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Wednesday, September 13, 2006

JUST WHAT IS GOING ON INSIDE YOUR BODY RIGHT NOW?

We know a lot, of course…..and more every day. What has occurred in the last decade is that we have increasingly powerful ways to show visually what we are learning in the biology/biochemistry labs. And what we’re finding is that Bishop Paley was correct, and Hume wrong—at the smallest levels, it is perfectly realistic to compare biological organisms to machines like a watch.

In fact, despite the fact that the film you’re about to watch understates the complexity and “busyness” of the interior of the cell by orders of magnitude, it’s an awesome thought that this kind of activity - so plainly (if we look at it without preconceptions) the result of precision engineering - is occurring at this very moment in almost every cell in our bodies. Billions of billions of cells - each a tiny factory filled with machines doing their myriad jobs…......

CHECK IT OUT!

Posted by Earl on 09/13 at 12:25 PM
Science • Intelligent Design • News • Comments •

Sunday, September 03, 2006

SURPRISE, SURPRISE…..GLOBAL WARMING ISN’T GOING TO BE AS BAD AS WE EXPECTED…..

And no, it isn’t some “denialist group” saying it….it’s the INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE, the (normally very pessimistic) 900-pound gorilla in the field.

THE world’s top climate scientists have cut their worst-case forecast for global warming over the next 100 years….In 2001, the scientists predicted temperature rises of between 1.4C and 5.8C on current levels by 2100, but better science has led them to adjust this to a narrower band of between 2C and 4.5C. The new projections put paid to some of the more alarmist scenarios raised by previous modelling, which have suggested that sea levels could rise by almost 1m over the same period.

READ THE WHOLE THING

Hat Tip: Brother Victor

Posted by Earl on 09/03 at 11:26 AM
Science • Environment • News • Comments •

Sunday, January 29, 2006

GIANT OCTOPUS ATTACKS SUBMARINE!

No, I’m not kidding—although it was a “remote-control mini-sub”! But, there’s actually VIDEO of the encounter!! (Update: There IS video, but it’s not on that website, which is the news story about the event…..and I can’t find it. Bummer)

Can’t you just hear the cephalopod convention? “Today, the mini-sub…tomorrow the Polaris!”

Stay away from the water…....

Hat Tip: the INSTAPUNDIT

Posted by Earl on 01/29 at 06:29 PM
Science • News • Comments •

Sunday, January 15, 2006

DOES ANYONE REMEMBER “THE BIRDS”?

Daphne du Maurier wrote the story, and then ALFRED HITCHCOCK put it on film.

Maybe there’s a history to explain this primal fear….......?

Posted by Earl on 01/15 at 05:05 PM
Science • News • Comments •

Friday, August 12, 2005

BACK FROM THE DEAD

The “Lord God Bird” (Ivory-billed Woodpecker) has been extinct for over half a century.

Posted by Earl on 08/12 at 07:13 AM
Science • News • Comments •

Tuesday, February 15, 2005

EMBRYO ARE HUMANS, AT LEAST IN COOK COUNTY

A frozen embryo destroyed in a Chicago fertility clinic was a human being whose parents are entitled to file a wrongful-death lawsuit, a Cook County judge ruled Friday.

Click here to read the whole story

Posted by Earl on 02/15 at 02:07 PM
Science • News • Politics • Life Issues • Comments •

WHY KILL EMBRYOS, WHEN ADULT STEM CELLS ARE HEALING HEARTS RIGHT NOW?

While rancorous debate on stem cells has focused attention on the ethics of destroying human embryos, studies around the globe are successfully using adult stem cells for a genuine therapeutic breakthrough - healing human hearts.

Click here to read the whole article (Free registration required)

Posted by Earl on 02/15 at 01:35 PM
Science • News • Politics • Life Issues • Comments •

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