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Life before death: How dying affects living minds
May 17, 2015 New Scientist, n.3021, p.46
death shapes everything from individual lives to whole cultures, argue books by three social psychologists and an undertaker
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Theology Affects Society
May 17, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
one’s beliefs about God affect everything from criminal justice to personal hope
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Mental Marvels
May 16, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
The “mind-body problem” is alive and well. Can these phenomena be reduced to matter in motion?
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Adventist Origins of Young Earth Creationism
May 16, 2015 biologos.org
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The makers of the Protoaurignacian and implications for Neandertal extinction
May 15, 2015 Science, v.348, n.6236, p.793-796
the Protoaurignacian culture in southern Europe involved anatomically modern humans and overlapped in time with the last Neandertals
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How birds got their beaks
May 15, 2015 Science, v.348, n.6236, p.744
combining fossils and lab studies, researchers home in on genes that transformed a snout into a bill
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Ancient Antarctic Ice Shelf Nearing Complete Collapse
May 15, 2015 International Business Times (MSN)
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Friday Funnies: Evo-Comics
May 15, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Not every Darwinian explanation is useless. Some of them can function as entertainment.
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Heads or Tails: The Problem of Evolving Animal Body Plans
May 15, 2015 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Plentiful Water in the Early Universe, and Other Surprises
May 14, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
based on the following unexpected findings, secular astronomers’ ignorance of reality has reached cosmic proportions
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Complex archaea that bridge the gap between prokaryotes and eukaryotes
May 14, 2015 Nature, v.521, p.173-179
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Early modern bird
May 14, 2015 Nature, v.521, p.128
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Bird beak to dinosaur snout
May 14, 2015 Nature, v.521, p.128-129
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Probabilistic Programming and Conservation of Information
May 14, 2015 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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News Update/Commentary
Do flies have fear (or something like it)?
May 14, 2015 Science Daily
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Neanderthal News and the Limits of Organic Material Survival
May 13, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
red blood cells and DNA samples raise questions about the decay time of soft tissue and genetic material
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Millions of missing galaxies found hiding in plain sight
May 13, 2015 New Scientist, n.3021, p.11
a type of galaxy thought to be all but extinct has turned up in our own backyard in the same abundance as in the early universe
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A Design-Theorist's Brief Guide to Rupert Sheldrake
May 12, 2015 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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The Parts List for Hearing
May 12, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Want to hear what goes on when you hear sounds? Hair cells wave in the fluid, responding to specific frequencies, and hundreds of proteins go into action.
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News Update/Commentary
Tweaking the beak
May 12, 2015 Science Daily
retracing the bird's beak to its dinosaur origins, in the laboratory
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It hurts to be human: Why pain is fundamentally different for us
May 11, 2015 New Scientist, n.3020, p.28-29
human labour and trauma pain is unique -- that's because getting help when we hurt brings us a surprising advantage, argues a neuroscientist
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It’s Curtains for Enceladus
May 11, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
the geysers of Saturn’s little moon are like sheets instead of jets, spelling trouble for theories of its ancient age and possible life
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Thomas Nagel's Evolutionary Critique, on London Theatrical Stage?
May 11, 2015 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Did ocean acidification from asteroid impact that killed the dinosaurs cause extinction of marine molluscs?
May 11, 2015 Science Daily
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Real Men Take Nature Walks
May 10, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
when this man tells you to get out and take a walk in nature, you’d better do it
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Einstein: materialism, relativity and his radical criticism of capitalism
May 9, 2015 International Workers League
The materialistic and revolutionary content of the Theory of Relativity
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What’s New in Biomimetics?
May 9, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
it’s hard to keep up with the numerous advancements in science coming from inspiration provided by natural design
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When modern birds took flight
May 8, 2015 Science, v.348, n.6235, p.617
feathered fossils from China show that modern birds could fly and wade earlier than expected
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The making of a science evangelist
May 8, 2015 Science, v.348, n.6235, p.726
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Deep-ocean microbe is closest living relative of complex cells
May 8, 2015 Science, v.348, n.6235, p.615-616
genomic study of “Loki” supports a revisionist view of the origin of eukaryotes
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Moon, Mercury, and Magnetic Fields
May 8, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
after the crash of MESSENGER, magnetic fields in the solar system have become a key topic for planetary science
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Junk No Mo: Scientists Turn Genetic Junk into Master Controller
May 8, 2015 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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For Its Moral Ideals, Evolutionary Materialism "Freeloads" from Christianity
May 8, 2015 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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News Update/Commentary
Genetic changes to basic developmental processes evolve more frequently than thought
May 7, 2015 Science Daily
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More Cell Machines Come to Light
May 7, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
The living cell contains thousands of molecular machines converting energy into useful work. Here are just a few that were recently described in journal papers.
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A bizarre Jurassic maniraptoran theropod with preserved evidence of membranous wings
May 7, 2015 Nature, v.521, p.70-73
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A hot start to the origin of life?
May 6, 2015 Science Daily
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Skin Is Repaired by Zipper Mechanism
May 6, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
the details of wound repair and prevention are coming to light
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Earthquakes: Supercycles in subduction zones
May 6, 2015 Science Daily
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Flower find provides real-time insight into evolution
May 6, 2015 Science Daily
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Splice of life
May 6, 2015 Nature, v.521, p.5
researchers, bioethicists and regulators must contribute to transparent discussions on the risks and ethics of editing human embryos
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Predatory cockroach from dinosaur era found trapped in amber
May 6, 2015 New Scientist, n.3020, p.18
a family of predatory cockroaches that lived 100 million years ago has been discovered in fossils found in Myanmar
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Microbes found at bottom of ocean are our long-lost relatives
May 6, 2015 New Scientist, n.3020, p.9
a new group of archaea are the closest relatives to complex cellular life ever found and suggest our microbial ancestors were more complex than we thought
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Missing link in evolution of complex cells discovered
May 6, 2015 Science Daily
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The human universe: Could we become gods?
May 5, 2015 New Scientist, n.3019, p.39
What would it take for us to become the gods of a universe that we create, inhabited by creatures as smart and curious as us?
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Privileged Species: How the cosmos is designed for human life (DVD)
May 5, 2015 Discovery Institute
see also Amazon
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At the Dawn of Life, a Mystery
May 5, 2015 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Astronomers unveil farthest galaxy, more than 13 billion years in the past
May 5, 2015 Science Daily
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Early Bird Exacerbates Dinosaur Transition
May 5, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
It flew, and looks like a modern shorebird, but it pushes back the evolution of birds from dinosaurs by millions of years. Then there’s that unicorn thing.
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Massive Lava Flows Linked to Dinosaur-Killing Impact
May 5, 2015 Live Science