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The Oldest Life?
How old is the world’s oldest fossil? The problem is that the term “oldest” implies a timescale, and we may not agree on the nature of that timescal…
3 years, 3 months ago
Dinogoose
An article in the Los Angeles Times about a recent fossil find began:
"If it walks like a duck and swims like a duck, it might be a dinosaur."
Th…
3 years, 4 months ago
Scientific Proof
During a radio interview on the BBC, Richard Dawkins once said, “The view that all living organisms have a common ancestor, from which they have evol…
3 years, 4 months ago
Don't Eat Red Snow
Over 2,000 years ago, Aristotle wrote about red snow. Today, red, orange and even green snow has been found on every continent. It is typically found…
3 years, 4 months ago
Darwin's Finches- No Proof of Evolution
During his visit to the Galapagos Islands Charles Darwin saw that each island was populated by finches. These birds were all very similar, yet from o…
3 years, 4 months ago
Does Our Blood Prove Evolution?
One of the early evidences for evolution, at one time found in almost every school textbook, was based upon the salt content of human blood plasma an…
3 years, 4 months ago
The Stranger Who Isn't a Stranger
Like most social insects, termites don't tolerate strangers. However, the Trichopsenius frosti beetle likes to make its living within the nest of jus…
3 years, 4 months ago
Cats
All cats seem to consume a very high fat meat diet. Unlike other carnivores, cats cannot manufacture their own taurine, so their diet is almost perfe…
3 years, 4 months ago
Not a Fish Lizard
The word ichthyosaur means fish lizard. The animal looked like a fish but appeared to be reptilian in nature.
Image: Creative Commons Attribution Sh…
3 years, 4 months ago
Trouble at Babel
For many people studying the early chapters of Genesis, the account of Babel is a troubling interlude.
Image: Bruegel’s Tower of Babel, Public Domain.
3 years, 4 months ago