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Should atheism be included in religious education?
September 16, 2018 Uncommon Descent
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Aging has always been with us, say researchers (to no one’s surprise)
September 16, 2018 Uncommon Descent
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Researcher: A “chemical brain” will solve the hard problem of consciousness
September 16, 2018 Uncommon Descent
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Fossils Can Mislead Big Time
September 15, 2018 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Claims about fossil patterns rely on methods and assumptions that have been proven wrong.
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New Study Identifies Possible Ancestors of RNA
September 14, 2018 Astrobiology Magazine
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But Wesley, It’s a Study!
September 14, 2018 Evolution News & Science Today
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New Documentary Human Zoos Isn’t Ancient History
September 14, 2018 Evolution News & Science Today
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News Update/Commentary
The walking dead: Fossils on the move can distort patterns of mass extinctions
September 14, 2018 Science Daily
Using the fossil record to accurately estimate the timing and pace of past mass extinctions is no easy task, and a new study highlights how fossil evidence can produce a misleading picture if not interpreted with care.
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“Oldest Known Drawing,” and More Cases of Intelligent Design at Work in Science
September 14, 2018 Evolution News & Science Today
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Famous theory of the living Earth upgraded to 'Gaia 2.0'
September 13, 2018 phys.org
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The Walking Dead: Fossils on the Move Can Distort Patterns of Mass Extinctions
September 13, 2018 Florida Museum
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Famous theory of the living Earth upgraded to ‘Gaia 2.0’
September 13, 2018 University of Exeter
A time-honoured theory into why conditions on Earth have remained stable enough for life to evolve over billions of years has been given a new, innovative twist.
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Massive Animal Sequencing Effort Releases First Set of Genomes
September 13, 2018 The Scientist
The Vertebrate Genomes Project has released data on 14 vertebrate species, but the goal is to sequence all 66,000.
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3 Million Year Old Footprints Suggest Human-Like Walking Evolved Long Before Humans Did
September 13, 2018 science20
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Claim for early humans in Madagascar disputed
September 13, 2018 Cosmos Magazine
Butchered elephant bird bones suggest humans reached the island 6000 years earlier than thought, but not everyone is convinced.
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Is the human body badly designed?
September 13, 2018 Creation Ministries International
Refuting Human Errors: A Panorama of our Glitches by Nathan Lents
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Weikart, Medved: Getting to the Bottom of “Hitler’s Religion”
September 13, 2018 Evolution News & Science Today
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Big Science Waffles on Gender Confusion
September 13, 2018 Creation-Evolution Headlines
The mouthpieces for science don’t seem to know whether to use common sense or go with the PC current.
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News Update/Commentary
Eyes have a natural version of night vision
September 13, 2018 Science Daily
Cells in retina change their duties to help the brain detect motion
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Blazes of light reveal how plants signal danger long distances
September 13, 2018 Science Daily
Botonists reveal reveal how glutamate, an abundant neurotransmitter in animals, activates a wave of calcium when a plant is wounded -- the best look yet at the communication systems within plants that are normally hidden from view.
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High-resolution genomic map gives scientists unprecedented view of brain development
September 13, 2018 Science Daily
Detailed measurements of genes in individual brain cells allows scientists to trace specific developmental trajectories in the cerebellum
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New genetics tool helps answer evolutionary questions
September 13, 2018 Science Daily
Developing cutting-edge statistical tools that can handle these massive new datasets is a piece of the research puzzle, and new research has just added a new tool for the modern genomic toolbox.
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A very special protein synthesis machinery
September 13, 2018 Science Daily
Sleeping sickness-causing parasites contain an unusual protein synthesis machinery. A team of researchers has resolved its very special structure for the first time.
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Nathan Lents Is Back; Still Wrong About Sinuses
September 13, 2018 Evolution News & Science Today
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On Biology of the Second Reich, New York Times Misses the Elephant in the Room
September 13, 2018 Evolution News & Science Today
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Newspaper Article
Oldest Known Drawing by Human Hands Discovered in South African Cave
September 12, 2018 New York Times
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Iran's Pompeii: Astounding story of a massacre buried for millennia
September 12, 2018 New Scientist
The ancient town of Hasanlu was under savage attack when a chance event meant every detail was frozen in time. Finally the story can be told, and the assailants unmasked
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Are educational neuromyths actually harmful?
