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Näsvall et al. Demonstrates the Effectiveness of Intelligent Design
February 25, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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News Update/Commentary
New chimpanzee culture discovered
February 25, 2019 Science Daily
Study describes unique behavioral patterns of Bili-Uéré chimpanzees in the DR Congo
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News Update/Commentary
Researchers discover ‘chromosome scanner' that protects against cancer
February 25, 2019 Science Daily
Researchers have identified one of the main mechanisms behind the repair of serious damage to the human DNA.
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The skeleton articulated
February 25, 2019 Nature
Enjoy Brian Switek’s exploration of how the human scaffold -- and our ideas about it -- evolved.
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Claim of New Antifreeze Gene by Natural Selection Melts Under Analysis
February 25, 2019 Creation-Evolution Headlines
A biochemist examines imaginative claims about natural selection creating a new gene
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News Update/Commentary
Bacteria walk (a bit) like we do
February 25, 2019 Science Daily
Biophysicists have been able to directly study the way bacteria move on surfaces, revealing a molecular machinery reminiscent of motor reflexes.
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Simplified method makes cell-free protein synthesis more flexible and accessible
February 25, 2019 Science Daily
Researchers have radically simplified the method for cell-free protein synthesis, a technique that could become fundamental to medical research. The new procedure makes in vitro protein synthesis more widely accessible for research and educational use.
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News Update/Commentary
Some personal beliefs and morals may stem from genetics
February 25, 2019 Science Daily
Researchers found that while parents can help encourage their children to develop into responsible, conscientious adults, there is an underlying genetic factor that influences these traits, as well.
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Neanderthals Walked Upright just like the Humans of Today
February 25, 2019 University of Zurich
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Blog Post
The Cancer Personality Scandal (Part 1)
February 25, 2019 Discover magazine
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Blog Post
PBS Unmasks Darwinian Eugenics
February 24, 2019 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Dr Jerry Bergman reviews the new PBS documentary on one of the evils of Darwinism, The Eugenics Crusade.
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Watch the Birdie Develop
February 23, 2019 Creation-Evolution Headlines
What’s more common than a chicken? What’s more phenomenal than a chicken? Watch the birdie in the video.
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Peace Through ETs? John Zmirak’s Puckish Proposal
February 23, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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Scientists Have Witnessed a Single-Celled Algae Evolve Into a Multicellular Organism
February 23, 2019 Science Alert
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Barcodes, unclean animals, and skeletal mutations
February 23, 2019 Creation Ministries International
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Magazine Article
Motivated Reasoning Is Disfiguring Social Science
February 23, 2019 Quillette
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Magazine Article
Neanderthals Were Inbreeding. Did it Help Cause Their Extinction?
February 23, 2019 Discover magazine
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Blog Post
Natural Selection Theory Makes Scientists Lazy
February 22, 2019 Creation-Evolution Headlines
‘Natural selection’ is a vacuous concept that provides a convenient way out from doing the hard work of science.
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Exoplanets and the Fermi Paradox
February 22, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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When Richard Lenski Is Finished Reviewing Darwin Devolves, Michael Behe Will Reply
February 22, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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News Update/Commentary
A tasty Florida butterfly turns sour
February 22, 2019 Science Daily
A 15-year study by entomologists found that, when living apart from the unsavory bug it mimics, the viceroy butterfly becomes yucky, making biologists rethink old theories about animal mimicry.
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The ‘WIMP Miracle' Hope for Dark Matter Is Dead
February 22, 2019 Forbes
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African hominid fossils show ancient steps toward a two-legged stride
February 22, 2019 Science News
New cache of Ardipithecus ramidus bones reveals advances in upright walking 4 million years ago
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At Last, Common Ground for Atheists and Intelligent Design Advocates
February 22, 2019 Stream
It’s not the “Divine Foot” of Yahweh we’re letting in the door. It’s a mysterious alien green foot of a purely natural being.
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‘Grandmother effect’ helps explain human longevity
February 22, 2019 statnews.com
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Antarctic flies protect fragile eggs with 'antifreeze'
February 22, 2019 Science Daily
Temperature-resistant gel helps the eggs of wingless flies survive the extreme conditions of the southern continent.
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Exoplanets and the Fermi Paradox
February 22, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Microdeletion in a FAAH pseudogene identified in a patient with high anandamide concentrations and pain insensitivity
February 22, 2019 British Journal of Anaesthesia
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Animal Polyploidy: A Mechanism for Evolution?
