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Whale Evolution: Hurry Up and Wait
June 3, 2010
Whales evolved really fast, then just swam around with nothing to do for tens of millions of years. “Whales Evolved in the Blink of an Eye” wrote Brett Israel for Live Science about a new study that claims “Whales evolved explosively fast into a spectacular array of shapes and sizes” about 35 million years ago, […]
Venters Synthetic Plagiarism Deflated by NY Times
June 2, 2010
How significant was Craig Venter’s achievement of a so-called synthetic genome? Somewhat significant, but it pales in significance to creating life from scratch. It was only like “peering over a fortress that is the mighty cell,” wrote Natalie Angier for the New York Times Monday, May 31. The article was accompanied with a […]
Catching Up to Butterflies for Improved Security, Optics
June 1, 2010
Butterflies do it better, but at least they provided the inspiration, and thanks to them, we may have cash that is more secure. PhysOrg headlined, “From butterflies’ wings to bank notes – how nature’s colors could cut bank fraud.” Scientists at the University of Cambridge were intrigued by the Indonesian Peacock or Swallowtail […]
Fooling Around with OOL
May 31, 2010
Origin of Life (OOL) research is one of those areas in science where one doesn’t have to make any real progress, as long as he or she looks busy. Anything the scientist says, no matter how speculative, or even foolish, is likely to be taken seriously, because the alternative – creation – has already been […]
Stem Cells: Hope, Politics, Charity, and Clarity
May 30, 2010
Those promising little cells that can differentiate into almost any tissue continue to make news – but they also continue to generate controversy. Actually, only some of them generate controversy: the embryonic stem cells. Not all of the articles about stem cells make that clear. Defining life: With the stroke of a pen, South Korea […]
Science Explains Why the Universe Exists
May 29, 2010
They’ve done it again – those clever scientists have figured out why the universe exists. What would we ever do without them? Michael Bolen at Yahoo News had to share the good news, “Scientists discover explanation for why the Universe exists.” Space.com explained it as a victory in an ancient contest: “Why We Exist: Matter […]
The Factor Economists Neglected in their Models: Integrity
May 28, 2010
Is economics a science? It’s on that borderland that has many things in common with the sciences; it is highly law-governed (law of supply and demand, for instance); it uses mathematical models; it uses experimental methods; it develops theories. Granted for the time being that it is a kind of science (albeit a “soft science” […]
Darwinism as All-Purpose Flexible Caulk
May 27, 2010
Fossils continue to turn up surprises. Some of them appear in the wrong place, in the wrong time, or in the wrong order. Darwinian theory never seems to have a problem, though. Evolutionary paleontologists always find a way to stretch or shrink their phylogenetic trees to accommodate the new discoveries, or make up new imaginary […]
Darwin in Space without a Helmet
May 26, 2010
“Space agencies may one day have Charles Darwin to thank for the longevity of their spacecraft,” began an article in New Scientist. This seems a strange thing to write about a biologist who knew nothing of space travel. “The life expectancy of a popular type of ion engine has been almost doubled using software that […]
Whos Denying the Evidence?
May 25, 2010
An interesting phenomenon is going on among science news reporters: accusations that “denialists” are lurking about. We are told that deniers or denialists are refusing to accept scientific evidence and are clinging to belief systems in spite of the facts. That would certainly be a serious charge, but it can also be a mask for […]
Could This Protein Delay Aging?
May 24, 2010
It’s called Heat Shock Protein 10. It responds to stress, and might just slow the aging process, scientists are finding. Science Daily reported, “Scientists in the UK and the U.S. have discovered that a protein which responds to stress can halt the degeneration of muscle mass caused during the body’s aging process.” Why […]
Butterfly Wing Veins Are Not in Vain
May 23, 2010
Inventors made an artificial butterfly modeled on the tiger swallowtail. First they made the wing without veins. It didn’t fly as well as when they added veins like the real butterfly, according to a short video clip in an article on New Scientist. The veined wing provided more lift. The inventors at Harvard’s […]
Venter Group Plagiarizes Genetic Code
May 22, 2010
Is plagiarism a form of intelligent design? We think of intelligent design in terms of God and creation, but in generic terms, I.D. only refers to purposeful, designed action by an agent – any agent, large or small, good or evil. A planned murder, for instance, can be an evil form of intelligent design. A […]
Should Darwin Get a Pass in Science Class?
May 21, 2010
In many public school science classrooms today, Darwinism is taught uncritically as a scientific fact. Eugenie Scott of the National Center for Science Education (NCSE) defends that practice, and Casey Luskin of the Discovery Institute (DI) contests it. This month the two in their own venues argued their points of view, and another educator weighed […]
How Science Is Done: Upsetting Applecarts
May 19, 2010
Hardly a week goes by without some scientific finding upsetting an applecart – a long-held belief. Often, those beliefs are scientific theories taught in textbooks by science professors. Defenders of science say that this is the way science works. It’s a self-correcting process, they argue; it’s to be expected that new data will lead to […]
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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.
