Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
Before we dip into the context of Fake News, let’s first cover the basics. The vaccine concept is generally known but let’s repeat it anyway for completeness. A vaccine involves being exposed to a variation of a pathogen that will not actually harm you. That then stimulates your immune system into developing resistance to a harmful … Read more
In addition to the news about the slowing down of the Ocean Circulation system we also have news that rising seas are causing problems in the Mississippi River Delta. There is a new study that reveals the scope of the problem. Entitled “Anatomy of Mississippi Delta growth and its implications for coastal restoration” and published within … Read more
The Too Long, Didn’t Read (TL;DR;) answer to that question is no. An article within The Washington Post by Sarah Bailey discusses a meeting being held by high-profile evangelicals to discuss their future… About 50 top leaders of major evangelical institutions will attend an invitation-only gathering next week to discuss the future and the “soul” of evangelicalism … Read more
Previously I’ve tended to highlight just three items of weird religious news that popped up in the news cycle during the past seven days, but starting last week, I’m now going in a different direction. So let’s see where it goes. Crossing The Line I was writing earlier in the week about Noah’s Ark and … Read more
Two new and quite independent studies have been published in Nature with some rather dire news concerning a slowdown of ocean circulation due to climate change. Both concern the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) that is perhaps better known as a Gulf Stream. The first provides direct evidence that it has slowed down by 15% … Read more
For some, the worldwide flood described within the book of Genesis is an accurate description of an actual historical worldwide event. Answers in Genesis, a young-earth creationist group that promotes the claim that both planet earth and also the entire universe is just 6,000 years old, explains it as follows … The Flood of Noah’s … Read more
