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Stem-Cell Advocates Try to Shield Ethical Concerns

September 26, 2007

Would an embryonic stem cell by another name cease being human? Several recent articles on embryonic stem cells are going beyond just touting the potential cures from the controversial research, which involves creating and destroying a human embryo. Some are blurring the line between embryonic and adult stem cells (cf. 12/02/2006) and attempting to avoid […]

Darwin and Evolution

Are You a Glorified Ape?

September 9, 2007

Evolutionists cannot deny the large cognitive gaps between humans and the alleged nearest ancestors, the great apes.

Amazing Facts

Eyes Do Precision Digital Sampling

September 8, 2007

What is the shutter speed of the eye? Have you ever considered this question? After all, the eye functions like a camera in some respects. Shutterbugs know that shutter speed and aperture are factors in proper exposure. Most of us know that the iris of the eye controls the aperture, but what controls the shutter […]

Health

Gratitude Protects Against Health Loss

August 15, 2007

A study in the “new science of gratitude” showed that thankfulness is good therapy. Researchers at UC Davis and Mississippi University for Women tracked 12 female patients who kept journals of their hospital stays while receiving organ transplants. A control group just reported “medication side-effects, how they felt about life overall, how connected they were […]

Human Body

Monkeys Prefer the Sound of Silence

August 5, 2007

Given a choice, chimpanzees choose silence over music. The Random Samples page in Science1 mentioned experiments by scientists from MIT and Harvard where monkeys were given a choice of booths playing a flute lullaby, a Mozart concerto, techno-rock, and silence. Between the musical booths, “The monkeys spent an average of about two-thirds of their time […]

Early Man

Human Variability May Swamp Ancestral Hominid Claims

July 22, 2007

Here are some things to think about when paleoanthropologists draw inferences from fossils alleged to be human ancestors. A seven-foot-nine-inch man in Mongolia just married a lady more than two feet shorter (see picture at National Geographic). And a man with just a narrow rim of brain material inside his skull had no symptoms except […]

Cell Biology

Keep the Stem Cell News Straight

July 19, 2007

Stem cell technology continues to make news, but the phrase “stem cells” alone can mask serious ethical issues. Adult stem cells (AS) and embryonic stem cells (ES) are both being investigated for their ability to transform into any cell type in the body. Both are advertised as promising dramatic cures for debilitating diseases, with their […]

Dinosaurs

Chinese Eat Dragon Bone for Health

July 4, 2007

Chinese villagers dig up dinosaur bones for health food. Yahoo News reported, “Villagers in central China dug up a ton of dinosaur bones and boiled them in soup or ground them into powder for traditional medicine, believing they were from flying dragons and had healing powers.” The article says the bones are calcium rich and […]

Amazing Facts

Health News that Brings Hope

July 1, 2007

Why do we never see articles claiming that exercise is bad? Here are some more reasons to get moving. Work your brain: Who wouldn’t mind a few more brain cells? EurekAlert reported research from the Karolinska Institute in Sweden that exercise can stimulate the formation of new brain cells. They think this helps explain why […]

Amazing Facts

Our Complex Brains: Lessons from Phrenology

June 25, 2007

This is your brain on science: it is too complex for simplistic diagrams. Back in the 19th century, the “science” of phrenology was in full swing. Phrenologists divided the brain into more than two dozen regions of “mental faculties” that controlled such things as instincts for eating and sex, sensation of color, language ability, and […]

Amazing Facts

Why Your Eyes Jitter

June 18, 2007

The coach’s advice “Keep your eye on the ball” is impossible, because your eyes are constantly in motion with tiny jerks called fixational eye movements or saccades. Why do the eyes move all the time? Some scientists at Boston University decided to find out. Reporting in Nature,1 they found that saccades help you discriminate fine […]

Health

More Reasons to Enjoy Creation Outdoors

June 17, 2007

Evidence keeps mounting that exercise is good for almost every body. It can prevent and alleviate many ailments. But isn’t that only natural? Low back pain: Laziness increases the risk of back pain, reported EurekAlert on work from Australia. Staying in bed shrinks muscles needed to support the back. So does prolonged inactivity at a […]

Cell Biology

Could Germ Toxicity Be an Environmental Effect?

June 15, 2007

Listeria becomes nasty when starved of oxygen, reported EurekAlert. “Limiting oxygen produces bacteria up to 100 times more invasive than similar bacteria grown with ample oxygen supplies.” Could this imply that a world with different atmospheric or soil conditions could have been less prone to disease? Could the bacteria we fear most have been placid […]

Health

Take a Walk in the Biodiversity Park

May 16, 2007

A walk in the park is good for your spirit. That much we already knew. Researchers at the University of Sheffield now claim, though, that the more biodiversity in the park, the better: “Dr Richard Fuller and colleagues from the University’s Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, and De Montfort University in Leicester, have been […]

Amazing Facts

More Optical Design in Eye Retina Than Seen Before

May 2, 2007

For decades, evolutionists have used the vertebrate retina as an example of poor design (dysteleology). They have mocked how any designer could have been so unintelligent as to get the wiring backwards – with the photoreceptors behind a jumble of light-scattering cells. Creationists have countered that despite the arrangement, it works well.1 Now, they may […]

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