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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

Astronomy

SETI Ignorance Gets Stronger

December 9, 2010

“Science is not about blind faith” begins a video posted on MSNBC about SETI. Part of an article by AP reporter Seth Borenstein, “Evidence for E.T. is mounting daily, but not proven,” the video explains Frank Drake’s famous equation that tries to quantify the probability for extraterrestrial intelligence (09/29/2010, 11/24/2008). Though Drake confidently asserts the […]

Health

Are You Too Clean?

December 8, 2010

You shower, you put on clean clothes, you wash your hands with antibacterial soap, you keep the house spic and span, you work in a clean office – and you set yourself up for disease and depression. That’s what some scientists are proposing with the “hygiene hypothesis.” By depriving yourself of access to your bacterial […]

Education

News from Saturn

December 7, 2010

Amazing discoveries continue to pour in from Cassini, now within its second extended mission since arriving at Saturn in 2004. The spacecraft is back to nominal operations after a 3-week safing event caused by a single-bit error in the onboard computer (JPL). The recovery came just in time for another major flyby of Enceladus. Enceladus […]

Early Man

News on the Mind

December 6, 2010

Here are a dozen recent stories dealing with brains, the mind, perception, motivation and other aspects of psychology and neuroscience. Nature and nurture: PhysOrg claims that scientists at SMU have resolved the nature vs nurture debate with a hybrid approach. Whether it satisfies critics remains to be seen. Perhaps they are still thinking inside the […]

Media

Lean to the Left: Science Reporters Oblivious to Conservatism

December 5, 2010

Take any issue, and there will often be a liberal view and a conservative view. Why is it, then, that science reporting is almost always liberal? It’s not just that left-leaning slants on science issues predominate; the reporters and institutions often seem utterly oblivious to the idea that other positions, like conservative views, even exist. […]

Amazing Facts

Cells Manage Stress and Death

December 4, 2010

Like soldiers in a foreign land, cells sometimes find themselves in unexpected situations. Key equipment breaks down, or the environment puts stress on their resources. Without the ability to adapt, they could perish – and in worst-case scenarios they must, like a squadron under ambush with no way out. In such cases, like spies carrying […]

Mammals

Science Done by Humans Is Mushy

December 3, 2010

Discoveries in science must be mediated by flawed agents: human beings. Though the most hardened scientific realists maintain strong beliefs in external reality, the perceived reality is mediated by senses, then interpreted by minds that are not omniscient. Those are some of the reasons that science keeps changing, as illustrated by some recent examples: Endangered […]

Cell Biology

NASA Finds Life on Earth; or,Arsenic and Old Lake

December 2, 2010

A NASA teaser about an announcement coming Dec 2 that will “will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life” had watchers on edge. PhysOrg said, “Speculation that life has been discovered beyond Earth exploded on the Internet after NASA announced plans for a briefing involving scientists who study unusual life forms.” It wasn’t to […]

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