Today's New Reason To Believe Archives

July 2005

Today’s New Reason To Believe-Sunday, July 31, 2005
Now Hear This! Engineers Mimic Nature’s Elegant Design

  • Yet again, engineers turn to the amazing designs found in nature to inspire new technology. In this report, researchers studied one of the most sensitive sound detectors found in nature¾the tiny hairs on the body of crickets¾to provide the insight needed to "re-create" a highly sensitive sound detector. Researchers hope that one day this technology will lead to dramatically improved cochlear implants for people suffering from deafness. This potential breakthrough would probably never have been discovered apart from studying the designs present in nature. It seems ill-conceived to conclude that the designs found in nature stem from random, undirected processes when they inspire human inventions and are far superior to what human designers can accomplish.
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Today’s New Reason To Believe-Saturday, July 30, 2005
Lunar Laser Reflector Tests of Gravity Theories

  • Jet Propulsion Laboratory physicists have found stronger evidence that supports the biblically predicted cosmic singularity beginning and the biblically claimed constancy of the fundamental laws of physics. Using 35 years of data from laser light reflections from reflectors placed on the moon by the Apollo astronauts, the JPL team demonstrated that general relativity passed the geodetic precession test to a higher level of precision than anyone had previously demonstrated. They also showed that the gravitational constant does not vary in any significant way-less than one part in a trillion per year. Thus, the spacetime theorem proof that the universe is traceable back to an actual beginning of space, time, matter, and energy (Gen. 1:1 and Heb. 11:3) now stands on firmer footing, as does the biblical claim (Jer. 33:25) for the fixity of the laws governing the heavens and Earth.
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Today’s New Reason To Believe-Friday, July 29, 2005
Challenge to Biological Evolution: Convergence of Hovering Mechanisms

  • New insight into the hummingbird hovering mechanism provides another example of biological convergence (repeated outcomes or similar features in organisms). Convergence presents a formidable challenge to evolution because chance governs the evolutionary process, so random events should not produce the same outcome repeatedly. In this new study, researchers affirm that, in spite of its distinct characteristics, the hummingbird hovering mechanism is highly similar to that of insects. This means that this highly complex hovering mechanism emerged independently in these two disparate organisms. Given the intricacy of the mechanism’s design, this example of convergence challenges the veracity of evolution, but finds a plausible explanation in a biblical creation model proffering that a Creator repeatedly used the same good designs as He brought life into existence.
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Today’s New Reason To Believe-Thursday, July 28, 2005
Massive Analogue to the Kuiper Belt

  • A team of British astronomers has uncovered additional evidence for the design of the solar system that also refutes a young-earth creationist claim. With new imaging equipment they made the first-ever discovery of a belt of comets and asteroids orbiting an old solar-type star. The belt they found orbiting the star, tau Ceti, has dimensions similar to the solar system’s Kuiper Belt but is at least ten times more massive. Such a massive comet belt makes the tau Ceti system a noncandidate for a life-support planet because it would generate too many collision events. This discovery demonstrates that old solar-type stars offering conditions safe enough for advanced life may be much rarer than what astronomers had presumed. The discovery also foils the young-earth creationist claim that the formation of solar-type stars will not produce comet cloud reservoirs of adequate size and mass to explain the population of short-period comets in the context of an old-universe model.
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Today’s New Reason To Believe-Wednesday, July 27, 2005
Biochemistry Supports Bible’s Long Life Spans

  • Skeptics charge Christianity with absurdity when they read of the long human life spans recorded in Genesis 5 and 11. Recent advances in the biochemistry of aging, however, make these long life spans scientifically plausible. A new study demonstrates that the overproduction of the enzyme catalase in mice dramatically increases their lifespan. Catalase protects the cell’s molecules from the harmful effects of hydrogen peroxide, which is produced as a by-product of the cell’s metabolic activities. If scientists can significantly manipulate life spans by genetic intervention, it seems reasonable that a Creator could adjust human biochemistry to permit long life spans and then shorten them after the Flood. In light of new data, the long human life spans described in Genesis are scientifically credible.
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Today’s New Reason To Believe-Tuesday, July 26, 2005
Design of Giant Planets’ Orbital Structure

