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2008-04-25 8:18PM
In the past few months I have been working hard getting Creation Science Evangelism seminars in different languages online. A special thanks to those who provided me with some of them. I also have the 2005 Creation Boot Camp Conference on DVD that I will be getting online soon. Thanks to Russ Miller at Creation, Evolution and Science Ministries for allowing me to host his seminars. I am hoping to have those online soon as well.

2008-01-17 8:20PM
While I have been slacking on updating the log I have been making updates to the site. One of the more time consuming projects is updating the code from Transitional HTML to Strict XML (I know... I'm not completely sure either). Basically what that means is that if you have a high resolution screen it will be easier to surf the site. Also I have got all the new CSE Seminar videos up along with some new Origins, Answers in Genesis, and Steeling the Mind videos. Within the next few weeks I will be putting the CS-201 class up (by special request). I have finally contacted TBN and they will not allow me to host Carl Baugh's Creation in the 21st Century videos so my collection will not grow much. Keep looking for new videos that you think are good and let me know.

2007-12-13 4:35PM
The DVD's are all up and I am converting them to .avi files as time permits. Those should be up soon also.

2007-11-28 6:32PM
Hot off the UPS truck is the new 2007 Creation Science Evangelism 2007 Seminar 8 disk set (It is kind of odd to release a 2007 edition in November but it is better than the car dealers that probably have 2009's on the lot right now). They are uploading right now and will probably all be on the FTP site in about 8 days (the .avi files will come later).

2007-11-04 7:25PM
It seems like no one wants to have to log in to post on the forum so I have upgraded the bulletin board so you no longer have to login. You can now create new topics, post replies, and create polls all without the inconvenience of entering a user name and password. Also I have moved some stuff from the Misc page to the CSE/Hovind page and will probably be changing the Misc page to a different theme. I have uploaded all the CSE Debate DVD's and all the Topical DVD's that I have and am planning to get the new Seminars; however, I seem to be out of money. I guess we will have to wait and see what God's plan is for me for the next few months.

2007-08-29 8:45AM
I have started the upload of the Creation Science Evangelism / Kent Hovind / Eric Hovind DVD's on the CSE/Hovind page. It will take several days to upload the DVD's so all the links may not work right away. I called CSE and got word from Eric Hovind that they will be getting the first shipment of the newest version of the Seminars in a couple of weeks. I don't know why the people on e-bay are selling ones that say "2007" in the description when they have not even been released yet? I will keep calling and hopefully you will see the newest version here first.

2007-08-19 1:40PM
While much hasn't changed on the browser side, several things have changed on the back end. During a storm a few weeks ago I lost all my videos on my primary server, so instead of replacing the drive I have moved my site to an actual webhost. The benefit to you is that now you can download at somewhere around 6x faster than before. With this new bandwidth I think I am going to upload some actual full size DVD's so you can get a copy of the original and not just a compressed version. I will be slowly going through and removing one of the mirrors that is another slow connection since I don't think it will be necessary. Also the other mirror that I have through SocialOutcast.net is experiencing some difficulties as well so it may be out of service for a little while. The migration of the site has crippled my web board but when I get time I will try getting it back up.

2007-04-25 9:10PM
Alright... I haven't been doing the best job of keeping my site up to date but I have been adding stuff to the Audio and Video page. I have finally rotated the Steeling the Mind videos with some new ones (there so new that I am still encoding two of them right now). Also thanks to a post on the Bulletin Board I may soon have some Carl Baugh videos for download (If I can get the proper approval first). There are only two things holding me back now... the hours in the day and the MHz in my computer.

2007-01-30 9:13PM
I have the Origins and Answers in Genesis videos up now on the Audio and Video page plus one working mirror thanks to SocialOutcast.net. Every week I should be encoding a new Origins and Answers in Genesis video so keep watching.

2007-01-20 5:00PM
I am slowly adding more stuff to the Refuting Evolution and Creation pages and I also got permission to host the Origins TV shows from CornerStone Television. I have two of them encoded and hopefully I will get another one up once a week. Each of the shows also have a pdf file that contains the presentation that is covered in that show. Due to space restrictions I had to remove the Does God Exist videos but hopefully that means more room for creation/evolution videos.

