plate tectonics

Still free to read the Bible

Tuesday, July 24th, 2007

There exists an elementary school that has a “reading time” for its third-grade students, in which they may read a book of their choosing. One child chose to read the Bible, and was told by the school that he may not.1 Unfortunately, I cannot honestly express surprise that this series of events happened [...]

An *Ocean* of water

Thursday, March 1st, 2007

Yesterday in science news, I read something quite exciting. Scientists have discovered “a vast water reservoir beneath eastern Asia that is at least the volume of the Arctic Ocean.”[1] I cannot believe that this is the only such subterranean water mass. Even if it is the biggest, this marks proof that there [...]

A Design Inference

Wednesday, October 11th, 2006

The spread of nuclear weapons, which can never justifiably be used in war, is certainly depressing news. There is, unexpectedly, a lighter side to the news though, however slight. Even the most ardent proponents of materialism are forced to admit that here it is only common sense to look for the difference between [...]

Lots of fossils, but why?

Thursday, October 5th, 2006

From the BBC:[1]

Norwegian scientists have discovered a “treasure trove” of fossils belonging to giant sea reptiles that roamed the seas at the time of the dinosaurs.[2]

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The researchers even found evidence of an attack on one of the creatures. An ichthyosaur tooth is embedded in a neck vertebra from one [...]

Sonar Generated Piano

Thursday, August 10th, 2006

I am not quite sure how exactly generating piano music from sonar advances volcano erruption prediction, but it does generate some interesting audio files.[1] Perhaps the lack of clarity is intentional in the press release, or perhaps its because I did not devote the time to reading it that I should have. Either [...]

earthquakes and sulfur

Wednesday, March 15th, 2006

What in plate tectonics explains the characteristic sulfur fumes surrounding an earthquake?[1] This is a question I do not see being asked, much less answered.

Mr. Axel Bojanowski. “A Continent Splits Apart” Spiegel Online 2006-03-15. http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/spiegel/0,1518,405947,00.html

The Earth’s core spins independently

Friday, August 26th, 2005

I need to read Deep Hot Biosphere[1] again. I no longer remember his ideas well enough to know how they would mesh with seismic evidence that the Earth’s core is rotating faster than the surface is.[2] This, and related research that shows that the mantle is also spinning faster, provides at least some proof [...]

New Madrid

Thursday, June 23rd, 2005

I read today an article talking about the New Madrid fault.[1] Apparently they now think that there will almost certainly (seventy percent chance) be a significant earthquake there in the next fifty years or so. The interesting thing here is that while they insist that plate tectonics is behind it, there is only one [...]