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What Keeps Skin Strong? Velcro!
December 8, 2007
Skin would fall to pieces were it not for velcro-like molecules that bind its cells together. These molecules, called cadherins, make skin strong but also supple. Their secret was explained by Ashraf Al-Amoudi of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, quoted in Live Science. “The trick is that each cadherin binds twice: once to a molecule […]
SETI: Physics Conspires to Keep the Aliens Isolated
December 7, 2007
Where are the aliens? They’re too far away to get to know. Don’t look for galactic federations to join any time soon, said SETI Institute Director Seth Shostak at Space.com. The harsh realities of the speed of light make fellowship, both in person and via radio signals, too remote to be feasible. Shostak […]
Origin of Life: Food for Queazy Thought
December 6, 2007
New theories of the origin of life seem to come and go like fashion trends. A biochemist at University of California at Santa Barbara (Helen Hansma) put out a new plot line about biomolecules forming between the protective flakes of mica. This was all Dave Mosher at Live Science (see reprint on MSNBC) needed to […]
Is Making Planets Child’s Play?
December 5, 2007
Are star children good at child's play? Like making mudballs, it should be easy to roll up dust into planets.
Evolutionists Explain Living Fossils
December 4, 2007
Why did the living forms look identical to the ancient forms after so many tens of millions of years of evolution?
Active Moons Challenge Old-Age Beliefs
December 3, 2007
The best planetary scientists in the world, constrained within their chosen billions-of-years mindset, have many questions and few answers.
Hadrosaur Skin Flick
December 3, 2007
The press is abuzz with the story of a mummified hadrosaur found in North Dakota with skin and fossilized soft parts; see PhysOrg, Science Daily, Associated Press and BBC News. Since the fully-articulated, uncollapsed, mummified fossil named “Dakota” was discovered in 1999, though, it appears that the announcement is being made now primarily as publicity […]
Cell Gatekeepers: Diverse, Complex, Accurate
December 2, 2007
Cargo moves around rapidly and ceaselessly in every cell. Some moves in and out of the external membrane, and some moves in and out of organelles and the nucleus. In a system of protected domains surrounded by impermeable membranes, how does the cell control what should pass? Details of the amazing gatekeeping mechanisms embedded in […]
Wilson Duo Resurrects Darwins Taboo
December 1, 2007
Group selection (sociobiology) has long been a taboo subject, but now its time has come. This is what an article on EurekAlert claims. E. O. Wilson and David Sloan Wilson are on a new campaign to promote group selection. The two Wilsons called for a new consensus on sociobiology in The Quarterly Review […]
Flowering Plants Do Big Bang in Darwins Face
December 1, 2007
There’s a big bang in botany. The flowering plants, reported Science Daily, “evolved very quickly into five groups.” The claim is based on the investigation of plant genes by scientists in Florida. Their work “showed that a stunning diversification of flowering plants they are referring to as the ‘Big Bang’ took place in […]
New Dinosaur Finds Astonish Paleontologists
November 30, 2007
Some recent dinosaur discoveries on different sides of the world have produced amazement among scientists and the public as well. Tire tracks uncover dino tracks: ATVs and dirt bikes have ridden for years over a place that is now found to be loaded with dinosaur tracks. Near Coral Pink Sand Dunes State Park in Utah, […]
Who Knows the Age of Grand Canyon?
November 30, 2007
“In spite of over a century of work on the Grand Canyon, there are still fundamental questions about the age of the canyon and the processes that have formed it.” Thus begins a paper in the November GSA Bulletin of the Geological Society of America.1 To re-evaluate the date of Grand Canyon, a team dated […]
Nehemiahs Wall Found
November 30, 2007
Earlier this month, archaeologist Eilat Mazar found remnants of an ancient wall on the old city of David she believes is a remnant of the wall built by Nehemiah in 445 BC (see Nehemiah 3-6 that describes the project in detail). This was reported on the Bible Places blog, with a link to The Trumpet […]
Magicians through the Looking Glass
November 29, 2007
A leading origin-of-life researcher passed away last month: Leslie Orgel. Gerald Joyce paid him tribute in Nature.1 Orgel worked closely with other famous origin-of-life people like Stanley Miller, and was a leader in the “RNA world” scenario for the origin of life. Joyce appreciated his rigid empiricism: Although Orgel was a theoretician, he always demanded […]
Dealing with Light at the Extremes
November 28, 2007
“Light is the most important variable in our environment,” wrote Edith Widder, a marine biologist. The inhabitants of two different ecosystems have to deal with either too little or too much. Let your light so shine: A thousand meters below the sea surface, all sunlight is extinguished. Yet for thousands of meters more, creatures live […]
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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.
