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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Spore Game: Evolution or ID?
September 4, 2008
Spore is a highly-anticipated computer game that just came out. Evolutionists are claiming it as a model of how life evolves – but intelligent-design advocates are calling it an ID game, pure and simple. Who’s right? Carl Zimmer, a science writer, is among those counting Spore points for Darwin. His blog entry from […]
Cellular Machines Work Like Cameras, Winches and Turboprops
September 3, 2008
The discovery that cells are filled with molecular motors is one of the major achievements of late 20th-century molecular biology. Biochemists routinely use the word “motor” when describing cellular processes, because, in fact, machines made of protein actually do use energy to perform work. Now we have a new hybrid science – biophysics – that […]
Vice Presidential Candidates: You Have a Choice
September 1, 2008
When it comes to feelings about creation vs evolution between the American vice-presidential candidates, voters will have a clear choice. Reporters are digging for information on the surprise Republican nominee, Alaska governor Sarah Palin. Answers in Genesis collected statements from the press about her position on the teaching of evolution in public schools. […]
Can Evolution Survive Without Darwin?
August 29, 2008
Charles Darwin and the theory of evolution seem synonymous. Nevertheless, many evolutionary biologists have pointed out that a lot has happened in evolutionary biology since Darwin died. Some even criticize creationists for using the term “Darwinism” for evolution, though often it is just as much the habit of evolutionists (example: Genome Research: “Genomics and Darwinism”). […]
Life in Space: Follow the Hot Water, not the Hot Air
August 8, 2008
Planetary scientists have their eyes and instruments on regions of hot water, but speculating too dogmatically about life in space could get you in hot water yourself. Simon Klatterhorn (geologist, U of Idaho) is mesmerized by the possibility of life at Europa, Jupiter’s ice-crusted oceanic moon. In an interview by Science Daily, he […]
New Camera Imitates Eyeball
August 7, 2008
Scientists at the University of Illinois and Northwestern University have succeeded in manufacturing stretchable optical electronic sensors on curved surfaces. This will open up a whole new world of new imaging products – inventions that imitate the human eyeball. The team said this about the eyeball in their paper in Nature:1 The human eye is […]
Survival of the, Whatever
August 6, 2008
Two articles recently have cast doubt on whether the classic Darwinian phrase “survival of the fittest” fits what happens in nature. Science Daily reported on work by researchers at University of Texas at Austin that suggests evolution’s products may not always be optimal. The team speculated that mutations which help an animal in […]
Phoenix Did NOT Find Mars Life
August 4, 2008
A media snafu has NASA spokespersons rushing to deny that life has been found on Mars, reported Space.com. For example, Live Science reporter Leonard David said that the White House has been alerted to the potential for new information about life on Mars based on findings from the Phoenix Lander. The apparent secrecy has teased […]
History Channel Airs Evolve
July 29, 2008
A new 13-part series on the History Channel, called Evolve, begins with an episode on the evolution of the eye. To sell the story, the blurb needed to cast Evolution as an inventor: They are one of evolution’s most useful and prevalent inventions. Ninety five percent of living species are equipped with eyes and they […]
Gems and Hot Ideas About Lifes Origin
July 28, 2008
It seems that origin-of-life speculations are constantly looking for new plot lines. PhysOrg published a new idea that life started on diamonds. Yes, “Diamonds may have been life”s best friend on primordial Earth,” it began, raising the interesting question whether friendship was a concept before consciousness emerged. Since diamonds are thought to be among the […]
Is Artificial DNA Intelligently Designed?
July 15, 2008
Japanese chemists have made a new kind of DNA, reported Science Daily. It resembles natural DNA, but is composed of bases that are shorter, modified forms of the ones cells use. “The finding could lead to improvements in gene therapy, futuristic nano-sized computers, and other high-tech advances,” the article says. An evolutionist should extend his […]
Flatfish Evolution Revealed
July 11, 2008
Darwin has been vindicated again, to hear the media reports. Science Daily said, “Flatfish Fossils Fill in Evolutionary Missing Link.” National Geographic News ruled out the competition by saying, “Odd Fish Find Contradicts Intelligent Design Argument.” In a nutshell, Science Daily said, “Hidden away in museums for more that 100 years, some recently rediscovered flatfish […]
Why Academic Freedom Is Dangerous
July 10, 2008
Barbara Forrest has a tough case on her hands. The veteran creationist-fighter has to convince the people of Louisiana that they did a bad thing by passing the Academic Freedom Bill, because academic freedom when it comes to discussing intelligent design and evolution is dangerous (cf. 05/12/2008, bullet 3). The bill passed by 94-3 in […]
Leaky Fat Blobs Produced Life
July 7, 2008
“How life began remains an open question,” said David Deamer in Nature,1 then filled the opening with a speculation: maybe life started in leaky blobs of fat. The imaginary first primitive cells would have had a problem. Without transport proteins that control entrances and exits, any lucky ingredients that might have come together […]