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Blog Post
Anthropologists and Psychologists Under Fire for Flawed Methods
November 19, 2018 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Poor sampling and other errors may undermine many things scientists think they know about mankind.
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Memory -- New Research Reveals Cells Have It, Too
November 19, 2018 Evolution News & Science Today
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Inside the science of bitchiness -- and how it helped humans thrive
November 17, 2018 New York Post
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Interspecific Adoption: Can Evolution Explain Altruism in Animals?
November 17, 2018 Answers in Genesis
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Video
A Debate: Which Worldview Produces the Best World? Joel McDurmon vs. Richard Carrier
November 16, 2018 YouTube
This debate "cashes out" two diametrically opposed worldview. It places an equal burden on both speakers to advocate for either biblical Christianity or secular humanism.
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Can You Say That in Nature? Dobzhansky’s Evolution Cliché Is Becoming Passé
November 16, 2018 Evolution News & Science Today
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Yes, the Placebo Effect Is Real, Not a Trick
November 16, 2018 Mind Matters
But the fact that the mind acts on the body troubles materialists. Such facts, they say, require revision
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News Update/Commentary
Dodging antibiotic resistance by curbing bacterial evolution
November 16, 2018 Science Daily
Findings point to possibility of new 'anti-evolution drugs' to keep hard-to-treat pathogens from arising
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Blog Post
Famous Geneticist Tells NIH that Humans Are Going Extinct
November 16, 2018 Creation-Evolution Headlines
The facts of genetics make it clear even to evolutionists: “We are dying” and “More death by selection will not work.”
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High sea levels thousands of years ago aided island formation
November 15, 2018 Mongabay
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Killer Whales Share Personality Traits with Humans, Chimpanzees
November 15, 2018 American Psychological Association
Complex social interactions may require certain personality traits, study finds
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Rare microbes lead scientists to discover new branch on the tree of life
November 15, 2018 CBC (Canada)
Hemimastigotes are more different from all other living things than animals are from fungi
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Blog Post
Health Advice Keeps Changing
November 15, 2018 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Many things the experts told us were good for us or bad for us have “evolved” -- sometimes into opposite counsel.
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More Cellular Roles Found for RNA
November 15, 2018 Evolution News & Science Today
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Hemimastigophora is a novel supra-kingdom-level lineage of eukaryotes
November 14, 2018 Nature
Phylogenomic analyses place Hemimastigophora outside of all established eukaryote supergroups.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
The not-so-dangerous lives of Neanderthals
November 14, 2018 Nature
In spite of what its title suggests, the actual point of this study is that the lives of Neanderthals were at least AS dangerous as those of other populations.
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Human evolution is still happening -- possibly faster than ever
November 14, 2018 The Conversation
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Skulls reveal Neanderthals, humans had similarly harsh lives
November 14, 2018 Associated Press
Life as a Neanderthal was no picnic, but a new analysis says it was no more dangerous than what our own species faced in ancient times.
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The not-so-dangerous lives of Neanderthals
November 14, 2018 Nature
Have Neanderthals gained an unfair reputation for having led highly violent lives? A comparison of skulls of Neanderthals and prehistoric humans in Eurasia reveals no evidence of higher levels of trauma in these hominins.
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Evidence emerges from the deep of Earth's first amino acids
November 14, 2018 Chemistry World
Geochemical processes shows how buildings blocks for life on Earth may have been synthesised
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Orangutans are the only great apes -- besides humans -- to ‘talk’ about the past
November 14, 2018 Science
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Salmon are shrinking and it shows in their genes
November 14, 2018 University of Helsinki
The gene version that tells salmon to mature at a later age and thus grow bigger is becoming less common, while the version that urges them to hurry up and get on with it is getting more prevalent. Behold evolution in action.
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News Update/Commentary
Deep-time evolution of animal life on islands
November 14, 2018 Science Daily
A new article describes two new fossil relatives of marsupials that shed light on how a unique island ecosystem evolved some 43 million years ago during the Eocene.
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Do We Actually Experience the Flow of Time?
