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Amazonia Supported a Cosmopolitan Civilization

September 2, 2008

Today’s naked, spear-hunting tribes in the jungles of the Amazon live in the shadow of a complex society that once thrived there. By increasing their scope from the single site to the wider region, archaeologists from Florida and Brazil have discovered a cosmopolitan culture that left large earthworks and evidence of complex urban societies. Their […]

Education

Vice Presidential Candidates: You Have a Choice

September 1, 2008

When it comes to feelings about creation vs evolution between the American vice-presidential candidates, voters will have a clear choice. Reporters are digging for information on the surprise Republican nominee, Alaska governor Sarah Palin. Answers in Genesis collected statements from the press about her position on the teaching of evolution in public schools. […]

Amazing Facts

Plant Perfume Manipulates Pollinator Behavior

August 31, 2008

You’re a plant, stuck in the ground. Around you are organisms with wings flitting freely about. You need to get them to land on your flowers, but not linger too long. How do you do it? Attract them with sweet smells, but send them away with a bitter aftertaste. That’s how the tobacco plant manipulates […]

Astronomy

Describing Star and Galaxy Growth Without Looking

August 30, 2008

Astronomers seem to know a lot about star birth and galaxy growth. This is a strange thing, since no one has watched the process from start to finish. Stars and galaxies are clearly observed in various shapes, sizes, and patterns. How reliable is it to arrange them into an evolutionary sequence? One way […]

Cosmology

Dark Matters, When All You Have Is Light

August 30, 2008

A cluster of galaxies equivalent to a thousand Milky Ways was observed at a distance of 7.7 billion light-years. What does it mean? According to astronomers mentioned in an article on Space.com, it can only mean one thing: dark energy makes up 70% of the universe. “The existence of the cluster can only […]

Intelligent Design

Can Evolution Survive Without Darwin?

August 29, 2008

Charles Darwin and the theory of evolution seem synonymous. Nevertheless, many evolutionary biologists have pointed out that a lot has happened in evolutionary biology since Darwin died. Some even criticize creationists for using the term “Darwinism” for evolution, though often it is just as much the habit of evolutionists (example: Genome Research: “Genomics and Darwinism”). […]

Bible and Theology

Angry Atheists Arrogate Authority in Science

August 28, 2008

Can science contribute to religious studies? Only to destroy it, think some atheistic scientists. “In reality, the only contribution that science can make to the ideas of religion is atheism,” announced Matthew Cobb and Jerry Coyne in a letter to Nature.1 Cobb and Coyne were taking issue with Nature’s editorial July 17 about […]

Dumb Ideas

Evolutionist Calls Everyone Crazy

August 27, 2008

Last month she called everyone a hypocrite (07/06/2008). This month, Robin Nixon of Live Science called everyone crazy. Her latest article is entitled, “Why We Are All Insane.” But then, how could we trust her explanation? Attributing everything about humanity to a blind process of evolution, Nixon wove a tale of mythical ancestors […]

Early Man

Neanderthals Win Toolmaking Olympics

August 26, 2008

Scientists have taken another step toward debunking the myth of the “stupid Neanderthals” who went extinct when competing with their supposedly advanced neighbors, the “modern humans.” Science Daily is one of several news sites reporting a study on toolmaking by the two groups of humans, that concluded that “stone tool technologies developed by our species, […]

Amazing Facts

Use Your Cow Compass

August 25, 2008

Cattle and deer seem to align themselves to magnetic north. German and Czech scientists, reporting in PNAS,1 used aerial observations to detect the tendency of grazing herds to line up in north-south directions. The alignment was to magnetic north, not true north—indicating a sensitivity to earth’s magnetic field, as known to exist in migrating birds, […]

Amazing Facts

How Chromosomes Pack Without Exploding

August 24, 2008

When preparing to divide, a cell has to copy all its DNA accurately and pack it into chromosomes. A professor at U Chicago told Science Daily this is “like compacting your entire wardrobe into a shoebox.” The cell has another difficulty in this compaction process, though: DNA, being negatively charged, resists packing. Eukaryotes […]

Genetics

Flatlife Has More Genes Than It Needs

August 23, 2008

The genome of a placozoan (“flat animal”) shows more complexity than one would expect for a simple life form. According to evolutionists, it shows that even a barely-differentiated animal presumably ancestral to complex animals had the genetic toolkit of its more-advanced descendents. Trichoplax adhaerens is a slimy-looking thing that sticks to aquarium walls. […]

Early Man

Early Art Confounds Evolutionists

August 16, 2008

The artwork on the walls of Chauvet Cave in France is too good to have been made by early modern humans. “Chauvet should be removed from assessments of early modern humans in Europe,” said UK archaeologist Robin Dennell. “Including it leads to a gross distortion of their cognitive abilities.” Other experts who dated the artwork […]

Dinosaurs

Human Skeletons Found in Sahara

August 14, 2008

They went looking for dinosaur bones, and found human skeletons instead. That’s what is being reported by National Geographic and the Los Angeles Times. A barren wasteland in the Sahara, covered with sand, has turned out to be a treasure trove of evidence of human occupation. The area appears to have been a lakeside paradise […]

Amazing Facts

Membrane Switches Keep Your Brain Humming

August 14, 2008

Tunnels with rotating gates and rocker switches – this sounds like mechanical engineering. It’s the machinery that helps power your brain, reported scientists from UCLA and the Pasteur Institute. Their paper in Science described the structure of just one of many kinds of membrane channels.1 Cell membranes are lined with elaborate one-way gates. […]

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