September 12, 2018 Research Digest, The British Psychological Society
Award-winning teachers believe in nearly as many of them as trainees
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Earliest known drawing found on rock in South African cave
September 12, 2018 The Guardian
Researchers believe the pattern on the fragment of rock is 73,000 years old, but are perplexed as to what it might represent
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Aging may be as old as life itself
September 12, 2018 EurekAlert!
A new USC Dornsife study indicates that aging may have originated at the very beginning of the evolution of life, at the same time as the evolution of the first genes.
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News Update/Commentary
Gut bacteria's shocking secret: They produce electricity
September 12, 2018 Science Daily
To date, most electricity-generating bacteria have come from weird environments, but researchers have found more than 100 in the human microbiome, both pathogenic and probiotic.
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Ancient bird bones redate human activity in Madagascar by 6,000 years
September 12, 2018 Science Daily
Skeletons of extinct 500kg elephant birds revolutionise our understanding of this island
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Ignoring Other Research, New Study Explains (Away) the Origin of New Body Plans
September 12, 2018 Evolution News & Science Today
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How To Pray: “Pass the Salt”
September 12, 2018 C. S. Lewis Foundation
Determinism and Prayer
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What Is Threatening Science?
September 11, 2018 Project Syndicate
Globalization, the digitization of knowledge, and the growing number of scientists all seem, at first glance, like positive trends for the progress of science.
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As Bees Specialize, So Does Their DNA Packaging
September 11, 2018 The Scientist
A study of chemical tags on histone proteins hints at how the same genome can yield very different animals.
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A New Test for the Leading Big Bang Theory
September 11, 2018 Quanta Magazine
Cosmologists have predicted the existence of an oscillating signal that could distinguish between cosmic inflation and alternative theories of the universe’s birth.
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This broken gene may have turned our ancestors into marathoners -- and helped humans conquer the world
September 11, 2018 Science
Today’s ultramarathoners may go the distance thanks to a gene that broke millions of years ago.
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Jonathan Haidt on the Coddling of the American Mind
September 11, 2018 The Gospel Coalition
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Newspaper Article
Seeking Human Generosity’s Origins in an Ape’s Gift to Another Ape
September 11, 2018 New York Times
Studying the behavior of our closest living relatives may help scientists better understand the human impulse for generosity.
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Conclusive evidence that dust rings around some stars grow into planets?
September 11, 2018 Creation Ministries International
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Forging Islamic science
September 11, 2018 Aeon
Fake miniatures depicting Islamic science have found their way into the most august of libraries and history books. How?
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Can Machines Be Persons?
September 10, 2018 Mind Matters
What would the real effect of legal personhood for machines be?
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Lizards Pre-Programmed to Adapt Their Coloration
September 10, 2018 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Lizards put onto lava can change color within a week. Over time, the population blends into the darker environment.
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News Update/Commentary
Jumping genes drive sex chromosome changes in strawberries
September 10, 2018 Science Daily
The discovery shows that plant sex regions can 'jump' and indicates that the phenomenon may be adaptive by gathering and locking new genes into linkage with sex.
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Can you evolve while being robust?
September 10, 2018 Science Daily
Biophysical constraints on evolvability and robustness uncovered
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On Rosh Hashanah, a Note on Origins and Evidence
September 10, 2018 Evolution News & Science Today
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Rutgers Scientists Identify Protein That May Have Existed When Life Began
September 10, 2018 Rutgers University
The primordial peptide may have appeared 4 billion years ago
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Call for atheism to be included in religious education
September 9, 2018 The Guardian
Report recommends sweeping changes with the emphasis on respect and empathy for different faiths and worldviews
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Why Theistic Evolution Is Not a Good Option
September 9, 2018 Creation-Evolution Headlines
A book review from Creation Ministries International explains why evangelicals should not needlessly cave on evolution.