  • An international team of astronomers has uncovered additional evidence for the supernatural design of the solar system for the benefit of life. The team used the most detailed computer simulations to date for the dynamics of the early solar system’s gas disk, its primordial comet and asteroid belts, and of the orbits of the four ice-giant planets. They then determined how the four ice-giant planets ended up with the just-right distances from the Sun that life on Earth demands and the just-right eccentricities and inclinations in their orbits that life also requires. Their simulations showed that Jupiter migrated inward while Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune migrated outward. They found that the amount of migration critically depends on a number of factors, including the initial orbital distance for each of the gas giants, the total mass of the primordial Kuiper Belt of asteroids and comets, the width of that belt, the mean distance of that belt from the Sun, the average mass of the Kuiper Belt objects, and the mass and the longevity of the solar system’s primordial gas disk. Life on Earth requires that this large number of new solar system features be fine-tuned so that Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune all end up with the exacting orbital characteristics. Such fine-tuning provides additional testimony of the planning and design of a superintelligent, supernatural Creator.
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Today’s New Reason To Believe-Monday, July 25, 2005
Challenge to Biological Evolution: Convergence of Tool Use

  • Biologists have discovered another instance of convergence in animals that challenges the evolutionary paradigm. Evolution’s driving mechanism-chance-should not produce the same outcome repeatedly. However, scientists continue to uncover examples of such repeated outcomes. In this study, researchers demonstrate that dolphins in Shark Bay (off the west coast of Australia) use marine sponges as tools to disturb the seafloor as they look for prey. The use of sponges protects the dolphins’ beaks from abrasion. This behavior is not inherited, but is culturally transmitted from mother to female offspring. Such cultural transmission of tool use is also found in primates, indicating that this behavior emerged independently. This new example of convergence gainsays the theory of evolution, but validates a biblical creation model that demonstrates how a Creator might use the same good designs as He created complex life forms.
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Today’s New Reason To Believe-Sunday, July 24, 2005
Improving a Linchpin for Cosmic Creation

  • Two Italian astronomers have buttressed one of the linchpins for the biblically predicted big bang creation model and for several of the cosmic features that give evidence for supernatural design. This key element is the distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). Their careful measurements on 14 pulsational variable stars in the LMC yielded a distance of 166,500 ± 200 light years, the most accurate LMC distance measure to date. This measure provides even more certainty that the big bang creation model is correct and that a super-intelligent, supernatural Creator designed the universe for the benefit of life and for humans in particular.
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Today’s New Reason To Believe-Saturday, July 23, 2005
Adult Stem Cells Offer Hope

  • Heated public debates over the use of embryonic stem cell research (ESCR) may soon be irrelevant. Recent advances suggest that there may be an ethically acceptable alternative to ESCR. New research indicates that large mammals have cardiac progenitor cells that are normally dormant. However, these cells can be activated to replace dead cardiac muscle cells. Researchers demonstrated this concept in dogs. They experimentally induced a myocardial infarction (heart attack) and then stimulated the progenitor cells. New cardiac muscle cells and coronary arteries were generated and significant cardiac function was restored. Such studies stimulate hope that scientific advance may provide the way out of the ethical dilemma created by emerging biotechnologies.
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Today’s New Reason To Believe-Friday, July 22, 2005
Design of Solar System Movement in the Galaxy

  • Astronomers have found more evidence that the solar system’s past and present positions in the Milky Way Galaxy (MWG) must be fine-tuned for life to be possible. The team also discovered that these positions must be fine-tuned for human observers to be able to clearly see all of cosmic history, all of the MWG, and all the galaxies in the observable universe. The team studied how light from very distant galaxies is dimmed by different parts of the disks of 29 foreground spiral galaxies like the MWG. They learned that dust opacity in these galaxies decreases with distance from the galaxy’s center and is highest in the galaxy’s central bulge and spiral arms. Their result confirms that 1) the location in the MWG in which the solar system formed must be fine-tuned to get the just-right dust opacity for formation, 2) the solar system’s rapid movement to a different position in the MWG with the much lower dust opacity suitable for the survival of advanced life must be fine-tuned, and 3) the continued movement of the solar system to a location in the MWG with extremely low dust opacity must be fine-tuned to grant humans an unobstructed view.
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Today’s New Reason To Believe-Thursday, July 21, 2005
Advances in Ancient DNA Analysis

