History, Evolution, and the Darwin Debate
How Could God Create Through Evolution?: A Look at Theodicy, Part 2
The hybrid of bad theology and toxic Darwinism does a disservice to Christians, and is a bureaucratic ploy of Big Science, trying to promote junk ideology to a public it holds in contempt.
To find the common point in religion and evolution, requires a new kind of religion and a view of evolution beyond Darwinism.
Aging and Longevity Tied to Specific Brain Region in Mice
ScienceDaily (July 29, 2010) — Researchers watched two groups of mice, both nearing the end of a two-day fast. One group was quietly huddled together, but the other group was active and alert. The difference? The second set of mice had been engineered so their brains produced more SIRT1, a protein known to play a role in aging and longevity.
How could progressives who worked for conservation, national health insurance and the rights of workers adopt eugenics as the next bright idea? …
From yesterday: http://darwiniana.com/2010/07/28/altenberg-16-con-men/
and:
http://darwiniana.com/2010/07/28/note-to-suzan-mazur/
The episodes centering around the Altenberg 16 show up the inability of science/academia to manage any kind of reasonable paradigm critique and progression.
Ms. Mazur was attacked here, for trying to be helpful, because figures like Pigliucci et al. wish to stage a fake postdarwinism that is really the same as before.
His editorship of The Extended Synthesis would lead him to praise the simple effort of Mazur to publicize his efforts and those in his book.
But with Darwinists there must be a screw loose and you would bet wrong on the obvious
Rereading: The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carré
William Boyd explains why he keeps returning to Le Carré’s great espionage novel 50 years after its first publication
This may well be a great spy novel, but I recomment some non-fiction, for a dose of reality:
JFK: the unspeakable
The public is totally unaware of what’s going on!
Quantum Phenomenon Observed: Atoms Form Organized Structure from Unorganized One
Scientists Tap Into Antarctic Octopus Venom
ScienceDaily (July 28, 2010) — Researchers have collected venom from octopuses in Antarctica for the first time, significantly advancing our understanding of the properties of venom as a potential resource for drug development.
Unintelligent By Design: Louisiana School District Considers Teaching Creationism
Brainstem, Spinal Cord Images Hidden in Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel Fresco
ScienceDaily (July 28, 2010) — Michelangelo, the 16th century master painter and accomplished anatomist, appears to have hidden an image of the brainstem and spinal cord in a depiction of God in the Sistine Chapel’s ceiling, a new study by Johns Hopkins researchers reports. These findings by a neurosurgeon and a medical illustrator, published in the May Neurosurgery, may explain long controversial and unusual features of one of the frescoes’ figures.
Hormonal Birth Control Alters Scent Communication in Primates
ScienceDaily (July 29, 2010) — Hormonal contraceptives change the ways captive ring-tailed lemurs relate to one another both socially and sexually, according to a Duke University study that combined analyses of hormones, genes, scent chemicals and behavior.
Marine Phytoplankton Declining: Striking Global Changes at the Base of the Marine Food Web Linked to Rising Ocean Temperatures
ScienceDaily (July 28, 2010) — A new article published in the 29 July issue of the journal Nature reveals for the first time that microscopic marine algae known as “phytoplankton” have been declining globally over the 20th century. Phytoplankton forms the basis of the marine food chain and sustains diverse assemblages of species ranging from tiny zooplankton to large marine mammals, seabirds, and fish. Says lead author Daniel Boyce, “Phytoplankton is the fuel on which marine ecosystems run. A decline of phytoplankton affects everything up the food chain, including humans.”
Artificially Controlling Water Condensation Leads to ‘Room-Temperature Ice’
ScienceDaily (July 27, 2010) — Earth’s climate is strongly influenced by the presence of particles of different shapes and origins — in the form of dust, ice and pollutants — that find their way into the lowest portion of the atmosphere, the troposphere. There, water adsorbed on the surface of these particles can freeze at higher temperatures than pure water droplets, triggering rain and snow.
Published on Thursday, July 29, 2010 by YES! Magazine
2010 a Tipping Point for Renewable Energy
100 days into the BP disaster, it’s time to quit claiming that an economy based on fossil fuels is our only option.
by Brooke Jarvis
It’s been a tough summer for the oil industry-or so you’d think.
BP’s geyser of oil has now made headlines for 100 days, each one a reminder that oil extraction poses dangers we can’t control.
Published on Thursday, July 29, 2010 by The Guardian/UK
Global Warming Pushes 2010 Temperatures to Record Highs
Scientists from two leading climate research centres publish ‘best evidence yet’ of rising long-term global temperatures
by Juliette Jowit
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/07/29
Global temperatures in the first half of the year were the hottest since records began more than a century ago, according to two of the world’s leading climate research centres.
http://wsws.org/articles/2010/jul2010/econ-j29.shtml
The “new normal”: More than one in five Americans at risk of
destitution
By Barry Grey
29 July 2010
More than one in five Americans in 2009 suffered a household
income loss of 25 percent or more over the previous year,
according to a new report sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation
and entitled “Economic Security at Risk.” The report documents a
steady increase in economic insecurity since the 1960s, and
concludes that annual income losses of 25 percent or greater
increased by 49.9 percent between 1985 and 2009.
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An updated edition of a mental health bible for doctors may include diagnoses for “disorders” such as toddler tantrums and binge eating, experts say, and could mean that soon no-one will be classed as normal
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100728/hl_nm/us_mental
US Judge Blocks Key Parts of Arizona Immigration Law
http://act.commondreams.org/go/1633?akid=125.96588.eAqMfd&t=2
‘Leaked Afghan Files Hid a Losing War, Not Military Secrets’
http://act.commondreams.org/go/1641?akid=125.96588.eAqMfd&t=18
US Hunts Afghan War Files Leaker
http://act.commondreams.org/go/1637?akid=125.96588.eAqMfd&t=10
‘Sacrificed Its Soul at the Altar of Capitalism’: The US Town That Outsourced Everything
http://act.commondreams.org/go/1635?akid=125.96588.eAqMfd&t=6