General Astrophysics Surveys - NASA Science (.gov)

In last week’s debate with Stephen Meyer on Piers Morgan Uncensored, the one where Richard Dawkins was AWOL, a moment goes by quickly where atheist Matt Dillahunty triumphantly cites unidentified “surveys.” He thinks they make his point for him: As it stands right now, the consensus of physicists — I’m talking about surveys consulting physicists broadly. And the study that I saw this morning is that 68 percent hold to Big Bang cosmology as a theory that says the universe evolves from a hot dense state that says nothing about whether there was an absolute beginning of time or not. That’s the latest study that I saw.

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researcher Isaiah Santistevan led the development of three-dimensional simulations exploring how a nuclear device could deflect or disrupt an asteroid threatening Earth. Credit: Blaise Douros/LLNL Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researchers are developing three-dimensional simulations to examine how a nuclear device could be used to deflect or potentially disrupt an asteroid threatening Earth.