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News Briefs for a Summer Day

The news this week is more of the same, only more so.

Scientists Attempt to Mimic the Cell’s Walking Motors

Apparently evolution is smarter than twenty-five world-class scientists.

Be Critical of Artificial Life Claims

The quest to create artificial life continues for discussion in the Artificial Life Conference, August 17-21.

Dodos 1, Evolutionary Biologists 0

The tables have turned on evolutionists equating the dodo bird with ineptness.

Rewriting Evolution Textbooks Never Ends

One has to wonder how much of the “science” firmly believed today will have to be rewritten in the future.

Darwin’s Name-It-and-Claim-It Scheme

Naming a mystery is not the same as solving it. Here we meet the secular equivalent of “abracadabra.”

Time to Celebrate Breastfeeding

Complex processes are involved in breastfeeding in mammals. Human breastmilk serves as a natural protector for baby’s immune system.

Predators Fear Humans

Two new studies confirm that large mammal carnivores "fear" human presence.

Biodiversity Inspires Design

This article reflects on the Convention on Biological Diversity (July 27 to August 1) and how much biodiversity has inspired innovation, pointing to intelligent design

Darwin-Drunk Media Competes for Stupid Awards

An otherwise good week of science was corrupted by silly stories glorifying Darwin's Stuff Happens Law.

Kelp Forests Improve Climate

Giant kelp may form the most productive marine biome to aid climate mitigation efforts. We explore the innovative potential for biomimicry of kelp and its implications on the origins’ debate.

Reality Corrects Evolutionary Tales, Part 1

Scientists rely on calibration for accuracy, but sometimes the scientific method itself needs to be calibrated.

Emergence, Properly Understood

"Emergence" is one of the omnipresent enthymemes of modern scientific discourse.

Humans Do Not Have an Evolved “Lizard Brain”

The notion that the base of our brain evolved from a lizard brain is now fully debunked.

The Mystery of the Flipping Forams

Scientists find evidence of ‘rapid reversals’ of planktonic foraminiferal coils that occur “far too abruptly to be explained by gradual trait evolution”.
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