Geology
At Science Daily: Evidence that giant meteorite impacts created the continents
At Nautilus: Life Helps Make Almost Half of All Minerals on Earth
Researchers: How plate tectonics, mountains and deep-sea sediments have maintained Earth’s ‘Goldilocks’ climate
From Evolution News: Luskin Explores Design Evidence from Geology
Can a now-lost continent shed light on the evolution of mammals?
Did glaciers cause a billion-year gap in information about the development of life?
Apparently, some people have noticed the nonsense at Nature Communications about geology as not a safe field for persons of color
We are informed at Nature Communications that geology is not a safe field for persons of color due to rock hammers
Did a magnetic field reversal doom the Neanderthals?
Casey Luskin is back, after years in the field!
The Privileged Planet, Redux
We’ve all heard about the fine-tuning of physical constants–just change them ever so slightly and a different kind of universe emerges. Then, there’s simply our location in our galaxy that allows us to see outwards to the galaxy itself, and beyond. Now, even the radioactivity in the earth’s core seems to be conducive to life. At Phys.Org there is a press release on this paper (behind paywall). “What they found is that if the radiogenic heating is more than the Earth’s, the planet can’t permanently sustain a dynamo, as Earth has done. That happens because most of the thorium and uranium end up in the mantle, and too much heat in the mantle acts as an insulator, preventing the molten Read More ›