| Electricity Forms Your Heart Sat, 31 Jul 2010 |
| | July 31, 2010 — Did you know your heart is an electrical appliance? That's right. Currents of electrical ions are vital to its function as a contractile organ. Now, researchers at the University of California have found another thing electricity >>more>> |
| Getting Animals from Here to There Sat, 31 Jul 2010 |
| | July 30, 2010 — The world is a big place, and most animals are small. Yet many animals are found far from where their presumed ancestors lived. Most birds, naturally, can fly long distances, and some sea creatures can cross the oceans with >>more>> |
| Things in Space that Shouldn't Be Thu, 29 Jul 2010 |
| | July 29, 2010 — A history of astronomy and a history of surprise discoveries in space would track pretty well. Recent stories show that the trend continues even today (6 reports from solar system to stars).
An article on PhysOrg about >>more>> |
| Evolution of Segmentation Leads to Playing God Wed, 28 Jul 2010 |
| | July 28, 2010 — Most animals come in segments — body plans that are divided into more-or-less similar parts. Arthropods, worms and vertebrates are examples (including humans, with their vertebral segments and rough division into head, >>more>> |
| Is Our World Natural? Tue, 27 Jul 2010 |
| | July 27, 2010 — At first glance, the headline sounds absurd: is our world natural? Of course the world is natural. Nature is natural, isn't it? Often, though, we picture what humans do as unnatural — oil spills, landfills, pollution, >>more>> |
| Recapitulation Theory Gets Recap Mon, 26 Jul 2010 |
| | July 26, 2010 — The long-discounted 'recapitulation theory' of Ernst Haeckel, the idea that the development of an embryo replays its evolutionary history, pops up every once in awhile in evolutionary explanations. Evolutionary biologists >>more>> |
| Dating of Impacts and Impacts of Dating Mon, 26 Jul 2010 |
| | July 25, 2010 — Earth and Neptune were both on stage this week with stories of impacts. How do scientists know when they occurred?
1. Neptune: A comet struck Neptune 200 years ago. That's what planetary scientists are claiming, according >>more>> |
| When Evolutionary Theory Gets It Wrong Mon, 26 Jul 2010 |
| | July 24, 2010 — Evolutionary theory tends to make certain predictions about cells, tissues and organs. A long history of evolutionary errors, twists, turns and dead ends would lead to a build-up of junk. Recent examples show instances where >>more>> |
| The Evolution of Integrity Fri, 23 Jul 2010 |
| | July 23, 2010 — Scientists are having to deal with a crisis that overlaps with theology: integrity. What is integrity? Where did it come from? How could it evolve? How is it to be measured? Questions like these are usually not answered >>more>> |
| Tiny Life in Extraordinary Motion Fri, 23 Jul 2010 |
| | July 22, 2010 — Don't despise small things. Miniature plants and animals can pack some amazing punch and technology, as shown in two recent findings.