  • Advances in ancient DNA analysis promise to provide powerful new insight into the biology of past organisms. Due to technical limitations researchers have been able to sequence only mitochondrial DNA up to now. Recent research efforts have generated new methodology that allows scientists to sequence the more informative genomic DNA of past organisms. To demonstrate the usefulness of this new technique, researchers sequenced 26,861 base pairs (genetic letters) from extinct cave bear specimens that date to 42,000 years in age. This new study illustrates the power of ancient DNA analysis to provide critical information about the biology of past organisms and their relationship to contemporary organisms. As ancient DNA technology continues to mature it will provide many powerful opportunities to test evolutionary and creation models.
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Today’s New Reason To Believe-Wednesday, July 20, 2005
Improving a Yardstick that Tests for Creation

  • A team of American and Swiss astronomers has improved the quality of one of the fundamental yardsticks used for establishing the biblically predicted big bang creation model and for demonstrating the supernatural design of the universe. They have performed the most extensive calibration to date of a complete sample of the type Ia supernovae that are used by astronomers to measure the cosmic expansion throughout cosmic history. Their fully corrected determination of the luminosities of type Ia supernovae will enable significantly more accurate determination of several cosmic design features and of the cosmic creation date. These improvements will yield potentially even stronger evidence for the supernatural creation and design of the universe for the benefit of physical life.
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Today’s New Reason To Believe-Tuesday, July 19, 2005
Human Evolution Still Finds No Hope in Toumai Man

  • Mounting evidence continues to challenge the evolutionary idea that the recently discovered hominid, Toumai Man, was a transitional gorilla-like ape. New statistical insight indicates that, based on the location of its foramen magnum (hole in the base of the skull), Sahelanthropus tchadensis (nicknamed Toumai Man) is likely a hominid that walked erect. Evolutionary anthropologists had proffered the view that Toumai Man was a gorilla-like ape in order to avoid insurmountable evidence against an evolutionary scenario. However, Toumai Man emerged in the wrong place, at the wrong time, and in the wrong ecosystem in order for evolution to take place. With Toumai Man’s identity secured as just another hominid that appeared explosively at the base of the hominid fossil record, the problems this find creates for human evolution are unavoidable.
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Today’s New Reason To Believe-Monday, July 18, 2005
New Technology for Seeing Biomolecular Design

  • A team of Japanese physicists has developed a new technology that has the potential to greatly expand the evidence for supernatural design of molecules inside the cell. They showed that it is now possible to measure distances between individual nuclei in a molecule (to within a spatial resolution of a fraction of a nanometer with a temporal resolution of less than a quadrillionth of a second). Such technology will enable biochemists and molecular biologists to image physical and chemical changes of molecules inside different cells with dramatically increased precision. Such precision improvement can bring into full view a host of design features and operations that presently could be hidden from view. Whereas non-theists would predict that such technology will deliver no new design evidences, the RTB team predicts that this new technology will deliver an enormous amount of new evidences for the exquisite design of biomolecules.
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Today’s New Reason To Believe-Sunday, July 17, 2005
Junk DNA Has Function

  • A new study debunks the notion that "junk" DNA provides incontrovertible evidence for evolution. Evolutionary biologists maintain that such noncoding DNA is an imperfection, yet numerous recent studies have identified functions for many types of junk DNA. This new study shows that the length of the highly repetitive microsatellite DNA associated with the gene V1aR (which encodes the receptor for the brain chemical vasopressin) controls its expression. Differences in the number of vasopressin receptors correlates with social and other behavior in voles. Until this study, the prevailing view was that microsatellite DNA was junk. The functional importance of junk DNA indicates that careful planning by an Intelligent Designer, rather than undirected, random biochemical events, shaped the genomes of organisms.
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Today’s New Reason To Believe-Saturday, July 16, 2005
Origin and Timing of Late Heavy Bombardment

