By Jon A. Covey, B.A., MT(ASCP)Edited by Anita K. Millen, M.D., M.P.H., M.A. Let’s start with learning what a nova is and go from there. According to one idea, a nova is a star that suddenly ejects some of its matter, flares up and emits a tremendous amount of light that is about 10,000 times brighter than […]
Continue readingCatastrophic Plate Tectonics
By Jon Covey, BA, MT (ASCP)Edited by Anita K. Millen-Covey, MD, MPH, MA If this world were created in six standard days, modified by the curse after Adam’s sin, and mauled by a global flood, what would it look like today? If this world, which many evolutionists claim, were the result of uniformitarian processes over […]
Continue readingTurbidites: A Challenge to Uniformitarianism
By Kurt Howard, M.S.Edited by Jon Covey, B.A., MT(ASCP) My physical geology professor said, “Regarding uniformitarianism, you can take it with a grain of salt.” After reviewing geology texts on the subject of turbidites, I am following the courageous professor’s advice. To paraphrase his words, I am taking uniformitarianism with a grain of sand, for […]
Continue readingArchaeopteryx: The Trump Card of Evolution
By Jon Covey, B.A., MT(ASCP)Edited by Anita Millen, M.D., M.P.H., M.A. There are six known Archaeopteryx fossil skeletons in the world and one fossil feather. In 1956, before some of these skeletons had been recognized as Archaeopteryx, Adolf Portmann, a world renowned zoologist, said that these skeletons “are documents without which the idea of evolution would not be […]
Continue readingAn Ice Age Caused by the Genesis Flood
By Jon Covey, B.A., MT(ASCP)Edited by Anita K. Millen, M.D., M.P.H., M.A. Meteorologist Michael Oard’s new book, An Ice Age Caused by the Genesis Flood, is worth reading because it harmonizes evidence for an ice age with the effects of the Genesis Flood. It is an excellent book and can be read and understood even by […]
Continue readingFossilization
Rick Balogh, professor of geology and science at Antelope Valley College, gave us an excellent presentation. Video tapes of his presentation is available. He gave permission to publish any of the material appearing in his handout, A Christian Apologetic for Creation and the Flood, for which we are very thankful. Does Fossilization Require Millions of […]
Continue readingPolonium Pleochroic Halos
By Jon Covey, B.A., MT(ASCP)Edited by Anita Millen, M.D., M.P.H., M.A. The sunburst pattern of alpha-damage trails produces a spherically colored shell in the granite crystals around the halo center. Dr. Robert V. Gentry worked as a guest scientist at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) for twelve-and-a-half years (’69-’82) through National Science Foundation grants. […]
Continue readingBook Review of the Origin of Species
by Cliff Lillo The Illustrated Origin of Species by Charles Darwin, Abridged and Introduced by Richard E. Leakey, 1979. Hill and Wang, New York. 240 pages. Charles Darwin had many strange beliefs, some of which are pointed out in the book review on the next page. One of the strangest may have been his belief that […]
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