Secular scientists love Ma,
but Ma doesn’t love them back

They call them Ma. “Ma” is an abbreviation of mega-annum, or a million years. Evolutionists thought all their problems would be solved by postulating as many Ma as they needed for stuff to happen, but observations do their own thing, oblivious to the needs of secular scientists.

How long can the Darwinians and moyboy physical scientists rescue their timeline by speeding up and slowing down rates between rapid events? The slow-and-gradual world picture of Charlie & Charlie* no longer fits.

*Lyell and Darwin

One point should be emphasized up front: carbon dating doesn’t love Ma either. Bénédicte Rey at Phys.org agreed in a post today that radiocarbon can only potentially date things back 50,000 years. With its rapid half-life of 5,730 years, “After 50,000 years, nothing is left—making this the limit on how far back carbon dating can probe.”

Additionally, fossils cannot be dated by radiometric methods. The standard methods that use radioactive decay don’t work for sedimentary rocks, but only for igneous rocks. That means that inferences must be drawn for dating fossils based on (1) surrounding igneous rock, which may not have been deposited concurrently, and on (2) evolutionary expectations about what kinds of creatures were living at a given time. The use of index fossils for assigning dates commits circular reasoning (see cartoon below).

Now, the news to see how whether Ma loves secular scientists like they love her.

Geology

Earth’s core is ‘leaking’ gold, study finds (Live Science, 28 May 2025). Volcanoes, we know from the current eruptions in Hawaii (Kilauea) and Italy (Mt Etna), are rapid and sudden events. Can they be sending gold out onto the crust from deep within earth’s core? This article raises the possibility, without giving dates, that some of our gold deposits began at the core-mantle boundary, far below the surface. How long did that take? They already know that diamonds can rise rapidly from the mantle in sudden, explosive kimberlite eruptions (see 7 May 2007). See also the discovery of pristine wood in a kimberlite crater, indicating it is not as old as claimed (19 Sept 2012). Volcanoes are agents of rapid change. It seems a stretch to claim slow-and-gradual migration of material under the earth, then all of a sudden, kablooey!

Learning from the ‘proto–Great Barrier Reef’ (University of Sydney, 3 June 2025). Coral reefs do not succumb to sea level rise alone; that’s the theme of this news item. It’s more complicated than that. “Reefs buckle under combined environmental stressors,” the press release says. If they have not been sure about how reefs were affected by climate and sea level after the Ice Age, how confident can they be about dates and processes millions of Darwin years ago?

Cave records show that US’s deepest river gorge Hells Canyon is only 2.1 million years old (Phys.org, 2 June 2025). The word “only” is instructive; it suggests scientists were surprised. Indeed they were.

North America’s deepest gorge, Hells Canyon, which slithers along the border of Idaho and Oregon, is a surprisingly new addition to the Earth’s ancient landscape. A recent study suggests that a monumental shift in Snake river drainage around 2.1 million years ago reshaped the topography, carving out Hells Canyon, which plunges an astonishing 2,400 m, significantly deeper than the Grand Canyon.

All dating methods require making assumptions about the unobserved past. In this article, scientists used cosmogenic nuclide dating, but that requires assumptions about exposure. The fact that this deep canyon formed “only” much more recently than they thought should raise questions about what they know about canyon formation in general. It doesn’t take long if the forces are big enough (21 June 2010). Remember the case of the Niagara-class waterfall in Iceland forming in days? (11 Feb 2015).

Paleontology

Dinosaur age tsunami revealed from tiny chunks of Japanese amber, study finds (Live Science, 15 May 2025). Tsunamis are also sudden, violent, catastrophic events. To keep Ma happy, moyboys sometimes insert rapid events to overcome her bad moods.

Scientists have discovered evidence of an ancient tsunami in Japan — which is hidden in tree amber that dates to the age of the dinosaurs. The amber samples are deformed in a particular way that suggests trees and plant debris were rapidly swept out to the ocean and sank to the seafloor around 115 million years ago, the researchers said, which the team interpreted as evidence of one or more tsunamis.

Uniformitarians should not engage in special pleading when they teach that the present is the key to the past. Has anyone in history seen tsunamis creating amber fossils? Dr Joseph Kezele, in his lecture on amber, indicated that non-uniformitarian processes, like the Genesis flood, are needed to explain the abundance and distribution of amber.

Cheeky discovery: scientists identify previously unknown soft tissue structure in dinosaurs (Univ of Alberta, 27 May 2025). This article appears to indicate more soft tissue in a dinosaur has been discovered, but the language is slightly ambiguous about whether original primordial protein was found. If the collagen is primordial, this dinosaur, like many others, could not be millions of years old. If not, the article still shows that “there’s something here that is against the currently thought of model of dinosaur muscles,” a researcher said. Dinosaurs were not supposed to resemble mammals in the structure of their cheek muscles.

Nearly complete dinosaur skull reveals a new sauropod species from East Asia (Phys.org, 3 June 2025). This news item today shares a find published in Nature Scientific Reports (23 May 2025) about a new sauropod from China. This type of sauropod doesn’t fit the usual timeline for dinosaur evolution.

Recovered from the lower part of the Xinhe Formation in Jinchuan District, Gansu Province, the Jinchuanloong niedu holotype consists of a nearly complete skull with mandible, five articulated cervical vertebrae, and 29 articulated caudal vertebrae.

Finding a complete skull and intact caudal vertebrae in rock indicates that something special happened to bury this large creature. It didn’t just roll over and lie on the ground under the weather. The researchers found evidence that the skeleton was compressed under pressure.

Evolution

Study Resolves Diatom Tree of Life, Could Offer Clues to Earth’s Puzzle (Univ of Arkansas, 3 June 2025). Special pleading is the favored strategy for these evolutionists who studied the “diatom tree of life.” Look at the team smiling as they confibulate to the public to keep Ma happy. ‘Look Ma: stuff happens!’

A new NSF-funded study led by researchers from the U of A found that diatoms evolved slowly for the first 100 million years of their existence. Then, 170 million years ago, they reached an inflection point characterized by a burst of rapid speciation orders of magnitude faster than anything that had preceded it. This included changes to their shape, size and mode of reproduction, as well as repeated movements from oceans into freshwater systems, a typically difficult barrier for aquatic species to cross.

NSF (National Science Foundation): your tax dollars at work. Creationists get no grants for their proposals of causally adequate mechanisms such as intelligence and judgment.

Planetary Science

NASA spacecraft finds solar ‘cannonballs’ may have stripped Mars of its water — proving decades-old theory (Live Science, 3 June 2025). The MAVEN spacecraft orbiting Mars has found direct evidence of sputtering high in the thin Martian atmosphere. Sputtering is the stripping of neutral atoms by the solar wind. Scientists think that large particles in the solar wind stripped away Mars’ atmosphere like “cannonballs” in a pool.

Scientists suspect this process was especially intense billions of years ago, when the sun was more active and Mars had already lost its protective magnetic field. Without that magnetic shield, the Martian atmosphere was left vulnerable to the full force of the solar wind, accelerating its erosion and pushing the planet past a tipping point where liquid water could no longer persist.

They don’t know how long it took, but how long would a thin atmosphere last unprotected from solar storms for a small planet without a magnetic field? Planetary scientists love their billions of years, but the billions of years don’t love them back (see also 31 July 2024).

Wisdom requires dropping the pursuit of relationships that are not mutual. If millions of years don’t love secular scientists, it’s time to move on.

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