PRINCETON

 October 27, 1746: Scottish Presbyterian pastor and theologian William Tennant obtains a charter for the College of New Jersey, which is now Princeton. He had founded the school in 1726 as a seminary to train his sons and others for ministry. Presidents of the college later included Aaron Burr, Jonathan Edwards, and Reverend John Witherspoon, who led the school to national prominence (see issue 77: Jonathan Edwards).

CRYSTALS GROW FAST

 Pegmatite crystals grow at fast pace, study says

Pegmatite crystals can grow within days or hours -- much more quickly than previously thought, say Rice University scientists who studied crystals from a pegmatite mine in Southern California and created a formula for converting chemical evaluations into growth estimates. "While we didn't expect it to be that fast, we couldn't come up with a reason why it wasn't plausible," says Patrick Phelps, an author of the study published in Nature Communications.

 Full Story: United Press International (10/7)

 There goes another idea about the earth being millions of years old!

SCIENTISTS HAVE PROBLEMS

Here are a couple of stories from the internet that show the problems scientists have with their assumptions of an old earth. They have trouble even with what should be obvious.

Stone circle in Scotland not nearly as old as archaeologists thought

Archaeologists in Scotland have acknowledged that a stone circle they identified as 3,500 to 4,500 years old earlier this month is actually a replica of ancient circles and was built by a farmer in the 1990s. "It shows the human side of the job a little bit," said Neil Ackerman, an archaeologist with the Aberdeenshire Council, about the misidentification.

LiveScience (1/21) 

   

This story is so obvious that the fossil can not be millions of years old. Soft tissue could last maybe a few hundred years but not a hundred million. Why can't they see what is right in front of them?

Well-preserved hagfish fossil dates back 100M years

A well-preserved fossil of a hagfish that lived 100 million years ago has been found in Lebanon with soft tissue present, according to findings published online in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The find offers evidence that hagfish had their slime-producing defense mechanism back then, and it also helps scientists better figure out where the creature fits in among fish.

LiveScience (1/21) 

   

RESEARCHERS CAN'T BELIEVE IN THE FLOOD

Here is the latest evidence of a world-wide flood, but the researchers have to interpret from their very old age perspective.

Giant sea creatures that filled Earth's oceans for ages began dying off in vast numbers approximately 2.6 million years ago, and researchers say supernovas may have played a role. Stellar radiation from a string of nearby star explosions would have drastically affected the animals, likely triggering the Pliocene marine megafauna extinction along with climate changes at the time, according to findings accepted for publication in Astrobiology.

LiveScience (12/12) 

130 MILLION YEARS OR MAYBE A LOT LESS

This news came across the wires today:
Blubber, skin preserved in 180M-year-old ichthyosaur fossil

Researchers have found blubber and skin preserved inside the fossil of an ichthyosaur that dates back about 180 million years. The findings, published in Nature, suggest that the marine reptile was warm-blooded and offer hints about its camouflage pattern.

There is no way blubber and skin can be preserved more that a few thousand years at best, I would be ashamed to publish such a story!

VANILLA SUPPORTS EVIDENCE OF EARLY MANKIND

Another archaeological find supporting the creation model of early mankind:
 Evidence of early vanilla use found in Bronze Age Israeli jugs

Vanilla was in use in Israel about 3,600 years ago, much earlier than previously thought, according to findings presented at the American Schools of Oriental Research annual meeting. Archaeologists detected traces in Bronze Age jugs found at the Megiddo dig site.

Science News (11/19) 

MORE EVIDENCE OF EARLY MANKIND

Here is a news article that shows early man was smarter than ape men:
Dots carved in Azerbaijani stone expose ancient game's global movement

A collection of dots carved into stone in an approximately 4,000-year-old rock-shelter in Azerbaijan is an example of a game called 58 holes, or Hounds and Jackals, previously believed to only have been played in the Near East during the Bronze Age, according to findings presented at the American Schools of Oriental Research annual meeting. "Bronze Age herders in that region must have had contacts with the Near Eastern world," said Walter Crist, the archaeologist who made the discovery.

Science News (11/16)