How Little Lies Go A Long Way: Henry Morris and the Missing Potassium
By whose authority? For all our lives, we have been trained to appeal to authority, and that’s not necessarily a bad thing. We learned to trust our teachers and parents, […]
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Coral reefs are too old to be young!
Corals are among the most valuable indicators of past climate conditions, due to their sensitivity to water depth, temperature, and acidity. We can infer from the age and depth of […]
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 […]
Attempt to correlate ancient sediment core to Abraham’s journey "dead in the water"
Several weeks ago, Brian Thomas of ICR offered the curious claim that a Dead Sea Sediment Core Confirms Genesis. “According to the Bible, in around 2000 B.C. what is now […]
A colorful tale of feathers: copper remnants in fossilized birds
A recent article at the Institute for Creation Research (ICR), entitled Trace Metals Study Confirms Fossil Has Original Feathers, represents the latest in a series of misguided attacks on conventional fossil […]
Quest for the Primal Couple: ICR’s response to Dennis Venema
Genetics is a topic I have avoided here for one simple reason: I am not a geneticist.* But I could not help but to comment on some of the recent […]
Nebular hypothesis unwinds? New data recovered from the Genesis spacecraft elucidate Earth’s planetisimal past
Following the latest science news, Brian Thomas at ICR commented here on a recent publication in Science regarding the Nebular Hypothesis. McKeegan et al., 2011 presented oxygen isotopic data collected from solar […]
A fish out of water: why did the shark cross the berm?
A fascinating fossil find Shark teeth are some of the most spectacular remnants of life one may come across in the field. Thus, I can only imagine the surprise on […]
The Japanese tsunami and ICR’s ‘faulty’ understanding of tectonics and uniformitarianism
The calamitous aftermath of the recent earthquake in Japan has, understandably, contributed to countless conversations concerning the proper charitable response, energy policy, and even the humbling power of nature. Nonetheless, […]
Direct radiometric dating of dinosaur bones using the U-Pb method, and ICR’s attempt to avoid the issue
Well, they’ve finally done it. In a Geology article published last month, Fassett et al. (2011) described their application of the Uranium-Lead (U-Pb) radiometric dating method directly to fossilized dinosaur […]
Age of Rocks 