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Bacteria Share Antibiotic Resistance
July 23, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Antibiotic resistance does not “evolve” in a Darwinian way. Rather, a new study shows that bacteria share their genetic information.
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Oldest animal sperm spotted
July 23, 2015 Nature, v.523, p.385
cells preserved inside a 50-million-year-old fossilized worm cocoon represent the oldest animal sperm ever found
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Four-legged snake fossil found
July 23, 2015 Science Daily
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Where Did Earth's Water and Ammonia Come From?
July 23, 2015 Discover Magazine (September)
meteorites likely brought water here, but it didn't stick around until after our planet cooled off
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Uncovering Our Ancestral Microbiomes
July 23, 2015 Discover Magazine (September)
to discover the evolution of the bacterial residents we host, a new field of research delves deep into unexpected corners of our fossil record
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Garden of Eden dries as ISIS, Turkey and Iraq fight over water
July 22, 2015 New Scientist, n.3031
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Archerfish up their game to outgun rivals stealing their catch
July 22, 2015 New Scientist, n.3031
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First evidence of farming in Mideast 23,000 years ago
July 22, 2015 Science Daily
Evidence of earliest small-scale agricultural cultivation
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$100m project uses world’s best radio telescopes to find aliens
July 22, 2015 New Scientist, n.3031
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Lonely Billionaire Throws $100 Million at SETI
July 22, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Yuri Milner gathered the SETI believers and gave them a pile of money to find aliens
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Vibrant Pluto stuns scientists
July 21, 2015 Nature, v.523, p.389-390
mission seeking clues to early Solar System finds a world made anew
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A Scientific Controversy That Can No Longer Be Denied: Here Is Debating Darwin's Doubt
July 21, 2015 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Creatures Worth Knowing and Imitating
July 21, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
studies of animals and cells reveal designs in nature we can appreciate and imitate
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Why we live on Earth and not Venus
July 21, 2015 Science Daily
Compared to its celestial neighbors Venus and Mars, Earth is a pretty habitable place. So how did we get so lucky? A new study sheds light on the improbable evolutionary path that enabled Earth to sustain life.
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Feathered Velociraptor? Untangling the Spin
July 20, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Discoverers admit this could be a flightless bird. That’s not the only problem.
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Special Birds with Specialized Abilities
July 20, 2015 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Biblical text revealed from damaged scroll, 1,500 years old
July 20, 2015 Science Daily
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Search for extraterrestrial intelligence gets a $100-million boost
July 20, 2015 Nature, v.523, p.392-393
Russian billionaire Yuri Milner announces most comprehensive hunt for alien life
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Tiny Organisms Control the World
July 19, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
an unexpected source that regulates global climate is found among the smallest of living things
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Science Site Rationalizes Sales of Baby Body Parts
July 18, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
the video that shocked the nation--Planned Parenthood selling fetal organs-is whitewashed by a science website
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NASA's New Horizons discovers frozen plains in the heart of Pluto's 'heart'
July 17, 2015 Science Daily
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Is Pluto Another Geyser World? “Shocking” Images Baffle Scientists
July 17, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
in addition to featureless plains, Pluto may even sport active geysers--with no recourse to tidal heating to power them
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Feathered cousin of famous movie star dino unearthed in China
July 16, 2015 Science Daily
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Jurassic saw fastest mammal evolution
July 16, 2015 Science Daily
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How a New Dinosaur Could Help Science and 'Jurassic Park'
July 16, 2015 Science Daily
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"Amazing" Activity Evident on Pluto's Surface
July 16, 2015 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
scientists struggle to explain perplexing features revealed by the first close-up of the icy body's surface
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Microevolution versus Macroevolution: Two Mistakes
July 16, 2015 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Brachiopod die-off signaled mid-Permian mass extinction
July 16, 2015 Earth Magazine
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Why we are teaching science wrong, and how to make it right
July 15, 2015 Nature, v.523, p.272-274
active problem-solving confers a deeper understanding of science than does a standard lecture, but some university lecturers are reluctant to change tack
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Denying ENCODE Data Won't Change the Emerging Facts of Biology
July 15, 2015 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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With teeth like that, this pre-dinosaur vegetarian was no push over
July 15, 2015 Science Daily
head-butting and canine display during male-male combat first appeared some 270 million years ago
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Pluto Is Young
July 15, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
the New Horizons science team is stunned by surface features on Pluto and its large moon Charon that cannot be billions of years old
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The icy mountains of Pluto
July 15, 2015 Science Daily
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From mountains to moons: Multiple discoveries from NASA’s New Horizons Pluto mission
July 15, 2015 Science Daily
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A time traveller’s guide to Earth
July 15, 2015 New Scientist, n.3030
hop in our time machine to tour the seven geological wonders of the past billion years
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Tiny beating human heart made from scratch
July 15, 2015 New Scientist, n.3030
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Fussy eating may have doomed ape-like humans
July 15, 2015 New Scientist, n.3030
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Listen: Nancy Pearcey on Hegel and the Spiritualized View of Evolution
July 15, 2015 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Pluto Inbound Image Stuns Scientists
July 14, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
It’s not a featureless orb: Pluto has a whale and a heart. A “complex and nuanced” surface shows that Pluto and its large moon Charon had a history.
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Living Waters Premieres to Large Enthusiastic Crowd in San Antonio
July 14, 2015 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Evolution and intelligent design in religious traditions: Ethics and Religion Talk
July 14, 2015 MLive Media Group (Michigan)
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Curiosity finds rocks that might point to a continental crust on Mars
July 14, 2015 phys.org
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Forced to Choose
July 13, 2015 Inside Higher Ed
Bethel College, in Indiana, last month adopted a new policy on the creation of the Earth and humanity
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In Las Vegas, Discussing Why Germany Took Social Darwinism All the Way
July 13, 2015 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Where Are the Earth’s Impact Craters?
July 13, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
The number of impact craters on Earth is almost negligible compared to Mars and the moon. Can erosion explain this?
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No Scientific Method Can Generate Integrity
July 12, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
the frequency of articles about misconduct, fraud and reproducibility show that scientists’ integrity cannot be assumed by a “scientific method”
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Admit It: Mars Is Lifeless
July 11, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
How much longer does the public have to be told that Mars “might” have life or space aliens “could” be found soon?
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Human Eye Has Nanoscale Resolution
July 10, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
No more complaining about bad design in the human eye. Optical experts prove it can distinguish differences at billionths of a meter.
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Response to Jim Stump’s Resignation from Bethel College
July 10, 2015 BioLogos
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Will Pluto Surprise Scientists?
July 9, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
First-time encounters have a long history of shocking planetary scientists with unexpected features. It’s about time for Pluto.