1. Plant explosion: Peat moss. That's the filler in our indoor plant soil and the >>more>> |
| Second-Guessing Aliens Thu, 22 Jul 2010 |
| | July 21, 2010 — If we haven't yet communicated with aliens, can we know anything about their character? Astrophysicist Gregory Benford of UC Irvine thinks we can surmise one thing: they are frugal. Why? 'Whatever the life form, evolution >>more>> |
| Scratching Heads With Imaginary Stars Wed, 21 Jul 2010 |
| | July 21, 2010 — It was lurking out there, astronomers said. Our sun's evil companion, invisible, dark, like a stealthy general of an enemy force, lurked in hiding, waiting for the next opportunity to order its agents of death into combat. >>more>> |
| Mutating Evolution Into Design Wed, 21 Jul 2010 |
| | July 20, 2010 — The word evolve gets used in funny ways. As Paul Nelson has noted, it often becomes a Designer substitute. Look how an article in New Scientist employed it:
Could a 3D printer help to create in minutes what nature took >>more>> |
| Adult Stem Cells Lead Health Progress Tue, 20 Jul 2010 |
| | July 20, 2010 — Adult stem cells (AS) and induced pluripotent stem cells from adult tissues (iPS) continue to rack up tallies over embryonic stem cells (ES). Do we really need the embryonic variety? Some continue to say yes, even though >>more>> |
| Wishing ET Upon a Star Mon, 19 Jul 2010 |
| | July 19, 2010 — What are the odds of finding extraterrestrials? That subject has been discussed ad infinitum, but David Shiga at New Scientist thinks the odds just went up. 'Solitary suns like ours are not as rare as we once thought, boosting >>more>> |
| Exorcising Nazi Ghosts Continues Sun, 18 Jul 2010 |
| | July 18, 2010 — With so many books and documentaries on the Nazi era and World War II, one would think the subject has been worked over to death by historians, and nothing else needs to be said. Surprisingly, new documents keep coming to >>more>> |
| Dark Energy: Can a Theoretical Entity Be Measured? Sat, 17 Jul 2010 |
| | The redshift of galaxies has been measured for some 90 years, but the existence of 'dark energy' was postulated only recently — in the late 1990s. It was needed to explain unexpected dimness of the most distant galaxies, as measured by >>more>> |
| Spinning Webs of Belief: Accounting for George Price Sat, 17 Jul 2010 |
| | July 16, 2010 — It's instructive to take a story and compare how evolutionists and creationists report it. A recent example can be found in the story of George Price: an ex-atheist scientist who, as a creationist, contributed original ideas >>more>> |
| Tricks to Preserve Deep Time Thu, 15 Jul 2010 |
| | July 15, 2010 — It's not always easy to prove that things are very, very old. After all, no one has ever experienced deep time (millions and billions of years). The key is to maintain a public 'feeling' in the oldness of things. Once that >>more>> |
| Revising Dinosaurs Wed, 14 Jul 2010 |
| | uly 14, 2010 — Reconstructing a lost world from fossils is an inexact science. The realization that two species of dinosaur were different stages of one species is an example of the difficulty of drawing conclusions about past ecological >>more>> |
| Darwinists Get Sexy Tue, 13 Jul 2010 |
| | July 13, 2010 — The origin of sex titillates many evolutionary biologists. On the one hand, animals and plants have such interesting ways of getting together. But on the other hand, sex seems too costly to have originated by natural selection. >>more>> |
| Bacteria Too Complex To Be Primitive Eukaryote Ancestors Tue, 13 Jul 2010 |
| | July 12, 2010 — In the search for the most primitive life forms on earth, bacteria would certainly make the list. They are tiny, one-celled, and have small genomes. Why, then, did Patrick Forterre and Simonetta Gribaldo of the Pasteur Institute >>more>> |
| More to a Fly than Meets the Eye Mon, 12 Jul 2010 |
| | July 12, 2010 — Flies and spiders, members of the arthropod phylum, may seem small and 'less evolved' than the larger members of the animal kingdom. One shouldn't let size alone be the measure of ability.
1. Fly supercomputer: Did you >>more>> |
| Darwin Caught Out of Bounds Sun, 11 Jul 2010 |
| | July 11, 2010 — What business does Darwin have in quantum mechanics or engineering? Wasn't his a theory on the origin of species — that is, plants, animals and living things? Some scientists seem intent on extrapolating his views to >>more>> |
| Are Saturn's Rings Evolving? Sat, 10 Jul 2010 |
| | July 10, 2010 — The Cassini spacecraft continues to astound scientists and the public with its pictures from the Saturn system. New discoveries have been made about the rings and small moons embedded within them. At times, it appears that >>more>> |
| Proteins Fold Who Knows How Fri, 09 Jul 2010 |
| | July 09, 2010 — One of the biggest mysteries remaining in cell biology is how proteins fold. Proteins start out as chains of amino acids (polypeptides) as they exit the ribosome. Most of them spontaneously fold into their 'native' three-dimensional >>more>> |
