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Many scientists rely on the assumption that radioactive elements decay at constant, undisturbed rates and therefore can be used as reliable clocks to measure the ages of rocks and artifacts. Most estimates of the age of the earth are founded on this assumption.
However, new observations have found that those nuclear decay rates actually fluctuate based on solar activity.
More...Why Can't Science Start with the Bible?
from Science Update from ICR
5 days ago (9/2/2010).
A report that looked into a miracle Jesus performed over 2,000 years ago was recently retracted from a medical journal. A few weeks after the article was published, it drew ridicule from the blogosphere, and Virology Journal retracted it with an apology.
Since modern science and technology are commonly employed to conduct research on past events, why did this particular article create such an uproar?
More...Beetle Larva Bifocals Are Better than Manmade
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8 days ago (8/30/2010).
The eye is an amazing organ. It enables an organism to translate light into electro-chemical impulses that the brain can assemble into "images" of the world around it.
Many types of eyes are known in the living world, and a new study describes one of the most intriguing eye designs yet to be uncovered.
More...Oil-eating Bacteria Are Cleaning Up Gulf
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11 days ago (8/27/2010).
The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has spawned concerns regarding the long-term negative impact on the area's ecology, and especially on local fisheries. These worries are based on the assumption that the oil would persist and carry deadly effects up the food chain for many years.
But a recent study showed that the oil is actually disappearing rather quickly.
More...The 'Animal Connection' Points to Creation, not Evolution
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12 days ago (8/26/2010).
What do the oldest European artworks and the domestication of animals have in common? A Penn State University paleoanthropologist suggested that they are evidence of a unique connection with animals that profoundly shaped the evolutionary development of early man.
However, though her hypothesis provides an interesting spin on the evolutionary story, it ignores much of what the data actually reveal.
More...New Finds and Possible Fraud Discredit 'Chimp Culture'
from Science Update from ICR
13 days ago (8/25/2010).
Do chimpanzees have their own culture? If so, some researchers would connect their behaviors to aspects of human culture, which they believe supports an evolutionary relationship.
But current developments shed doubt on that idea.
More...Contrary to Expectation, Extinct Sea Monsters Were Expert Swimmers
from Science Update from ICR
14 days ago (8/24/2010).
Mosasaurs were marine reptiles with large jaws and big teeth. Their fossils have been found on every continent, including Antarctica.
Scientists had until now assumed that they were only mediocre swimmers. But new research is changing that perception.
More...Continents Didn't Drift, They Raced
from Science Update from ICR
15 days ago (8/23/2010).
The popular theory of plate tectonics holds that continents drift slowly across earth's surface atop deeply buried molten rock, and that plate movements creep along at leisurely paces.
But new research by Yale University geologists calls that into question.
More...'80 Million-Year-Old' Mosasaur Fossil Has Soft Retina and Blood Residue
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18 days ago (8/20/2010).
Mosasaur fossils have been recovered from Late Cretaceous rocks all over the world. Most are just a fossilized tooth or perhaps a loose rib or vertebra. Occasionally, several bones are discovered still together.
Conventional wisdom holds that creatures from this period died millions of year ago. If that's true, why do some still have soft tissue?
More...Human Tool Marks Found from 'Lucy' Era
from Science Update from ICR
20 days ago (8/18/2010).
In a stunning report that immediately drew skeptical outcries from evolutionary anthropologists, a team of researchers recently announced their findings on bones that they claim had been purposefully cut by tools.
This discovery would not be unusual except for the fact that the date assigned to the bones predates the standard evolutionary timing of man's "emergence" by almost one million years.
More...Tiny Fish Rapidly Adapted to Cold Water. Was It Evolution?
from Science Update from ICR
21 days ago (8/17/2010).
Researchers have found that tiny fish called sticklebacks can adapt rapidly to a decrease in water temperature. This discovery adds to a long and growing list of animal trait variations that happen quickly.
The researchers cited the adaptation as an example of evolution in action, but the rapidity of this change identifies it as the result of intentional programming--not mindless mutations.
More...Are Sea Sponges Mostly Human?
from Science Update from ICR
22 days ago (8/16/2010).
Sponges have long been considered one of the "simplest" forms of life. Now scientists have analyzed sponge DNA and concluded that it shares representative genes associated with the core processes of all animal cells--including human cells.
What does this say about where sponges and people came from?
