http://www.icr.org/articles/type/9/ Copyright 2012, Institute for Creation Research Thu, 9 Feb 2012 10:30:02 CST Thu, 9 Feb 2012 10:30:02 CST en icrscienceupdatehttp://feedburner.google.com http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/icrscienceupdate/~3/pNFSWOQKrv0/ Thu, 9 Feb 2012 00:00:00 PST <p><br /> <a href="/article/6623/"><img align="right" alt="" height="124" hspace="7" src="http://static-www.icr.org/i/articles/news/people_laughing.jpg" vspace="5" width="200" /></a>Scientists recently studied laughter in different animals, such as rats and primates, by tickling them. One study compared the sounds made by humans and great apes. Researchers concluded that &quot;laughter is at least 30 million to 60 million years old.&quot;</p><br /> <p><br /> With a range of 30 million years, though, it&#39;s safe to assume that evolutionists have no idea when laughter evolved.</p>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.icr.org/article/6623/" title="Read entire article">More...</a><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/icrscienceupdate?a=pNFSWOQKrv0:iNVrXkg3OMg:UT3xtbGYFzA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/icrscienceupdate?d=UT3xtbGYFzA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/icrscienceupdate?a=pNFSWOQKrv0:iNVrXkg3OMg:K6F3SCn7Sig"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/icrscienceupdate?d=K6F3SCn7Sig" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/icrscienceupdate/~4/pNFSWOQKrv0" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.icr.org/article/6623/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/icrscienceupdate/~3/T7I33AjyoeI/ Wed, 8 Feb 2012 00:00:00 PST <p><br /> <a href="/article/6621/"><img align="right" alt="" height="124" hspace="7" src="http://static-www.icr.org/i/articles/news/volcanic_rock.jpg" vspace="5" width="200" /></a>The Deccan Traps in India, and especially the Siberian Traps, have vast quantities of lava rock near the earth&#39;s surface. Many geologists have assumed that this formed over millions of years.</p><br /> <p><br /> However, recent studies testing that assumption have shown just the opposite&mdash;the magma moved rapidly from great depths.</p>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.icr.org/article/6621/" title="Read entire article">More...</a><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/icrscienceupdate?a=T7I33AjyoeI:FWQ4G8gmmyk:UT3xtbGYFzA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/icrscienceupdate?d=UT3xtbGYFzA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/icrscienceupdate?a=T7I33AjyoeI:FWQ4G8gmmyk:K6F3SCn7Sig"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/icrscienceupdate?d=K6F3SCn7Sig" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/icrscienceupdate/~4/T7I33AjyoeI" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.icr.org/article/6621/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/icrscienceupdate/~3/6bkHKHG3grc/ Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:00:00 PST <p><br /> <a href="/article/6613/"><img align="right" alt="" height="124" hspace="7" src="http://static-www.icr.org/i/articles/news/blindfish.jpg" vspace="5" width="200" /></a>Evolution maintains that as more time passes, living things evolve to acquire better and more useful traits. As such, shouldn&#39;t the <em>loss</em> of a useful trait, such as eyesight, be regarded as the opposite of evolution?</p><br /> <p><br /> Not so, say recent news reports on blind fish.</p>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.icr.org/article/6613/" title="Read entire article">More...</a><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/icrscienceupdate?a=6bkHKHG3grc:d-UmnHCCQnE:UT3xtbGYFzA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/icrscienceupdate?d=UT3xtbGYFzA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/icrscienceupdate?a=6bkHKHG3grc:d-UmnHCCQnE:K6F3SCn7Sig"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/icrscienceupdate?d=K6F3SCn7Sig" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/icrscienceupdate/~4/6bkHKHG3grc" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.icr.org/article/6613/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/icrscienceupdate/~3/vGP5bS5LxzY/ Mon, 6 Feb 2012 00:00:00 PST <p><br /> <a href="/article/6609/"><img align="right" alt="" height="124" hspace="7" src="http://static-www.icr.org/i/articles/news/body_cant_evolve.jpg" vspace="5" width="200" /></a>In a recent paper, Baylor University Medical Center surgeon Joseph Kuhn described serious problems with Darwinian evolution. He first described how life could not possibly have come from chemicals alone, since the information residing in DNA required an input from outside of nature.</p><br /> <p><br /> He then addressed Darwinism&#39;s inability to account for the all-or-nothing structure of cellular systems, including the human body.