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Hummingbirds: Small Wonders
June 5, 2006
Do you enjoy watching the world’s smallest birds, right from your backyard? Susan Healy and T. Andrew Hurly provided interesting tidbits about them in a Quick Guide to Hummingbirds in Current Biology this week.1 There are 330 species of these small flyers noted for their aerobatics and iridescent colors. Typically, they weigh a […]
Researcher Denies SETI Is a Religion
June 3, 2006
Apparently irritated by charges that SETI research is like a religion (see, for instance, the article by novelist Michael Crichton mentioned in our 12/27/2003 entry), David Darling of the SETI Institute has issued a response. On Space.com, his title was direct: “Of Faith and Facts: Is SETI a Religion?” The answer was a forthright NO […]
Stupid Evolution Quote of the Week: Handy Dandy Modus Operandi
June 2, 2006
Charles G. Gross and Asif A. Ghazanfar win the prize for this gem in Science1 from a book review of The Sensory Hand by Vernon B. Mountcastle (Harvard, 2006): In one of the first systematic attempts to describe the differences between primates and other mammals, Thomas Huxley argued that the former are distinguished by virtue […]
Asteroid Sticks Together While Theories Disintegrate
June 1, 2006
[Guest article] In an story entitled “Rubbly Itokawa revealed as ‘impossible’ asteroid,” New Scientist Space reported on findings gathered from the recent visit of Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa to the asteroid Itokawa (see 11/28/2005 bullet). There seems to be no end of problems for scientists trying to fit the solar system into billions of years. Now […]
Leading Evolutionist Provides His Best Proof: HIV
May 30, 2006
[Guest article] Sarah Crown reports in the Guardian Unlimited (“Why Creationism Is Wrong”) on biologist Steve Jones’ speech to a crowd at an English bank holiday, the Hay Festival: The aim of the talk, he explained, is to establish the testability and therefore prove the truth of evolution. After gaining the audience’s sympathy with a […]
A Challenge to our Victorian Ethics: Humans and Chimps Interbreeding
May 22, 2006
[Guest article] Newspapers chipped away at Christian ethics last week with articles describing evidence that “early humans” bred (hybridized) with their supposed ancestors, the chimpanzees, for millions of years after becoming another species. The New York Times reports: David Page, a human geneticist at the Whitehead Institute in Cambridge, said the design of the new […]
Bioneers Update: International Conference Held on Animal-Inspired Design
May 13, 2006
Georgia Tech came out with a press release about progress at their Center for Biologically Inspired Design (CBID) that opened last year (see 10/29/2005). At a two-day conference May 11-12, international representatives from 20 institutions shared their inspirations on how nature can “help them solve some of the most complex problems of the day,” just […]
Dinosaur Boneyard: Dying Together Implies Living Together, Not Much Else
May 13, 2006
(Guest article) CNN reported in an article from Associated Press that scientists have uncovered a small cache of dinosaur bones that contains bones from no other animals, and in their excitement have concluded that this means they must have hunted in packs. One expert called the discovery the first substantial evidence of group living by […]
Cactus Evolution Explained
May 12, 2006
Phew, finally: now we know how cacti evolved, reports EurekAlert. Ouch! On second thought, how’s that again? Two Yale scientists set out to figure out how the succulent plants turned leaves into spines. Using molecular methods, they identified the earliest cactus, but then said it “already showed water use patterns that are similar […]
Paper View: Cosmic Questions, Personal Implications
May 11, 2006
A good question provokes good thinking. It stimulates the imagination and inspires reasoning about profound issues. It focuses attention on problems, calls for clarification of assumptions, and leads to good follow-up questions, too. Such a good question was asked in four simple words by Sean M. Carroll1 (U of Chicago, Enrico Fermi Institute) this month […]
See Comet Crumble
May 10, 2006
A comet is breaking up before our eyes. Comet Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 has split into dozens of pieces and is crumbling quickly, like pieces of dried meringue. Science News tells about the breakup, and it made Astronomy Picture of the Day. The Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes are also documenting the event. This is […]
Escape to Reality: Turn Off the Video Games
May 10, 2006
Visitation at national parks has declined significantly, reports University of Illinois at Chicago, correlated with rising use of video games and home entertainment. “My concern is that young people are simply not going outdoors or to natural areas,” said a biology professor at the school, “but are instead playing video games, going on the Internet […]
Mt. St. Helens Performs Fast Rock
May 10, 2006
Before reading the caption, look at the picture of this football-field size mountain of rock at Astronomy Picture of the Day and guess how old it is. The answer: about five months. The smooth rock slab with its cornice tip has grown as much as a meter a day. The caption contains links to more […]
Book: Darwin Centurions Join Forces Against ID Visigoths
May 9, 2006
A new book attacking intelligent design has chapters by most of the big names in evolutionary thought: Daniel Dennett, Richard Dawkins, Jerry Coyne, and others. An introduction to the book Intelligent Thought: Science vs. the Intelligent Design Movement (ed. John Brockman, Vintage Press, May 2006), with a synopsis of each chapter, is available at The […]
Fitness Costs What? Say That Again?
May 9, 2006
Good news: evolution has figured out how to make your wounds heal faster. Bad news: the required mutation makes you go deaf. Believe it or not, that is the story told on News@Nature. “Deafness gene has health benefit,” wrote Alison Abbott. “Protein from genetic mutation helps wounds to heal.” The article treats this […]
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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.
