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It was originally thought that Eris was much larger than Pluto because it is so bright. New measurements indicate that while it is heavier than Pluto it is not larger in diameter but instead has a highly reflective surface. This means that Pluto is still one of the largest dwarf planets. New...

A report just published in Nature indicates that complex organic molecules can form in stars. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature10542.html This has implications for the origin of organics found in meteorites and I think for abiogenesis research. Added in edit...

Today is both Easter Sunday and my 65th birthday. Since I could not remember Easter being on my Birthday before I looked it up and the last time Easter was on April 24 was 1859. No wonder I don't remember. Even I am not nearly that old. The next time Easter (Western Date) will be on April 24...

As we all know AV is very fond of saying It will be a hot day in Helsinki when .... Here are a couple of them. http://www.christianforums.com/t29293-16/#post54601749 "Uh-huh -- it'll be a hot day in Helsinki when you see us raise the footnotes and commentaries to the level of Scripture"...

I got a birthday message from Christian Forums today so I thought I would stop in and say HI to everyone. I didn't realize I had been gone so long. I see not much has changed. Dad is still rattling on about his "different past" and AV is still promoting his version of the Omphalous hypothesis...

The thread in which Ondaball claimed there is Evidence for a Global Flood contained a large set of links to alleged flood evidence. I have looked at most them and they are all easily refuted. Most are in the category of PRATTS, that is Points Refuted a Thousand Times. One point that I have seen...

Many of you may have seen this on the news. NASA Press release 'Death Star' Galaxy Black Hole Fires at Neighboring Galaxy So this jet had to be traveling for at least 20,000 years to reach the other galaxy. So this has been going on for a million years. But of course this happened long ago as...

Ondaball's thread with supposed evidence for the global flood posts a link to a page of alleged Flood Evidence on Answers in Genesis. I refuted some of these on that thread but one point that keeps coming up whenever a YEC posts a list of PRATTs that are supposed to be flood evidence is the...

Loudmouth suggested this thread so I thought I would start it off with one I knew from John R. Baumgardner who is one of the 50 authors in the book In Six Days: Why 50 Scientists Choose to Believe in Creation Edited by Dr. John Ashton Buamgardner is a published author and has a paper in the...

If you want to see a really cool video showing just how weird the behavior of liquids with non Newtonian viscosity can be watch Leaping Shampoo. F.B.

These were taken near Kruger Park in South Africa with a Minolata Digital Camera with a 10X opical zoom. FB

We are expecting a huge hatching of cicadas, the so-called 17 year locusts this year. http://biology.clc.uc.edu/steincarter/cicadas.htm There are periodical cicadas and non periodical cicadas. The periodical cicadas live either 13 or 17 years in the ground while the non periodical species...

One of my favorite falsifications of the global flood myth, which I first saw presented in detail by Frank Zindler, http://atheists.org/bone.pit/kiwi.html is biogeography. I thought I would post on it again since my original thread on this subject now runs to 21 pages, mostly with non...

I thought I would put the list of threads on this board that falsify the worldwide flood into one post. If any wants to add some I have left out feel free. I don't think that a single one of these falsifications of the myth of the worldwide flood has been answered by the YEC here with more than...

Trace fossil are found throughout much of the geologic column that YEC interpret as being deposited by a world wide flood. Trace fossils show animals going about there buisness during a time when YECs claim the entire world was under a flood with currents so powerfull that it rearranged all the...

Baumgardner’s admits that CPT releases about 1028 Joules of heat as gravitational potential energy. Further the entire ocean lithosphere is replaced with molten material. Just cooling the crust will release a lot of heat. The following calculations use numbers that are found easily on the web or...

Deposits of salts from evaporated seawater are called evaporites. There are many evaporite deposits around the world that could not have formed during a worldwide flood. This is a picture of salt deposits under Michigan Under much of the state the salt is 400 feet thick...

I would like to thank Jase for bringing up a really great example of YEC nonsense as alleged evidence for Noah's flood over on the "Monkey Men" thread. I decided to open a new thread since it is off topic on that one...

This subject has come up on some other threads so I thought I would give it a thread of its own. Large igneous provinces http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~polsen/nbcp/lipmc.html Figure 3.3.3.1: Global LIPs, including oceanic plateaus, volcanic passive margins, continental flood basalts...

Look posted this on the insect thread. So do other YECs here accept this? I have debated YECs who do. I think there are some major problems with this. I have trouble imagining T-Rex or velociraptors living on fruits and nuts, Smilodon Fatalis (Sabre tooth) living on grass...