“Show… me… the fossils!” — me, with apologies to Jerry Maguire and Rod Tidwell And by “new” I mean the remains of a newly-discovered species, not a newly-evolved creature that was found munching away in some marshlands. But, you probably knew that… Even if you aren’t into paleontology that much, you may remember seeing hadrosaurs, […]
No, that title isn’t meant to be a metaphor. I’m talking about actual diamonds and coal. As has been well-established, diamond is an incredibly hard, crystalline form of carbon that requires extreme heat and pressure to form. However, contrary to what you may have heard, read, been taught, or watched on TV, diamonds do not […]
As happens occasionally, I came across a “blast from the past” and thought some of my readers might appreciate it. Several years ago, I posted about David Snoke’s book, A Biblical Case for an Old Earth, and a reader commented with some follow-up questions. His name was Jason, and his questions touched on several topics […]
Have you ever gotten into a conversation about doomsday scenarios and someone (maybe you) brings up the dangers of electromagnetic pulses (EMPs)? Maybe it came up during discussions of the recent Infrastructure bill? Did you wonder how much of what was claimed about EMPs was accurate versus based on hearsay or movie lore? For example, […]
“Can it happen here? Of course it can.” — Rod Dreher, socio-political commentator, author, editor Forgive me for stating the obvious, but there is a lot of scary stuff goin’ on out there. Our government “leadership” and the many ideological influencers they are in league with (e.g., academia, media, ‘progressive’ corporations and organizations, etc.) are […]
“Extreme climate events are intensifying due to climate change and may represent overlooked drivers of biogeographic and large-scale biodiversity patterns.” — Colin Donihue et al. When I first moved from New Jersey to Florida several years ago, one of the things I found hardest to get used to — moreso even than palm trees and […]
The following excerpt follows closely after my “Creating Life in the Lab” post, as it comes from the epilogue to Fuz Rana’s Creating Life in the Lab book. This time, Dr. Rana examines what it means to “play God” and whether or not Christians should worry about scientists’ research in synthetic biology and origin-of-life scenarios […]
This month marks 10 years since Fuz Rana’s book, Creating Life in the Lab (2011) was published. I have owned a copy for awhile, of course, but it finally made it to the top of my Read List late last year. It was a little different than I expected, yet I’m not quite sure what […]
Here’s a bit of relief from the political stuff goin’ on… There are scads of interesting creatures under the sea, and some of them are rather bizarre-looking. For example, the lamprey, goblin shark, anglerfish, and blobfish are among my favorites. But, the “deep-sea blob” I want to bring to your attention today is not related […]
“The remarkable confluence of the COVID-19 pandemic with the advances in mRNA vaccines has one of two possible explanations: It’s either a fortuitous accident or a reflection of God’s providential timing and faithful provision to humanity.” — Dr. Fazale Rana, V.P. of Research and Apologetics, Reasons to Believe To be honest, I have not yet […]