</p>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.icr.org/article/6609/" title="Read entire article">More...</a><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/icrscienceupdate?a=vGP5bS5LxzY:H5Hyu8buiRU:UT3xtbGYFzA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/icrscienceupdate?d=UT3xtbGYFzA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/icrscienceupdate?a=vGP5bS5LxzY:H5Hyu8buiRU:K6F3SCn7Sig"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/icrscienceupdate?d=K6F3SCn7Sig" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/icrscienceupdate/~4/vGP5bS5LxzY" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.icr.org/article/6609/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/icrscienceupdate/~3/1xhuLQBBFr0/ Fri, 3 Feb 2012 00:00:00 PST <p><br /> <a href="/article/6607/"><img align="right" alt="" height="124" hspace="7" src="http://static-www.icr.org/i/articles/news/dissect_evolution.jpg" vspace="5" width="200" /></a>Dallas&#39; Baylor University Medical Center surgeon Joseph Kuhn recently described three serious problems with Darwinian evolution in a paper titled &quot;Dissecting Darwinism&quot; for the school&#39;s medical proceedings.</p><br /> <p><br /> He wrote that all three points were argued in 2010 in front of the Texas State Board of Education, which after days of deliberation decided that textbooks must teach both the strengths and weakness of evolution.</p>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.icr.org/article/6607/" title="Read entire article">More...</a><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/icrscienceupdate?a=1xhuLQBBFr0:ZYwH6qBzKo0:UT3xtbGYFzA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/icrscienceupdate?d=UT3xtbGYFzA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/icrscienceupdate?a=1xhuLQBBFr0:ZYwH6qBzKo0:K6F3SCn7Sig"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/icrscienceupdate?d=K6F3SCn7Sig" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/icrscienceupdate/~4/1xhuLQBBFr0" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.icr.org/article/6607/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/icrscienceupdate/~3/TrOPVKhVFz4/ Thu, 2 Feb 2012 00:00:00 PST <p><br /> <a href="/article/6606/"><img align="right" alt="" height="124" hspace="7" src="http://static-www.icr.org/i/articles/news/atp_synthase_motor.jpg" vspace="5" width="200" /></a>God appears to have left His unmistakable signature throughout His creation, even on the smallest parts.</p><br /> <p><br /> ATP synthase, an important enzyme, manufactures (synthesizes) a vital, energy-rich compound called ATP. A stream of protons from an acidic area flows through ATP synthase to power its spinning rotor, which in turn activates rocking cams to make ATP. It can also run in reverse, acting as a proton pump.</p>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.icr.org/article/6606/" title="Read entire article">More...</a><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/icrscienceupdate?a=TrOPVKhVFz4:rZsf0kyknJQ:UT3xtbGYFzA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/icrscienceupdate?d=UT3xtbGYFzA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/icrscienceupdate?a=TrOPVKhVFz4:rZsf0kyknJQ:K6F3SCn7Sig"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/icrscienceupdate?d=K6F3SCn7Sig" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/icrscienceupdate/~4/TrOPVKhVFz4" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.icr.org/article/6606/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/icrscienceupdate/~3/MEK0EBPPeaQ/ Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PST <p><br /> <a href="/article/6605/"><img align="right" alt="" height="124" hspace="7" src="http://static-www.icr.org/i/articles/news/broken_pencil.jpg" vspace="5" width="200" /></a><em>Nature</em>, one of the premier science journals in the world today, recently published its editors&#39; choice of science stories for 2011.</p><br /> <p><br /> Of the nine stories, only one addressed evolution&mdash;a paleoanthropology article by Fred Spoor entitled &quot;Malapa and the genus <em>Homo</em>.&quot; Is this story on<em> A. sediba</em> the best on evolution out of the whole of 2011?</p>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.icr.org/article/6605/" title="Read entire article">More...</a><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/icrscienceupdate?a=MEK0EBPPeaQ:hNgBPiu6UoU:UT3xtbGYFzA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/icrscienceupdate?d=UT3xtbGYFzA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/icrscienceupdate?a=MEK0EBPPeaQ:hNgBPiu6UoU:K6F3SCn7Sig"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/icrscienceupdate?d=K6F3SCn7Sig" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/icrscienceupdate/~4/MEK0EBPPeaQ" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.icr.org/article/6605/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/icrscienceupdate/~3/sSeZ4STeYLI/ Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PST <p><br /> <a href="/article/6604/"><img align="right" alt="" height="124" hspace="7" src="http://static-www.icr.org/i/articles/news/dog_on_snow.jpg" vspace="5" width="200" /></a>Human feet would quickly freeze if exposed to snow and ice without proper gear, but dogs don&#39;t seem to mind the cold. Since the pads of their feet aren&#39;t protected by fur like the rest of their bodies, it would seem that they&#39;d be especially susceptible to freezing&mdash;but they aren&#39;t.