Tag: Milky Way
The Empty Heavens — Two Ways to Look at It
Adam Kirsch over the weekend had a thoughtful essay in the Wall Street Journal, meditating on the coming 50th anniversary of the first moon landing.
New Science Uprising Episode: “Programming Without a Programmer”?
To evolve a protein, Douglas Axe draws a comparison to seeking out — blindfolded! — a particular atom secreted away somewhere in the Milky Way.
Upright Walking and African Witch Doctors
In seeking to explain what makes humans exceptional, current evolutionists convert guesswork into a methodology, as humans did for long ages in the pre-scientific past.
Plate Tectonics: Why Life Is Served on Plates
The ground under your feet is literally moving. The continents are drifting apart near an average rate of one inch per year.
Confirming the Big Bang: The Recent Decades
The Big Bang theory also gives us an age for the universe. The latest estimate, based on several cosmological observations, is 13.80 +/- 0.02 billion years.