Evolutionary Face-Making

A new Smithsonian exhibit will feature fleshed-out faces “of our earliest human ancestors.” Fossil evidence was combined with evolutionary beliefs to depict how these seven creatures may have looked.

The artistic results are stunning, but are they actually historical reconstructions—or evolutionary propaganda? More...

Image credit: John Gurche

Evolution and Global Warming Link as Theories, Not Science, in Kentucky Bill

Global warming advocates are joining evolution proponents to target conservative evangelical Christians for the recent introduction of a Kentucky legislative bill that involves both theories. The bill is designed to promote “critical thinking skills, logical analysis, and open and objective discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of scientific theories being studied.”

Do the bill’s opponents consider critical thinking irrelevant in scientific study? More...

Bacteria Share Metabolism through Nanowires

Researchers in Denmark noticed something odd when they examined seafloor sediment that had been left for a few weeks in glass tubes—foul-smelling hydrogen sulfide had been removed from the top centimeter of the mud.

This could not happen so quickly by oxygen passively diffusing down into the sediment, so they set out to find what was expediting the chemistry. More...

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Small Dogs Came from the Middle East

Although dogs come in many sizes, scientists have found some specific genetic markers for small dogs. A recent survey of these markers across many wild and domesticated dogs seems to have provided some answers for when and where the smaller breeds developed.

And what the researchers discovered comes as no surprise in light of biblical history. More...

Mystery Fossil Study Fits Creation

In the mid-1800s, a mysterious new fossil, Prototaxites, was described. The large, tree-trunk-shaped fossils were found in some of the lowermost fossil-bearing rock layers. To date, researchers have been unable to say exactly what they are.

A new study claims that they are the remains of rolled-up mats of a liverwort plant, a conclusion that is remarkably consistent with the creation model. More...

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Did Religion 'Emerge' through Evolution?

How did mankind develop its unique ability to participate in religion? This question was recently explored by evolutionists who found that morals do not necessarily proceed from religious, cultural, or any other learned aspect.

From this, they reasoned that religion “emerged” as a by-product of cognitive faculties that evolved for other reasons. But there is a key consideration they seem to have skipped. More...

Fossil Anemone Tracks Don't Fit Evolution

Interesting markings were recently found on a rock in Newfoundland. A study concluded that they were trails left by seafloor-dwelling animals around 565 million years ago.

But such a find is difficult to reconcile with the evolutionary teaching that muscles, and therefore animal locomotion, did not evolve until much later. More...