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Dark matter signal points to exotic black-hole origins
October 23, 2014 New Scientist, n.2992, p.14
if our best sign yet of dark matter is what it seems, then the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy is a complex beast
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Thoroughly modern humans interbred with Neanderthals
October 23, 2014 New Scientist, n.2992, p.7
the oldest genome from a modern human reveals that modern humans with modern behaviour interbred with Neanderthals as they spread into Eurasia
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'Missing' disaster led to all-time worst extinction
October 23, 2014 New Scientist, n.2992, p.6-7
There were thought to be five mass extinctions in Earth history. Fossil evidence is now pointing to a sixth -- and it's not the human-made Anthropocene
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Genome sequence of a 45,000-year-old modern human from western Siberia
October 23, 2014 Nature, v.514, p.445-449
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Strange fossil is a vertebrate cousin
October 23, 2014 Nature, v.514, p.407
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Protein Folding: A Materialist's Nightmare
October 22, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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New Book Discusses Scientific and Theological Problems with Darwinian Evolution
October 22, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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The Cures Are Inside You
October 22, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
your body has the means to repair itself, if the right cells get into the right places
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Human evolution: Small remains still pose big problems
October 22, 2014 Nature, v.514, p.427-429
Ten years after the publication of a remarkable find, why is the discovery of Homo floresiensis still so challenging?
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The discovery of Homo floresiensis: Tales of the hobbit
October 22, 2014 Nature, v.514, p.422-426
In 2004, researchers announced the discovery of Homo floresiensis, a small relative of modern humans that lived as recently as 18,000 years ago. The ‘hobbit’ is now considered the most important hominin fossil
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Transformers: 10 revolutions that made us human
October 22, 2014 New Scientist, n.2992, p.32-36
two million years ago we were just your average primate -- then we started to have some revolutionary ideas and human evolution went into hyper-drive
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Oldest-known human genome sequenced
October 22, 2014 Nature, v.514, p.413
DNA shows a group of modern humans roamed across Asia
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Separating Fact from Fiction: New Book, The Unofficial Guide to Cosmos, Released Today
October 21, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Kung fu stegosaur: Lethal fighters when necessary
October 21, 2014 Science Daily
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The Machinery Behind the Senses
October 21, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
there’s a lot of physical work our eyes, ears, and brain cells perform to support our perceptions of the world
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Evidence of a ‘monster tsunami’ has been found in Hawaii, and it could happen again
October 21, 2014 Washington Post
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"Are We Really Conscious?": A Reply to Dr. Graziano's Brain
October 20, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Revolutionary Biology
October 20, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Large Study of Near-Death Experiences Finds Surprises
October 20, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
What does a person sense during the transition from life to death? A large new study collected data, but more study is needed.
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Massive debris pile reveals risk of huge tsunamis in Hawaii
October 20, 2014 American Geophysical Union
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Secrets of Dinosaur Ecology Found in Fragile Amber
October 20, 2014 Geological Society of America, Release No. 14-74
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How Useful Is Evolutionary Theory?
October 19, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
What has Darwin done for you lately? Some evolutionists promote Darwinism because of its alleged usefulness to humanity.
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The Evolution Revolution: Physicist Lee Spetner Shows Why Convergence Challenges Neo-Darwinian Evolution
October 19, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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How Explanatory Is Evolutionary Theory?
October 18, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Darwinians make big boasts about their theory as the central organizing principle in biology, but what does it actually explain?
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Mercury, Moon May Still Be Erupting
October 17, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Two objects that should be cold and dead show surprising volcanic activity. Other indications of youthfulness in the solar system are noted.
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Evolution of responses to (un)fairness
October 17, 2014 Science, v.346, n.6207
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Animals Overcome Limitations of Physics
October 16, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
the limits of human engineering have been overcome by animals in surprising ways worth imitating
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Evidence for huge mountains that fed early life discovered
October 16, 2014 Science Daily
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Cells' powerhouses were once energy parasites
October 16, 2014 Science Daily
study upends current theories of how mitochondria began
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Alister McGrath Mistakes Intelligent Design for a God-of-the-Gaps Argument
October 15, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Science and faith, creation and evolution, to be BIFL lecturer’s topics
October 15, 2014 Bethel College (Kansas)
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Violins evolved by Stradivarian design
October 15, 2014 New Scientist, n.2991, p.17
evolutionary tree spanning four centuries of violin shape shows how the maestro of violin-making came out on top
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Lunar volcanoes suggest the moon may still be warm
October 15, 2014 New Scientist, n.2991, p.17
newly found patches on the moon suggest lunar volcanism lasted far longer than thought -- and that radioactive elements may keep the interior warm today
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Moon’s Stabilizing Influence Depends on Star Size
October 15, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
a connection between multiple factors was noted in a recent model of how a moon helps a planet remain habitable
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A life spent chasing down how whales evolved
October 14, 2014 New Scientist, n.2990, p.51
the intriguing story of how whale evolution was unpicked reveals what it's like to be a globe-trotting palaeontologist
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Earth's magnetic field could flip within a human lifetime
October 14, 2014 Science Daily
the rapid flip, much faster than the thousands of years most geologists thought, comes as new measurements show the planet's magnetic field is weakening 10 times faster than normal and could drop to zero in a few thousand years
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Dinosaur breathing study shows that noses enhanced smelling and cooled brain
October 14, 2014 Science Daily
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Indonesian Cave Paintings Shake Up Art History
October 14, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Asians were not supposed to be so culturally talented 40,000 years ago, but their cave art shows the same finesse seen in contemporary European caves
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Detective Columbo of Chemistry: "I Don't Understand Evolution"
October 14, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Dust to dust
October 14, 2014 Nature, v.514, p.273-274
What lessons can be learned from the presentation of the gravitational-waves story?
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C.S. Lewis Foresaw Rise of Scientism as Religion Today, Says Scholar at Apologetics Conference
October 14, 2014 Christian Post
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Evolution and DNA ...
October 13, 2014 news24 (South Africa)
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Big-Brained Scientist Says We Aren't Conscious
October 13, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Darwin Debate Published by Nature
October 13, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
two teams, both committed evolutionists, duked it out in Nature over whether Darwin’s mechanism is adequate to explain the diversity of life
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Scandal of the Evangelical Mind: A Biblical and Scientific Critique of Young-Earth Creationism
October 13, 2014 Science, Religion and Culture, v.1, n.3, p.144-173
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Missing the link between Darwin and racism
October 12, 2014 Creation Ministries International
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Is Scientism Ready for E.T.?
October 12, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
in speculating about the impact of extraterrestrials on world religions, an author neglected the impact on his own
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Robots Imitate Life
October 11, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
the goal of robotics is to imitate what humans and animals make look easy
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Curtains for OOL: Oxygen Was Present from the Start
October 10, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
free oxygen is death to life trying to evolve, but it was present early on, being formed naturally from atmospheric carbon dioxide
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Pleistocene cave art from Sulawesi, Indonesia
October 9, 2014 Nature, v.514, p.223-227
cave art from the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia, consisting of human hand stencils and animal paintings, is at least 40,000 years old, raising the question of why rock art traditions appeared at more or less the same