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Alien Life in Meteorites Claimed

March 6, 2011

After scrutinizing rare meteorites for over a decade, a NASA astrobiologist decided to go with his announcement: he may have found alien life. Fox News began his story, “We are not alone in the universe – and alien life forms may have a lot more in common with life on Earth than we had previously […]

Darwin and Evolution

Daffy Daffodil Darwinism

March 3, 2011

The daffodil flower has an extra part. This can only mean it evolved. That’s what science reporters are saying, leading some readers to wonder how they got there from here. Most flowers are made of petals, sepals, carpels and stamens, but the distinctive trumpet-shaped corona of the daffodil seems unrelated. The BBC News […]

Amazing Facts

Go to the Cell, Thou Sluggard

March 2, 2011

Solomon ordered the lazy man, Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise (Proverbs 6:6). Today, he would probably tell lazy materialists needing wisdom to consider the cell. Several recent scientific papers and news stories illustrate why materialism faces a stiff challenge from design features found in the fundamental units of […]

Amazing Facts

Amazing Animals

February 28, 2011

Three recent articles about amazing animals and fossils deserve entries of their own, but due to lack of time, will be corralled here lest, like strays, they wander off. Turtle navigation: Wired Science has a beautiful photo of a marine turtle in an article about how they achieve a difficult navigational skill: determining longitude from […]

Media

Philosophy Roundup

February 27, 2011

Philosophy of science is a broad discipline incorporating many sub-disciplines such as intellectual history, sociology, ethics, rhetoric, logic, demarcation of science from pseudoscience, classification, discovery, verification, explanation and more. A dozen recent news stories discussed some of these topics. Medical ethics: PhysOrg reproduced an AP story about medical research on humans in the US in […]

Intelligent Design

Habitable Zones Constrained by Tides

February 26, 2011

The idea of a circumstellar habitable zone – a radial range around a star where an earth-like planet could support life – may be too simplistic. Science Daily reported that “Tides can render the so-called ‘habitable zone’ around low-mass stars uninhabitable.” Astronomers at the Astrophysical Institute Potsdam studied the effects of tides on planets around […]

Darwin and Evolution

Evolutionists Turn Misses into Wins

February 25, 2011

Evolutionists have evolved a skill by design – the ability to turn falsification into confirmation. It’s a kind of philosophical judo, or parry, that can turn the energy of a criticism into a win for Darwin. Convergent turnarounds: A good example of an evolutionary parry can be seen in a post on Science Daily entitled, […]

Darwin and Evolution

Racial Evolution Education Proposed

February 24, 2011

Skin color provides a “handy tool for teaching evolution,” says a anthropologist at Penn State. PhysOrg reported that professor Nina Jablonski believes “The mechanism of evolution can be completely understood from skin color.” She proposes using the easily-observed trait in humans to teach evolution to students. “People are really socially aware of skin color, intensely […]

Darwin and Evolution

New Cambrian Fossil: Missing Link?

February 23, 2011

A weird animal from Chinese Cambrian strata looks like a worm with legs, the whole body studded with spines. Was it on the way to becoming an arthropod? The authors think so, but other members of its group were already known from the Cambrian fossil record. The “walking cactus” with ten pairs of […]

Bible and Theology

Human Genome Project Supports Adam, Not Darwin

February 21, 2011

Science magazine last week had a special series of articles on the 10-year anniversary of the Human Genome project. Most of the articles expanded on how different the findings were from predictions. The publication of the genome did not identify our evolution; it did not lead to miracle cures. What it did most of all […]

Birds

But Is it Evolution?

February 18, 2011

Scientists have been noticing some things that seem contrary to Darwin’s predictions – but they give Darwin credit anyway. Not till us: The chambered nautilus is a “living fossil,” that uses “jet propulsion,” New Scientist said, with origins way back in the Cambrian. Has its fitness improved over all that time? “Its movement is ungainly […]

Darwin and Evolution

New Ediacaran Fossils: Do They Ignite the Cambrian Explosion?

February 17, 2011

Well-preserved fossils of seaweed-like colonies have been reported from China. They are dated by the scientists at 600 million years old, from the Ediacaran period. Can these be missing links, lighting the fuse of biodiversity that culminated in the Cambrian explosion? PhysOrg summarized the findings published in Nature.1 “In addition to perhaps ancient […]

Amazing Facts

Plant Accelerates 600 G’s

February 17, 2011

Among the fastest organisms in the world is – a plant. The bladderwort Utricularia, a carnivorous plant that lives in the water, sucks in its prey in a thousandth of a second with an acceleration 600 times the force of gravity. New Scientist and Science Daily reported on work by the University of […]

Darwin and Evolution

Critical Thinking Needed in Science Education

February 15, 2011

Several recent articles noted that students are being dumbed down in science education. Can this be applied to their learning about evolution? PhysOrg reported that critical thinking has been called into question at the university level of education. “A post-secondary education won’t necessarily guarantee students the critical thinking skills employers have come to […]

Dumb Ideas

Bubble Life Could Have Had Armor

February 14, 2011

A headline posted by Science Daily is self-explanatory: “Clay-Armored Bubbles May Have Formed First Protocells: Minerals Could Have Played a Key Role in the Origins of Life.” The operative words are may have and could have, which, being mere suggestions, are unfalsifiable. If it didn’t happen here, it may have or could have happened on […]

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