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Windows into the Mind
November 3, 2010
What would it be like to see things for the first time? You can watch the reaction on Live Science #1 and Live Science #2. Blind patients were implanted with a microchip that allowed them, for the first time, to roughly sense the visual input of objects in front of them. Amazing as it was, […]
People Doing Science, Sometimes Badly
November 2, 2010
Harvard historian of science Steven Shapin has a really long subtitle for his latest book, but it reveals all. The title is very short: Never Pure.1 Here’s the long subtitle: “Historical Studies of Science as if It Was Produced by People with Bodies, Situated in Time, Space, Culture, and Society, and Struggling for Credibility and […]
Are Saturn Rings Like Galaxies?
November 1, 2010
Dramatic photos of dynamic processes in Saturn’s rings have been released by the Cassini mission at Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The photos, taken near Saturn’s equinox last year, show ruffled edges of the B ring made of particles lofted as high as 2 miles above the ring plane, casting long shadows across the rings. By watching […]
Cambrian Explosion Solved
October 31, 2010
Geologists have come out swinging against the idea the Cambrian Explosion damages Darwinism. In a lengthy new paper in the Geological Society of America Bulletin,1 they believe they pitch three strikes against creationists and intelligent-design supporters who claim that the sudden appearance of all the animal body plans at the base of the Cambrian falsifies […]
Purpose-Driven Science Ignores Darwin
October 30, 2010
While some Darwinists feel that the Intelligent Design (ID) movement is a major threat to science, many scientists unconnected to ID are acting as if it provides for them a more fruitful approach to research. Several recent examples illustrated what might be called a silent “de facto” intelligent design movement. Purposeful proteins: PhysOrg reported work […]
The Blue and Red States of OOL
October 29, 2010
When it comes to the origin of life (OOL), some scientists color it blue; some color it red. New Scientist votes for the blue state. “LIFE may really have been created by a spark, one that came as a bolt from the deep blue.” Inspired by visions sent from Ryuhei Nakamura at the University of […]
Early Man in Trouble
October 28, 2010
New findings (or claims) are throwing long-held beliefs about human ancestors into disarray. Early people were smarter, and traveled farther, than paleoanthropologists thought. One report summarized by PhysOrg says, “A highly skillful and delicate method of sharpening and retouching stone artifacts by prehistoric people appears to have been developed at least 75,000 years […]
Cells Know Their Physics
October 27, 2010
At the microscopic level of cells, forces come into play that are unfamiliar to us at the macro level: quantum mechanics, Brownian motion, and subtle elastic forces that we might overlook. Two recent papers in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences explored physical mechanisms cells use to good advantage. Good thing cells know […]
Amazing Insects Defy Evolution
October 26, 2010
Two recent articles about insects call for the ring buoy on the H.M.S. Darwin. The first is about fossil amber from India, reported by the BBC News. “We have complete, three-dimensionally preserved specimens that are 52 million years old,” one of the discoverers announced with astonishment, “and you can handle them almost like living ones.” […]
Automatic Turnstiles Found in the Cell
October 25, 2010
One of the things students learn about in high school biology classes is active transport: the ability to control flow through a semi-permeable membrane. Contrary to osmosis, in which the flow goes naturally from high concentration to low concentration, cell membranes employ active mechanisms to push or pull the molecules through their membranes according to […]
Biomimetics: Does It Flatter Darwin?
October 24, 2010
The imitation of natural design (biomimetics) is a cutting-edge approach to engineering these days. Many times, the reports on attempts to mimic the amazing properties of cells, plants, and animals have no time to discuss evolution (e.g., 09/24/2010). Once in awhile, though, scientists or reporters go out of their way to tell their readers that […]
Weekend Grab Bag
October 23, 2010
Here’s another unclassified assortment of news stories readers can follow and evaluate on their own (cf. 10/18/2010). Take your Baloney Detector along and discern the Amazing from the Dumb. Fast Lane: Nick Lane explains how life became complex: cells invented mitochondria (Science Daily). Gem from his paper in Nature:1 “If evolution works like a tinkerer, […]
Mind Matters
October 22, 2010
The conundrum of how reasoning could have emerged by an undirected evolutionary process persists. Atheists and materialists are convinced that natural selection is up to the task, while theists strongly disagree and use human rationality as evidence for creation by an intelligent source (usually God). Perhaps a few recent findings can illuminate on the options. […]
Creationism Wont Die
October 21, 2010
To ardent evolutionists, creationism should have died a long time ago. Some of them are confounded, if not dumbfounded, that they cannot get rid of it. They think (many of them) that the Dover case in Pennsylvania should have settled the issue once for all. Well, it didn’t. It keeps coming back like a cat […]
Darwinism in Chaos, but Gave Us Morals
October 19, 2010
Two papers on evolutionary theory create a strong tension. One says that there is no law of evolution – just chaos. The other claims that morality evolved out of the mess. Evolution is a theory in chaos…: If you thought Charles Darwin brought biological evolution under natural laws, think again. Keith Bennett on New Scientist […]
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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.
