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Book
Our horribly designed bodies are making us sick
May 12, 2018 New York Post
REVIEW: Human Errors: A Panorama of our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes by Nathan Lents (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018) | See Also Amazon
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Information Theory – Part 2
May 4, 2018 Bible Science Institute
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Human Errors: A Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes
May, 2018 Mariner Books (Harper Collins)
A biology professor’s illuminating tour of the physical imperfections -- from faulty knees to junk DNA -- that make us human. “A funny, fascinating catalog of our collective shortcomings that’s tough to put down.” | See Also Amazon
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Why parts of Earth have barely changed in 3 billion years
May 1, 2018 phys.org
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News Update/Commentary
Mercury Rising: New evidence that volcanism triggered the late Devonian extinction
May 1, 2018 Science Daily
The late Devonian extinction, about 370 million years ago, is one of the 'Big Five.' It killed up to 80 percent of species, obliterating the lavish Devonian coral reef ecosystem.
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Reconstruction of the ancestral metazoan genome reveals an increase in genomic novelty
April 30, 2018 Nature Communications
Understanding the emergence of the Animal Kingdom is one of the major challenges of modern evolutionary biology. Many genomic changes took place along the evolutionary lineage that gave rise to the Metazoa.
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How Stifling Debate Around Race, Genes and IQ Can Do Harm
April, 2018 Evolutionary Psychological Science
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Video
Great Minds discuss Scientism and Science as Bully
April 26, 2018 Discovery Science
a wide-ranging conversation on science as an “international bully,” the mystery of consciousness, and the failure of universities to tell students who they are
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Yes, Intelligent Design is Detectable by Science
April 26, 2018 Intelligent Design
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What ancient salt can tell us about life on Earth
April 24, 2018 Massive Science
Scientists are finding more evidence about how our planet gained oxygen
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A Flawed Mirror: A Response to the Book “Theistic Evolution”
April 18, 2018 BioLogos
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Book
The Human Instinct: How We Evolved to Have Reason, Consciousness, and Free Will
April 17, 2018 Simon & Schuster
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Video
Where Did Life Come From?
April 11, 2018 YouTube
PBS Space Time and Eons!
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Insuperable problems of the genetic code initially emerging in an RNA World
April 11, 2018 Biosystems
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Book
Important reference work offers good overview of interpretive options
April, 2018 Creation Ministries International
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Carol Cleland's case of historical science -- part 2: apologetic for historical science (pdf)
April, 2018 Journal of Creation, v.32, n.1, p.84-91
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Radiocarbon in coal: is uranium the answer? (pdf)
April, 2018 Journal of Creation, v.32, n.1, p.59-67
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Book
Modern science catches up with Neandertal man
April, 2018 Creation Ministries International
Review of a book by Dimitra Papagianni and Michael A. Morse | See Also The Neanderthals Rediscovered: How modern science is rewriting their story
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Mighty mites stifle evolutionists
April 1, 2018 Creation Ministries International
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Hybridization shaking up the evolutionary Tree of Life -- what does it mean for creationists?
April, 2018 Creation Ministries International
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The Artificial Intelligence Black Box and the Failure of Intent and Causation
April, 2018 Harvard Journal of Law & Technology, v.31, n.2, p.889-938
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The meaning of unconformities
April, 2018 Creation Ministries International
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Big bang universe “should not actually exist”
April, 2018 Creation Ministries International
Antimatter still missing!
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A naturalist’s nightmare
April, 2018 Creation Ministries International
book review | See Also A Fortunate Universe: Life in a finely tuned cosmos by Geraint F. Lewis and Luke A. Barnes (Cambridge University Press, 2016)
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The appendix
April, 2018 Creation Ministries International
Functional, but still evidence for evolution?
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Genetics Confirms the Recent, Supernatural Creation of Adam and Eve
April 1, 2018 Answers in Genesis
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Multiverse no help for evolution
April, 2018 Creation Ministries International
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The Irreproducibility Crisis of Modern Science (pdf)
April 1, 2018 National Association of Scholars
Causes, Consequences, and the Road to Reform
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Video
Clever Seagull Cracks Open Shell -- Bird Intelligence
March 31, 2018 YouTube
Seagull's ingenious method to break open shell by dropping it over the rocks and eating what's inside. Is it tool usage?
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Primeval Salt Shakes Up Ideas on How the Atmosphere Got Its Oxygen
March 22, 2018 Scientific American
Our planet may have gained breathable air in the geologic blink of an eye
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Rocks with Soft-Tissue Fossils Share a Mineral Fingerprint
March 20, 2018 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
Discovering new resting places of these rare and information-rich fossils will be critical to understanding the largest expansion of life in Earth’s history, according to researchers.
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It’s Time to Make Human-Chimp Hybrids
March 5, 2018 nautil.us
The humanzee is both scientifically possible and morally defensible.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Science of science
March 2, 2018 Science, v.359, n.6379
with a deeper understanding of the precursors of impactful science, it will be possible to develop systems and policies that improve each scientist's ability to succeed and enhance the prospects of science as a whole
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Peer-reviewed Paper
On the Problem and Promise of Metaphor Use in Science and Science Communication
March, 2018 Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education, v.19, n.1
Yet, despite their utility, metaphors can also constrain scientific reasoning, contribute to public misunderstandings, and, at times, inadvertently reinforce stereotypes and messages that undermine the goals of inclusive science.
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Did Homo erectus speak?
February 28, 2018 Aeon
Early hominins who sailed across oceans left indirect evidence that they might have been the first to use language
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A Critique of the U.S. Global Change Research Program's 2017 Climate Science Special Report
February 28, 2018 Heartland Institute
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Integrating Contemporary Approaches to "Worldview"
February 12, 2018 Creation Research Society Quarterly, v.54, p.180-186
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Getting Worldview Wrong: Philosophical Mistakes in Understanding Worldview
February 12, 2018 Creation Research Society Quarterly
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Adam and the Genome and Citation Bluffing
February 7, 2018 Science & Culture Today
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Theses on Critical Theory and Contemporary Naturalism
February 6, 2018 Telos
Contemporary political and social theory needs to be rethought with reference to post-historical conditions and developments in the natural sciences.
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Losing the Forest by Fixating on the Trees -- A Response to Venema’s Critique of Undeniable
February 6, 2018 Evolution News & Science Today
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Adam, Eve and Population Genetics: A Reply...
February, 2018 BioLogos Forum
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News Update/Commentary
Toward end of Ice Age, human beings witnessed fires larger than dinosaur killers
February 1, 2018 Science Daily
About 12,800 years ago, thanks to fragments of a comet, humans saw an astonishing 10 percent of the Earth's land surface, or about 10 million square kilometers, consumed by fires.
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If You Want to Explain Your Science to the Public, Here's Some Advice
January 26, 2018 Scientific American
Tap into the ample resources that can get you started
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Fossil Discoveries Challenge Ideas About Earth’s Start
January 22, 2018 Quanta Magazine
A series of fossil finds suggests that life on Earth started earlier than anyone thought, calling into question a widely held theory of the solar system’s beginnings.
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Evolution unleashed
January 17, 2018 Aeon
Is evolutionary science due for a major overhaul -- or is talk of ‘revolution’ misguided?
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Book
Heretic: One Scientist's Journey from Darwin to Design
January, 2018 Discovery Institute
| See Also free book
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Human torque is not present in chimpanzee brain
January 15, 2018 NeuroImage, v.165, p.285-293
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Video
The Fascinating Story Behind Dinosaur Soft Tissue
January 1, 2018 In Genesis History?
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Clues from Creation Week
January 1, 2018 Answers in Genesis