Articles tagged with "calendar"

It was the Weirdest of Times

13 October 2025

We're living in strange times, with so much upheaval in the US that it's already having global repercussions.

The Rapture and the Julian Calendar

13 October 2025

As a calendar geek, I was surprised to hear calendar conversion raised as a reason the rapture didn't happen as predicted.

Happy New Year from NZ Skeptics

4 January 2021

Welcome to the first newsletter of the new year. I think we can all agree that 2020 was a fairly exceptional year, and not in a good way. 2021 has rolled around, and the common expectation is that it's going to be much better than 2020! I feel we're falling for some cognitive effect that rolling over the calendar provides us - and that maybe it's not going to turn out that way.

Dr Jim Mason - Creationist

16 August 2015

He is a nuclear physicist, whose PhD focussed on nuclear decay. He worked in electronics for the military for nearly 40 years, and argues that the earth is only 6,000 years old.

4004 BC and all that

1 August 2006

Jim Ring takes another look at Bishop Ussher's famous date for the creation.

The Effect of the Calendar on Climate

1 August 1993

John Cole, editor of Creation/Evolution, recently wrote of his tendency toward hair-pulling, in the National Centre for Science Education Reports, Vol 12 No 2 (Summer 1992).