Argentine Ant Invasion and Evolution vs Creationism

Location: Kimbel Bend Campground (COE); about an hour southwest of Fort Worth, Texas along the Brazos River

Today is day three of three at this campground. 

Road picture from the edge of the Texas Hill Country

The view from the top of one of the hills. It was a pretty day.

Pre-sunrise on day two. That's the Brazos River in the background.

Sunrise, Day two.

The Corps of Engineers web page warns campers that Argentine Ants are in the area. That area is anything within a 100–150 mile radius of the Dallas/Fort Worth area. I’ve stayed in many COE campgrounds within that range but never had a problem until now. Over the years, I have pictured in my mind that Argentine Ants were giants capable of carrying off small children and animals. Come to find out, they are what I’ve always called “piss ants” or “sugar ants”. They look similar but the difference is how they nest. The Argentine Ant has “super colonies” with hundreds of queens and interconnecting tunnels. This super colony can stretch for many miles. They don’t fight each other, so they just merge colonies into a bigger one. When I arrived at the campground and inspected my campsite, there were not any obvious ant hills. But come to find out, they don’t mound up like normal ants. They nest underground with only scattered hole openings in the area. Apparently, but unknown to me, there was an opening near my campsite. After setting up camp, I sprayed my jacks, power cords, tires and steps with ant spray and thought all was good. On day two I noticed a couple of ant trails inside Liberty, so I put out some Terro Liquid Ant Baits. I’ve had great success with that product and routinely carry some with me. I figured after putting out the baits in the afternoon the ants would be gone by the morning of day three. When I woke up, they were still “snacking” on the Terro, so much so that their dead bodies were clogging up the traps. I put a few new ones out and went outside to see if I could find where they were getting inside. There were two locations. One was the cable from my Starlink to Liberty and two trails leading under Liberty to a weed that was touching her underbelly. I sprayed the heck out of both locations and withing a few hours they were gone from inside. I’ll keep a watch on the outside locations until I leave tomorrow. I plan a stop at Walmart on the way to the next campground. I’ll use it like an ammunition dump and resupply my ant spray and Terro baits. I’ll get some food too. 😊

The Creation Evidence Museum

I came here for one purpose. I had heard about a museum for years from many different people and I wanted to see it for myself. It is the Creation Evidence Museum in Glen Rose, Texas. I didn’t come here to be convinced that evolution is hog wash bulls*#t evil wrong incorrect and creationism is right. I already knew that since I was a teenager. I’ve been to many museums that talk about things from a million years ago but this one talks about things in biblical timelines. That the earth is only about 6,000 years old, not 10's of millions. I’m not going to post a long justification of creationism over evolution but will simply post a couple of things that should make a person go,,,”hmmmm”.

First, footprints that have been found locally, and documented, that have a dinosaur and human together at the same time. Overlapping each other. Evolutionists say that can’t happen because dinosaurs lived a very long time before humans showed up. Evolutionists say the footprints are fake but can’t say how. Remember, the term dinosaur only started being used in the 1850’s, before that they were referred to as dragons. Dragons are mentioned several times in the bible. I wonder why some people started calling them dinosaurs while at the same time saying dragons were a myth. hmmm.

Second, evidence of Noah’s flood is everywhere but often is not recognized. Evolutionists say it took millions of years to produce coal and natural gas from plants that decayed and formed under high pressure. There are things in the museum that bring those thoughts into question. Such as, an iron hammer found inside solid rock, or a metal bowl inside a coal seam, or tall trees standing upright without roots and going through different strata such as limestone and coal of different ages, or a log laying horizontal in a coal strata that is oval shaped because of a huge weight on top of it while the tree was still green. All these things are evidence of a world-wide flood which created the sedimentary layer quickly, not slowly. It also explains how the Grand Canyon was created and what happened to all of the material that was washed out of it. hmmmmm. If ya’ll wonder about such things, this is a place to explore.

This is a replica of a tree that was found standing up and going through to different strata. If it took millions of years for those strata's to form, why didn't the top of the tree rot or erode away.

The museum has one set of only five known sets of Hebrew scrolls documenting Genesis through Malachi. Pretty impressive for such a museum in a small town.

This isn't a replica; it is the original London Hammer. 

The footprint and dinosaur print found locally. It is only one of many found.

Tomorrow is moving day and I'll be returning to a campground I stayed at a couple of years ago. I found out about something that needed exploring but only after I had moved farther west. I said then that I would be back. Tomorrow and for two days afterwards will be that time.

The view out my back window. 

Ya'll take care of each other. Maybe I'll Cya down the road,