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Likely, Evolution May Be a Fact, Presumably

July 19, 2006

When reading evolutionary science papers, one gets the feeling there are more than the usual number of words indicating conjecture, doubt and uncertainty. We decided to check this out in the July 11 issue of Current Biology. Scans for the words perhaps, probably, might, possibly, likely, may, apparently, seem and presumably and their derivatives were […]

Intelligent Design

Evolutionists Idolize Darwin Daddy

July 18, 2006

What is it about Charles Darwin? Evolutionists seem to hold this one 19th-century scientist in higher regard than any other man in history. In print or debate, they sometimes criticize anti-evolutionists for attacking “Darwinian” evolution, arguing that evolutionary theory has come a long way since Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species by Natural […]

Amazing Facts

Eye Can See Clearly Now

July 17, 2006

The cornea has no blood vessels. That’s weird. But it’s a good thing, or we would be looking through a network of threadlike strands all the time. According to EurekAlert, scientists at Scheppens Eye Institute decided to find out how the cornea stays clear. They found that it is heavily stocked with a special protein, […]

Amazing Facts

Cell Untangles Its Own DNA

July 17, 2006

DNA is packed like spaghetti in a basketball (07/28/2004), but must constantly be accessed by transcribers, duplicators and other molecular machines. Scientists at the Karolinska Institute, according to EurekAlert, have found a complex of protein machines that know how to untangle DNA. Machines that can keep DNA from separating too early (cohesins) and keep DNA […]

Birds

Darwinism Confirmed! How? Finch Beaks Got Smaller!

July 14, 2006

Randolph E. Schmid of Associated Press (see ABC News) seems hardly able to contain his excitement. “Finches on the Galapagos Islands that inspired Charles Darwin to develop the concept of evolution,” he wrote, “are now helping confirm it by evolving.” This sounds like big news. How, exactly, are they evolving? “A medium sized species of […]

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Plate Tectonics: Are Modern Geologists Treading on Solid Ground?

July 14, 2006

Plate tectonics is the reigning theory of earth’s dynamic crust. Laymen may not realize that acceptance of plate tectonic theory came quite suddenly in the 1960s. It was like a revolution. For decades, the consensus of geological scientists was adamantly against the notion of shifting plates moving horizontally in various directions. Those who taught such […]

Fossils

Cambrian Mollusk: Does It Help Animal Evolution Story?

July 13, 2006

A soft-bodied mollusk named Odontogriphus known from the Burgess Shale, placed in the Middle Cambrian, has been described in more detail in Nature.1 If the Middle Cambrian is well after the Cambrian explosion, how can the authors claim this pushes the story of animal evolution far back into the Precambrian, before the explosion? A reporter […]

Intelligent Design

How Atheistic Is Darwinism?

July 12, 2006

Many evolutionary biologists argue that the theory of evolution is religiously neutral. Why then, does Nature, arguably the most widely read pro-evolution journal in the world, seem to go out of its way to glorify atheism and present religion as an evolutionary artifact? Clearly, whatever evolved as an adaptation by an unguided process cannot have […]

Amazing Facts

Saturn E-Ring Oxygen Bubble Blown by Enceladus

July 11, 2006

From a distance, the little moon Enceladus at Saturn looks for all the world like a leaking water balloon. The Cassini Mission just released a new photo of Enceladus that fits that description well. The plumes are faintly visible emanating from the south pole of the 300-mile-across moon as it orbits beyond the rings. A […]

Bible and Theology

Rocket Pioneer Remembered as Man of Faith

July 10, 2006

Wernher von Braun (1912-1977) deserves a good reputation, said Anthony Young in an article for The Space Review. He was loved and admired by the people who worked with him but vilified by others because of his involvement with the German V2 rocket. Young desired to set the record straight about his integrity. To round […]

Politics and Ethics

Science Attacked by Mother Nature of the Spiritual Left

July 10, 2006

“Think only the religious right is anti-science? How about the spiritual left?” asks Lee M. Silver in The Scientist. His article details the holistic thinking invading much of popular culture and university student minds, that pictures nature as a benevolent super-organism (with usually feminine characteristics). The article is an excerpt from his book […]

Amazing Facts

Why Your Knuckles Pop

July 10, 2006

Science reporter Corey Binns occasionally decorates LiveScience with articles about the human body that are informational as well as amusing. His latest is about cracking knuckles and creaking joints. We have four kinds of joints (pivot, ball-and-socket, sliding and hinge), which he illustrates with diagrams that look like machinery. The pops and creaking noises, he […]

Education

Darwinists Foment Civil Disobedience Against Questioning Darwinism

July 8, 2006

The new science standards in Kansas require students to learn more about evolution, including evidence for and against it (see Discovery Institute press release). The standards specifically exclude the teaching of intelligent design theory. To some activist groups, however, this requirement is so intolerable, they want teachers to disobey it. According to Evolution News, there […]

Human Body

Evolving Consciousness Without a Soul

July 7, 2006

A paper tackling the theory of consciousness begins, Any scientific study of consciousness is based on the premise that phenomenal experience is entailed by neuronal activity in the brain. Given this premise, an adequate theory of consciousness must be consistent with physics and with evolutionary principles. Nonphysical or dualistic forces or processes must be excluded, […]

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Nature Gives Top Blog Honors to Radical Atheists

July 6, 2006

P. Z. Myers (U of Minnesota) has been one of the most foul-mouthed critics of creation, intelligent design and religion in general. He has said that Abraham was worse than Hitler (see Evolution News). He has ridiculed the crucifixion of Christ (see Evolution News). His opinion on how to treat anti-evolutionists: “I say, screw the […]

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