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Hometown of Jesus Was Real

December 21, 2009

A first-century house has been excavated in Nazareth, the town where Jesus grew up. The Israeli Antiquities Authority announced the discovery today; see also Associated Press for information and pictures. This is the first dwelling established from the early Roman period that encompasses the life of Christ. Professor Todd Bolen at Bible Places […]

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Cave Dates and Climate Estimates May Be Off

December 19, 2009

The steady drip, drip, drip of water from stalactites should provide a way to calculate the age of cave formations, right? Don’t be too sure. A scientist at Florida State found that calcite deposition is a function of how the cave “breathes,” reported New Scientist. This finding “pours doubt on ancient climate records derived from […]

Fossils

Evolution News From Down Unda

December 18, 2009

Australia and New Zealand contain some of the most unique and distinctive flora and fauna in the world. Evolutionary explanations for some of these animals and plants have come to light in the press recently. Koala: Did you know there are extinct koalas? Science Daily reported about work by Aussie biologists to understand the evolution […]

Education

Debunker Busters

December 17, 2009

Often in science reports, new findings debunk previously held beliefs. But then, a thoughtful reader might ask, didn’t the previously held belief debunk a belief prior to that? Sometimes it gets difficult to believe the current belief has any credibility, when the debunkers turn on each other. A dilemma about dilemmas: Psychologists and philosophers have […]

Amazing Facts

Clever Animals Inspire Lookers And Engineers

December 16, 2009

Incredible animals provide endless delights with their antics. Even microorganisms are capable of amazing feats. Sometimes these living things inspire inventors, too. Coconut octopus: Tool use was supposed to be a late marker of primate intelligence as chimpanzees were evolving upward to manhood. That’s so 1890. Now that we know crows can use tools (05/26/2009), […]

Genetics

Messy Genomes: Did They Evolve?

December 14, 2009

The genomes of most eukaryotes are riddled with introns – intragenic regions – that have to be cut out by sophisticated DNA-transcribing machinery so that the true gene sections (called exons) can be spliced together. Introns can vary from 20 base pairs to over 500,000 – significantly impacting the energy required to duplicate the genome. […]

Physics

Iapetus Mystery Moon Solved

December 14, 2009

Iapetus, that black-and-white moon orbiting Saturn that has mystified astronomers for 338 years, may finally be understood. The dark material did come from outside – not inside. The exogenic theory has won. It’s been coated with dust from outer moons, but that’s not all: uneven heating has moved the ice around on the surface, accentuating […]

Birds

Contenders Vie for Stupid Evolution Quote of the Week

December 13, 2009

Creation-Evolution Headlines needs reader feedback to rank this week’s winners. Some of these articles are so over the top, giving Darwin credit for anything and everything, it’s a wonder the Darwinists themselves don’t censor them – just to avoid public embarrassment. Evolve! Sing Along: New Scientist is letting you take part in the evolutionary process […]

Dinosaurs

Darwin vs. the Fossils

December 11, 2009

What could be more iconic to evolution than dinosaurs and the horse series? Museums often display skeletons of these animals as proof of evolution. The real story told in scientific papers is often very different. Two recent studies present major, serious challenges to Darwin’s theory. Horse series: The old straight-line chart of horse evolution from […]

Media

Comparative Legacies of Two Rocket Pioneers

December 10, 2009

Wernher von Braun developed rockets in Germany that were used by the Nazis, then came to America, became an American citizen, and pioneered the American space program, including landing man on the moon. Qian Xuesen developed rockets in America then moved to China, where he joined the Communist Party and pioneered the Chinese space program […]

Health

Science Flipflops

December 9, 2009

Science says… on second thought, science says the opposite. Or, we’re not sure what science says. The following recent stories show that things you thought science had proven may not be true at all. What’s next? Take testosterone for fairness: The image of the testosterone-crazed, egotistical, reckless, raging road warrior is all wrong. At least, […]

Astronomy

Galaxy-Spangled Banner Unfurled

December 8, 2009

The Hubble team has unveiled a new deep field image of distant galaxies, the “Hubble Ultra Deep Field Infrared WFC3/IR.” The image, available at the HubbleSite, was taken with the new Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) installed during the latest servicing mission. It’s been 5 years since the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (03/09/2004; […]

Darwin and Evolution

The Evolution of the Future

December 7, 2009

Evolution, being an unguided process, would seem the last thing one could predict. That hasn’t stopped some evolutionists from speculating what an evolutionary future will bring to our planet and our species. Carl Zimmer, a blogger for a Discover Magazine blog, is one such speculator. He also wrote the final essay in the Origins series […]

Amazing Facts

Microscopys Golden Age Is At Hand

December 6, 2009

Like test pilots breaking the sound barrier, microscope makers are breaking a light barrier some said was physically impossible: the diffraction limit. Within the next 5 to 10 years, we may see more and more images of phenomena at the molecular scale – not with electron microscopes, but with light microscopes in real time. What […]

Genetics

How One Bright Young Scientist Challenged the Junk-DNA Paradigm

December 5, 2009

A young snowboarder turned to science and turned the consensus on its head. PhysOrg, in “Turning trash to treasure,” told the story of John Rinn (Harvard Medical School), who challenged the paradigm of “junk DNA” and discovered a new class of functional molecules: lincRNAs (large intervening non-coding RNA). He found important functional molecules “in a […]

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