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Is this scientific explanation of The Bible flood accurate?
Fishing through the links mentioned over at Christianity SE, I netted this scientific paper about freshwater and marine fish: Why are there so few fish in the sea?. Apparently the bulk (96%) of marine ...
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If Earth had rings would gravity exerted by Earth decrease?
Rings wouldn't decrease the gravity much, but the exact amount would depend on the exact geometry of the rings. One reason is that the gravity of one side of the ring would partially cancel the ...
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Book on the history of Earth and life on Earth
Cowen's History of Life
Your best bet is Cowen's History of Life, it is an excellent introductory textbooks for paleontology well laid out and clearly written with introductory students in mind so a ...
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Dino-birds or "Pigeon-o-saurus"
First, let me link a variety of popular science articles which can give you some background explanation. Here are Scientific American, Smithsonian, and Audubon magazines.
The 'smoking gun' evidence ...
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What was there before the Paleolithic and where really did life start for us humans, not like homo?
Forty years ago, protein electrophoresis and other molecular types of dating were pointing to a date of 4.5 million years BP for the separation of the hominid line from the pongid (great ape) line, ...
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Is there any correlation between Australia's uranium deposits and the unique animals?
No. The reason for Australia’s unique evolution is that it was relatively isolated from the rest of the world.
Australia isn’t too radioactive either. The fact that it has more uranium deposits than ...
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Is this scientific explanation of The Bible flood accurate?
The geological, hydrological, meteorological, palaeontological, evolutionary and hydrodynamic absurdities of the literal reading of Noah's Flood could fill at least one lengthy book, in fact many ...
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Why haven't weeds overtaken the entire planet?
A weed is just a plant where you do not want it. Totally a matter of context. Tumbleweeds are non-native, introduced centuries ago. I assume you mean the invasive species of plants that have been ...
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Is there any correlation between Australia's uranium deposits and the unique animals?
Ahhhh, probably not. If, for example, you navigate to Marsupial at Wikipedia and click on the wonderful (it really really is!) DyMaxion map at the bottom of the info panel, you wiil see that a large ...
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Darwin theory about Japan and China
At the northern and southern ends of the Sea of Japan, there are only short stretches of very shallow sea separating Japan from the mainland. During the Ice Age which ended 12,000 years ago, sea ...
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Migration Routes for Animals from Asia to America
The jaguar is a close relative of the Asiatic leopard and must have had a common ancestor within the last 5 million years. The South American tapir is obviously closely related to the Malayan tapir ...
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How on "Earth" can you make all those measurements of Earth forming?
How on “Earth” can you make all those measurements of Earth forming?
One word: Zircons.
Zircons rank very high amongst the techniques used to measure the age of the Earth, and the age at which the ...
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