Daily Archives: December 13, 2007

Debate Emerging on Origin of Giant’s Causeway

i-8f7d99cd25a7a22978dff75f7f5fab18-giantscauseway.jpgThe rock formation depicted here is believed to have been built by the giant Fin McCool (a.k.a. Fionn Mac Cumhaill) as a causeway to Scotland allowing the giant Benandonner to cross over so the two could engage in a competition of strength. However, a newly formed group called the “Causeway Creation Committee” now asserts that the rock formation is the result of the Noachian Flood.From the Causeway Creation Committee’s web site: Continue reading Debate Emerging on Origin of Giant’s Causeway

2007 was a very, very warm year

The University of East Anglia and the Met Office’s Hadley Centre have released their global temperature estimates for the present year, in preliminary form.IT turns out that this is the seventh warmest year since 1850. Furthermore, the eleven warmest years since 1850 have all occurred during the last 13 years.In other words, it is now .. this year, this decade, this month, etc. … the warmest it has been since we’ve started keeping direct temperature records.Even conditions that tend to cool the atmosphere, such as the La Nina event we are currently experiencing, have not caused a weakening in this trend.You can get all the info referred to here.

Royal Ontario Museum Unveils Huge Dinosaur

From Dinosaurs and the Bible:

If you’re living in or is near the Ontario area, go pay a visit to the Royal Ontario Museum to get a load of the unveiling of a huge dinosaur mount that was previously hidden in the museum storage and forgotten for 40 years until it was rediscovered last year by Dr. David Evans, one of the curators of the museum. A large Barosaurus skeleton nicknamed “Gordo” is going to be on display at the museum as part of the museum’s renovated galleries of dinosaurs.[source]

Go to Dinos and the Bible to get directions to the museum.

Personal Violence Against Women Seen as Normal

173 medical staff from the emergency department of a Turkish university hospital responded to a questionnaire about domestic violence. 69.0% of the female and 84.7% of the male respondents declared that they agreed or partially agreed to at least one reason to justify physical violence.[source]

This research is published in an open access paper on BMC Public Health. From the paper: Continue reading Personal Violence Against Women Seen as Normal