Climate Change

Is climate change real?  If so, what is the cause?  Is it caused by human activity?  And can it be reversed?  If so, should it be reversed?  Many people have never stopped to consider these questions because they think they already know the answers to all of them.  After all, we have been told that climate change is real, dangerous, caused by human activity, and that we should fight it by reducing our carbon footprint.  But does science bear out such claims?  Most importantly, what does the Bible teach on this topic?

New James Webb Space Telescope Observations Challenge the Big Bang

New observations of the angular sizes of distant galaxies challenge one of the essential underlying assumptions of the big bang – that the “fabric” of space is expanding as galaxies recede.  Without an expanding space, a big bang is impossible.  These observations support a new creation-based model of cosmology – the Doppler model – which makes specific quantitative predictions about future observations.

A Refutation of Phillip Dennis’s Claims Regarding Alleged Inconsistencies in ASC

Did Phillip Dennis actually disprove the conventionality thesis (Dennis 2024)?  Did he really prove at long last what physicists over the last century have been unable to do – to establish that the one-way speed of light in any given direction must be the same as the round-trip speed of light?  Did he find any genuine inconsistency with the Anisotropic Synchrony Convention (ASC) and the young universe model upon which it is based?  Well, no to all of the above…. We show below that when the full synchrony-independent equations are used, they do not support Dennis’s conclusion but rather the opposite.  Furthermore, we will demonstrate several critical errors in Dennis’s analysis and show that several of his claims are incompatible with the physics of relativity.

Stellar Astronomy: Part 8 – Stellar Clusters and Populations

Stars often exist as binary pairs – two or more stars that orbit their common center of mass.  However, even larger numbers of stars can exist in close proximity to each other – a star cluster – which can consist of hundreds to hundreds of thousands of stars.  Single stars, binaries, and star clusters exist as part of a much larger structure – a galaxy – which can contain millions to trillions of stars.  Furthermore, the composition of stars varies slightly in a way that depends on where they are found.

Stellar Astronomy: Part 7 – Black Holes

In the previous article, we examined white dwarfs and neutron stars, objects with the mass of a star compressed into a very small volume.  Some of these objects could be what remains of a star that has collapsed in on itself.  But what happens when mass is compressed into an even smaller volume?