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News Update/Commentary
Origin of life
April 27, 2015 Science Daily
chemistry of seabed's hot vents could explain emergence of life
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News Update/Commentary
Alternate theory of inhabitation of North America disproven
April 27, 2015 Science Daily
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These Critics of Intelligent Design Agree with Us More Than They Seem to Realize
April 27, 2015 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Transhumanist Claims Aside, Enhancing Human Intelligence Isn't on the Horizon
April 27, 2015 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Improbable Sailors: Do Animals Raft the Oceans?
April 27, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
to keep their phylogenies and dates intact, evolutionists propose ocean voyages by unlikely animals -- maybe even all of them
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News Update/Commentary
Bizarre 'platypus' dinosaur: Vegetarian relative of T. rex
April 27, 2015 Science Daily
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Darwin Plagiarized Patrick Matthew
April 26, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Darwin had to acknowledge that his ideas were anticipated by several others, including Patrick Matthew, by decades
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Geologists Have Underestimated Catastrophes
April 25, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
One Colorado storm in 2013 caused hundreds or thousands of years’ worth of mountain erosion. This is causing a rethink on the power of catastrophic events.
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Happy birthday Hubble, 25 today!
April 24, 2015 New Scientist, n.3018, p.26-27
the Hubble Space Telescope has produced some fabulous images over the past 25 years -- and this is the mirror that made them all possible (eventually)
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Evolving new organisms via symbiosis
April 24, 2015 Science, v.348, n.6233, p.392-394
When and how do symbiotic partnerships become new, integrated organisms?
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Bird Tricks
April 24, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
news about feathered friends and flying wonders, and speculations about how they evolved
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The Vital Question: Finding answers about the origin of life
April 24, 2015 New Scientist, n.3018, p.46-47
life was shaped by the very thing that fuelled it, linking questions about everything from our lifespan to the nature of alien life, argues a book by Nick Lane
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Jordanian Teacher Indoctrinates Muslims in Darwinism
April 23, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
An observant Muslim teacher in a hijab tries to help her biology students become “free thinkers” – how? By teaching them Darwinian evolution.
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News Update/Commentary
Entire genomes of woolly mammoths mapped
April 23, 2015 Science Daily
clues to extinction, possibility of bringing mammoths back
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Scenarios for the making of vertebrates
April 23, 2015 Nature, v.520, p.450-455
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Origin and evolution of vertebrates
April 23, 2015 Nature, v.520, p.449
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Fossil Teeth Suggest Humans Played Role in Neanderthal Extinction
April 23, 2015 Yahoo! News (LiveScience)
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Hubble Turns 25
April 23, 2015 Eos (Earth and Space Science News)
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News Update/Commentary
Large heads, narrow pelvises and difficult childbirth in humans
April 22, 2015 Science Daily
adaptations in human morphology explain why
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Did Apostle Paul Just See a Meteor?
April 22, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
An astronomer explains away Paul’s Damascus vision as a meteor that “changed the course of Christianity.” But does this explain a miracle or insert several more?
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Falling meteor may have changed the course of Christianity
April 22, 2015 New Scientist, n.3018, p.8-9
the early evangelist Paul became a Christian because of a dazzling light on the road to Damascus, but one astronomer thinks it was an exploding meteor
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Why I teach evolution to Muslim students
April 22, 2015 Nature, v.520, p.409
encouraging students to challenge ideas is crucial to fostering a generation of Muslim scientists who are free thinkers
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Oldest stone tools raise questions about their creators
April 21, 2015 Nature, v.520, p.421
the 3.3-million-year-old implements predate the first members of the Homo genus
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Aristotle Rediscovered: What Exactly Is the "Mechanism" for Intelligent Design?
April 21, 2015 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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If Science Cannot Prove Anything, What Is Its Value?
April 21, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
an educator defends science while an astrophysicist undermines it
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Dismissing Darwin
April 21, 2015 slate.com
records show teachers and school board members conspiring to teach creationism in public school science class
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Morality is rooted in the way societies get their energy
April 20, 2015 New Scientist, n.3017, p.28-31
Why do different groups of people have vastly different views of right and wrong? Archaeologist Ian Morris thinks he's found what's really fuelling our values.
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3.46-billion-year-old 'fossils' were not created by life forms
April 20, 2015 Science Magazine
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“Convergent Evolution” Widespread at All Scales in Ocean
April 20, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
a study of marine tetrapods that “evolved” for ocean life shows “convergent evolution” rampant at all scales over “hundreds of millions of years”
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Slate Says We're Afraid of Life on Mars
April 20, 2015 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
right after we published an article explaining why Martian life wouldn't challenge ID
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A Critic Asks: Doesn't Our C. elegans Video Commit the Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc Fallacy?
April 20, 2015 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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News Update/Commentary
Oldest fossils controversy resolved
April 20, 2015 Science Daily
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Jeremy England, the Man Who May One-Up Darwin
April 20, 2015 ozy.com
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100,000 Galaxies Without a Sign of Life
April 19, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
an orbiting infrared telescope found no clear signs of life in 100,000 galaxies
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In the beginning: How Earth got its continents
April 19, 2015 New Scientist, n.3017, p.36-39
Dry land was essential for life like us to evolve -- but how did Earth evolve dry land? A unique mountain landscape in northern Pakistan holds the clues.
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Antibiotic Resistance Is Ancient
April 18, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
an isolated tribe in a remote place in Amazonia has antibiotic resistance genes in its gut bacteria
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The evolution of evolution
April 17, 2015 Science, v.348, n.6232, p.295
looking back at the theories that shaped modern evolutionary biology
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What You’re Not Being Told About Earth’s Magnetic Field
April 17, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
The simple story for the public: a dynamo creates the Earth’s magnetic field. The real story: complex scenario needed to start it and keep it running.
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How the wolf became the dog
April 17, 2015 Science, v.348, n.6232, p.277
scientists are coming to a consensus about how canines evolved
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Dawn of the dog
April 17, 2015 Science, v.348, n.6232, p.274-279
an unprecedented collaboration may solve one of the greatest mysteries of domestication
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Culture clash: When scientists must tread with care
April 17, 2015 New Scientist, n.3017, p.5
science loses when traditional beliefs obstruct its way -- but might lose more if it steamrollers over believers' objections, too
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Climate scientists join search for alien Earths
April 17, 2015 Nature, v.520, p.420
NASA initiative seeks to bolster interdisciplinary science in hunt for extraterrestrial life
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The White Space in Evolutionary Thinking
April 17, 2015 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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The evolutionary history of lethal metastatic prostate cancer
April 16, 2015 Nature, v.520, p.353-357
the evolutionary trees behind the development and spread of these cancers
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News Update/Commentary
Palaeolithic remains show cannibalistic habits of human ancestors
April 16, 2015 Science Daily
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News Update/Commentary
Proto-suns teeming with prebiotic molecules
April 16, 2015 Science Daily
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News Update/Commentary
Repeated marine predator evolution tracks changes in ancient and Anthropocene oceans
April 16, 2015 Science Daily
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Evolutionary Theory Evolves
April 16, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
evolutionists squirm when one of their own points out major flaws in Darwin’s theory
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Video
How to Build a Worm
April 15, 2015 Discovery Science
the amazing process by which the worm C. elegans is constructed and how it points toward intelligent design
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Biography of a space telescope: Voices of Hubble
April 15, 2015 Nature, v.520, p.282-286
as the venerable space telescope turns 25 this month, key scientists and engineers recount the highs and lows of its stellar career