RSR: Plants Couldn't Evolve UV Protection

* Resistant Strains Predate Antibiotics, Impact Can't Explain Dino Extinction,  Gold Sinks,  and Plants Protect Against Ultra Violet Rays: Real Science Friday co-hosts Fred Williams and Bob Enyart discuss great news stories from the winter 2012 edition of Creation magazine. The guys explain why plants evolving their sophisticated feedback system for ultra-violet protection is a logical impossibility.

* Post-Show Note: Help RSR Create a Dawkins Color Vision Challenge: Following in the lines of our PZ Myers Trochlea Challenge (for which PZ honestly answered, "I don't know"), Bob and Fred are constructing a similar challenge but for Richard Dawkins and regarding a different aspect of the alleged evolution of vision. The guys are hoping to get an artist to volunteer to sketch their challenge, and also, they're eager to get comments and constructive criticism on the challenge itself.

Today’s Resource: Have you browsed through our Science Department in our online store? Check out especially Walt Brown’s In the Beginning and Bob’s interviews with this great scientist in Walt Brown Week! You’ll also love Dr. Guillermo Gonzalez’ Privileged Planet (clip), and Illustra Media’s Unlocking the Mystery of Life (clip)! You can consider our BEL Science Pack; Bob Enyart’s Age of the Earth Debate; Bob's creation/evolution debate that hits on Junk DNA with famous evolutionist Dr. Eugenie Scott (see description below); and the superb kids' radio program Jonathan Park: The Adventure Begins!