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Fruit Flies Not Evolving

September 30, 2010

A long-running experiment trying to get fruit flies to evolve has failed. A research team forced selection on the flies to explore the limits of natural selection. Only minor changes were detected after 600 generations. The research team was disappointed and surprised; there was even less evolution in these sexual organisms than in similar experiments […]

Human Body

China Suffers 30 Years of Misguided Malthusian Idea

September 18, 2010

China has had a “one-child policy” for 30 years this week. This policy has caused untold grief for many families desiring children, and has resulted in unexpected demographic problems – such as aging of the population, not enough brides for young men, and enormous numbers of abortions. Two articles in Science this week explored the […]

Bible and Theology

Spinning Webs of Belief: Accounting for George Price

July 16, 2010

It’s instructive to take a story and compare how evolutionists and creationists report it. A recent example can be found in the story of George Price: an ex-atheist scientist who, as a creationist, contributed original ideas to evolutionary theory. How did reviewers from both sides of the origins aisle characterize his creationist beliefs? […]

Intelligent Design

So Long Darwin Bicentennial

December 31, 2009

Even some Darwinians are growing weary of Darwin hoopla. The Darwin Bicentennial and Origin of Species 150th Anniversary celebrations have come and gone, but Darwin is just as contentious and controversial as ever. Historians may remember not just the pro-Darwin celebrations of 2009, but the strong internet and media presence of Darwin skeptics. […]

Uncategorized

Inadequacies of Darwins Theory Exposed

December 28, 2009

For a scientist who has been celebrated all year by many as the greatest thinker in history, Darwin left behind a lot of gaps. If his theory of common ancestry by descent with modification is so well substantiated, as the scientific community claims, why are there continual attempts to fill gaps with other notions? […]

Dinosaurs

Darwin vs. the Fossils

December 11, 2009

What could be more iconic to evolution than dinosaurs and the horse series? Museums often display skeletons of these animals as proof of evolution. The real story told in scientific papers is often very different. Two recent studies present major, serious challenges to Darwin’s theory. Horse series: The old straight-line chart of horse evolution from […]

Health

Science Flipflops

December 9, 2009

Science says… on second thought, science says the opposite. Or, we’re not sure what science says. The following recent stories show that things you thought science had proven may not be true at all. What’s next? Take testosterone for fairness: The image of the testosterone-crazed, egotistical, reckless, raging road warrior is all wrong. At least, […]

Birds

Evolutionary Explanation Is Always a Work in Progress

November 19, 2009

As evolutionary biologists examine diverse plants and animals, it seems they are never able to give a definitive answer as to how they got that way. Their work merely begins or continues to search for clues. Like mothers, their work is never done. At least this provides them job security. Box jellyfish: There are about […]

Early Man

Darwinizing Everything

November 16, 2009

150 years after The Origin of Species, it’s clear that Darwin succeeded in one thing: granting biologists free rein to speculate about how everything under the sun evolved. Anything not understood, or seemingly contrary to the law of natural selection, or to previous speculations, can be shuttled off to future research. Noble amoebas: You may […]

Dumb Ideas

Inefficiency Made You Complex

November 3, 2009

Remember the old Darwinian story? Slight variations that prove beneficial are naturally selected when they help an organism adapt to its environment. Wrong. According to Ariel Fernandez of Rice University, we humans are complex because natural selection is inefficient. He said, “the origins of some key aspects of the evolution of complexity may have their […]

Intelligent Design

Darwinists Party Hardy, But Crash ID Events

September 30, 2009

As the 150th anniversary of the publication of Origin of Species approaches in November, institutions are promoting Darwin in some bizarre ways. When other events are held critical of Darwin’s ideas, though, the sponsors know to expect trouble and media distortion. Last night, the new film Darwin’s Dilemma (review) was shown in the […]

Bible and Theology

Evangelist Takes On Darwin

September 27, 2009

What would Darwin do? Just in time for the 150th anniversary of The Origin of Species, his magnum opus has been reprinted with an introduction not by a scientist or historian, but by a Christian evangelist. He and a Christian movie actor are trying to get their special edition to students at major universities. Talk […]

Biology

Human Evolution Celebration Exposed

September 24, 2009

The evolutionary story of human origins is often told like a cultural myth that is intuitively obvious. Humans emerged in Africa after their ancestors came down from the trees and walked upright. They began to hunt with stone tools and used fire. They migrated north out of Africa and populated Europe, overtaking the Neanderthals who […]

Education

Do You Need a Darwinian Doctor?

September 8, 2009

Visualize a cartoon of Charles Darwin as Hippocrates. It accompanies a book review in Science by Peter T. Ellison (Harvard).1 Ellison realizes that the mass of material doctors need to master is formidable, but thinks that “Evolutionary biology, however, is no longer an expendable topic in medical education.” The book is Principles of […]