http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/velikovsky/ en-us Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:27:01 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404674/posts New species might arise as a result of single rare events, rather than through the gradual accumulation of many small changes over time, according to a study of thousands of species and their evolutionary family trees. This contradicts a widely accepted theory of how speciation occurs: that species are continually changing to keep pace with their environment, and that new species emerge as these changes accrue. Known as the 'Red Queen' hypothesis, it is named after the character in Lewis Carroll's book Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There who tells a surprised Alice: "Here, you see, it takes... Nature News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404674/posts#comment Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:27:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402077/posts Dr. Henry M. Morris founded the Institute for Creation Research in 1970 with a vision to uncover and present evidence for the accuracy and authority of the Bible. For almost 40 years, ICR has distinguished itself as the leader in creation science research and education, ably assisted by the many fine scientists whom God has led to work here. These men and women have dedicated their training and skills to raising the banner for the truth of our Creator God. We would like you to meet our current on-site scientists and hear their thoughts on the purpose, significance, and importance... ICR http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402077/posts#comment Mon, 7 Dec 2009 16:33:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402578/posts The current treatment of young-age creationists in the scientific community and society at large is unfair and unwise. Scientists and philosophers of science, including old-age creationists and naturalists, should respect youngage creationists as legitimate contributors to science. Young-age creationists offer to the current origins science establishment a competing rational viewpoint that will augment fruitful scientific investigation through increased accountability for scientists, introduction of original hypotheses and general epistemic improvement... Journal of Creation http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402578/posts#comment Tue, 8 Dec 2009 03:30:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2354427/posts Immanuel Velikovsky was too eminent a scholar to be dismissed outright as a kook, and he counted some respected people among his friends... Nevertheless, his Catastrophism was rejected outright by a scientific establishment that couldn't stomach an interdisciplinary challenge to its dogmatic Uniformitarianism, even after Velikovsky's predictions about the temperature of Venus and radio activity from Jupiter were proven true. Stephen Jay Gould summed up mainstream scientific opinion, saying, "Velikovsky is neither crank nor charlatan -- although to state my opinion and to quote one of my colleagues, he is at least gloriously wrong ... Velikovsky would rebuild the science... FreeDominion http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2354427/posts#comment Sun, 4 Oct 2009 03:26:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2313021/posts Two distant planets orbiting a young star apparently smashed into each other at high speeds thousands of years ago in cosmic pileup of cataclysmic proportions, astronomers announced Monday. Telltale plumes of vaporized rock and lava leftover from the collision revealed its existence to NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, which picked up signatures from the impact in recent observations. The two-planet pileup occurred within the last few thousand years or so - a relatively recent cosmic timeframe. The smaller of the two bodies - a planet about the size of Earth's moon, according to computer models - was apparently destroyed by the... Foxnews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2313021/posts#comment Tue, 11 Aug 2009 01:39:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2308730/posts Scientists have found an unusual way to prevent our planet overheating: move it to a cooler spot. All you have to do is hurtle a few comets at Earth, and its orbit will be altered. Our world will then be sent spinning into a safer, colder part of the solar system. Guardian News and Media http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2308730/posts#comment Wed, 5 Aug 2009 15:58:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2153094/posts Venus Express has made the first detection of an atmospheric loss process on Venus's day-side. Last year, the spacecraft revealed that most of the lost atmosphere escapes from the night-side. Together, these discoveries bring planetary scientists closer to understanding what happened to the water on Venus, which is suspected to have once been as abundant as on Earth. Science Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2153094/posts#comment Tue, 23 Dec 2008 11:34:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2108678/posts Enlarge ImageHumble beginnings. An experiment in the 1950s with primordial gases and sparks produced some of life's building blocks.Credit: Ned Shaw/Indiana University/Science A once-discarded idea about how life started on our planet has been given a new life of its own, thanks to a serendipitous find. The story traces back to the early 1950s, when chemists Stanley Miller and Harold Urey of the University of Chicago in Illinois tried to recreate the building blocks of life under conditions they thought resembled those on the young Earth. The duo filled a closed loop of glass chambers and tubes with water... ScienceNOW Daily News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2108678/posts#comment Sat, 18 Oct 2008 06:08:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2088914/posts Two terrestrial planets orbiting a mature sun-like star some 300 light-years from Earth recently suffered a violent collision, astronomers at UCLA, Tennessee State University and the California Institute of Technology will report in a December issue of the Astrophysical Journal, the premier journal of astronomy and astrophysics. "It's as if Earth and Venus collided with each other," said Benjamin Zuckerman, UCLA professor of physics and astronomy and a co-author on the paper. "Astronomers have never seen anything like this before. Apparently, major catastrophic collisions can take place in a fully mature planetary system." "If any life was present on either... physorg.