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• Weird creatures may be relics from dawn of animal life

  September 10, 2014 New Scientist, n.2986, p.17

  new mushroom-shaped animals from the bottom of the sea look a lot like organisms that thrived just before the explosion of animal life more than half a billion years ago

• Largest land dinosaur yet makes T. rex look tiny

  September 10, 2014 New Scientist, n.2986, p.17

  Dreadnoughtus is larger than all known sauropod dinosaurs, and its highly intact skeleton could bring unprecedented insights into dinosaur life

• Europa's icy plate tectonics may support life

  September 10, 2014 New Scientist, n.2986, p.17

  Jupiter's moon Europa may be the first world other than Earth to sport plate tectonics, only above its ocean instead of below

• Jurassic corpse-eaters revealed by fossil reptiles

  September 10, 2014 New Scientist, n.2986, p.12

  the remains of a 3-metre ichthyosaur are covered in marks left by the creatures that gnawed its bones, hinting at what feasted on death during the dinosaur era

• Paralysis adds to horror of waking up under the knife

  September 10, 2014 New Scientist, n.2986, p.11

  the largest ever study of patients who wake up during surgery has revealed that pain is not the worst part of being conscious in the operating theatre

• Body Wonders at the Cellular Level

  September 10, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines

  if we kept track of all the nano-scopic processes that keep us alive, we would be giga-astonished

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  Sloths are no slouches when it comes to evolution

  September 10, 2014 BioMed Central Science Daily

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  Groundwater tied to human evolution

  September 10, 2014 University of New South Wales Science Daily

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  Three extinct squirrel-like species discovered

  September 10, 2014 American Museum of Natural History Science Daily

  mammals may have originated much earlier than thought

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  Gibbon genome sequence deepens understanding of primates rapid chromosomal rearrangements

  September 10, 2014 Baylor College of Medicine Science Daily

• Ancient 'Toothy' Dolphin Fossils Found in Peru

  September 10, 2014 Laura Geggel LiveScience

• Whale Pelvis Is Not Vestigial

  September 9, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines

  the old Darwinian idea of “vestigial organs” has proven to be a hindrance to science once again: this time in the case of whale pelvic bones

• Biology's Quiet Revolution

  September 9, 2014 Jonathan Wells Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)

• Are Biologists Rejecting Neo-Darwinian Evolution?

  September 9, 2014 Casey Luskin Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)

• Alternative Splicing: The Film Editor of the Genome

  September 9, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)

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  Are earthquakes on the rise? Is California's 'Big One' coming?

  September 9, 2014 Holly Yan and Joshua Berlinger CNN

• A manifesto for playing god with human evolution

  September 8, 2014 Carl Elliott New Scientist, n.2985, p.46-47

  Fancy living forever, or uploading your mind to the net? The Proactionary Imperative embraces transhumanist dreams, but reminds why we need medical ethics.

• No ghosts, no gods, no aliens on my atheism channel

  September 8, 2014 New Scientist, n.2985, p.26-27

  Viewers in the US are bombarded with nonsense masquerading as fact. They should switch to AtheistTV, says the founder.

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  Paleontologists discover new species of titanosaurian dinosaur in Tanzania

  September 8, 2014 Ohio University Science Daily

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  Textbook theory behind volcanoes may be wrong

  September 8, 2014 California Institute of Technology Science Daily

• Planets Don’t Fit Evolutionary Models

  September 8, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines

  Secular planetary scientists are surprised by almost every object they observe in the solar system. Their models cannot reproduce our system of planets.

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  Meteorite leaves crater in Nicaraguan capital Managua

  September 8, 2014 CNN

• When Spirituality Intersects Science

  September 7, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines

  Who saved the Ebola-stricken doctor, God or science? What is science’s take on whether to flee or fight terrorism? Why should a scientist be honest?

• The Meek Control the Earth

  September 6, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines

  How can such a small thing affect the geology and climate of the whole planet? Don’t underestimate the power of small creatures.