2007-01-09 8:30PM
I have spent the past two days getting the updated Are You Being Brainwashed book online instead of using the version that I downloaded elsewhere. Sorry if there are spelling or grammar mistakes but I think I got most of them. I am also listening to an Advanced Apologetics class and it has a little more detail that I may be adding to the Supporting Creation and Refuting Evolution pages. I may combine the two pages or split them up differently into one that has a category of just bashing evolution by listing all the mistakes they have made over the years; however, there are plenty of sites out there that have that type of content on them so I may just stay away from it.

2007-01-02 9:45PM
I have spent the past few weeks putting some good stuff on the Refuting Evolution page so if you are interested in how to give a logical defense of why you do not believe evolution I encourage you to have a read (my favorite part is how many monkeys would it take to type "Encyclopedia Britannica"). I am just starting to read a book that gives some good examples of things that are only possible if the world was created so when I am finished with that maybe I will update the Creation page since that was for the most part just thrown together to fill space when I first put the site up. Sometime this month I am planing to switch the Steeling the Mind of America videos that I have available for download so keep looking for that.

2006-12-11 8:30PM
At last I have finished typing in CSE 104 notes. Now I am free to do other things on the site such as actually put something usefull on the refuting evolution page. I have started studying the bible this week in a way that I think is much more thorough than just reading it or listening to it. I used to read along while listening to the mp3 but now I am reading one verse at a time and typing a "what I think this means" in the most literal way of interpreting it. I agree with Chuck Missler when he says that people are not taking the bible literally enough and saying that many things are symbolism when they could be actually descriptions of things that we could not logically understand 100 years ago but now some things are much more plausible. The problem with studying the bile this way is that it takes an EXTREMELY long time. I have been doing it for 5 days now for about 1/2 hour to 1 hour per day and I am only on Chapter 1 Verse 15. Well... maybe I should limit my bible study to a max of 1 hour per day so that I can actually get something done on this site.

2006-11-22 11:30PM
I just spent the last few hours using Tidy to clean up the code on my pages. This will be transparent for most people however it now gives me 0 errors when I create a sitemap.xml (Once again... who cares).

2006-11-22 7:30PM
I have actually been busy updating my site this month. I converted the CSE seminar powerpoint slides to HTML format so you can now go through them online without downloading anything. I have also been playing with the new sitemap feature that Google offers so my site is now being indexed as I type so hopefully soon I will get some more relative search results. I am now up to class 9 on CSE 104 so those notes are almost done (If anyone cares). The new board seems to work except for when you use an apostrophe, in that case it gives you an mysql error (I'm working on it).

2006-11-04 10:30PM
I have finally got the CSE - Bible and Health video converted to xvid so now hopefully you won't have problems playing it with the codec on my downloads page. I have several more Steeling the Mind videos that I am almost ready to upload and a few more CSE debates so keep watching for those plus I actually put something on the Refuting Evolution page (It is only notes but at least it is something). I am over half way done typing notes on CSE-104 so when I am finished with that I will spend more time updating the website.

2006-10-15 8:00PM
After receiving a large amount of spam in the past week to the wwwboard I have decided to look for a better forum for my site. I have now setup an Elite Bulletin Board because it forces users to type a random number in before they can sign up to post and that will keep out the spam robots. The new board will require you to register before you can post. If you don't want to use your real e-mail address for whatever reason you do not need to because as soon as you sign up you can use your account to post without checking your e-mail first.

2006-09-23 5:00PM
I have gotten some new stuff from www.3bible.com on the CSE misc page and the Other downloads page. I have also been driving down to lake Michigan in the mornings to take some pictures looking for a good background image.

2006-09-10 9:00PM
I am now using one of my linux computers running mencoder to create the xvid videos for my site. Could someone please download this xvid test file and make sure it works on Windows computers with the XviD codec? It should also work with any versions newer than 1.0.3 but I like to stay with the older one so they are all the same. Please leave me a post in the message board if you find it is not working or if it works.

