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Was Velociraptor a Dragon?

September 22, 2007

As if Velociraptor, the terror of Jurassic Park, was not scary enough, some scientists are now saying it was feathered. (This, of course, does not imply it could fly after its human prey like some movie dragon.) The latest claim in Science is based on the apparent presence of “quill knobs” on the radius bone […]

Origin of Life

Mars Was and Is Dry

September 21, 2007

The cover story of Science this week has bad news for those hoping for Martian lakefront property. A series of articles by planetary scientists who studied images from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter casts strong doubt on the presence of water on Mars, even in the planet’s early days. The overview article by Richard Kerr in […]

Early Man

Geological Dates Adjust Catastrophically to Evolutionary Assumptions

September 19, 2007

Pick a date for the rise of a land mass: 3 million years or 30 million years. Either one will work, depending on the current evolutionary assumptions, if one is to follow the logic of an article on the Discovery Channel website. Here’s how it began: The geologic rise of the Ethiopian Plateau may have […]

Dumb Ideas

Early Reptile Had Modern Ears

September 18, 2007

Modern ears are nothing new; they go back 260 million years. That’s the gist of a paper in PLoS ONE that reported on a Russian reptile fossil.1 The research team was surprised to discover that the creature had impedance-matched ears, a novelty thought to have evolved 50 million years later. Somehow this innovation survived one […]

Dumb Ideas

Dust to Dust, or Dust to Life?

September 17, 2007

National Geographic gave prominent press to last month’s theory of living dust (see 08/10/2007, bullet 1). Criticisms were mild; scientists were quoted who thought this claim raises interesting questions about the definition of life. Tsytovich’s ideas were described by Mihaly Horanyi (U of Colorado) as “amazing.” He said, “This is a very original, very intelligent […]

Astronomy

Dark Matter Sheds Light on Invisible Stars: Come Again?

September 17, 2007

Can one unknown shed light on another unknown? That’s what some UK astronomers seem to be saying. Before describing their model, consider this conundrum with which they ended a story in the BBC News: “We don’t know what the dark matter is, we don’t know what the first stars are. If we bring these two […]

Media

Review: The Case for Christ DVD

September 16, 2007

A film adaptation of Lee Strobel’s best seller The Case for Christ (1998) was released by La Mirada Films on September 11. Strobel, a former legal reporter for the Chicago Tribune, and an atheist, was determined to disprove the miracles and resurrection of Jesus Christ after his wife converted to Christianity. His two-year investigation of […]

Education

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.

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