How old did you say the universe is? 15 July 2020: “Now new research published in a series of papers by an international team of astrophysicists, including Neelima Sehgal, PhD, from Stony Brook University, suggest the universe is about 13.8 billion years old.” ScienceDaily 15 July 2020 27 July 2020: “Using known distances of 50 […]
Fungus unchanged for 400 million years, as reported in Botany One 29 June 2020, and Annals of Botany 24 June 2020, doi: 10.1093/aob/mcaa113. Scientists have studied thin sections of the fossil bearing Lower Devonian Rhynie chert in Scotland, which is dated as 410 million years old. They found exquisitely preserved reproductive structures, known as spore-saccule […]
Spot the error. A display at the Toronto Science Centre (Canada) on calendars leading up to the year 2000 listed an orthodox Jewish calendar which, in September of this year, transitioned from 5759 to 5760. Don’t be surprised – they forgot to mention it was 5760 AC (after Creation) and its coming up to 2000 […]
Sharp edge ring mystery reported in New Scientist 10 July 2004, p10. Photos from the Cassini probe, currently exploring Saturn and its rings, have revealed “a host of ringlets with unexpected sharp edges – a mystery, as collisions (over billions of years) between the particles should smooth out the edges.” Editorial Comment: The solution to […]
Radioactive dates in the Chinese mandarin language was a New Zealand first. We needed ‘Dennis’ to translate Creation Research evidence into Mandarin for the bulk of the people who joined us on the Field Trip to the volcanic islands of Rangitoto and Mototapu. Rangi and Moto provide a unique insight into the fallacies of radioactive […]
‘I suspect…that the Sun is 4.5 billion years old. However, given some new and unexpected results to the contrary, and some time for frantic readjustment, I suspect that we could live with Bishop Ussher’s value for the age of the Earth and Sun (approx 6,000 years). I don’t think we have much in the way […]
‘In general, dates in the “correct ball park” are assumed to be correct and are published, but those in disagreement with other data are seldom published nor are discrepancies fully explained.’ R.L. Mauger, Ph.D. (Geology) (Associate Professor, East Carolina University), ‘K-Ar ages of biotites from tuffs in Eocene rocks of the Green River, Washakie and […]
Vance Nelson made a trip to the famous Walcott Quarry excavation of the Burgess shale in the Canadian Rockies which helps provide an answer evolutionists won’t like. Vance reports the fossil containing rocks at the quarry were listed as “505 Million Years Old”; but at the visitors’ centre the same fossils were listed as “515 […]
Oldest Homo sapiens fossils found, according to reports in BBC News and Nature News 7 June 2017, ScienceDaily 8 June 2017, and Nature, 2017; 546 (7657): 289 doi: 10.1038/nature22336 8 June 2017. An international team of scientists has found a collection of fossil human bones, along with stone tools and fossils of mammals and reptiles […]
Homo naledi ten times younger, according to reports in New Scientist 25 April 2017 and BBC News, 27 April 2017. The bones named Homo naledi were discovered deep in a cave in South Africa in 2013. At the time Lee Berger, who led the team that studied the bones, claimed they could be up to […]