Creation Revolution

Category: Astronomy

• Moon Water and Magnetism Mystifies Astronomers

  By David Coppedge Two mysteries from the moon are forcing revisions to textbooks.  One concerns water in moon minerals.  The other concerns the moon’s magnetic field. Mare Basalts Surprisingly Magnetic “New research sets back date of moon’s dynamo 160 million years,” … Continue reading →

  

• Flaw in creationist solution to the Pioneer anomaly?

    NASA/Ames Research Center – Pioneer 10 In 2008, Creationist physicist and cosmologist Dr Russ Humphreys published a solution to the Pioneer anomaly in Journal of Creation (see The ‘Pioneer anomaly’ for a general introduction). The Pioneer anomaly is a small but strange deceleration of four outgoing spacecraft: … Continue reading →

  

• Trouble for Mars Lifers

  By David Coppedge Evidence disputes Mars water, let alone life.  It’s looking like a toxic place.  Besides, where would the water come from? The big mound in Gale Crater, site of the Mars Curiosity Rover, looked like a tantalizing place … Continue reading →

  

• Cosmologists Use Natural Selection to Explain Fine-Tuning of the Universe

  By David Coppedge In a mathematical tour de farce, two Oxford evolutionists have applied Darwinian natural selection to the multiverse to try to explain why it looks designed. A press release from the University of Oxford tells how evolutionary theorist Andy Gardner … Continue reading →

  

• Flaw in creationist solution to the Pioneer anomaly?

  In 2008, Creationist physicist and cosmologist Dr Russ Humphreys published a solution to the Pioneer anomaly in Journal of Creation (see The ‘Pioneer anomaly’ for a general introduction). The Pioneer anomaly is a small but strange deceleration of four outgoing spacecraft: Galileo, Ulysses, and Pioneers 10 and 11. … Continue reading →

  

• Saturn’s Rings Impacted by Meteoroids

  By David Coppedge Cassini has observed clouds of dust from meteoroids hitting the rings.  The data will “impact” theories of the rings’ origin and age. New observations have shown dust clouds from four impacts on Saturn’s rings (see JPL press release).  One … Continue reading →

  

• Major Cosmic Questions Remain Unanswered

  By David Coppedge Some basic ideas about physics and astronomy remain so mysterious, and their explanations so flexible, they may lead some to question whether they should be called “hard sciences.” It’s about time:  Most of us take time for … Continue reading →

  

• Does observational evidence indicate the universe is expanding?—part 2: the case against expansion

  by John Hartnett Evidence is presented against cosmological expansion that involves both the angular size and surface brightness of galaxies as a function of redshift. Also the cosmic microwave background radiation is discussed, its temperature as a function of redshift as … Continue reading →

  

• SETI, Said He, Isn’t Ready, Said She

  By David Coppedge The search for extra-terrestrial intelligence is like a detective story without a body.  All those new planets, but no signal—at least not one that most scientists will accept. SETI has fallen on hard times.  News reports seem to … Continue reading →

  

• Does observational evidence indicate the universe is expanding?—part 1: the case for time dilation

  In the late 1920s Hubble discovered what is now called the Hubble Law, relating the distance to the redshift of a galaxy, which is explained in terms of an expanding universe. This claim is reviewed in light of the lack … Continue reading →

  

• What’s New in the Primordial Soup?

  By David Coppedge The bubbling froth percolates with ideas about how life “emerged,” each new notion trying to outdo the last in vacuity. Feel the power:  Wham! goes the meteorite.  From this, we are told by Science Daily, life got a … Continue reading →

  

• Titan’s Methane Still Puzzles Scientists

  By David Coppedge The methane in Titan’s atmosphere should be long gone, and may be disappearing soon, planetologists say. A JPL press release states that the stability of Titan’s scattered polar lakes suggests that ethane, not methane, is the primary constituent.  If so, … Continue reading →

  

• Culture vs intelligence

  Many people have questions about race and culture, but are afraid of being labelled as ‘racist’ for asking these questions. However, there are answers that reject both racism and political correctness. Ron R., Australia, wrote in, asking: Before I start … Continue reading →

  

• Distant Starlight and the Days of Genesis 1

  How should we approach the distant starlight travel time issue? How do we argue against day-age theory? CMI’s Shaun Doyle examines these questions in today’s feedback from William L. from Australia. Dear William, Thank you for your email and your kind words. … Continue reading →

  

• Using Finagle’s Rules in Cosmology

  Fudging and finagling often underlie the confident-sounding claims of cosmologists. Finagle’s Rules prescribe ways to ameliorate Murphy’s Law in science.  They are needed because, according to Finagle, “The perversity of the Universe tends towards a maximum.”  Here are the rules: … Continue reading →

  

• Johanes Kepler (1571 – 1630)

  By David Coppedge By anyone’s measure, Johannes Kepler ranks as a gold medalist in the history of science. This great German mathematician and astronomer (contemporary with the King James Bible and the Pilgrims) discovered fundamental laws of nature that have … Continue reading →

  

• Bimbo Eruptions in the Solar System

  By David Coppedge Planetary origin theories come across as popular and charismatic, till some little moon pops off and says, “Yoo-hoo! Remember me?” Io, Io; It’s Not So Long Ago Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io is a pain in the astronomical … Continue reading →

  

• Modern science in creationist thinking

  As six-day creationists, can we know what God did when he created this vast universe? If we agree that God created the universe, and it was created in a form that is essentially like we observe today—a mature creation—very large, … Continue reading →

  

• The Planck Data and the Big Bang

  by Jake Hebert, Ph.D. On March 21, 2013, the European Space Agency (ESA) published a new image of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation, generated from data collected by the Planck space telescope. Big Bang cosmologists interpret the CMB to … Continue reading →

  

• A different way of thinking—Thomas Nagel considers the mind

  Reviewing the reviewers: how the atheists are trying to downplay and deconstruct fellow atheist Thomas Nagel’s latest book, Mind and Cosmos Picture the scene. A creationist or intelligent design proponent publishes a book questioning evolution. It gets dismissive reviews and vitriolic … Continue reading →