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New Guidebook for Earthlings Published

November 19, 2017

A new book by two CEH authors can help readers understand their spacecraft and its mission. Dr Henry Richter, distinguished NASA scientist, former Caltech professor and inventor, the last surviving manager of Explorer 1 (January 31, 1958), has a new book worth sharing. Its title appeals to all readers on the planet: Spacecraft Earth: A […]

Origin of Life

Boastful Origin-of-Life Claims Conceal Contradictions

November 14, 2017

The latest speculations about life’s origins always overlook the most essential component: the origin of biological information. Suggestive catch-phrases are no substitute for demonstration. Evolutionary scientists employ stock phrases like “missing link” and “RNA world” and “prebiotic soup” that conceal, rather than illuminate, the actual chemical problems getting from molecules to life. The so-called “building […]

Solar System

Enceladus Cannot Spout for Billions of Years

November 7, 2017

You can tell when theorists are getting desperate. Their assumptions get more and more implausible, and they gloss over falsifying facts.

Origin of Life

Cell Repair Requirement Demolishes Origin-of-Life Speculation

October 12, 2017

A biology professor who came out of a Darwinian communist country explodes origin-of-life speculation with real world facts about genetic repair mechanisms.

Philosophy of Science

Science Fail: Shaky Assumptions Topple Long-Held Notions

October 3, 2017

Science is supposed to be self-correcting, we're told. But when towers of belief are built on assumptions later shown to be false, the consequences can be monumental.

Physics

Facing Reality About Life on Other Planets, 6: Chemistry and Probability

September 18, 2017

In this final segment about habitability of exoplanets, Dr Henry Richter looks at chemistry and probability.

Solar System

Saturnians Are Safe from Cassini Germs

September 15, 2017

Cassini scientists crashed their spacecraft into Saturn today in order to protect possible life forms on Titan, Enceladus and other moons.

Darwin and Evolution

Stop the Silly Darwin Stories

August 20, 2017

What happens when consensus enforces conformity, and doubters are excluded? In the case of Darwinism, you get utter nonsense. This must end.

Astronomy

Facing Reality About Life on Other Planets

August 11, 2017

by Dr Henry Richter For a number of years I have been amused to watch many in the scientific community conduct a frantic campaign to identify life elsewhere in the universe. There has been a plethora of articles and significant dollars dedicated to the search for extraterrestrial life, particularly intelligent life. In recent times several […]

Origin of Life

Evolutionary Storytelling Evolves: the Case of Origin of Life

August 4, 2017

The Latest Episode in Evolving Origin-of-Life Stories by Dr Jerry Bergman The origin-of-life story is evolving. Before the middle 1600s most people believed that many forms of life originated by spontaneous generation from either inanimate matter, or once-living but now dead matter. Aristotle even believed that animals he considered “simple”, such as worms, fleas, bees, […]