  • An international team of astronomers has uncovered additional evidence for the supernatural design of the late heavy bombardment (LHB: the severe bombardment of Earth and other inner solar system bodies by a shower of large comets and asteroids between 3.9 and 3.8 billion years ago). In performing the most detailed computer simulations to date on the dynamics of the early solar system, they solved the paradox of the late timing for the LHB. They confirmed an earlier result of their work that established that the LHB was caused by Jupiter and Saturn crossing their 1:2 resonance (that point where as Jupiter migrates inward and Saturn migrates outward in response to their interaction with Kuiper Belt objects, Jupiter orbits the Sun exactly twice for every single orbit of Saturn). They showed that the timing of that crossing critically depends on 1) the initial distances of Jupiter and Saturn from the locations of the 1:2 resonance, 2) the density of the primordial Kuiper Belt of comets and asteroids at its inner edge, and 3) the distance of the inner edge of the primordial Kuiper Belt relative to Saturn’s primordial distance from the Sun. If any one of these factors were even slightly altered, the LHB would have been either too early and too intense or too late and too weak to transform Earth’s inner core into the just right dynamo that makes advanced life possible.
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Today’s New Reason To Believe-Friday, July 15, 2005
Homo erectus and Modern Human Brain Development Differs

  • RTB’s creation model for humanity’s origin regards Homo erectus/ergaster and other extinct hominids found in the fossil record as nonhuman primates that lacked spiritual capacity. A recent study adds further support for this view. Researchers used CT analysis to characterize the endocranial structure (and hence brain structure) of the Mojokerto Child. This specimen represents an H. erectus infant. Researchers found that the brain of H. erectus developed much differently than those of modern humans. Based on this and other studies, it appears that H. erectus lacked the advanced cognitive abilities of modern humans. Scientific evidence continues to indicate that modern humans were clearly distinct from Homo erectus/ergaster and the other extinct hominids, in accord with RTB’s explanation for the hominid fossil record.
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Today’s New Reason To Believe-Thursday, July 14, 2005
Danger of Too Much Exposure to Evil

  • An American team of social medical researchers has employed a new statistical technique to demonstrate the biblically consistent principle that exposure to pernicious evil will seriously compromise one’s moral fortitude. The study compared juveniles who had been exposed to gun violence with juveniles who had not. Results showed that the former group was three to four times more likely to commit acts of violence. In response to the criticism that the correlation might disappear when other factors are considered, the team performed "propensity analysis." That is, they isolated individuals from both groups who shared a possible mitigating factor such as alcohol use, truancy, ethnicity, illiteracy, physical abuse by a parent, single parent family structure, drug abuse, and thirty other factors. Allowing for the mitigating factor, the group exposed to gun violence was still at least twice as prone to violence as the unexposed group. Thus, experimental evidence now exists that what the Bible teaches about moral behavior is accurate.
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Today’s New Reason To Believe-Wednesday, July 13, 2005
Biochemical Design: TrwB Motor

  • In the early nineteenth century, British natural theologian William Paley advanced the well-known watchmaker argument for God’s existence: Just as a watch requires a watchmaker, so life requires a Creator. Biochemists have discovered another example in a mounting list of molecular motors that validates Paley’s argument. On the basis of new research, biochemists have come to recognize that the TrwB protein complex is a rotary motor. The TrwB motor translocates DNA from one bacterium to another during a process known as conjugation. Its elegant design and machine-like characteristics point to the work of a divine "Motor Maker."
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Today’s New Reason To Believe-Tuesday, July 12, 2005
More Evidence for Design of Terrestrial Lightning

  • A team of American geophysicists has discovered properties of terrestrial lightning that demonstrate fine-tuning for the benefit of life and for the support of a high-technology civilization. They found that terrestrial lightning generates just the right kind and amount of radio waves to clear out a charge-depleted zone within the Van Allen radiation belts that surround Earth so that an array of communication satellites can operate without interference. Any less terrestrial lightning or lightning of a different sort would result in too small or too unstable a charge-depleted zone, making efficient communication-satellite operation impossible. On the other hand, too much terrestrial lightning could so weaken the Van Allen belts that excessive hard radiation would penetrate to Earth’s surface, to the detriment of life. Also, too much lightning would generate undue forest and grass fires. Fine-tuning of lightning is also necessary to produce adequate nitrogen fixation for sustaining healthy plants. Such optimal fine-tuning for sustaining plant life and communication satellite technology is evidence for a supernatural, super-caring Creator.
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Today’s New Reason To Believe-Monday, July 11, 2005
Biblical Account of Humanity’s Origin Confirmed

