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 […]
Tag Archives: Quaternary
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 […]
Monday Minute: Why on (a young) Earth do CO2 and temperature correlate?
It’s been more than a decade since An Inconvenient Truth debuted, so you are all well aware that over the past 800,000 years, periodic changes in Earth’s temperature have generally followed those in greenhouse gases […]
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 […]
Dear Ken Ham: About those kangaroo fossils…
Dear Ken Ham, In recent years, your ministry has gained unprecedented publicity by cranking its ‘apologetics’ amps all the way to eleven. Between provocative billboards, a life-sized ark, and a lawsuit over […]
Monday Minute: Flood Geology of the “Mountains of Ararat”
Part and parcel to the ‘Flood Geology’ paradigm is the proposal that Noah’s Ark ran aground in the high mountains of Turkey near the end of a recent global flood—an inference made from […]
Job’s everyday Levantine vocabulary knew nothing of a post-Flood ‘Ice Age’
Canonical context of Job’s narrative For many, the Book of Job is one of the most important and beautifully crafted compositions among religious texts, which addresses the problem of evil. Set in […]
Since the Dinosaurs Fell: Era of “New Life”
We all know the tale of the dinosaurs’ demise: some 65 million years ago, a large asteroid impacted the Earth near the modern Yucatan peninsula. The cataclysmic event resulted in […]
Drawing circles that don’t connect: Jake Hebert of AiG critiques ‘orbital tuning’
From confirmed hypothesis to logical fallacy? I began last post with an overview of Milankovitch Theory and its application in sediment cores, because the most recent issue of the Answers Research Journal has […]
Seafloor sediments, ice cores, and Milankovitch theory: paleoclimate in harmony
Eccentricity, obliquity, and precession: the longest seasons on Earth At least since the days of Isaac Newton and Johannes Kepler, astronomers have recognized that the Earth does not orbit the sun […]
Age of Rocks 