Can Young-Earth Creationists Find Oil?
Active vs. Passive Strategies for Combatting YEC If you haven’t read Dana Hunter’s piece in Scientific American on strategies for combatting Young-Earth Creationism (YEC) in the public sphere, then I highly […]
Category Archives: Geochemistry
Monday Minute: Oceanic Crust? Not in a Young Earth!
What geologists have learned about the ocean floor over the past 70 years completely shifted our paradigms several times. First, decommissioned submarines discovered that the seafloor was not flat, but is covered in mountains, […]
The SPICE Event: global disruption in the Late Cambrian carbon cycle
In the last post, we explored how geologists use chemostratigraphy to correlate sedimentary layers, especially limestone, from one part of the world to another. Now, I would like to provide […]
Chemostratigraphy: silent objector to ‘Flood Geology’
It all began with breakfast in the park.Years ago, when I was in the middle of writing my master’s thesis, I took my then future wife on a trip to […]
"Best evidences for a young Earth": Snelling and our salty seas, Part 3
(continued from Part 2) In case you are now exhausted by the topic of salt in the oceans, I want to reassure you: this is the light at the end […]
"Best evidences for a young Earth": Snelling and our salty seas, Part 2
(continued from Part 1)I have already concluded that attempts by Snelling, Austin, and Humphreys to estimate a maximum age of Earth’s oceans are both unscientific and inaccurate. More recent work […]
Earth’s ‘Underground Ocean’: No remnant of the Flood
I suppose every good science story deserves a creative headline. Reporting the latest research on the boundary between the upper and lower mantle, however, were catchy titles like this:• New evidence […]
"Best evidences for a young Earth": Snelling and our salty seas, Part 1
Is our universe is full of clues that it cannot be millions—let alone billions—of years old?Many young-Earth creationists are convinced this is the case, despite that no scientists are scrambling […]
RE: Comments on sediment subduction; case of the Rb-Sr decay system
Regarding the last post, Mike wrote: “Thanks for posting this, but it’s so technical that I doubt many people can follow it. Could you put in a little summary with […]
The Orinoco Flow: sediment subduction and the Lesser Antilles volcanic arc
Radiogenic isotopes and the origin of volcanic island arcsIsotopes are amazing geochemical tools. They can be used not only to date minerals radiometrically but to constrain small and large-scale geological […]
Age of Rocks 