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Martians Might Be Troglodytes
March 11, 2005
According to an article on Space.Com, Spirit and Opportunity aren’t going to find critters on the surface. Since the surface is harsh because of radiation, a safer environment might be found in caves. The discovery of soluble rock and methane is leading some to imagine that extensive caves might exist on Mars, and maybe that […]
Are Stone Age Hunter-Gatherers Evolving or Devolving?
March 11, 2005
Anthropologists typically view stone age tribes as stuck in an eddy from primitive beginnings, never advancing into civilization. Yet some tribes of hunter-gatherers in Thailand and Laos appear to have been farmers in their past, reports Science Now with apparent surprise: Traditionally, anthropologists thought that modern hunter-gatherer tribes like the Mlabri descended through the ages […]
Titan: Case of the Missing Methane (and Ethane)
March 11, 2005
In Astrobiology Magazine this week, an article explained why the lack of methane and ethane oceans on Titan is so mysterious. Jonathan Lunine, a chemist and astrobiologist who has been studying Titan for over two decades, explained why these hydrocarbons ought to be there. Methane (CH4) is split by ultraviolet light from the sun. The […]
Plants Produce Jigsaw Puzzles
March 11, 2005
The cells on a leaf interlock one another, like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. In a manner similar to jigsaw puzzles, which can be lifted by the hand even though composed of individually-weak pieces, this gives the leaf structural strength. How does this come about? In the current issue of Cell,1 Jeffrey Settleman (Harvard) explains […]
Mad Science: Stanford to Create Rat with Human Brain
March 10, 2005
Those who thought stem cell research was about helping people afflicted with disease may become alarmed over Stanford’s latest experiment, reported by the UK News Telegraph: the creation of a lab rat with all human brain cells. The article quotes Wesley Smith of Centre for Bioethics and Culture warning, “biotechnology is becoming dangerously close to […]
Complex at the Beginning: Distant Galaxy Cluster Highly Developed
March 10, 2005
Observations from the European Southern Observatory have pointed to a “surprise” discovery: a cluster of galaxies 9 billion light-years away that is “in a very advanced state of development.” The press release points to just how surprising is this find: “The discovery of such a complex and mature structure so early in the […]
Tissues Build Firebreaks to Avoid Disease
March 9, 2005
An article in the March 3 issue of Nature1 explains how tissues communicate to fight off infection. As reported before, cells display samples of the proteins they contain on their outer membranes, a process called presentation. Killer T cells wander around, like cops, looking at the presentations. When they recognize alien proteins (antigens), they respond […]
Water Can Get Hotter than the Sun
March 9, 2005
When vacuum bubbles form in turbulent water, they can collapse violently in a process called cavitation. Scientists reporting in Nature1,2 March 3 showed that the energy of cavitation can heat the plasma in the bubble to 15,000 degrees Kelvin – hotter than the surface of the brightest stars. The resulting flash can sometimes be seen […]
Did Haeckels Defunct Recapitulation Theory Influence the Supreme Court?
March 8, 2005
One of our readers uncovered an amicus brief from the American Psychological Association (q.v. on American Bar Association website) encouraging the Supreme Court to overturn capital punishment for minors (see 03/04/2005 entry). One of the key arguments in the brief is that “Neuropsychological research demonstrates that the adolescent brain has not reached adult maturity.” Zeroing […]
If I Only Had a Brain…
March 8, 2005
The scarecrow didn’t know what he was asking for. Look what Steven E. Hyman of Harvard says about the human brain and nervous system in the 8 March 2005 issue of Current Biology:1 The nervous system processes sensory information and controls behavior by performing an enormous number of computations. These computations occur both within cells […]
Darwinists Dig In Heels Against I.D.
March 7, 2005
“We aren’t going to convince them and they aren’t going to convince us,” said Vittorio Maestro of Natural History magazine, quoted at the end of a piece entitled, “US scientists battle over challenge to Darwinism” in ABC News Online. The article gave quite a bit of space to quotes by Michael Behe and Jonathan Wells, […]
Naturalistic Science Influences Criminal Law, Excuses Murder
March 4, 2005
Why was Science1 magazine happy about the Supreme Court’s decision to eliminate the death penalty for murderers under 17? Because the decision was not made on the basis of the Constitution or on Judeo-Christian values, but rather on psychiatric, neuroscientific and behavioral studies: Eight medical organizations, led by the American Society for Adolescent Psychiatry (ASAP), […]
What Is Melting the Ice on Enceladus?
March 4, 2005
When Cassini flew by Enceladus from 730 miles up on Feb. 15, scientists were hoping it would reveal the secret of its active surface. As is common in planetary science, the mystery only deepened (click here for photo gallery). The surface showed a complex mix of canyons, ridges and spots that suggest a taffy pulling […]
Indonesian Hobbit No Numbskull
March 4, 2005
Whoever Homo florensiensis was (see 10/27/2004 entry), it was no dumb half-ape. This miniature human packed a lot of brains into a small skull, says Michael Balter in Science1 (see also EurekAlert, National Geographic and BBC News). A cast of the brain made from the skull shows complexity: convolutions in the frontal lobe suggest an […]
Biblical Archaeology Address
March 3, 2005
Baptist Press posted a report about an address by noted archaeologist William Dever (see 02/18/2005 entry) at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary last month. Dever provided several examples from his own digs of archaeological finds that corroborate the Biblical record and chronology. He hit hard against the revisionists who try to deny the historicity of […]
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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.