</p><br /> <p><br /> Japanese researchers recently discovered why.</p>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.icr.org/article/6604/" title="Read entire article">More...</a><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/icrscienceupdate?a=sSeZ4STeYLI:paS8CNaDkeM:UT3xtbGYFzA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/icrscienceupdate?d=UT3xtbGYFzA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/icrscienceupdate?a=sSeZ4STeYLI:paS8CNaDkeM:K6F3SCn7Sig"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/icrscienceupdate?d=K6F3SCn7Sig" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/icrscienceupdate/~4/sSeZ4STeYLI" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.icr.org/article/6604/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/icrscienceupdate/~3/DD7I9-9D1JA/ Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PST <p><br /> <a href="/article/6603/"><img align="right" alt="" height="124" hspace="7" src="http://static-www.icr.org/i/articles/news/fossil_whale_brain.jpg" vspace="5" width="200" /></a>Howell Thomas, senior paleontological preparator for the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, was skeptical when a woman claimed that she found a fossilized whale brain in San Luis Obispo County, California, nine years ago.</p><br /> <p><br /> &quot;The first thing I said when I heard about this finding was that there&#39;s just no way,&quot; Thomas told the <em>Beatrice Daily Sun.</em></p>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.icr.org/article/6603/" title="Read entire article">More...</a><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/icrscienceupdate?a=DD7I9-9D1JA:tBuWhJ8qiec:UT3xtbGYFzA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/icrscienceupdate?d=UT3xtbGYFzA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/icrscienceupdate?a=DD7I9-9D1JA:tBuWhJ8qiec:K6F3SCn7Sig"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/icrscienceupdate?d=K6F3SCn7Sig" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/icrscienceupdate/~4/DD7I9-9D1JA" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.icr.org/article/6603/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/icrscienceupdate/~3/mSm69rfxu3s/ Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PST <p><br /> <a href="/article/6602/"><img align="right" alt="" height="124" hspace="7" src="http://static-www.icr.org/i/articles/news/paddlefish.jpg" vspace="5" width="200" /></a>Paddlefish, also known as spoonbill catfish, are cartilaginous fish that inhabit freshwater lakes. They only like to feed on plankton, a category of aquatic food that includes tiny crustaceans like brine shrimp and water fleas.</p><br /> <p><br /> Paddlefish hunt using sensors on their paddle, or nose, that guide them right to their small prey. Biologists from Ohio University recently discovered why this system works so well.</p>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.icr.org/article/6602/" title="Read entire article">More...</a><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/icrscienceupdate?a=mSm69rfxu3s:fBZyO3moBEM:UT3xtbGYFzA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/icrscienceupdate?d=UT3xtbGYFzA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/icrscienceupdate?a=mSm69rfxu3s:fBZyO3moBEM:K6F3SCn7Sig"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/icrscienceupdate?d=K6F3SCn7Sig" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/icrscienceupdate/~4/mSm69rfxu3s" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.icr.org/article/6602/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/icrscienceupdate/~3/e02qr5xF4RA/ Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PST <p><br /> <a href="/article/6601/"><img align="right" alt="" height="124" hspace="7" src="http://static-www.icr.org/i/articles/news/blindfolded_man.jpg" vspace="5" width="200" /></a>Which is more complex&mdash;a typical man walking across a street, or a blind man carrying a legless man across the street?</p><br /> <p><br /> The blind and legless partners are more complex simply because they have more interacting parts. But this increased complexity not only results in less functionality, it also doesn&#39;t provide any additional information about how sight and mobility could have originated.</p>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.icr.org/article/6601/" title="Read entire article">More...