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Prepping the Earth for the Industrial Revolution

Published on January 28, 2024 By sirrahc

This week on Science Sunday… The following citation is another from Improbable Planet by Hugh Ross, specifically the 14th chapter, “Finishing Touches”. In this particular section, Ross looks at extinction during the Devonian period and speciation during the Carboniferous. It is all fascinating, especially when one considers the multitude of factors involved that had to […]

Earth Fossils on the Moon?

Published on November 26, 2023 By sirrahc

As I mentioned in my recent “Why a Spiral Galaxy?” post, I have been slowly working my way through Improbable Planet (2016), in which Dr. Hugh Ross reviews the increasing evidence of fine-tuning in situating and preparing planet Earth for humanity. Using the analogy of building a large and complex edifice, Ross’s eighth chapter is […]

Why a Spiral Galaxy?

Published on November 5, 2023 By sirrahc

Let’s “do” a little science-ing today, shall we? I have had the book Improbable Planet by Hugh Ross in my bookcase for a few years but only now got around to reading it. Well, actually, I’m only part-way through it. But, I already found a nice snippet in the beginning chapters that I wanted to […]

When YECs Deny the Nature of Nature and Cosmic History

Published on October 13, 2019 By sirrahc

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 […]

Stellar Cooling and the Age of the Universe

Published on February 24, 2019 By sirrahc

“The increasingly precise dates determined by astronomers trouble atheists intent on explaining life by natural means alone. The dates are too recent. But at the same time, they’re far too ancient to help creationists intent on defending a six-consecutive-24-hour-creation-days interpretation of Genesis 1.” — Hugh Ross, astrophysicist, pastor, and Christian apologist As regular readers may […]

Stellar Burning and the Age of the Universe

Published on January 27, 2019 By sirrahc

“From straightforward physics — gas laws, gravitational laws, thermodynamics, and nuclear physics — come secure estimates of the age of stars, galaxies, and the cosmos itself.” — Dr. Hugh Ross, astrophysicist, pastor, and Christian apologist I had planned on doing a politics-oriented post this week. But, honestly, I’m just sick of hearing/reading about the current […]

Correcting YEC Misconceptions about the Big Bang

Published on January 20, 2019 By sirrahc

“This is what God, Yahweh, says — who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and what comes from it, who gives breath to the people on it and life to those who walk on it –” Isaiah 42:5 (HCSB) One of my favorite books by astronomer/apologist Dr. Hugh Ross […]

About That Newest Exoplanet…

Published on November 19, 2017 By sirrahc

“If scientists are able to detect gases like oxygen in the atmosphere of Ross 128 b, that could be a good indicator of biological processes on the planet.” — Molly Rubin (Quartz Media) It seems like a new exoplanet (aka “extrasolar planet”, i.e., a planet in a solar system other than ours) is found every […]