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Turkana Boy Causes Museum Ruckus

February 7, 2007

Christians want the boy arrested and locked up. Scientists want to put him on stage. The stage is Kenya’s National Museum, and the boy is Turkana boy, a fossil classified by evolutionists as Homo erectus and claimed to be 1.6 million years old. CNN reported that the museum is showcasing the fossil, the most complete […]

Dinosaurs

First Euro-Stegosaur Found

February 4, 2007

A Stegosaurus fossil has been found in Portugal, reported Live Science. Previously this species with its spiked tail and prominent rows of plates on its back was only known from North America. A tooth, some leg bones and part of the backbone have been unearthed. So far, the fossil looks indistinguishable from its North American […]

Dinosaurs

Dinosaur Fight or Common Fate?

January 17, 2007

A fossil discovery by amateurs in Montana, reported by the Great Falls Tribune, shows “a meat-eater and a plant-eater – with their tails crossed like swords.” The fossils show “remarkable detail, right down to tendons and teeth.” The three amateur discoverers had been scouting on private property in Garfield County. Finding bone fragments on a […]

Early Man

Evolutionary Reversal: Is the Neanderthal Category Collapsing?

January 16, 2007

The Oase skulls found in Romania share modern and Neanderthal characteristics, reported Science Daily in a story reverberating on major media sites (see Reuters). From a press release by the University of Bristol, Science Daily reported, “By comparing it with other skulls, Professor [Joao] Zilhao and colleagues found that Oase 2 had the same proportions […]

Fossils

Fossil Non-Embryos Quench Cambrian Explosion Fuse

January 16, 2007

Alleged fossil animal embryos in Precambrian rock in China are not. Last year (06/18/2006) and before, researchers found what looked like cleaved embryos in the strata under the Cambrian “explosion” layers. Now, a paper in Nature reclassifies them as giant bacteria, not embryos.1 Some evolutionists had hoped the discovery of animal embryos would […]

Bible and Theology

Evolutionist Lost Faith Over Flawed Geology Lesson

January 12, 2007

A college student’s Biblical faith could not survive a geology lesson that seemed to offer convincing proof that the earth was older than Genesis indicated.

Fossils

Amphibious Assault Against Gradualism

January 10, 2007

A State of the Salamander Address was printed in PNAS recently.1 An international group of scientists looked for evolutionary ancestry and “Global patterns of diversification in the history of modern amphibians.” It would seem Mr. Darwin has a bit of frog in his throat: The fossil record of modern amphibians (frogs, salamanders, and caecilians) provides […]

Amazing Facts

Human Endurance: Is It Evolutionary?

January 2, 2007

Some people are gluttons for punishment. Many a couch potato is probably content to watch an Ironman or Ultramarathon on HDTV from a recliner, but the ones who take part in the grueling endurance contests gaining popularity illustrate some human capabilities scientists are only beginning to understand. Nature1 described one called the Primal Quest adventure […]

Fossils

Insects Pester Darwinian Story

December 27, 2006

It’s enough to bug any Darwinian: where did the insects come from? Here are some problems right off the bat sonar: Insects are fantastically diverse. Insects are among the most successful animals. There are no insect fossils earlier than the Devonian (evolutionary date: 410 million years ago). The earliest segmented body plans appeared in the […]

Fossils

Incredible Stasis in Evolution: What Does It Mean?

December 26, 2006

Quite often in phylogenetic research, evolutionists find examples of extreme conservation of genes or traits. How they explain the lack of change is almost as interesting as the phenomenon itself. Here are two recent examples. Your cousin the shark: Surprise: you have more in common with horn sharks than bony fishes do. Craig Venter’s international […]

Birds

Big Dino Found, But How Did it Eat?

December 21, 2006

A few interesting dinosaur stories came to light this month. I was a Spanish monster: A new giant sauropod has been found in Spain, reported EurekAlert based on a paper in Science.1 Named Turiasaurus riodevensis by the discoverers, it ranks among the largest of dinosaurs and is the first giant sauropod found in Europe, weighing […]

Fossils

Life Out of Place, Life Out of Time

December 13, 2006

Evolutionists have a standard timeline based on Darwin’s “tree of life” that indicates when complex life forms should have appeared. What happens when the wrong animal shows up in the wrong place or time? The theory is never falsified; it is just accommodated to the new data, as simply as rearranging branches on a Christmas […]

Early Man

Genetic Study Points to Three Ancestral Families of Humans

November 24, 2006

In a paper just published in Nature,1 scientists mapped the DNA of 270 people from four people groups: European, African, Chinese, and Japanese. The scientists were looking for sections of DNA that are either missing or duplicated. Many sections of our DNA appear over and over again. The number of extra copies varies between individuals […]

Dinosaurs

Dinosaur Skin Found, Possible Soft Tissue

November 23, 2006

A mostly-complete duck-billed Edmontosaurus dinosaur has been found in Montana, reported the Discovery Channel. A patch of skin from the hip was recovered. The team from North Carolina State University and Museum of Natural Sciences was very careful. They wanted to preserve any possible soft tissue, using techniques developed by Mary Schweitzer that last year […]

Birds

Dinosaur Bone Soft Tissue Questioned, Defended

November 11, 2006

The subject of soft tissue in dinosaur bones came up at the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Meeting earlier this month, reported Science.1 Mary Schweitzer was there, defending her spectacular claim that she had discovered both medullary bone (06/03/2006) and soft, pliable blood vessels and cartilage in a T. rex leg bone (03/24/2005). Doubters, however, brought […]

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