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Scientists from North Carolina’s Duke University claim to have demonstrated, for the first time, “an evolutionary connection between available food supplies and brain size.”
We’re surprised—yet, in a way, not all that surprised—to read that the Quebec Ministry of Education in Canada is now telling “unlicensed Christian evangelical schools” that they must teach Darwinian evolution (and government-approved sex education) according to the official provincial curriculum. This last part is important, because the schools already teach evolution; they simply teach it “warts and all.” Now, they must use the curriculum, which presents evolution as scientific fact.
How long is it before governments worldwide require all children to be indoctrinated in Darwinism?
Eleven US cities will be hosting the remains of “Lucy,” the australopithecine considered by evolutionists to be an ancestor of humans. Obviously, touring this fossil doesn’t change what Lucy really was. What’s most interesting are the two images in this BBC article. One is a depiction of a somewhat human-like Lucy; the other, a photo of what actually exists of Lucy. Compare the two—do you think evolutionists are filling in any of the details with their imagination? Unfortunately, not everyone realizes this.
We’ve got another “living fossil,” according to a paper published in this week’s issue of Nature. Living fossils are life-forms that are found to be virtually identical to fossils of creatures that lived “millions of years” ago (according to evolutionists). Of course, when one views the fossil record through the creationist perspective, the existence of living fossils makes complete sense: though species can change over time, these changes never turn one kind of animal into a completely different kind!
This widely picked-up Reuters story discusses evidence of parasitic worms in dinosaur fossils. That may be fascinating to some, but what we find most interesting are some “clues” about how this dinosaur was buried:
… [a]n unusually well-preserved fossil …
… [t]ypically a carcass attracts multiple scavengers, and this one was largely undisturbed …
… the carcass was apparently buried before it had a chance to fall apart …
Pardon the flippancy, but what possibly could have caused this fossil to be buried so rapidly?
In other news, thirteen fossilized footprints have been discovered in northern Mexico. What do scientists say?
It is likely they were imprinted in mud and preserved by some rapid change in the environment, said Arturo Gonzalez … “[t]here must have been a natural phenomenon to rapidly cover them so they were not rubbed out and were perfectly preserved.”
If you’re an evolutionist saddened at the lack of extraterrestrial life discovered so far, take heart! NASA’s 1976 Viking missions to the red planet “may have missed signs of life” because the Viking landers’ tests were not “robust enough.”
Apparently, now that few believe there’s any life on Mars (see item 7 of the August 12 News to Note), evolutionists are backing up and saying, “Well … uh … maybe we just missed it!”
In this tragic article from the German magazine Der Spiegel, we read about the “crusade” against religious fundamentalism by the likes of atheist scientist Richard Dawkins of England.
An international team headed by John Lattanzio, Director of the Centre for Stellar and Planetary Astrophysics at Australia’s Monash University, announced in this week’s issue of Science that problems in the big bang model have been solved. The problems concerned the amount of helium-3 in the universe, which was previously considered too low for what the big bang model predicted. New data show that stars do not release helium-3 into space at the end of their lives due to a “core flash.”
What’s most interesting is that this flaw in the big bang model was barely reported to the public, and we certainl