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  Meet Dreadnoughtus, perhaps the biggest creature to ever walk the planet

  September 5, 2014 Greg Botelho CNN

• Mars Radiation Fries Organic Compounds

  September 5, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines

  don’t expect the “building blocks of life” to last very long on Mars

• Books and Journals Continue to Promote Misrepresentations of Copernicus and Human Exceptionalism

  September 5, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)

• Darwinism Is a Constant; Just-So Stories Are Variables

  September 4, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines

  stories about the evolution of particular organisms often replace older stories, but the main plot is unalterable

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  First Neanderthal rock engraving found in Gibraltar: Abstract art older than thought?

  September 4, 2014 CNRS Science Daily

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  Dreadnoughtus: Gigantic, exceptionally complete sauropod dinosaur

  September 4, 2014 Drexel University Science Daily

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  Pilot diverts plane to give passengers better view of volcano

  September 4, 2014 CNN

  volcanic activity around Bardarbunga in August prompted Iceland's Meteorological Office to briefly raise the aviation threat level to red, its highest

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  Life forms appeared at least 60 million years earlier than previously thought

  September 4, 2014 Trinity College Dublin Science Daily

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  Artificial cells take their first steps

  September 4, 2014 Technische Universitaet Muenchen Science Daily

  movable cytoskeleton membrane fabricated for first time

• Developmental plasticity and the origin of tetrapods

  September 4, 2014 Nature, v.513, p.54-58

  the most primitive extant bony fish, Polypterus, exhibits adaptive plasticity for life on land when raised on land rather than in water, suggesting that environmentally induced phenotypic plasticity might have fa

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  Dreadnoughtus: Gigantic, exceptionally complete sauropod dinosaur

  September 4, 2014 Drexel University Science Daily

• Impacts: Creators or Destroyers?

  September 3, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines

  some astronomers invest a lot of creative power in bangs, crashes and explosions

• Cockatoos learn to make and use a tool

  September 3, 2014 New Scientist, n.2985, p.16

  after a lone Goffin cockatoo figured out how to make and use a simple tool, others have learned the same trick by watching him

• First Neanderthal etching is a #stoneagehashtag

  September 3, 2014 New Scientist, n.2985, p.8

  More than 40,000 years ago, a Neanderthal scratched a pattern into the floor of a cave in Gibraltar. Is it a doodle, a message or a work of art?

• Save Your Brain: Skip Luc Besson's Fantastical Lucy

  September 2, 2014 Casey Luskin Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)

• Why Evolution Is Different

  September 2, 2014 Granville Sewell Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)

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  Possible neurobiological basis for tradeoff between honesty, self-interest

  September 2, 2014 Virginia Tech Science Daily

• SETI Preacher Prophesies

  September 2, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines

  one of the leading lights of SETI describes why he believes aliens will be found

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  The Copernicus Complex: Our Cosmic Significance in a Universe of Planets and Probabilities

  September 1, 2014 Farrar, Straus and Giroux

  see also Amazon

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  The Lagoon: How Aristotle Invented Science

  September 1, 2014 Viking

  see also Amazon

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  Acts & Facts, v.43, n.9 (pdf)

  September 1, 2014 Institute for Creation Research

• Peer Reviewed Science Can Mislead in a Major Way

  September 1, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines

  sociology is under scrutiny, but the issues apply to all of science

• The Origin of Humans Is Surprisingly Complicated

  September 1, 2014 Scientific American

  Many kinds of archaic humans walked the planet at the same time. How did Homo sapiens come to be the last species standing?

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  Being As Communion: A Metaphysics of Information

  September 1, 2014 Ashgate Pub Co

  see also Amazon

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  The Copernicus Complex: Our Cosmic Significance in a Universe of Planets and Probabilities

  September 1, 2014 Scientific American (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

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  God and the Multiverse: Humanity's Expanding View of the Cosmos

  September 1, 2014 Prometheus Books

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