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Naturalism and 9/11
September 11, 2008
It’s been seven years since the horrific terrorist attacks in America woke up everyone to the reality of evil. Secular, naturalistic evolutionists must of necessity explain evil as an artifact of pointless, aimless, purposeless acts of nature. Did the September day that changed the world change the aims or rhetoric of the scientists and educators […]
Are You Too Dumb to Understand Evolution?
September 10, 2008
Astrobiologist David Deamer believes that life can spontaneously emerge without design, but he thinks lay people are too uneducated to understand how this is possible, so he gives them the watered-down version of Darwin’s natural selection instead, which he knows is inadequate to explain the complexity of life. That’s what he seemed to be telling […]
Flightlessness Evolved Four Times
September 10, 2008
An article on Science Daily claims that the famous flightless birds – African ostriches, Australian cassowaries and emus, New Zealand kiwis and South American rheas – are unrelated. There was no flightless common ancestor. They lost their ability to fly independently, scientists say, because of “parallel evolution.” This would also mean that emus […]
Comet Conundrums Resist Bluffing
September 9, 2008
Scientists may claim they are learning about the origin of the solar system, but the fine print shows them scratching their heads. This is apparent in a couple of discoveries about comets this week. One Science Daily article is entitled, “Comets Throw Light On Solar System’s Beginnings.” Scientists at the UK’s national synchrotron […]
Modeling Just-So Stories for Earth History
September 8, 2008
Models are only simulations of reality. In science, they have a long history of simplifying complex physical phenomena in an attempt to understand them. Many times, empirical evidence can correct a model. The model then becomes a more accurate simulation, and can even provide additional insights and make predictions. Can modeling work for the unobservable, […]
Resurrecting Stalins Ghost
September 7, 2008
Most people feel there are certain historical figures off limits for praise. Hitler and Stalin are probably two of the most infamous. Believe it or not, a new Russian textbook is trying to portray Stalin in a more positive light. The UK Daily Mail reported that the textbook portrays the tyrant’s mass murders as “entirely […]
Butterfly Wings Xeroxed
September 6, 2008
If you can’t build it, copy it. Scientists have had a hard time reconstructing the photonic crystals that make butterfly wings shimmer with light (01/29/2003), so they made, in effect, a carbon copy. PhysOrg described how scientists at Penn State made impressions of the regularly-spaced geometric shapes from a butterfly wing and transferred it to […]
How Not to Prove Positive Selection
September 5, 2008
Erase all that evidence for positive natural selection in the genes you’ve read about.
Spore Game: Evolution or ID?
September 4, 2008
Spore is a highly-anticipated computer game that just came out. Evolutionists are claiming it as a model of how life evolves – but intelligent-design advocates are calling it an ID game, pure and simple. Who’s right? Carl Zimmer, a science writer, is among those counting Spore points for Darwin. His blog entry from […]
Fully Gecko 40 Million Years Earlier?
September 3, 2008
Amber, or fossilized tree sap, usually contains remnants of insect parts. One piece, mined in the jungles of Myanmar, contained the foot of a gecko – alleged to be 100 million years old. That’s 40 million years older than the previously claimed oldest gecko fossil. This critter may have skittered under the feet of dinosaurs. […]
Cellular Machines Work Like Cameras, Winches and Turboprops
September 3, 2008
The discovery that cells are filled with molecular motors is one of the major achievements of late 20th-century molecular biology. Biochemists routinely use the word “motor” when describing cellular processes, because, in fact, machines made of protein actually do use energy to perform work. Now we have a new hybrid science – biophysics – that […]
Amazonia Supported a Cosmopolitan Civilization
September 2, 2008
Today’s naked, spear-hunting tribes in the jungles of the Amazon live in the shadow of a complex society that once thrived there. By increasing their scope from the single site to the wider region, archaeologists from Florida and Brazil have discovered a cosmopolitan culture that left large earthworks and evidence of complex urban societies. Their […]
Vice Presidential Candidates: You Have a Choice
September 1, 2008
When it comes to feelings about creation vs evolution between the American vice-presidential candidates, voters will have a clear choice. Reporters are digging for information on the surprise Republican nominee, Alaska governor Sarah Palin. Answers in Genesis collected statements from the press about her position on the teaching of evolution in public schools. […]
Plant Perfume Manipulates Pollinator Behavior
August 31, 2008
You’re a plant, stuck in the ground. Around you are organisms with wings flitting freely about. You need to get them to land on your flowers, but not linger too long. How do you do it? Attract them with sweet smells, but send them away with a bitter aftertaste. That’s how the tobacco plant manipulates […]
Describing Star and Galaxy Growth Without Looking
August 30, 2008
Astronomers seem to know a lot about star birth and galaxy growth. This is a strange thing, since no one has watched the process from start to finish. Stars and galaxies are clearly observed in various shapes, sizes, and patterns. How reliable is it to arrange them into an evolutionary sequence? One way […]
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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.
