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Fish Species in African Lake Diversified Rapidly

December 9, 2006

Two related articles in the Public Library of Science (PLoS) show that a large number of species can branch out of a small population in a short time. Hobbyists familiar with tropical fish appreciate how wide is the variety found within Cichlids. In the first article,1 the author alleged that in the last 15,000 years, […]

Education

A Tale of Two Videos: Advocacy and Censorship

December 8, 2006

A teacher gets a free video on science, and likes it. She thinks it fits in with the lesson plan and curriculum guidelines. Should she be allowed to show parts of it in the classroom? At what point should the government step in and say the material is inappropriate, or even ban it outright, if […]

Biomimetics

Stupid Evolution Quote of the Week: Evolution as Inventor

December 5, 2006

This week’s award goes to Gines Morata, a research professor in Spain, who was interviewed in Current Biology.1 He gives us a glimpse into his biology classes: I often tell my students that they do not have to invent anything; in biology everything has already been invented. What they have to do is find out […]

Human Body

Male Nipples: Two Views

November 28, 2006

Is there a beachgoer who has not wondered why men have nipples? Since Live Science brought it up, let’s use this as a case study on how evolutionists and creationists explain things. The Evolutionist View: Live Science claims we all start out as females in the womb, and only after about 60 days the testosterone […]

Education

Nature Interviews German Creationist; Media Notes Rise of Anti-Darwinism

November 27, 2006

Following a news report entitled, “Anti-evolutionists raise their profile in Europe,”1 Nature printed a short interview with one of them:2 Peter Korevaar is head of the physics and cosmology working group of Germany’s Studiengemeinschaft Wort und Wissen, one of the largest creationist groups in Europe. He holds a PhD in astrophysics and now works at […]

Education

Evolutionism Fomented Columbine Disaster, Father Says

November 22, 2006

Brian Rohrbough, father of one of the students killed in the Columbine school shooting in 1999, spoke on CBS News “free speech” segment October 2 after the recent Amish school shooting. Tonight (Nov. 22) on Fox News, the Bill O’Reilly show replayed an interview he had with Rohrbough about that CBS speech that led to […]

Dumb Ideas

Urchin Genome Hyped by Media as Human Cousin

November 10, 2006

The publication of a new genome for a plant or animal is becoming routine. For some reason, the news media instantly jumped on claims that the genome of the sea urchin, published in Science, means that evolution is all but figured out, and that we should each feel a special place in our hearts for […]

Dumb Ideas

Junk Is the Essence of Mankind

November 9, 2006

Christians may proclaim “God don’t make no junk” but evolutionists boast of our junky heritage. Erika Check wrote in Nature this week,1 “It’s the junk that makes us human.” She was referring to non-coding DNA, long considered “junk DNA.” There is growing awareness that these sections of unclear function are involved in the regulation of […]

Early Man

Baby Lucy Makes National Geographic Evolution Cover

October 22, 2006

No regime change is evident at National Geographic since Bill Allen left (see 02/15/2005). The Nov. 2006 is vintage NG with alleged primitive human ancestors on the cover, this time “Baby Lucy” (see 09/20/2006, 10/02/2006). Despite many passionate letters to the editor after their in-your-face Darwinist two years ago (see “Was Darwin Wrong?” 10/24/2004), this […]

Dumb Ideas

Have Darwinian Anthropologists Learnt Their Lessons?

October 18, 2006

Chris Stringer, writing for the BBC News, talked about “Piltdown’s lessons for modern science.” After telling the history of the famous “missing link” fraud, he discussed four “lessons learnt” by one of the most notorious hoaxes in science history. For one, “we mustn’t let preconceived ideas run away with us.” For another, “specimens have to […]

Uncategorized

Does Darwin Play Dice?

October 16, 2006

Some recent scientific papers have spoken to the question of how big a role chance plays in Darwinism. This issue was one of the key points of contention by early critics of Darwin’s theory. Modern Darwinists argue whether evolution proceeds strictly by chance, or whether the environment constrains evolution to follow certain paths that lead […]

Genetics

Punc Eq Happens

October 8, 2006

A controversial study in Science found evidence for punctuated equilibria.1 A long-standing debate in evolutionary biology concerns whether species diverge gradually through time or by punctuational episodes at the time of speciation. We found that approximately 22% of substitutional changes at the DNA level can be attributed to punctuational evolution, and the remainder accumulates from […]

Intelligent Design

New Media Challenges Darwinism

October 4, 2006

Websites and resources challenging Darwinian dominance are springing up all over the place. Uncensored by scientific societies, they may be having more of an effect than evolutionary biologists wish to consider. Many are aimed at students and young adults. Overwhelming Evidence is an ID website aimed at high school students. It has blogs, forums and […]

Dumb Ideas

Atheist Dilemma: Fight or Smooth-Talk Religion?

September 25, 2006

The unpopularity of evolutionism and the persistence of religious faith has scientific materialists confounded and dumbfounded over how to respond. Some want to fight, some want to shrug it off, and some want to dialog with religious believers, in hopes of convincing some of them that evolution is not the bogeyman they think. Richard Dawkins […]

Media

Rock Video Illustrates Nihilism of Evolution

August 31, 2006

Senseless sex. Mass death. Religious hypocrisy. Moral equivalence. Impersonality. Irresponsibility. Male aggression, abduction and murder. Glorification of lust. Book burning. Assembly-line babies. Dehumanization. Terrorism. Holocaust. Armageddon. It’s all illustrated with raw intensity in the Pearl Jam rock video, Do the Evolution, available on YouTube.com.1 Evolution wipes out humanity, without remorse, in just 3:53 minutes. Watch […]

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