Working out when life on Earth started has always been difficult because the Earth is constantly recycling, albeit slowly, the rocks in its crust. As a consequence, the older the…
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Yet another Queensland Liberal National Party halfwit, Terry Young, elected to parliament by the Longman electorate in the most recent election, has clearly demonstrated he believes his ignorance is equivalent…
I had a very strange interaction online a couple of days ago. Some weeks ago I was invited to join a Facebook group entitled ‘Church of Hawking Year 2 AH’…
The Queensland Liberal-National Party (LNP) had its annual convention over the last few days and one of the motions passed urged a future LNP state government to establish a science…
I don’t tend to read anything written by ignoramuses, except when dealing with people like creationists and climate change deniers. I read occasional creationist drivel because I like to use…
Almost a year ago, a scientific paper appeared in the Proceedings of the US National Academy of Sciences detailing the feedback cycles which it suggested were likely to kick in…
A taxonomist is a person who studies organisms in part to work out their relationships and the classificatory framework (i.e. their taxonomy) which explains those relationships. Creationists have little understanding…
Time and again, creationists have told me that ‘evolution is only a theory’. And so it is. The problem with this assertion is not with evolution, but creationists, and their…
To explain this properly, we need to do a bit of geology. The Permian Period is an interval of geological time which began 298.9 million years ago and ended 251.9…