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Yoke Up Those Bacteria

September 6, 2006

My, how history repeats itself – often in unexpected ways. In ancient times, our ancestors got the heavy work done by hitching oxen, horses or slaves (like Samson, see pictures 1 and 2) to a harness and making them turn a grinding wheel. The same principle is now on the cutting edge of modern applied […]

Amazing Facts

Another Flagellum Excites Scientists

September 1, 2006

“The bacterial flagellar motor excites considerable interest because of the ordered expression of its genes, its regulated self-assembly, the complex interactions of its many proteins, and its startling mechanical abilities,” begins a paper in Nature by three Caltech scientists.1 They performed electron cryotomography imaging on the flagella of Triponema primita, a different critter with a […]

Intelligent Design

Quote: Cell Factory

August 28, 2006

From CalTech Engineering & Science (LXIX:2, August 2006), “Cellular CAT Scans” by Douglas L. Smith, an article about electron cryotomography imaging of cellular components. Smith does not mention evolution. His opening paragraph is reminiscent of Darwin’s Black Box: A cell isn’t merely a bag of enzymes sloshing around in a thick soup of cytoplasm. According […]

Education

Darwinists Whack I.D. with Reckless Abandon

August 21, 2006

For professionals assumed to be logical, factual, and devoted to reason, scientists and journalists can get pretty emotional, depending on the subject. One such subject that really rankles some of them is intelligent design. Here are some recent salvos from the war of the words: Hotz shots: From the LA Times, Robert Lee Hotz wrote, […]

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Review: Lehigh Prof Critiques ID Colleague in Science Wars

August 21, 2006

Dr. Steven Goldman (Lehigh University) has produced a series of lectures for The Teaching Company entitled Science Wars: What Scientists Know and How They Know It. CEH highly recommends this series for its wealth of historical background applied to an intriguing question: what is the nature of truth claims in science? To what extent do […]

Bible and Theology

National Crisis: USA Ranks Nearly Last in Evolution Belief!

August 11, 2006

Eugenie Scott and colleagues at the National Center for Science Education presented findings of a survey on acceptance of evolution, and found that the USA trails far behind European countries – second from last only to Turkey. In 20 years, acceptance of evolution dropped from 45 to 40 percent, but firm rejection of evolution also […]

Cosmology

Cosmologists Dragged Kicking and Screaming to the Anthropic Principle

August 11, 2006

Those who view science as a dispassionate, logical pursuit of the truth should savor the emotions in two articles by Tom Siegfried about cosmology in Science this week.1,2 He reported on the passionate rivalry between theoretical physicists who embrace superstring theory as the eventual “theory of everything” and those who oppose it because of its […]

Cell Biology

How Useful Is Evolutionary Theory to Biology?

August 4, 2006

A favorite quote by evolutionists is the line by Theodosius Dobzhansky, “Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.” Why, then, do so many biological papers fail to mention evolution at all? Indeed, many employ design language, sometimes with a sense of awe. Here are more recent examples in which the E […]

Genetics

Team Returns Pseudogene to Junkpile to Counter ID Claim

August 3, 2006

An earlier claim that a pseudogene has a function (see 05/01/2003 story) has been debunked by a team of scientists reporting in PNAS.1 Their reanalysis of the claim made in 2003 “invalidates the data upon which the pseudogene trans-regulation model is based and therefore strongly supports the view that mammalian pseudogenes are evolutionary relics.” The […]

Darwin and Evolution

Kansas Evolution Battle Heats Up Again

August 1, 2006

Update 08/02/2006: According to a news report on Live Science, conservatives have lost their majority in the primary election for seats on the state school board. Details are reported by the Lawrence Journal-World. The winners are gloating that this is a great day for Kansas, said Science Now, but ended by noting that the issue […]

Amazing Facts

A Second Code Controls the DNA Code

July 26, 2006

More has been discovered about the histone or nucleosome code (see 02/17/2004), a second genetic code independent of the DNA genetic sequence that directs the formation of proteins. The New York Times (see also Science Daily) reported on work by scientists at Northwestern University who found that the wrapping of DNA around nucleosomes (made of […]

Education

Education & Political News

July 22, 2006

What’s been happening in school boards about evolution and intelligent design? Here are some recent stories about politicians, reporters and ordinary citizens: Kansas Grass Roots: Candidates vying for school board seats in Liberal, Kansas squared off over the evolution issue: see Hutchinson News. Ohio Rematch: Despite an earlier loss, Darwin critics in Ohio are hoping […]

Cell Biology

Cell Backup Systems Challenge Evolution, Show Design Principles

July 21, 2006

Has an intelligent design paper been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences?1 Read the abstract and decide whether this research supports Darwinism or design: Functional redundancies, generated by gene duplications, are highly widespread throughout all known genomes. One consequence of these redundancies is a tremendous increase to the robustness of organisms […]

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Evolutionists Idolize Darwin Daddy

July 18, 2006

What is it about Charles Darwin? Evolutionists seem to hold this one 19th-century scientist in higher regard than any other man in history. In print or debate, they sometimes criticize anti-evolutionists for attacking “Darwinian” evolution, arguing that evolutionary theory has come a long way since Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species by Natural […]

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How Atheistic Is Darwinism?

July 12, 2006

Many evolutionary biologists argue that the theory of evolution is religiously neutral. Why then, does Nature, arguably the most widely read pro-evolution journal in the world, seem to go out of its way to glorify atheism and present religion as an evolutionary artifact? Clearly, whatever evolved as an adaptation by an unguided process cannot have […]

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