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Stem Cells of the Adult Kind Steal the Headlines
November 18, 2010
Stories about stem cell research need to be divided into two sections: those about adult stem cells (AS), which have no ethical ramifications, and stories about embryonic stem cells (ES), which raise many issues about the sanctity of human life. As usual, most of the actual clinical progress is being made with adult stem cells […]
Dinosaur Fossils Flaunt Physics
November 17, 2010
Recent announcements about dinosaurs show that even the large ones exhibited physics fitness. Their size did not inhibit their mobility. T. rex racer: Maybe Jurassic Park got it right after all. According to Science Daily, “Tyrannosaurus rex was far from a plodding Cretaceous era scavenger whose long tail only served to counterbalance the up-front weight […]
Maxwells ID Demon Converts Info to Energy
November 16, 2010
Information can be converted into energy – provided it is guided by intelligent design. That’s what researchers demonstrated with an experimental setup of “Maxwell’s Demon,” a famous thought experiment about how to overcome the Second Law of Thermodynamics. James Clerk Maxwell knew that the laws of thermodynamics did not allow the spontaneous separation […]
Plasma May Revamp Cosmology
November 15, 2010
A “diverse new field” of astrophysics is poised to revolutionize our understanding of stars, energetic galaxies, and perhaps the entire universe. The properties and interactions of plasma, that hot, electrically-charged gas that makes up the sun and stars, have not been considered as often as matter and light have in astronomy. A set of top […]
Evolutionists Try to Out-Complex Behe
November 14, 2010
The phrase irreducible complexity has reluctantly entered the working vocabulary of evolutionary biologists, though they usually disparage its source (Dr. Michael Behe, leading proponent of intelligent design). The latest evidence is a paper in Science that was titled with an obvious play on words and an attempt to refute Behe’s principle. They called it “irremediable […]
SETI Reinvades Oz
November 13, 2010
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first SETI search, astronomers from around the world are going to tune into the stars, listening for aliens. Frank Drake named his first attempt in 1960 after the land of Oz: Project Ozma. Today’s searchers, looking at promising candidates with much better resolution, are once again paying tribute […]
A Tale of Two Mavericks
November 12, 2010
Two men who recently died are now being honored for their willingness to have stood up to the majority and advanced views that were unpopular at the time.
Darwin Dethroned by Geologist
November 11, 2010
Gradual evolution seems synonymous with Charles Darwin, but a geologist at New York University disagrees. According to an article on PhysOrg, Michael Rampino thinks Patrick Matthew deserves the credit for a different, more realistic view of evolution – a catastrophist view: “Matthew discovered and clearly stated the idea of natural selection, applied it to the […]
Evolutionary Explanations Come Up Empty
November 10, 2010
When evolutionists claim that they have explained the evolution of this or that, or that their research sheds light on its evolution, a closer examination sometimes shows verbiage covering up hollow reasoning, or even employing intelligent design concepts as weapons against design. Snap goes the dragon: PhysOrg highlighted a research project by some UK biologists […]
Oldest Shrimp Looks Shrimpy
November 9, 2010
PhysOrg shows a picture of a fossil shrimp found in Oklahoma next to a live shrimp. They look identical, yet the article claims the fossil is 360 million years old – the oldest known decapod (a group containing shrimp, crabs, and lobsters). The fossil shrimp even has fine preservation of the muscles of its tail, […]
Venus Flytrap Uses Chemical Brain
November 9, 2010
There’s a lowly plant that has a botanical version of muscles and a brain – the Venus flytrap. It has muscle in its ability to snap its traps shut faster than a bug can escape. And it has a brain in its ability to distinguish between debris and edible prey. More about its chemical brain […]
Cells Can Be Transformed
November 8, 2010
An astonishing feat has been performed in a Canadian lab: scientists turned human skin cells into blood cells. Bypassing the need for stem cells, the technique provides hope for a supply of blood from a person’s own skin. Live Science calls it a “modern miracle.” The technique avoids “the ethical concerns concerning embryonic stem cells […]
Is Religious Selection Evolution?
November 6, 2010
An annual ritual by a tribe in Mexico has caused some cave fish to adapt. Science Daily calls this “evolution by religious selection.” But is it really evolution? Two evolutionary biologists think so; they said that the tribe not only changed the population dynamics of the fish, but “inadvertently kick-started the evolutionary process of natural […]
Dumbing Down the Science Reading Public
November 5, 2010
In their rush to grab attention-getting headlines, are reporters doing more harm than good? An essential part of science education is critical thinking. Some headlines and articles state ideas that far outstrip the meager data on which they are based. Fingers do the walking: Science Daily blindly reproduced an audacious claim from the University of […]
All Kingdoms of Life Have Ideas We Need
November 4, 2010
Inventors aren’t partial. They are willing to find inspiration in plants, animals, and microbes. Here are three examples showing that all kingdoms of life have great engineering ideas that researchers involved in biomimetics are seeking to understand. Plants: We don’t fight walled cities with catapults any more, but storing elastic energy can still be useful. […]
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David Coppedge, B.S. Education, B.S. Physics, founded Creation-Evolution Headlines in late 2000 as a way to share science news he was encountering at NASA. It has grown into a highly-trusted source of news and commentary critical of the pro-Darwin consensus, providing analysis of breaking news of interest to creationists and evolutionists, without the Darwin spin. He has authored over 7,000 entries at CEH since its inception.
