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Do New Fossils Soften the Cambrian Explosion?

July 5, 2010

Look at the picture of fossils in an article on PhysOrg. The discoverers claim these fossils from Gabon are 2.1 billion years old, and provide evidence that multicellular organisms began evolving long before the Cambrian explosion. “Until now, it has been assumed that organized multicellular life appeared around 0.6 billion years ago and that before […]

Bible and Theology

Artifact Found from Biblical Time of Judges

July 4, 2010

A chariot linchpin has been found in Israel that appears to date from the time of the book of Judges. The linchpin (a cover over the axle) contains a carved image of a woman, and is being dated at around 1200 BC. The discoverer believes the location is the site of ancient Harosheth Haggoyim, the […]

Darwin and Evolution

Tibetans Evolved Altitude Tolerance in 3,000 Years

July 3, 2010

Tibetans and other peoples who live at high altitudes possess a remarkable tolerance to the thin atmosphere. Now, scientists at UC Berkeley have identified some 30 genes related to oxygen regulation that differ in Tibetans from Han Chinese. Since those tribes are thought to have diverged 3,000 years ago, natural selection for these changes must […]

Birds

Humans Got Birdbrains by Convergent Evolution

July 2, 2010

Scientists are learning that birds have brains remarkably similar to those of mammals. This is contrary to a century of belief, PhysOrg said. How did such similarities evolve for groups of animals so widely separated? To explain it, evolutionists pulled out one of their common explanations: convergent evolution. “For more than a century,” […]

Physics

Breaking Up an Ice Age Is Hard to Do

July 1, 2010

“Ice Age 3” the movie is out, and the subject of ice ages deserves some attention. Atmospheric scientists and geologists seem very confident sometimes about things they know about only indirectly, like ice ages. At other times, though, the rhetoric turns diffident (opposite of confident). Take this opening paragraph from PhysOrg: Scientists still puzzle over […]

Cell Biology

Heal the Blind with Stem Cells

June 30, 2010

Have you heard that some cases of corneal blindness can be cured by stem cells #– from the person’s own eyes? New Scientist recounted some recent successes for victims blinded in one eye by burns or acid. Stem cells taken from the limbus, a disk surrounding the iris, and transplanted onto the damaged cornea, were […]

Amazing Facts

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 […]

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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 […]

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