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Wave Power and Ventilating the Ark


A British company is making waves, or more like harnessing them, in the field of renewable energy research. Wavegen, located in Scotland, has built a device that harnesses the oscillations of waves and converts that energy to electricity.

Similar wave power technology has been proposed as a possible means of ventilating the massive Noah’s Ark. Read the entire article.

PBS Bible-bashing? Wait and See.


The two-hour NOVA program titled “The Bible’s Buried Secrets,” slated to air on November 18, was featured in an Orlando Sentinel story. Sentinel TV critic Hal Boedeker wrote that the documentary “is likely to cause a furor” as it “challenges long-held beliefs. Abraham, Sarah and their offspring probably didn’t exist, says Carol Meyers, a religion professor at Duke University.”

NOVA has portrayed bias and partial truths in past programming, so suspicions regarding its take on biblical history may prove to be well-founded. Read the entire article.

Why Are Human Genes Still Linked?


U.S. News and World Report recently ran a story titled “What Will Human Beings Become?” It asked the question “How will humanity evolve?” Interestingly, one of the supposed evolutionary trends that was included seems instead to point to a recent creation of humankind.

How recent is “recent”? According to the U.S. News report, human evolution was static for eons before suddenly jump-starting from 5,000 to 10,000 years ago. Read the entire article.

Fish Scales and Body Armor Design


The U.S. Army is looking at fish for the future of body armor design. MIT investigators have uncovered some of the secrets of construction that enable fish scales to be lightweight, sturdy, flexible, and effective in repelling punctures.

They used a variety of techniques to study the bony scales of the unique African freshwater Polypterus senegalus, which is reputed to have existed unchanged for 65 million years. It is a “living fossil,” with ancestors fossilized in cretaceous rocks.

Are the scales of this fish an example of evolutionary development? Read the entire article.

ICR Launches New Research Funding Initiative


The Institute for Creation Research is pleased to announce the launch of its National Creation Science Foundation (NCSF), a funding activity to advance the study of origins science.

For nearly 40 years, ICR has been the leader in scientific research from a biblical perspective, conducting innovative laboratory and field research in the major disciplines of science, as well as in ancient biblical studies and graduate science education.

Through its full-time research staff and graduate school faculty, as well as in partnership with scientists around the world, ICR remains on the cutting edge in origins science.

ICR’s National Creation Science Foundation is the next step in the institute’s mission to advance quality research that impacts our understanding of the creation model as described in Genesis. Read the entire article.

Diamonds May Have Sparked Life, Say Researchers


Researchers cannot seem to figure out how the first living cell came from a soup of inert chemicals using only the forces of nature and time. Today, they have a new hope: diamonds. German chemists at the University of Ulm found that when diamonds are treated with hydrogen, thin layers of water form on their surfaces.

They also found that diamonds conduct electricity, and propose that these properties, in conjunction with nearby biochemicals, could have sparked the first living cell. Read the entire article.

Osmium in Shale Reflects the Flood


Researchers at the University of Alberta have discovered osmium signatures in shale. Osmium is a radioactive element that is commonly found in lava and in water that is near lava. The scientists were interested in discovering the cause of a particular “oceanic anoxic event,” a time when the earth’s marine life underwent massive die-offs.

Investigators reason that a “massive magmatic episode” caused the extensive marine extermination. Which historical catastrophic event best explains this? Read the entire article.

The Steady Gaze of Flies: An Engineering Marvel


Scientists at Imperial College in London have flies on their minds. "Anyone who has watched one fly chasing another at incredibly high speed, without crashing or bumping into anything, can appreciate the high-end flight performance of these animals,” Dr. Holger Krapp of the Department of Bioengineering said in an Imperial College news release.

Dr. Krapp and his colleagues are conducting research to help answer a long-standing mystery: how is information from fly eyes transformed into appropriately responsive muscle contraction so quickly? Read the entire article. 

"Co-evolution" or Creation?


The lowly milkweed has presented a challenge to the evolutionary assumption that life forms become more complex in response to environmental pressures. Monarch butterfly caterpillars can eat any of the 2,400 species of the milkweed plant and no other food, despite the milkweeds' defensive structures.

Yet research shows that milkweeds are shifting from the development of new sophisticated defense mechanisms to simply trying to re-grow leaf tissue faster than it is eaten by insects. Read the entire article.

Extinction Events Are Declining to the Biblical Level


New research may change conventional thinking on fossil diversity and extinction rates. John Alroy, a researcher at the University of California Santa Barbara, and 34 other scientists recently completed a 10-year study on the subject, published in the journal Science.

They concluded that earth has experienced only three major extinction periods, instead of the long-held belief that there were five. Read the entire article.

 

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