by Ed Van Gennip | Nov 28, 2023 | True Science Blog
Credit: Small Family Footprint The environment – it is where we live. It provides all our basic needs such as air, food, water, materials for clothing and shelter. Beyond that it provides materials for everything else we need, except for the energy we get from...
by Ed Van Gennip | Nov 9, 2022 | True Science Blog
What came first, the chicken or the egg? A paradox which applies to many similar things. Chickens produce eggs. Eggs grow into chickens. Did some pre-chicken drop the first chicken egg? Did some pre-chicken egg hatch into the first chicken? How about a bigger...
by Ed Van Gennip | Jul 26, 2022 | True Science Blog
Marvel movie fans will recognize the reference implied by the title of this article. “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” is a recent Marvel movie. In this movie Dr. Strange, with the help of a woman who can travel between universes, go to different universes...
by Ed Van Gennip | May 6, 2021 | True Science Blog
“Space, the final frontier” was the opening phrase of the original Star Trek series running from 1966-1969. That opening includes their mission “ … to explore strange new worlds. seek out new life and new civilizations …”. That appears to continue to be the final...
by Ed Van Gennip | Dec 26, 2020 | True Science Blog
Entropy – “lack of order or predictability; gradual decline into disorder.”, according to Oxford. A lack of order. A lack of predictability. A decline from order to disorder. Seems fairly straight forward, but is it? In nature entropy is always at work....
by Ed Van Gennip | Aug 12, 2020 | True Science Blog
The current world issue is the Corona Virus, or Covid-19. Over the past 6 months we have heard many things about it. Where it came from, what is the cure, how is it spread, who is affected, etc. Unfortunately there have been varying answers to these questions so it is...
by Ed Van Gennip | Apr 13, 2020 | True Science Blog
“It’s a Small World after All” is the name of an old Walt Disney World theme park ride. Recent events have shown this to be true. The COVID-19 (Coronavirus) has come upon the world quickly. It has been a wake-up call in many ways. It is easily spread and causing much...
by Ed Van Gennip | Oct 20, 2019 | True Science Blog
Credit: NASA In July 2013 I published a blog titled “Global Warming”. We do not hear that term today, 6 years later. Now “Climate Change” is in vogue. In 2006 Al Gore from the USA travelled around promoting something called “An Inconvenient Truth”. It was all about...
by Ed Van Gennip | Aug 7, 2019 | True Science Blog
Just 3 weeks ago an event happened you may not have heard about. July 20th was the 50th anniversary of the first men to walk on the moon! President John F. Kennedy announced to America on May 25 1961, that America would put a man on the moon before the end of the...
by Ed Van Gennip | May 13, 2019 | True Science Blog
In this article I divert from the traditional science to delve into something a little different, yet related. Please read on. The Quora website estimates there are at least 7 million full-time, working scientists around the world today. Some of these scientists look...
by Ed Van Gennip | Feb 28, 2019 | True Science Blog
U.F.O’s – Unidentified Flying Objects There have been thousands and thousands of UFO sightings over the years. Are UFO’s real? Could all these reports be hoaxes? If they are real, are they beings that we should fear or beings that have come to help us? As we...
by Ed Van Gennip | Sep 25, 2018 | True Science Blog
We humans live in four dimensions. Length, width, height, and time. We can move up and down, left and right, forward and backwards. The fourth dimension, time, always move forward. Despite many movies, which I like by the way, we cannot travel backwards in time. But...
by Ed Van Gennip | Jun 7, 2018 | True Science Blog
I do not like to rely on statistics too much as they can be skewed in different ways, but I will rely on them a little for this article as these statistics seem pretty straight forward. According to the book “100 Years of Nobel Prize (2005)”, written by Baruch Aba...
by Ed Van Gennip | Mar 27, 2018 | True Science Blog
On March 14, 2018 Dr. Stephen Hawking died at the age of 76. He was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge, the same position held by the greatest scientist ever, Sir Isaac Newton, way back in 1663. Dr. Hawking has received numerous...
by Ed Van Gennip | Feb 9, 2018 | True Science Blog
The Toronto Star, CNN, CBC, NASA, US News, UK Daily mail and many other news outlets reported on November 20 and 21, 2017 that the streaks seen on the surface of Mars are caused by flowing sand, not water. For hundreds of years scientists have been looking for flowing...
