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Natural Selection in Paradise
May 14, 2020 Creation Ministries International
Why natural selection is part of the creation model
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Malaria Parasites’ Biological Clocks Coordinate Cell Destruction
May 14, 2020 The Scientist
Two studies show that Plasmodium -- the genus of protozoans that cause malaria -- have an internal sense of time that synchronizes with their host’s circadian rhythms and allows the parasites to collectively attack blood cells.
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News Update/Commentary
The carnivorous plant lifestyle is gene costly
May 14, 2020 Science Daily
The genomes of three carnivorous plants -- the Venus flytrap, spoon-leaved sundew and the waterwheel plant -- have been decoded. The result has caused some surprises.
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Prominent Biology Journal Demands Government Censorship of Intelligent Design
May 14, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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Rob Sheldon on the Prof Who Challenges Evo Psych: Covering Her Tracks Carefully…
May 14, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Rob Sheldon Dishes on Dark Matter and Dark Energy
May 14, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Einstein's Only Rejected Paper
May 14, 2020 Mind Matters
It was the only one reviewed anonymously, as is the practice today
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Thinking Outside the Box Is Not a Disease
May 14, 2020 Mind Matters
Enforced orthodoxy, often described euphemistically as “scientific consensus,” is an impediment to science
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Is the Big Bang in crisis?
May 14, 2020 Astronomy magazine
Stubborn problems with dark matter, dark energy, and cosmic expansion have some astronomers rethinking what we know about the early universe.
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Genetic origins of hybrid dysfunction
May 14, 2020 Science Daily
Evolutionary biologists studying populations of hybrid fish have found two genes that contribute to melanoma -- only the second time people have identified specific genes associated with dysfunction in hybrid vertebrates.
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3 Simple Reasons Why Wolfram's New ‘Fundamental Theory' Is Not Yet Science
May 13, 2020 Forbes
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New hybrid embryos are the most thorough mixing of humans and mice yet
May 13, 2020 Science News
Chimeras could usher in a deeper understanding of how cells build bodies
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Viewpoint: Darwin’s ‘Descent of Man’ is both deeply disturbing and more relevant than ever
May 13, 2020 Genetic Literacy Project
Charles Darwin’s Descent of Man is full of unexpected delights -- such as the trio of hard drinking, chain-smoking koalas that appear within its first few pages to illustrate our affinity to animals.
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Physicist Rejects Free Will -- and Thus Fails Logic
May 13, 2020 Mind Matters
If we accepted his argument for materialism, we would have to stop believing in it -- a curious, self-refuting result
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Hemoglobin: An Exquisitely Designed, Multifunctional Protein
May 13, 2020 Answers in Genesis
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News Update/Commentary
Tracing the evolution of self-control
May 13, 2020 Science Daily
Advances in the craftsmanship of stone hand axes around 500,000 years ago suggest individuals at this time possessed characteristics which demonstrate significant self-control, such as concentration and frustration tolerance.
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Microscopic feather features reveal fossil birds' colors and explain why cassowaries shine
May 13, 2020 Science Daily
Some birds are iridescent because of the physical make-up of their feathers, but scientists had never found evidence of this structural color in the group of birds containing ostriches and cassowaries -- until now.
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T. rex was a champion walker, highly efficient at lower speeds
May 13, 2020 Science Daily
Research finds leg length gave giant predatory dinosaurs the advantage of efficiency, not speed as previously thought.
