Creation Update Show Notes (#368)
Nature’s “Bad” Designs
Air date: 5-15-07
Fuz Rana, Jeff Zweerink, and Joe Aguirre
Discoveries
- Is the inverted retina evidence for bad designs in nature?
- Kristian Franze et al., “Muller Cells Are Living Optical Fibers in the Vertebrate Retina,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA (May 15, 2007): 8287-92.
- Michael J. Denton, “The Inverted Retina: Maladaptation or Preadaptation?” Origins and Design, Winter 1999, 11-17.
- Resources:
- Who Was Adam? by Fazale Rana with Hugh Ross (book).
- Fazale Rana, “Is Junk DNA Evidence for Biological Evolution?” Today’s New Reason To Believe, May 3, 2007.
- Resources:
- Narrower constraints on dark energy.
- Adam G. Riess et al., “New Hubble Space Telescope Discoveries of Type Ia Supernovae at z *≥ 1: Narrowing Constraints on the Early Behavior of Dark Energy,” *Astrophysical Journal 659 (April 10, 2007): 98-121.
- Resources:
- The Creator and the Cosmos, 3rd ed., by Hugh Ross.
- Creation as Science, by Hugh Ross.
- Resources:
- Adam G. Riess et al., “New Hubble Space Telescope Discoveries of Type Ia Supernovae at z *≥ 1: Narrowing Constraints on the Early Behavior of Dark Energy,” *Astrophysical Journal 659 (April 10, 2007): 98-121.
- Function for junk DNA in opossum genome.
- Tarjei S. Mikkelsen et al., “Genome of the Marsupial Monodelphis domestica Reveals Innovation in Noncoding Sequences,” Nature 447 (May 10, 2007): 167-78.
- Is the inverted retina evidence for bad designs in nature?
Call-in questions
Email questions
- Robert from Santa Rosa, CA:
- What did Einstein mean when he said the cosmological constant was the “greatest blunder” of his scientific career?
- Doug asks:
- Whatever happened to cosmic strings? Weren’t they supposed to explain how galaxies formed?
- Robert from Santa Rosa, CA: