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More Convergent Evolution Claimed for Dino-Era Mammal
April 1, 2005
A chipmunk-size mammal with Popeye-like forearms and beaver-like teeth resembling an armadillo? That’s how the discoverers are describing the fossil they named Fruitafossor, a small mammal found near Fruita, Colorado and reported in Science.1 They think it dug burrows and ate termites. Of special interest were the open-root teeth like those of the beaver. Lead […]
How Well Do We Know Our Moon?
March 31, 2005
Leonard David wrote in Space.Com that Earth’s moon is “still a puzzle” – “luna incognita,” he calls it, hoping for a new corps of discovery to go back. Surprisingly, the treasure trove of Apollo data has “been sitting around and never properly studied,” especially since the development of more highly sophisticated analytical techniques. Carl Pieters […]
Your Linemen at Work: DNA Search and Rescue Machine Imaged in Action
March 31, 2005
DNA is amazing enough, but its automatic error-correction utilities are enough to stagger the imagination. There are dozens of repair mechanisms to shield our genetic code from damage; one of them was portrayed in Nature1 March 31 (see also analysis by Sheila David in the same issue2) in terms that should inspire awe. […]
ID in the News
March 30, 2005
PBS aired a segment on the anti-Darwinism controversy in the schools Monday (see PBS transcript). Ken Ham and Stephen Meyer presented arguments for criticizing Darwin, while Eugenie Scott and others defended exclusive evolutionary teaching. The Discovery Institute blog Evolution News analyzed the 14:32 minute segment, complaining that 90 minutes of Meyer’s interview received only 30 […]
Migration Theory Overturned: Mammals Went Crazy Or Did Darwinists?
March 29, 2005
The discovery of an elephant shrew fossil in Wyoming badlands said to be 54 million years old is causing a stir. Elephant shrews were thought to be endemic to Africa, the alleged cradle of mammals. This find hints not only that elephant shrews may have originated in North America instead, but also that “there may […]
Impressive the Memory Capabilities of Honeybees
March 29, 2005
“Over the past decade, work on the honey bee has provided growing evidence that insects are not simple, reflexive creatures,” begins a paper in PNAS by international scientists.1 “The brains of honey bees are very small, but their ability to learn and memorize tasks is impressive.” (Emphasis added in all quotes.) With clever […]
Missing Link in Star Formation Found?
March 29, 2005
According to a press release from the European Space Agency, a missing link in stellar evolution has been found. Observation: excited molecular hydrogen in two colliding galaxies. Conclusion: a star is born: The scientists noticed that the overlapping region of the two colliding galaxies is very rich in molecular hydrogen, which is in an excited […]
Descendants Can Overcome Parental Mutations
March 28, 2005
Bad genes from both parents may not spell doom in all cases. Scientists at Purdue University found that if two parents have bad mutations, the child can sometimes reconstruct the correct gene from the grandparents. “Our genetic training tells us that’s just not possible,” said Bob Pruitt, co-researcher on the team that ran the experiment […]
Easter Essay
March 27, 2005
Accompanied by a picture of a cross and a sunset, captioned “The Sun and the Son,” a somber-looking Brian Walden wrote an essay in the BBC News expressing his reaction to Astronomer Royal Sir Martin Rees’ “chilling” comment that “It will not be humans who witness the demise of the Sun six billion years hence; […]
Wonders from the Animal World
March 24, 2005
Several recent stories prove that animals continue to amaze us with their tricks: Elephants: The BBC News summarized a report from Nature1 about an elephant in Kenya named Mlaika that could make “convincing truck sounds.” The elephant lived near a road and apparently learned how to do impressions. This is the only other case of […]
Soft Tissue from Dinosaurs Found: Intact Cells and Blood Vessels
March 24, 2005
The news media are abuzz with exciting reports about the discovery of soft tissues recovered from a Tyrannosaurus rex bone; see CNN, National Geographic, BBC News, MSNBC and News@Nature for examples. The soft tissue, analyzed from a thighbone unearthed in Montana, was reported by a North Carolina team led by Mary Higby Schweizer and was […]
NAS President Calls on Scientists to Defend Darwinism
March 24, 2005
The man who described a cell as “a factory that contains an elaborate network of interlocking assembly lines, each of which is composed of a set of large protein machines” (see 02/10/2003 entry) now wants his fellow scientists to oppose efforts to attribute this factory to design. Bruce Alberts, president of the National Academy of […]
How to Get Something from Nothing: Genetic Code, Syntax Explained?
March 23, 2005
Two articles in recent science literature attempt to show that complex entities, like the genetic code and the syntax of human language, are no big deal. They can emerge from precursors by chance. In PNAS recently,1 veteran researcher Harold J. Morowitz (George Mason U) and two colleagues proposed a new theory for the […]
Public Not Patronizing Evolution-Based IMAX Films
March 23, 2005
Mark Looy at Answers in Genesis comments on reports that some IMAX movie theaters are dropping evolution-based films because the public is taking offense at them. Looy denies that “religious fundamentalists” or creation organizations are putting any pressure on the theaters. He claims this is just an informal grass-roots response by viewers who are becoming […]
Mars Crater-Count Dating Is All Wrong
March 22, 2005
Planetary scientists have long relied on crater counts to estimate the ages of surfaces in the solar system. The more craters, the older the surface, has been the assumption. Now, according to a report in New Scientist, the method is flawed, at least on Mars. Data from the 2001 Mars Odyssey have shown rays around […]
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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.
