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Unhappiness with Big Science: Its Not Just Creationism Anymore
November 7, 2006
Feeling marginalized? Unable to get a hearing? Shunned by your peers? Subject to attacks and ridicule? Rejected by leading publications and the press, while your opponents get free rein for overhyped claims? You may not be a politician or creationist. You may be a scientist with views that differ from the consensus of Big Science. […]
Youll Love Beetle-Foot Tape
November 6, 2006
If beetles can do it, scientists should be able to: climb the wall, that is. Some researchers at Max Planck Institute have invented an adhesive that sticks to glass like beetle feet. The secret was to manufacture thousands of microscopic pads that adhere to smooth surfaces by van der Waals forces (the attraction of neighboring […]
NOMA Isnt Working: Darwin Demands the Kingdom
November 5, 2006
The late evolutionary paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould had an idea for resolving conflicts between science and religion. He called it NOMA, for “non-overlapping magisteria.” The basic idea was, let science take the natural world, and leave everything else – morals, ethics, the arts and humanities – to the theologians and philosophers. In Gould’s words, “we […]
The Demise of the Neanderthal Species Concept
November 3, 2006
Can you call a population a separate species when it shares its distinctive characteristics with another species, and interbreeds readily? A team of Romanian paleontologists, publishing in PNAS Nov. 3,1 re-evaluated some “poorly dated and largely ignored” skeletons of early modern human bones found in the Pestera Muierii region that, since 1952, had “never been […]
Former Top Atheist Unveils His Reasons for Believing in a Creator
November 2, 2006
Antony Flew, formerly an influential atheist, was interviewed by Lee Strobel recently. Flew explained why he became convinced of the existence of a Creator. An article and video clip of the interview is available on the Lee Strobel website. Notice how it was the scientific evidence that convinced Flew to consider the possibility of a […]
Strange Exploding Star Continues to Puzzle Astronomers
November 1, 2006
The Hubble took another image of the expanding shell of star V838 Monocerotis (see ESA and Hubblesite). Four years after the first dramatic sequence (see 05/29/2003), astronomers are still puzzled by this star, with the most dramatic light echo ever photographed. Leading hypothesis now is that two stars collided before the outburst. The image made […]
Intestinal Efficiency Praised
November 1, 2006
Leave it to a science website to answer those questions one would never ask out loud, or might not really care to know, like “why are feces brown?” One line jumps out of an explanation at Live Science that is no joke: “Feces are fascinating. Flush down your initial grade-school scatological silliness and you’ll discover […]
Geologists Puzzle Over Egyptian Craters
November 1, 2006
A set of craters deep in the Egyptian desert has geologists scratching their heads. Discovery Channel News says that they look neither like impact craters nor known volcanic phenomena. “It is a strange and new thing,” reported one French scientist. Jay Melosh of the University of Arizona remarked, “There’s nothing in our current geological literature […]
Will Cosmology Emerge from the Dark Ages?
October 31, 2006
To cosmologists, the “dark ages” were not after the fall of Rome, but the time between the release of the microwave background radiation, and the light from the first stars. In a feature article for the November Scientific American, Abraham Loeb discussed how astronomers hope to shed light on this epoch with new telescopes measuring […]
Mars Life: Hope Against Hope
October 30, 2006
Good news: the Viking landers (1976) may have been unable to detect life on Mars if it were present. Bad news: the dust devils on Mars probably would kill anything alive on the surface. These contrasting stories recently tugged in opposite directions on hopes to find life on the red planet. A report on PNAS1 […]
Darwinist Anti-Creation Tactics Increase in Fervor
October 27, 2006
The consistent popular support for intelligent design and old-fashioned Biblical creationism is not making hard-core Darwinists any more interested in negotiating or debating. Quite the contrary; as the following stories show, their opposition borders on mania and tyranny. Toad in the hole: A blog named Toad in the Hole expresses some of the fervor of […]
Bees Make Beeline to the Headlines
October 27, 2006
The science journals and media were abuzz with honeybee stories this week. We counted 18 press releases and half a dozen research papers related to aspects of honeybees, including the publication of the honeybee genome. Many research labs seem to have gotten into the act of figuring out what makes bees tick. The major stories […]
Big Bad Bird: Ten-Foot “Terror Bird” Found
October 26, 2006
What would a “terror bird” look like? Imagine a ten-footer, able to disembowel you with a single kick and crush your skull in its jaws. That’s what scientists from the Dinosaur Institute of the Los Angeles Museum of Natural History described in Nature1 after finding the largest-ever skull of a flightless phorusrhacid (‘terror bird’) in […]
Fossil Lamprey Changed Little in 360 Million Years
October 26, 2006
Lampreys, fish that consist of little more than a mouth with a tube-like body and fin, don’t usually fossilize well because they lack bones and hard cartilage. A small two-inch fossil lamprey has been found in South Africa and reported in Nature1 (see also National Geographic, Live Science and EurekAlert based on a press release […]
Key Reference Rock Formed Five Times Faster than Thought
October 25, 2006
Strata in the Niagara Gorge, used as a reference for Silurian dating, formed much quicker than previously believed – in just 1/5 the time, according to a press release from Ohio State. Bradley Cramer and his advisor Matthew Saltzmann used high-resolution carbon isotope stratigraphy to re-examine the rocks in the Niagara Gorge. “Rocks that were […]
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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.
