Issues

VIEW HEADLINES ONLY

Give Me Liberalism and Give Me Death

January 9, 2013

Nowhere does the divide between left and right show more starkly than in policies about killing the innocent. Leftist liberals, who are the most supportive of Darwinism, seem to have no problem with tinkering with human life to the point of killing it.

Dating Methods

Uranium-Lead Dating Fraught With Discordance

January 8, 2013

Behind the confidence of uranium-lead dates hides worry about numbers that don't match up.

Education

Is Science a Special Interest Group for One Party?

January 2, 2013

A commentator in the world's leading science journal advised that science needs to work harder at becoming bipartisan.

Astronomy

Astronomy Grab Bag

December 29, 2012

For year's end, here's a clean-out of astronomy articles—from planetary science to cosmology—to motivate further inquiry.

Darwin and Evolution

Eugenics in Space

December 27, 2012

To "keep evolution on a favorable track," spacefaring humans may want to cull bad genes, a futurist says.

Bible and Theology

Intelligence Is Not a Quotient

December 22, 2012

Can your intelligence be reduced to a number on a linear scale? That would be highly misleading, a research study concluded.

Amazing Facts

Eye Retina Is Analog-to-Digital Converter

December 17, 2012

Before you see, your retina has done multiple digital transformations on the incoming signal.

Bible and Theology

Understanding Creationists (and Evolutionists)

December 15, 2012

A historian tells science teachers that "To Teach Evolution, You Have to Understand Creationists." Should that advice apply both ways?

Bible and Theology

Secular Scientists Excuse Profanity

December 4, 2012

If everything evolves, then profanity evolves, and it's no big deal, even if it warms the atmosphere.

Biomimetics

Evolution of Flight: A Story Looking for Evidence

December 3, 2012

An evolutionary dogma is that land dinosaurs evolved into flying birds. When the claims are acid-washed with critical analysis, what evidence remains?

Darwin and Evolution

Are Scientists Capable of Stupidity?

December 2, 2012

Scientists are only people, and most people do or say dumb things sometimes. You can decide how to classify these "scientific" ideas.

Amazing Facts

Make Like a Dog, Owl, or Beetle: How Biomimetics Will Improve Our Lives

November 30, 2012

The greatest breakthroughs in health and engineering may be as near as the back yard: 13 more stimulating stories from biomimetics.

Amazing Facts

Adult Stem Cell Breakthroughs Continue

November 28, 2012

Adult stem cells continue to show promise as more about these pluripotent cells comes to light.

Darwin and Evolution

Humans Got Big Brains By Exercise

November 27, 2012

Someone didn't think this one through.

Astronomy

Flaky Cosmic Notion Gets Good Press

November 26, 2012

Does the universe grow like a giant brain? If anyone but a scientist said that, it would be in the cartoons.

All Posts by Date

[archives type="yearly" cat_id="11"]