Ian's Blog and Newsletters
This is the “When I get a round tooit” Creation/Evolution newsletter from Ian Juby and CORE OttawaNews Bite: Oldest mammalian hair – nuthin’s changed
Supposed "100 million year old hair" found in some amber is identical to that of modern mammalian hair: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18937-csi-100-million-years-bc-oldest-mammalian-hair-found.html As we read some ten times in the first chapter of Genesis, God...
News Bite: Oh, now the eye IS a good design???
I've heard the anti-creationists whine so often about how we're so "poorly designed," that it has inspired not one, but two CrEvo rants. The first rant, where I dealt with the argument from a general point of view was just to show the incredibly arrogant falacy of...
News Bites: Migrating bird new world record
(photo courtesy of Phil Battley, from Plosbiology Creative commons licensing) From the "Incredible creation" files, satellite tracking tags on migratory birds have now demonstrated a shattered record for long-distance migration. Known migration patterns are already...
Mars Rock revisited
Today's New Bite is actually old news - a meteorite reported on back in 1996, claimed to be from mars, and allegedly containing fossils of bacteria within. (Photo courtesy NASA) The original research was rejected by the majority of scientists - and with good reason. ...
Well whadya know: Neanderthals are human! (Gee, isn’t that what I said?)
Those of you who've read my response to Sciam's "The Human Pedigree" (http://ianjuby.org/jan2009sciam2.html#pedigree) will already be aware of my opinion of the Neanderthals: They're human. Everything about them is human - even passing the OculusTM test with flying...
News Bite: Mayan plumbing – whadya know, them Mayans were smart!
A ScienceDaily article talked about "Mayan plumbing" that had been discovered, showing they had pressurized water systems: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/05/100504155421.htm Now this is fascinating, but let us not forget that we still don't know how on...
