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Darwin Acid Eats Literature

January 27, 2006

A potent acid has fallen on the bookshelf, eating away the minds and intentions of its characters, dissolving romances and adventures into a hideous morass of uniform consistency. Prominent evolutionist Daniel Dennett, author of Darwin’s Dangerous Idea, wrote that evolution is like a “universal acid” that cannot be contained in its scientific vial. […]

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Evolutionary Theory: Verified or Vilified?

January 26, 2006

Jeffrey Schwartz has reason to be happy that his particular theory of evolution received some support recently, according to a press release from University of Pittsburgh. But look at the pedestal he is standing on: the ruins of classical Darwinism and neo-Darwinism. In supporting his own theory, he kicked out the props from under standard […]

Intelligent Design

Darwin Dissed in His Own Homeland

January 26, 2006

One would think Brits would cherish their guru Darwin, but he didn’t come out all that well in a poll, reports BBC News. More than half the population doesn’t believe in the theory of evolution, results showed, and 39% said either creation or intelligent design best explains their view on the origin and development of […]

Education

Lawsuit Halts ID in Philosophy Class: Will it Backfire?

January 25, 2006

Exclusive Picture this: a small community high school nestled in the mountains far north of the big city of Los Angeles. A gentle, silver-haired schoolteacher who wouldn’t hurt a fly, who coaches soccer, loves teenagers and takes her time-consuming and non-lucrative job, which she has done for many years, seriously, and is well liked by […]

Dumb Ideas

Human Evolution: Clear as Mud

January 24, 2006

Evolutionists speak of our descent from apes with an air of confidence and certainty, but connecting the dots requires a bit of artistic license. Here are some examples of how any data, no matter how puzzling, can be made to fit the Darwinian picture. Stretchy Clocks: A famous painting by Salvador Dali portrayed clocks draped […]

Early Man

Where Did Humans Learn Geometry?

January 22, 2006

In Plato’s dialogue Meno, Socrates illustrated his view that certain foundations of knowledge are innate rather than learned.1 He took an untutored slave boy and, with a series of sketches in the sand, got the boy to deduce the Pythagorean Theorem by his own reasoning (see Encarta). In a modern version, Harvard scientists […]

Dumb Ideas

The Evolution of Spite

January 21, 2006

Since everything evolves, according to consensus science, why not attitudes like spite? The BBC News reported about a University College London study on attitudes of revenge between the sexes. They found that men seemed to get more satisfaction out of hurting foes than women. This is all part of an evolutionary explanation for altruistic behavior […]

Genetics

Soil Provides Library of Antibiotic Resistance

January 19, 2006

Genetic information that confers antibiotic resistance is already present in the environmental resistome.

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Orion Nebula Revealed in Hubble Splendor

January 19, 2006

The Hubble Space Telescope’s new mosaic image of the Orion Nebula (M42) made Astronomy Picture of the Day. For those of us who grew up admiring the old Palomar observatory’s photo of it, the upgrade is worth a thousand words. This is a keeper. The next day, APOD posted a portion of the image that […]

Physics

Can Caves Record Climate History?

January 19, 2006

Many geologists and climatologists have assumed that cave formations, forming slowly over long ages, preserve a record of climate changes. These assumptions have been challenged by University of Texas researchers who experimented with water dripping from stalactites in a cave in Barbados. Their work was published in GSA Bulletin.1 Climate history could be […]

Fossils

How to Squeeze Fossils Into Evolutionary Trees

January 18, 2006

Fossils do not come with dates or labels on them. Sometimes it is quite a puzzle to figure out where they fit in Darwinian ancestral trees. One such example was published in Nature on January 12 by Chinese scientists who found an oddball in the famous Liaoning fossil beds.1 They called it a “Cretaceous symmetrodont […]

Dumb Ideas

Dust Bunny Lays Planet Eggs

January 17, 2006

Where do planets come from? The Dust Bunny. That’s a line coming from a press release from the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy. They measured spectra of gas and dust at radio and infrared wavelengths around a sunlike star, and concluded the dust was collecting. “This suggests that the dust particles are sticking together, […]

Cosmology

ID Film Takes Hollywood

January 15, 2006

Grauman’s Chinese Theater on Hollywood Boulevard is a top tourist attraction in Tinseltown. It features dozens of handprints of famous movie and TV stars, from Lucille Ball and Bill Cosby to Mickey Mouse. This venue of many a blockbuster and glitzy opening night seemed hardly a place for naturalistic cosmology to take a thrashing, but […]

Amazing Facts

Why Your Brain Has Gray Matter, and Why You Should Use It

January 13, 2006

Vertebrate brains have an outer layer of “gray matter” over the inner “white matter.” Why is this? “By borrowing mathematical tools from theoretical physics,” a press release from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory announced, two researchers found out. Based on no fewer than 62 mathematical equations and expressions, the theory provides a possible explanation for the […]

Politics and Ethics

Plants Contribute to Global Warming?

January 12, 2006

If anyone needs a reminder that scientists still have a lot to learn, consider this major discovery of something right under their noses that caught them completely off guard. Up to a third of methane in the atmosphere comes from plants. This is not only a baffling puzzle about how or why plants would create […]

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