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Dark Matters, When All You Have Is Light
August 30, 2008
A cluster of galaxies equivalent to a thousand Milky Ways was observed at a distance of 7.7 billion light-years. What does it mean? According to astronomers mentioned in an article on Space.com, it can only mean one thing: dark energy makes up 70% of the universe. “The existence of the cluster can only […]
Can Evolution Survive Without Darwin?
August 29, 2008
Charles Darwin and the theory of evolution seem synonymous. Nevertheless, many evolutionary biologists have pointed out that a lot has happened in evolutionary biology since Darwin died. Some even criticize creationists for using the term “Darwinism” for evolution, though often it is just as much the habit of evolutionists (example: Genome Research: “Genomics and Darwinism”). […]
Angry Atheists Arrogate Authority in Science
August 28, 2008
Can science contribute to religious studies? Only to destroy it, think some atheistic scientists. “In reality, the only contribution that science can make to the ideas of religion is atheism,” announced Matthew Cobb and Jerry Coyne in a letter to Nature.1 Cobb and Coyne were taking issue with Nature’s editorial July 17 about […]
Evolutionist Calls Everyone Crazy
August 27, 2008
Last month she called everyone a hypocrite (07/06/2008). This month, Robin Nixon of Live Science called everyone crazy. Her latest article is entitled, “Why We Are All Insane.” But then, how could we trust her explanation? Attributing everything about humanity to a blind process of evolution, Nixon wove a tale of mythical ancestors […]
Neanderthals Win Toolmaking Olympics
August 26, 2008
Scientists have taken another step toward debunking the myth of the “stupid Neanderthals” who went extinct when competing with their supposedly advanced neighbors, the “modern humans.” Science Daily is one of several news sites reporting a study on toolmaking by the two groups of humans, that concluded that “stone tool technologies developed by our species, […]
Use Your Cow Compass
August 25, 2008
Cattle and deer seem to align themselves to magnetic north. German and Czech scientists, reporting in PNAS,1 used aerial observations to detect the tendency of grazing herds to line up in north-south directions. The alignment was to magnetic north, not true north—indicating a sensitivity to earth’s magnetic field, as known to exist in migrating birds, […]
How Chromosomes Pack Without Exploding
August 24, 2008
When preparing to divide, a cell has to copy all its DNA accurately and pack it into chromosomes. A professor at U Chicago told Science Daily this is “like compacting your entire wardrobe into a shoebox.” The cell has another difficulty in this compaction process, though: DNA, being negatively charged, resists packing. Eukaryotes […]
Flatlife Has More Genes Than It Needs
August 23, 2008
The genome of a placozoan (“flat animal”) shows more complexity than one would expect for a simple life form. According to evolutionists, it shows that even a barely-differentiated animal presumably ancestral to complex animals had the genetic toolkit of its more-advanced descendents. Trichoplax adhaerens is a slimy-looking thing that sticks to aquarium walls. […]
Early Art Confounds Evolutionists
August 16, 2008
The artwork on the walls of Chauvet Cave in France is too good to have been made by early modern humans. “Chauvet should be removed from assessments of early modern humans in Europe,” said UK archaeologist Robin Dennell. “Including it leads to a gross distortion of their cognitive abilities.” Other experts who dated the artwork […]
Human Skeletons Found in Sahara
August 14, 2008
They went looking for dinosaur bones, and found human skeletons instead. That’s what is being reported by National Geographic and the Los Angeles Times. A barren wasteland in the Sahara, covered with sand, has turned out to be a treasure trove of evidence of human occupation. The area appears to have been a lakeside paradise […]
Membrane Switches Keep Your Brain Humming
August 14, 2008
Tunnels with rotating gates and rocker switches – this sounds like mechanical engineering. It’s the machinery that helps power your brain, reported scientists from UCLA and the Pasteur Institute. Their paper in Science described the structure of just one of many kinds of membrane channels.1 Cell membranes are lined with elaborate one-way gates. […]
Does Cancer Illustrate Fitness?
August 13, 2008
Most people think of health and vitality when they hear the word “fitness.” Why, then, does an article on Science Daily apply the word to one of the biggest scourges of mankind? “Scientists from The Institute of Advanced Studies at Princeton and the University of California discovered that the underlying process in tumor formation is […]
Cassini Survives Enceladus Geyser Plunge
August 12, 2008
The Cassini spacecraft has done it again – returned some of the most stunning outer planet images ever taken. Zipping by at just 30 miles over the active surface of Enceladus, Cassini did a “skeet shoot” of high-res images achieving 7 meters per pixel in places – the highest resolution of any shot of a […]
Admissions of Ignorance in Evolutionary Theory
August 11, 2008
For a scientific idea some have proclaimed as a fact no longer in need of proof, and as well-established as gravity, Darwin’s theory of evolution still reveals surprising weaknesses when its defenders speak about the details. Detecting these weaknesses requires tuning out the media hype, and tuning into scientific papers and pro-evolution journals where evolutionary […]
These Bugs Have the Right Stride
August 9, 2008
If there were an Olympic event for walking on water, the water strider would lead the pack. Science Daily reported on work by European biologists that show the water bug has perfectly proportioned legs for being able to balance on the surface tension of water: “Long enough to provide maximum weight support but not long […]
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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.
