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Brain Synapse Machinery Is Finely Tuned

December 23, 2010

The New York Times published a brief article on brain facts that is astonishing, when you think about all that goes on in thinking. Nicholas Wade reported on a new inventory of the proteins involved in the synapses, the key junctions between neurons. The research team, led by Seth Grant of the Sanger Institute near […]

Darwin and Evolution

Divining Dino Dining

December 21, 2010

Some of those big, fierce-looking dinosaurs—cousins to T. rex—could have been vegetarians. That’s a paradigm-shaking announcement being made by PhysOrg, Science Daily, and Live Science: “Meat-Eating Dinosaurs Not So Carnivorous After All.” The revision is based on information from the Field Museum of Chicago. A similar article on PhysOrg laments that one of […]

Bible and Theology

Secular Evolutionists Are a Small Minority

December 19, 2010

A new Gallup poll shows that only 16% of Americans subscribe to the view that “Human beings have developed over millions of years from less advanced forms of life, but God had no part in the process.” About 40% believe in Biblical creationism (recent creation within 10,000 years); that percentage climbs to 60% among churchgoers. […]

Amazing Facts

Plant Wonders Are in the Details

December 16, 2010

When you step on a weed growing out of a crack in the sidewalk, do you have any idea what kind of amazing machinery you stepped on? Maybe a closer look will help. Communications and switching systems: When a seed sprouts, it needs to first grow upward in the dark while trying to protect itself. […]

Biomimetics

Design Science Scores

December 15, 2010

A team of scientists at Leeds University (UK) led by well-known design scientist Andy McIntosh has won an award for innovative design inspired by nature. “The team’s work has received the outstanding contribution to innovation and technology title at the Times Higher Education awards in London,” reported the BBC News. By studying and […]

Darwin and Evolution

Evolutionists Endorse Sin

December 15, 2010

Crime pays in Darwinism, apparently. Some biologists find good in what most of us find evil. After all, in Darwinism, evil is only an illusion. Corruption: Victims of corruption may have a different outlook on what Science Daily told its readers: Francisco �beda, an evolutionary biology professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and Edgar […]

Darwin and Evolution

Plenty of Time for Evolution?

December 14, 2010

A mathematician and a biologist have calculated that there’s “plenty of time for evolution.” Why? Evolution has a spy: natural selection. Darwin’s spy vastly decreases the amount of time that “doubters” have argued it would take to create a complex organism like a butterfly. Will their argument fly? The short paper by Herbert […]

Darwin and Evolution

Strange Beasts Walked the Earth

December 13, 2010

Narnia is a fantasy world of talking beasts and chimeric monsters, as seen in the release of Voyage of the Dawn Treader, the third movie in the series, great for an adventurous escape to a different world (see Narnia.com). While fauns and minotaurs may be mythical, some of the extinct beasts found as fossils in […]

Astronomy

SETI Ignorance Gets Stronger

December 9, 2010

“Science is not about blind faith” begins a video posted on MSNBC about SETI. Part of an article by AP reporter Seth Borenstein, “Evidence for E.T. is mounting daily, but not proven,” the video explains Frank Drake’s famous equation that tries to quantify the probability for extraterrestrial intelligence (09/29/2010, 11/24/2008). Though Drake confidently asserts the […]

Early Man

News on the Mind

December 6, 2010

Here are a dozen recent stories dealing with brains, the mind, perception, motivation and other aspects of psychology and neuroscience. Nature and nurture: PhysOrg claims that scientists at SMU have resolved the nature vs nurture debate with a hybrid approach. Whether it satisfies critics remains to be seen. Perhaps they are still thinking inside the […]

Amazing Facts

Cells Manage Stress and Death

December 4, 2010

Like soldiers in a foreign land, cells sometimes find themselves in unexpected situations. Key equipment breaks down, or the environment puts stress on their resources. Without the ability to adapt, they could perish – and in worst-case scenarios they must, like a squadron under ambush with no way out. In such cases, like spies carrying […]

Cell Biology

NASA Finds Life on Earth; or,Arsenic and Old Lake

December 2, 2010

A NASA teaser about an announcement coming Dec 2 that will “will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life” had watchers on edge. PhysOrg said, “Speculation that life has been discovered beyond Earth exploded on the Internet after NASA announced plans for a briefing involving scientists who study unusual life forms.” It wasn’t to […]

Darwin and Evolution

Mammals Partied When Dinosaurs Left

November 29, 2010

A research team headed by a biology professor at the University of New Mexico are claiming that mammals had a field day when the dinosaurs went extinct. They got bigger and more diverse, filling in the ecological wasteland left by the missing giant reptiles. Their analysis was published in Science.1 In addition, they […]

Cell Biology

Is Life More than Sewage?

November 27, 2010

Look at the sewer pipe accompanying an article on Science Daily. The article claims that a bacterium in the sewer water is a “missing link” in our evolution. How can this be? For a long time, evolutionists have tried to bridge the gap between bacteria, which lack a nucleus, and eukaryotes which have […]

Amazing Facts

Even Your Trash Can Is High-Tech

November 24, 2010

Cells have the same problem as cities: disposing of trash. Each of your cells has elaborate trash collector machines that not only dispose of damaged or unneeded proteins – they recycle them, too. The structure of the proteasome, a fragile machine difficult to crystallize for imaging, has just become clearer thanks to researchers in Germany […]

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