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The Life and Death of Oxygen

October 24, 2008

The oxygen in our atmosphere has the energy equivalent of 20 thousand billion billion hydrogen bombs. To maintain the oxygen level in our atmosphere, that amount of energy would have to be spent in manufacturing molecular oxygen every 4 million years (a thousandth the assumed age of the earth). Now that we have […]

Human Body

Minding the Brain, or Braining the Mind?

October 23, 2008

There’s a battle brewing over who controls your brain: nature or your mind. Materialist scientists are recognizing that creationists are getting a foothold on this hill and “declaring war over the brain,” according to an article in New Scientist. Psychiatrist Jeffrey Schwartz fired this salvo: “Materialism needs to start fading away and non-materialist causation needs […]

Education

How Not to Teach Evolution

October 21, 2008

Current Biology usually interviews a scientist for each issue. In the October 14 issue,1 the subject was Dyche Mullins, a molecular biologist at UC San Francisco. His story of how evolution was taught in high school should make teachers and parents take notice. After the usual anecdotal fluff about what kind of cookies […]

Amazing Facts

How Cells Thread a Needle

October 17, 2008

Your challenge today is to invent a machine that can push a wet noodle through a straw. It can’t pull it. First it has to grab the end, then push it through without breaking it. Oh, and there’s a catch; the straw has a plug at the far end and a constriction inside. Give up? […]

Astronomy

SETI Could Find Design in Neutrinos

October 12, 2008

Most of the scientists involved in SETI research are very antagonistic to Intelligent Design. Nevertheless, they find the design inference perfectly “natural” when looking for ways to comb through natural phenomena for intelligently-designed signals. Two new methods for detecting alien messages were reported by Science News in the Oct. 11 issue.1 Both involve […]

Amazing Facts

Deep Life Is Right at Home in Total Darkness

October 10, 2008

It seems every year scientists find organisms thriving in environments thought too inhospitable for life. A new word was coined for these organisms: extremophiles – lovers of the extreme. Two recent discoveries push the envelope of extreme environments almost to the deep limit. Pressurized fish: The bottoms of the deep ocean trenches of the Pacific […]

Biomimetics

Living Better Bioelectrically

October 4, 2008

Electric eels are inspiring a new generation of fuel cells. Science Daily reported that a remarkable fusion of engineering and biology may lead to tiny electronic devices that run on biology’s own energy currency, ATP. “Engineers long have known that great ideas can be lifted from Mother Nature, but a new paper by researchers at […]

Education

Darwinists Root for Obama

September 28, 2008

Ministers in churches are not allowed to promote political candidates, even though they do not take government money.1 Scientists, who often do take federal money in the form of grants, openly take positions on the presidential candidates they feel will further their interests. Is this proper? Both Nature and Science this week did […]

Botany

Trees Communicate with Aspirin

September 25, 2008

Plants communicate with each other through chemical signals. Scientists found a form of aspirin that works as a distress call.

Health

Designed for Health

September 24, 2008

Recent science reports on physiology and health contain suggestions of intelligent design as well as challenges to evolutionary theory. “Amazingly elegant, amazingly precise and very complicated” kidneys: Scientists studying the effects of hypertension on kidneys have found that ATP acts not only as an energy source but an extracellular messenger. It’s involved in helping arterioles […]

Dumb Ideas

The Prevolution of Evolution: Life Marches In

September 17, 2008

There’s a new word preceding the E word evolution. Two Harvard scientists have made up a new word, prevolution, to describe a supposed stage before replication when natural selection was helping evolution evolve. What does prevolution act on? Simple, silly: prelife. Martin Nowak and Hisashi Ohtsuki titled their paper in PNAS, “Prevolutionary dynamics […]

Amazing Facts

Turing Test Stands: Your Brain Outperforms Computers

September 14, 2008

What is the speed of thought? Computer speeds are measured in megahertz and gigahertz, but that’s only part of the story. The ability to compute an answer to a problem depends on the programming, too. How does the brain compare with our best computers? A scientist from UC San Francisco and one from the Salk […]

Bible and Theology

Naturalism and 9/11

September 11, 2008

It’s been seven years since the horrific terrorist attacks in America woke up everyone to the reality of evil. Secular, naturalistic evolutionists must of necessity explain evil as an artifact of pointless, aimless, purposeless acts of nature. Did the September day that changed the world change the aims or rhetoric of the scientists and educators […]

Education

Are You Too Dumb to Understand Evolution?

September 10, 2008

Astrobiologist David Deamer believes that life can spontaneously emerge without design, but he thinks lay people are too uneducated to understand how this is possible, so he gives them the watered-down version of Darwin’s natural selection instead, which he knows is inadequate to explain the complexity of life. That’s what he seemed to be telling […]

Darwin and Evolution

How Not to Prove Positive Selection

September 5, 2008

Erase all that evidence for positive natural selection in the genes you’ve read about.

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