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Bible History News

November 11, 2005

Three stories of interest to historians of the Holy Land were reported recently: A Is for Aleph: A stone abecedary, or alphabet tablet, has been unearthed in the hill country south of Jerusalem. It is dated to the 10th century BC, the time of David and Solomon. See MSNBC News for a summary. The New […]

Amazing Facts

Sea Monsters Were For Real

November 11, 2005

A large fossil crocodile-like sea monster with a bullet-shaped snout has been reported in Science.1 See MSNBC News for a summary. For an artistic rendering of what Dakosaurus andiniensis might have looked like, see National Geographic News, which states that the discovery will be the December cover story of their magazine. Dubbed “Godzilla” by its […]

Bible and Theology

Pope Affirms Intelligent Design

November 10, 2005

Just when pro-Darwinists were parlaying one bishop against another on the Catholic position on evolution (see the UK Times Online for an op-ed piece with some historical context), the Pope made it clear: he expects the faithful to embrace intelligent design. The Discovery Institute was pleased that Pope Benedict XVI used the phrase “intelligent project” […]

Birds

March of the Little Penguins Down Darwin Lane?

November 10, 2005

Penguins are on people’s minds since the movie, but there are other species of the handsome-yet-funny waddlers besides the reigning emperors. The news media are saying one species demonstrates evolution – another word on the public mind these days. MSNBC News talked about “Penguin evolution,” and Science Now proclaimed “Evolution on Ice.” Actually, it’s only […]

Education

Dover School Board Members Ousted

November 9, 2005

Eight school board members in Dover, Pennsylvania, who had backed the intelligent-design policy that led to the ACLU lawsuit, lost their seats in Tuesday’s election. A slate of Democrats who opposed the policy will take their place December 5. The campaign against the Republicans who lost was spearheaded by a group named Citizens Actively Reviewing […]

Education

Kansas Removes Darwinism from Protected Status

November 8, 2005

It’s official; the Kansas school board has accepted new science standards that permit criticisms of Darwinism, reported Evolution News. This makes Kansas the fifth state to allow both evidences for and against Darwinism to be taught, and brings their definition of science in line with the majority of other states. News reactions were […]

Genetics

Genome Complexity No Measure of Evolution

November 7, 2005

Do genes show an increasing pattern of complexity from lower to higher organisms? Not necessarily, reported Elizabeth Pennisi in Science Now. Cnidarians, including sea anemones and corals, for example, show almost as much complexity in their genomes as humans, whereas fruit flies and worms, seemingly more complex than cnidarians (06/25/2005, 2nd par.) appear to have […]

Dumb Ideas

Stupid Evolution Quotes of the Week

November 7, 2005

Two articles in the popular press tried to make the case that monkeys have humanlike characteristics. Maybe they proved the converse, at least for some humans. Does this add up? Reporting on experiments suggesting monkeys have the rudiments of math skills, at least in the ability to compare sizes of things, MSNBC News writer Bjorn […]

Media

ICR Challenges Validity of Radiometric Dating

November 5, 2005

acked out the facilities of Shadow Mountain Community Church in El Cajon, California Saturday. Their frequent applause was not for contemporary musicians or a preacher, but for scientists. Ten miles from their headquarters, the Institute for Creation Research (ICR) had rented the large auditorium for the formal presentation of the results of its eight-year research […]

Dumb Ideas

A Just-So Story Digest

November 5, 2005

For your weekend reading entertainment, here is a collection of recent science stories that rely more on imagination than evidence, in the tradition of Kipling’s Just-So Stories for children. How the Brown Dwarf Sowed Planet Seeds: Apai et al. in Science found magic crystals, hidden by the six brown dwarfs, that turn into planets over […]

Education

Evolution Thriving in Mexico; Creationismo No Comprendo

November 4, 2005

Mexicans, religious or not, have no problem with Darwinism, and cannot understand their American neighbors who get so uptight about it. That’s the gist of an article by Antonio Lazcano, a Mexican biology professor and origin-of-life researcher, who was given lengthy press in Science1 this week under the heading “Global Voices of Science.” I am […]

Biomimetics

Living Wonders at a Glance

November 4, 2005

Here is an assortment of recently-reported biological marvels at the cellular level. Researchers into creation and evolution explanations may wish to delve into these more deeply. Clock Conductor: The brain is a “time machine,” reports EurekAlert on research at Duke University about the human biological clock. Each structure in the brain has a resonant frequency […]

Education

Dover Darwin Defenders Provide After-Game Impressions

November 3, 2005

Like a TV commentator with the MVPs in the locker room after a big game, Geoff Brumfiel in Nature1 interviewed two pro-evolution witnesses who testified in the Dover trial. Brumfiel asked Ken Miller and Kevin Padian what it was like, what they had to do to get ready, how the lawyers treated them, and what […]

Cell Biology

Bacterial Flagellum Visualized

November 2, 2005

Tom Magnuson at Access Research Network found this link that came out last year but is too good to pass up: another visualization of the bacterial flagellum, the “poster child of the ID movement,” by Japanese researchers on NanoNet, the Nanotechnology Researchers Network Center of Japan. The 02/05/2004 NanoNet Bulletin features the bacterial flagellum with […]

Education

Educator Suggests Inoculation Technique Against Creationism

November 1, 2005

Give them some ID, then swamp it with counter-arguments. That’s the new method of “educational intervention” that Stephen Verhey of Central Washington University has found most effective in overcoming college student objections to evolution, reported EurekAlert. Verhey tested 103 students with prior exposure to creationism. He assigned the book Icons of Evolution by Jonathan Wells, […]

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