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Bio-Darwinist Beats Up On Psycho-Darwinists

June 26, 2009

Evolution of rape? No way. Sharon Begley won’t let the evolutionary psychologists get away with their tales about how rapists, molesters, and cheaters can’t help themselves because evolution made them that way. The Science Magazine blog Origins seems to be cheering her on. Science writer Sharon Begley, who in 2007 returned to her old job […]

Media

Science Reporters Need to Bark More

June 25, 2009

“Cheerleader or watchdog?” That’s the title of this week’s editorial in Nature1 opening a feature on science journalism. Science reporters are an aid to scientists, the editors said, but not just when they convey their findings to the public or help shape public understanding on matters of policy. They are also an aid when they […]

Media

Salting News with the L Word Life

June 25, 2009

Small amounts of sodium were detected in ice particles erupting from Saturn’s moon Enceladus. Deduction: this might lower the melting point of underground ice, forming subsurface pockets of liquid water – perhaps an ocean. Conclusion: Life! It doesn’t matter that Enceladus has no other factors conducive to life than water, or that salt is generally […]

Uncategorized

Raising a Titanic Geological Plateau

June 24, 2009

The Colorado Plateau is a huge region covering parts of four states. It’s over a mile higher than its surroundings, but its layers are remarkably flat. How did this region, littered with marine fossils, rise into the sky? Three American scientists writing in Nature last week believe they have a mechanism:1 it heated from underneath […]

Cosmology

We Know Less Than We Think

June 23, 2009

Strange reports come from science news outlets on occasion that call into question facts we thought we understood. These raise a question: do we really know what we think we know? Cutting dinosaurs down to size: Dinosaurs may have been half as heavy as thought, said Science Daily. Some paleontologists are claiming that widely-used methods […]

Darwin and Evolution

Leading Darwinists Pool Their Speculations

June 22, 2009

The Darwin Bicentennial continued this week with a series of articles in PNAS by leading Darwinists. The Sackler Colloquium, called “In the Light of Evolution III,” explored the history and impact of Darwin’s theory of evolution, and prospects for the future. The lead paper said, “Our intent in this Sackler Colloquium has not been to […]

Health

For Health, Seek a Purpose-Driven Life

June 21, 2009

Elderly people who have a sense of purpose live longer, reported Science Daily. Scientists at Rush University Medical Center monitored 1,238 community-living seniors for five years in order to test the hypothesis that purpose in life affects mortality. “Purpose in life,” explained research leader Patricia Boyle, “reflects the tendency to derive meaning from […]

Amazing Facts

Cells Use Cloud Computing

June 19, 2009

“Cloud computing” is the up-and-coming trend in information technology. It allows processes to run in parallel on multiple networked processors with more robustness, because other processors can pick up the slack if a major server fails. Scientists are finding that cells have been using this technology all along. Science Daily reported on work […]

Birds

Dino Fossils Generate Overblown Claims

June 18, 2009

04/10/2006), inventing feathers out of thin air. This time, it was justified on the basis of a new paper in Nature that claims to remove an obstacle in the dinosaur-bird evolution story.1 Doubters had pointed to differences in the three forward-pointing toes. With dinosaurs, it was toes 1, 2 and 3 that were retained; while […]

Dumb Ideas

What Makes You Human?

June 17, 2009

If you are a war-mongering beast who likes to burn things, you’re displaying your evolutionary past. That’s what a couple of news reports are claiming. New Scientist has a review of two books: Fire: The spark that ignited human evolution by Frances D. Burton, and Catching Fire: How cooking made us human by Richard Wrangham. […]

Amazing Facts

Plants Use the Perfect Propeller

June 16, 2009

What kid hasn’t played with maple seeds to watch them spin in the air like helicopters? Scientists watch them, too. A team from the Netherlands and California found out how they stay in the air for so long without engines to drive them. One would think in an era of advanced aeronautical engineering the physics […]

Genetics

Darwinizing Sex Causes Pain

June 15, 2009

Sex brings pleasure to many, but pain to Darwinists. Why? Because they can’t figure it out. Nick Lane is a case in point. In New Scientist, he wrote, Sex is the ultimate absurdity. Forget the hormonal rushes, the sweat and the contorted posturing. Forget about the heartache, the flowers, the bad poems and the costly […]

Uncategorized

How Old Is This Germ?

June 15, 2009

Rip Van Microbe has awakened after 120,000 years, said Live Science without batting an eye. That’s strange; human observation only goes back 1/12 of that time max. The bacterium came out of its suspended animation and grew as if nothing had happened. “Such vigor is partially due to the microbe’s small size, the scientists speculate,” […]

Politics and Ethics

White Supremacist Murderer Was a Social Darwinist

June 14, 2009

David Klinghoffer on Evolution News and Views has pointed out that James von Brunn, the man who murdered guard Tyrone Johns at Washington’s Holocaust Museum on June 10, was motivated by ideas of natural selection and eugenics. Klinghoffer provided additional information on Belief.Net with quotes from Brunn’s writings. He also found hundreds of references to […]

Bible and Theology

Darwin-Only Advisors Hunker Down to Re-Strategize

June 12, 2009

Strict Darwinian materialists are a minority in the United States, yet they enjoy autocracy in educational policy, complete control of scientific institutions, and nearly complete unquestioned support from the mainstream media. Nevertheless, they have to face living in a country that is predominantly religious. Once in awhile they suffer setbacks, like the recent changes in […]