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City Trees Give More in Ecosystem Services Than They Cost

March 25, 2018

City planners need to plant more trees in urban areas, but the benefits go beyond beautifying pavement. Urban areas occupy 4% of the land surface of the planet, says Theodore A. Endreny in a Comment article in Nature Communications. That may strike readers as surprising, given most people’s attention to cities for work, travel and […]

Darwin and Evolution

Most Common Phrase in Evolution Media: “Earlier Than Thought”

March 9, 2018

Major innovations that should have required many millions of years of slow, gradual evolution keep turning up earlier than thought. But who thought? We coined a new word tontologism (look it up in the Darwin Dictionary) to account for a bad habit of Darwinians. They frequently say, when evidence goes against their previous beliefs, “we […]

Intelligent Design

The Creator Thought of Everything

February 10, 2018

Sometimes little things make a big difference to a plant or animal. Evolutionists can always make up just-so stories, but creationists see God's wisdom even in small things.

Darwin and Evolution

Darwin Report Card: How Useful Is Evolutionary Theory?

February 6, 2018

We examine numerous articles and papers that talk about evolution to see if neo-Darwinism (or even old Darwinism) actually contributes to the understanding of nature.

Terrestrial Zoology

Butterfly Evolution Pushed 70 Million Years Before Flowers

January 13, 2018

New fossil evidence puts the squeeze on Darwinians, making butterflies appear suddenly, with complex mouth parts, before there were any flowers to pollinate. Time to rescue the theory again.

Fossils

Fossil Forest Found in Antarctica

November 20, 2017

Claimed to be 280 million years old, stumps of fossil trees retain original material in the world's coldest climate.

Biomimetics

Biomimetics Continues Its Enthusiastic Winning Streak

November 13, 2017

If science continues its focus on natural designs, everyone stands to benefit.

Botany

Plants Use Elaborate Email System

October 24, 2017

If email is a system for delivering two-way coded messages across a distance, plants had it long before humans thought of it.

Politics and Ethics

Scientists Discover Liberty Works

October 9, 2017

The incontrovertible leftist bent in academia once in awhile runs against facts of human nature. Studies show individual liberty is often better than government or globalist control.

Philosophy of Science

Science Fail: Shaky Assumptions Topple Long-Held Notions

October 3, 2017

Science is supposed to be self-correcting, we're told. But when towers of belief are built on assumptions later shown to be false, the consequences can be monumental.

Botany

Plants Teach Humans About Design

September 29, 2017

Plants, too, come loaded with graduate-level information they communicate to anyone willing to observe.

Darwin and Evolution

Darwinism as a Post-Observation What-If Game

September 22, 2017

The silly evolutionary spin put on observations of the natural world do not contribute to science; they cheapen it.

Geology

Facing Reality About Life on Other Planets, 5: Water and Rock

September 12, 2017

by Dr Henry Richter There is much interest in searching for life elsewhere in the Universe. In previous articles I talked about the many criteria describing conditions and circumstances required to establish and maintain life on a planet. I talked about the importance of the location of the planet in its solar system. The location […]