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The Silent Underground Network
December 15, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
under your feet in the woods is a vast communication network where information technology keeps the ecosystem functioning
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How to think about… The big bang
December 14, 2014 New Scientist, n.2999, p.37
What came before the big bang, and what is the universe expanding into? Here are the physicists' shortcuts to visualising the unimaginable.
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How to think about… Deep time
December 14, 2014 New Scientist, n.2999, p.37
it's easy to measure time using human lifespans, but peering down the billions of years of Earth's history can give you vertigo
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Our Special Earth
December 14, 2014 Attitude Media
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Did Man Invent God?
December 14, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
a new study claims that religions with “moralizing gods” arise primarily in affluent nations
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When it comes to DNA, crocodiles and birds flock together
December 13, 2014 Los Angeles Times
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Bird Evolution Explodes
December 13, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Did birds arrive in a ‘big bang’ of evolution, or is their explosive appearance yielding a scattered jetsam of Darwinian theories?
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Back from the dead
December 12, 2014 Science, v.346, n.6215, p.1281-1283
the once-moribund idea that volcanism helped kill off the dinosaurs gains new credibility
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Origin of Life: From hell on Earth, life's building blocks
December 12, 2014 Science, v.346, n.6215, p.1279
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Big Science Pushes Gay Marriage
December 12, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Is it the business of science to convert people to support “gay marriage”? Look what the AAAS just published.
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Evidence for a single loss of mineralized teeth in the common avian ancestor
December 12, 2014 Science, v.346, n.6215
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Comparative genomics reveals insights into avian genome evolution and adaptation
December 12, 2014 Science, v.346, n.6215, p.1311-1320
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Whole-genome analyses resolve early branches in the tree of life of modern birds
December 12, 2014 Science, v.346, n.6215, p.1320-1331
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An integrative approach to understanding bird origins
December 12, 2014 Science, v.346, n.6215
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Massive Genetic Study Confirms Birds Arose in "Big Bang"-Type of "Explosion"
December 12, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Biologist Leads Group That Mapped Crocodilian Genomes
December 11, 2014 Texas Tech University
Understanding these reptiles' genome can help scientists better understand birds.
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Cell differentiation and germ-soma separation in Ediacaran animal embryo-like fossils
December 11, 2014 Nature, v.516, p.238-241
spheroidal microfossils from the Ediacaran Doushantuo phosphorites show clear signs of cell differentiation, programmed cell death, and separation between soma and germline, and seem to represent a hitherto unknown expe
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How to think about… Higher dimensions
December 11, 2014 New Scientist, n.2999, p.32-33
reality could have many more dimensions than the familiar four -- physicists have tricks for projecting their minds beyond the ones we perceive
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Ponds or pounding are both possible origins for life
December 11, 2014 New Scientist, n.2999, p.5
How did life begin? The finding of unearthly water around comet 67P and a simulation of how meteorite impacts could forge amino acids hint at rival visions.
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Comet Ocean Theory Debunked
December 11, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Data from the Rosetta mission debunk the notion that comets brought Earth’s ocean water. Now they’re hoping asteroids could have.
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News Update/Commentary
Human DNA shows traces of 40-million-year battle for survival between primate and pathogen
December 11, 2014 Science Daily
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News Update/Commentary
Story of bizarre deep-sea bone worm takes unexpected twist
December 11, 2014 Science Daily
evolutionary reversal previously unseen in animal kingdom
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Atheist groups target Christian professor for history of science curriculum
December 11, 2014 College Fix
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Stephen Meyer's Dangerous Idea
December 11, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
counsels theistic evolutionists and others to "do their homework" on the design question
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News Update/Commentary
'Big Bang' of bird evolution mapped
December 11, 2014 Science Daily
genes reveal deep histories of bird origins, feathers, flight and song
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Flock of geneticists redraws bird family tree
December 11, 2014 Nature, v.516, p.297
birds get fresh perches in revamped tree of life built by vast collaboration
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Pathogens Don’t Exist
December 10, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
it takes a partnership to have a disease, say two microbiologists who argue for ditching the word “pathogen”
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Giant fossil hints at the diversity of early primates
December 10, 2014 New Scientist, n.2999, p.11
a new mammal fossil -- "plunderer of the Bear Formation" -- reveals a richer diversity of early primates, whose ancestors may have lived alongside dinosaurs
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Formation of life's building blocks recreated in lab
December 10, 2014 New Scientist, n.2999, p.11
recreating a meteorite impact with a laser has demonstrated directly how the building blocks of the genetic code could have formed on our primordial plane
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Curiosity rover finds ancient lake in Martian crater
December 10, 2014 New Scientist, n.2999, p.6
the crater that NASA's Curiosity rover is exploring was once a wide, shallow lake that may have lasted for tens of millions of years
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Phenomenal fossil and detailed analysis reveal details about enigmatic fossil mammals
December 10, 2014 Science Daily
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Oldest horned dinosaur species in North America found in Montana
December 10, 2014 Science Daily
hooked beak, sharply pointed cheeks distinguishes neoceratopsian species
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Obamacare Architect Is a Eugenicist
December 9, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Jonathan Gruber has published papers justifying abortion for improving the lives of the living. Did he suggest that for the elderly in the Affordable Care Act?
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Ancient balloon-shaped animal fossil sheds light on Earth's ancient seas
December 9, 2014 Science Daily
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Recalling Nana's Face: Does Your Brain Store Memories?
December 8, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Matching Darwin's "Tree of Life," the "Tree of Intelligence" Comes Crashing Down
December 8, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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California's Worst Drought Ever Is 1st Taste of Future
December 8, 2014 Yahoo! News
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Monday Morning Design Cheer
December 8, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
start your week with nuggets of good news about all the things inventors are learning from animals, plants, and the human body
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The Democratic Party Does Not Own Science
December 7, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
a journal commentator comes to the rescue of conservatives, who get an undeserved bad rap about science
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Astrobiology Hopes Diminish
December 6, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
recent findings both near and far create challenges for beliefs that life is common in the universe
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Is Evolution True? Laying Out the Logic
December 5, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Full Moon Has Magnetic Secret
December 5, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Ponder this under tonight’s full moon. Scientists now say the moon once had a magnetic field stronger than Earth’s is now.
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Homo erectus Joins Art Society
December 4, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Etchings on a shell said to be 500,000 years old are shaking up evolutionary paleoanthropologists. Why? Evidence of abstract thinking far too early.
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First carnivorous plant fossil is 40 million years old
December 3, 2014 New Scientist, n.2998, p.18
the find challenges previous assumptions of an African origin for the plant's unusual family
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The smart mouse with the half-human brain
December 3, 2014 New Scientist, n.2998, p.15
when human brain cells called astrocytes are let loose in mouse brains, they rapidly overwhelm the mouse cells and make the rodents smarter
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Shell 'art' made 300,000 years before humans evolved
December 3, 2014 New Scientist, n.2998, p.8-9
a shell etched by Homo erectus is by far the oldest engraving ever found, challenging what we know about the origin of art and complex human thought
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Rival species recast significance of ‘first bird’
December 3, 2014 Nature, v.516, p.18-19
Archaeopteryx’s status is changing, but the animal is still key to the dinosaur-bird transition
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ABC News Says "'Darwin's Dilemma' May Be Solved": What, Again?
December 3, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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The New Horse Series: Genomes Confuse “Textbook Example of Evolution”
December 3, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
horses, asses and zebras show evidence of gene flow despite extreme chromosome rearrangements
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"Dear Atheist Santa... "
December 3, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)