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2088914/posts#comment Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:06:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2023410/posts ScienceDaily (May 30, 2008) — A new analysis of the Martian rock that gave hints of water on the Red Planet -- and, therefore, optimism about the prospect of life -- now suggests the water was more likely a thick brine, far too salty to support life as we know it. The finding, by scientists at Harvard University and Stony Brook University, is detailed May 30 in the journal Science. "Liquid water is required by all species on Earth and we've assumed that water is the very least that would be necessary for life on Mars," says Nicholas J. Tosca,... Science Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2023410/posts#comment Fri, 30 May 2008 08:35:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2047921/posts I was privileged this week to preview, before its release to the public, what may well prove to be a masterpiece of the documentary film-making art—a new look at the Biblical story of the Exodus from Egypt in the light of contemporary archeology and politics in the Middle East. Filmmaker Tim Mahoney´s "The Exodus Conspiracy",[1] due to be released within a few months, seeks to demonstrate the historical accuracy of the Biblical narrative of the exodus of the children of Israel from Egypt on the basis of recent archaeological discoveries and geographic explorations. A secondary thesis of the film is... American Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2047921/posts#comment Sat, 19 Jul 2008 07:38:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1986453/posts Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Mar 03, 2008Mira: The Tale of a Giant StarThe light-years long plume of ionized gas from this red giant star provides evidence suggesting its electrical nature.NASA launched the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) spacecraft on April 28, 2003 from the Cape Canaveral launch facility in southern Florida. Equipped with advanced near and ultraviolet detectors, GALEX was scheduled to remain in orbit for about 29 months studying galaxies in the hundreds of thousands. The mission has been extended and GALEX continues to return images such as the one of Mira, a red-giant star with a trail of material extending from... thunderbolts.info http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1986453/posts#comment Sun, 16 Mar 2008 09:11:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1960651/posts Well made YouTube video on the relationship of Immanuel Velikovsky and the Electric Universe. Velikovsky, Hero or Villain? Plasma Cosmology Astronomy Many of the predictions made by Velikovsky have proven true... while the traditional astronomers and cosmologists are repeatedly surprised by the findings. YouTube video http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1960651/posts#comment Mon, 28 Jan 2008 09:51:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1863215/posts ...Now, fast forward to more recent times on Venus. We've begun to understand the story of its surface evolution largely due to the Magellan mission in the 1990s. The biggest surprise of Magellan was that the surface seems like it's all the same age. That's what I'm calling the second great transition. Something changed on Venus 600 or 700 million years ago to make the surface all the same age. If you use the word catastrophic it rubs some people the wrong way, but something dramatic happened on Venus which wiped out almost all signs of an older surface. The... Astrobiology Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1863215/posts#comment Mon, 9 Jul 2007 21:46:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1754461/posts The results, presented today at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) assembly in San Francisco, USA, were obtained thanks to VIRTIS, the Visible and Infrared Thermal Imaging Spectrometer on board Venus Express. To obtain this fundamental information about the surface temperature, VIRTIS made use of the so-called infrared spectral 'windows' present in the Venusian atmosphere. Through these 'windows' thermal radiation at specific wavelengths can leak from the deepest atmospheric layers, pass through the dense cloud curtain situated at about 60 kilometres altitude, and then escape to space, where it can be detected by instruments like VIRTIS. In this way VIRTIS succeeded... Science Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1754461/posts#comment Sat, 16 Dec 2006 17:20:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1753590/posts SAN FRANCISCO - Detailed observations from the first comet samples returned to Earth are debunking some of science's long-held beliefs on how the icy, celestial bodies form. Scientists expected the minute grains retrieved from a comet Wild 2 to be made up mostly of interstellar dust — tiny particles that flow through the solar system thought to be from ancient stars that exploded and died. Instead, they found an unusual mix of primordial material as if the solar system had turned itself inside out. Hot particles from the inner solar system migrated out to the cold, outer fringes beyond Pluto... AP on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1753590/posts#comment Thu, 14 Dec 2006 20:50:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1678394/posts Old Testament dispute continuesWas King David Judaism's King Arthur? By Richard N. Ostling AP Religion WriterAP Photo/Biblical Archaeology Review by Thomas E. Levy American archaeologist/educator Nelson Glueck's suggestions that a gate lay buried at the entrance to the Iron Age fortress of Khirbat en-Nahas were recently realized when archaeologists discovered a four-chamber gate (only two have been excavated). Radiocarbon dating fixed the date of its construction to the 10th century. Some scholars are busily debunking the Bible's account of the great King David, asking: Was he really all that great? Was he largely legendary, Judaism's version of Britain's legendary King... Decaur Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1678394/posts#comment