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Scientists Force Rapid Natural Selection in Lizards

November 16, 2006

Scientists transported a predator to a Caribbean island and watched some of the lizards evolve longer legs to run faster. Then, as some of them took to climbing trees, their hind legs grew shorter. They are calling this a test of natural selection, and are amazed the effects took effect so rapidly – in one […]

Education

ID Draws Crowds, to Evolutionists Dismay

October 4, 2006

Reactions in the news and evolution-centered scientific societies to the rise of intelligent design is mixed. Some ignore it, printing Darwinism-as-fact articles as usual. Others seek harmony and understanding. Still others rise up in holy horror, demanding organized counter-reformation. One thing Darwinists cannot do is deny that a widespread, international sea change in thinking about […]

Astronomy

Stellar Habitable Zones: Dont Forget the Sunscreen

August 15, 2006

Astronomers concerned with the origin of life on earth have long thought about the “habitable zone” (sometimes called continuously habitable zone, or CHZ) of our solar system. They’ve discussed this aerobee-shaped zone around our sun – or any star – mainly in terms of locations where the temperature would permit water to exist as a […]

Birds

Darwinism Confirmed! How? Finch Beaks Got Smaller!

July 14, 2006

Randolph E. Schmid of Associated Press (see ABC News) seems hardly able to contain his excitement. “Finches on the Galapagos Islands that inspired Charles Darwin to develop the concept of evolution,” he wrote, “are now helping confirm it by evolving.” This sounds like big news. How, exactly, are they evolving? “A medium sized species of […]

Education

Darwinists Foment Civil Disobedience Against Questioning Darwinism

July 8, 2006

The new science standards in Kansas require students to learn more about evolution, including evidence for and against it (see Discovery Institute press release). The standards specifically exclude the teaching of intelligent design theory. To some activist groups, however, this requirement is so intolerable, they want teachers to disobey it. According to Evolution News, there […]

Birds

What Use Is Half a Wing?

May 1, 2006

Ken Dial is at it again, trying to explain bird flight from the ground up with his own version of a Darwinian story (see 01/16/2003). The title of his paper in BioScience1 harks back to an old criticism of Darwin’s theory: “What use is half a wing?” Well, half a wing could be a half […]

Genetics

Soil Provides Library of Antibiotic Resistance

January 19, 2006

Genetic information that confers antibiotic resistance is already present in the environmental resistome.

Dumb Ideas

Robot Tadpole Sex Sheds Light on Intelligent Design

November 20, 2002

Scientists studying the evolution of vertebrate physiology at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. have designed swimming robots to demonstrate how evolution might have produced such efficient vertebrate swimmers (see Live Science). Swimming abilities of each robot were tested by measuring its ability to swim toward and follow a light suspended above the surface of a […]

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