Let’s De-Darwinize Today’s Science News

Useless Darwinese pollutes the science news.
Let’s detoxify it and enjoy what scientists
are actually finding, free of evo-spin.

Reading science news would be much more educational without the Darwinian spin on everything. Here are examples of how to stop the spin and look at data without the blur.

Belief that men ‘evolved to be like this’ could lead to more victim-blaming in rape cases (Royal Society via Phys.org, 3 June 2026). Here is a prime example of how the “Darwin Effect” damages society. Participants in a survey were shown either a video that explained rape as an example of how males evolved sexual aggression, or a control video. The former participants tended to blame the victim and excuse the rapists because evolution made men that way! “The researchers conclude that evolutionary psychology can increase victim-blaming attitudes through an increase in the belief that gender roles are natural and immutable,” the survey found. The Darwin Effect here is unconscionable. To clean it up, teach people that men are sinners in need of God’s grace through Jesus Christ. Their sins can be forgiven, and fellowship in a Bible-teaching church can help them live honorable, responsible lives as husbands and fathers in a nuclear family.

Can an army of babies and dogs rescue psychology from its reproducibility crisis? (Nature, 3 June 2026). Notice that psychology (a questionable science; see 15 Oct 2009) is still struggling to find credibility. For years now, the science journals have noted that spectacular claims in the social sciences cannot be replicated by others. The “reproducibility crisis” is at least a decade old (5 Sept 2015). It’s good that Nature is recognizing the problem, but then they go on to suggest ways to improve psychology using evolutionary theory, the very theory that corrupted psychology in the first place. A better foundation would be to recognize that human beings are created to think, reason, and behave, and have a conscience to know right from wrong, but are born with a sin nature that must be corrected. When social sciences try to understand animal behavior, of what use is Darwinism? Look at birds, mammals and all organisms as created things, they way early scientists did.

Dead Sea archaea sport reinforced swimming tail for hypersalty waters (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology via Phys.org, 3 June 2026). Many have heard of the bacterial flagellum, the whiplike motor that propels them through water. Archaea have a similar molecular machine called an archaellum that is just as irreducibly complex (see diagram in the article). Because salt water in the Dead Sea is more viscous, scientists found that the archaellum in species living there has an extra sheath to stiffen the filament. Great. Did Darwin invent that? Matthias Wolf, co-author of the paper, tries to make the case:

“These kinds of studies can help us unlock new insights into how life evolves and adapts. For example, over billions of years, both bacteria and archaea came up with similar, but ultimately molecularly, structurally different solutions to swim. With archaea being the ancestors of eukaryotic cells, like our mammalian cells, there’s a lot to learn by studying such organisms.”

Sure; these “primitive” organisms “came up with” irreducibly complex molecular outboard motors by blind, unguided forces. Scrape off that unnecessary Darwinian interpretation and just give us the science, please.

World’s largest scorpion revealed by 415-million-year-old fossils (Natural History Museum via Phys.org, 3 June 2026). Here is another example of extinct creatures that were bigger than modern counterparts. That’s devolution, not evolution. But recognize first of all that some interpreting is going on in this case. The paleontologists are not sure that the fragments represent a scorpion. But if it was, it was a meter long! “Dr. Richie Howard, the lead author of the study and our Curator of Fossil Arthropods, says that the presence of the biggest scorpion ever found so early in the history of life on land changes what we know about the evolution of these animals,” the article says. He might know more by taking off the Darwin glasses. Complex arthropods appear fully formed in the Cambrian Explosion, indicating that evolution had nothing to do with it.

Detailed molecular picture of tooth enamel reveals adaptations to diet (University of Wisconsin via Phys.org, 3 June 2026). Tooth enamel, the hardest material in the body, is strong largely because its structure is somewhat disordered. The nanocrystals of apatite are arranged in parallel strands, but the crystal matrix is not parallel. “From chewing to chomping to grinding, teeth suffer from a lifetime of repeated mechanical stress,” the press release says before describing how the “misorientation” of the enamel confers strength and resistance to fracture.

Scientists at UW-Madison found a correlation between the amount of misorientation and diet in human and non-human primates, but then, like robots, they brought in Darwin for a cameo appearance: “The results help explain enamel evolution and have implications for modulating strength in bioinspired materials.” Scientists can do biomimetics (a scientific activity built on intelligent design) without thinking in evolutionary terms. The article drones on,

“The enamel nanostructure is only one component of a complex set of changes,” Gilbert says. “Our brains grew significantly in the last 2 million years, our jaws shrank in the last 12,000 years, we developed language, and many other changes occurred over human evolution.”

Professor Pupa Gilbert just couldn’t let go of her evolutionary indoctrination. “Overall, Gilbert and her team’s work suggests that primates have evolved to protect their teeth with stronger enamel as food becomes tougher.” Why not consider design? Why not study whether the enamel structure develops as babies begin to chew? The evolutionary story adds nothing.

Cells have a built-in ‘seatbelt’ against sudden stress (Cell Press via Phys.org, 3 June 2026). Here is an exemplary Darwin-free science story about something amazing. When under sudden stress, a eukaryotic cell can put a molecular “helmet” or “seatbelt” around its nucleus. Made of actin molecules, this protection keeps the nucleus from getting squeezed or bloated, which might damage its DNA content. This is a “built-in” protection mechanism that was observed by good old observation science. Let’s enjoy learning about this process that takes place in our own bodies every day.

Epithelial cells make up the outer layer of the skin and the surfaces of many internal organs. They are constantly exposed to mechanical forces like stretching and osmotic stress, which happens when sodium or other ion concentrations suddenly change. For example, posture changes in humans can stretch the epithelial cells on skin by up to 25%, and the cells that line the intestines can experience a 20-fold increase in osmotic pressure after water intake. These external stresses can rupture the cell’s nucleus, snapping DNA strands.

Previous studies have found that actin, a type of protein in cells, can form a cap-like structure over the nucleus, acting like a safety helmet when cells experience stress. …

Read about how a Chinese team led by Hongyuan Jiang ran experiments to determine how this works.

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