Creation Revolution

Category: Chemistry

• ‘Acellular’ First Life?

  Dr Don Batten engages in an exchange with long-time sceptical correspondent Dr Richard M. (in red) from the United States, who writes in response to Is ATP synthase found in all life? concerning whether or not the hypothetical ‘first life’ needed to be cellular. Dear … Continue reading →

  

• Planetary Radiometric Dates 1/3 Younger

  The half-lives of radioactive isotopes may not be as well-known as thought.  One decay rate frequently used to date solar system objects had to be adjusted down to 66% of its former assumed value, impacting theories of planet formation. PhysOrg headlined, … Continue reading →

  

• Saturn’s Moon Titan Yielding Evidence of Young Solar System

  Ever since Galileo first trained his telescope on Saturn and discovered its rings in 1610, this planet has long been one of the most intriguing in solar system.  In 1655, Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens first spied Saturn’s largest moon and … Continue reading →

  

• R.L. Wysong on Evolution

    Evolution requires plenty of faith; a faith in L-proteins that defy chance formation; a faith in the formation of DNA codes which, if generated spontaneously, would spell only pandemonium; a faith in a primitive environment that, in reality, would … Continue reading →

  

• Paradigm Shift: Impact Didn’t Kill Dinosaurs

  A new study casts doubt on whether asteroid impacts led to extinctions.  It’s based on re-interpreting geological evidence used to identify impacts.  This finding, if sustained, would undermine the theory that an impact killed off the dinosaurs and a later … Continue reading →

  

• What Will the Next Biological Breakthrough Be?

  Physicists have spent enormous amounts of time and billions of dollars building supercolliders to search for fundamental particles, including the European Large Hadron Collider, which is designed to find the elusive Higgs boson.1,2 A recent article in Nature asked what kinds of discoveries … Continue reading →

  

• Ancient Raindrops Argue for Young Earth

  What was the earth’s atmosphere like when ancient rocks were forming? Was it cold and thin because the sun was supposedly dimmer back then? Researcher Sanjoy Som tried to answer these questions by analyzing tiny craters in South Africa that … Continue reading →

  

• Lab Studies Show Evolutionary ‘Evidence’ Is Merely Assumed

  A recent news feature in Nature described the work of molecular biologist Joe Thornton, who studies the biology of toxins. He found that they often operate by mimicking very specific chemicals that fit into receptor proteins like keys into door locks. He … Continue reading →

  

• Hydrothermal Vents and the Origin of Life

  EXCERPT In the 1970’s, geologists discovered hydrothermal vents, holes in the ocean floor that spew out scalding hot water. They subsequently learned that these seemingly inhospitable environments actually permitted the existence of primitive life forms. Some scientists believe that such conditions, … Continue reading →

  

• Dmitri Mendeleev

  Every science student is familiar with the Periodic Table of the Elements.  It is one of the great “patterns” in nature discovered by careful, painstaking work in chemistry by many scientists over many years.  The one who is most famous … Continue reading →

  

• How Does Our Body Know The Difference Between Good And Bad Bacteria?

  Many people may not realize that our bodies are home to trillions of bacteria.  They cover our skin, they’re in our mouths, noses, ears, throats, blood and most of our organs.  In fact, if we were to eliminate every bacteria … Continue reading →

  

• Entropy at Work: Skeptic Blunders on Thermodynamics

  This feedback features a skeptic who can’t seem to get basic definitions in Thermodynamics right, and yet accuses us of failing to study the topics we write about. Ph.D. physical chemist and CMI scientist Dr Jonathan Sarfati sets the record straight. Garth … Continue reading →

  

• A. E. Wilder-Smith

  The Intelligent Design Movement is big news today, but did you know much of the scientific reasoning behind it came from a European organic chemist?  William Dembski, author of several key books in the ID movement, credits Dr. A. E. Wilder-Smith for … Continue reading →

  

• Does CMI Misrepresent Evolution?

  Ryan K. writes in response to ‘Keep religion out of science classes’. CMI—UK/Europe speaker and writer Dominic Statham responds in black. For the most part, CMI writers seem to be in agreement with this statement [that we should keep religion out of science … Continue reading →

  

• Time Traveller’s Guide—The Nebular Hypothesis

  Travelling back through time with Dr Richard Smith’s imaginary time machine on the ABC program Australia: The Time Traveller’s Guide , we reach the nebular hypothesis at about 7 min. This was first proposed by the French mathematician, astronomer and atheist Pierre-Simon … Continue reading →