After being scrubbed and re-scheduled from this past March, the first all-female spacewalk took place the morning of Oct. 18, 2019. NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir successfully installed a 232-pound replacement for a faulty battery charge/discharge unit (BCDU) in the lab’s solar power system. It may not sound all that difficult, but it […]
In honor of this month marking the 10-year anniversary of the “A View from the Right” blog, I have decided to don my “psychic’s” hat and proclaim 10 predictions that will come true in the near future. In no particular order… 1) Trump will tweet something vague and people will choose to be offended, assuming […]
This week, we come to my final post citing information from Dr. Hugh Ross’s book, A Matter of Days: Resolving a Creation Controversy, 2nd ed. (2015). I hope you have enjoyed the series. The title of this post is intentionally a bit provocative, yes, but it is meant more to raise interest than ire. Let’s […]
“It is awe inspiring to us that God created his natural world in a way that allows us to explore the unobserved past with such remarkable clarity.” — Gregg Davidson and Ken Wolgemuth This week’s post includes another excerpt from Dr. Hugh Ross’s book A Matter of Days, 2nd ed. (2015), along with a related […]
I didn’t post one in June, but this week I’d like to continue my series of excerpts from Hugh Ross’s book A Matter of Days, 2nd ed., about scientific measurements for distance and, especially, time (e.g., the age of the Earth and certain things on it). Whereas in May we looked at radiometric dating, this […]
“Each timepiece has its own purposes and limitations…. When used outside of its intended purposes or limitations, any dating technique can produce incorrect and unreliable results. When used within its intended purposes and limitations, radiometric dating can and does serve as a reliable and trustworthy tool, just as satellite pictures and Doppler radar do in […]
It seems we have had a spate of recent discoveries in astrophysics and cosmology that got some attention in the popular press. The biggest one, of course, was the first image of an actual black hole — highlighted by its surrounding accretion disk, of course. That image became so popular that it was “honored” to […]
“Its prophetic voice has remained surprisingly contemporary, both in its particular forecasts and in its general tone of semiserious alarm.” — author/editor/publisher Martin Green Something a little different for you today… In 1946, Aldous Huxley wrote a Forward to the new edition of his Brave New World (1932). It was part retrospective, in which he […]
“If the distances are wrong, then an object may appear small and dim not because it is incredibly distant, but because it really is small and dim. And faulty distances mean that any theory based on them — such as the big bang — is faulty too!” — Andrew Rigg, freelance journalist and amateur astronomer, […]
“[The Commercial Crew Program] is one step closer to launching American astronauts on American rockets from American soil.” — NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine In Aug. 2016, I wrote about SpaceX’s repeated missions carrying cargo back-and-forth between Earth and the International Space Station (ISS) with its Dragon capsule. I also mentioned SpaceX’s plans for future manned […]
