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Fossil Fish Meat Pushes Idea of Early Complexity

February 12, 2007

An article in National Geographic News today has a title to catch the eye (or nose) of seafood lovers: “Fossil Meat Found in 380-Million-Year-Old Fish.” Knowing how quickly fish spoils if left out, this might strike a reader as surprising. Sure enough, fossilized muscle, with “bundles of muscle cells, blood vessels, and nerve cells” clearly […]

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Darwin Day Gift Ideas

February 12, 2007

Need ideas for that special someone on your shopping list? With Darwin Day upon us (Feb. 12), it’s not too late to find the gift that’s just right for the occasion. See our Top Ten list below. Top Ten Darwin Day Gift Ideas A blindfolded Tinker Bell doll (01/13/2006), or a Tinker Toy Set with […]

Bible and Theology

Evolution Sunday Honors Darwin Over God

February 11, 2007

An essay by Edna Devore of the SETI Institute on Space.com encourages churches to join in Mike Zimmerman’s “Evolution Sunday” celebrations. Zimmerman, with his Clergy Letter Project (see also New Scientist), has gotten over 10,000 pastors to sign a statement affirming evolution as an essential part of science and religion (02/11/2006). Devore thinks this is […]

Solar System

Enceladus Spray-Paints Its Neighbors Yards

February 10, 2007

Saturn’s moon Enceladus is not only Yellowstone unto itself. Its shares the National Park experience with its neighbors. The geyser spray coats nearby moons white like snow. Space.com and National Geographic are calling this a case of “cosmic graffiti.” How did scientists catch the tagger? The original paper in Science describes how on […]

Bible and Theology

Highlights from Biblical Archaeology News

February 9, 2007

As an intelligent-design science, archaeology continues to interpret the actions of human intelligence from the observation of physical artifacts. Here are some recent stories bearing on Bible history and archaeology. Battle of the Ages: Science had a special section on Jerusalem archaeology in the Feb 2 issue. Andrew Lawler1 critiqued the spectacular claim that the […]

Early Man

Music Out of Range of Darwins Instrument

February 9, 2007

In Science this week,1 Michael Balter reported on a Montreal meeting of the Brain, Music and Sound Research Center (BRAMS). The center is gaining attention for its renewed interest in the biology of music, and why human beings are so good at this skill with its dubious survival value. The topic came up about how […]

Media

Haeckel Given Soft Gloves in Nature

February 8, 2007

How should a scientist’s career be evaluated if he was a known fraud? How also if he promoted views that fanned the flames of racism and genocide? Here’s what Philip Ball said about Ernst Haeckel in Nature:1 Reckoned to have been instrumental to the introduction of darwinism to Germany, Haeckel has also inspired generations of […]

Intelligent Design

Dodo Prey Fights Back

February 7, 2007

Irked at falsehoods promulgated by Randy Olsen’s film Flock of Dodos, the intelligent design (ID) think tank Discovery Institute (DI) is fighting back. The film presents a viewpoint that what ID lacks in science it makes up for in public relations. The DI is convinced the reverse is true. In an attempt to rebut what […]

Early Man

Turkana Boy Causes Museum Ruckus

February 7, 2007

Christians want the boy arrested and locked up. Scientists want to put him on stage. The stage is Kenya’s National Museum, and the boy is Turkana boy, a fossil classified by evolutionists as Homo erectus and claimed to be 1.6 million years old. CNN reported that the museum is showcasing the fossil, the most complete […]

Cell Biology

Contingency and the Structure of Lifes Building Blocks

February 6, 2007

Some Yale scientists found they could construct protein-like molecules using amino acids of a type not found in living things. They found that beta-amino acids can fold into shapes similar to the proteins made of alpha-amino acids used in living things. Beta-amino acids have an extra carbon on the backbone. “Yale chemists show that nature […]

Dumb Ideas

Stupid Evolution Quote of the Week: What Thou Doest, Do Quickly

February 5, 2007

This award should be for last week since the article on EurekAlert was dated Jan 29. From a press release at Rice University, it begins: It’s a mystery why the speed and complexity of evolution appear to increase with time. For example, the fossil record indicates that single-celled life first appeared about 3.5 billion years […]

Dinosaurs

First Euro-Stegosaur Found

February 4, 2007

A Stegosaurus fossil has been found in Portugal, reported Live Science. Previously this species with its spiked tail and prominent rows of plates on its back was only known from North America. A tooth, some leg bones and part of the backbone have been unearthed. So far, the fossil looks indistinguishable from its North American […]

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Darwinists Topple Darwins Tree of Life

February 1, 2007

Darwin’s “Tree of Life” is a myth. It’s based on circular reasoning. It is a pattern imposed on the data, not a fact emerging from the evidence. We should give up the search for a single tree of life (TOL) as a record of the history of life on earth, because it is a “quixotic […]

Amazing Facts

Cells Perform Sporting Interactions

January 31, 2007

The components of living cells perform such acrobatic moving interactions, one would think they are having fun. Here’s the news from the Wide World of Cellular Sports. Speedway: A news release from Penn Medicine talks about how motor proteins step on the gas and the brakes in their motions around the cell. The announcer from […]

Amazing Facts

Cell Quality Control Runs a Tight Ship