Sat, 5 Aug 2006 19:35:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1671604/posts Scientists said Monday they have found the first widespread evidence of giant hydrocarbon lakes on the surface of Saturn's planet-size moon Titan. The cluster of hydrocarbon lakes was spotted near Titan's frigid north pole during a weekend flyby by the international Cassini spacecraft, which flew within 590 miles of the moon. Researchers counted about a dozen lakes ranging from 6 miles to 62 miles wide. Some lakes, which appeared as dark patches in radar images, were connected by channels while others had tributaries flowing into them. Several were dried up, but the ones that contained liquid were most likely a... AP - Bakersfield Californian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1671604/posts#comment Tue, 25 Jul 2006 01:56:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/786902/posts Biblical plagues and parting of Red Sea 'caused by volcano' By Jonathan Petre, Religion Correspondent (Filed: 11/11/2002) Fresh evidence that the Biblical plagues and the parting of the Red Sea were natural events rather than myths or miracles is to be presented in a new BBC documentary. Moses, which will be broadcast next month, will suggest that much of the Bible story can be explained by a single natural disaster, a huge volcanic eruption on the Greek island of Santorini in the 16th century BC. Using computer-generated imagery pioneered in Walking With Dinosaurs, the programme tells the story of how... News.telegraph.co.uk http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/786902/posts#comment Mon, 11 Nov 2002 20:44:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1737076/posts THE SEA PEOPLES All at once, they were on the move, scattered in war. They laid their hands upon the lands to the very circuit of the earth, their hearts confident and trusting; Our plans will succeed... " (Ramesses III). The name "Peoples of the Sea" comes directly from the Egyptian records, describing the Sea Peoples' exploits. As their collective name tells us, they were tribes who had developed a life style almost totally dependent upon the sea. They perfected boats, sailing and navigational techniques for fishing offshore as well as long distance travel and explored much of the Atlantic... U Colorado Edu http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1737076/posts#comment Sun, 12 Nov 2006 00:12:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1622832/posts Chunks of a comet currently splitting into pieces in the night sky will not strike the Earth next month, nor will it spawn killer tsunamis and mass extinctions, NASA officials said Thursday. The announcement, NASA hopes, will squash rumors that a fragment of the crumbling Comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 (SW 3) will slam into Earth just before Memorial Day. "There are some Internet stories going around that there's going to be an impact on May 25," NASA spokesperson Grey Hautaluoma, told SPACE.com. "We just want to get the facts out." Astronomers have been observing 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3, a comet that circles the... Space.com on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1622832/posts#comment Thu, 27 Apr 2006 23:32:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1641966/posts Ancient mega-catastrophe paved way for the dinosaurs, spawned Australian continent. Planetary scientists have found evidence of a meteor impact much larger and earlier than the one that killed the dinosaurs -- an impact that they believe caused the biggest mass extinction in Earth's history.The 300-mile-wide crater lies hidden more than a mile beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet. And the gravity measurements that reveal its existence suggest that it could date back about 250 million years -- the time of the Permian-Triassic extinction, when almost all animal life on Earth died out.Its size and location -- in the Wilkes Land... Ohio State University http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1641966/posts#comment Thu, 1 Jun 2006 21:26:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1626867/posts NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is giving astronomers their most detailed view yet of a second red spot emerging on Jupiter. For the first time in history, astronomers have witnessed the birth of a new red spot on the giant planet, which is located half a billion miles away. The storm is roughly one-half the diameter of its bigger and legendary cousin, the Great Red Spot. Researchers suggest that the new spot may be related to a possible major climate change in Jupiter's atmosphere. These images were taken with Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys on April 8 and 16, 2006 Hubble Site http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1626867/posts#comment Thu, 4 May 2006 20:44:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/813688/posts The Drama Complex The traditions of Greek tragedy as in Oedipus Rex are based upon the religious traditions of the Greeks - - the idea of destiny or a preordained fate subject to the whims of the gods. Socrates saw this fallacy in Plato’s Euthyphro, when he asked Euthyphro what was pleasing to the gods and how could someone be pious to the gods when they all wanted something different than the others. It made no sense to observe the divinity of one god and ignore the demands of another god. How could a person know what it was to... Sir Francis Dashwood Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/813688/posts#comment Sun, 29 Dec 2002 13:24:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1092484/posts The Mars rover Opportunity's examination of Martian rocks last week provided the first convincing evidence that our neighbour world was once "awash" in water, as one NASA scientist described it. But where did the water come from? And why does Mars have no liquid water now, while Earth apparently has been covered with the stuff for 4 billion years? Scientists are just beginning to piece the story together, and it goes right back to the beginning. Mars, like Earth, was formed from dusty and rocky debris left over after the sun was born 4.57 billion years ago. Initially, there were... The Toronto Star http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1092484/posts#comment Sun, 7 Mar 2004 10:21:58 GMT