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Another Flagellum Excites Scientists
September 1, 2006
“The bacterial flagellar motor excites considerable interest because of the ordered expression of its genes, its regulated self-assembly, the complex interactions of its many proteins, and its startling mechanical abilities,” begins a paper in Nature by three Caltech scientists.1 They performed electron cryotomography imaging on the flagella of Triponema primita, a different critter with a […]
Express Your Inner Alley Oop
September 1, 2006
There’s a little Neanderthal in a lot of us, claims The Telegraph. This is bad news and good news: People who have large noses, a stocky build and a beetle brow may indeed be a little Neanderthal, according to a genetic study. But the good news is that other research concludes that Neanderthals were much […]
Evolution Back on Federal Funding List
September 1, 2006
Boy, that was a close call. Evolution research almost got dropped from federal funding. Turns out it was an accidental oversight. Science Daily reported that the oversight “sparked heated protests from academics and evolution supporters” who “expressed fears that the omission might have been part of an attack on Darwinian evolution by religious groups.” […]
Rock Video Illustrates Nihilism of Evolution
August 31, 2006
Senseless sex. Mass death. Religious hypocrisy. Moral equivalence. Impersonality. Irresponsibility. Male aggression, abduction and murder. Glorification of lust. Book burning. Assembly-line babies. Dehumanization. Terrorism. Holocaust. Armageddon. It’s all illustrated with raw intensity in the Pearl Jam rock video, Do the Evolution, available on YouTube.com.1 Evolution wipes out humanity, without remorse, in just 3:53 minutes. Watch […]
Evolution Is Practically Useless, Admits Darwinist
August 30, 2006
Supporters of evolution often tout its many benefits. They claim it helps research in agriculture, conservation and medicine (e.g., 01/13/2003, 06/25/2003). A new book by David Mindell, The Evolving World: Evolution in Everyday Life (Harvard, 2006) emphasizes these practical benefits in hopes of making evolution more palatable to a skeptical society. Jerry Coyne, a staunch […]
Meanwhile, Back on the Dinosaur Ranch
August 29, 2006
Sid Perkins went on a dinosaur hunt in Montana this past July, and wrote up his experiences for the cover story of the Aug. 26 issue of Science News. It was more personal diary than science. Perkins talked about the teamwork, hard work, and the occasional thrill of finding a fragment of bone that the […]
Upset Update: Globular Clusters,
Atmospheric Methane Tear Up Textbooks
August 28, 2006
Here are a couple of updates to stories we reported earlier in the category “Everything we thought was wrong.” Globular cluster ages: Our 10/05/2003 entry reported that beliefs about globular cluster ages were undergoing a radical revision. You can almost feel the rumblings in a related story on News@Nature; “In a complex Universe, astronomers thought […]
Grass Shack Makes a Comeback
August 28, 2006
Oh, what a feeling: Toyota Roof Garden wants to replace your roof with grass. Bill Christensen at Live Science says that the car company’s grass tiles include imbedded irrigation piping, provide good thermal insulation and reflect less urban heat to the atmosphere. The special grass only needs mowing once a year. Company website (Japanese): Toyota […]
Quote: Cell Factory
August 28, 2006
From CalTech Engineering & Science (LXIX:2, August 2006), “Cellular CAT Scans” by Douglas L. Smith, an article about electron cryotomography imaging of cellular components. Smith does not mention evolution. His opening paragraph is reminiscent of Darwin’s Black Box: A cell isn’t merely a bag of enzymes sloshing around in a thick soup of cytoplasm. According […]
Embryonic Stem Cells No Longer Needed?
August 25, 2006
Two announcements this week may make harvesting embryonic stem cells obsolete. First, it’s not necessary to kill an embryo to get a stem cell, reported Associated Press (see Fox News) and Live Science. While this does not solve all the ethical problems, a White House spokeswoman called it “encouraging to see scientists at least making […]
Early Oxygen Fuels Fire in OOL Camp
August 25, 2006
Live Science reported a new claim about oxygen on the early earth appearing far earlier than usually assumed. A Penn State astrobiologist is claiming that uniformly high oxygen levels existed on earth 3.8 billion years ago, a billion years before previous estimates. Oxygen’s presence on Earth has been typically inferred from sulfur isotope […]
Origin of Left-Handed Proteins Solved?
August 24, 2006
As noted in prior entries here (09/06/2003, 11/19/2004) and in our online book, the origin of left-hand proteins is recognized as one of the most formidable challenges to naturalistic origin-of-life research. Occasionally researchers develop lab techniques for getting slight excesses of one hand over the other. Astrobiologists agree, however, that 100% purity in a protein […]
Film Under Fire That Links Darwin to Hitler
August 23, 2006
Even before being aired, the documentary Darwin’s Deadly Legacy from Coral Ridge Ministries is taking heat, reported World Net Daily. The criticisms, coming from Darwinists on Pharyngula and from the Anti-Defamation League, are two-fold: (1) that it trivializes the Holocaust, because “Hitler did not need Darwin to devise his heinous plan to exterminate the Jewish […]
Chimp-Human Genes Evolved Much Faster Than Expected
August 22, 2006
It’s been all over the news lately – human DNA shows surprisingly divergent regions from chimpanzee counterparts. The Houston Chronicle, for instance, summarizes the find: Searching across the four genomes, the team looked for regions of DNA about 100 letters long that had made the biggest leaps. One, they found, had changed nearly twice as […]
Review: Lehigh Prof Critiques ID Colleague in Science Wars
August 21, 2006
Dr. Steven Goldman (Lehigh University) has produced a series of lectures for The Teaching Company entitled Science Wars: What Scientists Know and How They Know It. CEH highly recommends this series for its wealth of historical background applied to an intriguing question: what is the nature of truth claims in science? To what extent do […]
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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.
