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Who Gets the Blame for This Oil Spill?
May 22, 2009
Who could forget the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989, that leaked 10.8 million gallons of oil into Alaska’s pristine coastal waters? That mistake cost Exxon a billion dollars in damages for the ecological disaster it caused and sparked one of the biggest cleanup operations in history. Imagine 80 times as much. That’s how much […]
Building Planets: Cant Make Them, But Hurry
May 21, 2009
Constructing planets is a delicate business. Trying to get tiny bits of dust to join up into balls has never been found to work. It has to work fast, though, because unless the whole planet clears its dust lane, it will be dragged into the star in short order. It seems you can’t get there […]
Ho-Hum, Another Human Missing Link
May 19, 2009
Shoppers typically are wary of over-hyped ads, knowing that any claim sounding too good to be true probably is. What would they think about media reports claiming a new fossil monkey is the “8th wonder of the world”? The scientific paper in PLoS ONE1 had hardly been published before the press went ape, […]
Cool Bird Tricks
May 19, 2009
Evidence continues to mount that a lot of capability is packed into a little bird’s brain. We should use the phrase bird-brain to honor smart animals. I C U: Mockingbirds can recognize individual humans. Disturb a mockingbird nest, and the parents will single you out from a crowd and go into attack mode, researchers at […]
Junk-DNA Stock Tumbles
May 18, 2009
Those investing credibility in the concept of “junk DNA” suffered more losses this week. Repeated hits to the paradigm that portions of non-coding DNA are useless leftovers of evolution make a recovery unlikely. In Science,1 researchers from Princeton and Indiana University reported a function for transposons and the genes that act on them, […]
Political Science 101
May 18, 2009
Ideally, science should be non-partisan and stay out of politics. That ideal is not always met, as the following recent stories illustrate. The intellectual president: New Scientist published a commentary, “Hail to the intellectual president,” by Chris Mooney, author of The Republican War on Science. Opening line: “If you liked George W. Bush, it wasn’t […]
Can Humans Scientifically Analyze One Another?
May 17, 2009
Imagine an alien landing on Earth and trying to figure out two groups of people. One group wields spears and arrows and decides that those who interfere with their traditions are enemies to be killed. Another lives in penthouses and universities and explains the behavior of the other group as evolved tendencies from their animal […]
Key Step in Origin of Life Declared
May 15, 2009
The popular “RNA World” scenario for the origin of life has long suffered from a big hurdle: the implausibility of getting the key components of RNA building blocks, called nucleotides, from joining together. Each nucleotide requires a ribose sugar, a pyrimidine base, and a phosphate group. Now, a team publishing in Nature tried a new […]
Cuttlefish Inspire Reflective Screens
May 14, 2009
“Cuttlefish are masters of disguise, able to change their skin color in less than a second to hide from predators or draw in prey for the kill,” begins an article on MSNBC News. A team at MIT, fascinated with the physics of this capability, tried to imitate it. They found they could electrically control the […]
Darwinizing Morality
May 13, 2009
Darwinists continue to try to lay claim to morality (cf. 01/20/2008, 05/02/2008, 03/12/2009) If Darwinism is to succeed as a comprehensive world view, it must explain this innate sense we all have that certain actions (e.g., torturing babies, slavery, genocide) are morally wrong. Without a God telling man “Thou shalt not”, how can all humans […]
Early Man IQ: Et Tu, Brute?
May 12, 2009
Anthropologists are receiving a jolt about the intelligence of early man. Long before the cave paintings showed our forebears exercising art appreciation, new findings suggest they were gifted individuals, not brutes. The first report was about manufactured beads dated older than 82,000 years. Science Daily said, “The shells are currently at the centre […]
Survival of the Slowest
May 11, 2009
Without stopping to think, the BBC News claimed that evolution is slowing snails down. “Natural selection is favouring snails with reduced metabolic rates, researchers in Chile have discovered.” Why would evolution do such a thing? Isn’t the proverbial slowest of beasts already at risk of predators? Not necessarily. Look on the positive side: “Snails with […]
Using Evolutionary Algorithms by Intelligent Design
May 8, 2009
Evolution can’t be all bad if scientists can use it to optimize your car. Science Daily said that scientists in Germany are “simulating evolution” to come up with ways to optimize difficult problems. Using “Evolutionary Algorithms”, they can discover solutions for engineering problems like water resource management and the design of brakes, airbags and air […]
High School Biology Teachers Have Clout
May 8, 2009
Two professors at Minnesota State surveyed a thousand students on the impact of their high school biology teachers when it comes to the subject of evolution or creation: Students whose high school biology class included creationism (with or without evolution) were more likely to accept creationist views as entering college students. Similarly, students exposed to […]
Evolution Does What Comes Physically
May 7, 2009
Two scientists believe they have unified biology and physics into one law that both animals and falling rocks obey. They call it the “constructal law.” This “universal principle of evolution” explains the “universal design principles” that make fish swim and birds fly – the “physics of evolution.” Even if evolution does not predict what animals […]
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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.
