Articles tagged with "calendar"

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

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

I've got a broad collection of items this week. I start off looking at the recent spat between a couple of prominent alleged psychic mediums and their tours around New Zealand.

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.

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

Astronomy is the science of stars and outer space stuff. Not everybody knows this and so astronomers get insulted when they get called astrologers. Astrologers will tell you that astrology is also a science, but is it?

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).