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The Simpsons Producer Treats Evolution as Fact
July 26, 2007
The TV cartoon The Simpsons was praised for its “greatness” in, of all places, the premiere scientific journal Nature.1 Michael Hopkin interviewed “Executive producer Al Jean, the show’s head writer and a Harvard mathematics graduate.” One of the questions was, “One episode in which the show does take sides is the one in which Lisa […]
Stars Found Almost as Old as Universe
July 25, 2007
A new record was set by a Caltech team using the Keck telescopes on Hawaii: they detected a galaxy nearly as old as the universe. The consensus age for the universe is 13.6 billion years. The light from this galaxy, they claim, is over 13 billion years old – “a mere 500 million years after […]
Dinosaur Sex and Other Tales
July 24, 2007
How much do we really know about dinosaurs? How much can be inferred from their bones? Two recent stories illustrate conflicting themes: much of what we thought we knew was wrong, but that doesn’t stop evolutionary paleontologists from speaking with confidence. Walking with dino ancestors: Paleontologists used to think that the alleged precursors of dinosaurs […]
Cosmologists in Search of Dark Ghosts
July 23, 2007
Dark matter and dark energy: do they exist? Cosmologists and physicists are spending large amounts of money building huge and expensive detectors to find them, but so far have found nothing. This raises profound questions about the limits of science, the interaction of observation with theory, the presuppositions behind scientific models, and the sociology of […]
Human Variability May Swamp Ancestral Hominid Claims
July 22, 2007
Here are some things to think about when paleoanthropologists draw inferences from fossils alleged to be human ancestors. A seven-foot-nine-inch man in Mongolia just married a lady more than two feet shorter (see picture at National Geographic). And a man with just a narrow rim of brain material inside his skull had no symptoms except […]
We Live in a Rare Solar System
July 21, 2007
Surveys of extrasolar planets are making our solar system look unusual. Most stars that host a family of planets have the gas giants close in, an article on Space.com states. The “hot Jupiters” seen around many stars would most likely eject any rocky planets from the habitable zone. “Of the nearly 250 planets discovered so […]
Keep the Stem Cell News Straight
July 19, 2007
Stem cell technology continues to make news, but the phrase “stem cells” alone can mask serious ethical issues. Adult stem cells (AS) and embryonic stem cells (ES) are both being investigated for their ability to transform into any cell type in the body. Both are advertised as promising dramatic cures for debilitating diseases, with their […]
Its Not a Bird, Its a Plane
July 18, 2007
Look to the birds of the air, and they will teach you aeronautics. That’s what designers of the Robo-Swift did. PhysOrg reported about a new plane that imitates a swift thing on the wing: RoboSwift is a micro airplane fitted with shape shifting wings, inspired by the common swift, one of nature’s most efficient flyers. […]
Mosquitos Are Water-Walking Champions
July 18, 2007
We hate ’em, but in one sense we should admire them: mosquitos are the water-walking champions of the animal kingdom. They even beat out water striders, reported Live Science and EurekAlert based on research from Physical Review E. Science Daily wrote of “miraculous mosquito legs” and had a picture of the intricate fan-shaped superhydrophobic structures […]
Iapetus, Charon Look Young for Their Age
July 18, 2007
Hard bodies in the solar system are supposed to be billions of years old. Why, then, do so many look smooth and young-looking? Two examples made news today: Charon So Smooth: Pluto has a moon named Charon (KAR-on) that apparently leaks beauty cream out of its interior. Live Science and Space.com report about a study […]
News Reporters Knuckling Under to Darwinian Storytelling
July 17, 2007
The science news media are virtually going ape over a claim about how chimpanzees might have evolved into upright-walking humans: what is going on? It began with a paper in PNAS.1 Sockol, Raichlen and Pontzer measured the gaits of chimpanzees and humans and concluded that it is more efficient to walk upright than to propel […]
Cool Cell Tricks
July 16, 2007
Some cell parts act like acrobats, some like rescue workers, and some like I.T. professionals. Here are some recent stories about the tricks that living cells perform each day. Precision formation flying: The Scientist expressed amazement at the precision of key factors in development of the body plan in fruit flies. The levels of expression […]
Roadrunner and Largest Flying Bird Described from Fossils
July 15, 2007
A bird with a 23-foot wingspan was described in the BBC News. At an estimated 155 pounds, this bird probably had to jump from a height to get airborne and likely rode on thermals. The article says the bird rivalled in size some light airplanes. A diagram shows the Argentinean giant with wings upwardly stretched […]
But Is It Evolution?
July 14, 2007
Every week the news media cheerfully present the latest finding that is claimed to be evidence for evolution. The following recent examples, though, might leave a perceptive reader wondering, “What’s Darwin got to do with it?” Slow? No!: If you thought evolution was a gradual process too slow to watch, get a load of this: […]
The War of the Museums
July 13, 2007
Some evolutionists have become very alarmed at the opening of the new Creation Museum in Kentucky (05/26/2007). They are so alarmed, in fact, that they are using pro-Darwin museums to counter-attack. Scientific American published a lengthy article on the war of the museums. Elisabeth Landau quickly used terms to label creationism as pseudoscience: […]
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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.
