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Butterfly Wings Flash Shiny Optical Tricks

January 22, 2008

You can get brilliant colors without pigment if you build patterns near the wavelengths of light. Butterflies have the trick down to a science. Their wings shimmer and shine with brilliant colors produced by nanostructures that scientists want to imitate. Science Daily told how butterflies and moths, even the white-winged varieties, use nanostructures […]

Dumb Ideas

Mouse Grows Long Finger, Takes Off Like a Bat

January 18, 2008

When does humor in a scientific journal cross the line of scientific objectivity? You be the judge. Science magazine, in its “Random Samples” news featurette, said this in the Jan. 18 issue: Over the past 100 million years or so, bats have evolved many features that distinguish them from their mammalian cousins. One is long, […]

Cosmology

NY Times: Cosmologists Have Lost Their Brains

January 15, 2008

Naked brains floating in space, disconnected from reality – this describes the minds of some modern cosmologists, accused Dennis Overbye in a shocking article in the New York Times January 15. While attempting to be sympathetic to the smart guys who can cover a blackboard with equations about higher dimensions, it was clear he was […]

Amazing Facts

Solar System Super Snapshots

January 12, 2008

Here are some of the most fascinating new images coming from spacecraft out there on duty – but they didn’t just come in on their own. They are brought to you by highly intelligent and dedicated human beings: the navigators, instrument teams, deep space network engineers, flight controllers and scientists who gather and distribute the […]

Dumb Ideas

The Evolutionary Inference

January 7, 2008

Today’s Darwinian Just-So Story comes from a paper in PNAS.1 Three Italian scientists did experiments on the perception of two-day old human infants. They found that the babies tended to pay more attention to biological motion than non-biological motion, and looked longer at right-side-up displays than upside-down ones. Their conclusion: “These data support the hypothesis […]

Dumb Ideas

Evolutionists Scare Presidential Voters

January 6, 2008

What will doom the United States? A nuclear war? Islamic terrorism? An economic depression? No: the doomsday agent will be a creationist president, said an AFP article posted on PhysOrg. It was published internationally as far as Japan and Turkey. The scare rhetoric came at the launching of an updated book on creationism […]

Dumb Ideas

Two Fossil Explosions Are Better than One

January 5, 2008

“If one is good, two is better” might work with cookies, but not with headaches. Evolutionary paleontologists have just gotten a second headache and seem almost happy about it. How can this be? Read this article in Science Daily to learn how some evolutionists seem to be masochists. As if the Cambrian Explosion were not […]

Dumb Ideas

2008 Begins With Darwinist Call to Arms

January 2, 2008

Do the pro-evolutionists show any signs of compromise, contrition or consilience after unceasing pressure from critics for decades? Not in the slightest. If anything, their rhetoric is becoming increasingly bellicose. An example can be found in an article on today’s Live Science. A survey of 1,000 likely voters, conducted by the pro-evolutionist Federation […]

Cell Biology

Quality Control Ensures Accurate Cell Division

December 28, 2007

The wonders of cell division are described in several new discovery papers.

Amazing Facts

The Bible on a Pin

December 24, 2007

Israeli scientists have reproduced the Old Testament on a chip smaller than a pin head reported PhysOrg. They’re calling it the world’s tiniest Bible. A picture of the chip, the size of a grain of sugar, was included in the report on the BBC News. The scientists managed their feat, the article explains, […]

Dumb Ideas

Walking Tall: Earth Pushed Hominids Out of Africa

December 19, 2007

Why did humans evolve from stoop-shouldered apemen into tall, proud, big-brained Europeans? Africa pushed them out. That seems to be the idea behind a story spreading throughout the popular science media, such as on Science Daily, entitled, “Geologists Say ‘Wall Of Africa’ Allowed Humanity To Emerge.” The idea is based on circumstantial evidence that, according […]

Amazing Facts

DNA Translation Has Codes Upon Codes

December 17, 2007

The DNA code is protected by another code, and is read with a machine that reads a third code. This is an emerging picture from ongoing research into DNA transcription, as reported in Science.1 In the 1950s, scientists were astonished to find a code at the genetic basis of life. DNA’s four-letter alphabet, […]

Dumb Ideas

Blast Your Way to Evolutionary Progress

December 15, 2007

The cartoony slogan “Evolve or perish” garnered support from a new story about evolution. Dave Mosher on Live Science shamelessly titled his article “Catastrophic impacts made life flourish,” describing the theory by Birger Schmitz [U of Lund, Sweden] that the Ordovician extinction was caused by a meteor impact. Out of the wreckage, a plethora of […]

Amazing Facts

Geology Sinks in the Mud

December 14, 2007

Question: what is the most abundant sedimentary rock in the world? Follow-up question: what would happen to the science of geology if the consensus theory of how this most abundant sedimentary rock was deposited turns out to be wrong? Prepare for a paradigm shift: experiments have shown mistakes in long-held assumptions about mudstone formation. Here’s […]

Dumb Ideas

Darwin Fish Pokes ID in the Eye

December 13, 2007

Some science news outlets are having an eye-poking battle against intelligent design with the latest eye-popping claim about eye evolution. It seems to have started in Australia on Science Alert, where some exceptionally-preserved placoderm fossils were found: The palaeobiologist discovered that unlike all living vertebrate animals – which includes everything from the jawless lamprey fish […]

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