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NAS Enters the Evolution Web Wars
June 13, 2005
MSNBC News reports that “Scientists take evolution fight online: National Academies sets up Web site to defend theory.” (See also Wired News.) The Evolution Resources website of the National Academy of Sciences, nationalacademies.org/evolution, contains online books and articles, but the most recent entry is an address by outgoing NAS president Bruce Alberts (see 03/24/2005 entry) […]
Enzymes Chew Like Pac-Man
June 10, 2005
Evidence is growing that many enzymes have moving parts. They act like scissors, clamps and little pac-mans. When precisely-folded chains of amino acids emerge from the ribosome, they fold into unique shapes with the aid of chaperones. But those shapes are not static globs. They move, say Dmitry A. Kondrashov and George N. Phillips, Jr. […]
Is It Justifiable to Speculate About the Evolution of Murder?
June 10, 2005
Sharon Begley, writing in the Wall Street Journal May 20, was pretty angry that an evolutionary psychologist tried to give an evolutionary explanation for why men murder women. She called the theory by Dr. David Buss (U. of Texas, Austin) a just-so story and bad science. In his book, “The Murderer Next Door: Why the […]
Roses Are Red, Darwinists Are Blue
June 9, 2005
Roses have a special pigment molecule, a particular form of anthocyanin, responsible for all the rich red-to-blue shades in the petals that delight gardeners and attract pollinating insects. This molecule is different from the pigments in every other flowering plant; it is glycosylated at two positions instead of one.2 A single enzyme does the job […]
Ice Volcano Seen on Titan
June 9, 2005
Planetary scientists are reporting the possible discovery of an ice volcano on Saturn’s large moon Titan. A large circular feature, 18 miles across, appears to have a caldera at the top, is surrounded by stress fractures, and appears warmer than the surroundings (warmer, relatively speaking: the mean surface temperature is -290° F). The infrared pictures […]
Scientists Confess Their Sins
June 9, 2005
One-third of scientists engaged in unethical behavior over the last three years, according to a report in Nature.1,2 These include falsification, fabrication and plagiarism as well as a host of questionable research practices. It’s not so much a problem of high-profile cases of fraud as much as everyday, mundane, “corrosive” ethical lapses that are endangering […]
Smithsonian Reversal Over ID Noticed by Big Science
June 9, 2005
Both Nature1 and Science2 noticed the Smithsonian’s flip-flop over co-sponsoring The Privileged Planet at their Natural History Museum this month (see 06/01/2005 entry). Both noted the quandary that the Smithsonian found itself in. They could not back out because of a contract, but under pressure from evolutionists, did not want to appear to endorse intelligent […]
The Cause of a Teapot: Can Physics Explain Design?
June 8, 2005
George F. R. Ellis (U. of Cape Town) wrote a Concepts piece in Nature1 this week that asks fundamental questions about ordinary things, particularly, can we get from fundamental physics to complex hierarchical structures through a chain of cause and effect? A simple statement of fact: there is no physics theory that explains the nature […]
Historian Predicts Downfall of Darwinian Fundamentalism
June 8, 2005
In the upcoming June 20 issue of Forbes magazine, British historian Paul Johnson attacks the fundamentalism of Darwinists, and predicts its demise: Of all the fundamentalist groups at large in the world today, the Darwinians seem to me the most objectionable. They are just as strident and closed to argument as Christian or Muslim fundamentalists, […]
Understanding the Sun Not
June 7, 2005
Exclusive The star we understand best should be the closest – our own – right? Despite a revolution in solar observations, there is much we don’t know about Ol’ Sol. That was the flavor of a talk by Dr. Alan Title (Stanford) at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Monday. At one point, he showed a […]
Darwin Is Alive and Well at Down House
June 7, 2005
Chris Darwin, that is – the great, great grandson of Charles, and his fellow descendants Erasmus, Sarah, Allegra, Randal Keynes, and Leo Darwin Vogel. The family members are retracing his footsteps in the fields around his old house by inventorying the plants, reports the BBC News. The survey will help show if the flowering plants […]
Another Darwinian Assumption Overturned: Results Too Radical
June 7, 2005
Evolutionists are stunned at a study in comparative genomics performed by University of Chicago researchers that overturns a common belief about natural selection. EurekAlert summarizes the finding: “The new data show that if more mutations show up at a gene, that gene tends to accept a higher percentage of those mutations.” This means that mutations […]
Who Wins and Loses in the Darwin Wars?
June 3, 2005
Sandra Lilley, writing in MSNBC News, pictures sad-faced students, whose scientific inquisitiveness has been stifled by the controversy over evolution. The article starts with a touching photo of a young girl, a look of wonder in her eyes, examining a toy human skeleton. “Science is becoming a political ‘hot potato’ for some students,” she describes, […]
Soft T-Rex Tissue Claimed Bird-Like; Age Ignored
June 3, 2005
More details about the soft tissue found in a T. rex thigh bone (see 03/24/2005 story) were published in Science this week.1 Mary Schweitzer’s team claims to have found evidence of medullary bone [MB], a type of mineralized and vascularized bony tissue found only in certain birds during ovulation as a buffer against calcium loss. […]
Kansas Debate Over ID Reverberates in Holland
June 3, 2005
“Is Holland becoming the Kansas of Europe?” asked Martin Enserink in Science this week.1 All that education minister Maria van der Hoeven wants to do is have some public debate about intelligent design, but the suggestion has caused an uproar among scientists who claim she wants to take Holland back to the Dark Ages. On […]
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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.
