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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 […]
History Channel Documentary on Human Ancestry: History or Fiction?
August 9, 2005
The History Channel aired a program called “Ape to Man” Monday evening August 7, alleging that modern science had finally pieced together the solution to the puzzle of human evolution. Although it included debunking episodes of Piltdown (11/18/2003) and Java Man (02/27/2003), the flavor of the show was that the picture of human origins has […]
Body Scan: How Precision Engineering Aids Human Acumen
August 5, 2005
Often the most interesting science stories are the ones about us– how our bodies and minds function. Actions we perform each day without much thought are made possible by precision engineering, sometimes at the molecular level. Here is a selection of news briefs about human superpowers. Electrical engineering: We have untold myriads of electrical voltage […]
Origin of Life: Can A Liability Be Turned Into an Asset?
August 5, 2005
Most of us know the Second Law of Thermodynamics (2TD) as the law of decay and disorder, and would tend to assume it would constitute a major obstacle to theories of the origin of life by chemical evolution (see online book); certainly creationists Duane Gish and Henry Morris frequently employed the 2TD skilfully in their […]
President Bush Votes Yes on ID
August 2, 2005
Asked whether ID was a valid alternative to evolution, President Bush told reporters August 1, “Both sides ought to be properly taught … so people can understand what the debate is about…. Part of education is to expose people to different schools of thought. You’re asking me whether or not people ought to be exposed […]
New Planet Discovered Beyond Pluto; Another Has a Moon
July 30, 2005
A 10th planet, the biggest since Pluto was found 75 years ago, has been discovered. Late Friday, a JPL press release announced the find made in January by Dr. Mike Brown of Caltech in research partly funded by NASA. The planet, temporarily designated 2003 UB313 until a name is approved, is three times farther than […]
Darwins Complete Writings to Be Posted on Internet
July 29, 2005
Cambridge University is planning to post online tens of thousands of pages of the complete works of Charles Darwin and the people who influenced him, reported Nigel Williams in Current Biology.1 1Nigel Williams, “Darwin on the web,” Current Biology, Vol 15, R530, 26 July 2005. Bad news for the Darwin Party. What will they do […]
Tailpipe Soot: Can It Live?
July 28, 2005
Better stay clear of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH). They come out of your tailpipe and furnace, line your chimney, and generally are products of unhealthy processes like industrial waste and cigarette smoke. According to Environment Canada, “PAHs are a concern because some of them can cause cancers in humans and are harmful to fish and […]
Cells High-Fidelity Proofreading and Editing Explained
July 26, 2005
—It’s unusual to have a story win both Amazing and Dumb awards simultaneously, but the reason will become clear.–ed.) Luisa Cochella and Rachel Green (Johns Hopkins) have published a primer on “Fidelity in Protein Synthesis” in Current Biology.1 This is a good article for cell biology enthusiasts to read, to learn more about the methods […]
Brain Is Faster Than the Blink of an Eye
July 26, 2005
You blink about every 4-6 seconds, says David Burr in Current Biology,1 adding to over 17,000 blinks a day. Each time the world goes black for 100 to 150 milliseconds, as the eyelids attenuate the light a hundredfold. Why don’t we see the world like a flickering movie? We generally perceive an uninterrupted stream of […]
Life on Mars and Titan?
July 26, 2005
Life has not been found on Mars, but some scientists, according to National Geographic News, are worried that we are contaminating the planet with Earth germs that will make the search for Martians more difficult. Speaking of Mars, a report in Science Now claims that Mars rarely got above freezing in its entire history. […]
Do Butterflies Evolve Via Team Stripes?
July 25, 2005
A BBC News story is claiming that butterflies split into competing teams when differences in their wing patterns emerge. Based on a paper in Nature,1 this is supposed to be an example of a rarely-observed mechanism for speciation, called reinforcement: in this case, “These wing colours apparently evolved as a sort of ‘team strip’, allowing […]
What Is Really Known About the Genetic Basis of Evolution?
July 25, 2005
Now that the genomes of a variety of plants and animals have been published, is there a clear picture of evolution emerging? Sean Carroll (Howard Hughes Medical Institute) wrote a review in PLoS Biology,1 in which he explored the current thinking about the evolution of anatomy at the genetic level. The thing to watch for […]
Michael Ruse Balances the Scales in Creation-Evolution Conflict
July 22, 2005
Sahotra Sarkar seems in a bit of dilemma about how to treat Michael Ruse’s new book, The Evolution-Creation Struggle (Harvard, 2005). In his review of the book in Science,1 Sarkar knew that Ruse is an important ally in the fight against intelligent design (see 02/18/2003 entry), but he seemed a little bit put off by […]
A Day in the Life of an Evolutionary Biologist
July 21, 2005
Meet Dr. Judith X. Becerra. She is an expert on plants of Mexico. Her latest research strove to determine the rate of evolutionary diversification of a genus of trees with a name similar to her own surname: Bursera. These trees inhabit a range of biomes in the tropical dry forests of Mexico and are well […]
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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.
