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Some Christian Colleges Love Darwin More than Jesus

September 14, 2007

“If you love me, keep my commandments,” Jesus said. He told his disciples to expect persecution. He commanded them to take up their cross and follow him, explaining that as the world hated him, it would hate them. Counting the cost, the early disciples did indeed love and follow him to the death. […]

Solar System

Iapetus update

September 13, 2007

The data have returned from Cassini’s closest-ever flyby of Iapetus (see 09/07/2007). All the images can be found at Cassini Multimedia raw images, with good samples posted by the imaging team here and here. Amateurs and pros at Unmanned Spaceflight started getting really excited at 12:40 a.m. Tuesday when the images hit the […]

Genetics

Genetics Central Dogma Is Dead

September 12, 2007

The science of life is undergoing changes so jolting that even its top researchers are feeling something akin to shell-shock.

Amazing Facts

New World Record for Winged Migration

September 11, 2007

The BBC News reports that a female bar-tailed godwit flew 11,500km (almost 7200 mi) nonstop from Alaska to New Zealand. The journey took about a week. Observers at Massey University used electronic tags to catalog the birds’ flight. This distance is nearly double what ornithologists used to consider an “extremely long” flight. This […]

Dumb Ideas

Potatoes: Brain Food for Evolutionary Health

September 11, 2007

A claim that eating starchy foods, like potatoes, made men out of monkeys made it all the way to the BBC News. “Man’s ability to digest starchy foods like the potato may explain our success on the planet, genetic work suggests,” the subtitle read. Not only that, it claimed “these extra calories may have been […]

Dumb Ideas

Can Humans Use Evolution?

September 10, 2007

Evolution is being used. A press release from University of Wisconsin-Madison was titled, “Using evolution, UW team creates a template for many new therapeutic agents.” How does one use evolution? It continued, “By guiding an enzyme down a new evolutionary pathway, a team of University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers has created a new form of an […]

Uncategorized

Interpreting Secular Reports About Biblical Events

September 10, 2007

Can secular science provide a bias-free interpretation of evidence for Biblical events? Consider the case of Robert Ballard’s Black-Sea Flood theory for Noah’s Flood. This was popular a few years ago (04/21/2001), but has come under fire by other researchers (04/26/2002). Today an Israeli research team claimed their research vessel found evidence to support the […]

Darwin and Evolution

Are You a Glorified Ape?

September 9, 2007

Evolutionists cannot deny the large cognitive gaps between humans and the alleged nearest ancestors, the great apes.

Amazing Facts

Eyes Do Precision Digital Sampling

September 8, 2007

What is the shutter speed of the eye? Have you ever considered this question? After all, the eye functions like a camera in some respects. Shutterbugs know that shutter speed and aperture are factors in proper exposure. Most of us know that the iris of the eye controls the aperture, but what controls the shutter […]

Physics

Saturns Iapetus Takes Cassinis Spotlight

September 7, 2007

Scientists are eagerly poised for Cassini’s long-awaited ultra-close flyby of Iapetus on September 10. The previous visit in 2005 was over 77,000 miles away; this flyby will skim the surface from less than 1,000 miles. Moreover, it will see a portion of the moon only vaguely imaged by Voyager and Cassini before. Jet Propulsion Laboratory, […]

Birds

Dinosaurs Stretched, Shrunk and Twisted Into Birds

September 6, 2007

Size matters, thought paleontologists envisioning the evolution of birds from dinosaurs. The old story was that dinosaurs shrunk as their arms were becoming wings. That view has been challenged by a new fossil reported in Science.1 Alan H. Turner (American Museum of Natural History) and four others reported a “basal dromeosaurid” that was small long […]

Mammals

Whale Sonar: Necessity Is the Mother of Invention

September 5, 2007

Biosonar is a complex ability possessed by toothed whales and dolphins, bats and some birds. It includes both the ability to produce signals and to process the echoes to locate prey. How could such a system evolve? Scientists at UC Berkeley proposed an answer. The press release promised a developing story: Behind the sailor’s lore […]

Fossils

Do Genes Reveal the Cambrian Explosion?

September 4, 2007

A Croatian geneticist believes he can find the Cambrian Explosion in the genes. Science Daily told about Tomislav Domazet-Loso from the Rudjer Boskovic Institute in Zagreb, whose team employed a “novel methodological approach in evolutionary studies” they called “genomic phylostratigraphy.” Looking for a “genetic trigger” for the Cambrian explosion, they hoped their method can “shed […]

Birds

Birds Eat Dark Moths, Therefore God Does Not Exist

September 3, 2007

Michael Majerus watched birds eat peppered moths from his window for seven years (06/25/2004), then drew his conclusions. In a presentation to a science conference in Uppsala, Sweden on August 23, he said that the peppered moth story proves evolution, which means there is no supernatural being to save us, there is no second coming, […]