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Whence Plague?
May 8, 2008
Where did bubonic plague come from? Science News reported that two mutations turned the bacterium from a docile, innocuous bacterium into a curse. The combination of two mutations disabled the gene for aspartase, an enzyme that breaks down aspartic acid. When the crippled Yersinia pestis enters a host, more aspartic acid is generated […]
How Useful Is Evolution Theory?
May 7, 2008
Is evolution good for anything? There’s no question it keeps a lot of scientists busy, but has it helped the proverbial man on the street? Here are two perspectives. Michael LePage hit the sales beat for evolution on New Scientist this week: Evolution is a beautiful theory. It explains everything from why some […]
Fitting Data to Darwinism Takes Creativity and Spin
May 6, 2008
Fairly regularly, papers appear in journals under the heading of Evolution. The ones dealing with genetics tend to be hard to follow. They are filled with jargon, correlation scores, charts and network diagrams. They employ algorithms and databases unfamiliar to the lay reader. Overall, though, they claim to find support for Darwin’s tree of life […]
Neanderthals Cant Get No Respect
May 6, 2008
Will evolutionary paleontologists ever make up their minds about Neanderthals? The story seems to change every year. Just when they had been getting more respect as Homo sapiens brethren, another researcher is demoting them to outsiders. An Argentinean anthropologist has measured anatomical features and concluded they were a separate species, reported PhysOrg. Understandably, […]
Iapetus Is Losing Its Dry Ice
May 5, 2008
How long can a moon afford to leak? Iapetus is losing its dry ice (carbon dioxide) through sublimation at a prodigious rate, say scientists in a paper in Icarus this month.1 “One can see that the long-term stability of CO2 is problematic.” Solving the mystery of the dark side on this mystery moon […]
First Galaxies Fast and Compact
May 3, 2008
The old picture: after the big bang, matter is diffuse. Out of the darkness, stars slowly begin to form, as the first galaxies take shape. Galaxies start out large and slowly grow more dense and structured over billions of years. The new picture: the first galaxies are very compact and dense, spinning rapidly, with stars […]
Human Mind Outwits Darwinian Models
May 2, 2008
Evolutionists struggle to explain complex human behaviors in Darwinian terms. Sure, corporate squabbles can seem like survival of the fittest, but humans also sacrifice for people they don’t even know and do other weird, un-Darwinian things. In Darwinism, selfishness rules. How does cooperative and altruistic behavior arise from selfish motives? Here are some of the recent attempts to reconcile observations with a theory in which selfishness is key.
Astrobiologists Pool Their Ignorance at AbSciCon
May 1, 2008
A big conference on Astrobiology was held in Santa Clara, California last month. It was the fifth AbSciCon (Astrobiology Science Conference), a bi-annual cross-disciplinary event. This one pulled together 675 researchers from 28 countries across a variety of disciplines, all interested in life in space. Naturally, evolution was an overarching theme. From Edna DeVore’s account […]
Veggie Tales of Human Evolution
April 30, 2008
Evolutionists may not know who our human ancestors were, but they know they were vegans. That seems to be the essence of a couple of new twists on the human evolution saga. Pear-shaped tones: Paranthropus has been called the “Nutcracker Man” because of robust teeth assumed strong enough to munch on nuts and seeds. Enter […]
Darwinian Ethics Launch Unexplored
Blessings or Curses
April 30, 2008
For a theory ostensibly restricted to biology, evolution sure has a lot of supporters interested in politics and ethics. Look at what leading Darwinists are promoting. Some of them are rushing headlong where angels fear to tread. Where they will end up is anyone’s guess. Their potential for changing life, culture, religion, education – even […]
Sweet Solutions from Nature
April 29, 2008
Human engineers continue to look at plants and animals for inspiration. Biomimetics – the imitation of biology for design technology – shows no sign of running out of ideas. Sweet gas: A spoonful of sugar in the gas tank? Science Daily reported on progress in converting plant sugars into clean-burning hydrogen – using biological enzymes. […]
Orchids: Epitome of Plant Evolution
April 28, 2008
“Orchids might be considered the epitome of plant evolution,” said David Roberts [Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew] and Kingsley Dixon [Kings Park and Botanic Garden, Australia] in a primer on orchids in Current Biology.1 Yet some of the facts they shared about these amazingly diverse and well-adapted plants are puzzling for evolutionary theory. First, […]
Hobbit Prophecy: Somebody Will Take a Big Fall
April 27, 2008
The men of muddle earth are wondering what to do with their hobbit prisoners. Elizabeth Culotta wrote in Science about the ongoing debates among paleoanthropologists about how to interpret the diminutive skeletons found in the Liang Bua cave of Flores in Indonesia, affectionately dubbed hobbits.1 After four years of study (10/27/2004, 06/06/2006, 08/21/2006, 10/11/2006), there […]
Inferences from Old Protein
April 26, 2008
The dinosaur leg bone with the soft tissue was back in the news. Back in 2005 (03/24/2005), a femur from a T. rex broke open during transport and was found to contain pliable tissue and blood vessels with apparent red blood cells. This was a “phenomenon, once thought impossible” for such tissues to have survived […]
Complex Ankle Puts Bounce in Your Step
April 25, 2008
“The ankle is incredibly efficient at working so the amount of energy you burn with the ankle is much lower than what would be predicted with just isolated muscle studies.” That’s what kinesiologist Daniel Ferris (U of Michigan) said in an article on Science Daily. His team measured the efficiency of the muscles and tendons […]
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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.
