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Does Observing Flight Explain Its Evolution?

April 6, 2011

In various research labs, evolutionists are studying the origin of flight. Recent articles, though, only show them observing animals or fossils that already fly or flew. Does this provide any insight into how flight might have originated by a purposeless material process? Birds: With a quote from Charles Darwin decorating the heading, PhysOrg announced a […]

Awards

Poison Comets Brought Life to Earth

April 5, 2011

You don’t drink formaldehyde; you stick dead things in it. Why on earth would some evolutionists claim that “Poison could have set the stage for the origins of life?” That’s exactly a headline on Science Daily and PhysOrg, with Live Science chiming in that the poisonous chemical has been “linked” to the origin of life […]

Dumb Ideas

Imagining Worlds: Is It Science?

April 2, 2011

An entry on Space.com is almost pure speculation with no observation. Does it belong on a science news site? Reporter Clara Moskowitz gave Viorel Badescu [Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Romania] free rein to imagine life on free-floating planets (FFPs) – bodies wandering free in space after being abandoned, like wayward children, from their […]

Botany

Plants Have Social Networks

March 31, 2011

Plants may be mostly stationary, but they have meaningful conversations through the grapevine.

Darwin and Evolution

Psychologist Analyzes ID Belief with Emotionally Loaded Poll

March 31, 2011

Without any critique, Science Daily and PhysOrg reproduced a bizarre press release from University of British Columbia that alleges, “Death anxiety prompts people to believe in intelligent design, reject evolution.” A contrived psychological survey, replete with imagining one’s own death and then reading quotes from Michael Behe and Richard Dawkins, scared 1,674 respondents […]

Darwin and Evolution

Scientists: Who Can You Believe?

March 29, 2011

Scientists form a kind of knowledge priesthood in our modern world, but when long-taught principles get overturned, it raises questions on what scientists really know. Windy geology: Wind is a more powerful force for eroding mountains than previously thought. University of Arizona quoted Paul Kapp, an associate professor of geosciences at U of A saying, […]

Biomimetics

Plagiarizing Nature

March 28, 2011

Copying someone else’s invention is a crime, but researchers in biomimetics are doing it with impunity and getting away with it. Leaf power: “Why come up with new ways to generate clean energy, when we can copy what plants have been doing for millennia?” That’s what led Daniel Nocera and colleagues at MIT to develop […]

Amazing Facts

Your DNA Repairman Is Handy as an Octopus

March 27, 2011

Some 10 times a day in a given cell, your DNA breaks on both strands. This is an emergency. Unless repaired quickly, serious diseases, like cancer, can develop. But no fear: the first responder is an octopus-shaped protein complex that rushes to the rescue, wraps around the damaged site, and brings in all the parts […]

Amazing Facts

Neurons Know What to Do

March 27, 2011

Neurons are among the most vital cells in the body: after all, your brain is largely composed of neurons. Neurons are transmission lines of information that keep a body in touch with itself and the world. None of the other body organs would work without neurons. The increasingly powerful tools of microscopy are allowing neuroscientists […]

Amazing Facts

Plants Spring into Action

March 26, 2011

We shouldn’t take plants for granted. They seem so slow and stationary, but actually they move and breath and carry on their lives in truly amazing ways. Plants really show off their glory in the spring. But how do they know, without eyes, what time it is? In “The science of spring,” PhysOrg […]

Darwin and Evolution

Evolution Goes Against Darwin

March 25, 2011

Evolutionists are coming up with new ideas far afield from Charles Darwin’s original ideas of spontaneous variation and natural selection. The new ideas even differ from neo-Darwinism, and some of them are making other evolutionists angry. Mating of the quickest: A new phrase, “mating between the quickest,” is supplanting survival of the fittest according to […]

Amazing Facts

Sensing the World Requires Intelligent Design

March 24, 2011

How do our bodies make sense of the external world? Through our senses, of course; at least they are the entry points of data into the mind. Behind those senses are remarkable mechanisms that we use but do not actively operate. The design in their automatic operations is slowly being revealed with better observing techniques. […]

Darwin and Evolution

Better Life Origin Through Chemistry

March 22, 2011

Jeffrey Bada went digging through Stanley Miller’s old 1958 spark-discharge vials and found more amino acids. When Miller added rotten-egg gas (hydrogen sulfide, H2S) to the mix, more amino acids were produced: “A total of 23 amino acids and 4 amines, including 7 organosulfur compounds, were detected in these samples,” his team reported in PNAS.1 […]

Birds

Evolution Everyone Can Agree On

March 21, 2011

The controversy over Darwinian evolution concerns one core question: Can an unplanned, undirected process generate new functions and complex organs of irreducible complexity without design? No one really doubts that organisms vary in horizontal or downward ways – either by modifications of existing genetic information, or by deleterious mutations that somehow allow animals to continue […]

Amazing Facts

Double Ratchet Found in ATP Synthase

March 16, 2011

ATP synthase, the rotary engine in all living things, has another trick in its design specs: a ratcheting mechanism that improves the efficiency of ATP synthesis. ATP is the “energy currency” of cellular life, so the efficiency of production of ATP is of vital importance. (For background and animation, see CMI article.) Three […]

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