Astronomy Calendar 2020: What’s Up?
Venus Venus begins the year already visible in the evening sky. If you haven’t noticed it yet, Venus is the very bright star in the southwest. Venus emerged from behind the sun (superior conjunction) last…
Geology and Paleontology: The Year in Review—2019
We kicked the year off in January with a news item detailing how diamonds (which are assumed to take millions of years to form) can be made in just weeks in the lab. That shows…
Three Dictionaries. Three Words of the Year. One Theme.
Here are the three “word of the year” choices: What do these three words have in common? They reflect the change and preoccupations of an increasingly secularized culture, one that is permeated with moral relativism.…
The Case of the Bloodless Bullet Wound
I was one of millions who watched Ken Ham’s 2014 debate with Bill Nye “the Science Guy.” The topic was “Is creation a viable model of origins in today’s modern scientific era?” As a medical…
Fossil Record Evolution: Any Transitional Forms?
Is there such a thing as fossil record evolution? The central idea of evolution is that all of the kinds of living organisms on earth share a common ancestor and that over time they have…