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Origin: Probability of a Single Protein Forming by Chance
April 7, 2017 YouTube
The probability of getting a properly folded chain of one-handed amino acids, joined by peptide bonds, is one chance in 10164
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Book
Science and Islam: A History
April, 2017 Icon Books
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Video
Puffer Fish Creates This Blue Water Art
April 3, 2017 YouTube
The amazing little puffer fish is capable of creating elaborately designed ‘crop circles' at the bottom of the ocean as part of an elaborate mating ritual.
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Cosmic storytelling
April 1, 2017 Creation Ministries International
The never ending big bang story
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Sulfur-cycling bacteria 1.8 billion years old the same as today
April 1, 2017 Creation Ministries International
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Book
Evangelicals needlessly cave on evolution
April 1, 2017 Creation Ministries International
REVIEW: How I Changed My Mind About Evolution: Evangelicals reflect on faith and science, Kathryn Applegate and J.B. Stump (Eds.) InterVarsity Press, 2016
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Bird-of-paradise flower pigment surprise
April 1, 2017 Creation Ministries International
The ‘animal-only’ pigment bilirubin is discovered in plants
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Book
Naturalism and Its Alternatives in Scientific Methodologies
April, 2017 Blyth Institute Press
Proceedings of the 2016 Conference on Alternatives to Methodological Naturalism
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Peer-reviewed Paper
A resonance based model of biological evolution
April 1, 2017 Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
Macroevolution is described as a resonance phenomenon. It presents a hypothesis for the so-called Cambrian Explosion. The model provides also an explanation for periods of evolutionary stasis.
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A broken climate pacemaker? -- part 2
April 1, 2017 Creation Ministries International
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The Evolving Definition of the Term “Gene”
April 1, 2017 Genetics, v.205, n.4, p.1353-1364
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The Discovery of Joshua’s Ai at Khirbet el-Maqatir
March 28, 2017 Epic Archaeology
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Newspaper Article
World's biggest dinosaur footprint discovered in 'Australia's own Jurassic Park'
March 28, 2017 Sydney Morning Herald
More than 100 million years ago, on a muddy stretch of land that is now Australia, nearly two-dozen species of dinosaur once roamed.
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The Developing Genome: An Introduction to Behavioral Epigenetics
March, 2017 Oxford University Press
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Scientists finally figure out why the water bear is nearly indestructible
March 17, 2017 Big Think
Freeze it, boil it, or expose it to radiation. The water bear shrugs it off. Now we know why.
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Varieties of Scientific Realism: Objectivity and Truth in Science
March, 2017 Springer
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Earth’s lost history of planet-altering eruptions revealed
March 16, 2017 Nature, v.543, p.295-296
Geologists unearth signs of major volcanic events stretching back 3 billion years.
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The Origin of Language
March 6, 2017 University College London
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Atheists Will HATE This Video
March 2, 2017 YouTube
Today, Ken Ham lectures about all of the ways Science proves the Bible. You’ll hear about how DNA is evidence of an infinite God, the origins of difference races of people, the proof of a worldwide flood, and much more!
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Young Earth Flood Geology in the Grand Canyon
March, 2017 Cedarville University
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On “compensating” entropy decreases
March, 2017 Physics Essays, v.30, n.1, p.70-74
The “compensation" argument, widely used to dismiss the claim that evolution violates the more general statements of the second law of thermodynamics, is based on the idea that there is a single quantity called “entropy"
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Science's Confusion concerning the Origin of Life
March 1, 2017 USA Today, v.145, n.2862
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Answers to common misconceptinos about biological evolution (pdf)
March 1, 2017 Papers in Evolution, v.4.
