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Sichuan Compassion Contravenes Evolution
Human rights issues and the heavy-handed government control of public life are just a few of the ongoing concerns that democratic nations have with China. However, if we look back just barely three months to the massive 7.9 magnitude earthquake in Sichuan Province, we see a very different side to this country.
People hopped buses, peddled bikes, caught trains, and walked, sometimes for days, to Sichuan to help in the recovery efforts. What motivated them? Read the entire article.
DNA Repair Enzymes: Vital Links in the Chain of Life
Several decades ago, the cellular process known as “DNA repair” was not even suspected. But since then, investigation of genetic functions has increasingly revealed a system that is mind-bogglingly elegant, minute, and effective.
If we postulate that new biological structures arise from the selection of genetic mistakes, called mutations, and that this process has resulted in the life functions we currently observe, then we have an enigma. Read the entire article.
Corrupted Chemical Communication Causes Disease
Broken communication seems to be the cause of many diseases, not bad bacteria, according to research from the University of Wisconsin. Microbiologist Margaret McFall-Ngai and her colleagues have recently uncovered hundreds of genes that are responsible for coding chemicals that communicate between host organisms and bacteria.
What they have found is a failure to communicate. Read the entire article.
Nylon-Eating Bacteria and Evolutionary Progress
Bacteria capable of metabolizing nylon were discovered in the 1970s. Nylon is a man-made substance that was developed in the 20th century. Since bacteria had not been exposed to it before then, could their new capacity to consume nylon positively demonstrate evolutionary progress?
Nylon-eating bacteria actually exemplify microevolution (adaptation), not macroevolution. Read the entire article.
Giving Human Evolution a Hand
Although the jury is still out on the creation/evolution debate in the scientific and public policy arenas, media and pop culture present evolutionary assumptions and theories as though they were scientific fact in everything from casual references to featured articles.
A recent issue of U.S. News & World Report offered a series of articles on the current state of human evolution, including related scientific advancements. Will science lead us to a brighter tomorrow? Read the entire article.
Non-stick Bugs
In South Africa, special “mirid bugs” make their homes in sticky, living-flypaper plants, feeding on other insects that get trapped in the plants’ leaf-secreted glue. Mirid bugs are integral to the cross-pollination of their flypaper plants.
How does such a symbiotic system develop wherein a plant relies on one species of insect for cross-pollination, and that insect in turn depends on the plant to provide food? Read the entire article.
Happy Birthday, Sue; How Old Are You?
The people of Faith, South Dakota, recently celebrated the “birthday” of the discovery of the world’s most famous T. rex fossil, called “Sue” after its discoverer, Susan Hendrickson. But creation science advocates have stepped forward to say that the number of candles on her cake should be a lot fewer than 66 million.
Could Sue be a lot younger? Read the entire article.
How Long Do Frozen Greens Keep?
A large bed of moss was recently discovered under Antarctic ice. The moss was not fossilized, but frozen—for the last 14 million years, according to the standard story.
Even in the freeze-dried and buried conditions in which the moss was found, could it have been around that long, with cell structures still intact? Read the entire article.
Optimism in Evolution?
Optimism in evolution…the words form a contradiction, considering that according to macroevolutionary theory, “progress” can only take place through eons of death and destruction. Yet that was the title of a column that recently appeared in The New York Times.
What evolution has to offer is hardly a cause for optimism. Read the entire article.
California Judge Rules Against Academic Freedom
In another restriction of academic freedom, a federal judge has allowed the University of California to continue denying course credit for college preparatory classes to applicants from Christian high schools which use textbooks that reject evolution and declare the Bible to be infallible.
The court’s judgment has serious implications for non-evolution-based teaching systems. Read the entire article.
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