News to Know

• We Aren't Worth Their Time

  Feb. 26, 2011

  A panel at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science tackled the often rocky relationship between science and religion.

• Life as an Outcast

  Feb. 19, 2011

  A few weeks ago we reported that the continued search for habitable extrasolar planets has revealed how special Earth is. So if aliens aren’t on planets orbiting other stars, where else could they be?

• How Long Till Darwinmas?

  Feb. 19, 2011

  It seems Darwin is celebrated more widely with each passing year, with popular annual events including Evolution Sunday and Darwin Day.

• How Did Britain Become an Island?

  Feb. 19, 2011

  It’s not just young-earth creationists who lean on catastrophic geological processes in explaining earth history. Old-earthers are also seeing the work of catastrophes in shaping the planet.

• Homo sapiens All the Way Back

  Feb. 19, 2011

  More research supports our view that historic humanity and modern humanity were far more similar than we “modern” humans often think.

• A Bird in Hand

  Feb. 19, 2011

  The focus of the article is purportedly “the final nail in the coffin” for those that don’t believe that birds evolved from dinosaurs. Or is this evolutionary dogma that just won’t fly away?

• Outsmarting Ourselves

  Feb. 12, 2011

  Human brains are getting smaller, yet we’re apparently getting smarter. Does that mean dinosaurs with walnut-sized brains could have actually been geniuses?

• Lucy on the Ground With High Heels

  Feb. 12, 2011

  New research suggests that “if Lucy were alive today, she could fit in high heels or march for miles without breaking her feet”—evidence, researchers claim, that Lucy was an experienced upright walker

• The Dilemma That Isn't

  Feb. 12, 2011

  Do the potential benefits of embryonic stem cell research justify the destruction of tiny, unborn human lives? Or is there a viable alternative?

• The Legless Snakes

  Feb. 12, 2011

  Why and how did “serpents” lose their limbs? The research may move forward, but the answer stays (largely) the same.

• Popular Mechanics for Kids

  Feb. 12, 2011

  Bill Nye, the “science guy” of children’s television fame, recently answered a few questions for the magazine Popular Mechanics.

• Biology Teachers and Creation

  Feb. 5, 2011

  More than one in ten high school biology teachers in the U.S. “advocate” creationist beliefs in the classroom. But that’s not the biggest news.

• Perfect Cosmic Constants

  Feb. 5, 2011

  Two weeks ago, we looked at the argument—and responses to it—that certain cosmological constants are perfectly “fine tuned” for life, thus proving the existence of an intelligent designer. Now comes another rebuttal.

• They’re All the Same to Us

  Feb. 5, 2011

  Is it a jackal or a wolf—or just another reminder of an original created “dog” kind?

• Darwin's Zombies

  Feb. 5, 2011

  A marsupial frog from South America may not realize how special it is, but a team from Stony Brook University does.

• Mourning Chimpanzees

  Feb. 5, 2011

  Last May we covered research that suggested chimpanzees “provide special attention to loved ones before they die and grieve afterward,” which unsurprisingly prompted comparisons to human behavior

• Don’t Let the Bedbugs Evolve

  Jan. 29, 2011

  Don’t let the bedbugs bite—or evolve.

• Carnivorous Conundrum

  Jan. 29, 2011

  Carnivorous plants may seem, at first, to be a puzzling challenge to creationists’ claim that there was no need for death in nature as God designed it.

• Evolution is Just Mistakes

  Jan. 29, 2011

  A major fault line between creationists and evolutionists concerns the appearance of novel genetic information in nature. What does the latest research say about what’s supposed to be the driving force of evolution?

• Ain't Nobody Home

  Jan. 29, 2011
• Odd Non-Man Out

  Jan. 29, 2011

  When considered alongside humans and chimps, the orangutan is the genomic “odd man out.” Is that because it hasn’t evolved as quickly?

• The Little Microbes That Could

  Jan. 22, 2011

  Geologists have discovered microbes living inside salt crystals. The twist? The microbes are said to be 34,000 years old!

• Toy T-rex 2.0

  Jan. 22, 2011

  Is a tiny dinosaur called Eodromaeus the predecessor to big beasts like T. rex?

• Laws of Physics, Jim

  Jan. 22, 2011

  The laws of physics are fine-tuned for life, exactly what we would expect if the universe were intelligently designed. So what’s the latest atheistic rebuttal?

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