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Deepak Chopra's God 2.0
July 28, 2010 Big Questions Online
the "quantum flapdoodle" of the New Age author is a failed effort to update medieval theology
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Why Orthodox Darwinism Demands Atheism
July 28, 2010 Answers Research Journal, v.3, p.147-152
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Climategate scientist breaks his silence
July 28, 2010 New Scientist, n.2771, p.10-11
with inquiries into the affair now complete, Phil Jones reflects on his bruising experiences at the centre of the storm
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Morph-osaurs: How shape-shifting dinosaurs deceived us
July 28, 2010 New Scientist, n.2771, p.6-7
some dinosaurs' skulls changed so much as they matured that we've mistaken young and old for completely different species
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Does Hitchens Have a Prayer?
July 28, 2010 Religion Dispatches
since the dire diagnosis of esophageal cancer a question has arisen over whether to pray for famous atheist, Christopher Hitchens
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News Update/Commentary
Segmentation Is the Secret Behind the Extraordinary Diversification of Animals
July 27, 2010 Science Daily
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Science Turns Authoritarian
July 27, 2010 The American
science is losing its credibility because it has adopted an authoritarian tone, and has let itself be co-opted by politics
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News Update/Commentary
Australia's marsupials 'have American roots'
July 27, 2010 BBC News
the characteristic koalas, kangaroos, possums and wombats of Australia share a common American ancestor
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Remarkable Creatures: Translating Stories of Life Forms Etched in Stone
July 26, 2010 New York Times
many of the creatures found in the fossil record from the time immediately preceding the Cambrian are so unlike modern forms that deciphering what they are and how they lived continues to challenge paleontologists
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Gene 'Jumps' Serve a Purpose
July 26, 2010 Institue for Creation Research
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News Update/Commentary
Capturing the world's oldest living things
July 26, 2010 CNN
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"Flexibly deployed Pax genes in eye development at the early evolution of animals demonstrated by studies on a hydrozoan jellyfish"
July 26, 2010 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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The uncertainty principle in the presence of quantum memory
July 25, 2010 Nature Physics
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Every black hole may hold a hidden universe
July 23, 2010 New Scientist, n.2770, p.9
our own universe could be inside a black hole -- if an analysis based on a modified version of Einstein's general relativity proves to be correct
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Young evangelical writer: 'Move on' from evolution-creationism debate
July 23, 2010 USA Today
"I learned you don't have to choose between loving and following Jesus and believing in evolution"
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Quantum mechanics flummoxes physicists again
July 22, 2010 Nature News
a fresh take on a classic experiment makes no progress in unifying quantum mechanics and relativity
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Stingy aliens may call us on cheap rates only
July 22, 2010 New Scientist, n.2770, p.17
we could be missing alien communications because we are not taking into account the fiscal constraints on sending out intergalactic messages
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"When doubt becomes a weapon"
July 22, 2010 Nature, v.466, p.441-442
Wynne wishes that a book on the vulnerability of scientific evidence to attack by ideologists had grappled more with the larger question of why science is such an easy target
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"Ecology: A world without mosquitoes"
July 21, 2010 Nature, v.466, p.432-434
Eradicating any organism would have serious consequences for ecosystems -- wouldn't it? Not when it comes to mosquitoes.
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Infinite Life
July 21, 2010 The New Republic
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Take the Evolutionary Challenge
July 21, 2010 Big Questions Online
to gain real knowledge of humanity, every field needs to drink from the "cup" of evolutionary theory
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Peer-Reviewed Paper Investigating Origin of Information
July 19, 2010 Evolution News & Science Today
Endorses Irreducible Complexity and Intelligent Design
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Evolution, design, and genomic suboptimality: Does science "save theology"? (pdf)
July 19, 2010 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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Watching a gene at work
July 18, 2010 Nature News
how human proteins are made from DNA can be followed in real time
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Dominant paradigms in science and their attendant anomalies
July 18, 2010 Access Research Network (blog)
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News Update/Commentary
Redundant Genetic Instructions in 'Junk DNA' Support Healthy Development
July 17, 2010 Science Daily
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CellCraft: Can a Creationist Game Teach Biology?
