Carbon Dioxide

Complex Life’s Narrow Requirements for Atmospheric Gases

July 1, 2019

I have visited the Dead Sea, 1,412 feet below sea level, and have climbed 14,000-foot-high mountains. In both instances I noticed a decrease in...

Design

by Hugh Ross Read

Naturalistic Evolution Challenge: Gaian Bottleneck Gets Narrower

June 17, 2019

Scientific advances continue to demonstrate our improbable planet’s fine-tuned features. In a recent issue of Science, a team of scientists led by Francis Macdonald...

Evolution

by Hugh Ross Read

Fine-Tuned India-Asia Collision Cools Earth for Human Habitation

May 6, 2019

Earth has experienced many tectonic plate collisions throughout its history. By far the most dramatic collision began 50 million years ago and continues to...

Design

by Hugh Ross Read

Earth, an Extraordinary Magnet for Life

April 15, 2019

We might take it for granted, but our planet’s magnetic field is no sure thing. A just-published research paper by three Australian astronomers shows...

Design

by Hugh Ross Read

Moist Greenhouse Threshold Doomsday

March 11, 2019

Considerable political and scientific discussion today concerns the possible effects of global warming. Not much attention, however, has been given to potential future water...

Design

by Hugh Ross Read

Tiny Habitable Zones for Complex Life

March 4, 2019

Scientists’ quest to find a habitable planet like Earth continues to drive extraterrestrial research. However, new studies show that planets capable of sustaining complex...

Design

by Hugh Ross Read

How Whales Increase Fish Stocks and Help Control Global Warming

February 25, 2019

One of the most popular blogs I wrote in 2010 discussed how the recovery of the sperm whale population from near extinction to 12,000...

Biology

by Hugh Ross Read

Blessings of the Hiawatha Impactor and the Younger Dryas

December 24, 2018

At this time of year, people everywhere celebrate the wonder of God sending his son to Earth to live, die, and be raised in...

Design

by Hugh Ross Read

Interplanetary Dust Delivery Allows Human Existence

October 22, 2018

Extraterrestrial iron dust delivery by means of exquisitely fine-tuned processes has made modern civilization possible. Scientists sought to discern the nature of an unknown...

Biology

by Hugh Ross Read

Miracles of the Mid-Pleistocene Transition, Part 3

October 15, 2018

About 800,000 years ago, a miraculous change took place on Earth. The ice age cycle transitioned from happening every 41,000 years to about every...

Biology

by Hugh Ross Read

Miracles of the Mid-Pleistocene Transition, Part 2

October 8, 2018

In part 1 of this three-part series, I wrote about how 800,000 years ago, a miraculous transition from a 41,000-year to an approximately 100,000-year...

Biology

by Hugh Ross Read

Miracles of the Mid-Pleistocene Transition, Part 1

October 1, 2018

This blog is the first of a three-part series on new scientific discoveries and research that reveal the hitherto unrecognized miraculous nature of a...

Biology

by Hugh Ross Read