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Scientific Findings Can Be Counterintuitive

March 28, 2013

Here are examples of recent claims in science that seem to contradict what some would consider intuitively obvious. They should be kept in mind when evaluating other scientific truisms, like evolution.

Dating Methods

Lunar Impact Theory Is All Wet

February 21, 2013

Significant amounts of water in lunar rocks cast into doubt the popular impact theory for the origin of the moon.

Origin of Life

OOL Follies: Evolutionists Ignore the Obvious Questions

February 13, 2013

In origin-of-life (OOL) research, any partial solution seems good enough, even if the big questions go unanswered.

Darwin and Evolution

Evaluating the Chicxulub Impact Dinosaur Extinction Hypothesis

February 10, 2013

Science Magazine claimed the Mexican crater named Chicxulub is the smoking gun of the dinosaurs' demise, and the media fell in line. Are there reasons to doubt the story?

Astronomy

Targeted SETI Search Hears Nothing

February 8, 2013

For this search, a team targeted 104 stars with planets discovered by the Kepler Telescope. Still nothing.

Dating Methods

Rare Moments of Glory: Planetary Scientists Admit Seeing "Lucky" Circumstances

February 2, 2013

Why are we seeing young phenomena in the planets if they are billions of years old? Some scientists are abandoning uniformitarian assumptions and admitting we are lucky to be witnessing them in "rare moments of glory."

Cosmology

You Are Not a Clone

January 25, 2013

The notion that there are multiple copies of you in parallel universes is mythological, two physicists argue.

Amazing Facts

Was Charlemagne Protected from a Cosmic Disaster? A Carbon-14 Mystery

January 22, 2013

Tree ring data from the 8th century hint that a cosmic catastrophe was averted on the "privileged planet."

Dating Methods

Titan and Mercury: Challenges to Billions of Years

January 18, 2013

News from Titan and Mercury continue to challenge current theories that they formed billions of years ago.

Cosmology

The Rapture and Bosh of Glittering Generalities

January 16, 2013

Grand scenarios of cosmic evolution sound angelic, but the devil is in the details. Neil Shubin needs to get real.

Astronomy

Cosmology’s Lumpiness Problem Defies Theory

January 12, 2013

A record-breaking structure in the universe "defies theory," the news said, ignoring that theory has been defied for decades since smaller large structures were found (the lumpiness problem).

Dating Methods