Solar System

VIEW HEADLINES ONLY

Lightning Fries Impact Theory

July 18, 2017

A signature in rock that was thought to come from extraterrestrial impacts could have been caused by plain old lightning. “Impact Geologists, Beware!” That’s the headline of a short paper in Geophysical Research Letters by H. J. Melosh of Purdue. His subtitle is, “A Cautionary Tale for Impact Geologists.” Why the alarm? Another “proxy” for […]

Intelligent Design

Privileged Planet Confirmed!

July 10, 2017

All of the evidence we have now is that we live on a rare planet that is specially designed for intelligent life.

Intelligent Design

Solar Eclipses: Design or Coincidence?

July 6, 2017

This is a rebuttal to Live Science's article, "Why Total Solar Eclipses Are Total Coincidences," so that readers can make up their own minds.

Solar System

Juno Finds a ‘Whole New Jupiter’

June 29, 2017

Paradigms are collapsing as the Juno spacecraft gets a good look at the giant planet's poles for

Philosophy of Science

Don’t Trust Scientists Who Were Wrong; Fire Them

June 25, 2017

The best scam is to keep fooling people into trusting your latest ideas even after you've admitted you've been wrong all along.

Solar System

Secularists Can Believe Mars Had a Global Flood

June 6, 2017

Mars has no liquid water today, but water must have covered much of the planet in the past. How? Nobody knows.

Geology

Flat-Earthers Are Evolutionists

June 1, 2017

Let's get our facts straight: It's not Christians who are promoting the most absurd conspiracy theory of all.

Solar System

Cassini Diving Through Saturn’s Young Rings

May 12, 2017

There's a gap between the D ring and the planet that is empty enough to allow the spacecraft to pass through, taking incredible pictures and data.

Geology

Early Earth Was Flat and Ocean-Covered, Secular Scientists Claim

May 9, 2017

No mountains, covered with water — does that sound vaguely familiar?

Media

Weekend Digest, May 6, 2017

May 6, 2017

Here's a collection of quick takes on interesting developments in the science news, from Saturn to a possible cure for malaria; from your liver to Sunday funnies.