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Venus Transit Recalls Adventures of Yore

June 5, 2012

Today's transit of Venus, in which our sister planet appears to cross the disk of the sun, will be the last till 2117. As observatories and millions of people watch the rare planetary alignment, few may know the stories of astronomers who predicted them and explorers who risked life and limb to observe them.

Birds

Tales Rescue Evolution from Unexpected Data

June 4, 2012

Observations don't always fit what evolutionists expect. Darwin's theory always wins anyway.

Darwin and Evolution

Monkey Raspberries Created Speech

June 2, 2012

What was this evolutionist thinking when he proposed that human language evolved out of the lip smacking and buzzing sounds made by monkeys?

Bible and Theology

Darwinian Indoctrination Still Not Working for Most Americans

June 1, 2012

Almost half the American public still believes God created man recently, despite decades of indoctrination by education and the media.

Bible and Theology

Spiders Can Cross Oceans

May 31, 2012

Why did the spider cross the ocean? To colonize the Old World after it "originated" in the New World.

Amazing Facts

The Wonder and Blunder in Your Skull

May 29, 2012

Even when it goes awry, the brain wins an award of cosmic proportions, according to a veteran psychiatrist.

Amazing Facts

Bacteria as a Vast Unexplored Medicine Chest

May 28, 2012

Most of our therapeutic agents have been derived from bacteria. A new survey shows we have barely tapped the surface of potential medicines beneath our feet.

Darwin and Evolution

Aliens: Evolutionists' Imaginary Friends

May 27, 2012

Some evolutionists have a lot to say about imaginary friends no one has ever seen.

Amazing Facts

Ready, Aim, Flower

May 26, 2012

How does a plant know the time to flower? A new study describes a process involving genes, sunlight sensors, switches, clocks, feedback loops and messages.

Darwin and Evolution

Fine Art and Music Emerges Earlier Still

May 25, 2012

With the "best came first" art of Chauvet cave fresh on our minds, another discovery shows exquisite art and music existed even further back than evolutionists expected.

Darwin and Evolution

How to Liven Up Dead Geology

May 24, 2012

A new study shows some carbon compounds from Mars formed, not by living organisms, but from geological and chemical processes. What does life have to do with it? Ask some science reporters.

Astronomy

Doomed Worlds: Planets Seen Disrupting, Not Forming

May 23, 2012

Much as astrobiologists would like to see the birth of a new planet, the ones we observe seem to be dying, not being born.

Darwin and Evolution

Written in Ink: No Evolution

May 21, 2012

An ink sac from a fossilized Jurassic cephalopod said to be 160 million years old looks identical to those from living cuttlefish.

Bible and Theology

Animal Sin: What Does It Imply?

May 20, 2012

Some animals commit cruel or disgusting acts humans would consider immoral. What does this mean?

Birds

Beak Careful: Variation May Be Non-Darwinian

May 19, 2012

Finch beaks loom large in classical Darwinian theory, but two examples of mouth parts in very different animals show that dramatic variations can be achieved quickly without the slow and gradual accumulation of small changes Darwin envisaged.

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