2006-09-05 9:30PM
I got the background to work without scroll bars appearing on IE, Firefox, and Opera however on Konqueror one still appears so I guess anyone that uses Konqueror to view my page will have a scroll bar across the bottom. Let me know if you get a scroll bar across the very bottom or far right side of the page and what browser you are using so I can fix the problem.

2006-09-04 11:30PM
I am starting to play with getting an image to stay stretched in the background of the page with all the different internet browsers. It looks good in Konqueror and Firefox however IE still gives me a white line down the side. Some browsers and operating systems don't support css code so the image may not display at all or the image will completely cover the text. Let me know if you are having problems viewing this page. (If you can not see this at all... well... I guess it does not matter because you can not read this)

2006-09-02 10:20PM
I have finished going through all the HTML code on my site and cleaning it up so all the pages work the same. I have also added the Hovind 'Bible and Health' video and Steeling the Mind 'Are you sure you are a Christian' videos. I have also discovered that Mirror 1 was not cleaning the bandwith limiting files properly so it had some slow speeds (5-10kB) so I updated that and now it seems to be faster. Both the primary links (www.arrivalofthefittest.com/whatever) and Mirror 1 links (aotf.dyndns.org/whatever) are limited to 100kB upload speeds so if if you are the only person downloading you should get close to 100kB/sec but if 10 people are downloading you will only get 5-10kB/sec speeds. I am not sure what the speeds are from Mirror 2 however it seems like they are much faster (200-300kB/sec)

2006-08-30 9:00PM
I have now added some Steeling the Mind of America Bible Conference videos to the Audio and Video page. I have also got a bunch of new and/or better quality CSE debates from http://hosted.filefront.com/wingman7. I have now run out of space on my Mirror 1 server so I had to dump the Does God Exist files from there but I am hoping to get another hard drive soon so I can get those back up and running. They can still be downloaded from the primary link and Mirror 2. Now that I have switched to Linux as my primary operating system I am noticing that my site is not displayed the same in every kind of browser. Sometime soon I will be doing some playing and try to get all the pages to look alike.

2006-07-25 8:30PM
It was brought to my attention that I had a bad file on one of the mirrors so I think I am going to start doing checksums on my files so everyone can verify that they downloaded correctly. Sorry it has been so long since an update but as always things have been busy.

2006-06-02 6:30PM
I have added a new downloads page today for the Does God Exist videos and some sermons that I had lying around. I separated the downloads to a CSE page and a Misc page and hopefully the misc page starts to grow as I get more materials.

2006-05-30 11:00PM
I finally got bandwidth modulation working on my web server so my primary link is now right off of my web server. This adding to the fact that mooload lost all of the files I uploaded means that now the only time one of the mirrors would be unavailable is due to one of my servers being down or problems with socialoutcast.net. If you do notice anything not working please notify me (randy_at_arrivalofthefittest.com) so I can get it working again.

2006-05-16 11:00PM
Thanks to socialoutcast.net I now have a reliable mirror (Mirror 2) for my video files. It appears like the Mooload links to the seminars is down so I will attempt to upload them to f-forge and get a link that way. There are some new videos (More Resons Evolution is Stupid, Debate 03, Debate 08) that I got from other people but haven't converted to an avi file yet.

2006-04-28 9:00PM
I got my mirror server running tonight. It only has a 128k upload connection so realistically the most you will probably get is 90k if no one else is downloading. This should resolve some of the problems people are having with mooload. I will probably still create a second mirror however that may not be for several weeks. For now I would recommend using a download program where you can schedule the downloading for at night (CST) when the connection is more likely to be idle.

2006-04-18 9:30PM
After over a month of slacking I finally have gotten all of my links working (accept for the mp3 files and Seminars and maybe some other stuff). A few more updates and I can get back to updating the Facts pages. I am setting up another Linux file server to get some permanent mirrors for the files. Well, back to the updating.

2006-03-22 8:30PM
It looks like I will be updating the download links to some new websites. There seems like there is a lot more free sites that allow direct linking to uploaded files so I will be using some of them. I had a small problem with my computer last week where a lot of my videos and audio got corrupted so I am still in the process of restoring them from the backups but I will soon have some new stuff up on the site.

