today from the very early days of life on this earth. It was hoped, when the theory of Natural Selection was first broached, that evidence would appear for continuous change. None has so appeared. On the contrary, the more fossil evidence we acquire the more definitely does it appear that the Fixed Type is the normal - indeed the only - recorded thing.

 

I argue in the last chapter of my book Biological Essentialism naturally leads to Young Earth Science (YES):

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

 

The rate of rock formation is a key factor in the #Age_ofthe_Earth Controversy as   Belloc admits:

 

It is, perhaps, asking too much of our author [HG Wells] to adopt a strictly scientific attitude: that is, to distinguish between hypothesis and proved fact. And this is particularly true of a study so full of hypothesis as geology. Men pretend to vastly more knowledge than they have in that branch of knowledge - as, for instance, on the rate of stratification. A man cannot but be influenced by his own time, and Mr. Wells is influenced by the unscientific loose thinking and insufficiently supported affirmations of his generation and place.

 

HG Wells was born in 1866.  In the early 1800's there were a number of "Scriptural Geologists" who defended the #GlobalFlood from Scripture and Science:

https://www.amazon.com/Great-Turning-Point-Terry-Mortenson/dp/0890514089

 

Even the Babylon Bee ("Jay Stixx" film) has gone Young Earth!!

Young Earth Creationism Rocks with Dr. Tim Clarey:

https://rumble.com/v3nyt5d-young-earth-creationism-rocks-with-dr.-tim-clarey.html

 

No, we don't have over 2K episodes.

However, our numbering ("How Numb I Am" ♪) has been sequential since Young Earth Today 2024:  

https://youtu.be/5bQ7iDhopWg

 

Alternatives to #Guugli >>

https://www.pcmag.com/picks/go-beyond-google-best-alternative-search-engines

 

Hilaire Belloc - A Biography by A. N. Wilson (1996):

https://www.amazon.com/Hilaire-Belloc-Biography-N-Wilson/dp/0749324074

 

** kudos: mag-decay graphic: 

https://www.soulask.com/the-state-of-the-earths-magnetic-field-indicates-that-it-will-soon-shut-down-completely/

 

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Young Earth Today 2031 - Happy Young Earth Day 2024

Welcome to Young Earth Today 2031 - Happy Young Earth Day 2024

Say “H3LL0” to #YoungEarthDay ‼

 

Go to my site to see my Young Earth Blog:

https://totalyouth.us

https://youngearthscienceblog.blogspot.com/

 

According to "Clod" - the Real Fly AI Guy:

Q: What is the latest or most recent scientific evidence for the young earth perspective?

A: There is no scientific evidence that supports the idea of a young Earth that is only a few thousand years old. This perspective, often called "young Earth creationism," contradicts the overwhelming body of scientific evidence from multiple fields including physics, chemistry, geology, cosmology, biology, and others.

The scientifically accepted age of the Earth is about 4.54 billion years old, based on extensive evidence from radiometric dating of rock samples, cosmic bombardment rates, radioactive decay processes, and observations of the structure and composition of the Earth, sun, and other bodies in our solar system and universe.

Some would say Young Earth Science (YES) is just so much baby talk: "goo-goo this and goo-goo that!"  However, I am not daunted by such opposition.  I have written two books supporting the #YoungEarth perspective from History and Science:

Is a Young Earth Possible?  ★★★★½

  https://www.amazon.com/dp/1088860788

YES - Young Earth Science  ★★★★

  https://www.amazon.com/YES-WorldView-Fallacies-Darwinism-2014-11-14/dp/B01K3RF10I

 

"Clod" is incorrect in claiming that is would not have access to my books.

Clod came out in 2023 and my books were published a few years ago.

Oaf.ai and Dolt.ai were not available for comment.

Clod even fails in basic logic ... I asked about the #AgeOfEarth controversy and the #AI_Guy switched topics to the Planets and the Cosmos ‼  I defend a young Solar System in this work (ch. 13):

https://www.amazon.com/YES-WorldView-Fallacies-Darwinism-2014-11-14/dp/B01K3RF10I

 

** and now for a short #PoetryBreak ...  

There once was a planet named Earth

The Lord gave it true beauty and birth

Some may think it odd

To get your #dating from GOD,

But I say wii must go #YoungEarth ‼

       ice-jay (4-15-24 AD)

AND in case you don't know about the traditional Hebrew Chronology, you can find it in Genesis 5 & 11. (Johnny Mac BB)

 

Hey Clod!  Are you listening?  Let me break this down to your level.

A number of trees may live for thousands of years: Sequoias, Redwoods, Pines, Junipers and Olive trees.  So, where are the trees in the fossil record with say 2K rings or more and dated around 100M or older?  Could the lack of such evidence point to a youthful world?  See my books that favor a #NewEarthNow ! >>

https://totalyouth.us

Mr. Clod puts "young Earth creationism" in quotes.  Just search “Professor of Creationism” on LYCOS and you get ZIP:

https://search3.lycos.com/web/?q=%E2%80%9CProfessor+of+Creationism%E2%80%9D&keyvol=008bfa624e57e34e1df4

Or try “Professor of Intelligent Design” ... ZIP as well:

https://search.lycos.com/web/?q=%E2%80%9CProfessor+of+Intelligent+Design%E2%80%9D&keyvol=00f2141f482e0d33fdbb

 

