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Monarch Butterflies as a Test of Evolution
January 11, 2008
The Discovery Institute and the National Academy of Sciences have recently published books with butterflies prominently displayed on the cover. The two books give opposite viewpoints on whether life was designed or a product of evolution. Maybe a look at a real-world butterfly research project can shed light on the debate. A paper […]
Stem Cells: Its a New Ball Game
January 10, 2008
A year ago, the ethical battle over human embryonic stem cells was raging. Now, both Science and Nature have acknowledged that the new induced pluripotent stem cell technology (see 11/20/2007) has opened up a new era that may make embryonic stem cells practically obsolete. Martin Pera, writing in Nature1, left open only a […]
Evo-Giants Battle Over Evo-Love
January 10, 2008
Richard Dawkins and E. O. Wilson, both atheistic evolutionists, are at odds over the evolution of unselfish love (altruism). Wilson attributes it to a revised form of group selection; Dawkins to individual selection (the basis of his “selfish gene” theory). Evolutionists see no difference between the “eusociality” in insect colonies, in which individuals […]
Dinosaur Fossil Shows Exquisite Skin Detail
January 9, 2008
More imaginary feathers on a dinosaur have been discovered. A BBC News article shows a cartoon of a dinosaur with feathers on its arms. This is strange, because the paper it refers to makes no claim about feathers – only that certain structures had been interpreted as feathers by some. The original paper […]
Blind Cave Fish Can See Again
January 8, 2008
Can blind cave fish get their lost eyes back? Yes, if they hybridize with other cave fish that lost them due to different mutations. An article on Science Daily described experiments at New York University that showed that the progeny of two independent cave populations could have fully functioning eyes. Why? Because “the genetic deficiencies […]
The Evolutionary Inference
January 7, 2008
Today’s Darwinian Just-So Story comes from a paper in PNAS.1 Three Italian scientists did experiments on the perception of two-day old human infants. They found that the babies tended to pay more attention to biological motion than non-biological motion, and looked longer at right-side-up displays than upside-down ones. Their conclusion: “These data support the hypothesis […]
Evolutionists Scare Presidential Voters
January 6, 2008
What will doom the United States? A nuclear war? Islamic terrorism? An economic depression? No: the doomsday agent will be a creationist president, said an AFP article posted on PhysOrg. It was published internationally as far as Japan and Turkey. The scare rhetoric came at the launching of an updated book on creationism […]
Two Fossil Explosions Are Better than One
January 5, 2008
“If one is good, two is better” might work with cookies, but not with headaches. Evolutionary paleontologists have just gotten a second headache and seem almost happy about it. How can this be? Read this article in Science Daily to learn how some evolutionists seem to be masochists. As if the Cambrian Explosion were not […]
New Planet, or Dusty Brown Dwarf?
January 4, 2008
A planet has been found associated with a dusty disk, reported National Geographic News and Astrobiology.com. This is “one of the most exciting discoveries in the study of extrasolar planets,” a Max Planck Institute researcher said, because they “have directly proven” that planets form from dust disks. Moreover, they must form rapidly, because the planet […]
Do Monkeys Practice the Oldest Occupation?
January 4, 2008
If monkeys do it, should it be outlawed? A story on Fox News claims that male monkeys pay for sex. The females make them pay up first: “The males use grooming as a form of currency to buy sex from the female,” a study by evolutionary biologists in Singapore concluded. And the point is? Animals […]
Missing Links or Linking Misses? The Case of the Fungus Crystal
January 3, 2008
Another evolutionary missing-link claim showed up in the news recently. The suggestive phrase “missing link” implies a chain with just one piece missing. It also implies that the chain is visible from one end to the other. Maybe a magic crystal from a fungus can help us visualize the chain. A “critical missing […]
Yet Another Dinosaur Extinction Theory: Bugs
January 3, 2008
A press release from Oregon State claims that insects may have finished off the dinosaurs. Two main reasons were given for this hypothesis: (1) the extinction coincides with the rise of flowering plants and their pollinators, and (2) the impact theory has serious problems. “There are serious problems with the sudden impact theories of dinosaur […]
2008 Begins With Darwinist Call to Arms
January 2, 2008
Do the pro-evolutionists show any signs of compromise, contrition or consilience after unceasing pressure from critics for decades? Not in the slightest. If anything, their rhetoric is becoming increasingly bellicose. An example can be found in an article on today’s Live Science. A survey of 1,000 likely voters, conducted by the pro-evolutionist Federation […]
Science Docudrama Biases Against Religion
December 31, 2007
On New Year’s Eve, the Discovery HD Theater re-ran the 2005 BBC science docudrama Supervolcano, which dramatizes what might happen to civilization if the volcano under Yellowstone were to unleash its pent-up magma with the fury of prehistoric eruptions. At three points at least, the program touched on issues of religion and ultimate […]
Birdsong Olympic Training
December 29, 2007
The singing of a bird is a complex skill that takes rigorous training like that of a top athlete or musician. Young male birds learn by imitation from their fathers, then hone their skill over months, till their song becomes crystallized in adulthood. A paper in Nature by two scientists at UC San Francisco reported […]
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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.
