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Hummingbird Metabolism a "Marvel of Evolutionary Engineering"

December 5, 2013

Unlike humans, hummingbirds are equally good at extracting energy from fructose as from glucose. They are marvels of evolutionary engineering. That makes perfect evolutionary sense.

Early Man

Ho-Hum; Paleoanthropologists Confused Again

December 4, 2013

Upsets are so common in evolutionary studies of human ancestry, bystanders might well ask how often they find anything worth believing.

Early Man

Javelin Upsets Early Man Timeline

November 28, 2013

A well-crafted spear point for a javelin is dated way too early for the current evolutionary timeline.

Astronomy

Cosmic Lottery: How Many Habitable Planets?

November 23, 2013

News media ran with a suggestion that one in five stars has a habitable planet, but they didn't read the fine print.

Cosmology

Jewish Radio Host Takes on Atheist Cosmologist

November 19, 2013

A popular radio talk show host held his own against a PhD cosmologist who argues the universe came from nothing.

Politics and Ethics

Obvious Things Scientists Are "Discovering"

November 18, 2013

Do we really need scientists to tell us the obvious?

Geology

What Do Geologists Know About the Early Earth?

November 14, 2013

There's not much data, and there's a lot of doubt and debate. That's what a geologist admits about theories of early earth history.

Origin of Life

Evolutionary Origin-of-Life Speculations Contradict Each Other

November 9, 2013

Good scientific approaches should converge on the truth. In secular origin-of-life studies, theories run off in all directions, often crashing into one another.

Education

NASA Astrobiologists Draw Comics on the Job

November 6, 2013

A federally-funded NASA website about astrobiology has just launched an evolutionary comic strip. Is this an appropriate use of taxpayer funds?

Mammals

Whale of a Batty Tale on Sonar Evolution

November 4, 2013

How did two animals completely different in size and ancestry, living in very different environments, arrive at the same complex sensing mechanism?

Early Man

Wrong Again: Several Species of Homo Collapse Into One

October 18, 2013

A well-preserved complete skull from Dmanisi, Georgia, has ignited a firestorm, threatening to declassify various claimed species of Homo into one, Homo erectus.

Solar System

Cosmic Whacks as Creative Forces

October 17, 2013

Asteroid impacts are some astronomers' answer to everything, except when they are shown to be unworkable.

SETI

SETI: Looking for Cosmic Outposts

October 16, 2013

The stellar radio dial has been silent, but maybe we could look for alien interstellar outposts.

Early Man

More Reasons to Doubt the Evolutionary Caveman Story

October 14, 2013

Complex behaviors showing foresight and planning are adding to a long list of contradictions to evolutionary explanations about "brute" ancestors.

Education

Creationism as "Contamination"

October 12, 2013

Some evolutionists see anything less than 100% pure Darwinism as a kind of contamination, like unpasteurized milk, a threat to public health.

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