How Did Earth Get Its Long-Standing Stable Climate?

In last week's blog1 I described how a careful reconstruction of temperature proxies at sites all over the world revealed that the climate stability humans……

Oceans

Phosphorus and Molybdenum Problems for Life on Other Worlds

Stymied by attempts to find life-friendly conditions on surfaces of extraterrestrial planets and moons, astrobiologists have turned to increasingly exotic sites. Two such sites are……

Requirements for Life

Present Climate Epoch Has Been Extremely Stable

One of the most outstanding and blessed features of Earth is that it has an ice age cycle where, for the past 9,000 years of……

Fine-Tuning

Science Affirms Genesis 6:3 and Human Life Span Limit

Just a year ago, I had a regular attendee in my Paradoxes Sunday school class1 who was 101 years old. He was mentally sharp and,……

Genesis

Approaching End Times Prophecy with Care

One of the most controversial topics that the Bible addresses is eschatology. This theological term literally means the study of last things-popularly known as end……

End Times

How JFK and C. S. Lewis Influenced My Life

Two men I've been reading about for virtually my entire life but for very different reasons died on the exact same day. For more than……

Events

Take Up and Read: Nicomachean Ethics

I am writing this ongoing blog series on Reflections to encourage Christians to read more vigorously and enrich their lives with Christian classics in such……

Philosophy

Virtue to Face the Challenges of Life

I have been very afraid at least four times in my life. On one occasion I fought a man who had attacked my wife in……

Philosophy

Mars’s Discoveries Showcase Earth’s Design

Earth's neighbor Mars has created a lot of discovery-driven headlines lately. In one, scientists found seasonal variation of methane in the atmosphere. In another, 3-billion-year-old……

Earth Design

Mastering Eddington’s Confirmation of General Relativity

Many people who witnessed the great eclipse of 2017 will remember it as a wondrous spectacle. But one amateur astronomer saw the event as an……

Laws of Physics

Maybe We Are Alone in the Universe

Back in the summer of 1950, famed physicist Enrico Fermi visited Los Alamos National Laboratory and discussed the possibility of interstellar travel with his colleagues……

UFOs & Extraterrestrials

Preparing Earth for Multicellular Life

My family vacationed in the California redwoods and the giant sequoias this past summer. Seeing these majestic trees towering above the surrounding landscape invokes a……

Earth Design

How Divine Simplicity Comforts the Soul, Part 1

Many people are aware of the adage that the most important thing about a person is what he or she thinks of God, for it……

How Divine Simplicity Comforts the Soul, Part 2

Bilbo Baggins once said, "But today, of all days, it is brought home to me, it is no bad thing to celebrate a simple life."1……

Is Calendar-Day Creation an Essential of the Faith? What Christian Creeds Reveal about Ancient and Traditional Church Beliefs

"In essentials unity, in nonessentials liberty, in all things charity." This is an ancient Christian principle. But what are the essentials of the Christian faith?……

The Origin of Human Chromosome 2: Another Look

In a September 2018 article, Fazale Rana discredited what is purported to be evidence for an evolutionary theory that humans descended from an "ancestral ape."……