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Creator Lord Jesus Praised at 100th Anniversary of Flight
December 17, 2003
When the NASA master of ceremonies told the crowd he was very honored to introduce Anne Graham Lotz, daughter of Billy Graham, to give the invocation at today’s 100th Anniversary of Flight celebration at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, he apparently did not know what he was in for. Mrs. Lotz gave a forceful, impassioned, politically-incorrect […]
Photosynthesis Began a Billion Years Earlier Than Thought
December 17, 2003
According to the BBC News, some scientists have pushed back the evolution of photosynthesis a billion years earlier than previously believed, to 3.9 billion years ago. This is based on uranium-thorium ratios of rocks in Greenland that led Danish researchers to conclude that they were deposited under oxidizing conditions. Others are not sure the data […]
Dark Energy Doubted
December 17, 2003
We’ve been told recently that two thirds of the universe consists of a mysterious phenomenon called dark energy. Now, some scientists at ESA say it doesn’t exist. Observations by the European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton X-ray Observatory of clusters of galaxies 10 billion light years distant show remarkable differences from nearby clusters in the […]
The Magnetic Sky Is Falling
December 15, 2003
Space.Com reports that the strength of Earth’s magnetic field has dropped 10% over the last 150 years. At that rate of decline, it could vanish in 1500 to 2000 years. Scientists gathered recently at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union pondered whether a reversal is occurring, but a Harvard scientist claimed that would be […]
Phillip Johnson Honored, Still Wedging
December 13, 2003
Phillip E. Johnson, the Berkeley law professor who spearheaded the Intelligent Design movement, has been named “Daniel of the Year” by World Magazine (cover story, Dec. 13, 2003, also reproduced on Access Research Network). Johnson has often used the metaphor of a wedge splitting a log. Intelligent design, he believes, is the Wedge of Truth […]
Why You Need Heavenly Sunshine for Vitamin D
December 12, 2003
Rickets is on the rise again, along with other diseases caused by vitamin D deficiency, reports Erik Stokstad in the Dec. 12 issue of Science1. Most vitamins we take in the mouth. Why do we need to stand outside for this one? He explains: Vitamin D is a steroid hormone that helps regulate calcium, an […]
Despite New Fossil, Origin of Marsupials Still Puzzles Evolutionists
December 12, 2003
Although the earliest known marsupial has just been found in China1, Richard L. Cifelli and Brian M. Davis, writing in the Dec. 12 issue of Science2 consider the phylogenetic trees of marsupial and placental mammals conflicting and puzzling. Problems include (emphasis added): Switcheroo: Fossil marsupials are predominately found in North America, but living ones are […]
Damadian Gets Consolation Prize
December 11, 2003
Calling Raymond Damadian a “Nobel protestor,” Nature Science Update reported that, as predicted, he did not get the Nobel Prize at Wednesday’s ceremony in Stockholm. The Nobel Committee does not change their decisions. “But Damadian will not end today empty-handed,” Helen Pearson for NSU reports. “A Swedish inventors’ group called Id�-Forum, based in �rnsk�ldsvik, is […]
Stupid Evolution Quote of the Week: Antibody Evolution
December 10, 2003
The Dec. 11 issue of Nature1 has an article on antibodies and how scientists are learning to make designer editions of them. Pete Moore and Julie Clayton write (emphasis added): Antibodies not only protect us from infection, they have been exploited for years in the laboratory � in diagnostic tests, to purify proteins and as […]
Mars Has Global Warming: Manufacturers At Fault?
December 10, 2003
Mars appears to be coming out of an ice age and into an era of global warming, reports Space.Com. Whether the Kyoto treaty can be extended to the red planet remains to be seen. Environmentalists are not sure if human influence is to blame; the closest thing to an SUV on Mars is the leftover […]
Hunters Are Interfering With Evolution
December 10, 2003
Evolutionists don’t seem to know what to make of research about how hunters are affecting the evolution of bighorn sheep. The paper published in the Dec. 11 issue of Nature1 was noted by a reviewer in the same issue2, who titled his review, “Undesirable evolutionary consequences of trophy hunting,” yet humans must be considered part […]
Aircraft Industry Looks to the Bombardier Beetle
December 8, 2003
The bombardier beetle, a favorite illustration used by many creationists to argue against the ability of natural selection to build irreducibly complex systems (see Incredible Creatures that Defy Evolution, for instance), is being seriously studied by the aircraft industry, reports EurekAlert. A three-year project at Leeds University will study the bug for ideas on how […]
Keeping Planetary Rings Going for Eons
December 8, 2003
It’s common knowledge that planetary rings, like those at Saturn, don’t last forever (see 02/12/2002 headline), so scientists either have to find a way to keep them going, or admit that we live in a special period in the lifetime of the solar system to see them now. That latter option is “philosophically unappealing” to […]
If You Like Cancer, You Can Live on Mars
December 8, 2003
The optimistic title, “Humans could survive Mars visit,” belies the bad news in the body of the article on BBC News. The article reports on findings announced at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union, based on data from the Mars Odyssey spacecraft instrument, Mars Radiation Environment Experiment (MARIE), which, unfortunately, stopped working after […]