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Helium Retention in Zircons Demonstrates a Young Earth - Dec 28, 2018
/article/helium-retention-zircons-demonstrates-young-earthVernon R. Cupps, Ph.D. - Zircons are tiny crystals of zirconium silicate (ZrSiO4) that originate in igneous rock, which forms when volcanic magma cools. It’s a very stable mineral that melts at 2550°C. Zircon is harder than quartz and almost as hard as diamond....
Baryon Conservation and the Antimatter Mystery - Oct 31, 2018
/article/baryon-conservation-and-the-antimatter-mysteryVernon R. Cupps, Ph.D. - Everything is made of matter. Matter is made of atoms, and atoms are made of smaller particles. Baryons are one of these subatomic particles, and the most common are protons and neutrons. They’re important because they make up most of the...
New Findings Challenge Secular Dating Models - Aug 16, 2018
/article/new-findings-challenge-secular-dating-modelsVernon R. Cupps, Ph.D. - Two recent news stories, one from the Carnegie Institute for Science1 and another from an issue of Nuclear Technology,2 shed light on an icon of “deep time” radioisotope dating—the Isochron model. The former reported evidence...
Radiohalos: Nature's Tiny Mysteries - Jun 29, 2018
/article/radiohalos-natures-tiny-mysteriesVernon R. Cupps, Ph.D. - Figure 1. Some typical examples of different radiohalos found in granitic rocks, from volume 2 of the Radioisotopes and the Age of the Earth (RATE) study.1 Radiohalos are minute darkened circular zones around tiny...
Excess Lithium in Milky Way Halo Stars - Apr 5, 2018
/article/lithium-milky-way-halo-starsVernon R. Cupps, Ph.D. - A recent news article1 reported that certain types of stars2 in our Milky Way Galaxy have more lithium (Li) in their stellar atmosphere than the current models predict. Before 1982, it was generally believed that Li abundances in...
Genesis and the Question of Entropy - Feb 28, 2018
/article/genesis-question-entropyVernon R. Cupps, Ph.D. - “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth” (Genesis 1:1), and His creation was “very good” (v. 31). This raises the question of why our current world is in such irreversible decay. Or, as scoffers put it, why...
Measuring the Proton's Radius - Jan 31, 2018
/article/measuring-protons-radiusVernon R. Cupps, Ph.D. - When we want to measure something in our everyday lives, we set a ruler against the object in question and read its dimensions from the markings. Things are not so simple when we attempt to measure objects as small as a proton or neutron (1...
Stellar Nucleosynthesis: Where Did Heavy Elements Come From? - Dec 29, 2017
/article/stellar-nucleosynthesis-where-did-heavyVernon R. Cupps, Ph.D. - Radiation from pulsar PSR B1509-58, a rapidly spinning neutron star, makes nearby gases glow gold (image from the Chandra X-ray observatory) and illuminates the rest of the nebula in blue and red (image from WISE: Wide-field Infrared...
Genesis Doesn't Fit with Deep Time - Sep 29, 2017
/article/genesis-doesnt-fit-with-deep-timeVernon R. Cupps, Ph.D. - The entirety of Your word is truth, and every one of Your righteous judgments endures forever. (Psalm 119:160) A recent Pew Research Center poll showed the number of Americans who professed to be Christian declined by 7.8% between 2007 and...
Did Heavy Elements Come from Supernovas? - Aug 31, 2017
/article/did-heavy-elements-come-from-supernovasVernon R. Cupps, Ph.D. - Have you ever wondered where all of Earth’s chemical elements came from? There is such a diversity of elements in the crust—ranging from the hydrogen atom with a single proton orbited by an electron to the uranium atom with 92 protons...