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Junk Science at Smithsonian's Hall of Human Origins
September 27, 2015 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Junk Science at Smithsonian's Hall of Human Origins
September 27, 2015 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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SETI Club Goes Bonkers
September 26, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
flush with new money, the astronomers who support SETI have lost all restraint in their speculations
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News Update/Commentary
2-million-year-old fossils reveal hearing abilities of early humans
September 25, 2015 Science Daily
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New Pluto Images Even More Perplexing
September 25, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Pluto has terrain like no other world, leaving scientists perplexed; Enceladus’ activity is also inexplicable for “geologic time”
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Archimedes’ legendary sphere brought to life
September 25, 2015 Nature, v.526, p.19
recreation of a 2,000-year-old model of the Universe to appear in exhibition
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How teeth got tough: enamel's evolutionary journey
September 25, 2015 Science, v.349, n.6255, p.1431
fossils show that ancient fish scales sported enamel long before this hard substance coated teeth
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The origins, determinants, and consequences of human mutations
September 25, 2015 Science, v.349, n.6255, p.1478-1483
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Following Kitzmiller v. Dover, an Excellent Decade for Intelligent Design
September 25, 2015 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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At the United Nations, Francis Appears to Teeter Toward "Nature Rights"
September 25, 2015 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Nose for Design: Irreducible Complexity, Goal-Directed Hierarchical Organization, Combinatorial Coding
September 24, 2015 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Talk the Walk
September 24, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Upright walking -- that distinctive human form of locomotion -- is more complex than putting one foot in front of the other. Let’s talk the walk.
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Evolutionary biology: Infection elevates diversity
September 24, 2015 Nature, v.525, p.464-465
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Creative writing: A world of pure imagination
September 24, 2015 Nature, v.525, p.553-555
the creative process of writing science-inspired fiction can be rewarding
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Evolution: Ancient lung parts found in fish
September 24, 2015 Nature, v.525, p.428-429
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Sight Is More than Having Eyeballs
September 23, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
the brain is integrally involved with eyes to make vision meaningful and responsive
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Teaching good traits: Do character-bolstering projects work?
September 23, 2015 New Scientist, n.3040
Money is being poured into boosting desirable traits such as grit and resilience in children. But do they make a difference?
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Armoured wasps chop off opponents’ heads in brutal fig wars
September 23, 2015 New Scientist, n.3040
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Virtual human built from more than 5000 slices of a real woman
September 23, 2015 New Scientist, n.3040
an American woman’s body has been reconstructed digitally from very thin slices, creating a model for experiments too risky to try on the living
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Morality 2.0: How manipulating our minds could save the world
September 23, 2015 New Scientist, n.3040
Our moral instincts are failing to cope with the dilemmas of the modern world. Is it time to use tricks, pills or brain zaps to hack this outdated mind set?
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Controlling Blood Pressure Requires an Irreducibly Complex System
September 22, 2015 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Probing for Earthquakes' Origins
September 22, 2015 Eos
to better understand how earthquakes nucleate, scientists spy on the Alpine Fault in New Zealand
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Prosecute Darwin Skeptics Under RICO Act?
September 22, 2015 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Do You Know How Lucky You Are to Live on Earth?
September 22, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
the factors that make life possible came together so beautifully, even materialists have trouble knowing why we’re here
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Propping Up Darwin’s Tree of Lie
September 21, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
a valiant effort to construct Darwin’s tree icon in an open-source way may only serve to perpetuate a myth
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An Honest Assessment of Why Darwinism Is Popular
September 21, 2015 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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First comprehensive tree of life shows how related you are to millions of species
September 21, 2015 Science
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Hominid Hype and Homo naledi: A Unique "Species" of Unclear Evolutionary Importance
September 20, 2015 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Secular Science Leaders Defend Baby Butchering
September 20, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
instead of joining the outrage against the dismemberment and marketing of baby body parts, science leaders rush to defend the grisly practice
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Evaluating Homo naledi
September 19, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Lee Berger’s remarkable cache of hominid bones found deep in a South African cave is generating a lot of news, but major questions remain
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Here’s the Evolution-Questioning ‘Sticker’ Alabama Puts on Its Biology Textbooks
September 18, 2015 Newsweek
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Fossils Defy Slow, Gradual Deposition Over Long Ages
September 18, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
What do a virus and a whale have in common? They didn’t fossilize slowly a long time ago.
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What Formed These Curious Ripples on Mars?
September 18, 2015 Eos
Dunes, ridges, or something else? Scientists seek to understand the origins of transverse aeolian ridges.
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Cave was lasting home to Denisovans
September 18, 2015 Science, v.349, n.6254, p.1270-1271
dates and DNA solidify presence of elusive human relative in Siberia
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Humanity's long, lonely road
September 18, 2015 Science, v.349, n.6254, p.1270
oldest ancient nuclear DNA suggests humans and Neandertals parted ways early
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“Overdose of Awesomeness”: New Pluto Images Show Unpredicted Activity
September 17, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
more images have been released from New Horizons’ July 14 flyby of Pluto, showing youthful mountains, glaciers and an escaping atmosphere
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Intelligent Design in Action: Optimization
September 16, 2015 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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How Exercise Benefits Bones and Muscles
September 16, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Will it be possible in the future to reduce fat, build muscle, and strengthen bones with an injection of a hormone?
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Why did sex evolve? Blame an ancient hook-up
September 16, 2015 New Scientist, n.3039
Cloning is much easier than making offspring with a partner, so why bother? It's to do with how our cells came together.
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Key moments in human evolution were shaped by changing climate
September 16, 2015 New Scientist, n.3039
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Was Coelacanth a Lungfish?
September 15, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
instead of showing remorse over a Lazarus taxon, evolutionists invoke another besetting sin: vestigial organs
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Kepler: A Giant Leap for Exoplanet Studies
September 15, 2015 Eos
NASA's low-cost space telescope opened up a universe of possibilities for scientists who scour space in search of planets -- and possibly life
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Why the Human Brain Project Went Wrong -- and How to Fix It
September 15, 2015 Scientific American, v.313, n.4
Two years in, a $1-billion-plus effort to simulate the human brain is in disarray. Was it poor management, or is something fundamentally wrong with Big Science?
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How Big Is Science?
September 15, 2015 Scientific American, v.313, n.4
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Dover-intelligent design 10 years later: Plaintiff's young son now creating his future
September 14, 2015 York Daily Record (Pennsylvania)
Griffin Sneath, a lawyer said, typified what the lawsuit was about. Now 17, Griffin is creating his future.
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Crowdsourcing digs up an early human species
September 14, 2015 Nature, v.525, p.297-298
Home naledi in South Africa -- palaeoanthropologist invites excavators and anatomists to study richest fossil trove in Africa.
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Extinct Aliens Could Yield a Design Inference
September 13, 2015 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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The hard problem -- What is consciousness?
September 12, 2015 The Economist
The final brief in our series looks at the most profound scientific mystery of all: the one that defines what it means to be human
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Insects Worth Respecting
September 12, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Most six-legged creatures are small and we give them little notice. Here are surprises that entomologists are discovering in some very special insects.
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Aesthetics: Beautiful minds
September 11, 2015 Science, v.349, n.6253, p.1174
a physicist and a philosopher contemplate the nature of beauty and the value of art