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Antimatter Or Anti-Consensus?
November 1, 2008
Where’s the antimatter? If the universe began in a big bang, there should be equal amounts of matter and antimatter. Instead, there is only regular matter as far as our telescopes can see. (If antimatter were present, the annihilation of antimatter and matter would give a characteristic gamma-ray signature.) This is a big matter; the […]
Paleys Watch Found in Bacteria
October 31, 2008
A clock with cogs, gears and ratchets that keeps accurate time – what more could William Paley wish for? The 18th century natural theologian used the illustration of stumbling upon a watch in a heath as an example of reasoning from design to a Designer – as from watch to watchmaker. Skeptics like David Hume […]
FrankenTitan Comes to Life
October 30, 2008
There’s electricity at Titan, the large moon of Saturn. That can only mean one thing: life! “Electricity Found on Saturn Moon–Could It Spark Life?” asked a headline on National Geographic News by Rebecca Carroll. Visions of spark discharge tubes in a mad scientist’s lab arise in the imagination. “Recently identified electrical activity on Saturn’s largest […]
Scientific Terms Can Obfuscate, Not Enlighten
October 29, 2008
When scientists classify things and use scientific terms, are they really shedding light on nature and natural history? It’s possible they may just be glossing over their own ignorance, suggested three articles in Nature last week. They underscore cases where subjective human conventions are falsely assumed to correlate with external realities. They lead us to […]
Darwin Myths Debunked By Darwinist
October 28, 2008
An aura of legend has enveloped the memory of Charles Darwin. To many, the white-bearded father of evolutionary theory was like a saint on a white horse, rescuing science from an age of superstition. The true history is much more interesting. Darwin Day is coming next February 12. It marks Darwin’s 200th birthday […]
Monster Mash
October 28, 2008
Just before Halloween, it’s time for tricks and treats about monsters in the fossil record. Here’s a list of recent stories about scary beasts: Dino Dance: Are these potholes tracks or weathering marks? PhysOrg and Science Daily were among news outlets reporting a new interpretation of formations by a grad student at the University of […]
Bible Was Right: Edom Thrived in Solomons Time
October 27, 2008
High-precision radiocarbon dates have confirmed that Biblical Edom was active with industrial-scale metal production in the 10th and 9th centuries. Archaeologists publishing in PNAS said,1 “The methodologies applied to the historical IA archaeology of the Levant have implications for other parts of the world where sacred and historical texts interface with the material record.” In […]
Habitable Zones Are Not Forever
October 27, 2008
A new realization has broken on the astrobiological community: planetary habitable zones have no fences. Michael Sherber wrote for Astrobiology Magazine (see Space.com) that planets around low-mass stars tend to be pulled out of the habitable zone toward the star. They have just a billion years before migration can pull them in and cook them. […]
Snails Walk on Water
October 27, 2008
Why is that scientist staring at a snail? He’s watching a miracle: walking on water. This is not our exaggeration: Matt Kaplan on National Geographic News entitled his article, “How Snails Walk on Water Is a Small Miracle.” If we can figure out the trick, we might be able to make little robots do it […]
Evolutionizing Religion: Whos Assuming What?
October 26, 2008
“Findings from cognitive psychology, neuroscience, cultural anthropology and archaeology promise to change our view of religion,” said Pascal Boyer in Nature.1 His essay summarized studies that offer an evolutionary explanation for mankind’s propensity to embrace religion. “We can probe the shared assumptions that religions are built on, however disparate, and examine the connection between religion […]
The Life and Death of Oxygen
October 24, 2008
The oxygen in our atmosphere has the energy equivalent of 20 thousand billion billion hydrogen bombs. To maintain the oxygen level in our atmosphere, that amount of energy would have to be spent in manufacturing molecular oxygen every 4 million years (a thousandth the assumed age of the earth). Now that we have […]
Minding the Brain, or Braining the Mind?
October 23, 2008
There’s a battle brewing over who controls your brain: nature or your mind. Materialist scientists are recognizing that creationists are getting a foothold on this hill and “declaring war over the brain,” according to an article in New Scientist. Psychiatrist Jeffrey Schwartz fired this salvo: “Materialism needs to start fading away and non-materialist causation needs […]
Another Strange Chinese Fossil Found: Dinosaur or Bird?
October 22, 2008
Feathers and wings are among the most distinguishing characteristics of birds. “Integumenary features” have been found on some dinosaur fossils, and true feathers have been found on some strange-looking extinct birds. The news media often try to marry the two into a committed relationship using exaggerated artwork. They have been found imagining feathers on fossils […]
How Not to Teach Evolution
October 21, 2008
Current Biology usually interviews a scientist for each issue. In the October 14 issue,1 the subject was Dyche Mullins, a molecular biologist at UC San Francisco. His story of how evolution was taught in high school should make teachers and parents take notice. After the usual anecdotal fluff about what kind of cookies […]
Journalist Advises Scientists to Tell Stories
October 18, 2008
Caltech may be the egghead capital of America. The prestigious university where Einstein and Feynman hung out may be weak in sports and arts, but is unsurpassed in science and engineering. Caltech graduates are so adept with mathematics and advanced physics, many of them would probably have a hard time at parties telling their relatives […]
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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.