November 14, 2018 Scientific American
Subjective experience must inform physics and philosophy, but it should be assessed carefully
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Blog Post
Extinct Cretaceous Birds Flew
November 14, 2018 Creation-Evolution Headlines
They flew, they had feathers, they landed on top of dinosaurs. Did they evolve from dinosaurs?
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Book
Reading Genesis Well
November 13, 2018 Zondervan
promotes a responsible conversation about how science and biblical faith relate by offering a reading strategy for Genesis 1-11, and the rest of the Bible, based on tools developed by specialists in linguistics, rhetoric, and literary theory
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New Model Legislative Resolution on University Student Academic Freedom in Science
November 13, 2018 Evolution News & Science Today
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Book
Theology and the Scientific Imagination
November, 2018 Princeton University Press
From the Middle Ages to the Seventeenth Century | See Also Amazon
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The ‘common sense’ argument for evolution
November 13, 2018 Creation Ministries International
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Blog Post
Male and Female Brain Differences -- Must We Keep Doing This?
November 13, 2018 Cosmic Shambles
A recent large population study claims to conclusively prove that male and female brains are different. Of course, it does no such thing.
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Skepticism, Experience, and Science
November 13, 2018 American Mind
The crisis of modern liberalism and science requires skeptical political philosophy -- but skeptical political philosophy is itself undergoing a crisis.
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News Update/Commentary
Rare fossil bird deepens mystery of avian extinctions
November 13, 2018 Science Daily
Most complete North American enantiornithine fossil was aerodynamic equal of modern birds
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News Update/Commentary
New finding of particle physics may help to explain the absence of antimatter
November 13, 2018 Science Daily
With the help of computer simulations, particle physics researchers may be able to explain why there is more matter than antimatter in the Universe.
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The Anthropic Principle: Are the Laws of the Universe Fine-Tuned for Life?
November 12, 2018 Discover magazine
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Blog Post
How One Ottoman Reconciled Islamic Teachings with Darwin’s Theory of Evolution
November 12, 2018 patheos.com
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Blog Post
Evolution as an Uncommonly Silly Idea
November 12, 2018 Blog & Mablog - theology that bites back
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Could Consciousness All Come Down to Vibrations?
November 12, 2018 Real Clear Science
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News Update/Commentary
Stripping the linchpins from the life-making machine reaffirms its seminal evolution
November 12, 2018 Science Daily
A daring experiment corroborates translational system's place at earliest foundations of life on Earth
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News Update/Commentary
How plants evolved to make ants their servants
November 12, 2018 Science Daily
Plants have evolved ways to make ants defend them from attacks and spread their seeds
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News Update/Commentary
Defective DNA damage repair leads to chaos in the genome
November 12, 2018 Science Daily
Scientists have now found a cause for the frequent catastrophic events in the genetic material of cancer cells that have only been known for a few years:
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An extinct monkey evolved to live like a sloth in the Caribbean
November 12, 2018 New Scientist
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Opinion: The New Frontiers of Epigenetics
November 12, 2018 The Scientist
Newly developed techniques could propel a field already advancing rapidly to complement modern medicine.
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News for the Birds -- Smart, Gymnastic, Flute-Playing, Surviving
November 12, 2018 Evolution News & Science Today
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On Human Origins, Smithsonian Teaching Resources Oversell Evolution
November 12, 2018 Evolution News & Science Today
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Blog Post
New Dino Soft Tissue Explanation Is Toast
November 10, 2018 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Evolutionists cannot deny the presence of soft tissue in dinosaur bones, but their explanation burns up in the heat of critical analysis.
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Video
Carl Sagan's 1994 “Lost" Lecture: The Age of Exploration
November 9, 2018 YouTube
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DNA testing reveals baffling bird is three species in one
November 9, 2018 Gizmodo
warblers appear to be reproductively compatible in spite of alleged millions of years of independent evolution
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Under poaching pressure, elephants are evolving to lose their tusks
November 9, 2018 National Geographic
In Mozambique, researchers are racing to understand the genetics of elephants born without tusks -- and the consequences of the trait.
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Dump the Metaphysics -- How About Methodological Regularism?
November 9, 2018 Evolution News & Science Today
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In Arguments for Intelligent Design, Definitions and Assumptions Are Important
November 9, 2018 Evolution News & Science Today