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Farm Algae for Energy

June 29, 2010

June 29, 2010 — Why manufacture fuels when microbes can do it faster, better and cheaper? Researchers at the University of Cambridge are wiring electrodes to algae to produce “green energy” – solar-powered fuel that is carbon-neutral, “cheaper to produce, self-repairing, self-replicating, biodegradable and much more sustainable – real green energy.” The team […]

Astronomy

Using Aliens to Titillate the Public

June 28, 2010

Geologists cannot even figure out our own planet (next headline), but some of them claim to know a lot about other planets – their geological history, and even their prospects for life. Is it fair to tease the public with the L-word life when so much remains to be understood on the ground under our […]

Uncategorized

Colorado Plateau Stumps Geologists

June 27, 2010

Many of the West’s greatest parks and scenic areas lie on the Colorado Plateau, a large basin covering parts of Arizona, Utah, New Mexico and Colorado. Within its rugged acres are the Grand Canyon, Grand Staircase, Bryce Canyon, Zion Canyon, Arches, Canyonlands, Capitol Reef, Natural Bridges, Monument Valley, Mesa Verde, Glen Canyon and Lake Powell, […]

Darwin and Evolution

Fish Feet: Can Evolution Add by Subtraction?

June 26, 2010

How did fish grow feet? One would think that feet require adding a lot of new parts: bones, muscles, nerves, blood vessels, and additional supporting tissues. Each of those would require genetic instructions and changes to embryonic development. One evolutionist, however, feels that switching genes off paved the way to the invasion of land. The […]

Education

What Good Are Science Societies?

June 25, 2010

It’s the 350th anniversary of the Royal Society, England’s oldest and most prestigious scientific organization. Amid the celebrations are essays and commentaries about the role scientific societies play for the public, the government, and the advancement of natural knowledge. It should only be expected that the scientific journals will give the positive side, but between […]

Amazing Facts

The RNA Code: Pseudogenes Functional, Help Prevent Cancer

June 24, 2010

A surprising function has been discovered for a “pseudogene” – an apparently mutated copy of a regular gene that till recently was thought to be genetic junk. This pseudogene, reported in Nature today,1 not only has a function unrelated to the production of proteins, but a function that could save your life. It is part […]

Darwin and Evolution

Can the Earth Thwart Darwinism?

June 23, 2010

Microbes were all set to evolve into complex life, but the ocean held them back. That seems to be the thinking of Dr. Simon Poulton of Newcastle University. “Toxic seas may have been responsible for delaying the evolution of life on Earth by 1 billion years,” PhysOrg reported. That seems to imply that it would […]

Early Man

Lucy Gets a Date with Big Man

June 22, 2010

Another specimen of Australopithecus afarensis has been announced from Ethiopia. This one supposedly preceded Lucy by 400,000 years, and according to its discoverers, belonged to a group of primates that shows they “were almost as proficient as we are walking on two legs, and that the elongation of our legs came earlier in our evolution […]

Physics

Secular Geology Admits to Rapid Canyon Formation by Megafloods

June 21, 2010

It’s hard to deny catastrophic canyon formation when you have the evidence right in front of you. Look what happened in Texas a few years ago, as reported by PhysOrg: In the summer of 2002, a week of heavy rains in Central Texas caused Canyon Lake – the reservoir of the Canyon Dam – to […]

Bible and Theology

Evolution Tries to Figure Out Dads

June 19, 2010

Why did evolution produce fathers? After male adult humans deliver their genetic component of the zygote, what are they good for? This is a subject in which the Darwinian and the Judeo-Christian concepts of fatherhood begin at opposite poles. But they have to converge on the practical observations of what fathers do best when they […]

Birds

Fossils Without Evolution

June 18, 2010

New fossils continue to turn up around the world. Many of them have an amazing characteristic in common: they look almost exactly like their living counterparts, despite being millions of years old, according to the evolutionary timescale. It’s interesting sometimes to hear how the evolutionists explain the remarkable lack of evolution in all that time. […]

Cosmology

How Well Do We Know What Stuff Is Made Of?

June 17, 2010

When we think of the “hard sciences,” physics usually tops the list. A closer look at what physicists think the universe is made of, though, hardly makes the science look hard. Look at this headline on PhysOrg, for instance: “Study finds there may be multiple ‘God particles’”. The title refers, of course, to the famed […]

Bible and Theology

An Ugly Head Rises in Lenins Land

June 16, 2010

According to Andy Coghlan, reporter for New Scientist, the spectre of an “ugly head” is rising in Russia. What is it? It’s not atheism, because Coghlan admits that Russia once made that the state religion. It’s not communism, because Coghlan admits “Godless communism” once prevailed in the Soviet Union. No, it is an ugly head […]

Amazing Facts

Butterfly Wing Shimmer Done With 3-D Crystals

June 15, 2010

Those shimmering flashes of light seen on butterfly wings are not done with pigments. They’re done with tiny, geometric crystals called gyroids stacked in 3-D patterns, scientists have found. They are so effective at concentrating color, the scientists want to imitate the trick. “A precise characterization of color-producing biological nanostructures is critical to […]

Dumb Ideas

The Limits of Scientific Speculation

June 14, 2010

How far can a scientist speculate and get a respectful hearing, just because he or she is a scientist? One case to examine is a story on PhysOrg, “The Chance for Life on Io” (see also Astrobio.net). Jupiter’s innermost large moon Io might be considered the last place to look for life. It is the […]

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