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Category: Geology

• 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 →

  

• “Ice-free Arctic” wrong conclusion based on flawed geological history

  By Tas Walker An alarming headline on Science News reads, “Ice-Free Arctic May Be in Our Future, International Researchers Say“. This report provides a classic example of how researchers’ flawed understanding of earth’s geological history leads them to to seriously wrong conclusions. … 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 →

  

• Gladiator—an ‘extinct’ insect is found alive

  by David Catchpoole Extraordinarily, insects earlier thought to have been extinct for millions of years have been found thriving on a stony mountain top in Namibia.1,2 Nicknamed ‘Gladiators’ because of their ‘fearsome’ appearance and the armour that covers them as nymphs, … Continue reading →

  

• Slot Canyons, a Stunning Flood Formation

  by John D. Morris, Ph.D. We’ve all seen photos of those exquisitely beautiful and mysterious canyons with swirling, multicolored sandstone layers that look almost like marble cake. Known as “slot canyons” (their depth is much greater than their narrow width), … Continue reading →

  

• Burning Plants Tell Seeds When to Germinate

  Forest fire ash is not all useless.  It contains signaling molecules that can switch on the next generation of plants. How is it that in the spring following a forest fire, the ground comes alive with a profusion of new … Continue reading →

  

• Detecting Panic in Evolution Articles

  By David Coppedge Some claims by evolutionists sound cool, calm and collected until you see them in context. An example appeared in Science Daily and Astrobiology Magazine – a claim that life may have originated in salty, icy stalactites under the sea ice.  Need … Continue reading →

  

• The Incredible, Edible ’190 Million-Year-Old Egg’

  by Brian Thomas, M.S. Yunnan Province, China holds some very special eggs, containing the tiny bones of unborn sauropod dinosaurs. Within the Lufeng Formation, a relatively thin bed of red sediment contains these fossil eggs, mixed and buried amidst other … Continue reading →

  

• Paluxy River: The Tale of the Trails

  by John D. Morris, Ph.D. In the early days of the modern creation science movement, a favorite recent-creation argument involved dinosaur and human tracks reportedly found together along the Paluxy River near Glen Rose, Texas. The dinosaur tracks were clear, … Continue reading →

  

• Retreating Stage formation of gravel sheets in south-central Asia

  by Michael J. Oard Tall erosional remnants indicate rapid, continent-wide erosion, which is consistent with the Retreating Stage of the Flood. While the floodwaters were retreating and eroding the continents, resistant rocks were transported long distances, as has been documented for … Continue reading →

  

• Sleeping with the enemy

  Is teaching theistic evolution the solution? by Calvin Smith CMI has long pointed to the connection between atheism and evolutionary teaching. By definition all thinking atheists must believe in evolution of some sort (and its co-joined concept of millions of years of earth history) … 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 →

  

• Where Does All of the Oil Come From?

  By R. L. David Jolly Oil is a very important part of our lives.  We use oil to make gasoline and diesel fuels for our cars, trucks, trains, ships, planes and other forms of transportation.  Oil is also used to … Continue reading →

  

• Karst mountains, Guangxi, China, and Noah’s Flood

  Joseph A. from the United States writes: My question that I would like to ask is: how do you believe the Jasper Forest in South-western China was formed? As a Christian I believe fully in the Bible because it is … Continue reading →

  

• Castle Hill much younger than James Cook University age reported in Townsville Bulletin

  By Tas Walker The Townsville Bulletin published on 2 March 2013 an item about the age of Castle Hill, the iconic landmark that overlooks the North Queensland city. Written by journalist Daniel Bateman, the article reported ages calculated by Dr Carl Spandler … Continue reading →

  

• Galápagos with David Attenborough: Evolution

  by Russell Grigg Galápagos with David Attenborough is the title of a three-part Sky 3D TV series that was shown in Australia with the revised title, David Attenborough’s Galápagos. Here we examine the third episode,1 in which Sir David claims that “Galápagos … 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 →

  

• Evolutionists Scramble ‘Fossil-Egg Evidence’

  by Brian Thomas, M.S. Bird fossils do not generally ruffle paleontologist’s feathers, but some amazing specimens from China’s Jehol province—preserving eggs inside fossil bird bodies—might do just that. Researchers suggested that the bird egg features lend themselves to an evolutionary … Continue reading →

  

• Twice as wrong—and more

  Fossilized eukaryote cells and giant anomalocaridids force dramatic revisions of the evolutionary timeline The discovery of fossilized cells1 in north-west Scotland has forced a dramatic rewrite of the supposed evolutionary history of life on Earth.2 That’s because the fossil organisms were said … Continue reading →

  

• Flood Geology vs Secular Catastrophism

  What are the differences? Much is made of the debate between ‘gradualists’ like Charles Lyell and ‘catastrophists’ like Georges Cuvier in the history of geology. In the 19th century it seemed that Lyell’s gradualism won the day—it was the dominant paradigm … Continue reading →