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Designed for Health

September 24, 2008

Recent science reports on physiology and health contain suggestions of intelligent design as well as challenges to evolutionary theory. “Amazingly elegant, amazingly precise and very complicated” kidneys: Scientists studying the effects of hypertension on kidneys have found that ATP acts not only as an energy source but an extracellular messenger. It’s involved in helping arterioles […]

Amazing Facts

Turing Test Stands: Your Brain Outperforms Computers

September 14, 2008

What is the speed of thought? Computer speeds are measured in megahertz and gigahertz, but that’s only part of the story. The ability to compute an answer to a problem depends on the programming, too. How does the brain compare with our best computers? A scientist from UC San Francisco and one from the Salk […]

Bible and Theology

Naturalism and 9/11

September 11, 2008

It’s been seven years since the horrific terrorist attacks in America woke up everyone to the reality of evil. Secular, naturalistic evolutionists must of necessity explain evil as an artifact of pointless, aimless, purposeless acts of nature. Did the September day that changed the world change the aims or rhetoric of the scientists and educators […]

Education

Are You Too Dumb to Understand Evolution?

September 10, 2008

Astrobiologist David Deamer believes that life can spontaneously emerge without design, but he thinks lay people are too uneducated to understand how this is possible, so he gives them the watered-down version of Darwin’s natural selection instead, which he knows is inadequate to explain the complexity of life. That’s what he seemed to be telling […]

Dumb Ideas

Spore Game: Evolution or ID?

September 4, 2008

Spore is a highly-anticipated computer game that just came out. Evolutionists are claiming it as a model of how life evolves – but intelligent-design advocates are calling it an ID game, pure and simple. Who’s right? Carl Zimmer, a science writer, is among those counting Spore points for Darwin. His blog entry from […]

Amazing Facts

Cellular Machines Work Like Cameras, Winches and Turboprops

September 3, 2008

The discovery that cells are filled with molecular motors is one of the major achievements of late 20th-century molecular biology. Biochemists routinely use the word “motor” when describing cellular processes, because, in fact, machines made of protein actually do use energy to perform work. Now we have a new hybrid science – biophysics – that […]

Education

Vice Presidential Candidates: You Have a Choice

September 1, 2008

When it comes to feelings about creation vs evolution between the American vice-presidential candidates, voters will have a clear choice. Reporters are digging for information on the surprise Republican nominee, Alaska governor Sarah Palin. Answers in Genesis collected statements from the press about her position on the teaching of evolution in public schools. […]

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Can Evolution Survive Without Darwin?

August 29, 2008

Charles Darwin and the theory of evolution seem synonymous. Nevertheless, many evolutionary biologists have pointed out that a lot has happened in evolutionary biology since Darwin died. Some even criticize creationists for using the term “Darwinism” for evolution, though often it is just as much the habit of evolutionists (example: Genome Research: “Genomics and Darwinism”). […]

Amazing Facts

New Camera Imitates Eyeball

August 7, 2008

Scientists at the University of Illinois and Northwestern University have succeeded in manufacturing stretchable optical electronic sensors on curved surfaces. This will open up a whole new world of new imaging products – inventions that imitate the human eyeball. The team said this about the eyeball in their paper in Nature:1 The human eye is […]

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Survival of the, Whatever

August 6, 2008

Two articles recently have cast doubt on whether the classic Darwinian phrase “survival of the fittest” fits what happens in nature. Science Daily reported on work by researchers at University of Texas at Austin that suggests evolution’s products may not always be optimal. The team speculated that mutations which help an animal in […]

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History Channel Airs Evolve

July 29, 2008

A new 13-part series on the History Channel, called Evolve, begins with an episode on the evolution of the eye. To sell the story, the blurb needed to cast Evolution as an inventor: They are one of evolution’s most useful and prevalent inventions. Ninety five percent of living species are equipped with eyes and they […]

Biomimetics

Is Artificial DNA Intelligently Designed?

July 15, 2008

Japanese chemists have made a new kind of DNA, reported Science Daily. It resembles natural DNA, but is composed of bases that are shorter, modified forms of the ones cells use. “The finding could lead to improvements in gene therapy, futuristic nano-sized computers, and other high-tech advances,” the article says. An evolutionist should extend his […]

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Flatfish Evolution Revealed

July 11, 2008

Darwin has been vindicated again, to hear the media reports. Science Daily said, “Flatfish Fossils Fill in Evolutionary Missing Link.” National Geographic News ruled out the competition by saying, “Odd Fish Find Contradicts Intelligent Design Argument.” In a nutshell, Science Daily said, “Hidden away in museums for more that 100 years, some recently rediscovered flatfish […]

Education

Why Academic Freedom Is Dangerous

July 10, 2008

Barbara Forrest has a tough case on her hands. The veteran creationist-fighter has to convince the people of Louisiana that they did a bad thing by passing the Academic Freedom Bill, because academic freedom when it comes to discussing intelligent design and evolution is dangerous (cf. 05/12/2008, bullet 3). The bill passed by 94-3 in […]

Amazing Facts

Bacterial Flagellar Motor Has a Protein Clutch

June 24, 2008

The bacterial flagellum, the whiplike outboard motor that has become an icon of intelligent design, has another artificial-looking part: a clutch. Science reported this in “machine language” as follows:1 The bacterial flagellum, powered by a motor that generates 1400 pN-nm of torque, can rotate at a frequency of greater than 100 Hz. EpsE [the clutch […]

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