More...Finch Duets Open Surprising Window on Bird Origins
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25 days ago (8/13/2010).
Humans are in rare company when it comes to singing duets. Humpback whales perform original couples' songs, as do a handful of birds.
It was thought that bird duets were just for mating purposes, but a study on zebra finches has opened a new window on bird behavior.
More...DNA Study Offers New Take on Marsupial Migrations
from Science Update from ICR
26 days ago (8/12/2010).
Marsupials are mammals that nurture their young in a special pouch. Their fossils are rare. Few have been discovered in Australia, for example, which is home to several unique marsupials, including kangaroos.
So, determining their origins has been a longstanding challenge for evolutionists.
More...Canadian Philosopher Insists 'We Are All African!'
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27 days ago (8/11/2010).
Philosopher and secular humanist Christopher diCarlo claims that if humans trace their lineages far enough back in time, they will all have an African origin. He has been spreading his "We Are All African!" message on a cross-Canadian tour.
However, the science behind diCarlo's version of history leaves plenty of room for skepticism.
More...Blob-like Fossil Doesn't Fit Evolution
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28 days ago (8/10/2010).
The blob lives. Or at least, it has been reconstructed in a three-dimensional computer model.
The tiny three-millimeter-long fossilized creature has been named Drakozoon. It was found in strata near the bottom of the rock record, so it interests those who believe that fossilized organisms found at that depth evolved into today's creatures.
More...Did 'Nature' Invent Oxygen-Carrying Systems...Twice?
from Science Update from ICR
29 days ago (8/9/2010).
An animal wouldn't grow larger than an insect without specialized equipment designed to transport oxygen to and carbon dioxide from cells deep inside its body.
Fortunately, thousands of different animal kinds have been outfitted with tiny machines called hemoglobins that directly and specifically interact with individual oxygen molecules, making larger body sizes possible.
More...Physicist Questions Gravity's Existence
from Science Update from ICR
32 days ago (8/6/2010).
Does gravity exist? While few would deny that objects attract at-a-distance, some physicists are questioning whether or not this universally observed effect is caused by a stand-alone force called "gravity."
If something this basic can be called into question, how should this affect confidence in other widely-held scientific claims like "evolution is a fact"
More...Embryonic Stem Cells Approved for First Human Trials
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33 days ago (8/5/2010).
Stem cells from adults can be "coaxed" into becoming more specified tissues and used effectively for specific treatments. Stem cells from embryos, however, involve the destruction of a human life and have not yet offered any useful treatments.
Nevertheless, the FDA has approved embryonic stem cell use in "the world's first clinical trial of a human embryonic stem cell (hESC)-based therapy in man."
More...Donkey Gives Birth to 'Zedonk'
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34 days ago (8/4/2010).
For 25 years, donkeys and zebras at the Chestatee Wildlife Preserve have shared the same pasture while maintaining separate identities. When a donkey gave birth recently, zookeepers were surprised to see the baby "zedonk."
How is it that such distinct creatures can interbreed?
More...How Can Evolution Explain Opposite Genetic Effects?
from Science Update from ICR
35 days ago (8/3/2010).
To produce offspring, males and females contribute specialized reproductive cells called gametes--sperm cells from males and eggs from females. Most genes used to manufacture gametes differ from organism to organism.
Scientists were surprised, therefore, by a recent study showing that, in spite of those differences, one gene in particular was present in all the animals surveyed.
More...Experiment Shows Plant 'Intelligence'
from Science Update from ICR
36 days ago (8/2/2010).
Do plants think? They don't have brains or even neurons.
But when scientists shined a light onto a leaf at the bottom of a plant, the entire plant "knew" how to react. How could it do this?
More...100 Years of Fruit Fly Tests Show No Evolution
from Science Update from ICR
40 days ago (7/29/2010).
The first genetic study using fruit flies appeared in 1910 and described the unexpected appearance of a male fruit fly with white eyes after generations of flies with pigmented eyes.
This began a century of focused studies on fruit fly mutations, but what has really been learned by all this tinkering?
More...Blond Baby from Black Parents a Genetic Mystery
from Science Update from ICR
41 days ago (7/28/2010).
A British Nigerian couple--Ben and Angela Ihegboro--is not aware of any fair-skinned ancestors on either side of their families. Yet they gave birth to a blue-eyed, blond-haired, and fair-skinned baby girl.
As the mother herself exclaimed, "What on earth happened here?"
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