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Automatic Emergency Brake Found on Molecular Motor

May 22, 2019

In this article, guest writer Ross Anderson (PhD, biochemistry professor) discusses a new finding about how an ’emergency brake’ works in one of the most vital of all molecular machines, ATP synthase. First, he explains the molecular rotary motor and what it does. Review of “Extrinsic conditions influence the self-association and structure of IF1, the […]

Solar System

Debate Is Over: Saturn Is Young

April 23, 2019

Scientists have run out of options to keep Saturn and its rings and moons billions of years old. It's time to face the music.

Politics and Ethics

Darwinians Still Justify Genetic Determinism

March 9, 2019

One of the most dangerous philosophies in the history of mankind is still embedded in modern Darwinism.

Cosmology

Cosmologists Cling to Ghosts

December 11, 2018

Dark matter has never been found, but their pet theory needs it. What will secular cosmologists do next?

Bible and Theology

Danish Church Persecutes Darwin Doubters

December 9, 2018

Even within some churches, Darwin skeptics can face censure and calls for re-education in the religion of evolution.

Genetics

Determine to Oppose Determinism

October 28, 2018

Even secularists have trouble with books that promote the idea that we are what our genes make us.

Mind and Brain

Purpose Does Not Emerge from Neurons

September 2, 2018

A neuroscientist just doesn't get it.

Darwin and Evolution

Darwin’s Tree Is Dead

August 6, 2018

How many people have heard that Darwin's famous branching-tree diagram of universal common ancestry is obsolete? Many scientists haven't heard yet, either.

Health

Conservatives Feel More Purposeful Lives

July 22, 2018

Are liberals floundering in uncertainty over the meaning of life? A new study indicates that more conservatives have a sense of purpose than liberals.

SETI

NASA Resurrects SETI

May 11, 2018

SETI has had no success since the 1950s. It lost government funding in 1993. It still has had no success. Why is the government throwing tax dollars at it again?

Philosophy of Science

Big Science Agonizes Over Tarnished Image

April 8, 2018

Most individual scientists do honorable work, but Big Science cannot sustain its public image of reliability any longer. Things must change.

Bible and Theology

Physicist Acknowledges Positive Role of Religion in Science

January 28, 2018

How can science reject religion, when many of the founding fathers of science were men of strong Biblical faith?

Philosophy of Science

Big Science Wobbles on Trust

January 6, 2018

Fixing the gap between the ideal and the real will require factors outside of science, like honesty.

Media

Op-Ed: May the Farce Not Bewitch You

January 2, 2018

Don't trust your feelings on this one. For 40 years, the Star Wars industry has been pushing a worldview that just can't hold up to scrutiny. Time to escape to reality.