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Altruism Researchers Could Use a Little

October 10, 2010

Hidden from public view, there’s a fight going on between evolutionists trying to explain the origin of altruism (unselfish behavior) by natural selection. This problem that bothered Darwin 150 years ago appears to be heating up. Last month, 30 evolutionists squared off in Amsterdam and apparently made little progress, because Nature published an article trying […]

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Life: Do Ingredients Imply Emergence?

October 8, 2010

Science articles continue to push the idea that if water is found somewhere, life is certain to emerge. Other articles look for so-called “building blocks of life” or “ingredients for life,” implying or even plainly stating that life simply emerges from its parts. While many have complained that this kind of thinking is as ridiculous […]

Cell Biology

Cosmic Accidents Are Not Scientific Explanations

October 3, 2010

Sunday Meditation Oct 3, 2010 — The classic understanding of science is that it explains things with reference to natural laws, makes predictions, is testable, quantifiable, and falsifiable. Depending on the branch of science, many researchers still attempt to hold to those ideals. Eugenie Scott put it this way: “modern science operates under a rule […]

Birds

Super Penguin: Seeing Is Believing, But Is It Understanding?

October 1, 2010

Another fossil of a giant penguin in Peru has been found (cf. 06/26/2007). It apparently had reddish-brown underwings and stood as tall as a man. It must have been a strong swimmer. Nicknamed “water king,” the mammoth penguin was placed at the 36 million mark on the evolutionary timeline. One remarkable feature of this fossil, […]

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Morphogenesis: Evolution of Form Solved?

September 28, 2010

The body plans of organisms are hard to account for in linear strands of DNA. How do you get a backbone, vertebrae, and ribs out of a chain of nucleotides? Recognizing the mystery of morphogenesis (the origin of form), the director of the Synthetic Life Lab in New York, Stuart Pivar, has published an “Innovative […]

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Documentary Ties Darwin to Disastrous Social Consequences

September 27, 2010

Todd Friel’s new documentary, What Hath Darwin Wrought (see trailer at WhatHathDarwinWrought.com), harps on the proverb, “Ideas have consequences.” The twentieth century, “Darwin’s century,” saw some of the most horrendous ethical abuses the world has ever seen. The documentary includes lengthy interviews with David Berlinski (mathematician, author), John West (ethicist and legal analyst) and Richard […]

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The Evolution of Speech, and v.v.

September 23, 2010

The brain just got more complex – that is, the part that helps us speak. “Complex brain landscape controls speech,” reported PhysOrg, discussing findings by German researchers that show Broca’s region, implicated in speech disorders when damaged, appears to be “a much more complexly structured centre of language than was previously believed.” Not just a […]

Birds

Evolutionists Promise Without Delivering

September 22, 2010

Some science news reports lead the reader to think that some major new understanding into evolution is under the headline, but they often fail to deliver. Darwinian abomination: Science Daily promised, “Toward Resolving Darwin’s ‘Abominable Mystery’: Patterns of Flower Biodiversity Point to the Importance of Having ‘Room to Grow’.” The article was accompanied by a […]

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More Neanderthal Promotion

September 22, 2010

It’s a good time to be a Neanderthal. You’ll get more respect than ever before from paleoanthropologists. The latest example, published in PhysOrg, is headlined, “Neanderthals more advanced than previously thought.” Julien Riel-Salvatore [U of Colorado at Denver] says he is “rehabilitating Neanderthals” by challenging a half-century of “conventional wisdom” that portrayed them as numbskulls. […]

Amazing Facts

Archer Fish See Like People

September 13, 2010

An archer fish can spit out a man’s cigarette. That’s actually a humorous scene at the end of a video clip on The Scientist that talks about the amazing eyes of this underwater sharpshooter. New research shows that these freshwater fish, known for their ability to spit bugs off bushes, have a mammal-like ability to […]

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Evolution Storytellers Unrepentant

September 10, 2010

Evolutionists have been criticized for telling “just-so stories”1 for decades and decades, even by other evolutionists (see 08/08/2010), yet the storytelling continues, as recent examples in the news media illustrate. Blame Mom: In its “Science News” category, Science Daily trumpeted the headline, “Acting Selfish? Blame Your Mother!” In the article, we are told, “The fact […]

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Children Propagandized Into Evolution with Fishy Tale

September 7, 2010

Google News also reported on the award. Richard Dawkins must be delighted with the new book. The Telegraph said, “Richard Dawkins, the atheist academic, has called on the Coalition to make evolutionary theory a compulsory part of the curriculum.” In June, the article said, he and 3 Nobel laureates wrote the Education Secretary, […]

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Hierarchical Evolution Proposed

September 4, 2010

Science Daily gave good press to a Dutch grad student who proposed the “next step in evolution” – robots that pass on knowledge and experience without Darwinian natural selection. Gerard Jagers op Akkerhuis, according to the article, developed a complete and “consistent” system called an “operator hierarchy” that goes far beyond biological evolution; it even […]

Bible and Theology

Malthusian Maniac Killed Before Killing Hostages

September 2, 2010

James J. Lee took hostages today at the Discovery Channel headquarters in Maryland, but was killed by police before he harmed anyone (see New York Times). Lee, who authored a website called SaveThePlanetProtest.com, left a manifesto with a list of demands, calling humans “filth” and demanding the Discovery Channel inform viewers that humans were ruining […]

Bible and Theology

Who Invited the Scientist in Here?

August 25, 2010

If you envision science in terms of white-coated lab chemists holding flasks, field biologists gathering bird eggs, astronomers peering through a telescope or geologists chipping rocks with hand picks, think again. Today’s science sweeps everything into its domain, including the human mind, intellect, emotions, will, creativity, and our most sincere beliefs and actions. When not […]

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