In November of 2010 (and not October as you see above – comets are fickle beasts) the spacecraft EPOXI (better known as Deep Impact) made a flyby of the comet 103P/Hartley (Hartley 2). It found a rather odd world – peanut shaped, for one. For many of the pictures from the flyby, go here.
Archive for June, 2011
27 Jun
More Galaxies – DpSU
Another astronomy/cosmology related DpSU today. Apparently, “‘Wildly Unexpected’ Galaxies Defy Simple Naturalistic Explanations“. I see problems already…
26 Jun
Dinosaurs! (Flood Part #2)
Arguably the most entertaining part of any creationist Global Flood model is where the dinosaurs come in to it. Indeed, as John Morris himself asks for our introductory article, How Do The Dinosaurs Fit In? Let’s find out…
24 Jun
ICR and the Time Before the Flood (Flood Part #1)
So what does the ICR believe about the Flood? Quite a lot of interesting stuff, to judge by my newly expanded (and easily updateable) page with the list of known ICR articles on the flood. There is so much stuff to wade through that this has had to become a series of articles from the [...]
23 Jun
…Or Maybe He Was Just Late (two DpSU’s)
It’s later than usual, but it is here. Brian Thomas is arguing that nature could not produce the spiders’ diving bell (see also) or the Hornets’ “well-developed heat pump system” (which is part of a system that turn ultra-violet light into something that it can use for energy). This is because that “is something that’s [...]
22 Jun
Updates – 22 June
He must be ill… No DpSU yet today (he doesn’t seem to work on weekends, but this isn’t one. And there have been a lot of other people writing recently that I haven’t covered as they haven’t even tried to talk about science, but there is no such article up as yet). As for the [...]
21 Jun
And..?
In an uncharacteristic article that makes today’s DpSU, Brian Thomas of the ICR appears to faithfully report on a study, and then makes no explicit Creationist claim about it at all! Is he ill, or are we to expect flying bacon at any moment? He does say, however, that “God made humans in His image—a [...]
20 Jun
Help! Help! (He’s) Being Opressed! – Quick DpSU June 20
Yes, folks, according to Brian Thomas, after some uppity “anti-design blogger” wrote to the Applied Mathematics Letters Journal, the “Journal Censors ‘Second Law’ Paper Refuting Evolution“. I kid you not – he really thinks that Let me go and calm down a moment. … Basically, the whole article is talking about how a paper that [...]
16 Jun
With the Return of the Solar Flares Comes Talk of the Goldilocks Zone – Quick DpSU June 16
I haven’t seen a Type Io DpSU for a (short) while, but this one just rehashes things I’ve talked about before, with a few additions. So, the solar cycle is coming back around to its peak. There has been a lot of news about that lately, with Mr Thomas taking as his sources these two [...]
14 Jun
Limits to Evolution and an Out of Place Fossil – Quick DpSU 14 June
Our first DpSU is entitled “The Cost of Adaptations Limits Evolution“. This seems to be a classic Micro/Macro Evolution story, and by my reckoning a Type AE DpSU (Misrepresented Study). Or in this case, studies. Mr Thomas is talking about two studies from a recent issue of the journal Science in which bacteria (Methylobacterium and [...]
