Planetary magnetic fields – particularly that of mercury – are a recurring topic for DpSUs. Thursday’s article, when it eventually appeared, was called What Magnetized the Moon? In mid November in Nature there were two papers discussing possible causes of the Moon’s long-decayed magnetic field, along with another article about both papers. Curiously, Brian Thomas [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Physics’
15 Sep
A. sediba, and The Star That Should Not Exist
A. sediba, and The Star That Should Not Exist – two DpSUs for the price of one!
6 Aug
Quasars, Mitochondria and Archaeopteryx – What I Missed Because I Had Homework
There have been three Daily (pseudo)Science Updates from the Institute for Creation Research since I last had long enough to systematically make fun of them. First: Quasars Wednesday’s DpSU was called Water Near Edge of Universe Bolsters Creation Cosmology. It has in fact been so long since then that two other wordpress blogs that I [...]
28 Jul
Creationist Misinformation: Mercury
In this Daily (pseudo)Science Update from the Institute for Creation Research’s Brian Thomas returns to the field of Astronomy with a post entitled Messenger Spacecraft Confirms: Mercury Is Unique. Basically, as usual, we have a short laundry-list of things that are currently unknown, but in all reality probably will be within a few years. They are [...]
9 Jul
I take a day off…
…And Brian Thomas breaks his pattern, putting out a DpSU on a Friday, leaving me with two to catch up on. Typical…
1 Jul
Remember That Sky Map?
Here it is again: Yes, Brian Thomas is today using a similar study, which (apparently) shows that the “Universe’s Matter Is Too Clumpy“. Amusingly, the study’s primary author’s name is Shaun Thomas, which is going to make this rather difficult… Brian Thomas says: [Shaun] Thomas and his colleagues used data from the Sloan Digital Sky [...]
27 Jun
More Galaxies – DpSU
Another astronomy/cosmology related DpSU today. Apparently, “‘Wildly Unexpected’ Galaxies Defy Simple Naturalistic Explanations“. I see problems already…
12 Jun
3D Sky Map and the Latest in DpSU’s
I would hope that you are all aware of the recent (ish) map from the 2MASS Redshift Survey. If not, take a look: According to Brian Thomas, ‘Science’ Writer at the ICR, this map “Shows Big Bang Even More Unlikely“. This article is a borderline Type AE (see the Terminology page) in that Mr Thomas [...]
9 Jun
Star Struck – Quick DpSU
A survey of the centre of the Galaxy by Hubble has revealed a number of “Young Blue Stars”, which Brian Thomas claims could not exist in “standard long-age cosmologies”. They also don’t like the explanation for the star’s formation: long-age astronomers have been forced to resort to a non-explanation that is indistinguishable from an appeal [...]
4 Jun
The Earth Was Uniquely Created
I reckon I can swallow this category whole. It’s not really much, and I’ve covered much of it before. Article I: Earth Was Created For Life “It has been suggested that this page be merged into Earth Was Created in a Wonderful Location” (actually, if this was on wikipedia it wouldn’t last long for other [...]
