News to Note, July 31, 2010

A weekly feature examining news from the biblical viewpoint

Bye-bye, big bang?; the wearable therapy; Cro-Magnon frogs; marsupial mysteries; and more!

6. And Don’t Miss . . .

• “Somewhere in the Milky Way, astronomers have found a world that sports crucial ingredients for life.” But hold your excitement, for the ScienceNOW article adds, “Alas, the planet is Earth.”1 In reporting on a successful test of one technique for studying extrasolar planets, the article reminds us how unique our own planet is among the many that have been discovered to date.
• It’s a minor discovery that, excluding the evolutionary spin, shows tetrapod limbs did not evolve from fish fins: a study has found that limbs such as human arms connect to the nervous system in a different way than fish fins.
• ScienceNOW reports on the incredible ability of leaf miner moths to keep dying leaves alive. Could this be a glimpse of the symbiotic workings of a pre-Fall world?
• An article in the Billings Magic reviews dinosaur-related locations in Montana—and includes the creationist Glendive Dinosaur & Fossil Museum under the heading “a different perspective,” noting that the facility is the second-largest dinosaur museum in the state.
• Was the Garden of Eden actually in South Africa?