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Worm Genes Show Non-Evolutionary Pattern

June 9, 2004

Biologists at New York University compared genes of roundworms to look for evidence of evolutionary ancestry. What they found was not what they expected. They found more genetic variation between outwardly-similar worms than between mice and men. Their results were published online in PNAS June 7.1 The roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans is a model […]

Amazing Facts

How Many Neurons Does It Take to See a Picture?

June 8, 2004

Israeli scientists publishing in Current Biology1 attempted to determine how many neurons participate in the representation of a single image. At least a million was their conservative answer: probably more like 30 or 300 million or more. They made careful measurements of neural activity when subjects were shown a face or a house. In the […]

Health

Weeds to Your Health

June 8, 2004

Why traverse the rain forests for miracle drugs, EurekAlert asks, when the weeds we yank out of our gardens may hold promise for curing a host of common health woes. John Richard Stepp (University of Florida) claims that fast-growing, herbaceous field plants are more likely to hold useful substances than those deep in jungles. Indigenous […]

Amazing Facts

DNA Folds With Molecular Velcro

June 7, 2004

Many have heard how the inventor of Velcro got the idea from plant seeds that stick to clothing, but now Carlos Bustamente and team of Howard Hughes Medical Institute have found a velcro-like principle operating at a scale millions of times smaller. Small proteins called condensins are involved in the elaborate folding that DNA undergoes […]

Dumb Ideas

The Evolution of Infidelity

June 7, 2004

The BBC News placed a sultry photo of a likely-undressed man and woman about to kiss alongside the headline of a story, “Genes may be to blame for infidelity.” They report on the speculation by Tim Spector (Twin Research Unit, St. Thomas Hospital) that “if one of a pair of twins had a history of […]

Education

Darwinists Continue to Stifle Opposition

June 4, 2004

Sacramento ABC News reported that the Roseville school district voted 3 to 2 against the “Quality Science Education Policy” after months of debate. The policy would have provided supplementary materials critical of Darwinian evolution. Even a compromise position considered Tuesday night was rejected. The proposal had been submitted by a parent who felt students should […]

Intelligent Design

Gene Regulation: When Nonsense Makes Perfect Sense

June 3, 2004

Nature June 31 reports on another use for “junk DNA.” A portion of previously-considered “nonsense” genetic code, which does not produce a protein as does a gene, nevertheless has an important role: it regulates the expression of the neighboring gene. This opens a whole new realm of function for portions of our genetic material that […]

Bible and Theology

Neural Darwinism: The Evolution of Truth

June 3, 2004

Can evolutionary theory build a bottom-up explanation of higher cognitive functions? David Papineau (King’s College) doubts it. In his review of The Physiology of Truth: Neuroscience and Human Knowledge by Jean-Pierre Changeux (transl. Malcolm DeBevoise, Belknap Press: 2004), published in the June 3 issue of Nature,1 he gives the author high marks, but concedes that […]

Bible and Theology

Movie Jesus: Fact or Fiction?

June 2, 2004

At a large rally at Biola University June 1, the Jesus Film Project, in collaboration with the university, announced a new DVD entitled Jesus: Fact or Fiction?. Each household at the rally received a free copy. Half of the DVD contains the full length Jesus film, a project that has been translated into more languages […]

Bible and Theology

Dead Sea Drying Up

June 2, 2004

The Dead Sea water level is dropping 3.3 feet per year and may be gone in 50 years, reports World Net Daily. Israel and Jordan are working on ways to save the world’s lowest-elevation lake, a landmark of Biblical fame. California has a dry lake, Owens Lake, that became a huge source of toxic pollution […]

Uncategorized

North Star Is Rapidly Changing

June 2, 2004

The North Star (Polaris) has brightened by 150% since Ptolemy observed it 2000 years ago, says the American Astronomical Society (see report on Science Now). If the differences from those in ancient times are real, “these changes are 100 times larger than predicted by current theories of stellar evolution.” Polaris is also a pulsating Cepheid […]

Early Man

Modern Cavemen Found

June 1, 2004

National Geographic News has a remarkable true story about some families that lived underground in the darkness and dampness of a cave for nearly two years in recent times. And now, the rest of the story: they were Jews hiding out from the Nazis. This incredible story of survival in the midst of danger points […]

Education

Academic Freedom Applied Unequally

June 1, 2004

In the June ICR Impact article, Dr. Jerry Bergman tells a tale of two professors. One, a philosophy professor, has full academic freedom to dismantle the religious faith of his students (one of his converts was Michael Shermer, now editor of Skeptic Magazine). The other, a Christian anatomy professor, was forbidden by the courts to […]

Uncategorized

Darwinist Chides Recklessness of Evolutionists

May 31, 2004

The tendency of some evolutionists to engage in just-so storytelling was intolerable to George C. Williams, an influential Darwinian. Throughout his life he called them to accountability. Now elderly, he was recently honored by fellow evolutionists at State University of New York, Stony Brook. Carl Zimmer described the event in the May 28 issue of […]

Astronomy

Young Planet Around Young Star Claimed

May 28, 2004

A star estimated to be one million years old already has a planet in orbit around it, the Spitzer Space Telescope (Hubble’s counterpart for infrared astronomy) has found. Astrobiology Magazine says this challenges old theories. Alan Boss (Carnegie Institute) thinks this supports his disk-instability model for planetary formation, in which gas giants can form quickly, […]

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