by Ed Van Gennip | Dec 11, 2017 | True Science Blog
My wife Nancy and I had the pleasure of taking care of our ‘grand-dog’, Momo, a few weekends back as our son and daughter-in-law travelled to Montreal for a conference. Momo is a West Highland Terrier. Dogs are amazing creatures. They come in a huge range of sizes and...
by Ed Van Gennip | Nov 9, 2017 | True Science Blog
The following blog entry is taken entirely from a blog by Kirk Durston. Kirk works for Power 2 Change. His training includes a Ph.D. Biophysics, M.A. Philosophy, B.Sc. Mechanical Engineering, B.Sc. Physics, 1976, and about half of the course toward a Masters degree in...
by Ed Van Gennip | Aug 18, 2017 | True Science Blog
Are there university trained Christian scientists who believe in, support and possibly teach creation – that God created everything; we did not evolve over billions of years? I ask this question due to Mr Nye’s assertion, stated below. Mr Nye, ‘The Science...
by Ed Van Gennip | Aug 3, 2017 | True Science Blog
Homo Naledi was discovered in the Rising Star cave system in South Africa in 2013. In 2015 it was declared to be a new ancestor of modern humans, approximately 2-3 million years old. It’s brain was about the size of an orange; much smaller than modern humans....
by Ed Van Gennip | Oct 17, 2016 | True Science Blog
The Museum of Natural Science and History’s website is truescience.ca. This name was selected to share TRUE SCIENCE as some science being taught and believed is not true, it is a blatant lie. In some cases people propagating the science believe it, not realizing it is...
by Ed Van Gennip | Mar 14, 2016 | True Science Blog
Are Christians generally a good or a bad, a positive or a negative, influence on society? Two prominent figures state Christians are negative or bad. These 2 figures are Richard Dawkins, a scientist who no longer practices science, just philosophy, and Bill Nye, a...
by Ed Van Gennip | Aug 27, 2015 | Did You Know?
Mutations occur frequently in nature. Many diseases are the result of genetic mutations. The number and variety increase every year. Evolutionists claim life evolved through many small changes or mutations over millions of years. The beneficial mutations survived and...
by Ed Van Gennip | Aug 27, 2015 | Did You Know?
The earth is rotating at 1,674 kilometres per hour (1,046 miles per hour). It is slowing down, thus periodically time is added (a leap second) to our clock. This last happened June 30 2015 at 7:59:59pm. Extrapolating backwards, the earth was travelling much faster in...
by Ed Van Gennip | Aug 27, 2015 | Did You Know?
The earth’s magnetic field, called the Van Allen belt, has weakened 6% in the past 150 years. If the earth were old the magnetic field would have been too strong to allow life in the not too distant past. This magnetic field decay is not factored into Carbon 14...
by Ed Van Gennip | Aug 27, 2015 | Did You Know?
The Unified Theory of the source of all matter in the universe is based on string theory. All objects, an apple for example, or even us people, are made of atoms. At one time atoms were thought to be the smallest objects, indivisible. Scientists later discovered atoms...
by Ed Van Gennip | Aug 25, 2015 | Did You Know?
In 1841 the word dinosaur was invented. Before this, these creatures where called dragons. Thus the terms mean the same thing. Many recipes for healing in middle ages called for dragon saliva or crushed bones. The epic story of Gilgamesh records him slaying the dragon...
by Ed Van Gennip | Aug 25, 2015 | Did You Know?
The Jewish calendar says the year 5769 is the year 2000 in the Julian calendar, the one most of the world uses today. The Chinese calendar came from the Babylonians around 2500 B.C. It is interesting that this calendar begins at approximately the time the flood,...
by Ed Van Gennip | Aug 25, 2015 | Did You Know?
Richard Feynman, Nobel prize in physics, said “Many scientists do believe in both science and God, the God of revelation, in a perfectly consistent way.” Alan Lightman, an M.I.T. professor stated “References to God continued in the scientific...
by Ed Van Gennip | Jul 1, 2015 | True Science Blog
June 30, 2015, 7:59:59 = 8:00:00 On June 30, 2015, at 7:59:59pm EDT, the clocks moved forward by one second, instantly. We added a leap second to our common clocks, based on the earth’s rotation around the sun, to re-align them with the real time as determined by the...
by Ed Van Gennip | Dec 14, 2014 | Did You Know?
If the universe is billions of years old the older galaxies should not be spiral; they would have lost their shape by now. But the ‘older’ galaxies have retained their shape. Spiral arms are clear indications of youth, yet many evolutionary scientists...
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