Natural Science Forum / Earth Science / Geology / August 2007

A research team has for the first time ever discovered DNA from living
bacteria that are more than half a million years old.
http://www.theanalystmagazine.com/pr/23669.htm
Never before has traces of still living organisms that old been found.

The Waco Mammoth Site Exhibit at the Mayborn Museum offers visitors
the only way to experience the internationally known Waco Mammoth
Site.  The paleontological site is believed to be the world's largest
concentration of Columbian Mammoths dying from a single event.  What

Creationism rests largely on a false dichotomy: "We do not believe
evolution; therefore creation must be true."  But there are many, many
different explanations for origins besides evolution and traditional
creationism.  If creationism is to be considered scientific, it must

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Why is there such a discrepancy between the mechanical versus the
thermal view of subduction?
First it was continents ploughing through the mantle.
But that didn't work.

I have a question about the geology of the Great Lakes. I have read about
how they were carved by glaciers and filled by meltwater. But, since the
glaciers covered a much larger area, why are the great lakes clustered
together? It seems like there must have been some preexisting ...

People imagine our chakras running vertically through the spine, down
into the ground, and up into the universe above us.  This is just
considered unquestionable eastern dogma, it seems.  Well think about
this?  We have all evolved from our 4 legged friends, who if they had

Houston, Texas:
Went to the local supermarket today for beer and pizza
and found it to be packed with people buying everything
in sight.

A rotating celestial body which is not solid will produce a given
deviation from a perfect sphere  taking into account
size,composition,viscosity as the main factors.A star is an example of
this -

....How you get a fracture going right the whole way around the world,
breaking up the crust.   You have to admit, it's some King-Size
crack!  Bigger than a bum-crack mooning at you.  What sort of
*TECTONIC FORCE* does that?  ...create an extensional stress on that

Yu. M. Pushcharovsky1 and D. Yu. Pushcharovsky2
(1)      Geological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pyzhevskii
per. 7, Moscow, 119017, Russia
(2)      Faculty of Geology, Moscow State University, Vorob'evy gory,

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PCC Working Group I Summary for Policymakers of "Climate Change 2007:
The Physical Science Basis"
http://www.ucar.edu/news/features/climatechange/faqs-wg1-spm.jsp
Theory: