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Paper View: A Geology Paradigm Suffers a Paradox

August 7, 2009

A pair of geologists found a paradox in a paradigm. That paradigm is the belief that ancient ocean levels rose and fell in cycles as ice sheets retreated and advanced, and the cause of the cycles was periodic changes in earth’s orbit. They modeled this process and couldn’t get it to work. They couldn’t get […]

Cell Biology

Crystal Mysticism Invades Astrobiology

March 20, 2009

Mystical ideas about the life-giving power of crystals usually go with New Age movies and storefronts. Science is above all that, right? Then what is a reader supposed to think of this opening line by Leslie Mullen on Space.com? One of the greatest mysteries about the origin of life is how the necessary ingredients consistently […]

Darwin and Evolution

Darwin and Complexity: Another Genetic Solution?

April 2, 2008

It remains one of the biggest obstacles to belief in evolution that a random, unguided process could build an eye, a wing or any of thousands of complex structures.

Intelligent Design

Explorer 1 Chief Discovers Design

January 31, 2008

On this day 50 years ago, America entered the space race. On January 31, 1958, America gave its answer to Sputnik: a civilian satellite named Explorer 1. Within a few hours of the time of day these words are being written, von Braun’s Jupiter-C rocket at Cape Canaveral, Florida, successfully launched a JPL satellite into […]

Origin of Life

Leslie Orgel’s Last Testament: Pigs Don’t Fly, and Life Doesn’t Just Happen

January 26, 2008

Leslie Orgel's last written article before his death shows no patience for hypothetical scenarios for the origin of life.

Cell Biology

Quality Control Ensures Accurate Cell Division

December 28, 2007

The wonders of cell division are described in several new discovery papers.

Amazing Facts

Geology Sinks in the Mud

December 14, 2007

Question: what is the most abundant sedimentary rock in the world? Follow-up question: what would happen to the science of geology if the consensus theory of how this most abundant sedimentary rock was deposited turns out to be wrong? Prepare for a paradigm shift: experiments have shown mistakes in long-held assumptions about mudstone formation. Here’s […]

Geology

Lord Kelvin’s Core Values Defended

July 2, 2007

Myth: Lord Kelvin held back the progress of geology for 100 years by insisting the Earth was younger than geologists and evolutionists believed. Myth debunked here.

Media

History Highlight: The Two Wilberforces

February 25, 2007

Those seeing the new movie Amazing Grace (opened Feb 2, 2007) about England’s long political battle to end slavery may not realize the family connection of the film’s hero with the controversy over Darwinism. William Wilberforce, the champion of abolition who brought an end to the slave trade as depicted in the film, had a […]

Origin of Life

OOL on the Rocks

February 15, 2007

Robert Shapiro demolishes the RNA World just in time for Leslie Orgel to demolish Shapiro's own myth. Ashes, ashes; they all fall down.

Dating Methods

How Not to Date a Volcano

November 13, 2006

Two teams of geologists looked at the same volcano field in Nevada, but came up with vastly different dates.

Cell Biology

Rubisco “Highly Tuned” for Fixing Atmospheric Carbon

June 22, 2006

Rubisco sounds like a brand of cracker or something, but it’s actually an air cleaner your life depends on. It’s an enzyme that fixes atmospheric carbon for use by photosynthetic microbes and plants. In doing so, it sweeps the planet of excess carbon dioxide – the greenhouse gas implicated in discussions of global warming – […]

Darwin and Evolution

Paper View: Cambrian Explosion Damage Control

April 23, 2006

Like some federal official holding a press conference after a disaster, a Harvard paleontologist has tackled the unenviable job of explaining what Darwin called the most severe challenge that could be levied against his theory: the fossil record. The challenge starts with a bang...

Origin of Life

Don’t PNA in our OOL

December 17, 2005

Theories for the origin of life (OOL) are in a crisis, unable to imagine how something as complex as a replicating cell could come into existence. Could PNA do it?

Politics and Ethics

Mao Tse-Tung Killed 77 Million for Darwin

November 30, 2005

World Net Daily reported that the body count from Mao’s reign of terror in China has been revised upward to 77 million by R. J. Rummel, a Nobel Peace Prize winning political scientist who had earlier estimated it at half that (38 million). This augments Mao’s Guinness reputation as the worst mass murderer in history. […]

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