July 16, 2010 Wired
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Bioethics: U.S. Panel Weighs Guidelines for Synthetic Biology
July 16, 2010 Science, v.329, n.5989, p.264-265
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Confronting Anatomy's Nazi Past
July 16, 2010 Science, v.329, n.5989, p.274-275
studies are uncovering a symbiosis between the Nazi regime, which needed to dispose of executed prisoners, and anatomical institutes, which sought bodies for study
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Mystery RNA spawns gene-activating peptides
July 15, 2010 Nature News
short peptides that regulate fruitfly development are produced from 'junk' RNA
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Sperm in all animals originated 600 million years ago
July 15, 2010 MSNBC (Live Science)
gene for reproduction has remained unaltered throughout evolution
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Video Q&A: Non-coding RNAs and eukaryotic evolution -- a personal view
July 15, 2010 BMC Biology
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Earliest multicellular life?
July 15, 2010 Creation Ministries International
claimed 1.5 billion years earlier than previously thought
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Quantum entanglement holds together life's blueprint
July 15, 2010 New Scientist, n.2769
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Cosmology forum: Is dark energy really a mystery?
July 15, 2010 Nature, v.466, p.321-322
The Universe is expanding and the expansion seems to be speeding up. To account for that acceleration, a mysterious factor, 'dark energy', is often invoked. A contrary opinion -- that this factor isn't at all mysterious
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New Oligocene primate from Saudi Arabia and the divergence of apes and Old World monkeys
July 15, 2010 Nature, v.466, p.360-364
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Quantum entanglement holds together life's blueprint
July 15, 2010 New Scientist, n.2769, p.9
the double helix shape of DNA may be down to the quantum entanglement of its base pairs
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"Does diversity always grow?"
July 15, 2010 Nature, v.466, p.318
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Silk evolution untangled
July 15, 2010 Nature, v.466, p.319
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Fossil skull fingered as ape-monkey ancestor
July 14, 2010 Nature News
find in Saudi Arabia sheds light on primate lineage
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Spider silk comes with a "well-designed adhesive"
July 14, 2010 Access Research Network (blog)
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Triceratops and Torsaurus Were Same Dinosaur at Different Stages
July 14, 2010 Science Daily
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Chicken Came Before the Egg: "Scientific Proof"
July 14, 2010 CBS News
researchers in U.K. say proof is in the protein found in chicken's ovaries, used to form eggshell
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Tyrannosaurs: history's most fearsome… scavengers?
July 14, 2010 New Scientist, n.2769, p.14
the terrible lizards were happy to scavenge easy meat if it came their way, tooth marks on a Mongolian fossil reveal
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Pope's astronomer: 'Science helps me be a priest'
July 14, 2010 New Scientist, n.2768, p.23
religious belief and scientific truths are all part of the same ultimate truth, says José Funes, head of the Vatican Observatory
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"Seismology: The secret chatter of giant faults"
July 14, 2010 Nature, v.466, p.312-313
an imminent swarm of tiny quakes beneath western North America could help seismologists prepare for a big one -- but only if they can learn to interpret the tremors
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You can't fight violence with violence
July 13, 2010 New Scientist, n.2768, p.22-23
the psychology of vengeance explains much about the state of the world and suggests the "war on terror" can never succeed
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Why Our Universe Must Have Been Born Inside a Black Hole
July 13, 2010 Technology Review (MIT blog)
a small change to the theory of gravity implies that our universe inherited its arrow of time from the black hole in which it was born
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Faith Evolves in Rachel Held Evans' Monkey Town
July 13, 2010 Crosswalk
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'False' Gene Discovery Confirms Creation Prediction
July 12, 2010 Institute for Creation Research