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News from Saturn

December 7, 2010

Amazing discoveries continue to pour in from Cassini, now within its second extended mission since arriving at Saturn in 2004. The spacecraft is back to nominal operations after a 3-week safing event caused by a single-bit error in the onboard computer (JPL). The recovery came just in time for another major flyby of Enceladus. Enceladus […]

Media

Lean to the Left: Science Reporters Oblivious to Conservatism

December 5, 2010

Take any issue, and there will often be a liberal view and a conservative view. Why is it, then, that science reporting is almost always liberal? It’s not just that left-leaning slants on science issues predominate; the reporters and institutions often seem utterly oblivious to the idea that other positions, like conservative views, even exist. […]

Mammals

Science Done by Humans Is Mushy

December 3, 2010

Discoveries in science must be mediated by flawed agents: human beings. Though the most hardened scientific realists maintain strong beliefs in external reality, the perceived reality is mediated by senses, then interpreted by minds that are not omniscient. Those are some of the reasons that science keeps changing, as illustrated by some recent examples: Endangered […]

Cell Biology

NASA Finds Life on Earth; or,Arsenic and Old Lake

December 2, 2010

A NASA teaser about an announcement coming Dec 2 that will “will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life” had watchers on edge. PhysOrg said, “Speculation that life has been discovered beyond Earth exploded on the Internet after NASA announced plans for a briefing involving scientists who study unusual life forms.” It wasn’t to […]

Cosmology

Can Astronomers See Behind the Big Bang?

November 28, 2010

An astonishing claim is being reported: “Cosmos may show echoes of events before Big Bang” (BBC News). How can this be, since secular cosmologists claim that the big bang was the beginning of time, space, matter, and everything, and it is impossible even in principle to go beyond it? The character behind the […]

Cell Biology

Is Life More than Sewage?

November 27, 2010

Look at the sewer pipe accompanying an article on Science Daily. The article claims that a bacterium in the sewer water is a “missing link” in our evolution. How can this be? For a long time, evolutionists have tried to bridge the gap between bacteria, which lack a nucleus, and eukaryotes which have […]

Bible and Theology

Thank God or Science?

November 25, 2010

Americans are celebrating Thanksgiving today, a long-standing tradition going back to the earliest European settlers in North America, the Pilgrims. Up until recently, the tradition included giving thanks to God. Now, the trend is to thank one another. The NASA Director put out a thanksgiving message Wednesday basically thanking all the NASA employees for their […]

Birds

Struggling to Make Evolutionary Sense

November 23, 2010

Evolutionists love to quote Dobzhansky, who said, “Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.” But when they go about explaining biological observations, the sense and light seem hard to come by. Biodiversity: The subject of the emergence of diverse forms of living things seems tailor made for a Darwinian explanation. Why, […]

Bible and Theology

Stem Cells of the Adult Kind Steal the Headlines

November 18, 2010

Stories about stem cell research need to be divided into two sections: those about adult stem cells (AS), which have no ethical ramifications, and stories about embryonic stem cells (ES), which raise many issues about the sanctity of human life. As usual, most of the actual clinical progress is being made with adult stem cells […]

Education

Maxwells ID Demon Converts Info to Energy

November 16, 2010

Information can be converted into energy – provided it is guided by intelligent design. That’s what researchers demonstrated with an experimental setup of “Maxwell’s Demon,” a famous thought experiment about how to overcome the Second Law of Thermodynamics. James Clerk Maxwell knew that the laws of thermodynamics did not allow the spontaneous separation […]

Astronomy

Plasma May Revamp Cosmology

November 15, 2010

A “diverse new field” of astrophysics is poised to revolutionize our understanding of stars, energetic galaxies, and perhaps the entire universe. The properties and interactions of plasma, that hot, electrically-charged gas that makes up the sun and stars, have not been considered as often as matter and light have in astronomy. A set of top […]

Philosophy of Science

A Tale of Two Mavericks

November 12, 2010

Two men who recently died are now being honored for their willingness to have stood up to the majority and advanced views that were unpopular at the time.

Amazing Facts

Cells Can Be Transformed

November 8, 2010

An astonishing feat has been performed in a Canadian lab: scientists turned human skin cells into blood cells. Bypassing the need for stem cells, the technique provides hope for a supply of blood from a person’s own skin. Live Science calls it a “modern miracle.” The technique avoids “the ethical concerns concerning embryonic stem cells […]

Amazing Facts

Windows into the Mind

November 3, 2010

What would it be like to see things for the first time? You can watch the reaction on Live Science #1 and Live Science #2. Blind patients were implanted with a microchip that allowed them, for the first time, to roughly sense the visual input of objects in front of them. Amazing as it was, […]