When James Hutton in 1785 presented to the Royal Society of Edinburgh his ideas on the
Category: The (really) Ancient Earth
Omens, God’s wrath, or just plain misfortune; comets were seen by our Medieval forebears as
February 12 is Darwin Day. On this day in 1809 Abraham Lincoln was also born.
The great end of Permian extinction It seems that global catastrophes and the ensuing mass
Extremophiles – life forms that live in really hazardous conditions. Extreme events are fascinating. Extreme
I like a good detective thriller. Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and Britain’s BBC networks have produced
Earth continues to evolve. So far it has taken, notwithstanding Bishop Ussher’s different view of
The expression global extinction frequently conjures images of all life being snuffed out by an
Fossils and Strata; Relative geological time When one sedimentary layer overlies another, we can be
We don’t need to look far to see evidence that the interior of the