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Madhouse genetics
October 23, 2018 Aeon
What the archives of mental-health asylums reveal about the history of human heredity and the evolution of genetics
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Nobel Awarded for Intelligently Designed "Directed Evolution"
October 23, 2018 Institute for Creation Research
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NASA photographs rectangular iceberg
October 23, 2018 BBC News
The iceberg had recently calved from the Larsen C ice shelf in Antarctica
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Birth canals are different all over the world, countering a long-held evolutionary theory
October 23, 2018 Science
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“One year of Replacing Darwin: What have we learned?”
October 23, 2018 Answers in Genesis
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Soft Lung Tissue Found in Modern-Looking Bird from Dinosaur Era
October 22, 2018 Creation-Evolution Headlines
For the first time, soft tissue showing details of lung structure have been found in a fossil bird said to be 120 million years old.
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Cosmic Fine-Tuning Would Be Hard to Believe if It Weren’t True
October 22, 2018 Evolution News & Science Today
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To Refute Materialism, Consider a Chocolate Sundae
October 22, 2018 Evolution News & Science Today
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News Update/Commentary
New human cell structure discovered
October 22, 2018 Science Daily
A new structure in human cells has been discovered. The structure is a new type of protein complex that the cell uses to attach to its surroundings and proves to play a key part in cell division.
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News Update/Commentary
Heredity matters: Ancestral protease functions as protein import motor in chloroplasts
October 22, 2018 Science Daily
Huge motor complex imports proteins into chloroplasts
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When science hits a limit, learn to ask different questions
October 22, 2018 Aeon
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Science mimics life
October 22, 2018 Northwestern University
Mystery of black widow spiders' steel-strength silk webs could lead to equally strong synthetic materials
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Why We Need Cosmic Inflation
October 22, 2018 space.com
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With Screenings in Chicago, New Documentary Human Zoos Prompts Discussion, Debate
October 21, 2018 Evolution News & Science Today
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Are you a Boltzmann Brain? Why nothing in the Universe may be real
October 21, 2018 Big Think
A mind-bending paradox questions the nature of reality.
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Denton, Berlinski: Primary Objections to Neo-Darwinism
October 20, 2018 Evolution News & Science Today
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New Illustra DVD Released: “Call of the Cosmos”
October 20, 2018 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Illustra’s newest DVD showcases Psalm 19 in multiple ways.
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Poor design, or poorly used design?
October 20, 2018 Creation Ministries International
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The Axis of Evil and the Cold Spot -- Sear-ious Problems for the Big Bang?
October 20, 2018 Answers in Genesis
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News Update/Commentary
Genomic evidence of rapid adaptation of invasive Burmese pythons in Florida
October 19, 2018 Science Daily
New researchers set out to determine whether pythons could have adapted to an extreme Florida freeze event in 2010.
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Dennis Prager on Evolution: Stephen Meyer Turned Me Around
October 19, 2018 Evolution News & Science Today
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Clues to how birds began to fly
October 19, 2018 Science Daily
For the first time, researchers have measured what is known as the ground effect of flying animals -- and it turns out that they save a lot more energy by flying close to the ground than previously believed.
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Why Science Can’t Tell Us How to Live
October 19, 2018 Christianity Today
The quest to detach morality from divine revelation has only led to one dead end after another.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Muller’s nobel prize research and peer review
October 19, 2018 Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine, v.13, n.15
This paper assesses possible reasons why Hermann J. Muller avoided peer-review of data that became the basis of his Nobel Prize award for producing gene mutations in male Drosophila by X-rays.
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Researchers Behaving Badly: Known Frauds Are “the Tip of the Iceberg”
October 19, 2018 leapsmag.com
Last week, the whistleblowers in the Paolo Macchiarini affair at Sweden’s Karolinska Institutet went on the record here to detail the retaliation they suffered for trying to expose a star surgeon’s appalling research misconduct.
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Rising Oxygen Levels and What They Meant for Early Animal Life
October 19, 2018 Smithsonian Magazine (Air & Space)
The study of atmospheric gases may tell us which planets are best suited to advanced civilizations.
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Is a Miracle a Violation of the Laws of Nature?
October 19, 2018 The Gospel Coalition
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Ancient Andeans Had Novel Genetic Advantages to Adapt to Altitude
October 19, 2018 The Scientist
Unlike other populations living at high altitude, Andeans didn’t rely on hypoxia-related genes.
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Mantis shrimps punch with the force of a bullet -- and now we know how
October 18, 2018 New Scientist
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Nebular Hypothesis Doesn't Hold Together
October 18, 2018 Institute for Creation Research
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Did eating starchy foods give humans an evolutionary advantage?
October 18, 2018 Science Daily
Physiological significance of AMY1 gene investigated
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New insight into the evolution of the nervous system
October 18, 2018 Science Daily
Pioneering research has given a fascinating fresh insight into how animal nervous systems evolved from simple structures to become the complex network transmitting signals between different parts of the body.
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Piranha-like specimen, 150 million years old, is earliest known flesh-eating fish
October 18, 2018 Science Daily
Researchers have described a remarkable new species of fish that lived in the sea about 150 million years ago in the time of the dinosaurs.
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News Update/Commentary
Electrical properties of dendrites help explain our brain's unique computing power
October 18, 2018 Science Daily
Neurons in human and rat brains carry electrical signals in different ways, scientists find
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Human Computation -- A “Practical Application” of Intelligent Design
October 18, 2018 Evolution News & Science Today
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Trans Activists’ Campaign Against ‘TERFs’ has Become an Attack on Science
October 18, 2018 Quillette
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First stars spell trouble for dark matter
October 18, 2018 backreaction.blogspot.com
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Toothless whale fossil fills gap in filter-feeding evolution
October 18, 2018 Nature
Analysis of jawbones suggests early baleen whales used suction to vacuum up their prey.
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Chemists find a recipe that may have jump-started life on Earth
October 18, 2018 Science
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Why the Many-Worlds Interpretation Has Many Problems
October 18, 2018 Quanta Magazine
The idea that the universe splits into multiple realities with every measurement has become an increasingly popular proposed solution to the mysteries of quantum mechanics. But this “many-worlds interpretation” is incoherent
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Creation in independent schools
October 18, 2018 Creation Ministries International
The UK government’s latest target
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Introducing Grandpa Thag: Neandertals in your family tree!
October 18, 2018 Core Academy of Science
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Your brain is like 100 billion mini-computers all working together
October 18, 2018 New Scientist
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Sanford to Speak at NIH
October 17, 2018 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Creation geneticist PhD is speaking to the NIH, and already the Darwin attack dogs are up in arms.
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Critics Need to Grapple with Ewert’s Challenge to Darwin’s Tree
October 17, 2018 Evolution News & Science Today
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Paternal transmission of epigenetic memory via sperm
October 17, 2018 Science Daily
Studies of human populations and animal models suggest that a father's experiences such as diet or environmental stress can influence the health and development of his descendants.
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Dandelion seeds fly using ‘impossible’ method never before seen in nature
October 17, 2018 Nature
The seeds contain a lot of open space, which seems to be the key to sustaining flight.
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What Good Is Evolutionary Psychology?
October 17, 2018 Quillette
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Meet the Endoterrestrials
October 17, 2018 The Atlantic
They live thousands of feet below the Earth’s surface. They eat hydrogen and exhale methane. And they may shape our world more profoundly than we can imagine.
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Signs of Ancient Microbial Life Questioned
October 17, 2018 The Scientist
New findings cast doubt on previous claims that structures found preserved in rocks in Greenland are stromatolites, but the original authors say the discrepancy lies in different samples.