Following the last glacial maximum, at the end of the Pleistocene, there was a period of rapid change in the earth system (Björck, S. (2007)). This included; the onset of the younger Dryas cold reversal, which saw the return of glacial like conditions across the northern hemisphere and megafaunal extinction, where 35 genera of large mammals became extinct across North America (Firestone et al., 2007). One possible explanation for this change is the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis (YDIH), which…
They had not long left Alistair's house when he told Storm there was something he wanted to show him. It wasn't going to be a long detour and they wouldn't be getting out of the car. He had turned off the highway, soon after reaching the outskirts of the city. “We need to be very discreet. Best to try to look like we live around here.” “Wagonshaks Incorporated is an international company. They’re used by the government to set up and service the emergency shelters—the internment camps.” “You…
double, and vomited over his sneakers. Headlights on high beam lit up the inside of the cab. Red and blue rotating lights of the police car hurtled past them with a scream of its siren. “Did you hear what the old man said?” Alistair asked. “That meteorite came with no warning. Just the one, and it hit them!” Alone on the straights, he gazed up at the luminescent evening sky, watching the multiple bright green lights. Long tails streaming after them. Like so many matches flicked across the…
To my fellow college colleagues: Creationist and Evolutionist Is there really evidence that proves the world wide flood actually happened that is written about in the book of Genesis? The Bible tells us of the Great Flood, how it covered the whole earth. (Gen 17:7 [NKJV]) “Now the flood was on the earth forty days. The waters increased and lifted up the ark, and it was raised high above the earth.” The Bible also gives many clues to how the flood was able to cover the whole earth by God’s…
Who or what is responsible for the occurrence of life on earth, and possibly many other planets, is a question that has plagued humanity for thousands of years. Once life was present on the planet, scientists largely agree that natural selection, the theory presented by Charles Darwin, took place allowing the hundreds of various species to emerge from one common ancestor known as the last universal common ancestor (LUCA) (Christian, Brown & Benjamin 2013, p. 57). Theories of how life actually…
The universe What is the universe? How big is it? What is all part of the universe? These may be questions that you probably wonder when you read something about a planet or learn from a science book. The universe is so big that it is hard for people to understand just how big it is. The meaning of the universe is all existing matter and space considered as a whole. (Davies, Luke. "How Big Is the Universe?" How Big Is the Universe? N.p., 5 Oct. 2015. Web. 09 May 2016. Website) How gigantic is…
They had not long left Alistair's house when he told Storm there was something he should take a look at. It wasn't going to be a long detour and they wouldn't be getting out of the car. He had turned off the highway, soon after reaching the outskirts of the city. “We need to be very discreet. Best to look like we live around here.” “Wagonshaks Incorporated is an international company used by the government to set up and service emergency shelters—and—internment camps.” “You mean those emergency…
Picture yourself standing among the various dinosaurs 252 million years ago, when hurtling from the sky a massive meteorite colliding into the earth resulting in one of the largest mass extinction to come, commonly referred to as the Permian-Triassic extinction, in Earth’s history shifting Earth into a new era: The Mesozoic Era. Frequently mentioned to as “Age of Reptiles” due to the amount of reptiles that predominated the lands, however they were not alone; land-dwelling vertebrate animals and…
It has been at least 46 years since mankind first stepped onto the moon. This event is considered one of the most important accomplishments that humanity has ever done. However, at this point some people still believe that such an event did not happen, and it was all just massive propaganda used by the United States in order to bankrupt the Soviet Union at the time. This idea about the Apollo mission being fake seems illogical. My perspective about this is that the U.S actually did land on the…
Since the discovery of fossils in the early 19th century, people have wondered how the dinosaurs went extinct. Many theories have since come about, however, even today we cannot be sure what exactly whipped out these magnificent and colossal beings. In 1679, Robert Plot found and sketched a thigh bone which he believed was from the skeleton of a giant man This fossil has since disappeared, however the drawing remains and seems to suggest it was actually a part of a megalosaurus. In 1822, Mary…