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Trilobite Explosion–by L. James Gibson

The abrupt appearance of trilobites in Cambrian strata and their absence in Precambrian sediments is a real feature of the rock record and not due to failure of preservation in Precambrian rocks.
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The Cambrian Explosion at Qingjiang–by L. James Gibson

A newly described Cambrian locality in China has added more than 50 new species to our knowledge.
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How Long do Fossils Take to Form?–by Raul Esperante

The study of fossils and the associated rocks in which they are preserved gives us information about ancient conditions in which organisms lived, called paleoenvironments, and the pathways leading to their fossilization. Published in Origins v. 21, n. 2.
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Questioning the Age of “Mitochondrial Eve?”–by L. James Gibson

Confirmation that fathers may sometimes pass mitochondrial DNA to their children violates the assumptions used to calculate the age of the most recent female common ancestor of all living humans. Published in Origins v. 21, n. 2.
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Prolonged Milk Provisioning in a Jumping Spider–by L. James Gibson

A jumping spider has been discovered to produce a kind of milk to nourish its babies, in a manner similar to what mammals do.
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Our Miraculous Planet Earth–by Sven Östring

This article explores the Bible’s teaching on God’s wonderful creation and examines whether our miraculous planet Earth was created relatively recently or some time before the Creation week got underway.
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What a Wood Warbler Can Tell us About “Filling the Earth”–by L. James Gibson

Hybridization among wood warblers suggests “filling the earth” through dispersal, speciation and adaptation to local habitats.
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Mr. Potato Head and Evolutionary Anomalies–by L. James Gibson

Much effort has been expended in attempts to arrange living organisms in a pattern based on genealogy. However, a tree-like pattern is not as evident as evolutionary theory would predict.
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Caenorhabditis elegans as a Model to Understand the Role of Epigenetic Heritage in Microevolution–by Tiago A. J. de Souza

In recent decades, epigenetics has been shown to be a promising field of research, since it describes changes in inheritance patterns that do not involve DNA modifications and are related to interactions between the organism and the environment. Epigenetic marks are chemical changes that occur in chromosomes and result in the silencing or activation of specific genes in different tissues. It has been…
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Modern Bird Lung Design Documented in Rapidly Buried Fossil–by L. James Gibson

A fossil bird recovered from Cretaceous lake deposits in China shows preservation of some soft tissues, including a pair of lungs that appear to have functioned in a way similar to those of living birds.
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What Makes the Whole More Than the Sum of Its Parts?–by Alfredo Suzuki

A living being is more than the collection of the multitude of organic components of which it is made.
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Rapid Bedrock Incision by Water Stream Outburst: The Case of the Oroville Dam (California, USA)–by Ronny Nalin, Michael Kotulla

New observational data on the phenomenon of rapid bedrock erosion became recently available after the well documented events that affected the Oroville Dam in February 2017.
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“When Death Was Not Yet": The Testimony of Biblical Creation–by Jacques B. Doukhan

The biblical view of death is essentially different from the one proposed by evolution. While the belief in evolution implies that death is inextricably intertwined with life and therefore has to be accepted and eventually managed, the biblical teaching of creation implies that death is an absurdity to be feared and rejected. Published in Dialogue 30/3.
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Some Things We Can Know–by Jim Gibson

EDITORIAL. Those who study historical topics such as origins often face questions for which no easy answers are evident. Nevertheless, there are some things that can be known, and these should not be overlooked. Published in Origins, n. 65.
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The Grand Staircase: a Case Study in Scientific Thinking from a Biblical Worldview–by Leonard R. Brand

ARTICLE. In Utah and northern Arizona is a unique geological landscape feature, called the Grand Staircase. Imagine a staircase with each step a thousand feet or more high, and many miles wide. We will discuss hypotheses in regard to how this feature was formed. Published in Origins, n. 65.
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Similar Plan, Similar Response–by Ronny Nalin

ARTICLE. This article examines linguistic and thematic parallelisms found in two passages of Genesis (Gen 1:28-3:21 and Gen 9:1-27) that describe God’s instructions to humans at creation and after the flood, and their subsequent response. Published in Origins n. 65.
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The Art of Making Omelets–by Ronny Nalin

LITERATURE REVIEW. A review of the book "Undeniable." Intelligent beings and their know- how are necessary to implement the highly improbable combination of steps that bring into existence functional things. Published in Origins, n. 65.
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What Vain Pursuit–by L. James Gibson

LITERATURE REVIEW. A review of the book, Theistic Evolution: A Scientific, Philosophical and Theological Critique. Theistic evolution, the notion that God is the director of Darwinian-style evolution, is a vain attempt to combine contradictory views of earth history. Published in Origins, n. 65.
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A Chemist's Perspective of the Yellowstone Petrified “Forests"–by Clyde L. Webster Jr.

ARTICLE. The Yellowstone "fossil forest" has many layers of volcanic ash. Trace element analysis of these layers reveals they derive from about four volcanic sources, and the layers from different sources are interlaced, implying contemporaneous eruptions of the different sources. Published in Origins n. 65.
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The Explanation for the “Yellowstone Fossil Forests:” An Uncompleted Research Project–by Leonard R. Brand

COMMENTARY. An appeal, by Dr. Leonard Brand, for more original research, publications, and review papers to present a coherent model for the interpretation of the Yellowstone fossil forests that would bring it to the attention of the geological community. Published in Origins n. 65.
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