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European and American Politicians Attack Creationism

October 6, 2007

Actions of political bodies on both sides of the Atlantic have revived questions about the roles of science, politics and religion in public discourse and policy. The Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly voted 48 to 25 to accept a resolution denouncing creationism and intelligent design, according to European Observer and Reuters. The non-binding […]

Biomimetics

New Atomizer Mimics Bombardier Beetle

October 2, 2007

There’s a new technology coming to market, thanks to a little bug. The bombardier beetle has long been used by creationists as a creature with a weapon against evolutionary theory. Its tightly-integrated combustion apparatus would be useless or dangerous to the beetle unless all the parts worked together from the start. This, creationists argue, is […]

Cosmology

Astronomy Columnist Tackles Naturalism vs. Intelligence

September 29, 2007

Bob Berman is an unusual columnist for a science magazine. He’s independent-thinking, unafraid to tackle big questions and criticize powerful institutions, but all the while able to keep a sense of humor. In his monthly column “Bob Berman’s Strange Universe” in the November issue of Astronomy (p. 10), he took a moment from munching on […]

Amazing Facts

Molecular Machines Under the Nanoscope

September 28, 2007

Seeing machines just billionths of a meter long seems impossible, but cell biologists are now routinely looking into the cellular black box. Using indirect but powerful methods, they can actually begin to visualize the gears and wheels and cogs of the protein machines that make life possible. Some of our favorite cell gadgets were examined […]

Education

Some Christian Colleges Love Darwin More than Jesus

September 14, 2007

“If you love me, keep my commandments,” Jesus said. He told his disciples to expect persecution. He commanded them to take up their cross and follow him, explaining that as the world hated him, it would hate them. Counting the cost, the early disciples did indeed love and follow him to the death. […]

Amazing Facts

Eyes Do Precision Digital Sampling

September 8, 2007

What is the shutter speed of the eye? Have you ever considered this question? After all, the eye functions like a camera in some respects. Shutterbugs know that shutter speed and aperture are factors in proper exposure. Most of us know that the iris of the eye controls the aperture, but what controls the shutter […]

Education

Hollywood Film to Expose Darwin Dogma

August 22, 2007

Darwin is going to get a surprise on his birthday next year. Ben Stein is releasing a film on Feb. 12, 2008, entitled “Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed.” The gift may not be what Darwin wants. The press release subtitle asks, “Whatever happened to free speech?” Apparently Premise Media decided to document the trend among Darwinists […]

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Science Journals Make Dogmatic Atheist Statements

August 8, 2007

Science is supposed to be restricted to the physical and observable world, but the major journals do not hesitate to state ardent, dogmatic opinions about the non-existence of God. Often they assert without debate that belief in God is an artifact of human evolution. Here are some recent examples: Tinker Bell, not Jehovah: Georg Striedter […]

Education

The War of the Museums

July 13, 2007

Some evolutionists have become very alarmed at the opening of the new Creation Museum in Kentucky (05/26/2007). They are so alarmed, in fact, that they are using pro-Darwin museums to counter-attack. Scientific American published a lengthy article on the war of the museums. Elisabeth Landau quickly used terms to label creationism as pseudoscience: […]

Amazing Facts

Mother-of-Pearl Inspires Materials Science

July 5, 2007

It’s not only beautiful, it’s strong. EurekAlert described how scientists are intrigued by mother-of-pearl, also called nacre, because of its strength: you can drive a truck over it and it will not break. It is 3,000 times more resistant to fracture than the aragonite from which the oyster makes it. 95% of it self-assembles in […]

Amazing Facts

Our Complex Brains: Lessons from Phrenology

June 25, 2007

This is your brain on science: it is too complex for simplistic diagrams. Back in the 19th century, the “science” of phrenology was in full swing. Phrenologists divided the brain into more than two dozen regions of “mental faculties” that controlled such things as instincts for eating and sex, sensation of color, language ability, and […]

Education

Council of Europe Officially Condemns Creationism and I.D.

June 22, 2007

A lengthy and strident policy document was issued by the Council of Europe denouncing creationism. The summary statement makes it clear there is no compromise possible, because “religious fundamentalists” are behind it, and that creationism and intelligent design must be firmly and unequivocally opposed. Evolution, by contrast, is given supreme status as the explanation for […]

Genetics

Genome Complexity Unveiled: No Junk, Only Function

June 15, 2007

Any remaining doubts that the idea of “junk DNA” has itself been junked should vanish under the latest findings about genome complexity. A number of recent news stories have revealed astonishing levels of regulation and organization in the non-coding regions of DNA. It turns out that genes are not the only interesting things in the […]

Intelligent Design

Origin of Life Made Simple: Stochastic Innovation Answers I.D.

June 8, 2007

A press release from UC San Francisco teases, Before life emerged on earth, either a primitive kind of metabolism or an RNA-like duplicating machinery must have set the stage – so experts believe. But what preceded these pre-life steps? A pair of UCSF scientists has developed a model explaining how simple chemical and […]

Amazing Facts

Molecular Motors Move You

May 30, 2007

The realization that cells are filled with molecules that move like machines fascinates many people. Students who grew up thinking of chemistry as bouncing molecules that did little more than link up and separate have a whole new paradigm to consider: molecules that walk, fold and unfold, spin and operate like ratchets, robots, wrenches and […]

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