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Science Attacked by Mother Nature of the Spiritual Left

July 10, 2006

“Think only the religious right is anti-science? How about the spiritual left?” asks Lee M. Silver in The Scientist. His article details the holistic thinking invading much of popular culture and university student minds, that pictures nature as a benevolent super-organism (with usually feminine characteristics). The article is an excerpt from his book […]

Bible and Theology

Rocket Pioneer Remembered as Man of Faith

July 10, 2006

Wernher von Braun (1912-1977) deserves a good reputation, said Anthony Young in an article for The Space Review. He was loved and admired by the people who worked with him but vilified by others because of his involvement with the German V2 rocket. Young desired to set the record straight about his integrity. To round […]

Education

Darwinists Foment Civil Disobedience Against Questioning Darwinism

July 8, 2006

The new science standards in Kansas require students to learn more about evolution, including evidence for and against it (see Discovery Institute press release). The standards specifically exclude the teaching of intelligent design theory. To some activist groups, however, this requirement is so intolerable, they want teachers to disobey it. According to Evolution News, there […]

Human Body

Evolving Consciousness Without a Soul

July 7, 2006

A paper tackling the theory of consciousness begins, Any scientific study of consciousness is based on the premise that phenomenal experience is entailed by neuronal activity in the brain. Given this premise, an adequate theory of consciousness must be consistent with physics and with evolutionary principles. Nonphysical or dualistic forces or processes must be excluded, […]

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Nature Gives Top Blog Honors to Radical Atheists

July 6, 2006

P. Z. Myers (U of Minnesota) has been one of the most foul-mouthed critics of creation, intelligent design and religion in general. He has said that Abraham was worse than Hitler (see Evolution News). He has ridiculed the crucifixion of Christ (see Evolution News). His opinion on how to treat anti-evolutionists: “I say, screw the […]

Genetics

Genetic Code Began by Lamarckian Evolution

July 5, 2006

It takes guts to tackle the origin of the genetic code from a naturalist perspective. It also takes guts to resurrect Lamarck in the age of Darwin. Carl Woese and colleagues tried a new hypothesis in PNAS1 that boldly goes headlong into both challenges. To preserve a natural explanation for the genetic code, they felt […]

Health

Rip Van Winkle Revives

July 3, 2006

A man in a coma 19 years has regained some brain function, surprising scientists. Terry Wallis is relearning how to count and speak, and thinks Ronald Reagan is still president. The story of his remarkable recovery has been reported widely in the news (see Fox News) and was featured on both News@Nature and Science Now. […]

Astronomy

Paper View: Why SETI Hears Only a Great Silence

June 30, 2006

Enrico Fermi posed a curious question in 1950: “Where is everybody?” If life emerges on planets as a consequence of evolution, there should be other intelligent civilizations out there, and some of them must have colonized other worlds. He thought there must have been plenty of time for galactic colonizers to achieve technologies far beyond […]

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Rockfish Prefer Oil-Rig Real Estate

June 30, 2006

Environmentalists may complain about offshore oil platforms, but the rockfish in the Santa Barbara channel aren’t paying attention. According to a study announced by UC Santa Barbara, rockfish are finding better living through human chemistry. The platforms provide security and prime nursing habitat, such that their numbers, once dangerously low, are now resurging. The artificial […]

Intelligent Design

Ant Pedometer Discovered

June 29, 2006

Ants have dumbfounded scientists again. It appears they count their steps when they walk, and keep track how far they have gone. Reporting in Science,1 a trio of German and Swiss scientists tested desert ants by making some walk on specially-designed stilts and others walk on stumps of cut-off legs. The first overshot their target, […]

Education

Doubters Defy Darwin Dogma

June 29, 2006

One would think that the near unanimous opinion of international scientific societies opposing creationism and ID would carry a lot of weight with the public, but it doesn’t. There are indications that a substantial percent of the population is not impressed with the dogmatic pronouncements that evolution is a fact, and that anyone who disagrees […]

Early Man

The Evolution of Immaturity

June 28, 2006

[Guest Article] Blame evolution for your teen’s immaturity. The Discovery Channel has published a review of an upcoming paper by Bruce Charlton, professor of biology at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, England. Charlton is a promoter of Evolutionary Psychology, a developing field of Psychology that attempts to explain all human characteristics in light of […]

Genetics

Stem Cells Protect Against Defective Copies

June 27, 2006

The Pasteur Institute (see Louis Pasteur) has found evidence supporting a controversial theory known as the “immortal DNA” theory. According to News-Medical.Net, researchers at the institute believe that stem cells keep the best copies and allow only defective ones to differentiate and specialize. If so, this may be another mechanism for minimizing the effects of […]

Dumb Ideas

Evolutionists Find Pegasus in the Gene Epic

June 26, 2006

When you conjure with genes, you never know what might appear. Japanese scientists, publishing in PNAS,1 tried to find evolution in mammalian retroposons and found an unexpected relationship. New Scientist explains: “You could call it a batty idea, but bats seem to be more closely related to horses than cows are.” “Despite the […]

Amazing Facts

Plants Use Electrical Sunscreen

June 23, 2006

Perhaps only a scientist, or a kid, would worry about how a plant doesn’t get sunburn, but it took elaborate scientific work for six months to find the answer. EurekAlert told about research at the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State that found how plants get rid of excess solar energy. They use carotenoids, molecules responsible […]

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