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Long Noses Give Insight into Intelligence and Evolution

Long Noses Give Insight into Intelligence and Evolution

Publication by ( July 21, 2008 )

Does biological evolution tend towards a direction? And does that direction lead to intelligence that enhances survivability? Many scientists have assumed that it does, particularly those involved in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute. However, a recent article casts doubt on the idea that smartness inevitably gives survival advantage. Research has shown that an ability to learn can have dangerous evolutionary side effects, raising questions as to why and how humans paid the hidden costs in order to become super intelligent. One researcher even speculated that some of our diseases are a byproduct of intelligence.

Creation Views
Body and Soul Part 1: Why Consciousness Isn’t Physical

Body and Soul Part 1: Why Consciousness Isn’t Physical

Publication by ( April 1, 2001 )

Throughout history, Christianity has been interpreted as giving an affirmative answer to questions about the reality of the three great topics of Western philosophy: namely, God, the soul, and life everlasting. For centuries, most Christian thinkers have believed in the existence of the souls of men and beasts, as it used to be put. Animals and humans are composed of an immaterial entity—a soul, a life principle, a ground of sentience—and a body. More specifically, a human person is a unity of two distinct entities—body and soul. The human soul, while not by nature immortal, is nevertheless capable of entering an intermediate disembodied state upon death, however incomplete and unnatural this state may be, and, eventually, being reunited with a resurrected body.

Logic & Reason
New Finding of Generation Star

New Finding of Generation Star

Publication by ( September 28, 2004 )

Astronomers in Japan may have found a significant piece of evidence for the biblically predicted big bang creation event. Their measurements on the star HE 0107-5240, the most iron-poor star yet observed, show that it may indeed be one of the long-sought first generation stars predicted by the hot big bang creation model. The big bang model predicts that virtually all first generation stars would be very massive and, thus, would have burned out some 13.5 billion years ago. These stars would be undetectable today, though a small first generation star can burn long enough to still be visible. However, such a star takes so long to form that some of the gas from which it accretes gets polluted by the ejecta from the supernova eruptions of the much larger first generation stars. The Japanese team showed that HE 0107-5240 has the chemical signature of such pollution and probably is indeed a first generation star. Future measurements, soon to be performed, will permit a definitive conclusion. Thus, a significant new evidence for the biblically predicted big bang creation and for the God of the Bible may soon be at hand.

Astronomy
What is a Code?

What is a Code?

Publication by ( July 1, 2007 )

As kids we had great fun passing handwritten notes to each other across the classroom. The challenge was to avoid the teacher’s detection. The more “sophisticated” among us would convert them into secret messages by writing them in code. Unfortunately, the teacher was no dummy and easily figured out the code—each letter was a number, in sequence—and embarrassed us in front of the class by reading aloud our secret message.

Biochemistry
Coming to Grips with the Early Church Fathers’ Perspective on Genesis, Part 4 (of 5)

Coming to Grips with the Early Church Fathers’ Perspective on Genesis, Part 4 (of 5)

Publication by ( September 29, 2011 )

Lee Strobel opens his book The Case for Christ by describing a criminal case that he covered as the legal editor for the Chicago Tribune.1 James Dixon was accused of shooting a Chicago police sergeant. There were eyewitnesses, a motive, and the injuries on the officer. They even found Dixon’s gun with one bullet fired. To add to it all, Dixon actually confessed. An open-and-shut case. Or was it? It took two words—“pen gun”—from an informant to turn the entire case upside down. (A “pen gun” is a small gun disguised as a simple pen.)

Theology
Evolution and Stamp Collecting, Part 1 (of 2)

Evolution and Stamp Collecting, Part 1 (of 2)

Publication by ( June 3, 2011 )

“In science there is only physics; everything else is stamp collecting.” This quote, from Ernest Rutherford, a 1908 Nobel laureate described as the “father of nuclear physics,” seems especially relevant today as modern evolutionary biologists claim to find new “evidence” for the theory of naturalistic macroevolution.