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Express Your Inner Alley Oop

September 1, 2006

There’s a little Neanderthal in a lot of us, claims The Telegraph. This is bad news and good news: People who have large noses, a stocky build and a beetle brow may indeed be a little Neanderthal, according to a genetic study. But the good news is that other research concludes that Neanderthals were much […]

Education

Evolution Back on Federal Funding List

September 1, 2006

Boy, that was a close call. Evolution research almost got dropped from federal funding. Turns out it was an accidental oversight. Science Daily reported that the oversight “sparked heated protests from academics and evolution supporters” who “expressed fears that the omission might have been part of an attack on Darwinian evolution by religious groups.” […]

Media

Rock Video Illustrates Nihilism of Evolution

August 31, 2006

Senseless sex. Mass death. Religious hypocrisy. Moral equivalence. Impersonality. Irresponsibility. Male aggression, abduction and murder. Glorification of lust. Book burning. Assembly-line babies. Dehumanization. Terrorism. Holocaust. Armageddon. It’s all illustrated with raw intensity in the Pearl Jam rock video, Do the Evolution, available on YouTube.com.1 Evolution wipes out humanity, without remorse, in just 3:53 minutes. Watch […]

Uncategorized

Evolution Is Practically Useless, Admits Darwinist

August 30, 2006

Supporters of evolution often tout its many benefits. They claim it helps research in agriculture, conservation and medicine (e.g., 01/13/2003, 06/25/2003). A new book by David Mindell, The Evolving World: Evolution in Everyday Life (Harvard, 2006) emphasizes these practical benefits in hopes of making evolution more palatable to a skeptical society. Jerry Coyne, a staunch […]

Dinosaurs

Meanwhile, Back on the Dinosaur Ranch

August 29, 2006

Sid Perkins went on a dinosaur hunt in Montana this past July, and wrote up his experiences for the cover story of the Aug. 26 issue of Science News. It was more personal diary than science. Perkins talked about the teamwork, hard work, and the occasional thrill of finding a fragment of bone that the […]

Astronomy

Upset Update: Globular Clusters, Atmospheric Methane Tear Up Textbooks

August 28, 2006

Here are a couple of updates to stories we reported earlier in the category “Everything we thought was wrong.” Globular cluster ages: Our 10/05/2003 entry reported that beliefs about globular cluster ages were undergoing a radical revision. You can almost feel the rumblings in a related story on News@Nature; “In a complex Universe, astronomers thought […]

Biomimetics

Grass Shack Makes a Comeback

August 28, 2006

Oh, what a feeling: Toyota Roof Garden wants to replace your roof with grass. Bill Christensen at Live Science says that the car company’s grass tiles include imbedded irrigation piping, provide good thermal insulation and reflect less urban heat to the atmosphere. The special grass only needs mowing once a year. Company website (Japanese): Toyota […]

Intelligent Design

Quote: Cell Factory

August 28, 2006

From CalTech Engineering & Science (LXIX:2, August 2006), “Cellular CAT Scans” by Douglas L. Smith, an article about electron cryotomography imaging of cellular components. Smith does not mention evolution. His opening paragraph is reminiscent of Darwin’s Black Box: A cell isn’t merely a bag of enzymes sloshing around in a thick soup of cytoplasm. According […]

Health

Embryonic Stem Cells No Longer Needed?

August 25, 2006

Two announcements this week may make harvesting embryonic stem cells obsolete. First, it’s not necessary to kill an embryo to get a stem cell, reported Associated Press (see Fox News) and Live Science. While this does not solve all the ethical problems, a White House spokeswoman called it “encouraging to see scientists at least making […]

Origin of Life

Early Oxygen Fuels Fire in OOL Camp

August 25, 2006

Live Science reported a new claim about oxygen on the early earth appearing far earlier than usually assumed. A Penn State astrobiologist is claiming that uniformly high oxygen levels existed on earth 3.8 billion years ago, a billion years before previous estimates. Oxygen’s presence on Earth has been typically inferred from sulfur isotope […]

Origin of Life

Origin of Left-Handed Proteins Solved?

August 24, 2006

As noted in prior entries here (09/06/2003, 11/19/2004) and in our online book, the origin of left-hand proteins is recognized as one of the most formidable challenges to naturalistic origin-of-life research. Occasionally researchers develop lab techniques for getting slight excesses of one hand over the other. Astrobiologists agree, however, that 100% purity in a protein […]

Media

Film Under Fire That Links Darwin to Hitler

August 23, 2006

Even before being aired, the documentary Darwin’s Deadly Legacy from Coral Ridge Ministries is taking heat, reported World Net Daily. The criticisms, coming from Darwinists on Pharyngula and from the Anti-Defamation League, are two-fold: (1) that it trivializes the Holocaust, because “Hitler did not need Darwin to devise his heinous plan to exterminate the Jewish […]

Early Man

Chimp-Human Genes Evolved Much Faster Than Expected

August 22, 2006

It’s been all over the news lately – human DNA shows surprisingly divergent regions from chimpanzee counterparts. The Houston Chronicle, for instance, summarizes the find: Searching across the four genomes, the team looked for regions of DNA about 100 letters long that had made the biggest leaps. One, they found, had changed nearly twice as […]

Education

Darwinists Whack I.D. with Reckless Abandon

August 21, 2006

For professionals assumed to be logical, factual, and devoted to reason, scientists and journalists can get pretty emotional, depending on the subject. One such subject that really rankles some of them is intelligent design. Here are some recent salvos from the war of the words: Hotz shots: From the LA Times, Robert Lee Hotz wrote, […]

Intelligent Design

Review: Lehigh Prof Critiques ID Colleague in Science Wars

August 21, 2006

Dr. Steven Goldman (Lehigh University) has produced a series of lectures for The Teaching Company entitled Science Wars: What Scientists Know and How They Know It. CEH highly recommends this series for its wealth of historical background applied to an intriguing question: what is the nature of truth claims in science? To what extent do […]

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