  • New anthropological research supports RTB’s biblical creation model for human origins. This new study, which examines the genetic variation of Amerindian people groups, confirms the primeval migrational pattern of humanity from near the Middle East into Asia and the Americas. The new research indicates that the founding Amerindian population consisted of fewer than 80 individuals. Such evidence squares with previous genetic studies of DNA taken from representatives of different population groups which demonstrate that 1) humanity had a recent origin from a single location, 2) humanity’s original population size was small and traces back to a single woman, called mitochondrial Eve, and a single man, called Y-chromosomal Adam, and 3) humanity expanded from near the Middle East to populate the globe. All anthropological evidence to date supports the biblical description of human origins.
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Today’s New Reason To Believe-Sunday, July 10, 2005
Accurate Clock for Testing Cosmic Creation

  • Japanese engineering physicists have developed a technology that could dramatically increase the evidence for the biblically predicted big bang creation event and for the supernatural design of the universe. The team demonstrated that atoms trapped in an optical lattice serve as quantum references. One such "optical lattice clock" they had built potentially can keep time with an uncertainty no greater than one part in 1018 (one part in a million trillion). This timing accuracy is a thousand times better than the best clock in use today. With such accuracy, general relativity and quantum electrodynamics can be subjected to tests a thousand times more rigorous. Likewise, such clocks could place limits a thousand times lower on possible slow, tiny variations in the fundamental constants of physics. Moreover, very long baseline interferometry can be made a thousand times more precise. Therefore, this new clock technology may provide spectacular increases in the proofs for the biblically predicted big bang creation model and for the supernatural design of the constants of physics and the physical features of the universe for the benefit of life.
    • Masao Takamoto et al., "An Optical Lattice Clock," Nature 435 (2005): 321-24.
    • Thomas Udem, "Light-Insensitive Optical Clock," Nature 435 (2005): 291.
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Today’s New Reason To Believe-Saturday, July 9, 2005
Biochemical Design: Information

  • A recent study using DNA as a "barcode" affirms the conclusion that intelligible messages-information-come from intelligent sources. The cell’s biochemical machinery (proteins, DNA, RNA, and oligosaccharides) is information-based, indicating that life stems from an Intelligent Designer. In this report researchers describe the use of DNA as a "barcode" to identify flowering plant species. Such use highlights the fact that DNA truly is an information storage molecule. The elegant, information-rich biochemical systems of the cell point to the source of life’s information¾the Creator described in the Bible.
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Today’s New Reason To Believe-Friday, July 8, 2005
Solving the Heavy Element Abundance Anomaly

  • New measurements announced by Michigan State University physicists at the April, 2005 American Physical Society Meeting have solved a long-standing anomaly in the biblically predicted big bang creation model. For the last few decades astronomers have noted that the universe produces much more very heavy elements like silver, gold, and uranium than what they would predict for a big bang universe that has been expanding for about 14 billion years. The team measured for the first time the radiometric decay half-life for nickel-78. Its half-life value of 110 milliseconds was just one-fourth of what theorists had presumed. When the new, corrected value is used, the anomaly disappears. This resolution vindicates the biblical cosmic model while striking a blow at the young-earth and many atheistic cosmic models. It also suggests that God designed the half-life of nickel-78 so as to provide humanity with the high abundance of very heavy elements it needs for survival and for launching a high-tech civilization.
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Today’s New Reason To Believe-Thursday, July 7, 2005
Dental Differences Distinguish Neanderthals from Humans

