Why the ‘Biblical’ Ice Age is a Creationist Myth
About two years ago, my wife and I switched to a memory-foam mattress, and we couldn’t be happier. Everything claimed by the late-night advertisements is true. The mattress subtly conforms to […]
Tag Archives: Andrew Snelling
Terry Mortenson concedes: ‘Stone Age’ tools are a problem for YEC
Answers in Genesis generally does well not to acknowledge its best critics, because doing so exposes their audience to the fact that theirs is a ministry rooted in pseudoscience, which is […]
Monday Minute: Andrew Snelling’s Lost World
Dr. Snelling’s revision of Earth history looks nothing like what we find in nature. With the help of geology, though, we can put many pieces back together. In the past, Andrew […]
Can we trace rock layers across continents only because of Noah’s Flood?
How is it that certain sedimentary rock layers can be traced for hundreds to thousands of miles across large continents, unless these land masses were once covered by a global flood? Perhaps you never […]
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 […]
Is folded sedimentary rock evidence for a young Earth?
The Grand Canyon is well known for its remarkably horizontal layers, especially as viewed from the rim. But venturing outside of this National Park (or even down into the canyon), you’ll […]
Andrew Snelling proves the accuracy of radiometric dating in one graphic
Andrew Snelling overviews 64 years of research on the decay of 87Rb, only to show that we know its decay rate very accurately. Therefore, radiometric dates are likely trustworthy.
"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 […]
"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 […]
Age of Rocks 