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Amphioxus Is Green, Like Coral

October 30, 2007

Evolutionists may want to combine their song “It’s a long way from Amphioxus” (02/23/2006) with “It isn’t easy being green.” Green fluorescent protein (GFP) has been found in the lungfish Amphioxus, according to a press release from Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Why is this not easy? Because it’s a long way: “The researchers say amphioxus’ […]

Education

Microsoft Billionaire Puts His Money Where His Darwinism Is

October 12, 2007

Paul Allen is spending millions on humanitarian causes: not the cure of disease or the end of poverty, but on helping humans recognize that they evolved from space dust (see next entry). This, presumably, brings enlightenment. Shortly after 9/11, the PBS series Evolution made its debut, thanks to a large endowment from Allen, […]

Education

European and American Politicians Attack Creationism

October 6, 2007

Actions of political bodies on both sides of the Atlantic have revived questions about the roles of science, politics and religion in public discourse and policy. The Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly voted 48 to 25 to accept a resolution denouncing creationism and intelligent design, according to European Observer and Reuters. The non-binding […]

Health

Appendix to the Vestigial Organs Story: Whoops, Function Found

October 6, 2007

The appendix is not just a useless organ left over from our evolutionary past, new research is showing. According to an Associate Press article (see MSNBC News), this “seemingly useless organ may produce, protect good germs for your gut.” Scientists at Duke University Medical School believe that the appendix can regenerate the normal bacterial flora […]

Fossils

Modern Crustacean Found in Early Cambrian

October 4, 2007

A “crown-group crustacean” that is “markedly similar to those of living cephalocarids, branchiopods and copepods” has been found exquisitely preserved in early Cambrian fossil beds from China, an international team reported in Nature.1 Though such organisms have been found in middle and later Cambrian rocks, this pushes the origin of eucrustacea (crustaceans of modern aspect) […]

Dumb Ideas

Early Reptile Had Modern Ears

September 18, 2007

Modern ears are nothing new; they go back 260 million years. That’s the gist of a paper in PLoS ONE that reported on a Russian reptile fossil.1 The research team was surprised to discover that the creature had impedance-matched ears, a novelty thought to have evolved 50 million years later. Somehow this innovation survived one […]

Dumb Ideas

Can Humans Use Evolution?

September 10, 2007

Evolution is being used. A press release from University of Wisconsin-Madison was titled, “Using evolution, UW team creates a template for many new therapeutic agents.” How does one use evolution? It continued, “By guiding an enzyme down a new evolutionary pathway, a team of University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers has created a new form of an […]

Darwin and Evolution

Are You a Glorified Ape?

September 9, 2007

Evolutionists cannot deny the large cognitive gaps between humans and the alleged nearest ancestors, the great apes.

Birds

Dinosaurs Stretched, Shrunk and Twisted Into Birds

September 6, 2007

Size matters, thought paleontologists envisioning the evolution of birds from dinosaurs. The old story was that dinosaurs shrunk as their arms were becoming wings. That view has been challenged by a new fossil reported in Science.1 Alan H. Turner (American Museum of Natural History) and four others reported a “basal dromeosaurid” that was small long […]

Mammals

Whale Sonar: Necessity Is the Mother of Invention

September 5, 2007

Biosonar is a complex ability possessed by toothed whales and dolphins, bats and some birds. It includes both the ability to produce signals and to process the echoes to locate prey. How could such a system evolve? Scientists at UC Berkeley proposed an answer. The press release promised a developing story: Behind the sailor’s lore […]

Dumb Ideas

Messy Evidence Proves Humans Evolved

September 1, 2007

An article from Live Science seems to suggest that the way to do science these days is to believe things in spite of the evidence – at least when it comes to human evolution. In a juxtaposition of imponderables that might make a schizophrenic feel at home, Meredith Small asserted that evolution is a fact […]

Darwin and Evolution

Evolution Takes Credit

August 24, 2007

It may be more blessed to give than to receive, but evolution often just takes.

Intelligent Design

Science Journals Make Dogmatic Atheist Statements

August 8, 2007

Science is supposed to be restricted to the physical and observable world, but the major journals do not hesitate to state ardent, dogmatic opinions about the non-existence of God. Often they assert without debate that belief in God is an artifact of human evolution. Here are some recent examples: Tinker Bell, not Jehovah: Georg Striedter […]

Fossils

Trilobite Tree Is Upside Down

July 28, 2007

Darwin predicted that life would become more diverse over time, like the branches on a tree. The pattern of trilobites in the fossil record is just the opposite: more diversity appears in the lower layers, and less diversity in the upper layers. Surprisingly, evolutionary paleontologists are turning this into evidence for Darwin’s theory. […]

Genetics

What Are Human Genes Doing in a Sea Anemone?

July 8, 2007

The genome of a sea anemone has been published, and of all things, this lowly animal has genes common to vertebrates, even humans. Science Daily began with a conundrum, “The first analysis of the genome of the sea anemone shows it to be nearly as complex as the human genome, providing major insights into the […]

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