  • RTB’s creation model for humanity’s origin regards Neanderthals and other extinct hominids found in the fossil record as nonhuman primates that lacked spiritual capacity. On this basis, the RTB model predicts that humans and Neanderthals should be morphologically distinct from one another. A recent study confirms this view. Based on dental differences, researchers demonstrate once again that Neanderthals and ancient modern humans were morphologically, and hence, evolutionarily, distinct. Scientific evidence continues to distinguish modern humans from Neanderthals, in accord with RTB’s explanation for the hominid fossil record.
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Today’s New Reason To Believe-Wednesday, July 6, 2005
Distinct Locations for Exotic & Ordinary Matter

  • British astronomers strengthened the evidence for the biblically predicted big bang creation event when they confirmed that concentrations of exotic dark matter, ordinary dark matter, and ordinary visible matter are all geographically distinct from one another. Making the first-ever mass distribution measurement of a single galaxy by a purely gravitational lens method, the team showed that ordinary matter accounts for 65% of the total mass within the Einstein ring (the ring of light formed by the gravitational bending by the galaxy of light from a distant bright background source). They also detected that the ordinary visible matter was centrally concentrated and relatively flat, that the ordinary dark matter resided in a round halo, and that the exotic dark matter was situated in an even more distant round halo. The team’s observations confirm that there is no basis for doubting that the universe contains three different components of matter where each manifests a different geographical distribution. This finding establishes important predictions of the big bang creation model and helps prove a level of fine-tuning in the cosmic mass characteristics at least 1037 times superior to the best example of human engineering design.
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Today’s New Reason To Believe-Tuesday, July 5, 2005
Biochemical Design: More On the Myosin VI Motor

  • Greater understanding of the function of one of nature’s molecular motors strengthens the case for a divine "Motor Maker." Previous posts have described the structure of myosin, a linear motor that possesses a lever arm. Myosin VI is a molecular walking machine that ferries cellular components along actin "walkways" distributed throughout the cell. Recent research provides new understanding about the structural basis for the operation of the Myosin VI motor, explaining why it moves in the opposite direction of most myosin motors. As researchers continue to discover elegant design and machine-like characteristics as they study these tiny motors, they also discover the creative designs of a divine "Motor Maker."
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Today’s New Reason To Believe-Monday, July 4, 2005
Galactic Carbon and Oxygen Abundance Design

  • A team of Mexican and Spanish astronomers has found more design features for the Milky Way Galaxy. For life to be possible, the life-support planet must form in a region of the galaxy that has the just-right abundances of carbon and oxygen. The team discovered that these just-right abundances demand that the following factors be fine-tuned: the age of the galaxy, the age of the planet, the distance of the life-support planet from the center of the galaxy, and the abundance and density of 1) massive stars, 2) intermediate stars, and 3) low-mass stars when the galaxy is young. These galactic design features, in addition to several dozen more that already have been discovered or acknowledged, testify of a superintelligent, supernatural Creator.
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Today’s New Reason To Believe-Sunday, July 3, 2005
Atmospheric Methane Is Not Evidence for Martian Life

Today’s New Reason To Believe-Saturday, July 2, 2005
Design of Dispersal Distance of Metals

  • Two American astronomers have uncovered a new cosmic design feature. Using new observations of the oxygen abundance in the intergalactic medium (gas and dust between galaxies), they showed that supernovae in primordial galaxies were limited in the volumes over which they could disperse elements heavier than helium. The limit appears to be about 650,000 light years from the galactic nuclei. For advanced life to be possible, this dispersal distance must be fine-tuned. The location, both in the universe and in the parent galaxy, for an advanced life-support planet must be fine-tuned. Therefore, if the dispersal distance is either too large or too small, the planet will lack the just-right elements for advanced life. Such fine-tuning challenges evolutionary models but affirms RTB’s biblical creation model.
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Today’s New Reason To Believe-Friday, July 1, 2005
Biochemical Design: Kinesin Motors

  • New insight into the function of Kinesin, a molecular motor, strengthens the case for a divine "Motor Maker." Biochemists have discovered that kinesin, a tiny linear motor, functions as a Brownian ratchet. It serves as a molecular walking machine that ferries cellular components along microtubule walkways distributed throughout the cell. Recent research provides new understanding about the mechanistic operation of the kinesin motor. As researchers learn more about the elegant design and machine-like characteristics of these biomolecular machines, their discoveries point to the work of a divine "Motor Maker."
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