</a><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/icrscienceupdate?a=e02qr5xF4RA:OP1fqAzqrG8:UT3xtbGYFzA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/icrscienceupdate?d=UT3xtbGYFzA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/icrscienceupdate?a=e02qr5xF4RA:OP1fqAzqrG8:K6F3SCn7Sig"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/icrscienceupdate?d=K6F3SCn7Sig" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/icrscienceupdate/~4/e02qr5xF4RA" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.icr.org/article/6601/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/icrscienceupdate/~3/Fdb0f1tSRW4/ Fri, 20 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PST <p><br /> <a href="/article/6600/"><img align="right" alt="" height="124" hspace="7" src="http://static-www.icr.org/i/articles/news/universe_from_nothing.jpg" vspace="5" width="200" /></a>If by definition something can never come from nothing, how could anything exist unless Someone put it there?</p><br /> <p><br /> This question has been used as a classic argument for the existence of God&mdash;an argument that theoretical physicist Lawrence Krauss tries to tackle in his new book, <em>A Universe from Nothing</em>. Although the book&#39;s counterarguments were designed to close the door on God, they actually distill to failed atheist tactics.</p>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.icr.org/article/6600/" title="Read entire article">More...</a><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/icrscienceupdate?a=Fdb0f1tSRW4:9shK9kOm1WQ:UT3xtbGYFzA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/icrscienceupdate?d=UT3xtbGYFzA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/icrscienceupdate?a=Fdb0f1tSRW4:9shK9kOm1WQ:K6F3SCn7Sig"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/icrscienceupdate?d=K6F3SCn7Sig" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/icrscienceupdate/~4/Fdb0f1tSRW4" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.icr.org/article/6600/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/icrscienceupdate/~3/8rqpCDEMXpw/ Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PST <p><br /> <a href="/article/6599/"><img align="right" alt="" height="124" hspace="7" src="http://static-www.icr.org/i/articles/news/steno_rock_layers.jpg" vspace="5" width="200" /></a>On January 11, Google celebrated the 374th birthday of Nicolaus Steno by featuring a colorful doodle of rock layers on its homepage.</p><br /> <p><br /> Steno provided principles that are still maintained by today&#39;s geologists, though they were not tested experimentally until recently. While he was correct about many things, those experiments have refuted one of Steno&#39;s principal assertions, casting doubt on the evolutionary history that has been built upon it.</p>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.icr.org/article/6599/" title="Read entire article">More...</a><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/icrscienceupdate?a=8rqpCDEMXpw:_SSdvH1RH4o:UT3xtbGYFzA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/icrscienceupdate?d=UT3xtbGYFzA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/icrscienceupdate?a=8rqpCDEMXpw:_SSdvH1RH4o:K6F3SCn7Sig"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/icrscienceupdate?d=K6F3SCn7Sig" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/icrscienceupdate/~4/8rqpCDEMXpw" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.icr.org/article/6599/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/icrscienceupdate/~3/rVOfyzM_xjQ/ Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PST <p><br /> <a href="/article/6598/"><img align="right" alt="" height="124" hspace="7" src="http://static-www.icr.org/i/articles/news/ichthyosaur_fossil.jpg" vspace="5" width="200" /></a>The evolutionary history of certain extinct marine reptiles just got rewritten. After rapidly evolving an array of variations, one particular variety of the dolphin-shape marine reptiles known as ichthyosaurs supposedly died out completely in extinction events dispersed over millions of years.</p><br /> <p><br /> But the recent description of out-of-place ichthyosaur fossils shows that this conception is wrong, and additional related clues point to even deeper problems.</p>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.icr.org/article/6598/" title="Read entire article">More...