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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

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.

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.

Politics and Ethics

The Malthus Effect on Politics and Economics

June 5, 2007

In 1798, Thomas Malthus published an essay that had a profound impact on Charles Darwin and others. But it was flawed.

Origin of Life

OOL on the Rocks

February 15, 2007

Robert Shapiro demolishes the RNA World just in time for Leslie Orgel to demolish Shapiro's own myth. Ashes, ashes; they all fall down.

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 […]

Dating Methods

How Not to Date a Volcano

November 13, 2006

Two teams of geologists looked at the same volcano field in Nevada, but came up with vastly different dates.

Geology

Gold Can Form in a Geological Instant

October 15, 2006

You can’t say something is old just because it looks old, like gold.

Origin of Life

Astrobiology: Follow the Money

January 7, 2005

To date, astrobiology remains, as George Gaylord Simpson once quipped, “an area of study without a known subject.” Yet it is one of the hottest research areas within NASA. A renowned origin-of-life researcher from Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Dr. Jeffrey Bada, found out why when he read the new book The Living Universe: NASA and […]

Origin of Life

Did Life Begin as “Failed Mineralogy” on the Seafloor?

December 3, 2004

A geologist with a lot of bluff and bluster makes the origin of life sound easy, but gets nailed by direct questions.

Solar System

Io, Io, It’s Off to Work We Go

May 4, 2004

The innermost large moon of Jupiter, Io is the most volcanically active body in the solar system. About the size of our moon but no more than a speck of light in small telescopes, Io caused a sensation when Galileo first glimpsed it and the other three major satellites of Jupiter in 1610. Back then, […]

Bible and Theology

How Climate Influenced the Dead Sea and History

May 3, 2004

The Bible and science converge at one of the most remarkable lakes on Earth.

Geology

Rethinking the Geological Layers

March 5, 2004

One of the most formative ideas in Darwin’s intellectual journey was the concept of gradualism, the principle of “small agencies and their cumulative effects.” This idea became a dominant motif in his philosophy of life. Describing how the assumption of gradualism permeated his last book (on earthworms) shortly before his death, Janet Browne, in her […]

Dating Methods

Hundreds of Whales Buried Suddenly in Diatoms

February 2, 2004

A remarkable fossil find has been found in Peru: 346 whales buried in diatomaceous earth. The preservation of the whales is so pristine and complete, the authors of the paper in the Feb. 2004 issue of Geology1 conclude that the whales had to be buried rapidly, in days or weeks. If so, it represents a […]

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