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This Is a Problem: Dino-Feather Story Gets Scaly

March 15, 2006

Just when proponents of dinosaur-to-bird evolution were getting agreement on their story, along came Juravenator. Announced in Nature,1 this new dinosaur fossil from Germany is dated later than the earliest alleged “feathered dinosaur,” but had no feathers. The finely-preserved specimen, in the same Solnhofen limestone that preserved Archaeopteryx (dated 2-3 million years later), had clear […]

Dumb Ideas

The Darwin Empire Strikes Back

March 14, 2006

It would seem the ID republic is imprisoned on its own ice-world of Hoth, scrambling to escape as the empire has mobilized its machinery against the rebels. The AAAS, for instance, held its “Evolution on the Front Line” event in St. Louis and has posted its weaponry on its Center for Public Engagement with Science […]

Solar System

Stardust Finds Burnt Rock in Comet Dust

March 14, 2006

Major upset in solar system origin theories indicated by minerals that had to form hot.

Origin of Life

The Astrobiology Sky Is Falling

March 13, 2006

Rocco Mancinelli (Principal Investigator, SETI Institute) made an impassioned plea on Space.com for continued funding of astrobiology projects, calling threatened funding cuts a “national disaster” if not reversed. And what is astrobiology? He defined it as “the study of the origin, evolution, distribution, and future of life in the universe.” His reasons for keeping astrobiology […]

Cell Biology

Misfolded Proteins Cause Cascade of Harmful Effects

March 12, 2006

There are a myriad ways a polypeptide chain could collapse into a shapeless mass.

Bible and Theology

Ararat Anomaly Photo Released

March 11, 2006

To follow up on an old story, a satellite photo of the so-called “Ararat Anomaly” has been released (see 08/23/2001 entry). The photo taken by the Quickbird 2 satellite shows what is most likely a rock ridge. Some hunters for Noah’s Ark were eager to see high-resolution photos of this area; others thought whatever it […]

Fossils

Lazarus, Come Forth: Living Fossils Rise from the Dead

March 10, 2006

An animal goes extinct. Millions of years pass. The animal is found living in some remote jungle. Scientists call this the “Lazarus effect,” after the man Jesus raised from the dead (see John 11). Others call these finds “living fossils,” long thought to be extinct but now thriving in isolated ecological niches. There are many […]

Education

Analysis: The Dover Decision

March 10, 2006

Dr. Kevin L. Anderson of the Creation Research Society wrote an analysis of Judge Jones’ decision in the Kitzmiller v. Dover School District case. Since this appeared in a members-only newsletter, Creation Matters, we sought and obtained permission to reproduce it: Click Here. A very different view was expressed by David Johns (School […]

SETI

Deities for Atheists, or Atheism for Dummies?

March 9, 2006

Michael Shermer wrote a book review in Science entitled “Deities for Atheists.”1 The article reviewed George Basalla’s recent book, Civilized Life in the Universe: Scientists on Intelligent Extraterrestrials (Oxford, 2005). Basalla (historian of science and technology, U of Delaware) contends that SETI is the continuation of an ancient religious quest. If so, who are the […]

Cell Biology

Introns Stump Evolutionary Theorists

March 9, 2006

This story is not about Enron and Exxon, but about introns and exons. The proportions of the scandals they are causing in evolutionary theory, however, may be comparable. Introns are spacers between genes. For several decades now, it has been a puzzle why they are there, and why a complex machine called a […]

Uncategorized

Darwinists Take a Snubbing

March 8, 2006

Darwinism got beat up in the polls again. World Net Daily reported on a new Zogby poll that showed that “69 percent of Americans believe public school teachers should present both the evidence for and against Darwinian evolution.” Evolution News had comments about the poll; secular news media seemed to pay no attention. […]

Early Man

Turkish Family Evolving Into Quadrupeds

March 7, 2006

Is this a hoax? The Times Online UK posted a picture of a family in Turkey that walks naturally on all fours, and calls this a “unique insight into human evolution.” Sean O’Neill at New Scientist is not sure what to think. A professor Humphrey claims this is an example of “backward evolution,” or a […]

Amazing Facts

In Praise of Fat

March 6, 2006

Well, great balls of fat. Cells have spherical globs of lipid (fat) molecules that never had gotten much attention nor respect. They have been called lipid droplets, oil bodies, fat globules and other names suggesting they were just the beer bellies of the cell. Not any more. Scientists have been taking a closer look at […]

Uncategorized

Little Colorado Grand Falls Much Younger Than Thought

March 5, 2006

The Little Colorado River makes a dramatic drop over a lava cliff in Arizona after going around a lava flow. Previous estimates dated the lava at the falls at 150,000 years old (150ka). Now, a team of geologists publishing in GSA Bulletin1 used multiple methods that dated it at no more than 19,600 years old […]

Astronomy

Spiral Galaxies Wind Up Into Blurs In Short Cosmological Time

March 4, 2006

Cosmic billions of years have received another challenge from the physics of spiral arms in spiral galaxies.

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