D. L. WHITE

Foundations

The Tool or the Bludgeon

Science — a tool for seeking truth, or a bludgeon for winning an argument? Same method, opposite uses — and the difference is entirely in what you want from it.

Explorations

The Debts or the Chains?

Why the Bible's "slavery" and the slavery you're picturing are not the same institution.

Canyon Series

The Bones

Story Three of the Canyon Series. The shop owner sorted her fossils by completeness and priced them by quality. She'd been grading burial speed for twenty-two years. Her grandmother called it a cabinet of last moments.

Diaspora Series

The Bridges or the Barries?

Diaspora Series comparative paper. Two models, one dataset. Which explains the continental rosters more cleanly — deep-time drift and rare dispersal, or five temporary land bridges opened by one master clock?

Canyon Series

The Wash

Story Two of the Canyon Series. The monsoon came early. The wash demonstrated a process the grandmother always knew. What nobody has modeled is how big the water had to be.

Deposition Series

The Convention or the Clock?

Head-to-head on nine observables. The conventional model explains each formation separately across hundreds of millions of years. The master-clock model derives deposition and carving from one velocity curve. The scorecard is published.

Deposition Series

How Deep Did the Waters Cut?

Part Three of the Deposition Series. The dust settled. The rocks remembered. Now the ice melts and the water cuts. Meltwater discharge, episodic flooding, and the canyon that should not have taken millions of years.

Deposition Series

What Did the Rocks Remember?

Part Two of the Deposition Series. The model from Part One made predictions. The Tapeats Sandstone and the Flinders Ranges have published data. Either the predictions match or they don't.

Deposition Series

When Did the Dust Settle?

Part One of the Deposition Series. The geological column looks like time. It could also look like a wind-sorting sequence under catastrophic conditions. The physics doesn't care which story you prefer.

Diaspora Series

Where Did the Kinds Walk?

Part Three of the Diaspora Series. The corridors opened. The kinds walked. The bridges closed. Every continent's fauna looks exactly like the result of a competitive tournament whose participants were determined by who made it through before the door shut.

Diaspora Series

When Did the Waters Part?

Part Two of the Diaspora Series. Every number derives from a single source: plate velocity as a function of time. The land bridges open early — though only after the new sea floor solidifies — and the conclusion is robust across the uncertainty.

Diaspora Series

Where Did the Dove Find Peace?

Part One of the Diaspora Series. If the event happened, the recovery has to work. Practically. The animals have to eat. The plants have to grow. The ground has to support weight. Not theology — engineering.