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Incredible Creatures that Support Evolution?

January 29, 2010

Paleontologists and biologists continue to uncover animals past and present that exhibit amazing diversity. Some of them are so weird and unexpected, they are almost unbelievable. Usually, the news media are quick to tally up points for Darwin by explaining to lay people how they shed light on evolution. But in the “discovery” stage of […]

Astronomy

Planet-Makers Ask Miracles to Evade Death Spiral

August 21, 2009

Remember the old artwork of planets gently forming out of dust orbiting a young star? That’s all gone. Reality has set it. Clumps of material a meter across need help – almost miraculous help – to avoid getting sucked into the star in a giant death spiral. If you don’t believe it, ask John Chambers […]

Dinosaurs

Dakota Dino Reveals Skin Cells

July 1, 2009

“Absolutely amazing” and “absolutely gobsmacking” are exclamations made by scientists analyzing the fossilized skin of a hadrosaur.

Geology

Geophysical King Dethroned?

April 17, 2009

Geologists have been speaking of a Great Oxygenation Event that may have never happened.

Early Man

Gobekli Tepe: What Mean These Ancient Stones?

March 10, 2009

Imagine stone carvings and monuments whose age make the pyramids and Stonehenge look like artifacts of modern history. Such monuments exist on a hill in Turkey at a site called Gobekli Tepe. Squared-off limestone blocks stacked like the letter T, arranged in circles, with ornate animal carvings on them, have been baffling archaeologists for the […]

Solar System

Saturn Rings: F is for Flamboyant

July 2, 2008

Cassini provides additional evidence that Saturn's F-ring is young.

Amazing Facts

Geology Sinks in the Mud

December 14, 2007

Question: what is the most abundant sedimentary rock in the world? Follow-up question: what would happen to the science of geology if the consensus theory of how this most abundant sedimentary rock was deposited turns out to be wrong? Prepare for a paradigm shift: experiments have shown mistakes in long-held assumptions about mudstone formation. Here’s […]

Solar System

Stretching Saturn’s Rings in Time

December 13, 2007

An expert on planetary rings proposes a new way to keep them billions of years old.

Solar System

Is Making Planets Child’s Play?

December 5, 2007

Are star children good at child's play? Like making mudballs, it should be easy to roll up dust into planets.

Solar System

Active Moons Challenge Old-Age Beliefs

December 3, 2007

The best planetary scientists in the world, constrained within their chosen billions-of-years mindset, have many questions and few answers.

Solar System

New Horizons at Jupiter

October 15, 2007

New Horizons, a spaceship bound for Pluto, took a good look at the Jupiter system on Feb 28, 2007.

Geology

Lord Kelvin’s Core Values Defended

July 2, 2007

Myth: Lord Kelvin held back the progress of geology for 100 years by insisting the Earth was younger than geologists and evolutionists believed. Myth debunked here.

Bible and Theology

Heat and Light: Jerusalem City of David Excavations Arouse Notoriety

May 3, 2007

Opinions about tangible archaeological evidence hinge on beliefs about the Bible and science.

Bible and Theology

Evolutionist Lost Faith Over Flawed Geology Lesson

January 12, 2007

A college student’s Biblical faith could not survive a geology lesson that seemed to offer convincing proof that the earth was older than Genesis indicated.

Dating Methods

Precambrian Pods Promoted to Pleistocene (!)

January 3, 2007

The bulletin of the Geological Society of America started 2007 with a bang. (Geeks sometimes refer to the exclamation point as a “bang”.) It’s not often one sees an exclamation point in the title of a scientific paper, but the bang in one by Donald R. Lowe (Stanford) and Gary R. Byerly (Louisiana State)1 conveys […]

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