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Are We Prepared for an Asteroid Headed Straight to Earth?
June 29, 2018 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
A century after an asteroid crashed into Tunguska, Siberia, experts discuss the current lineup of missions to study asteroids and mitigate future disasters should another object from space hit Earth.
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Ingredients for life discovered gushing out of Saturn’s moon
June 27, 2018 Washington Post
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Chimps, Humans, and Monkeys: What's the Difference
June 27, 2018 Jane Goodall Institute
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No, We Haven't Solved the Drake Equation, the Fermi Paradox, or Whether Humans Are Alone
June 26, 2018 Forbes
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TIME'S ARROW (?): The Timeless Nature of Entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics
June 19, 2018 Lulu Press
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Theory Suggests That All Genes Affect Every Complex Trait
June 19, 2018 Quanta Magazine
The more closely geneticists look at complex traits and diseases, the harder it gets to find active genes that don’t influence them.
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Book Review: Theistic Evolution: A Scientific, Philosophical, and Theological Critique
June 14, 2018 Apologetics 315
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Was Neanderthal Man Fully Human? The Role Racism Played in Assessing the Evidence
June 12, 2018 Uncommon Descent
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Volcanic activity, declining ocean oxygen triggered mass extinction of ancient organisms
June 11, 2018 phys.org
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A Sneaky Theory of Where Language Came From
June 10, 2018 The Atlantic
It might have hijacked our early ancestors’ brains.
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Geologist finds massive Alaskan oil well on a hunch
June 8, 2018 Fox Business
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Did plate tectonics set the stage for life on Earth?
June 7, 2018 phys.org
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Groundbreaking Paper Shows Thousands of New Genes Needed for the Origin of Animals
June 7, 2018 Evolution News & Science Today
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The Devil's Redemption: A New History and Interpretation of Christian Universalism
June 5, 2018 Baker Academic
Will all evil finally turn to good, or does some evil remain stubbornly opposed to God and God's goodness?
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The ‘Commandments' of Carl Sagan
June 2, 2018 Real Clear Science
I found myself turning to my “Bible" last week, but not the Old Testament nor the New. No, the closest thing to a holy book I adhere to is The Demon Haunted World, Carl Sagan's enduring treatise on science and skepticism.
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Cambrian Sixtymile Formation of Grand Canyon yields new findings
June 1, 2018 phys.org
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Hierarchy Theory of Evolution and the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis
June, 2018 Evolutionary Biology, v.45, n.5, p.1-13
some epistemic bridges, some conceptual rifts
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Global Flood Hazard: Applications in Modeling, Mapping, and Forecasting
June 1, 2018 American Geophysical Union
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Scientists rethink co-evolution of marine life, oxygenated oceans
May 31, 2018 phys.org
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Trio of genes supercharged human brain evolution
May 31, 2018 Science
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Genesis Flood Drainage Through Southwest Montana: Part III: Water Gaps
May 30, 2018 Creation Research Society Quarterly, v.55, p.81-97
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Differences Between Humans and Apes
May 29, 2018 Answers in Genesis
How the fossil record, evolutionary assumptions, artistic license, and anatomical differences do NOT confirm common ancestry between humans and apes.
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My Genes Made Me Do It: Biological Determinism
May 24, 2018 Forum of Christian Leaders
The notion that human behavior is shaped primarily by our hereditary predispositions has become a powerful force in Western thought in the past century.
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Does Darwinism Devalue Human Life?
May 24, 2018 Forum of Christian Leaders
Many aspects of Darwinian theory have implications for the value of human life, and Darwinists themselves have acknowledged this.
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Is Human Life a Cosmic Accident?: Atheists' Contradictory Position
May 24, 2018 Forum of Christian Leaders
Since the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, atheist and agnostic thinkers (i.e., materialists and positivists) have considered everything, including humans, as merely the product of accidental processes.
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Slaughter of the Dissidents: The Shocking Truth about Killing the Careers of Darwin Doubters
May, 2018 Leafcutter Press, LLC
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The Need for Dissent from Universal Common Descent
May 21, 2018 more than cake
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Scientists' discovery in Yellowstone 'extremely relevant' to origin of life
May 15, 2018 phys.org
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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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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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The Human Instinct: How We Evolved to Have Reason, Consciousness, and Free Will
April 17, 2018 Simon & Schuster
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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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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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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