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Living Iridescence Dazzles Scientists
June 5, 2008
The flashing colors of butterflies and birds (peacocks being the classic example) do not come from pigments, but from black structures on a microscopic scale. How and why they do it is of great interest to scientists and engineers. Susan Milius explored this topic in Science News this week.1 The basic principle behind […]
Asian Bees Speak European
June 4, 2008
Asian honeybees and European honeybees went their separate ways millions of years ago, say evolutionists. Why, then, were Asian bees able to readily learn the European language? An international team watched this happen. They ran some affirmative-action integration experiments on the two species, and reported their results today in PLoS One.1 “The honeybee […]
An Evaluation of Evolution as an Explanatory Device
June 3, 2008
It is very common for scientists to claim this or that phenomenon “evolved.” How well do such statements qualify as scientific explanations? How much scientific heavy lifting is done by merely stating that things are the way they are because they evolved that way? The following recent examples can be considered representative of the evolutionary […]
Can Darwin Fit into Designer Genes?
June 2, 2008
Humans are tinkering with DNA in ways that appear to blur the boundaries between design and nature. PhysOrg reported that geneticists at the University of Nottingham have created capsules that can coax bacteria to transfer their genetic information. The title is “Life, but not as we know it?” PNAS reported that scientists at UC Santa […]
Lamarckism Still Shuffles Around
June 1, 2008
Examine the following quotation and see if it sounds like what Darwin or Lamarck would say: Somewhere in the murky past, between four and seven million years ago, a hungry common ancestor of today’s primates, including humans, did something novel. While temporarily standing on its rear feet to reach a piece of fruit, this protohominid […]
NSF Funds Misleading Cartoons on Origin of Life
May 31, 2008
A slick new multimedia website called Exploring Life’s Origins made its debut this month. Dazzling artwork and vivid animations are highlights of the site. The journey begins with a timeline of life’s evolution in which the viewer can drag a marker through billions of years of evolutionary progress. Controversial theories about the formation […]
Evolution Out of Sync
May 30, 2008
Evolutionary theory explains everything but the kitchen sink, but what if things get out of sync? According to Darwin’s tree of life, things happen in a particular order. The same complex trait should not emerge on separate branches independently. Findings contrary to the tree pattern could sink the theory – or at least give some […]
Mars Life Hopes Suffer Double Disappointment
May 29, 2008
Just when the new Phoenix lander was flexing its arm and going to work (see JPL), hoping to determine the habitability of Mars, two papers came out expressing doubt it will find anything. Toxic salty stew: Space.com summarized a new paper in Science1 that concluded Mars has way too much salt. Although some earth organisms […]
Think Like a Neanderthal Child
May 29, 2008
How should you stop a child’s tantrum? Think like a Neanderthal, reports Live Science. Dr. Harvey Karp, a pediatrician, “sees our little darlings as less-evolved savages driven by instinct and emotion, not thoughtful reasoning, and he suggests it’s our job as parents to civilize them into Homo sapiens.” It’s fruitless, therefore, to talk […]
Preparing the World for Aliens
May 29, 2008
Some people are so convinced there are alien intelligences in the universe, we should be getting ready to meet them. The Telegraph, a UK newspaper, reported that NASA has partly financed a creative writing class on “interstellar message composition” at the University of Wyoming. Professor Jeffrey Lockwood wants to help the 11 students […]
Noahs Ark Gets Balanced Treatment
May 28, 2008
Reuters gave balanced treatment to the question of how Noah fit all the animals on the Ark. Evolutionists, of course, deny that Noah existed or a boat ever saved all the animals on earth. The article quoted mocking comments to the effect that there is no way up to 50 million species with vastly different […]
Fossil Frog-amander Claimed to Be Missing Link
May 28, 2008
It looks like a frog with four equal legs and a tail; is it the ancestor of frogs and amphibians? It depends on whether you read the original paper or the popular press. Live Science writer Jeanna Brynner is absolutely certain this puts a feather in Darwin’s cap: “the creature represents a transitional […]
Dismissing Religion by Evolving It
May 27, 2008
Religion evolved, and a computer program shows it. This is the claim made by an article on New Scientist. “God may work in mysterious ways, but a simple computer program may explain how religion evolved,” remarked Ewen Callaway with sweeping implications for the majority of earth’s population. James Dow, an evolutionary anthropologist at […]
The Phoenix Lands on Mars
May 26, 2008
The Phoenix Spacecraft successfully landed on Mars Sunday night. Its mission is to look for water and the potential habitability of life in the northern latitudes of the red planet near its polar cap for the next 3 months. This is the first soft landing on Mars in 32 years, and the third in history […]
Geology: Another Catastrophic Rethink
May 23, 2008
Amphitheater-shaped canyons are common throughout the West – and even on Mars. Geologists had them pretty well figured out. Water seeps out the bottom of a wall, weakening the face of a cliff. Gradually, material collapses and leaves a large alcove that continues to recede headward. That idea is now questioned by a new theory […]
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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.