</a><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/icrscienceupdate?a=rVOfyzM_xjQ:kngxiurd0nM:UT3xtbGYFzA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/icrscienceupdate?d=UT3xtbGYFzA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/icrscienceupdate?a=rVOfyzM_xjQ:kngxiurd0nM:K6F3SCn7Sig"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/icrscienceupdate?d=K6F3SCn7Sig" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/icrscienceupdate/~4/rVOfyzM_xjQ" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.icr.org/article/6598/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/icrscienceupdate/~3/ULDIHZcbllY/ Tue, 17 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PST <p><br /> <a href="/article/6597/"><img align="right" alt="" height="124" hspace="7" src="http://static-www.icr.org/i/articles/news/steelhead_salmon.jpg" vspace="5" width="200" /></a>How do species change? According to Darwinists, physical differences result from the accumulation of small changes over many generations.</p><br /> <p><br /> But observations&mdash;like a recent report of steelhead salmon that changed in one generation&mdash;show that dramatic trait changes happen fast. What does that mean for the evolutionary concept of the way species develop?</p>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.icr.org/article/6597/" title="Read entire article">More...</a><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/icrscienceupdate?a=ULDIHZcbllY:NtMuWhAhHLY:UT3xtbGYFzA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/icrscienceupdate?d=UT3xtbGYFzA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/icrscienceupdate?a=ULDIHZcbllY:NtMuWhAhHLY:K6F3SCn7Sig"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/icrscienceupdate?d=K6F3SCn7Sig" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/icrscienceupdate/~4/ULDIHZcbllY" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.icr.org/article/6597/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/icrscienceupdate/~3/xYD4KsoiYwg/ Fri, 13 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PST <p><br /> <a href="/article/6583/"><img align="right" alt="" height="124" hspace="7" src="http://static-www.icr.org/i/articles/news/fraud_on_rise.jpg" vspace="5" width="200" /></a>Scientists are assumed to be unbiased, purely rational, doggedly factual. However, publicly exposed scientific frauds are helping to dispel that notion.</p><br /> <p><br /> Here&#39;s a sampling of recent issues that illustrate the problem.</p>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.icr.org/article/6583/" title="Read entire article">More...</a><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/icrscienceupdate?a=xYD4KsoiYwg:J8DbzzpdvKg:UT3xtbGYFzA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/icrscienceupdate?d=UT3xtbGYFzA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/icrscienceupdate?a=xYD4KsoiYwg:J8DbzzpdvKg:K6F3SCn7Sig"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/icrscienceupdate?d=K6F3SCn7Sig" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/icrscienceupdate/~4/xYD4KsoiYwg" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.icr.org/article/6583/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/icrscienceupdate/~3/saWeqf1Itv0/ Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PST <p><br /> <a href="/article/6582/"><img align="right" alt="" height="124" hspace="7" src="http://static-www.icr.org/i/articles/news/gobekli.jpg" vspace="5" width="200" /></a>&quot;Anthropologists have assumed that organized religion began as a way of salving the tensions that inevitably arose when hunter-gatherers settled down, became farmers, and developed large societies,&quot; according to a <em>National Geographic</em> feature in June 2011.</p><br /> <p><br /> But the exquisitely carved pillars of the world&#39;s oldest known temple, Gobekli Tepe, contradict that evolutionary version of ancient human history.</p>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.icr.org/article/6582/" title="Read entire article">More...</a><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/icrscienceupdate?a=saWeqf1Itv0:7jugVCvdjsw:UT3xtbGYFzA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/icrscienceupdate?d=UT3xtbGYFzA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/icrscienceupdate?a=saWeqf1Itv0:7jugVCvdjsw:K6F3SCn7Sig"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/icrscienceupdate?d=K6F3SCn7Sig" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/icrscienceupdate/~4/saWeqf1Itv0" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.icr.org/article/6582/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/icrscienceupdate/~3/WcWq4od2fOU/ Tue, 10 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PST <p><br /> <a href="/article/6581/"><img align="right" alt="" height="124" hspace="7" src="http://static-www.icr.org/i/articles/news/mammoth_proteins.jpg" vspace="5" width="200" /></a>Researchers were able to find 126 unique proteins from a frozen wooly mammoth in the first ever &quot;shotgun sequence&quot; of fossil protein content.</p><br /> <p><br /> The same team confirmed similar but fewer proteins in a Columbian mammoth fossil found in a temperate, not permafrost, climate. They said that the frozen wooly mammoth was 43,000 years old, but this is impossible to reconcile with the integrity and array of the discovered proteins.