2006-03-06 7:35PM
Its been a while since I've updated the site but I have a lot of new stuff that I'm working on getting ready. I have started to upload some files that are better quality of what I currently have up but keep watching for some new stuff including the remainder of the Creation Science Evangelism college courses, power point slides, and some powerful sermons by Jack Hyles and Bill Rice.

2006-02-07 5:00PM
I updated my my dynamic DNS provider today and it seems to be working fine. Now you get http://www.arrivalofthefittest.com instead of my dyndns name in the address bar. (I thought it was worth mentioning) I have more stuff for the Facts page but no time to write the code but I promise it is high on my priority list.

2006-01-23 10:00PM
I just got the WWWBoard working and have split the site up again into some new pages. Soon I will have some facts and links to back up my claims. The pages are all in place and now I just need some content.

2006-01-19 7:30PM
I have uploaded 95% of my videos and now I'm working on audio. Send me an e-mail if some of the videos don't work. I haven't actually watched all of them because I rip the audio and listen to it in the car on my way to work but if there is a problem I should be able to fix it.

2006-01-16 5:53PM
It seems like mooload.com has gone off line :( This means that most of my downloads are not working. I have been uploading to filefront.com and their servers seem to be very stable. The debates are up and many others and I'm working on the Seminars so keep checking.

2006-01-15 10:45PM
I've been busy uploading videos and updating the video page with more content. Soon there will be many videos from the Topical Series and some Debates. I have been having some DNS issues so the site has been going up and down so if your reading this just remember the back door to the site will always be http://arrivalofthefittest.dyndns.org. If that doesn't work my server is probably down.

2006-01-10 9:10PM
I have resurrected CSE-101 Class 9 and 10 and they should be online. I am trying to save bandwidth by using direct linking file servers however their reliability has been sketchy. Please bare with me till I choose a more reliable server.

2006-01-06 5:45PM
I seem to have lost some of my videos?!?!? CSE-101 Class 9 and 10 are AWOL so I will need to recreate them from my DVD's. I am struggling to keep all the videos encoded to be compatible with a portable video player (MPEG4 - Simple Profile without b-frames) so until I figure it out they will not be available. Thats what I get for upgrading my codecs when I was not having any problems if it isn't broke don't fix it.

2005-12-30 3:45PM
I have added a bunch of stuff to the Misc. page. I also just got the Answering the Critics DVD for my birthday so I am in the process of compressing that. Keep watching.

2005-12-24 11:00AM
The day before Jesus's birthday and I'm trying to upload some more stuff. I now have the Seminar Workbook and Seminar Notebook and they contained some nice pictures of the timeline of Adam to Joseph and the timeline from Creation to Present vs. Big Bang to Present. I don't know if they will be up today but keep watching.

2005-10-28 8:20AM
The buttons now have images associated with them so no more empty place holders.

2005-10-24 8:15AM
I have changed formats of the site to make it look a little more professional. I have added links across the top however I do not have any images on them so they are just showing the place holders. Maybe today sometime I will get around to creating them.

2005-10-22 12:05PM
All of my links seem like they are working. I now have all 7 seminars and CSE 101 and CSE 102 videos up on the site. The videos have been encoded at 360x240 without b-frames so you should be able to play them back on a portable video player.

2005-10-22 12:22AM
The html is up and running. None of the links are working yet but tomorrow is another day (another day that I won't get around to working on it but still another day).

2005-10-21 10:15PM
Today I am finally getting around to creating my website. I got my server running a few months ago and my virtual hosts configured properly yesterday so now I can finally create my site. Welcome to ArrivalOfTheFittest.com. If you are visiting this site anytime within the next couple months good luck getting any of my links to work or even getting to view the entire page correctly. I have a lot of video and audio clips mostly material from www.drdino.com. Creation Science Evangelism created most of this material and they have it copyright for free distribution so I am going to try to give out as much as the material as possible. I foresee one of two things happening to my site - 1. I get no traffic at all or - 2. My internet connection gets so clogged that I can not even get online. Well, the only way to find out is to finish coding my html. Hopefully I get the site live on the internet tonight.