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Wind Tunnel Experiments Reveal Dynamics of Hummingbird Flight
June 24, 2005
Scientists have found out that hummingbirds and insects don’t hover in the same way. Insects support 50% of their weight on both up and down strokes, but hummingbirds support 75% on the downstroke and 25% on the upstroke. This was published in Nature this week,1 and summarized on Science Daily. The latter article […]
SETI Researchers Affirm Planetary Privilege Criteria
June 24, 2005
In the weekly SETI Thursday column on Space.com, Douglas Vakoch corroborated two claims made about the habitability of planets in the film The Privileged Planet (shown at the Smithsonian last night – see 06/09/2005 story): namely, (1) smaller stars have smaller habitable zones or “Goldilocks” zones where life can exist, and (2) planets within the […]
Croc Teeth Bite Fatal Wound into Dino Phylogeny
June 23, 2005
This line sounds serious: “We have pretty much erased the record of Triassic ornithischian dinosaurs from North America, Europe and worldwide, except for South America.” This is what William Parker said about his find of a complete Revueltosaurus fossil in Arizona that upsets the leading story of the rise of the ornithischian dinosaurs (one of […]
Lions Guard Kidnap Victim in Ethiopia
June 22, 2005
Some news stories make you wonder about divine providence. Netscape News reported a story of lions that rescued a kidnapped Ethiopian girl who was being beaten by seven men trying to force her to marry one of them. In Ethiopia, men will often beat and rape a woman who resists a forced marriage; up to […]
Battlefront Dispatches
June 22, 2005
Activities in the Darwin-vs-Design controversy continue generating national news: War of the museums: The Sternberg Museum in Kansas is trying to reinforce arguments for evolution, according to Voice of America news. Proud of his T. rex display, curator Greg Liggett claims that “if the school curriculum changes to include theories such as Intelligent Design, critical […]
Macroevolution Claims Investigated
June 21, 2005
Two scientific papers recently used the word “macroevolution” in their titles. Did they actually point to cases of natural increase in information or function? Diatoms: A paper in PNAS by Finkel et al.1 was called, “Climatically driven macroevolutionary patterns in the size of marine diatoms over the Cenozoic.” All it discussed was the sizes of […]
Supermen Living in Nepal
June 17, 2005
There is a race of people at the base of Mt. Everest capable of feats that defy scientific explanation: the Sherpas. They can carry up to twice their body weight under three hostile conditions that would wear out most of us in a minute: (1) high altitude, (2) long distance, and (3) steep inclines. Somehow, […]
Obsessed With Sex: How Much Can Be Known About the Sexuality of Hominids?
June 17, 2005
Bruce Bower in Science News (June 11, 167:24, p. 379) reported on the controversy about the sex life of Lucy and her mate(s). Owen Lovejoy and Philip L. Reno (Kent State U, Ohio) have “unabashedly” put forth a hypothesis that Mr. and Mrs. Australopithecus afarensis (let’s call him Desi) had long-term relationships and stable families […]
Did Fossils Inspire Thunderbird Legends?
June 17, 2005
Adrienne Major thinks that the Lakota got their legend of the Thunderbird from looking at fossil pterosaurs in the badlands. Her speculation is explored in National Geographic News. Major thinks other world legends have their origin in fossils that ancient people observed. This hypothesis is no less speculative than the one by creationists that Indians […]
Miller Time Party Drags On
June 16, 2005
Astrobiologists threw a party when a team of researchers decided there was more hydrogen in the early earth’s atmosphere than thought (see “In the beginning, hydrogen: was it Miller Time?, 04/22/2005). While this was good news for those wishing for better conditions on the early earth for chemical evolution, a few are staying sober enough […]
Are Teens Like Roaches?
June 16, 2005
A press release from University of Manchester concluded that being a teenage mother might be a good thing. The conclusion was based on observations of the mating behavior of cockroaches. Dr. Patricia Moore, one of the researchers, wins Stupid Evolution Quote of the Week: “Although it’s hard to compare the experiences of the female cockroach […]
Reports Differ on Kansas Evolution Debates
June 16, 2005
How is the debate over evolution in Kansas going? It depends on whom you ask. MSNBC News focused on personal attacks between board members (see also the Lexington Herald-Leader). The Discovery Institute, by contrast, focused on the content of the new proposed standards that allows a “common-sense” approach for teaching all the science about evolution, […]
Are Natural Poisons Health Cures in Disguise?
June 15, 2005
Three recent stories are suggesting that natural toxins may be too much of a good thing: Snail Trail: John Roach in National Geographic News wrote about new painkillers and drugs being developed from toxic snail venoms. Cone snails create an array of hundreds of unique chemical compounds (see 10/22/2003 entry). Fungus Among Them: A fungus […]
Virginia Teacher Chastened for Making Optional Creation Material Available
June 14, 2005
A highly-respected and well-liked high school biology teacher in Bristol, Virginia almost lost his job recently. His crime? Making an optional notebook of supplementary material called “Creation Battles Evolution” available to his students. The notebook, printed at his own expense, included evidence for creation and against evolution, from “sources ranging from the Internet to scholarly […]
Cell Wonders Accelerate
June 14, 2005
Scientific papers on cell biology continue to uncover amazing things as techniques improve to peer into the workings of these units of life. Here are our Top Ten from the last few weeks: Immunity Tunes: A press release from Johns Hopkins talked about how, unlike other cells, immune cells undergo a “dizzying loop of activity” […]
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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.
