“Fossilized fragments of a skeleton, hidden within a rock the size of a grapefruit, have helped upend one of the longest-standing assumptions about the origins of modern birds.”
Author: Caspian
Eric R. Hedin, Ph.D. earned his doctorate in experimental plasma physics from the University of Washington, and conducted post-doctoral research at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. He has taught physics and astronomy at Taylor University, Indiana Wesleyan University, and Ball State University in Indiana, and at Biola University in Southern California. At Ball State, his research interests focused on computational nano-electronics and higher-dimensional physics. His BSU course, The Boundaries of Science, attracted national media attention.
Dr. Hedin’s recent book, Canceled Science: What Some Atheists Don’t Want You to See, highlights scientific evidence pointing to design.
ITER: International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor
Imagine building ITER with the additional engineering demand that it not only function to produce fusion energy, but that it contain the machinery to be able to reproduce itself Imagine building ITER with the additional engineering demand that it not only function to produce fusion energy, but that it contain the machinery to be able to reproduce itself multiple times over!
At SciTech Daily: SOFIA Finds No Phosphine – a Potential Sign of Life – on Venus
No chemical signature of life on Venus – anybody surprised?
At Phys.org: Anatomy of a superorganism: Ant pupae secrete fluid as ‘milk’ to nurture young larvae
Life in an ant colony is a symphony of subtle interactions between insects acting in concert, more like cells in tissue than independent organisms bunking in a colony. Now, researchers have discovered a previously unknown social interaction that unites the colony, linking ants across developmental stages: adults, larvae, and pupae (an immobile stage, not unlike Read More…
At Evolution News: For Darwinism, Pregnancy Is the “Mother of all Chicken-and-Egg Problems”
David Klinghoffer writes: Here’s a really devilish problem to pose to your favorite friend, teacher, or relative who’s a Darwinist true believer. As Your Designed Body co-author Steve Laufmann observes, the relationship between an embryo and its mother is a relationship between unequals. The embryo’s systems are not yet complete so it depends on its mother for Read More…
From MSN: Orion capsule watches the moon eclipse Earth at farthest point of Artemis odyssey
Impressive achievements by the Artemis 1 mission.
From Evolution News: Prigogine’s Self-Organization vs. Specified Biological Complexity
Self-organization, exemplified in “dissipative structures” (Prigogine), which can arise in systems maintained far from thermodynamic equilibrium, result in a decrease in information and do not constitute a natural explanation of information-rich biological systems.
At Big Think: Brain experiment suggests that consciousness relies on quantum entanglement
As a physicist whose research involved computational nano-electronics, for which the entire physical schema relied upon quantum mechanical transport of electrons through molecular structures, it would seem to be a “no-brainer” that quantum processes (including entanglement) are prevalent in brain activity.
At Science Daily: Exploring the possibility of extraterrestrial life living in caves
Spelunking on Mars? I’m sure it could be fascinating, but it bears keeping in mind that environment doesn’t produce life.
The Thought that Stops Thought
“G. K. Chesterton wrote, ‘It is idle to talk always of the alternative of reason and faith. Reason is itself a matter of faith.'”
At Evolution News: Intelligent Design and Man’s Free Will
C. S. Lewis: “Free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.”
Man-ape chasm of differences
“Human beings have mental powers that include the material mental powers of animals but in addition entail a profoundly different kind of thinking.”
At Science News: This ancient worm might be an important evolutionary missing link
“Lophophorates are a collection of sea creatures with a murky past.”
At Evolution News: Intelligent Design and the Regularity of Natural Law
This article addresses one of the most commonly raised objections to the reality of God as Creator – Why did God not make a perfect world?
At Reasons.org: More Evidence for a Beautiful Universe
Burov and Burov: “The laws of nature are fine‐tuned not only with
respect to the anthropic principle but to be discoverable as well.”