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New Papers Explore the Utility of Active Information
May 13, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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Guillermo Gonzalez Extends “Privileged Planet” Arguments to Space Travel
May 13, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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Inventing the Wheel Was Not for Meat Puppets After All
May 13, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Philosopher Challenges Evolutionary Psychology
May 13, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Rob Sheldon Reflects on Astronomer Fred Hoyle’s Rejection of Darwinism
May 13, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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We have seen hints of a new fundamental force of nature
May 13, 2020 New Scientist
Multiple indications seem to be showing that something is manipulating the universe beyond the four basic forces we know -- and we are starting to work out what it is
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Ancient anchovies were huge and used sabre teeth to eat other fish
May 13, 2020 New Scientist
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Most powerful gene variant for height known to date
May 13, 2020 Science Daily
Gene variant is common in Peru, absent from European genomes
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Reexamining the origins of human fatherhood
May 13, 2020 Science Daily
Dads emerged to reap the benefits of partnerships with females and other males, researchers say
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This Philosopher Is Challenging All of Evolutionary Psychology
May 12, 2020 Gizmodo
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How heavy is the universe? Conflicting answers hint at new physics.
May 12, 2020 Live Science
Standard model of cosmology may need a rewrite.
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What do Fossils of Hollow Trees tell us about the pre-Flood World?
May 12, 2020 YouTube
Along their hike through Tennessee's Pocket Wilderness, paleontologist Kurt Wise shows Del Tackett evidence for the region's catastrophic past, including major earth movements and mega-earthquakes.
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Can we really tell male and female dinosaurs apart?
May 12, 2020 Science Daily
Scientists worldwide have long debated our ability to identify male and female dinosaurs. Now, research has shown that despite previous claims of success, it's very difficult to spot differences between the sexes.
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Ancient reptile had mammal-like tooth enamel
May 12, 2020 Science Daily
Priosphenodon specimens found in Argentina show the Late Cretaceous reptile evolved to have resilient tooth enamel similar to that in mammals
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Ancient rocks show high oxygen levels on Earth 2 billion years ago
May 12, 2020 Science Daily
Research on Russian drill core challenges long-standing models of oxygenation on Earth
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45,000-Year-Old Human Remains Found in Bulgarian Cave
May 12, 2020 The Scientist
A tooth and six bone fragments are the oldest confirmed Homo sapiens fossils in Europe.
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The Myth of Precambrian Sponges
May 12, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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Confused Researchers Fear That ID Has Infested Origin of Language Studies
May 12, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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When Science Writer John Horgan Reluctantly Sort of Acknowledged: Information Implies Minds
May 12, 2020 Uncommon Descent
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Previous Tetrapod Ancestors Fell Flat, Too
May 12, 2020 Creation-Evolution Headlines
What constitutes a sister taxon to tetrapods?
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Neil Tyson Gets Ancient and Modern Medicine Wrong
May 12, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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On the Origin of Life, Here Is My Response to Jeremy England
May 11, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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In Biology, Intelligent Designs that Amaze, Amuse, and Entertain
May 11, 2020 Evolution News & Science Today
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Must Multiple Universes Exist?
May 11, 2020 YouTube
Are there multiple universes? Of all human knowledge, the most stunning may be multiple universes -- very many universes, perhaps an infinite number of universes. Are multiple universes -- the ‘multiverse’ -- scientific fact, theory or speculation?
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Data Mining: A Plague, not a Cure
May 11, 2020 Mind Matters
It is tempting to believe that patterns are unusual and their discovery meaningful; in large data sets, patterns are inevitable and generally meaningless
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Scientists reveal solar system’s oldest molecular fluids could hold the key to early life
May 11, 2020 Royal Ontario Museum
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New research determines our species created earliest modern artifacts in Europe
May 11, 2020 EurekAlert!
Innovative tools and pendants previously thought to be possibly the work of Neanderthals
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Not all twins are identical and that’s been an evolutionary puzzle, until now
May 11, 2020 The Conversation
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Neanderthals may have learned jewellery-making from us
May 11, 2020 New Scientist
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The Rise of Meat-Eating Dinosaurs Is More Complicated Than We Thought
May 11, 2020 Smithsonian Magazine
Paleontologists are searching for how carnivorous dinosaurs went from pipsqueaks to titans
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Do Shrinking Shrews Cheat Evolution?
May 11, 2020 Institute for Creation Research
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The Cosmological Principle Fails?
May 11, 2020 Answers in Genesis