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News Update/Commentary
Planets outside our solar system may be more hospitable to life than thought
January 15, 2015 Science Daily
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Do Nature’s Editors Want Another French Revolution?
January 15, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
by glorifying the French Revolution without mentioning its atrocities, Nature’s editors give a terrible message about terrorism
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Long-term phenotypic evolution of bacteria
January 15, 2015 Nature, v.517, p.369-372
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These Are The World's Hottest Volcanoes
January 15, 2015 Business Insider
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News Update/Commentary
Roller coaster geese
January 15, 2015 Science Daily
insights into high altitude bird flight physiology and biomechanics
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Adapt first, mutate later: Is evolution out of order?
January 14, 2015 New Scientist, n.3004, p.26-30
we used to think evolution had to start with random mutations; now walking fish and bipedal mice are turning our ideas on their head
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Human brains have a groovy feature that chimps' don't
January 14, 2015 New Scientist, n.3004, p.14
our brains and those of chimpanzees are built differently in the areas that give us our unique language and social skills
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Huge circle in Antarctic ice hints at meteorite impact
January 14, 2015 New Scientist, n.3004, p.14
a 2-kilometre-wide circle of deformed ice discovered in Antarctica may be a site of a large meteorite impact from 2004
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Big science names sign open letter detailing AI danger
January 14, 2015 New Scientist, n.3004, p.7
How do we avoid robot dystopia? Scientists, including Stephen Hawking, have signed an open letter advising how to stay in control as machines get smarter.
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Animals Come Pre-Equipped with Machinery
January 14, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
guidance systems, compasses, switchboards, motors, robotic machines: we’re talking about systems inside animals -- and you
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Kenneth Miller Resists Chloroquine Resistance
January 14, 2015 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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News Update/Commentary
Stone Age humans weren't necessarily more advanced than Neanderthals
January 14, 2015 Science Daily
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They've Got Eric Metaxas Under Their Skin: Now, the Religious Critics
January 14, 2015 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Still Taking Aim at Eric Metaxas
January 13, 2015 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
the media underestimate the degree to which physicists see evidence for intelligent design
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News Update/Commentary
Dinosaurs wiped out rapidly in Europe 66 million years ago
January 13, 2015 Science Daily
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Fish Ancestry Turned on Its Head
January 13, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
a so-called “primitive” bony fish with traits of sharks confuses the usual story of fish ancestry
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You Go, Eric Metaxas! Measuring the Improbability of Intelligent Life Elsewhere in the Cosmos
January 13, 2015 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Still Taking Aim at Eric Metaxas
January 13, 2015 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
the media underestimate the degree to which physicists see evidence for intelligent design
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Theologically Speaking, What Intelligent Design Is and What It Isn't
January 12, 2015 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Rewriting Biology Without Spin
January 12, 2015 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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News Update/Commentary
Evolution: Rock sponges split up
January 12, 2015 Science Daily
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Humans’ Groovy Language Brain
January 12, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
more features are discovered that set humans apart from apes
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Life on Mars -- the evidence mounts
January 12, 2015 Cosmos Magazine
Methane plumes of unknown origin and carbon-based molecules in sandstone rocks have recently been detected on Mars. Both findings add weight to the case that Mars could once and may still support life.
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Densely-Packed Dinosaur Raptor Bones Found
January 10, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
a stunning matrix of densely-packed bones from multiple carnivorous dinosaurs has been found in a big block of Utah sandstone
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News Update/Commentary
Devil is in the detail: Evolution of color in plants and animals
January 9, 2015 Science Daily
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Science and the search for meaning
January 9, 2015 Science, v.347, n.6218, p.137-138
an ambitious attempt to employ scientific and philosophical reasoning to understand our place in the cosmos
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Theory of Early Oxygenation Undermined
January 9, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
fossils living in and around newly-discovered methane seeps have cast strong doubt on a leading theory of earth’s climate history
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Protein Quality Control Surprise
January 9, 2015 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
an enzyme can operate a stalled ribosome
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Music Is a Human Thing
January 8, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Many animals make sounds; birds and whales can sing; but there’s nothing to compare with the human brain’s capacity for music
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News Update/Commentary
Scientists illuminate mysterious molecular mechanism powering cells in most forms of life
January 8, 2015 Science Daily
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Programmed Cell Death Is Vital to Life, but Where'd It Come From?
January 8, 2015 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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The time illusion: How your brain creates now
January 7, 2015 New Scientist, n.3003, p.28-31
Time is not out there -- "now" is a strange trick of the mind. The good news is that with training you can live in the moment for longer.
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Deep bacteria may evolve even without passing genes on
January 7, 2015 New Scientist, n.3003, p.12
genetic changes found in mysterious bacteria living deep under the sea may have let them survive for millions of years without passing genes on to offspring
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Magic Ribosome Appears as Missing Link
January 7, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
a father-daughter team takes on the “selfish gene” concept and considers the ribosome as the “missing link” for lucky LUCA
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Congratulations to John West as Biology of the Second Reich, "Best Documentary Short," Scores Big Recognition!
January 6, 2015 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Bill Nye, Nicholas Wade, and the Origin of Human Color Vision
January 6, 2015 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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News Update/Commentary
Eight new planets found in 'Goldilocks' zone
January 6, 2015 Science Daily
two are most similar to Earth of any known exoplanets
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Is Animal Play Just an Evolutionary Survival Mechanism?
January 6, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Yes, your dog enjoys play, say biologists, and so do birds, dolphins and many other kinds of animals. How did “having fun” evolve?
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Once Again, Neil deGrasse Tyson on Isaac Newton's Religious Views
January 5, 2015 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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The destruction of creationism: How the search for the beginning of time sparked a scientific revolution
January 4, 2015 salon.com
when scholars used the Bible to pinpoint the moment of creation, they actually paved the way for a radical change
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Harvard Evolutionists Justify Terror as Darwinian Fitness
January 3, 2015 Creation-Evolution Headlines
their “study” involved native tribespeople, but the amoral implications give aid and comfort to evildoers
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When Humans Make a Simplified Imitation of a Cell Machine, It's Called Design
January 3, 2015 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Highly evolvable malaria vectors: The genomes of 16 Anopheles mosquitoes
January 2, 2015 Science, v.347, n.6217
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More evidence points to drought causing demise of Mayan civilization
January 2, 2015 Fox News Latino
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Book
Macroevolution: Explanation, Interpretation and Evidence
January, 2015 Springer
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Book
Acts & Facts, v.44, n.1 (pdf)
January 1, 2015 Institute for Creation Research
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Jane Hawking tells her Theory of Everything
January 1, 2015 New Scientist, n.3002, p.40-41
"the tension between Stephen's atheistic stance and my faith always existed, but neither of us tried to convert the other"
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Origins of major archaeal clades correspond to gene acquisitions from bacteria
January 1, 2015 Nature, v.517, p.77-80
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Origins of Art
January 1, 2015 National Geographic
the greatest innovation in the history of humankind was neither the stone tool nor the steel sword, but the invention of symbolic expression by the first artists
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Why We Have Free Will
January 1, 2015 Scientific American, v.312, n.1
neurons fire in your head before you become aware that you have made a decision, but this discovery does not mean you are a “biochemical puppet”