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How Stem Cell Reporting Can Blur Ethics
December 2, 2006
“The potential of stem-cell technologies to revolutionize medical care is causing great excitement among biologists and the general public,” Nature reported Nov 30.1 “ Recent studies on embryonic and adult stem cells, coupled with advances in our understanding of how they can be coaxed into forming particular cell types and tissues, have improved the prospects […]
How Does the Emperor Penguin Dive So Deep?
December 1, 2006
Using a small recorder mounted on an emperor penguin, researchers at Scripps Institute measured the bird diving as deep as 1,800 feet – six times the depth any human has survived unassisted. This is much deeper than scientists had expected. Live Science surmises that if we could figure out how they do it without getting […]
SETI a Descendant of OOL
November 30, 2006
The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) may seem a different subject than origin of life (OOL), but researchers in both depend on each other’s assumptions. The common bond is illustrated in a SETI article on Space.com today. Devon Burr of the SETI institute wrote an article not about intelligent aliens trying to broadcast signals to […]
The Nature of Cellular Tech
November 30, 2006
For molecule-size entities working in the dark, cellular machines seem pretty clever. Here are some tricks they perform day and night to keep life functioning, described this month in Nature and PNAS. Cell biology is sounding more and more like a mixture of Popular Mechanics and Wired. Energy balancing act: Cells have to use oxygen […]
Evolutionary Ethics Teeters on Brave New World
November 29, 2006
What happens when science pursues whatever it can do, unfettered by moral standards? Three recent news stories should cause all futurists to ponder the ramifications: A BBC News story this month asked, “UK scientists are seeking permission to place human nuclei into animal eggs in a bid to create stem cell lines. Why do researchers […]
Male Nipples: Two Views
November 28, 2006
Is there a beachgoer who has not wondered why men have nipples? Since Live Science brought it up, let’s use this as a case study on how evolutionists and creationists explain things. The Evolutionist View: Live Science claims we all start out as females in the womb, and only after about 60 days the testosterone […]
Little Animals, Big Technologies
November 28, 2006
You can’t always say bigger is better. In the animal world, some of the smallest critters have capabilities that belie their size and compare well with their less dimensionally-challenged brethren. Bee secure: Honeybees are being trained to sniff bombs. Really. Read all about it in a press release from Los Alamos National Laboratory. Bees were […]
ID Support from Unlikely Quarters
November 27, 2006
While Nature 11/24 described intelligent design (ID) as a threat to science, support for it came from two new scientific books reviewed in the same issue. Both of them, while not using the phrase intelligent design, deal with concepts that imply science must reach beyond material causes. Just right universal soup: Jim Al-Khalili (U of […]
Nature Interviews German Creationist; Media Notes Rise of Anti-Darwinism
November 27, 2006
Following a news report entitled, “Anti-evolutionists raise their profile in Europe,”1 Nature printed a short interview with one of them:2 Peter Korevaar is head of the physics and cosmology working group of Germany’s Studiengemeinschaft Wort und Wissen, one of the largest creationist groups in Europe. He holds a PhD in astrophysics and now works at […]
Plants Have an Immune System, Too
November 26, 2006
We know that animals fight disease with an army of patrols swimming in blood, but how do plants cope? They are exposed to pathogens, too: everything from bacteria to fungi, worms and insects. Without a central nervous system or circulatory system to help, are our gentle green friends at the mercy of what comes? The […]
Anti-Religious Sentiment Increases in Intensity
November 25, 2006
The two poles could hardly be farther apart. In the East, a hundred million radical Muslims swear death to all Americans and Jews and work themselves into frenzies of jihad for the worldwide triumph of Islam. In the West, radical atheists are determined to eradicate religion from the Earth. Somewhere in between, millions of Christians […]
New Technology Visualizes Animals in the Womb
November 24, 2006
Many have seen the videos of human babies developing in the womb, but what do animals look like before birth? Rhiannon Edward began an article in The Scotsman with some glimpses: An unborn elephant, tiny but perfect in every way. A dolphin swimming in the womb, just as it will have to swim in the […]
Genetic Study Points to Three Ancestral Families of Humans
November 24, 2006
In a paper just published in Nature,1 scientists mapped the DNA of 270 people from four people groups: European, African, Chinese, and Japanese. The scientists were looking for sections of DNA that are either missing or duplicated. Many sections of our DNA appear over and over again. The number of extra copies varies between individuals […]
Dinosaur Skin Found, Possible Soft Tissue
November 23, 2006
A mostly-complete duck-billed Edmontosaurus dinosaur has been found in Montana, reported the Discovery Channel. A patch of skin from the hip was recovered. The team from North Carolina State University and Museum of Natural Sciences was very careful. They wanted to preserve any possible soft tissue, using techniques developed by Mary Schweitzer that last year […]
Evolutionism Fomented Columbine Disaster, Father Says
November 22, 2006
Brian Rohrbough, father of one of the students killed in the Columbine school shooting in 1999, spoke on CBS News “free speech” segment October 2 after the recent Amish school shooting. Tonight (Nov. 22) on Fox News, the Bill O’Reilly show replayed an interview he had with Rohrbough about that CBS speech that led to […]
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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.
