Geology is the study of the Earth, the materials of which it is made, the structure of those materials, and the processes acting upon them. However, like almost every field of modern science, it has become a battlefield for greater philosophical questions about the Earth and it’s history. The most basic question that arises from this field is the age old debate of whether or not all things continue as  [ Read More ]

“Why?” No more troubling question has ever been asked. On the universal scale, this question leaves the most august philosophers guessing. Throughout human history, some version of God has been the most common explanation for the existence of all things. But is a Creator a dodge to the great question of “why”? David Hume wrote a discussion in 1779, wherein he challenges this solution to the question of “why”. He  [ Read More ]

The physical universe teems with questions. The more we learn about it the less we seem to understand. In poetic perfection, the light of science is finding its latest stumbling block in the world of “dark matter”. Dark matter is a term used to describe the missing matter needed to model rotation of galaxies or clusters of galaxies, as a notable example. Following the well-substantiated laws of gravitation and rotational  [ Read More ]

Carl Sagan authored The Demon-Haunted World: Science As A Candle In The Dark in 1995. The book was an opus written against all of the forms of superstition and pseudo-science that Sagan despised: alien abduction, the city of Atlantis, and every sort of demon mythology. He throws all of these extremes into a group with religion of every sort, including Christianity, and then dismisses them as the primitive fairy-tales of people  [ Read More ]

Big Bang proponents would like for us to believe that the observable universe fits neatly into the floor plan laid out by their cosmological model. Never does a star or observation stray from the absolute path. Of course, in real science, astronomers know that this is not the case, and it is only the masters of overstatement that ever claim this to be the case. As an example, consider SDSS J102915+172927,  [ Read More ]

This isn’t a political blog, but I am always interested when religion, science, and politics run headlong into each other. As the presidential election season rolls around again, we get to watch how the Evolution issue is used as a “gotcha question” for candidates. The premise is simple. If a candidate challenges modern evolutionary theory, then he can be mocked as a simpleton.  If a candidate embraces evolution, then we  [ Read More ]

NASA researchers have announced a novel approach to the problem of explaining the development of life on Earth. They have found that meteorite samples show some of materials used in the building blocks required for life. The idea is that falling meteorites acted as cosmic seeds, planting ready made evolution “kits” on the Earth that led to early life.1 To be perfectly honest with you, if I was an evolutionist,  [ Read More ]

Has the Earth ever had a catastrophic encounter with a comet, moon, or planet? At first, I thought this idea to be a little wild.  However, after a little research, it is not an unreasonable idea.  The concept of the Earth interacting with another object goes back at least as far as William Whiston and his unique model for Noah’s flood: “Whiston had succeeded Isaac Newton in holding the chair  [ Read More ]

Having an equation that represents your theory is always a good idea if you want to give yourself a little scientific credibility. Not surprising then is the Drake equation, developed by Frank Drake in 1961 which predicted the likelihood of finding and communicating with extraterrestrial life. The equation says that the number of stars in the Milky Way galaxy times the fraction of stars that have planets times the number  [ Read More ]

{The following is from Robert Jastrow (1925–2008) in his book titled, God and the Astronomers. Jastrow was a leading atmospheric physicist and professor of physics and earth science at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. At one time he headed the Theoretical Division of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.} NOW THREE LINES of evidence—the motions of the galaxies, the laws of thermodynamics, and the life story of the stars—pointed to one conclusion;  [ Read More ]