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Time for Mammals

April 25, 2007

Three recent news stories about mammals involve time. Does nature time things well, or do evolutionists tell swell things about time? Time will tell. Placental mammals – Watch those assumptions: How much can you trust dates that can vary by 50%? A report in Science Daily says the new “consensus” date for the appearance of […]

Dinosaurs

Proteins Found Preserved in T. rex Bone

April 12, 2007

Preserved fragments of collagen have been found in a dinosaur bone alleged to be 68 million years old. Read all about it in Science Daily. Analysis of soft tissue found by Mary Schweitzer and team turned up the recognizable protein fragments. Protein was also detected in soft tissue from a mastodon said to be half […]

Solar System

Binary Asteroid Formidable Challenge to Theory

April 2, 2007

Two asteroids found orbiting each other in the asteroid belt are found to be mere rubble piles. They are composed of rocks loosely held together by gravity, says an article on Science Daily. French astronomers measured the rotation of the pair and their density with better accuracy, and modeled how the pair might have split […]

Solar System

The Hot Moon Epidemic Spreads to the Suburbs

March 31, 2007

A planetary symptom we might call “Enceladus fever” is apparently an epidemic. Now, we’ve found that it infects some of the Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs) beyond the orbit of Neptune. More and more small bodies are being found with internal heat that has broken out onto the surface. This is a big surprise. Small bodies […]

Fossils

Did Indians See Jurassic Beasts?

March 30, 2007

Did Indians have familiarity with Jurassic monsters, or were they good paleontologists, skilled at reconstructions? In the “Random Samples” page of news tidbits in the journal Science March 30,1 the story is told and the interpretation given: Some fossils are rare, but this one recently unearthed in eastern Oregon may be positively mythic. In life, […]

Physics

Saturn Still Serving Surprises

March 28, 2007

The Cassini Spacecraft, three-fourths of the way into its 4-year prime mission, is not running out of new things to see. Some of the latest discoveries are both awesome and strange. A Hex on the Pole: As if the south pole of Saturn, with its earth-sized hurricane (picture) were not dramatic enough, the north pole […]

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Geological Truisms Questioned

March 27, 2007

Nothing is a constant in scientific theories. Popular ideas often wind up historical anecdotes. What will happen to these two popular concepts? Snowball Earth Melts: The idea that prior to the emergence of complex life the Earth was frozen over has been given the colorful title, “Snowball Earth.” Scientists at Imperial College, London, are questioning […]

Dumb Ideas

An Extinctions Long Fuse

March 15, 2007

Some scientists are claiming that when the Isthmus of Panama was formed, an extinction event occurred two million years later. The story is reported on EurekAlert: “We may be way off-track when we search for the causes of extinctions by looking only at the time the extinctions occur in the fossil record, which is what […]

Physics

The Enceladus Problem Heats Up

March 13, 2007

How can a small icy moon produce hot-water geysers? That is the Enceladus problem: for a small moon assumed to be 4.5 billion years old to be forcefully gushing out water from its south pole was a great surprise when the Cassini spacecraft first detected the geysers in 2005 (11/28/2005). Ever since, scientists have been […]

Bible and Theology

Highlights from Biblical Archaeology News

February 9, 2007

As an intelligent-design science, archaeology continues to interpret the actions of human intelligence from the observation of physical artifacts. Here are some recent stories bearing on Bible history and archaeology. Battle of the Ages: Science had a special section on Jerusalem archaeology in the Feb 2 issue. Andrew Lawler1 critiqued the spectacular claim that the […]

Astronomy

Dating a Star is Glamorous Only in Theory

January 30, 2007

Hollywood stars may be fickle, but so are great balls of fire in outer space when it comes to understanding them. Some recent examples: Taking the pulse: The Chandra X-ray Observatory wrote a glowing report about a “textbook supernova,” which is a nice pairing of observation and theory. It added this caveat, though, about dating […]

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Stardate: Destruction Estimate Was 0.1% Correct

January 23, 2007

According to a press release from JPL’s Spitzer Space Telescope team, the famous Eagle Nebula “Pillars of Creation” are eroding fast. A supernova that was possibly witnessed by humans 1,000 to 2,000 years ago is sending a blast wave at the structures. An earlier supernova that may have occurred 6,000 years ago has probably already […]

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 […]