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Naturalism Extends Into All Realms of Scholarship
April 30, 2007
Defenders of evolutionary theory typically argue that their ideas are merely scientific approaches to explaining biological objects. Why, then, are evolutionary approaches extended to intangible realms, like psychology, ethics, criminal law, politics, religion, character and morals? Here are some recent examples to think about: Evolution and the Criminal Mind: In a paper this month in […]
Snot Serious: Artificial Nose Works Better with Mucus
April 30, 2007
What will they think of next? Designers of electronic noses cannot yet come close to the natural nose in sensitivity. But in trying to improve their devices, they tried another trick from nature: artificial boogers. Yes, believe it or snot, adding a layer of synthetic mucus “improved the performance of their electronic nose allowing it […]
Swifts Dont Just Dream of Flying…
April 29, 2007
…they fly while dreaming. Did you know that swifts, the aerial acrobats of the air, sleep on the wing? That’s not all, they adapt their wing shape to turn on a dime. Science Daily summarized the cover story of Nature this week (April 26) that examined “wing morphing” in swifts – their ability to change […]
Stupid Evolution Quote Prizes
April 27, 2007
The Stupid Evolution Quote of the Week goes to Mark Gladwin (04/25/2007) who said something the gentler sex will probably wince at: “Study the pregnant women, because that’s where you’ll see evolution in action.” No offense intended, we hope. A runner-up goes to Deborah Charlesworth, who in Current Biology April 17 named Darwin as a […]
Update on Plant Communication
April 26, 2007
Plants have both an intranet and an extranet. Some recent papers investigated further about how plants, though rooted in the ground, keep in touch with the inside and outside economy. Intranet: In 2001 (07/13/2001), and periodically since (10/04/2004, 11/09/2004) we reported the current thinking about how a plant knows when to flower, and described a […]
Human Adaptation Can Be Rapid
April 25, 2007
How long does it take for humans to adapt to environmental changes? Some recent papers investigated this question. Paleface: If it is assumed that humans started out medium or dark-skinned, how long did it take for Europeans to lose much of that original pigment? An article in Science April 20 says maybe just 6,000 to […]
Time for Mammals
April 25, 2007
Three recent news stories about mammals involve time. Does nature time things well, or do evolutionists tell swell things about time? Time will tell. Placental mammals – Watch those assumptions: How much can you trust dates that can vary by 50%? A report in Science Daily says the new “consensus” date for the appearance of […]
More Candy Found in Junk DNA
April 24, 2007
Powerful regulators that play a crucial role – this is how non-coding sections of DNA are now being described. A story in Science Daily says that these regions of “junk DNA” once dismissed as “gene deserts” actually orchestrate the expression of genes during development. In a related paper in PNAS,1 researchers found regulatory […]
Scientists Track Homing Pigeons with GPS
April 24, 2007
How do homing pigeons find their way? Scientists are still not sure. They know that the birds use a sun compass and magnetic fields, but what other cues guide them back to the specific roost they know as home? A new study shows they are smarter than we thought. They use multiple cues and weigh […]
Fossil Forest Found in Coal
April 23, 2007
A Carboniferous forest extending some 4 square miles has been found in the ceiling of a coal mine, reported Science Daily, Live Science and News@Nature. About 50 species have been identified, including ferns and horsetails over 10 times taller than those alive today. News@Nature remarked that the forest contained some mangrove-like plants. The article quoted […]
Fatty Acid Synthesis: A Machine with High Degree of
Architectural Complexity
April 19, 2007
As Bruce Alberts said in 1998, the biology of the future was going to be the study of molecular machines: “the entire cell can be viewed as a factory that contains an elaborate network of interlocking assembly lines, each of which is composed of a set of large protein machines.”1 One of those machines is […]
Spider Silk Admired, Not Duplicated
April 18, 2007
Spiders still maintain the edge in a technology humans want: a material that absorbs huge amounts of energy without breaking. The dragline silk spun by spiders is extremely robust – ounce for ounce stronger than steel, yet more flexible than Kevlar. If a web the size of a football field could be erected in the […]
Keeping the Media Safe for Darwin
April 17, 2007
The world’s mainstream science journals often discuss Darwinian ideas. From these fountainheads, science reporters and popularizers collect and distribute their libations. Considering that a large population of the public maintains serious doubts that Darwinism is true, it is instructive to see how issues of origins are stated, and what parts are left unstated. Here are […]
Jurassic Park Gets Overhaul
April 17, 2007
How much do we understand the dinosaurs? ABC News reported on some big-time updates and revisions being made to the Carnegie Museum of Natural History dinosaur exhibits. The title of the article is, “Getting Their Dinosaur Facts Right, at Least for Now.” The problem is that even though the newest of the dinosaurs are 65 […]
Are the Red Dwarfs Ready for SETI?
April 16, 2007
There are oodles of M-type red dwarf stars. Before now, most SETI researchers didn’t pay them much attention, because their habitable zones are narrow. Also, because the habitable zones are closer in, any planets in the lucky radius would most likely be tidally locked to the star, leaving one hemisphere in darkness and the other […]
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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.
