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Evolution by Gene Duplication Falsified

January 3, 2011

A common hypothesis in evolutionary circles is evolution by gene duplication. It posits that duplicated genes are free to evolve new functions without affecting the primary gene. This idea has been dealt a serious blow by a paper published in Complexity on Dec. 22.1 Joseph Esfandiar Hannon Bozorgmehr first dealt a falsifying blow […]

Amazing Facts

Year-End Closeout

December 31, 2010

The sun is rising on 2011, but we need to clear the deck from 2010. Here are ten 2010 headlines to acknowledge as the ball drops in Times Square, to avoid dropping the ball completely before moving on to 2011. Cells: Many cancer cells have an “eat me” tag, said Science Daily. Early Man: “Rodents […]

Amazing Facts

Plants Outsmart Darwin

December 30, 2010

There are wonders in plants that continue to be uncovered with the tools of science. Two recent papers in PNAS lend support to the feeling that plants are smarter than assumed. Trash collection: Humans usually only employ one trash collection service, but plants have two. Four Chinese investigators found redundant pathways in plant cells for […]

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Adam Found?

December 29, 2010

Evidence of modern humans older than any ever discovered has been found in Israel – thus the teasing headline. The skeleton’s evolutionary discoverers would certainly discount any Biblical tie-in. Not that Adam was an Israelite, but like some later Biblical prophet, the find seems to be pronouncing doom on modern idolaters from the grave – […]

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Divining Dino Dining

December 21, 2010

Some of those big, fierce-looking dinosaurs—cousins to T. rex—could have been vegetarians. That’s a paradigm-shaking announcement being made by PhysOrg, Science Daily, and Live Science: “Meat-Eating Dinosaurs Not So Carnivorous After All.” The revision is based on information from the Field Museum of Chicago. A similar article on PhysOrg laments that one of […]

Bible and Theology

Secular Evolutionists Are a Small Minority

December 19, 2010

A new Gallup poll shows that only 16% of Americans subscribe to the view that “Human beings have developed over millions of years from less advanced forms of life, but God had no part in the process.” About 40% believe in Biblical creationism (recent creation within 10,000 years); that percentage climbs to 60% among churchgoers. […]

Amazing Facts

Plant Wonders Are in the Details

December 16, 2010

When you step on a weed growing out of a crack in the sidewalk, do you have any idea what kind of amazing machinery you stepped on? Maybe a closer look will help. Communications and switching systems: When a seed sprouts, it needs to first grow upward in the dark while trying to protect itself. […]

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Evolutionists Endorse Sin

December 15, 2010

Crime pays in Darwinism, apparently. Some biologists find good in what most of us find evil. After all, in Darwinism, evil is only an illusion. Corruption: Victims of corruption may have a different outlook on what Science Daily told its readers: Francisco �beda, an evolutionary biology professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and Edgar […]

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Plenty of Time for Evolution?

December 14, 2010

A mathematician and a biologist have calculated that there’s “plenty of time for evolution.” Why? Evolution has a spy: natural selection. Darwin’s spy vastly decreases the amount of time that “doubters” have argued it would take to create a complex organism like a butterfly. Will their argument fly? The short paper by Herbert […]

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Strange Beasts Walked the Earth

December 13, 2010

Narnia is a fantasy world of talking beasts and chimeric monsters, as seen in the release of Voyage of the Dawn Treader, the third movie in the series, great for an adventurous escape to a different world (see Narnia.com). While fauns and minotaurs may be mythical, some of the extinct beasts found as fossils in […]

Astronomy

SETI Ignorance Gets Stronger

December 9, 2010

“Science is not about blind faith” begins a video posted on MSNBC about SETI. Part of an article by AP reporter Seth Borenstein, “Evidence for E.T. is mounting daily, but not proven,” the video explains Frank Drake’s famous equation that tries to quantify the probability for extraterrestrial intelligence (09/29/2010, 11/24/2008). Though Drake confidently asserts the […]

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 […]

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Mammals Partied When Dinosaurs Left

November 29, 2010

A research team headed by a biology professor at the University of New Mexico are claiming that mammals had a field day when the dinosaurs went extinct. They got bigger and more diverse, filling in the ecological wasteland left by the missing giant reptiles. Their analysis was published in Science.1 In addition, they […]

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 […]

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, […]

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