David Montgomery goes where most scientists might fear to tread. The University of Washington geologist and MacArthur Fellow has written a new book, “The Rocks Don’t Lie: A Geologist Investigates Noah ...

I hate to break it to you, but Noah’s Flood is not a real thing. As geologist David Montgomery wrote in his recent history, The Rocks Don’t Lie: A Geologist Investigates Noah’s Flood, the religious ...

In the ongoing conflict between science and creationism, evolution is usually a main point of contention. The idea that all life on Earth evolved from a common ancestor is a major problem for ...

Culture-war minefields await the hard scientist who dares to wander into the perceived territory of religion, and your readership tends to retreat into their corners, waving flags. When I first heard ...

While helping at a science outreach booth for a local county fair recently, I became engaged in exactly the joust I had hoped to avoid. A group of young Earth creationists who also had a ...

The flood story was explicitly cited as one of the six defining characteristics of “creation science" in Arkansas Act 590: “explanation of the earth’s geology by catastrophism, including the ...

Is the Earth really 6,000 years old? Are all living humans truly direct descendents of the crew of Noah’s Ark? Why is it a bad idea for the Commonwealth of Kentucky to become involved in supporting ...

In The Rocks Don’t Lie, David Montgomery looks to religious texts and local legends for clues about real historical events WHEN a book’s subtitle mentions a geologist and Noah’s flood, alarm bells ...

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