Last week I was at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History looking at trilobite fossils, at the same time a paper entitled “Discovery of some 400 million year-old sensory structures in the compound eyes of trilobites” was being published. Trilobites are a well-known fossil group of extinct marine invertebrate animals having an external skeleton, a […]
Archaeologists have discovered many extinct species that physically resemble us. They are known as Hominins: a member of the human lineage, more closely related to living people than to chimpanzees or other living primates. The last Hominin to go extinct was the Neanderthal. They arose about 250,000 years ago (vs. humans who appeared 200,000 years […]
A space rock streaked across the sky and exploded over central Russia on February 15 2013, raining fireballs over a vast area and causing a shock wave that smashed windows, damaged buildings and injured people. http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/15/us-russia-meteorite-idUSBRE91E05Z20130215 The earth is covered by a thick atmosphere. Anything trying to enter the earth experiences friction from the atmosphere […]
New fossil find reveals that an enigmatic seafloor dweller first described more than a decade ago was armored and much larger than its modern-day kin. See Science AAAS. The new fossils push back the origin of the entoproct lineage all the way back to the Cambrian explosion, an interval when life diversified very quickly to […]
Establishing the age of the universe requires long term observation of the cosmos, primarily from instruments on satellites. Until December 21, 2012 the best scientific estimate of the age of the universe was between: 13.62 and 13.88 billion years old. The Genesis One Code shows how Genesis contains the exact age of the universe- to […]
The Bible contains both super-natural events and natural events. The natural events are performed by God using the forces and laws of nature. The super-natural events are miraculous. In The Genesis One Code both types of events, as they pertain to the creation narrative, are discussed. It is shown that science has good explanations for […]
On November 7, 2012 new discoveries on early human behaviours were reported after discoveries made at excavations such as the one pictured above (see http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2012/11/early-humans-handed-down-toolmak.html). It is now widely accepted that anatomically modern humans – humans physically resembling us – appeared 200,000 years ago in Africa. However, they did not exhibit what we call modern […]
Do you believe that evolution should be taught in public schools, and that it should be presented as the only explanation for how the species arose? Based on statements made in the past few years by President Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney, it appears they both would answer “yes.” However, Romney’s fellow Republicans don’t […]
In Genesis we learn that most acts that brought about the universe and life are acts of formation- making something from something else, e.g. making stars from hydrogen. The whole Genesis account only contains three acts of creation – making something from nothing. In particular the very first act when everything starts is a creation […]
In physics, the fine-structure constant is a fundamental physical constant. Being a dimensionless quantity, it has constant numerical value in all systems of units equal to 1/137. The constant relates the speed of light (key to Einstein’s theory), plank constant (key to quantum mechanics) and the elementary charge and electric constant (key to electromagnetism). Why […]