Dr. Danny R. Faulkner Articles

• What the James Webb Space Telescope Has Revealed About Distant Galaxies So Far

  

  Aug. 9, 2022

  How should creationists interpret the images from the farthest galaxies yet?

• Dark Matter Doesn’t Exist? Not so Fast!

  

  July 30, 2022

  How should creationists view the recent study that calls into question whether dark matter exists?

• Magazine Department Article

  Red River Gorge: An Astronomer in the Arches

  

  July 1, 2022 from Answers Magazine

  For astronomer Dr. Danny Faulkner, the most intriguing spot in God’s creation is far below the stars.

• Magazine Article

  No Ordinary Moon

  

  June 18, 2022 from Answers Magazine

  Sights like a lunar eclipse are possible only because of our moon’s unique relationship to the earth.

• In-Depth Article

  Does the North Star (Polaris) Prove the Earth Is Flat?

  

  May 31, 2022 from Answers in Depth

  Flat-earthers falsely claim that Polaris remains motionless in the sky as all other stars circle it. However, appearances can be deceiving.

• 5,000 Known Exoplanets and Counting

  

  March 25, 2022

  There are 5,000 known extrasolar planets, and they are a problem for evolution because they defy naturalistic origins.

• Magazine Article

  Venus: Earth’s Noxious Neighbor

  

  March 13, 2022 from Answers Magazine

  Despite some similarities, Earth and the planet next door have very different purposes.

• Young Faint Sun Paradox—A New Solution

  

  Feb. 8, 2022

  Stellar evolutionists have aimed to solve the young faint sun paradox since Carl Sagan’s attempt a half-century ago, and the solution still eludes them.

• Magazine Department Article

  Physics’ Unsolved Energy Crisis

  

  Jan. 30, 2022 from Answers Magazine

  Two fundamental laws of physics clash if we try to explain the universe’s origin without a Creator.

• Is the Universe Expanding and What Is It Expanding Into?

  

  Jan. 7, 2022

  Why astronomers believe in an expanding universe, how the universe isn’t “expanding into” anything, and the reasons biblical creationists should be careful when arguing against the big bang

• Magazine Department Article

  Looking for Life in All the Wet Places

  

  Jan. 1, 2022 from Answers Magazine

  It’s a wet solar system. Is it also dripping with life?

• Secular Alternatives to the Big Bang Are Expanding

  

  Dec. 8, 2021

  A 2019 New Scientist article, “What if there was no big bang and we live in an ever-cycling universe?” generated great discussion.

• The Primordial Lithium Problem Persists

  

  Dec. 4, 2021 from Answers in Depth

  The big bang has been the dominant cosmogony for more than a half century, but the lithium measurements in the universe do not match the model.

• Water Found Near the Edge of the (Observable) Universe

  

  Nov. 9, 2021

  Astronomers have detected water ~13 billion light-years away, which may be confirmation of biblical cosmology recorded in Genesis.

• M51-ULS-1b: The First Extragalactic Exoplanet

  

  Nov. 2, 2021

  How the first exoplanet outside our galaxy was discovered using a new technique to investigate deep space objects and what that means for life beyond the Milky Way

• Easy Come, Easy Go: Pluto’s Changing Atmosphere

  

  Oct. 12, 2021

  Why Pluto’s atmosphere changes between perihelion and aphelion in its 248-year orbit around the sun and what that means for the age of the dwarf planet

• No Beginning for the Big Bang?

  

  Oct. 2, 2021

  We at Answers in Genesis have always maintained that the big bang model is incompatible with Scripture.

• Is the Sun Shrinking?

  

  Sept. 28, 2021

  Some biblical creationists have suggested the sun is shrinking, which is unlikely—but that still doesn't mean a nuclear-powered sun is billions of years old.

• Magazine Article

  Short-Lived Comets

  

  Aug. 22, 2021 from Answers Magazine

  Comets can’t survive billions of years.

• A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words

  

  July 31, 2021 from Danny Faulkner Blog

  While we can’t see many things, there is evidence for their existence by the observable effect that they have on other things. The same is true of black holes.

• Magazine Article

  Faint Sun Paradox

  

  July 27, 2021 from Answers Magazine

  Evidence now supports astronomers’ belief that the sun’s power comes from the fusion of hydrogen into helium deep in the sun’s core, but there is a huge problem.

• Betelgeuse Is Back in the News

  

  July 5, 2021

  The star Betelgeuse drastically faded in 2019, but now it’s back to its normal, bright self—what does that mean for stellar evolution or creation?

• Magazine Article

  Is Gravity a Force?

  

  April 9, 2021

  Flat-earth proponents aim to demote gravity as a force, but they fail to account for time-honored conventions in physics informed by relativity.

• In-Depth Article

  Solving the Light Travel Time Problem

  

  Feb. 23, 2021 from Answers in Depth

  An overview of the light travel time problem, how different biblical creationists have addressed it, and the dasha solution to the problem

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