News to Know

• Fossilized Melanosomes Found

  Jan. 30, 2010

  Paleontologists have recovered fossilized melanosomes (which are responsible for pigmentation in skin, fur, and feathers) from ancient birds and dinosaurs.

• Running With or Without Shoes?

  Jan. 30, 2010

  Running shoes probably seem like prudent athletic footwear for most of us. But as some African runners have shown, God’s original design is superior.

• Echolocation Provides Supporting Evidence for Creationists

  Jan. 30, 2010

  Both bats and dolphins (a type of toothed whale) are known for their abilities to “echolocate,” or use sonar to capture prey.

• Did Birds Evolve from Dinosaurs?

  Jan. 23, 2010

  If alligator lungs are like bird lungs, and dinosaur lungs were like alligator lungs, does that mean birds evolved from dinosaurs?

• Attack on Creation Museum in Issue of Vanity Fair

  Jan. 23, 2010

  It isn’t a—ahem—“news source” we would normally cover, but we decided not to ignore a scathing attack on our Creation Museum that appears in February’s issue of Vanity Fair.

• Incorrect Neanderthal Stereotype

  Jan. 16, 2010

  The stereotype of Neanderthals is that they were hulking, hairy troglodytes quite different from “refined” modern humans. Now there’s even more evidence of how incorrect that stereotype is.

• Coral Reefs Seen as General Cradles of Evolution

  Jan. 16, 2010

  Are beautiful coral reefs Charles Darwin’s best friends? Perhaps so, for according to one team of paleontologists, they serve as “general cradles of evolution.”

• Design of Noah’s Ark Incorrect?

  Jan. 9, 2010

  Bible-believers have spent a great deal of time considering the design of Noah’s Ark. Is it possible that they—and Genesis—have it all wrong?

• Infectious Protein Particles Evolving?

  Jan. 9, 2010

  Can non-life evolve? Scientists at the Scripps Research Institute have discovered that infectious protein particles called prions can adapt to new environments and compete with one another.

• Kepler Space Telescope Finds First Hot Exoplanets

  Jan. 9, 2010

  Hot, hot, hot, hot, and hot—meet the first exoplanets found by NASA’s Kepler space telescope.

• Four-Legged Animals Causing Evolution Problems

  Jan. 2, 2010

  The supposed earliest evidence of four-legged animals—at 395 million years old—sounds like a boon for evolutionary research.

• Evolution Without Molecules-to-Man Evolution

  Jan. 2, 2010

  If molecules-to-man evolution is a myth, why does evolution seem to explain some scientific observations?

• Chimpanzees and Fire

  Jan. 2, 2010

  When it comes to fires, chimpanzees keep their cool. Does this “reveal a primitive hominid trait”?

• Disinfectants Train Microbes

  Jan. 2, 2010

  We’ve responded to the claim that antibiotics cause microbes to “evolve” resistance. Is the idea that disinfectants “train” microbes to become resistant any different?

• Dark Matter Verified?

  Jan. 2, 2010

  Dark matter: it’s mysterious, elusive (if it does exist), controversial—and now verified?

• News to Note: 2009 in Review

  Dec. 26, 2009

  A look back at 2009’s news—alien life and exoplanets, Darwin and “evolution in action,” missing links and classroom controversies, and more!

• Adios, Alaska

  Dec. 19, 2009

  Should we bid “bye-bye” to Alaska?

• Many Giant Leaps for Evolution

  Dec. 19, 2009

  Evolution is thought to progress slowly, step by step, the accumulation of hundreds of millions of years’ worth of small changes. Or is it?

• Youth-Earth Evolutionism

  Dec. 19, 2009

  Mammoths didn’t die out that long ago: a creationist conclusion or the latest evolutionary idea?

• Super-Earths?

  Dec. 19, 2009

  Astronomers may soon find more “Earth-like” planets—and with them, alien life?

• Octopus Intelligence

  Dec. 19, 2009

  It’s an amazing animal known for its intelligence and, now, for its tool-use: the chimpanzee? The dolphin? The crow? Not quite.

• Creating Evolution

  Dec. 12, 2009

  Are British birders behind the origin of a new blackcap species?

• Horse Evolution Mix-up

  Dec. 12, 2009

  Some argue that the horse offers a “textbook example of evolution.” But does new research undo that claim?

• Survival of the Kindest?

  Dec. 12, 2009

  Move over, Charles Darwin: researchers at Oregon State University and the University of California–Berkeley want to supplant “survival of the fittest” with “survival of the kindest.”

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