What is dark matter?
Many astronomers will tell you that it’s a mysterious substance, as yet unknown to physics. It has many strange properties, including invisibility. And the Universe contains a lot of it: there’s four to five times as much dark matter as there is ordinary matter (the stuff that makes up stars, planets, and so on). In other words, for every galaxy you see, there’s four or five galaxy’s worth of stuff that you don’t see.
But other scientists disagree with this. Read more
Why does Earth have a Moon?
Among secular astronomers, the currently-trendy view for the Moon’s origin is a giant impact.
Supposedly, early in Earth’s history, a Mars-sized object crashed into our planet. The collision produced a lot of debris, from which our Moon formed.
This model has numerous problems. There’s more than one which disproves the model entirely.
And now, there’s one more discovery to add to the list. Read more
Secular cosmologists claim that our Universe formed in a Big Bang, about 13.8 billion years ago.
Then, right after that Bang, our cosmos had a brief period of explosive expansion known as inflation. During this time, our Universe exploded outwards in size, many times faster than the speed of light.
Many non-cosmologists scratch their heads over this. How could the Universe have expanded faster than the speed of light? What was powering this alleged expansion? How did it overcome gravity?
These are excellent questions. But if you ask them, Read more
“If the Universe was created thousands of years ago, why do we see distant stars and galaxies?”
This is one of the most common questions about the creationary viewpoint. Some people see this as the strongest challenge to believing in a young Earth.
The basic issue is this: When we look out into space, most of the objects that we see are at vast distances from us. In fact, many are so far away that it seems their light would need millions or even billions of years to get here.
But we see the light from these objects today. Doesn’t this prove that the cosmos is billions of years old?
No, it doesn’t. Here’s why. Read more
Last spring, I announced that I was seeking speaking opportunities. I received (far) more than I could fulfill, but accepted the ones that I could.
No empty seats at my atheism talk at the 2016 Christian Heritage Homeschool Conference.
Ultimately I drove over 10,300 miles, speaking 64 times in 16 different states. My busiest months were May (with 21 events) and July (18 events).
I’m thankful for all of those who invited me to speak. For those invitations that I was not able to accept this year, perhaps I will be able to do so in the future!
One of the highlights of my travels was a visit with Phil Robertson of Duck Dynasty. Read more
I’ve received a lot of emails asking about the recent discovery of gravity waves.
So, here’s a brief summary of the discovery:
1. What are gravity waves? Gravitational waves are a prediction of Einstein’s General Relativity. They are ripples traveling through the fabric of spacetime itself.
Although they were predicted 100 years ago, this is the first time they have been directly detected. (These waves are very weak, so detecting them is a difficult technological challenge.)
2. What was the source of these gravity waves? To produce the waves that were detected, the best model is the collision of two large black holes. Read more
Many Christians are eager to ‘prove’ the truth of the Bible by using scientific evidence.
The Big Bang model is a very popular example of this. Many Christian authors have written books endorsing the Big Bang. And there’s at least one ministry that promotes the Big Bang as a “reason to believe” the Bible.
But this is a very dangerous approach. To justify the truth of the Bible with the Big Bang model is a fatally flawed approach. Read more
Some Christians say that we must accept the Big Bang model for two reasons:
1. It’s required by the scientific evidence.
2. Since the Big Bang model includes a beginning for the Universe, we need it to show that there must have been a Creator.
Both of these are false. Read more
Is the Big Bang good evidence that God created the Universe?
Many Christians seem to think so. But the Big Bang model is actually incompatible with Biblical Creation—for multiple reasons.
After traveling more than 3 billion miles, the New Horizons spacecraft reached Pluto earlier this month. Now Pluto is all over the news, and for good reason.
All the other planets in our Solar System had already been visited by spacecraft. Pluto was the last planet that we hadn’t yet explored.
Oh, wait. A few years ago, Pluto got demoted. It isn’t a planet anymore.
Let me re-phrase that statement then.
Pluto was the last former planet that we hadn’t yet explored.1
Even though we’re only starting2 to get back images and data from New Horizons, the results are already spectacular. Read more
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