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Jurassic fossils reveal varied life of early mammals
February 18, 2015 New Scientist, n.3009, p.14
huddling in the shadows of the Jurassic world wasn't enough for the first mammals -- fossils from China show they dug, swam and climbed trees, too
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Darwinians Fill Gaps with Magic
February 17, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Like rabbits in a magic show, things just “appear” on the Darwin stage. And like magicians, Darwinians don’t reveal how the trick is done.
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We've got the evolution of complex cells inside-out
February 16, 2015 New Scientist, n.3008, p.28-29
it's one of the most critical events in the development of life on Earth, but we may have been thinking about it all wrong
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Ancient rocks show life could have flourished on Earth 3.2 billion years ago
February 16, 2015 Science Daily
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A Firewall Between Science and Culture? Questions and Answers with John West, Author of Darwin Day in America
February 16, 2015 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Problem 9: Neo-Darwinism Struggles to Explain the Biogeographical Distribution of Many Species
February 16, 2015 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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“Natural Evil” May Be Broken Good
February 16, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
things in nature we consider nasty are sometimes good systems that have broken
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Can an Evolved Brain Choose Good and Evil?
February 15, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
If the brain evolved, wouldn’t anything the mind does be determined by forces beyond one’s control?
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Darwin’s Land of Make-Believe
February 14, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Darwin supporters use cartoons and rap music to push their message to humans--and aliens
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Squid Recodes Its Own RNA
February 14, 2015 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Science Can Dumb Down, Corrupt, and Mislead the Public for Decades
February 13, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
it’s impossible to present so-called scientific “findings” about the human mind that are morally neutral
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2 Billion Years Unchanged, Bacteria Pose an Evolutionary Puzzle
February 13, 2015 Creation Revolution
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How Science and Faith Can Serve Human Dignity
February 12, 2015 Discovery Institute
featuring Richard Doerflinger, Associate Director of Pro-Life Activities at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops
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Darwin’s Finches: What Evolved, the Birds or the Story?
February 12, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
imagine spending 40 years of your life promoting Darwinian evolution with Galapagos finches, only to find out on Darwin Day that the birds hybridize and cross-breed
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Homo erectus at Trinil on Java used shells for tool production and engraving
February 12, 2015 Nature, v.518, p.228-231
argon and luminescence dating of fossil shell infills from Trinil in Java, where Homo erectus lived, reveals that the hominin-bearing deposits are younger than previously thought; perforated shells, a shell too
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Earliest-known arboreal and subterranean ancestral mammals discovered
February 12, 2015 Science Daily
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Censor of the Year: Neil deGrasse Tyson Broadcast His Photoshopped Narrative of Science to Millions
February 12, 2015 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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"Hallelujah! Evolution!": Exposing the Myth that Darwinism Is All About the Science
February 12, 2015 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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First stars get 150 million years younger overnight
February 11, 2015 New Scientist, n.3008, p.14
the Planck space telescope's newest map shows that the first stars formed later than previously believed, extending an era known as the cosmic dark ages
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A Niagara-Class Waterfall in Days
February 11, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Europe’s biggest waterfall likely formed catastrophically instead of gradually, a new analysis reveals
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Europe's Mightiest Waterfall May Have Formed in Days
February 11, 2015 The Weather Channel
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A gene that shaped the evolution of Darwin's finches
February 11, 2015 Science Daily
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Darwin’s iconic finches join genome club
February 11, 2015 Nature, v.518, p.147
scientists pinpoint genes behind famous beak variations
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Social Darwinism Is Back
February 10, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
if you thought Social Darwinism went out with eugenics, look at what leaders of social policy are saying
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Caution concerning the possible health benefits of alcohol
February 10, 2015 Science Daily
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Problem 7: Convergent Evolution Challenges Darwinism and Destroys the Logic Behind Common Ancestry
February 9, 2015 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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In the quantum world, the future affects the past
February 9, 2015 Science Daily
hindsight and foresight together more accurately 'predict' a quantum system’s state
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Solar System Reversals
February 9, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
The planets keep going around, but theories about them often stop and go backward or sideways. When nothing else works, send in the impactors!
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New Edition of Darwin Day in America Exposes the Rise of "Totalitarian Science"
February 9, 2015 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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No Big Bang? Quantum equation predicts universe has no beginning
February 9, 2015 phys.org
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Can Altruism Evolve?
February 8, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Many animals cooperate; that’s an evolutionary puzzle itself. But how can evolution explain human charity to distant strangers?
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Fun with Biomimetics
February 7, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
here are new things we’re learning from plants and animals, where nature is the engineering professor
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Breaking bad science
February 6, 2015 Science, v.347, n.6222, p.619
a physician's quest to expose the many misuses of science in the media
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Misfire aside, signs of cosmic inflation could come soon
February 6, 2015 Science, v.347, n.6222, p.595-596
even as the BICEP result bites the dust, observers like their chances of spotting big-bang gravitational waves
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Mammals vs. Evolution
February 6, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
whether living or fossilized, mammals do not tell an evolutionary story
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Reflections on our Interview with Bill Nye
February 5, 2015 BioLogos Forum
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After merger, chimpanzees learned new grunt for 'apple'
February 5, 2015 Science Daily
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Neanderthals disappeared from the Iberian Peninsula before than from the rest of Europe
February 5, 2015 Science Daily
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15-million-year-old mollusk protein found
February 5, 2015 Science Daily
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Cosmology: First stars were born much later than thought
February 5, 2015 Science Daily
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Evolutionary Anthropology as Religion
February 5, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
there’s something magical about believing in evolutionary anthropology: a sense of numinous awe at how much they don’t know but believe might be possible
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Birds diversify at close quarters
February 5, 2015 Nature, v.518, p.8
a population of birds in California has evolved diverse bill sizes and shapes, even within a small geographic area
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Earth science: The slippery base of a tectonic plate
February 5, 2015 Nature, v. 518, p.39-40
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A seismic reflection image for the base of a tectonic plate
February 5, 2015 Nature, v.518, p.85-88
a high-resolution image for the base of an oceanic plate that is subducting beneath North Island, New Zealand, reveals a channel, which is interpreted as a sheared zone of ponded partial melts or volatiles; this low-visco
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Mini earthquakes reveal lubricant for tectonic plates
February 5, 2015 New Scientist, n.3007, p.11
a 10-kilometre layer of "lubricant" helps huge continental plates to glide around, as revealed by dynamite explosions
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With Richard Dawkins's Descent to a Figure of Fun, Atheism Has Lost Its Champion
February 5, 2015 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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US scientists find 15 million-year-old mollusk protein
February 5, 2015 European Association of Geochemistry
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Fossils from heart of Amazon provide evidence that South American monkeys came from Africa
February 4, 2015 Science Daily
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Scientists predict Earth-like planets around most stars
February 4, 2015 Science Daily
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BioLogos Interviews Bill Nye
February 4, 2015 BioLogos Forum