Blog – Page 326

VIEW HEADLINES ONLY

Christmas Stocking

December 24, 2010

Christmas is upon us, and then the new year. Many interesting news stories have come prancing from the roof with too little time to unwrap them. We leave them hanging on the mantle, with our astute readers able to pick the fresh oranges from the fruitcakes, the hot picks from the lumps of coal. Morality: […]

Amazing Facts

Brain Synapse Machinery Is Finely Tuned

December 23, 2010

The New York Times published a brief article on brain facts that is astonishing, when you think about all that goes on in thinking. Nicholas Wade reported on a new inventory of the proteins involved in the synapses, the key junctions between neurons. The research team, led by Seth Grant of the Sanger Institute near […]

Fossils

Soft Tissue Fossil Treasure Trove Found in China

December 22, 2010

Live Science announced a major new fossil find in China with some 20,000 fossils. It was found in a 50-foot thick layer of limestone The fossils are exceptionally well-preserved, with more than half of them completely intact, including soft tissues. Apparently they were protected across the ages by mats of microbes that rapidly sealed their […]

Darwin and Evolution

Divining Dino Dining

December 21, 2010

Some of those big, fierce-looking dinosaurs—cousins to T. rex—could have been vegetarians. That’s a paradigm-shaking announcement being made by PhysOrg, Science Daily, and Live Science: “Meat-Eating Dinosaurs Not So Carnivorous After All.” The revision is based on information from the Field Museum of Chicago. A similar article on PhysOrg laments that one of […]

Bible and Theology

Secular Evolutionists Are a Small Minority

December 19, 2010

A new Gallup poll shows that only 16% of Americans subscribe to the view that “Human beings have developed over millions of years from less advanced forms of life, but God had no part in the process.” About 40% believe in Biblical creationism (recent creation within 10,000 years); that percentage climbs to 60% among churchgoers. […]

Amazing Facts

Mummified Trees Found in Arctic

December 18, 2010

Like Narnian children finding a zoo of lifeless stone statues in the White Witch’s wintry realm, scientists have come across frozen trees, leaves and seed pods deep in the Canadian arctic. “The dry, frigid site is now surrounded by glaciers and is completely treeless,” said National Geographic News. What deep magic left this mummified forest […]

Bible and Theology

Loopy Cosmology Goes Abstract

December 17, 2010

A physicist from Warsaw standing by a Picasso painting finds convergence with his thinking about the origin of the universe. The caption on Science Daily reads, “The lines in the painting are fairly similar to graphs showing the evolution of quantum states of the gravitational field in loop quantum gravity.” The cosmologist is Prof. Jerzy […]

Amazing Facts

Plant Wonders Are in the Details

December 16, 2010

When you step on a weed growing out of a crack in the sidewalk, do you have any idea what kind of amazing machinery you stepped on? Maybe a closer look will help. Communications and switching systems: When a seed sprouts, it needs to first grow upward in the dark while trying to protect itself. […]

Darwin and Evolution

Evolutionists Endorse Sin

December 15, 2010

Crime pays in Darwinism, apparently. Some biologists find good in what most of us find evil. After all, in Darwinism, evil is only an illusion. Corruption: Victims of corruption may have a different outlook on what Science Daily told its readers: Francisco �beda, an evolutionary biology professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and Edgar […]

Biomimetics

Design Science Scores

December 15, 2010

A team of scientists at Leeds University (UK) led by well-known design scientist Andy McIntosh has won an award for innovative design inspired by nature. “The team’s work has received the outstanding contribution to innovation and technology title at the Times Higher Education awards in London,” reported the BBC News. By studying and […]

Darwin and Evolution

Plenty of Time for Evolution?

December 14, 2010

A mathematician and a biologist have calculated that there’s “plenty of time for evolution.” Why? Evolution has a spy: natural selection. Darwin’s spy vastly decreases the amount of time that “doubters” have argued it would take to create a complex organism like a butterfly. Will their argument fly? The short paper by Herbert […]

Darwin and Evolution

Strange Beasts Walked the Earth

December 13, 2010

Narnia is a fantasy world of talking beasts and chimeric monsters, as seen in the release of Voyage of the Dawn Treader, the third movie in the series, great for an adventurous escape to a different world (see Narnia.com). While fauns and minotaurs may be mythical, some of the extinct beasts found as fossils in […]

Amazing Facts

Sunday Potluck

December 12, 2010

Here’s a list of quick headlines with minimal comment for mental snacking. Then it will be time to clear the kitchen for another week of more deep-fried reporting. Magician fools scientists: Skeptic/magician James Randi tricked a group of scientists, then warned them to doubt their own infallibility (except when it comes to atheism); see Live […]

Uncategorized

Best Qualified Candidate Expelled Over Views on Evolution, Design

December 11, 2010

For daring to question evolution, an astronomer who was the best qualified candidate to become director of a new observatory lost out. “No one denies that astronomer Martin Gaskell was the leading candidate for the founding director of a new observatory at the University of Kentucky in 2007 – until his writings on evolution came […]

Uncategorized

Latest Animal Winners in the Inspiration Contest

December 10, 2010

Scientists want to copy animal skills. The new science of biomimetics is on a roll (11/30/2010), looking to living things for design inspiration. Here are a few of the latest organisms giving inventors and engineers goose bumps. Bird gloss: Ravens have what scientists at the University of Akron in Ohio want: glossy materials. Nevermore shall […]

Posts by Date

[archives type="yearly"]