Yes Virginia, the #InterWebz missed it again!  There really is a Professor of ID and his name is Dr. Tom Woodward who taught at Trinity College of Florida (they named the town after the college!).  Dr. Woodward (Pres. of the CS Lewis Society) taught  “Darwinism and Intelligent Design” which was first offered in 2012:

https://evolutionnews.org/2012/07/online_course_d_1/

The course tackles the scientific debate over creation, evolution and intelligent design (ID):

https://www.trinitycollege.edu/interdisciplinary-and-science-course-descriptions/

Dr. Woodward's bio:

https://www.trinitycollege.edu/faculty/thomas-woodward-ph-d/

 

Meta.ai, in contrast, provides a fair answer to the question we started with (see above) and even provides the references!

https://www.meta.ai/c/a17b4385-42f2-4366-a1ee-ab66829bc79d

 

The 10 Best Evidences from Science That Confirm a Young Earth:

https://answersingenesis.org/evidence-for-creation/10-best-evidences-young-earth/

"Five Global Evidences for a Young Earth" by Jake Hebert, Ph.D.:  

https://www.icr.org/article/five-global-evidences-for-a-young-earth/

So, maybe we should skip the #PolarBears, penquins and #ButlersNamedJeeves and go with the #Llama ...

https://llama.meta.com/llama3/

If you search #YoungEarth on Rumble you get some videos that may stir your curiosity, including one of mine (the last):

https://rumble.com/search/all?q=%23YoungEarth

 

** My 3rd Rock Ain't Old** #ThirdRok #GotYoungEarth ??

https://rumble.com/v1dzzxd-young-earth-today-2026-my-3rd-rock-aint-old.html

and this 2 ...

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jay-hall-m-s-b64526a_young-earth-today-2026-my-3rd-rock-aint-activity-7188082538806947842-jV9o?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

 

It would be great if someone could sponsor the following National Survey …

How Old is the Earth?

A)  4,000 years

B)  6,000 years

C)  8,000 years

D)  10,000 years

E)  More than 10,000 years

Please contact me if you are willing to help in this project:

https://totalyouth.us/contact-us

 

A research paper published this year by Hebert, Overman & Sherwin reveals that  certain oysters in the fossil record seem to have lived much longer than their living counterparts.  It is not uncommon for some oysters to live seven years, yet their cousins in the ancient past may have lived 23 years!

https://www.creationresearch.org/crassostrea-oyster-fossils-show-evidence-of-extreme-longevity

Oysters are bivalves, salt-water mollusks.  #GetPearly_Withit

This evidence fits well with the great ages of the #Patriarchs with some living as long as nearly a millennium (cf. Methuselah @ 969 yo, Gen. 5:27).

The Sumerian King List makes sense if you "translate" if from the base-60 system to our decimal format:

https://adamslostdream.blogspot.com/2008/11/adam-to-abraham-a2a-dating-game.html

I discuss extreme human longevity here:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1088860788

 

Search #YoungEarthDay on Swiss Cows and you get a number of helpful results:

https://swisscows.com/en/web?query=%23YoungEarthDay

 

WHAT IS THE LATEST OR MOST RECENT SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE FOR THE YOUNG EARTH PERSPECTIVE?

 

Earth Day w/ Walter Kronkite (1970):

https://www.earthday.org/history/

 

Earth Day was founded in 1970 as a day of education on enviro-extremist issues,  green living & climate hysteria.  As the brainchild of Senator Gaylord Nelson (d. 2005)  it was inspired by the #Radical protests of the 1960s,  Earth Day began as a “national teach-in on the environment” and was held on April 22 raising public awareness of pollution and plastic meatz ☺ ...

https://www.history.com/topics/holidays/earth-day

 

A helpful article from Tulsa World (I went to HS there for a short time) >> 

Age of the Earth Controversy Heating Up as "Young Earthers" Speak Out

  by Bill Sherman (2019):    

https://tulsaworld.com/life-entertainment/age-of-the-earth-controversy-heating-up-as-young-earthers-speak-out/article_1fe82f62-1e34-5e77-a5b9-22ddd2c898cb.html

Young Earth Today 2030 - Got #SciFry ??

https://youtu.be/5wZSS2L9wMk

 

Young Earth Today - A Portpourri of YES (see the tree ring argument):

https://youtu.be/1vBfTnvRDh4?si=_qyHvEtK0j1tNDqV

 

What do various scholars think about the Age-of-the-Earth #Controversy ?

https://henrycenter.tiu.edu/2017/11/introduction-to-controversy-of-the-ages/

 

A response ...

https://youtu.be/FE4BHuHMVc8

 

YES cup (K's NOT B's) >>

https://www.zazzle.com/young_earth_science_mug-168862203304007078

 

#OEF = Old Earth Fallacies

 

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#AgeOf_TheEarth #Controversy #GetPearly_Withit #Patriarchs #Oysters

#Millennium #Methuselah #Year969 #NewEarthNow #NEN ! 

#OEF #OldEarthFallacies #Ks_Not_Bs

Biological Essentialism - It's Alive‼

Search "biological essentialism" on Yandex and you get 28K hits:

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Search "biological essentialism jay hall" on Yandex and you get 12 relevant results:

https://yandex.com/search/?text=%22biological+essentialism+jay+hall%22&lr=21366

 

Our latest book Biological Essentialism tackles Aristotle, UnDarwinism, human exceptionalism, worldview, bias, renegade scientists, Dawkins vs. Dawkins, natural kinds, gender confusion and the sanctity of human life among other topics.

My book is available now:

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