News to Know

• BBC News: “Mouse Set to be ‘Evolution Icon’”

  Sept. 5, 2009

  Peppered moths, move over! There’s a new alleged “icon of ‘evolution in action’” in town.

• Is Intelligent Design Dead?

  Sept. 5, 2009

  We can all agree that evidence of intelligent design has been “shot down.” But is it good science or biased presuppositions that is doing the “shooting”?

• Dog Fur Evolution

  Sept. 5, 2009

  The many differences in dog fur are reducible to just a few genetic factors, a team reports in Science.

• The Creation Zoo

  Sept. 5, 2009

  A zoo near Bristol, England, has been attacked for its promotion of “creationist ideas,” even though a zoo spokesperson called life “the product of both God and evolution.”

• Meet Chickenosaurus

  Aug. 29, 2009

  It sounds like an April Fools’ Day joke that came months too late: a Canadian scientist declares he will “flip some levers” and develop a dinosaur out of a chicken embryo.

• Appendix Isn’t Useless

  Aug. 29, 2009

  “Creationists will have a field day with this one,” writes one blogger on the news. Bingo.

• The Demise of Planet WASP-18b

  Aug. 29, 2009

  A recently discovered exoplanet may have been found just in the nick of time—in time for us to witness its demise, that is.

• Dawkins' Crusade

  Aug. 29, 2009

  Although we frequently decline to comment when individuals inveigh against creationists (especially because such comments are often redundant and misinformed), we can hardly help but respond to vocal atheist (and anti-creationist) Richard Dawkins.

• Prehistoric Ink

  Aug. 22, 2009

  Scientists cannot only write about amazing fossil discoveries; now, they can write with one!

• Darkness Falls on Dark Energy

  Aug. 22, 2009

  Though once a high-flying idea, the notion of dark energy has received another devastating blow from two mathematicians.

• Non-Life From Outer Space

  Aug. 22, 2009

  Astronomers have once again discovered a “building block” of life in outer space.

• A Trio of Speciation Reminders

  Aug. 22, 2009

  The news this week presented three interesting stories that reinforce the creationist understanding of created kinds, speciation, and “evolution.”

• USA Today: “We Believe in Evolution—and God”

  Aug. 15, 2009

  Two Christian evolutionists send a broadside our way with a USA Today opinion piece this week. But do they bring up anything new?

• Is Their Model Upright?

  Aug. 15, 2009

  “This model should cause everyone to re-evaluate what they’ve said before”—the words of a Duke University professor whose research turns the origins of bipedal walking on its head.

• Goofy Planet is Backwards

  Aug. 15, 2009

  For the first time, astronomers have detected a planet that could be said to “swim against the flow”—orbiting in the opposite direction from the spin of its star.

• Hot Air Over Mars

  Aug. 15, 2009

  The fuss over martian methane—which had fueled hopes for life on the Red Planet—may be misplaced, according to a new study.

• Vestigial Ideas

  Aug. 15, 2009

  Another study reminds us that the idea of “vestigial organs” is, itself, vestigial!

• We Are the Champions (of Evolution)

  Aug. 8, 2009

  “Mammals are special,” declares the leader of a new study on animal success rates. Just what does he mean?

• Dr. Andrew Parker and the Strange Genesis Interpretation

  Aug. 8, 2009

  In one of the strangest news stories we’ve examined to date, an Oxford biologist declares that Genesis is incredibly accurate; then says “creationism is totally unfounded”; then admits “the first page of the Bible . . . doesn’t spell out any of the science in detail.”

• On the Origin of Man's Best Friend

  Aug. 8, 2009

  If the idea behind item #1 (above) is correct, perhaps the domestic dog would be the biggest “winner” of all.

• The Secret of the Mongolian Pterosaur

  Aug. 8, 2009

  What were pterosaurs really like? An uncertain topic grows all the more perplexing after a new look at an old fossil.

• Crow the Builder

  Aug. 8, 2009

  They’re the incredibly intelligent, tool-wielding animals we’ve covered frequently in the past. No, not chimps; we’re talking about crows once again.

• The Creation Temple?

  Aug. 1, 2009

  Love us or hate us, the Answers in Genesis Creation Museum continues to attract media attention, popular fascination, and widespread misperception.

• Evolution 'Ahead of Schedule'

  Aug. 1, 2009

  Fossil specimens discovered in Russia 15 years ago have finally landed in the news—for reasons including the fact that they were millions of years “ahead of schedule.”

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