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Skin Includes Built-In Damage Protection
March 11, 2007
Ultraviolet radiation that tans skin can also cause skin cancer, right? Right, but the skin also produces a cancer fighter to come to the rescue, reported EurekAlert. Scientists at the Dana-Farber cancer institute detected a known cancer fighter named p53 that is produced right under the skin. Their results, published in Cell (see summary on […]
Darwinists Blur Science with Fiction
March 9, 2007
One would think make-believe is for kids, and science is for adults. Some recent evolution stories, however, seem to portray a seamless continuum between imagination and testable scientific hypotheses. You be the judge: Darwin in cyberspace: If it happens in a computer simulation, is it really evolution? National Geographic reported on a new computer game […]
Deconstructing Darwinese: Delighting in Ignorance
March 8, 2007
When is ignorance a good thing? When is confidence in one’s answers a bad thing? One science writer expressed his desire for mystery over explanation – as long as the mysterious allowed room for lucky breaks without design. Science writer Ben Shaberman got to share his views on the last page of the […]
Nature Recommends Trimming the Bible
March 8, 2007
People act violently when they think God sanctions violence, thinks Brad Bushman, a social psychologist from U. of Michigan. Heidi Ledford wrote in Nature1 that he and others like Hector Avalos (Iowa State) propose editing Scripture. “Avalos has proposed a radical solution to theologically inspired violence � cut the violent passages out of the scripture.” […]
Evolutionary Predictions Fail Observational Tests
March 8, 2007
Lately, some expectations by evolutionists have not been fulfilled. Here are several recent examples of evolutionary upsets: Dinobird genes cook up scrambled eggs: Scientists expected that the dinosaurs presumed ancestral to birds would show a decreasing genome size. The thinking was that the cost of maintaining a large genome takes its toll on flight. In […]
Sappy Birthday, Plate Tectonics
March 8, 2007
Authors of prose and poetry often use personification to set the imagination and emotions moving. Such talk is infrequent in science, because it can confuse more than illuminate. We’ll let the reader decide the effect of a commentary in GSA Today1 by Shoufa Lin (U of Waterloo, Ontario), who asked, “When did the life of […]
Sun as a Star: How Does It Compare?
March 7, 2007
Not too many years ago, our sun was described as a common, ordinary star. More recently, the Type G2 Dwarf Main-Sequence class, of which Ol Sol is a member, is believed to comprise only 5% of all stars. An important paper in Astrophysical Journal is now revealing that the sun is special within its class: […]
Turtles Hurtle Through the Sea Magnetically
March 6, 2007
Experiments on sea turtles have shown that they follow the earth’s magnetic field to the exact beach where they were born to lay their eggs. “It is almost as if they were equipped with a compass pointing towards the beach in question,” says an article on EurekAlert. “So they can correct any deflection they are […]
Dino Horns: Is Smaller More Evolved?
March 5, 2007
One can never tell which way the evolutionary path will take to determine fitness. Could be bigger, could be smaller. Could be faster, could be slower. Could be better camouflaged, could be flashy. Michael Ryan (Cleveland Museum) decided that shorter horns on his dinosaur constituted better fitness. CNN says his discovery, a 20-foot dinosaur in […]
Punc Eq Pioneer Founds Father & Son Evo-Journal
March 3, 2007
Who made Newsmakers in Science March 2,1 but Niles Eldredge and his son Greg. Eldredge the dad (you can distinguish the two in the photo by beard color) started the “punctuated equilibrium” evolution revolution in 1972 with Stephen Jay Gould. The two paleontologists angered many other evolutionists by making it public that the fossil record […]
Evolutionary Theory Not Even Skin Deep
March 2, 2007
A book on skin just was published – no, not one of those books, but a book on the physiology of human skin. Nina Jablonski wrote Skin: A Natural History (UC Berkeley, 2006) and Qais Al-Awqati (Columbia U) reviewed it in Science.1 The reviewer noticed that “In its discussion of the human skin, the book’s […]
Dynamic Solar System Illuminated in Stunning New Images
March 1, 2007
Images both striking and beautiful continue to arrive on Earth from remote corners of the solar system. Arriving as streams of binary digits with energies mere quadrillionths of a watt, received by giant radio dishes then amplified and processed, the results are nothing short of amazing. Here’s a glimpse of what turned up this week: […]
3 Out of 5 Doctors Leaves 2
February 28, 2007
Every once in awhile it’s good to be reminded that yesterday’s nutritional advice can be wrong. We need to beware of simplistic approaches to health. For instance, the cliches “If a little is good, more is better” or “it worked for me” can be deadly. TV commercials are filled with glowing promises for this or […]
The Moth in Spiders Clothing
February 28, 2007
National Geographic News has a picture story about a moth that mimics a jumping spider. It appears to work. Scientists staged a battle royale between contestants of mimics and non-mimics in the ring with their jumping spider enemies, and the mimics won hands down. The spiders went for the normal moths 62% of the time, […]
The Evolution of School Boards
February 27, 2007
A press release from Michigan State University encourages scientists to run for school boards on a pro-evolution platform. Alarmed that 40% of students are doubting evolution, Jon Miller encourages his fellow evolutionists to get involved in improving “science literacy.” He sees this as a necessary counter to “other special interest groups, often conservative or religiously […]
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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.
