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Dinosaur Bone Soft Tissue Questioned, Defended
November 11, 2006
The subject of soft tissue in dinosaur bones came up at the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Meeting earlier this month, reported Science.1 Mary Schweitzer was there, defending her spectacular claim that she had discovered both medullary bone (06/03/2006) and soft, pliable blood vessels and cartilage in a T. rex leg bone (03/24/2005). Doubters, however, brought […]
Urchin Genome Hyped by Media as Human Cousin
November 10, 2006
The publication of a new genome for a plant or animal is becoming routine. For some reason, the news media instantly jumped on claims that the genome of the sea urchin, published in Science, means that evolution is all but figured out, and that we should each feel a special place in our hearts for […]
Brain Compensates for Eye Movements
November 10, 2006
Your eyes are continually jumping in little movements called saccades, yet your brain interprets the view as a steady image. How can that be? Scientists at the University of Pittsburgh are on the track of finding out “why our shifty eyes don’t drive us crazy.” They’ve discovered that the signal that sends a command to […]
Junk Is the Essence of Mankind
November 9, 2006
Christians may proclaim “God don’t make no junk” but evolutionists boast of our junky heritage. Erika Check wrote in Nature this week,1 “It’s the junk that makes us human.” She was referring to non-coding DNA, long considered “junk DNA.” There is growing awareness that these sections of unclear function are involved in the regulation of […]
Moon Gas Indicates Recent Geologic Activity
November 9, 2006
It’s aliv-v-v-v-e! Evidence for recent geological activity on our moon has been reported in Nature.1 Katharine Sanderson introduced the findings in News@Nature, in an item titled, “The moon has gas: Eruptions confound the idea that our nearest neighbour is a geological dead zone” – Some think the Moon has been geologically dead for billions of […]
Stupid Evolution Quote of the Week: Its a Gas
November 8, 2006
This week’s entry by Sara Goudarzi in Live Science requires no comment. The title of the article is, “Life’s Origin a Gas.” Life on Earth emerged out of thin air, scientists now say. By mimicking in a lab the gases that could have been present on early Earth, researchers have concluded that a […]
Bacterial Flagellum Multitasking and Assembly Described
November 8, 2006
Since the bacterial flagellum has become a de facto icon of the intelligent design movement, it’s instructive to see what new discoveries come to light on the molecular machine par excellence. Two papers appeared recently. Ferry Boats: A Cambridge team publishing in PNAS1 studied how the parts get to the assembly site. The studied one […]
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 […]
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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.