</p>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.icr.org/article/6581/" title="Read entire article">More...</a><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/icrscienceupdate?a=WcWq4od2fOU:LOGrolxUJUE:UT3xtbGYFzA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/icrscienceupdate?d=UT3xtbGYFzA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/icrscienceupdate?a=WcWq4od2fOU:LOGrolxUJUE:K6F3SCn7Sig"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/icrscienceupdate?d=K6F3SCn7Sig" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/icrscienceupdate/~4/WcWq4od2fOU" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.icr.org/article/6581/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/icrscienceupdate/~3/4xsgRn17tiQ/ Mon, 9 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PST <p><br /> <a href="/article/6580/"><img align="right" alt="" height="124" hspace="7" src="http://static-www.icr.org/i/articles/news/noahs_ark_game.jpg" vspace="5" width="200" /></a>Noah&#39;s Ark has been a popular story for children, with its parade of colorful animals living in a floating zoo. But the small and cute boat often pictured in stories, toys, and games is so unlike the gigantic seaworthy vessel described in the Bible that it leaves a misleading impression.</p><br /> <p><br /> How could such a craft possibly have preserved animals and people through a real, historical global flood?</p>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.icr.org/article/6580/" title="Read entire article">More...</a><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/icrscienceupdate?a=4xsgRn17tiQ:uIYSi1_0Rbs:UT3xtbGYFzA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/icrscienceupdate?d=UT3xtbGYFzA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/icrscienceupdate?a=4xsgRn17tiQ:uIYSi1_0Rbs:K6F3SCn7Sig"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/icrscienceupdate?d=K6F3SCn7Sig" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/icrscienceupdate/~4/4xsgRn17tiQ" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.icr.org/article/6580/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/icrscienceupdate/~3/v9nfFgCCrsE/ Fri, 6 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PST <p><br /> <a href="/article/6579/"><img align="right" alt="" height="124" hspace="7" src="http://static-www.icr.org/i/articles/news/diamond_weevil.jpg" vspace="5" width="200" /></a>The diamond weevil, which makes its home in the Brazilian tropics, has a body studded with tiny, brilliant reflectors. Each one is like a diamond, reflecting different-colored light in shiny arrays.</p><br /> <p><br /> New research has probed the microstructure of these brilliant facets and discovered that the way they work is familiar&mdash;but the way they are made is not.</p>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.icr.org/article/6579/" title="Read entire article">More...</a><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/icrscienceupdate?a=v9nfFgCCrsE:19kTwhmggIo:UT3xtbGYFzA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/icrscienceupdate?d=UT3xtbGYFzA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/icrscienceupdate?a=v9nfFgCCrsE:19kTwhmggIo:K6F3SCn7Sig"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/icrscienceupdate?d=K6F3SCn7Sig" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/icrscienceupdate/~4/v9nfFgCCrsE" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.icr.org/article/6579/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/icrscienceupdate/~3/0p9rrw12O5g/ Thu, 5 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PST <p><br /> <a href="/article/6578/"><img align="right" alt="" height="124" hspace="7" src="http://static-www.icr.org/i/articles/news/fossil_moth_color.jpg" vspace="5" width="200" /></a>Many butterflies and moths have colors that show a metallic sheen. That sheen occurs because the refracting material in their wings and bodies is spread out in layers precisely as thin as the wavelengths of the light they refract.</p><br /> <p><br /> Researchers recently found these delicate structures in moth fossils from Germany that are supposedly 47 million years old. But how could something that delicate last that long?</p>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.icr.org/article/6578/" title="Read entire article">More...</a><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/icrscienceupdate?a=0p9rrw12O5g:PcEClo_Kc-w:UT3xtbGYFzA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/icrscienceupdate?d=UT3xtbGYFzA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/icrscienceupdate?a=0p9rrw12O5g:PcEClo_Kc-w:K6F3SCn7Sig"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/icrscienceupdate?d=K6F3SCn7Sig" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/icrscienceupdate/~4/0p9rrw12O5g" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.icr.org/article/6578/