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Dinos Not Killed Off by Meteor, but by Worms
October 24, 2006
Confident speculations that a big meteor hitting southern Mexico caused the mass extinction of the dinosaurs appear to be unraveling. Gerta Keller [Princeton, 09/25/2003], a doubter of the story that has been a leading contender for years with its smoking-gun crater called Chicxulub in the Yucatan, has been getting a receptive hearing among geologists with […]
Quote: Chuck Norris Joke
October 23, 2006
Alleged Chuck Norris Fact: “There is no theory of evolution. Just a list of creatures Chuck Norris has allowed to live.” What does Chuck Norris himself think of this? It’s funny. It’s cute. But here’s what I really think about the theory of evolution: It’s not real. It is not the way we got here. […]
Baby Lucy Makes National Geographic Evolution Cover
October 22, 2006
No regime change is evident at National Geographic since Bill Allen left (see 02/15/2005). The Nov. 2006 is vintage NG with alleged primitive human ancestors on the cover, this time “Baby Lucy” (see 09/20/2006, 10/02/2006). Despite many passionate letters to the editor after their in-your-face Darwinist two years ago (see “Was Darwin Wrong?” 10/24/2004), this […]
Darwin Goes Online
October 19, 2006
A website featuring the complete published works of Charles Darwin went public today at Darwin-Online.org. This adds to an earlier site featuring all of Darwin’s correspondence, at Cambridge. Access is free to the public. Students and researchers will be able to search, compare and cross-check different versions of The Origin of Species and other things. […]
Have Darwinian Anthropologists Learnt Their Lessons?
October 18, 2006
Chris Stringer, writing for the BBC News, talked about “Piltdown’s lessons for modern science.” After telling the history of the famous “missing link” fraud, he discussed four “lessons learnt” by one of the most notorious hoaxes in science history. For one, “we mustn’t let preconceived ideas run away with us.” For another, “specimens have to […]
The Role of God in Science and Life
October 18, 2006
Big science today may seem to be controlled by atheists, but that’s clearly not the case for many involved in science. Here are two unrelated stories from unexpected quarters expressing support for belief in God: No God, No Scientific Laws: Noted philosopher of science Nancy Cartwright has a new paper coming out that argues that […]
Wanted Dead or Alive: New Mammals
October 18, 2006
Do we know all our fellow mammals? Further research has uncovered new furry creatures, fur sure. Furthermore, some are dead and some are alive and well: Weird Tooth: An “ancient mammal that defies classification” has been given a name, at least. EurekAlert reported that Horolodectes sunae, found 30 years ago in Alberta, remains a mystery: […]
New Titan Ethane Theory Proposed
October 18, 2006
They wonder where the ethane went (see 09/14/2006 and its links). The case of the missing ethane on Titan has only gotten more puzzling since the Huygens Probe landed last year and found almost none, when oceans a mile deep were anticipated. In Nature last week,1 D. M. Hunten (U of Arizona) posited a new […]
Oxygen YoYos and Wings
October 18, 2006
Molecular oxygen: you can’t live with it, and you can’t live without it. We breathe it in constantly or else we would turn blue and die within minutes. Yet we take antioxidants because of the harm that oxygen radicals can wreak in our cells. Like fire, it is a useful substance, but only when tightly […]
Self-cleaning Surfaces Take the Lotus Position
October 17, 2006
Photovoltaic cells and microelectromechanical systems have a problem: they collect dirt. What to do? Look to the lotus, says a EurekAlert article about research at Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. C. P. Wong and team took inspiration from the self-cleaning surfaces of lotus leaves. “Despite growing in muddy conditions, the leaves and flowers remain clean […]
Precambrian Cell Division Imaged
October 17, 2006
Embryos frozen in stone in the act of cell division were reported in Science.1 According to a press release from Virginia Tech, there are millions of fossilized embryos in the Doushantuo formation in south China, estimated to be 551 million years old, but “later stages of these animals are rare.” The EurekAlert version of this […]
Does Darwin Play Dice?
October 16, 2006
Some recent scientific papers have spoken to the question of how big a role chance plays in Darwinism. This issue was one of the key points of contention by early critics of Darwin’s theory. Modern Darwinists argue whether evolution proceeds strictly by chance, or whether the environment constrains evolution to follow certain paths that lead […]
Gold Can Form in a Geological Instant
October 15, 2006
You can’t say something is old just because it looks old, like gold.
Active SETI: If the Mountain Will Not Come to MyHomeET
October 14, 2006
SETI researchers must be getting bored sitting around waiting for a message. To bide the time, some have come up with a game called “Active SETI” – sending our messages to the aliens. It’s not that this game hasn’t been played before. The Pioneer and Voyager spacecraft each carried messages from earthlings, and the Arecibo […]
Stem Cells: Hurry Up and Wait
October 13, 2006
When will embryonic stem cells produce cures for Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis, paralysis and other maladies these wonder-cells were promised to bring? Be prepared to wait. If predictions of leading proponents are accurate, and if California is to be a world leader in stem cell research and clinical trials, even Christopher Reeve would have died […]
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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.
