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New Volcanic Island Unveils Explosive Past
June 26, 2017 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
A recent volcanic eruption near Tonga in the southwest Pacific created a new island, giving scientists a rare opportunity to explore the volcanic record of this remote region.
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News Update/Commentary
Brains evolved to need exercise
June 26, 2017 Science Daily
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News Update/Commentary
Characterizing the mouse genome reveals new gene functions and their role in human disease
June 26, 2017 Science Daily
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News Update/Commentary
A skull with history: A fossil sheds light on the origin of the neocortex
June 26, 2017 Science Daily
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Scholars Requested to Defend Film Propaganda Claim
June 26, 2017 science20.com
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Evolution Is As Real As Gravity
June 26, 2017 The Evolution Institute
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Don’t Trust Scientists Who Were Wrong; Fire Them
June 25, 2017 Creation-Evolution Headlines
the best scam is to keep fooling people into trusting your latest ideas even after you’ve admitted you’ve been wrong all along
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The Universe May Be Conscious, Prominent Scientists State
June 25, 2017 Big Think
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The Mystery of 536 AD: The Worst Climate Disaster in History
June 23, 2017 YouTube
Researching a climatic catastrophe that rocked the Earth in A.D. 535, causing two years of darkness, famine, drought and disease
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News Update/Commentary
Bird's eye perspective
June 23, 2017 Science Daily
chickens may illuminate how humans developed sharp daylight vision
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Evolution Out of the Curriculum? If So, a Bad Idea from Turkey
June 23, 2017 Evolution News & Science Today
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Evolutionary Religious Studies Comes of Age
June 23, 2017 The Evolution Institute
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Ribosomes are Functionally Diverse
June 22, 2017 The Scientist
new research suggests that the cells’ protein factories have preferences for specific messenger RNAs they translate
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Chaos Makes the Multiverse Unnecessary
June 22, 2017 nautil.us
science predicts only the predictable, ignoring most of our chaotic universe
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Ten Earth-Sized Planets Found by Exoplanet-Hunting Telescope
June 22, 2017 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
a new analysis of exoplanet candidates also reveals a previously unrecognized tendency for smaller exoplanets to grow into two distinct sizes
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Genetic modelling adds a new twist to hobbit ancestry question
June 22, 2017 Cosmos Magazine
a new study lends weight to the idea that the diminutive ancient hominid Homo floresiensis was descended from larger ancestors
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Moonlighting Genes Evolve for a Venomous Job
June 22, 2017 Quanta Magazine
an unexpected mechanism allows wasps to rapidly co-opt genes for new toxic functions
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Bones make hormones that communicate with the brain and other organs
June 21, 2017 Science News
mouse studies reveal bone-body connection in appetite, metabolism and more
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Fossil holds new insights into how fish evolved onto land
June 21, 2017 EurekAlert!
'It's like a snake on the outside, but a fish on the inside'
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Everything Worth Knowing About ... Ancient DNA
June 19, 2017 Discover magazine
The lure and limitations of a coded past.
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Is the tyrannosaur feather debate really over?
June 18, 2017 eartharchives.org
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CNN: National Center for Science Education “Promotes Science Over Ideology”; What!?
June 17, 2017 Evolution News & Science Today
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Why is the language of transhumanists and religion so similar
June 13, 2017 Aeon
The most avid believers in artificial intelligence are aggressively secular -- yet their language is eerily religious. Why?
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A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution
June, 2017 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Scientific Realism
June 12, 2017 Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Debates about scientific realism are closely connected to almost everything else in the philosophy of science, for they concern the very nature of scientific knowledge.
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Sure, “Teach the Controversy,” Says an Evolutionist -- but You Know What’s Coming Next
June 9, 2017 Evolution News & Science Today
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Evolution as Bingo: Darwinists Seek Better Ways to Indoctrinate
June 5, 2017 Evolution News & Science Today
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The origin of cell division
June 2, 2017 Nature Physics, v.13, p.526
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Postmodern Truth?
June 1, 2017 Academic Questions, v.30, n.2, p.129-133
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Can We Talk? Tom Wolfe’s The Kingdom of Speech
June 1, 2017 Academic Questions, v.30, n.2, p.182-198
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Science denial as a form of pseudoscience
June 1, 2017 Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, v.63, p.39-47
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Social Origins of Scientific Deviance: Examining Creationism and Global Warming Skepticism
June 1, 2017 Sociological Perspectives
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Get Lost in Mega-Tunnels Dug by South American Megafauna
May 28, 2017 Discover magazine
Paleoburrows may look like caves, but these tunnels are remnants of past (giant) diggers.
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In US, Belief in Creationist View of Humans at New Low
May 22, 2017 Gallup
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This 600-Pound Preserved Blue Whale Heart Will Last 1,000 Years
May 18, 2017 Motherboard (by Vice)
It's the first preserved blue whale heart in the world.
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We have still not found the missing link between us and apes
May 18, 2017 BBC
There was once an animal that was an ancestor to both humans and apes. But what was it like?
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The Road to Relativity: The History and Meaning of Einstein’s “The Foundation of General Relativity”
May, 2017 Princeton University Press
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Almost Human: The Astonishing Tale of Homo naledi and the Discovery That Changed Our Human Story
May, 2017 National Geographic
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Why Isn’t Intelligent Design Science?
May 3, 2017 YouTube
The theory of Intelligent Design holds that certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, not an undirected process such as natural selection.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
A 130,000-year-old archaeological site in southern California, USA
April 27, 2017 Nature, v.544, p.479-483
The earliest dispersal of humans into North America is a contentious subject, and proposed early sites are required to meet the following criteria for acceptance
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The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning and the Universe Itself?
April 18, 2017 Bible Science Forum
part 1 of my review of the book: “The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning and the Universe Itself,” by Sean M. Carroll a theoretical physicist at the California Institute of Technology
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Doubting Thomists and Intelligent Design
April 10, 2017 Sophia
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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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Science and Islam: A History
April, 2017 Icon Books
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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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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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Naturalism and Its Alternatives in Scientific Methodologies
April, 2017 Blyth Institute Press
Proceedings of the 2016 Conference on Alternatives to Methodological Naturalism