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  • Permian Mass Extinction Date Narrows

    Nov 18 2011 5:00 AM

    Science Daily, "Date and Rate of Earth's Most Extreme Extinction Pinpointed: Results Stem from Largest Ever Examination of Fossil Marine Species" Nov 17, 2011; … more

  • What Wiped Out the Dinosaurs? Part 2: The Effects

    Mar 21 2010 4:00 PM

    In last Monday’s article, I discussed the conclusions drawn by a panel of 41 scientists from their careful review of over twenty years’ worth of research findings concerning the cause of … more

  • What Wiped Out the Dinosaurs? Part 1: The Cause

    Mar 14 2010 4:00 PM

    They claimed their detection of iridium enrichment at the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) boundary (65.5 million years ago) implied that an asteroid, approximately 10 kilometers (6 miles) in diameter, … more

  • Mixotrophs - An Evolutionary "Nice Try"

    Dec 31 2009 4:00 PM

    Amid all the celebration last year over the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth and the 150th anniversary of his most famous book, On the Origin of Species,1 I heard little or no mention … more

  • Extinction Risks and Speciation Models

    Oct 11 2009 4:00 PM

    When human beings first arrived on the terrestrial scene, more than 8,000 species of mammals and more than 21,000 species of birds existed. Today, the number of extant species of mammals stands at … more

  • Where Did Earth Get Its Phosphorus?

    Oct 12 2008 4:00 PM

    Phosphates serve as the backbone for all nucleic acids and are the major repository of chemical energy for metabolism. The human body contains about 11,000 parts per million of phosphorus by weight. … more

  • Designed to Live, Designed to Die

    Dec 31 2007 4:00 PM

    "Why don't we see new species emerging now?" Charles Darwin faced this question nearly 150 years ago when he proposed the theory of evolution. His answer–all Earth's habitats are full.

    Whether … more

  • A Family Breakup Kills the Dinosaurs

    Oct 18 2007 4:00 PM

    In 1980 Nobel Prize-winning physicist Luis Alvarez and his geologist son Walter Alvarez proposed a provocative theory. They suggested that the Earth had been struck by an asteroid in its past to … more

  • The Dark and Bright Sides of Cosmology

    Sep 30 2007 4:00 PM

    Astrophysics has its ironies. Here’s one: Studies of the brightest galaxies in the universe led to the discovery that 99 percent of all matter is "dark matter".1 But matter is only part of the … more

  • Gamma Ray Mass Extinction

    Sep 1 2003 12:00 AM

    TNRTB Archive - Retained for reference information

    Astronomers have found new evidence for species extinctions and re-creations described in Psalm 104. For the first time a particular mass extinction … more

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