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Better Life Origin Through Chemistry

March 22, 2011

Jeffrey Bada went digging through Stanley Miller’s old 1958 spark-discharge vials and found more amino acids. When Miller added rotten-egg gas (hydrogen sulfide, H2S) to the mix, more amino acids were produced: “A total of 23 amino acids and 4 amines, including 7 organosulfur compounds, were detected in these samples,” his team reported in PNAS.1 […]

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Evolution Everyone Can Agree On

March 21, 2011

The controversy over Darwinian evolution concerns one core question: Can an unplanned, undirected process generate new functions and complex organs of irreducible complexity without design? No one really doubts that organisms vary in horizontal or downward ways – either by modifications of existing genetic information, or by deleterious mutations that somehow allow animals to continue […]

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Assessing Evolutionary Explanations

March 11, 2011

No matter the biological discovery, evolutionists are ready with their explanations. The explanations, however, are often riddled with puzzles, surprises, and seemingly arbitrary appeals to chance. Do such explanations really provide more understanding than those of creationists, who explain that living things were designed for a purpose? Shrimp deal: “Many deep-sea species have close relatives […]

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Daffy Daffodil Darwinism

March 3, 2011

The daffodil flower has an extra part. This can only mean it evolved. That’s what science reporters are saying, leading some readers to wonder how they got there from here. Most flowers are made of petals, sepals, carpels and stamens, but the distinctive trumpet-shaped corona of the daffodil seems unrelated. The BBC News […]

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Amazing Animals

February 28, 2011

Three recent articles about amazing animals and fossils deserve entries of their own, but due to lack of time, will be corralled here lest, like strays, they wander off. Turtle navigation: Wired Science has a beautiful photo of a marine turtle in an article about how they achieve a difficult navigational skill: determining longitude from […]

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Evolutionists Turn Misses into Wins

February 25, 2011

Evolutionists have evolved a skill by design – the ability to turn falsification into confirmation. It’s a kind of philosophical judo, or parry, that can turn the energy of a criticism into a win for Darwin. Convergent turnarounds: A good example of an evolutionary parry can be seen in a post on Science Daily entitled, […]

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Racial Evolution Education Proposed

February 24, 2011

Skin color provides a “handy tool for teaching evolution,” says a anthropologist at Penn State. PhysOrg reported that professor Nina Jablonski believes “The mechanism of evolution can be completely understood from skin color.” She proposes using the easily-observed trait in humans to teach evolution to students. “People are really socially aware of skin color, intensely […]

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New Cambrian Fossil: Missing Link?

February 23, 2011

A weird animal from Chinese Cambrian strata looks like a worm with legs, the whole body studded with spines. Was it on the way to becoming an arthropod? The authors think so, but other members of its group were already known from the Cambrian fossil record. The “walking cactus” with ten pairs of […]

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But Is it Evolution?

February 18, 2011

Scientists have been noticing some things that seem contrary to Darwin’s predictions – but they give Darwin credit anyway. Not till us: The chambered nautilus is a “living fossil,” that uses “jet propulsion,” New Scientist said, with origins way back in the Cambrian. Has its fitness improved over all that time? “Its movement is ungainly […]

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New Ediacaran Fossils: Do They Ignite the Cambrian Explosion?

February 17, 2011

Well-preserved fossils of seaweed-like colonies have been reported from China. They are dated by the scientists at 600 million years old, from the Ediacaran period. Can these be missing links, lighting the fuse of biodiversity that culminated in the Cambrian explosion? PhysOrg summarized the findings published in Nature.1 “In addition to perhaps ancient […]

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Critical Thinking Needed in Science Education

February 15, 2011

Several recent articles noted that students are being dumbed down in science education. Can this be applied to their learning about evolution? PhysOrg reported that critical thinking has been called into question at the university level of education. “A post-secondary education won’t necessarily guarantee students the critical thinking skills employers have come to […]

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Chernobyl Mutation Experiment Fails to Support Darwinism

February 12, 2011

Under mutational load, you don’t get a choice of “Evolve or Perish”; just the latter.

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Evolution Running Backwards

February 10, 2011

For Darwin’s doctrine of universal common ancestry to be demonstrably true, there must have been a common ancestor of insects and humans. That base of the family tree has just been discredited, leaving a gap in this important junction of Darwin’s tree of life. For decades, evolutionists have taught that acoelomorphs, a kind […]

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Bizarre Fossils Raise Questions

February 8, 2011

For decades, students have been taught that the fossil record shows a long, slow, gradual progression of increasing complexity over millions of years. Scientific data are usually not so simple. Surprising youth in old fossil: When you see the word unexpected in a headline, expect the unexpected. “Unexpected exoskeleton remnants found in Paleozoic fossils,” reported […]

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Shrinking Brains Prove Human Evolution

February 6, 2011

Ever since Darwin, brain size has been the measure of human nature (e.g., 03/27/2007, 05/27/2009). Except for some anomalies with Neanderthal and Cro-magnon skull sizes, the iconic march of human evolution showed growing upright posture accompanied by increasing brain size (example on Daily Mail), and brain size was used to discriminate between races on the […]

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