February 21, 2019 Answers in Genesis
Since evolutionists need an increase in information in the genome in order to go from molecules to man, polyploidy is postulated to be a mechanism to increase genetic information available to a population.
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The Mirror Test Peers Into the Workings of Animal Minds
February 21, 2019 The Scientist
Nearly 50 years after its development, only a handful of creatures have passed the self-awareness exam. A new attempt with fish highlights a debate over the test’s use and meaning.
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DNA’s Coding Power Doubled
February 21, 2019 The Scientist
All life on Earth uses a genetic code based on four nucleotides. Now, scientists have created one with eight.
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Four new DNA letters double life’s alphabet
February 21, 2019 Nature
Synthetic DNA seems to behave like the natural variety, suggesting that chemicals beyond nature’s four familiar bases could support life on Earth.
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Blog Post
More Wonders to Be Thankful For
February 21, 2019 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Things going on in your body should put believers in chance to shame. Read and be awestruck.
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Michael Behe: Darwinists Are “Famously Slow to Recognize Problems for Their Theory”
February 21, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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News Update/Commentary
New mechanisms regulating neural stem cells
February 21, 2019 Science Daily
The use of stem cells to repair organs is one of the foremost goals of modern regenerative medicine. Scientists have discovered that the protein Akna plays a key role in this process.
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Focusing on the fovea
February 21, 2019 Science Daily
First cellular atlas could prove valuable resource in study of blinding diseases
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Half-a-billion-year-old weird wonder worm finally gets its place in the tree of life
February 21, 2019 Science Daily
Paleobiologists have shed new light on a jaw-snapping species of prehistoric worm using half-a-billion-year-old fossils kept at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C.
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Signals on the scales: How the brain processes images
February 21, 2019 Science Daily
How are the images cast on the retina reassembled in the brain? Researchers have found that processing of visual stimuli occurs at the earliest waystation on the way to the visual cortex -- but not all are treated equally.
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Yeasts reach across tree of life to domesticate suite of bacterial genes
February 21, 2019 Science Daily
New research finds that some yeast picked up a whole suite of genes from bacteria that gave them the new ability to scavenge iron from their environment. It's one of the clearest examples yet of the transfer of genes from one branch on the tree of life
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How bird feather patterns form
February 21, 2019 Science Daily
According to a new study, the precise patterning of bird feathers relies on signaling through ectodysplasin (EDA) and its receptor EDAR -- the same signaling pathway known to be crucial for the formation of hair follicles, teeth and scales
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New ‘interspecies communication' strategy between gut bacteria and mammalian hosts uncovered
February 21, 2019 Science Daily
Study describes molecular language bacteria use to control host genes and development
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Fruit fly wing research reshapes understanding of how organs form
February 21, 2019 Science Daily
How do fruit flies grow their wings? Scientists discovered a surprising answer that could one day help diagnose and treat human genetic diseases.
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Origins of giant extinct New Zealand bird traced to Africa
February 21, 2019 Science Daily
Scientists have revealed the African origins of New Zealand's most mysterious giant flightless bird -- the now extinct adzebill -- showing that some of its closest living relatives are the pint-sized flufftails from Madagascar and Africa.
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News Update/Commentary
Do volcanoes or an asteroid deserve blame for dinosaur extinction?
February 21, 2019 Science Daily
Asteroid/comet likely reignited Indian volcanoes 66 million years ago, but their role in extinction unclear
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Video
Paul Davies -- “The Origin of Life"
February 21, 2019 YouTube
What sort of process can turn a complex mixture of chemicals into a genuinely living organism? The origin of life remains one of the great outstanding mysteries of science.
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How Our Universe Could Emerge as a Hologram
February 21, 2019 Quanta Magazine
Physicists have devised a holographic model of “de Sitter space,” the term for a universe like ours, that could give us new clues about the origin of space and time.
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Scientists Have Created Synthetic DNA with 4 Extra Letters
February 21, 2019 Live Science
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A New Study About Roundup and Cancer Doesn't Say What You Probably Think It Does
February 21, 2019 Reason
Is this just another example of epidemiologists torturing the data until they confess to a spurious but headline-grabbing statistical significance?
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10 answers from biblical creationists -- Part 1
February 21, 2019 Creation Ministries International
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Viruses and Human Complexity
February 21, 2019 Detecting Design