Dear readers, I am writing this blog post to address the fallacious arguments presented by Dr Ben Carson with regards to the theory of evolution. My attention was recently diverted to this youtube video, where Carson gives a lecture about “the flaws in evolutionary theory”. It is complete nonsense and demonstrates Dr Carson’s limited knowledge […]
Read more "Ben Carson Presents Misinformed Arguments against Evolution"Ever since the Cassini spacecraft uncovered water plumes venting from its south poles, Enceladus has always been the subject of intriguing speculation concerning life in the solar system. Now, NASA scientists have presented remarkable evidence that this Saturnine wonder hides a global liquid ocean encircling it, between its rocky core and icy crust. The Subsurface Ocean: A […]
Read more "An Extraterrestrial Ocean Unearthed (or Unsaturned)"I dislike the term “scientism”. I think it should never be used. Science or the scientific method is not something which constitutes a worldview or which attempts to promote a dogmatic ideology or a philosophical idea. Scientists don’t believe anything. They do not have any sort of predisposition to prove anything right. In fact, a […]
Read more "My Issue with Scientism"Much concern has lately been evinced in relation to an end-of-world scenario, circulating widely on the internet. It is yet another one of those doomsday prophecies that keep propagating on social media but never actually happen. The scenario goes that a huge asteroid will smash into Earth sometime between September 15th and September 28th (probably […]
Read more "The Apocalypse of September: Yet Another False Prophecy"I am writing this post to being awareness to a recurrent Mars hoax that keeps resurfacing every year on social media. Today, I came upon this Facebook post which was shared more than 40,000 times. This classic perpetually recurring hoax keeps presenting itself rather inconveniently every year. It is complete nonsense. Mars has already made its […]
Read more "A Recurrent Mars Hoax"A very remarkable mission has finally been brought to pass by the European Space Agency! Set to be launched in 2022, the JUICE (JUpiter ICEy moons Explorer) will venture into the Jovian system, with planned flybys at Jupiter’s moons Europa, Callisto, and finally Ganymede! A very ambitious project to reconnoiter the basic lay of these […]
Read more "An Intrepid Jovian Explorer"July has got to be my favorite month of this year so far. It is not a common occurrence that major space news follow one another in such overwhelming and dazzling succession. I’m especially delighted at how space has been consistently occupying the top trends on social media so far this month. Pluto In mid-July, […]
Read more "Quite the Month for Space!"Last week, the New Horizons spacecraft went by Pluto, consummating a decade-long reconnaissance of our local cosmic backyard, yielding never-before-seen faces and features, and projecting an image of Pluto in our minds that is based in reality — an image that is of a geologically active world, rather than just a ball of frozen rock […]
Read more "July 2015: A Milestone of Cosmic Discovery"This is a painting by Joseph Wright of Derby — A natural philosopher (scientist) demonstrates a vacuum pump, from which all the air has been removed. The bird is struggling to stay alive and flutters breathlessly. The scientist with his hand over the stop-cock on the glass bowl seems about to choose whether the bird […]
Read more "The Sanctity of Reason"Out there in the furthest reaches of our solar system lies our far-flung cosmic neighbor, a small world that has endured a decade of oppression and struggle and received the verdict of planetary excommunication, just for being different. But despite 8 years of being shunned from planet-ness, Pluto has remained strong and hasn’t given up. […]
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