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Gone Fishing: Can Humans Counteract Evolution?

November 12, 2007

Darwinists insist that human beings are part and parcel of the evolutionary process, but once in awhile, they criticize their fellow hominids for getting in Darwin’s way. A recent example in Nature1 took aim at fishermen: People like to catch big fish, sometimes so much so that fish sizes overall become greatly diminished. According to […]

Dumb Ideas

Monkey See, Monkey Rationalize

November 10, 2007

It’s a quirk of English that rational and rationalize have opposite meanings. Be that as it may, the latter may have evolved into to the former, according to a story in the New York Times. A monkey study using children as control subjects seems to indicate that Capuchin monkeys, like us, occasionally rationalize bad choices. […]

Human Body

The Brain Evolved!… Didnt It?

November 9, 2007

Evolutionary neurologists are so absolutely sure the human brain is a product of evolution from lower primates over millions of years, they are able to talk openly and frankly about problems with the particulars. But in reading some of their own reviews of current ideas, it is not clear which has been evolving: the brain […]

Bible and Theology

Science Journals Rally Anti-ID Army

November 8, 2007

Language in science journals is typically restrained, genteel and erudite. Editorials value diversity and inclusion, rarely painting any issue black or white. There are two issues, though, that let loose the raging bull: (1) policies that jeopardize funding, and (2) creationism. As illustrations of reactions to the latter, consider two articles this week that snort […]

Bible and Theology

Modern Nazi Killer Bears Darwins Standard

November 8, 2007

Another terrible school shooting imitating the Columbine rampage has occurred, this time in Finland (see CNN). Before killing eight students and himself, the 18-year-old murderer stated in a rambling note, “I am prepared to fight and die for my cause. I, as a natural selector, will eliminate all who I see unfit, disgraces of human […]

Cosmology

MIT Cosmologists Take Our Advice

November 7, 2007

After getting a snubbing in our 02/21/2005 commentary, which advocated he and his MIT colleague Alan Guth take up truck driving, David Kaiser, took our advice – with a thinly veiled smirk: Well, at least someone is still reading Science with a passion. As for the rest of us in the cosmic-evolution business, we’ll just […]

Genetics

Mighty Mouse Has Arrived

November 6, 2007

Geneticists at Case Western Reserve University have genetically engineered mice that “can run five to six kilometres at a speed of 20 meters per minute on a treadmill, for up to six hours before stopping,” according to a report on the BBC News. Professor Richard Hanson explained, “They are metabolically similar to Lance […]

Amazing Facts

Winged Migration Grows Up

November 5, 2007

Scientists used to rely on metal bands on birds’ legs to find out how they got from here to there. Now, they can glue tiny radio transmitters to their shoulders and follow them in real time. What happened when Princeton scientists hijacked 30 white-crowned sparrows and took them from Seattle to New Jersey? Age has […]

Amazing Facts

Developing Ear May Have Tuning Fork

November 3, 2007

What tunes up an embryo’s ears before it hears its first sound? A new study suggests that support cells in the cochlea, long thought to be inert, have a role in tuning up the hair cells during development. Experiments by Dr. Dwight Bergles and a team at Johns Hopkins suggest that cells in a tissue […]

Fossils

Cambrian Jellyfish Found

November 2, 2007

It’s official: jellyfish were part of the Cambrian explosion. National Geographic News has pictures of well-preserved jellyfish fossils from Utah that show even the “distinct bell shape, tentacles, muscle scars, and possibly even the gonads.” These fossils are dated by evolutionary standards at 500 million years old, into the period of the Cambrian […]

Cosmology

Myths from Hell

November 1, 2007

Many speak of God’s green earth and rejoice in its beauty, but James Trefil tells us it was born from hell. In his article in Astronomy (Dec 2007), entitled, “Earth’s Fiery Start” he spoke with eyewitness confidence: Earth hasn’t always been a green and pleasant place. In fact, our planet’s infancy was a violent, chaotic […]

Cell Biology

Month-End Close-Out

October 31, 2007

Sometimes the creation-evolution news comes in too fast. Here’s a baker’s dozen from the October shelf, lest they go stale; time to start a new batch for November. Charity begins at worldview: David Cyranoski in Nature (450, 24-25, 10/31/2007) investigated why the level of charitable giving in prosperous Japan is a tenth of that in […]

Intelligent Design

When Bad Religion Confronts Good Science, and Vice Versa

October 31, 2007

A spooky Halloween thought: there are still witch doctors in the world today. If they were harmless spooks, they could be dismissed as kooks, but they can have a devastating impact on the ecology as well as the souls of men. National Geographic had a disturbing story this month about the witch doctors of Uganda, […]

Uncategorized

Amphioxus Is Green, Like Coral

October 30, 2007

Evolutionists may want to combine their song “It’s a long way from Amphioxus” (02/23/2006) with “It isn’t easy being green.” Green fluorescent protein (GFP) has been found in the lungfish Amphioxus, according to a press release from Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Why is this not easy? Because it’s a long way: “The researchers say amphioxus’ […]