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Does Observing Flight Explain Its Evolution?

April 6, 2011

In various research labs, evolutionists are studying the origin of flight. Recent articles, though, only show them observing animals or fossils that already fly or flew. Does this provide any insight into how flight might have originated by a purposeless material process? Birds: With a quote from Charles Darwin decorating the heading, PhysOrg announced a […]

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Psychologist Analyzes ID Belief with Emotionally Loaded Poll

March 31, 2011

Without any critique, Science Daily and PhysOrg reproduced a bizarre press release from University of British Columbia that alleges, “Death anxiety prompts people to believe in intelligent design, reject evolution.” A contrived psychological survey, replete with imagining one’s own death and then reading quotes from Michael Behe and Richard Dawkins, scared 1,674 respondents […]

Botany

Plants Have Social Networks

March 31, 2011

Plants may be mostly stationary, but they have meaningful conversations through the grapevine.

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Scientists: Who Can You Believe?

March 29, 2011

Scientists form a kind of knowledge priesthood in our modern world, but when long-taught principles get overturned, it raises questions on what scientists really know. Windy geology: Wind is a more powerful force for eroding mountains than previously thought. University of Arizona quoted Paul Kapp, an associate professor of geosciences at U of A saying, […]

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Evolution Goes Against Darwin

March 25, 2011

Evolutionists are coming up with new ideas far afield from Charles Darwin’s original ideas of spontaneous variation and natural selection. The new ideas even differ from neo-Darwinism, and some of them are making other evolutionists angry. Mating of the quickest: A new phrase, “mating between the quickest,” is supplanting survival of the fittest according to […]

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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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