Is more controversy on the horizon as an increasing number of scientists come forward to question Darwin’s theory of evolution?

Perhaps this quote aptly describes the growing mood (via WND)…

“Darwin’s theory of evolution is the great white elephant of contemporary thought,” said David Berlinski, a signatory and mathematician and philosopher of science with Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture. “It is large, almost completely useless, and the object of superstitious awe.”

It’s the subject that won’t go away.

Quantum entanglement … the key to real life teleportation?

The Entanglement Theory

When a photon (usually polarized laser light) passes through matter, it will be absorbed by an electron. Eventually, and spontaneously, the electron will return to its ground state by emitting the photon. Certain crystal structures increase the likelihood that the photon will split into two photons, both of them with longer wavelengths than the original. Keep in mind that a longer wavelength means a lower frequency, and thus less energy. The total energy of the two photons must equal the energy of the photon originally fired from the laser (conservation of energy).

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It is this instant communication between the entangled photons to indicate each other’s polarization that lies at the very heart of quantum entanglement. This is the “spooky action at a distance” that Einstein believed was theoretically implausible.

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In his newest book, Aczel (Fermat’s Last Theorem) discusses a great mystery in physics: the concept of entanglement in quantum physics. He begins by explaining that “entanglement” occurs when two subatomic particles are somehow connected or “entangled” with one another, so that when something happens to one particle, the same thing simultaneously happens to the other particle, even if it’s miles away.

An MIT rocket scientist has discovered something really cool. You can grow algae in smokestacks, and it reduces CO2 and nitrous oxide emissions, and the algae can be used productively!

Fed a generous helping of CO2-laden emissions, courtesy of the power plant’s exhaust stack, the algae grow quickly even in the wan rays of a New England sun. The cleansed exhaust bubbles skyward, but with 40 percent less CO2 (a larger cut than the Kyoto treaty mandates) and another bonus: 86 percent less nitrous oxide.

After the CO2 is soaked up like a sponge, the algae is harvested daily. From that harvest, a combustible vegetable oil is squeezed out: biodiesel for automobiles. Berzin hands a visitor two vials - one with algal biodiesel, a clear, slightly yellowish liquid, the other with the dried green flakes that remained. Even that dried remnant can be further reprocessed to create ethanol, also used for transportation.

Not only that, it could be profitable!

Being a good Samaritan on air quality usually costs a bundle. But Berzin’s pitch is one hard-nosed utility executives and climate-change skeptics might like: It can make a tidy profit.

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One key is selecting an algae with a high oil density - about 50 percent of its weight. Because this kind of algae also grows so fast, it can produce 15,000 gallons of biodiesel per acre. Just 60 gallons are produced from soybeans, which along with corn are the major biodiesel crops today.

Here’s an interesting item and article on DDT and the environmentalist gang.

Population control advocates blamed DDT for increasing third world population. In the 1960s, World Health Organization authorities believed there was no alternative to the overpopulation problem but to assure than up to 40 percent of the children in poor nations would die of malaria. As an official of the Agency for International Development stated, “Rather dead than alive and riotously reproducing.”

And on the selective reporting of environmental issues from the American Thinker…

Thus, we have a news media analysis of a government research project which concludes that “industrial pollution is suspected of posing the greatest health danger” in neighborhoods where blacks are 79% more likely to live than whites. We are not given the factual basis for these suspicions. We, in fact, are given no evidence to conclude that industrial pollution poses a greater health danger to the residents of these neighborhoods than to those of other neighborhoods. We do have rather stringent environmental protection laws to prevent harm from industrial and other pollutants. Yet the article never indicates they are inadequate or not being properly enforced.And, as usual, the AP article devolves into anecdotal, not scientific, reports to plump up this thin gruel. In sum, we have speculation on top of speculation which gets top billing because it has a highly charged minorities-as-victims-of- capitalism and the Bush- Administration- is- bad subtext.

But then the cat is out of the bag, so why would we be surprised?