Just-Right Timing of Oxygen on Early Earth
Just-Right Timing of Oxygen on Early Earth.
Air date: 9-11-07
Jeff Zweerink, Hugh Ross, Kenneth Samples, and Joe Aguirre
- Discoveries:
- Oxygen content sufficient for complex life appeared at optimal time.
- Resources:
- Lee R. Kump and Mark E. Barley, “Increased Subaerial Volcanism and the Rise of Atmospheric Oxygen 2.5 Billion Years Ago,†Nature 448 (August 30, 2007): 1033-36.
- Resources:
- Timothy W. Lyons, “Oxygen’s Rise Reduced,†Nature 448 (August 30, 2007): 1005-06. New method to detect extraterrestrial life?.
- Resources:
- Zhiyong Suo et al., “Porphyrin as an Ideal Biomarker in the Search for Extraterrestrial Life,†Astrobiology 7 (November 4, 2007): 605-15.
- Origins of Life.,by Fazale Rana and Hugh Ross
- Resources:
- Oxygen content sufficient for complex life appeared at optimal time.
- *Philosophy/Theology segment:
- E-mail questions:
- Doug
- Donald C. from Houston, TX:
- Do we lose apologetic ground by lending credence to multiverse theory?
- Resource:
- The Creator and the Cosmos., 3rd ed., by Hugh Ross
- Resource:
- Do we lose apologetic ground by lending credence to multiverse theory?
- Anonymous email:
- Can Hugh provide the list of additional creation accounts he mentions besides Genesis 1 and 2?
- Resources:
- Creation as Science, by Hugh Ross (p. 54)
- Scriptures related to Creation, by Hugh Ross, visit RTB’s Website
- Resources:
- Can Hugh provide the list of additional creation accounts he mentions besides Genesis 1 and 2?
- Call-in questions:
- Pat from Anchorage, AK:
- Roger from Portland, ME:
- Several questions about multiverse theory and Ockham’s razor (ontological simplicity vs. conceptual simplicity).
- Resource:
- Philosophy of Religion, by William J. Wainwright
- Resource:
- Several questions about multiverse theory and Ockham’s razor (ontological simplicity vs. conceptual simplicity).