The science comprising the study of solid Earth, the rocks of which it is composed, and the processes by which it evolves.
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Can "Seismic Blasting" from a ship induce massive earthquakes?
This YouTube video asks the question if the 2016 Kaikoura earthquake was caused by the ship the Amazon Warrior conducting "seismic blasting".
Is that even possible?
Green Party MP Steffan Browning posted on Facebook said it was off the coast of New…
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Are Easterbrook's oxygen-isotope paleo-temperature reconstructions credible?
In this video of a presentation given at a climate-skeptic Heartland Institute conference, Don Easterbrook presents his view of recent climate history. He compares his own projections of future climate with IPCC forecasts and claims them to be…
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Will the bytes of data stored in 2020 be greater than the number of grains of sand on the world's beaches?
An article in The Independent covering recent developments in Big data contains the following, suspiciously precise, claim:
By 2020, it's thought that the number of bytes will be 57 times greater than all the grains of sand on the world's…
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Have scientists found 700,000-or-more visible annual ice layers?
For people who doubt radiometric dating, layer-counting may provide hard evidence for one or another minimum age of the earth. In its question-and-answer article on how the age of the earth is calculated, the website Biologos.org states:
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Oxygen buildup in the atmosphere
It is commonly believed (or based on few evidences) that atmospheric oxygen built up because of extensive photosynthesis.
I am skeptical about this theory that biotic factors are solely responsible for creating 21% of atmosphere (around 40 million…
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Carbon 14 in Coal
The creationist video claims Carbon 14 should not be found in layers older than 90 000 years old, and yet researchers found some, and concluded it was evidence of a global flood.
In 2003 a group of researchers performed an unusual test on 10 coal…
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Did every signer of the Declaration of independence (US) said they believed that men and women were created?
According to this video, Mike Pence said:
every signer of the Declaration of independence believed that men and women were created and were endowed by that same creator.
Did they express such belief?
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Did the Quran predict that the crust is thicker under mountains?
Miracles of The Quran claims that the Quran verse 21:31:
We placed firmly embedded mountains on the earth, so it would not move under them
is describing the phenomena of a "mountain root" - a thickening of the crust under a mountain that extends…
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