More The Sun and Moon
More Than a Rising Star
On his widely popular Cosmos science program in 1980, Carl Sagan described our paltry existence in pathetic terms: "We live on an insignificant planet...
BY: DAVID F. COPPEDGE
Titan Receding from Saturn Faster than Expected
Data obtained from the Cassini space probe show that Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, is receding away from Saturn a hundred times faster than scientists...
BY: JAKE HEBERT, PH.D.
If Earth Is Old, It Should Have Frozen
Secular speculations insist Earth coalesced into its current state over four billion years ago, leaving one huge problem: the young sun would have been...
BY: BRIAN THOMAS, PH.D.
More Impact
The Fossils Still Say No: The Mystery of Jawed Vertebrates
One of the greatest unsolved mysteries in the grand scheme of evolution is the transition between jawless and jawed vertebrates. In a previous article,...
BY: JEFFREY P. TOMKINS, PH.D.
The Fossils Still Say No: The Cambrian Explosion
The modern theory of evolution has its roots in Charles Darwin’s 1859 book On the Origin of Species, in which he proposed the fundamental conjecture...
BY: JEFFREY P. TOMKINS, PH.D.
Helium Retention in Zircons Demonstrates a Young Earth
Zircons are tiny crystals of zirconium silicate (ZrSiO4) that originate in igneous rock, which forms when volcanic magma cools. It’s a very stable...
BY: VERNON R. CUPPS, PH.D.