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Seeking Explanations for Plant Fibonacci Spirals
May 6, 2007
The spiral patterns on an artichoke are enough to make a physicist choke. How do plants like cacti, sunflowers, strawberries and artichokes produce geometric patterns of left- and right- handed spirals? Why do these spirals follow a mathematical rule called the Fibonacci sequence? A new theory suggests that it is the optimal energy arrangement for […]
Tweaking Mercury to Keep it Old
May 4, 2007
Mercury has a magnetic field. That’s odd. It shouldn’t. If it were 4.6 billion years old, the little planet should be solid stiff by now. Planetary scientists have published a new model of its interior with the required molten outer core that allows a dynamo to generate the observed magnetic field. What’s interesting are the […]
Passings: Howell Dies, of Time-Life Book Fame
May 3, 2007
Nature contained an obituary for F. Clark Howell, paleoanthropologist (1925-2007). He knew and worked with most of the 20th century fossil-man hunters from Raymond Dart to the Leakeys. Students will probably remember the Time-Life series he authored, Early Man, with its fold-out panorama by illustrator Jay Matternes of the march from furry monkey to naked […]
Heat and Light: Jerusalem City of David Excavations Arouse Notoriety
May 3, 2007
Opinions about tangible archaeological evidence hinge on beliefs about the Bible and science.
Hubble Explodes Star-Formation Assumption in Globular Clusters
May 3, 2007
The Hubble Telescope found three episodes of star formation in a globular cluster. While this announcement might make a layman yawn, what’s interesting are the expressions of grief and anguish coming from astronomers about what this does to their theories. For many years, astronomers had prided themselves on their understanding of globular clusters. These massive, […]
More Optical Design in Eye Retina Than Seen Before
May 2, 2007
For decades, evolutionists have used the vertebrate retina as an example of poor design (dysteleology). They have mocked how any designer could have been so unintelligent as to get the wiring backwards – with the photoreceptors behind a jumble of light-scattering cells. Creationists have countered that despite the arrangement, it works well.1 Now, they may […]
New Genes Dont Fit Mr. Darwin
May 1, 2007
If evolutionists predicted the wealth of new data from genetics was going to fall nicely into an evolutionary picture of Darwin’s tree of life, nature has foiled them again. Ancestral patterns are blurred by unexpected findings, such as the following: Little giants: Small, simple. Large, complex. That’s the old high-school picture of genetic evolution, but […]
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 […]
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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.
