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05/09/06

Permalinkby 10:18:58 pm, Categories: Science, 61 words   English (US)

Beetle's wings inspire water-moving materials

Tom Simonite, of NewScientist, writes on the amazing Namib desert beetle, which lives on the parched sands of southwest Africa, and collects drinking water using its wings. The wings are waxed and covered with an array of raised unwaxed bumps. The bumps strongly attract water, while the waxy areas repel it.

You wonder how the beetle survived before this astounding adaptation?

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Permalinkby 10:15:24 pm, Categories: Education, 82 words   English (US)

Evolution debate reaches South Carolina

UPI reports that South Carolina lawmakers are again embroiled in the continuing evolution controversy to decide how textbooks should present scientific theory.

Supporters of two bills before the legislature claim they only want to ensure textbooks enhance students' development of critical thinking skills, The (Columbia, S.C.) State reported Tuesday.

Critics say "critical thinking skills" are code words for inserting religious theories like intelligent design into biology lessons.

So, if ID is a "religious" theory, so is SETI, and all forensic science?

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    Australian biologist Stephen E. Jones maintains one of the best origins "quote" databases around. He is meticulous about accuracy and working from original sources.

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    Most guys going through midlife crisis buy a convertible. Austrialian Stephen E. Jones went back to college to get a biology degree and is now a proponent of ID and common ancestry.

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    Complete zipped downloadable pdf copy of David Stove's devastating, and yet hard-to-find, critique of neo-Darwinism entitled "Darwinian Fairytales"

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    Intelligent Design The Future is a multiple contributor weblog whose participants include the nation's leading design scientists and theorists: biochemist Michael Behe, mathematician William Dembski, astronomer Guillermo Gonzalez, philosophers of science Stephen Meyer, and Jay Richards, philosopher of biology Paul Nelson, molecular biologist Jonathan Wells, and science writer Jonathan Witt. Posts will focus primarily on the intellectual issues at stake in the debate over intelligent design, rather than its implications for education or public policy.

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