from ARN: Top 10 Darwin and Design News Stories,
1. Complexity of Molecular Machines.
2. The Genomic Jungle Unveiled.
3. The Edge of Evolution. I have read most of this book. I am nearly finished. I don't see how an objective reader won't see this for what it is...a near fatal blow to Darwinism (defined as random mutation and natural selection as sufficient for life's origins and current state...
4. Jellyfish Fossil Find Provides More Evidence for the Complexity of Early Life.
5. Academic Persecution Continues. Last year Richard Sternberg lost his job at the Smithsonian for
“allowing” a pro-intelligent design paper to be published. This year noted astronomer Guillermo Gonzalez
was denied tenure at Iowa State University because of his intelligent design affiliations and the Baylor
University administration shut down Robert Marks's Evolutionary Informatics Lab and website for similar
reasons. These three tragic stories and others will be exposed in the Ben Stein documentary Expelled: No
Intelligence Allowed to appear in theaters nationwide next spring.
6. Politicians Continue to Suppress Free Thinking.
7. Broken Molecular Clock. In a paper that challenges the Darwinian model of evolution, University of
Pittsburgh professor, Jeffrey H. Schwartz, contends that evolutionary changes occur suddenly as opposed to
the Darwinian model of evolution, which is characterized by gradual and constant change. Schwartz’s paper,
“Do Molecular Clocks Run at All? A Critique of Molecular Systematics,” appears in the journal Biological
Theory.
8. Biological Big Bang Model Proposed. Eugene Koonin, a senior research scientist at the National Center
for Biotechnology Information published a paper that claims: “The relationships between major groups
within an emergent new class of biological entities are hard to decipher and do not seem to fit the tree pattern
that, following Darwin's original proposal, remains the dominant description of biological evolution.” The
paper is entitled: “The Biological Big Bang model for the major transitions in evolution.” Reinforcing the
growing scientific criticism of Darwin’s Tree of Life, W. Ford Doolittle and Eric Bapteste from the
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University in Canada published a discussion
paper suggesting its time to give up on Darwin’s Tree of Life illustration because it doesn’t fit the data.
9. “Truth be told” about Chimp-Human DNA comparisons.
10. Purpose of Human Appendix Discovered.