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Particle Physics Is Remarkably Consistent with Genesis
A team of theoretical physicists recently performed a massive computation that confirmed Einstein’s famous formula E=mc2, which states that matter and energy interconvert. The researchers' quantitative calculations agreed closely with the experimental observations that most of the mass of protons and neutrons comes from confined energy.
So far the information gleaned from the scientific investigation of the structure of matter agrees with the Genesis account of creation. Read the entire article.
'Multiverse' Theory Fails to Explain Away God
New discoveries continue to reveal the life-friendly properties of our universe, in which physical laws are seemingly fine-tuned to allow life to exist. To get around the appearance of design, secular scientists have to invent naturalistic explanations that exclude the possibility of supernatural origins.
The latest of these inventions is "multiverses." But is there any evidence for alternate universes? Read the entire article.
New Study Makes Connection Between Religion and Lower Mortality
Recent research examined cardiovascular disease and mortality rates in relation to the religious involvement of the study's participants. The study's authors concluded that while religious participation did not reduce fatalities from heart disease, overall it did decrease the risk of death.
The researchers didn't uncover the exact link between "religiosity" and longevity, but Scripture gives some intriguing connections between physical wellbeing and religious belief and practice. Read the entire article.
Self-sacrificing Cells Demonstrate a Selfless Designer
Scientists have discovered that a single yeast cell gene (FLO1) expresses a protein that causes individual cells to stick to one another. The outside cells will sacrifice themselves to protect the inner cells from possible harmful chemicals.
Could nature have programmed such selfless behavior, and if so, how? Read the entire article.
Texas "Freedom" Network, UTA Professor Oppose Academic Freedom in Public Schools
The Texas State Board of Education will vote early next year on the state's science standards. Some interest groups are gathering their arguments to influence the Board, whose decision will affect millions of schoolchildren’s science curricula.
One such group, Texas Freedom Network, recently conducted a survey of evolutionary biologists across the state—with predictable results. Read the entire article.
PBS Fails to Uncover the Bible's "Buried Secrets"
On November 18, 2008, publicly-funded PBS stations aired a two-hour NOVA special titled “The Bible’s Buried Secrets” that attempted to find the “true” history of the origins of the Israelites, their sacred Scripture, and their revolutionary belief in a single God.
Using a “convergence” of science and Scripture, the show concluded that the Hebrew Bible was an invention, not a remembrance, of history. Read the entire article.
Darwin's Mockingbirds Show Neither 'Rigid Creation' Nor Evolution
The Natural History Museum in London recently opened a new exhibit that features mockingbirds that Charles Darwin collected during his travels around the Galapagos Islands in 1835. He observed they were unlike the mockingbirds in other South American regions.
Do the Galapagos mockingbirds' differences mean that they evolved? Read the entire article.
Photo credit: Peter Gene
Study Shows Nanoparticles Contribute to Cell Damage, Aging
Among many possible environmental factors, scientists have long suspected that certain combinations of nanoparticles contribute to cell damage, aging, and eventually death. That hypothesis has been confirmed in a recent study that observed these ultrafine molecules, some of which can penetrate cell membranes and wreak havoc.
In the human body, DNA-damaging factors are counteracted by DNA repair mechanisms, but those mechanisms can be compromised. Read the entire article.
How Did Marine Organisms End Up in Tree Sap?
A team of French experts in paleoenvironments has discovered algae and several bits of marine life that are completely encased in amber, a hard substance thought to originate from hardened tree sap. Amber is renowned for preserving exquisitely detailed fossils, often of insects.
But considering that amber is produced in forests and not oceans, how did marine organisms get in there? Read the entire article.
Genetic Expression: Same Genes Can Produce Different Results
Genes could be thought of as brick molds, used to construct materials for building the physical structures of living organisms. They carry the codes to help make proteins, which then make up different cells that are combined together to form mega-structures called tissues.
New research has shed more light on how genes are used by cells to build the different tissues needed by complex living creatures. Read the entire article.
Atheists' Christmas Campaign: "Yes" to Goodness, "No" to God
Just weeks after the British Humanist Association unveiled plans for "No God" ads on London bendy-buses, the American Humanist Association is starting a similar campaign to run during the holiday season. The ads borrow a line from a popular Christmas jingle and proclaim, "Why believe in a god? Just be good for goodness' sake."
But without an absolute standard for "good," being "good for goodness' sake" is a relative concept. Read the entire article.
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