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On the Logic of Evolution and the Vanity of Scientism
February 28, 2017 Acta Cogitata: A Philosophy Journal, v.2, article 5
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Cosmic Inflation Theory Faces Challenges (pdf)
February 1, 2017 Scientific American
The latest astrophysical measurements, combined with theoretical problems, cast doubt on the long-cherished inflationary theory of the early cosmos and suggest we need new ideas
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Cosmic Inflation Theory Faces Challenges
February, 2017 Scientific American
The latest astrophysical measurements, combined with theoretical problems, cast doubt on the long-cherished inflationary theory of the early cosmos and suggest we need new ideas
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Book
Naturalism and Its Alternatives in Scientific Methodologies
January, 2017 Blyth Institute Press
Proceedings of the 2016 Conference on Alternatives to Methodological Naturalism
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Book
God vs science?
January, 2017 Creation Ministries International
REVIEW: Let There Be Science: Why God loves science, and science needs God by David Hutchings and Tom McLeish (Lion Books, Oxford, UK, 2017). | See Also Amazon
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Dividing Droplets Could Explain Life’s Origin
January 19, 2017 Quanta Magazine
Researchers have discovered that simple “chemically active” droplets grow to the size of cells and spontaneously divide, suggesting they might have evolved into the first living cells.
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If I just explain the facts, they'll get it, right?
January 18, 2017 YouTube
Global Weirding --- Intro / People object to climate change / Identity and ideology / The science / The caveat / Conclusion
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Opinion: Studies on the origin of life -- the end of the beginning
January 18, 2017 Nature Reviews Chemistry, v.1, n.0012
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How to make science great again
January 6, 2017 SixDay Science
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Life but not Alive
January 4, 2017 TEDx Talks
Kate’s research spans questions from the origin and earliest evolution of life, through using synthetic biology to colonize space, to the future of biotechnology and medicine.
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Targeted Apologetics
January 1, 2017 Answers in Genesis
What do young people believe are the best evidences of evolution? A behavioral scientist sought the answer so we could target our training.
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Deadly plant’s flowers in amber deadly to evolution
January 1, 2017 Creation Ministries International
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Extended Evolutionary Synthesis
January, 2017 John Templeton Foundation
This review -- intended for curious readers, reporters, researchers, and teachers -- is a road map to navigate rapidly moving terrain.
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Extended Evolutionary Synthesis
January, 2017 John Templeton Foundation
a review of the latest scientific research
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Extended Evolutionary Synthesis
January, 2017 John Templeton Foundation
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The hummingbird: creation’s superhero
January 1, 2017 Creation Ministries International
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Tardigrades too tough for evolution
January, 2017 Creation Ministries International
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Book
Karl Popper, Science and Enlightenment
January, 2017 University College London
Here is an idea that just might save the world. It is that science, properly understood, provides us with the methodological key to the salvation of humanity.
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Darwin’s corrosive idea
January, 2017 Creation Ministries International
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Book
Deep Homology?: Uncanny Similarities of Humans and Flies Uncovered by Evo-Devo
January, 2017 Cambridge University Press
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Scientists Say Your “Mind” Isn’t Confined to Your Brain, or Even Your Body
December 23, 2016 Pocket
Exploring how the mind extends beyond the physical self.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Explanations for adaptations, just-so stories, and limitations on evidence in evolutionary biology
December 22, 2016 Evolutionary Anthropology, v.25, n.6, p.276-287
Explanations of the historical origin of specific individual traits are a key part of the research program in paleontology and evolutionary biology. Why did bipedalism evolve in the human lineage? ...
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Listening for Extraterrestrial Blah Blah
December 15, 2016 nautil.us
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Can We Trust the Bible Over Evolutionary Science?
December, 2016 Reformed Faith & Practice: The Journal of Reformed Theological Seminary
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Void: The Strange Physics of Nothing
November, 2016 Yale University Press
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Is Physical Law an Alien Intelligence?
November 17, 2016 nautil.us
Alien life could be so advanced it becomes indistinguishable from physics.
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C. S. Lewis: Anti-Darwinist
November, 2016 Wipf and Stock
A Careful Examination of the Development of His Views on Darwinism | See Also Amazon