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Unconstant Constant Could Challenge Basic Physics

April 27, 2006

“Shifting constant could shake laws of nature,” said Mark Peplow in Nature.1 “From the speed of light to the charge on an electron, the fundamental constants of physics had been assumed to be immutable,” he continued. “But that comfortable assumption is being challenged.” The latest challenge is ratio of the mass of a proton to […]

Dumb Ideas

Stupid Evolution Quote of the Week: Astrobiology Takes on I.D.

April 26, 2006

The Center for Astrobiology at the University of Boulder is hosting a symposium today entitled, “Fossils and Genes: Exploring the Evolution of Life.” Douglas Futuyma (State University of New York) calls Evolution the “most important theory in biology.” By his own admission, though, it is a theory filled with paradoxes: Evolution is both a fact […]

Bible and Theology

UNESCO To Rebuild Mystery Babylon

April 26, 2006

The United Nations has plans to make ancient Babylon a tourist attraction. This International Herald Tribune article will be of interest to Biblical historians. …and maybe to prophecy buffs.

Fossils

Sea Monster Found Under Davy Yones’ Locker

April 25, 2006

The deepest dinosaur bone ever found, a part of a Plateosaurus, has been found by Norwegians 1.4 miles under the North Sea floor. This sets a new depth record for a dinosaur fossil. According to Live Science, “Researchers said it’s quite possible there are many more fossils down there.” More on National Geographic News, News@Nature […]

Fossils

Walking Snake Bites the Dust

April 24, 2006

It must be missing link season. MSNBC News announced a snake with rudimentary legs. While exciting for evolutionary theory, it raises questions, too. Snakes were supposed to have evolved in the water, not on land. Check out what Ken Ham said on Answers in Genesis about this latest salvo. If the snake had legs, does […]

Darwin and Evolution

Paper View: Cambrian Explosion Damage Control

April 23, 2006

Like some federal official holding a press conference after a disaster, a Harvard paleontologist has tackled the unenviable job of explaining what Darwin called the most severe challenge that could be levied against his theory: the fossil record. The challenge starts with a bang...

Health

No Pain, No Gain Explained: Lactic Acid Supercharges Your Engines

April 21, 2006

The old paradigm: lactic acid buildup during exercise is like poison to your muscles, producing stiffness and agony. The new paradigm: lactic acid is your friend, a fuel additive that helps keep your mitochondrial motors in top-notch condition. Read all about it in a press release from UC Berkeley. What are you waiting for? It’s […]

Education

The Politics of Darwinism: Dictate, Slander, Block

April 21, 2006

In a state of panic over the rise of intelligent design and creationism, most scientific societies supporting Darwinism are doing what their opponents feel is doomed to fail: avoiding, at all costs, a fair and intellectual debate about the evidence. Instead, many pro-Darwin forces issue prepared statements, misrepresent their opponents, and use legal maneuvering to […]

Early Man

Ethiopian Missing Link: Location, Location, Location

April 19, 2006

The Associated Press reported that a new fossil discovery proves the link between two ancestral species of man, and shows the change happening right before our eyes: Fossils have long provided snapshots of the human family tree, but a new find in Africa gives scientists a kind of mini home movie showing man’s primal development. […]

Dinosaurs

Step Aside, T. Rex: Bigger Dino Found

April 19, 2006

A cache of dinosaur bones, meat-eaters bigger than Tyrannosaurus rex, has been uncovered in South America. National Geographic News says the new species, Mapusaurus, exceeded the former heavyweight carnivore in size and agility. All the bones in a river deposit were 100% from this one species, so “the chances they had been deposited randomly are […]

Dumb Ideas

Stupid Evolution Quote of the Week: Scientists, Learn Darwinism on TV

April 18, 2006

In Current Biology, Kenneth E. Sawin of Wellcome Trust Center for Cell Biology at Edinburgh University was interviewed about his career. One of the questions was, “What are the big ideas for you now?” Here is part of his answer: Another thing that I think about, which may be more ethereal, is that cell biologists […]

Astronomy

Astrobiology Ten Years Later: Can It Justify Its Funding?

April 17, 2006

Astrobiology just turned ten years old, but is experiencing growing pains, partly due to a starvation diet. This “science without a subject” (as George Gaylord Simpson quipped about its predecessor, exobiology) is struggling to justify itself at the Congressional feeding trough. Proponents tout it as the most important subject in the universe. Why, then, is […]

Cell Biology

How Much Can a Cell Do Without?

April 14, 2006

In an old high school game, the leader would call some unsuspecting boy to the front, put a sheet over him, and say, “Take off what you don’t need.” Perhaps a shoe would emerge from under the sheet. “Take off something else you don’t need,” the leader would continue, and the volume of giggling in […]

Early Man

Paleoanthropologists Announce the Middle Man

April 12, 2006

In unison, the news media joined the most recent chorus over alleged fossil human ancestors: “Fossil find improves knowledge of human origins” (Live Science): “Fossils fill gap in human lineage,” (BBC News); “Ancient fossils fill gap in early human evolution” (Yahoo News); “Fossil discovery fills gap in human evolution” (MSNBC News, which adds, ‘We just […]

Genetics

Few Mutational Pathways Lead to Darwinian Evolution

April 12, 2006

Mutations may not be as helpful for neo-Darwinian evolution as expected, say researchers from Harvard. Let’s say five mutations need to occur for a bacterium to gain resistance to an antibiotic, and there are 120 ways to get these mutations. They found that only about 10 of the pathways could be selected by natural selection. […]

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