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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” […]
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, […]
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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.
