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Photosynthesis Began a Billion Years Earlier Than Thought

December 17, 2003

According to the BBC News, some scientists have pushed back the evolution of photosynthesis a billion years earlier than previously believed, to 3.9 billion years ago. This is based on uranium-thorium ratios of rocks in Greenland that led Danish researchers to conclude that they were deposited under oxidizing conditions. Others are not sure the data […]

Cosmology

Dark Energy Doubted

December 17, 2003

We’ve been told recently that two thirds of the universe consists of a mysterious phenomenon called dark energy. Now, some scientists at ESA say it doesn’t exist. Observations by the European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton X-ray Observatory of clusters of galaxies 10 billion light years distant show remarkable differences from nearby clusters in the […]

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Religion Makes Leading Atheistic Evolutionist Sick

December 16, 2003

Physics

The Magnetic Sky Is Falling

December 15, 2003

Space.Com reports that the strength of Earth’s magnetic field has dropped 10% over the last 150 years. At that rate of decline, it could vanish in 1500 to 2000 years. Scientists gathered recently at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union pondered whether a reversal is occurring, but a Harvard scientist claimed that would be […]

Intelligent Design

Phillip Johnson Honored, Still Wedging

December 13, 2003

Phillip E. Johnson, the Berkeley law professor who spearheaded the Intelligent Design movement, has been named “Daniel of the Year” by World Magazine (cover story, Dec. 13, 2003, also reproduced on Access Research Network). Johnson has often used the metaphor of a wedge splitting a log. Intelligent design, he believes, is the Wedge of Truth […]

Health

Why You Need Heavenly Sunshine for Vitamin D

December 12, 2003

Rickets is on the rise again, along with other diseases caused by vitamin D deficiency, reports Erik Stokstad in the Dec. 12 issue of Science1. Most vitamins we take in the mouth. Why do we need to stand outside for this one? He explains: Vitamin D is a steroid hormone that helps regulate calcium, an […]

Fossils

Despite New Fossil, Origin of Marsupials Still Puzzles Evolutionists

December 12, 2003

Although the earliest known marsupial has just been found in China1, Richard L. Cifelli and Brian M. Davis, writing in the Dec. 12 issue of Science2 consider the phylogenetic trees of marsupial and placental mammals conflicting and puzzling. Problems include (emphasis added): Switcheroo: Fossil marsupials are predominately found in North America, but living ones are […]

Politics and Ethics

Damadian Gets Consolation Prize

December 11, 2003

Calling Raymond Damadian a “Nobel protestor,” Nature Science Update reported that, as predicted, he did not get the Nobel Prize at Wednesday’s ceremony in Stockholm. The Nobel Committee does not change their decisions. “But Damadian will not end today empty-handed,” Helen Pearson for NSU reports. “A Swedish inventors’ group called Id�-Forum, based in �rnsk�ldsvik, is […]

Dumb Ideas

Stupid Evolution Quote of the Week: Antibody Evolution

December 10, 2003

The Dec. 11 issue of Nature1 has an article on antibodies and how scientists are learning to make designer editions of them. Pete Moore and Julie Clayton write (emphasis added): Antibodies not only protect us from infection, they have been exploited for years in the laboratory � in diagnostic tests, to purify proteins and as […]

Dumb Ideas

Mars Has Global Warming: Manufacturers At Fault?

December 10, 2003

Mars appears to be coming out of an ice age and into an era of global warming, reports Space.Com. Whether the Kyoto treaty can be extended to the red planet remains to be seen. Environmentalists are not sure if human influence is to blame; the closest thing to an SUV on Mars is the leftover […]

Mammals

Hunters Are Interfering With Evolution

December 10, 2003

Evolutionists don’t seem to know what to make of research about how hunters are affecting the evolution of bighorn sheep. The paper published in the Dec. 11 issue of Nature1 was noted by a reviewer in the same issue2, who titled his review, “Undesirable evolutionary consequences of trophy hunting,” yet humans must be considered part […]

Bible and Theology

Well, Duh Dept.

December 8, 2003

News flash from the University of Warwick! A psychologist has figured out that the “spiritual meaning of Christmas brings more happiness than materialism.” The article headline begins, “Religious people are happier than those without spirituality in their life, says psychologist Dr. Stephen Joseph from the University of Warwick, and those who celebrate the original, Christian, […]

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Aircraft Industry Looks to the Bombardier Beetle

December 8, 2003

The bombardier beetle, a favorite illustration used by many creationists to argue against the ability of natural selection to build irreducibly complex systems (see Incredible Creatures that Defy Evolution, for instance), is being seriously studied by the aircraft industry, reports EurekAlert. A three-year project at Leeds University will study the bug for ideas on how […]

Solar System

Keeping Planetary Rings Going for Eons

December 8, 2003

It’s common knowledge that planetary rings, like those at Saturn, don’t last forever (see 02/12/2002 headline), so scientists either have to find a way to keep them going, or admit that we live in a special period in the lifetime of the solar system to see them now. That latter option is “philosophically unappealing” to […]

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If You Like Cancer, You Can Live on Mars

December 8, 2003

The optimistic title, “Humans could survive Mars visit,” belies the bad news in the body of the article on BBC News. The article reports on findings announced at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union, based on data from the Mars Odyssey spacecraft instrument, Mars Radiation Environment Experiment (MARIE), which, unfortunately, stopped working after […]

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