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From Emperors to Monarchs….
August 19, 2005
If lion is king, and penguin is emperor, who would have thought a dainty insect would be monarch? EurekAlert posted a story earlier this month too good to pass up: monarch butterflies follow the light – ultraviolet light – to their breeding grounds. Scientists at Hebrew University, working with monarchs in a specially-designed flight simulator […]
Italy Going Soft on Darwinism
August 19, 2005
The controversy over evolution is not limited to American shores. An editorial in the September issue of American Naturalist1 expresses concern that evolutionary biology is getting a low-key treatment in Italian universities: The Darwinian theory of evolution by natural selection is the unifying principle of the biological sciences. Unfortunately in the Italian academic system, evolutionary […]
Meteorite Impacts Solar System Theories
August 18, 2005
A study partly funded by NASA and published in Nature1 has thrown a “monkey wrench” into theories of the origin of the solar system, according to a press release from the University of Toronto. Small grains of minerals called chondrules in two meteorites are “young” – too young to have been formed in the assumed […]
Fossil Brachiopod Shows Soft Part Details
August 18, 2005
American and British paleontologists described in Nature1 the discovery of nearly complete brachiopods with calcified soft parts intact. They exhibited intricate details never before seen in fossils of these organisms, sometimes called lamp shells. Brachiopods, a type of marine animal that attached itself to the sea floor with a pedicle or stalk, were very abundant […]
Dumb Down or Wise Up? Rhetoric Over ID Intensifies
August 17, 2005
More and more reporters, scientists and scientific societies are weighing in with their opinions on evolution vs. intelligent design (ID) this week (see 08/13/2005 entry). Here are some of the more interesting of the recent salvos: It’s Official: ID Is Not Science: If the scientific validity of an idea can be ruled by authority, then […]
Cambrian Fossil: What Is It?
August 17, 2005
A Cambrian fossil discovered in China may represent a new phylum, reports BBC News. Vetustodermis, discovered in 1979, looks like a flatworm with eye stalks and antenna. It resembles a mollusk or arthropod in some ways, but scientists aren’t sure how to classify it. Forcing it into any existing group requires “pushing and pulling” that […]
Can Atheism Breathe in an Anthropic Universe?
August 16, 2005
Astronomers Martin Rees and Mario Livio considered “Anthropic Reasoning” in a Science perspectives article.1 The question bears not only on SETI, and whether intelligent life exists elsewhere, but why it exists here. They state the issue: We can imagine universes where the constants of physics and cosmology have different values. Many such “counterfactual” universes would […]
Origin of Life Studies: Motion or Emotion?
August 15, 2005
Harvard is going to fund origin-of-life research to the tune of a million dollars a year, according to an AP release reported by LiveScience.com, MSNBC News and the Washington Post. The goal is to reduce life’s origin to a “series of logical events that could have taken place with no divine intervention,” according to Harvard […]
Evolution vs. ID: This Means War
August 13, 2005
President Bush’s mild off-the-cuff remarks about students needing to hear alternatives to evolution (see 08/02/2005) set off a firestorm of reaction pro and con in the media. Get your ringside seat here for the war of the words: Mad Scientists: Nature, as reported this week (08/10/2005), expressed outrage at the President’s remarks – a reaction […]
Plant Communication: How Leaf Calls Bud
August 12, 2005
Plants communicate with themselves in email (07/13/2001), and the messages are being hacked by scientists. Miguel Blázquez, writing in Science,1 discussed three recent studies that help solve the problem of how a plant, without a nervous system, buds into flowers all at once. Two of the studies describe a couple of proteins that, working in […]
Dinolava Theory Back in Eruption
August 12, 2005
Meteor impact or volcanic eruption? Science Now reports that the volcano theory of dinosaur extinction has rejuvenated, challenging the long popularity of the Chicxulub impact hypothesis. Notwithstanding all the dramatic animations on science documentaries of a cataclysmic meteor wiping out the dinosaurs, the article by Carolyn Gramling states that “Scientists have long wrangled […]
Whats On the Agenda? Kansas Votes in New Science Standards
August 11, 2005
Science Now (from the American Association for the Advancement of Science, publisher of Science magazine) reported that Kansas voted 6-4 to adopt the new science standards yesterday that “allow for the teaching of alternatives to evolutionary theory.” It alleged that “scientists” (unspecified by name or number) say that the new draft standards are “a thinly […]
Nature Rallies Troops Against I.D. to the Defense of Science
August 10, 2005
“President Bush’s endorsement of ‘intelligent design’ has sparked a national debate in which scientists are well positioned to prevail,” editorialized Nature this week,1 with the a rallying-cry title, “Keeping religion out of science class.” This editorial, along with a news item by Virginia Gewin, “Scientists attack Bush over intelligent design,”2 was prompted by President Bush’s […]
What Do You Get When You Cross a Lion with a Tiger?
August 10, 2005
A liger, that’s what. No kidding: you get a big cat with a mane and faint stripes that likes to play in the water. National Geographic News has a special article, with photos, about ligers. This is offered without much comment, just for those who want to learn about something unusual in the animal kingdom, […]
Biblical Archaeology News
August 9, 2005
One point where theology and science intersect is in the field of archaeology. Here are a few recent stories that bear on historical claims in the Bible. Pool of Siloam update: Last fall, the discovery of the probable Biblical Pool of Siloam was announced (see 12/24/2004 story). In its September-October 2005 issue, Biblical Archaeology Review […]
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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.
