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News Update/Commentary
Chinese mosquitoes on the Baltic Sea
July 30, 2014 Science Daily
ancient insect inclusions in East-Asian amber
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News Update/Commentary
Fossils found in Siberia suggest all dinosaurs could have been feathered
July 30, 2014 Science Daily
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Decades-old amber collection offers new views of a lost world
July 30, 2014 Science Daily
tiny grasshopper encased in amber
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Scientists reproduce evolutionary changes by manipulating embryonic development of mice
July 30, 2014 Science Daily
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Feathersaurus: plant-eating dinos had plumage too
July 30, 2014 New Scientist, n.2980, p.17
new fossils suggest it was not just bird-like dinosaurs that had elaborate feathers -- the other major dinosaur group had them too
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Bloodsuckers fed on dinosaurs 130 million years ago
July 30, 2014 New Scientist, n.2980, p.16
insect fossils reveal that bugs have been feeding on blood since the early Cretaceous
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Ancient Earth fossils could be found on the moon
July 30, 2014 New Scientist, n.2980, p.12
experiments with a large cannon have shown that fossilised algae could have travelled to the moon intact, providing an exciting window into Earth's past
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Good News, South Carolina Won't Require Students to Study Evolution as Dogma
July 30, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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News from the Birds for People
July 30, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
We still have a lot to learn from birds. They’re really smart and talented for their size.
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Evolution in rainforest flies points to climate change survival
July 29, 2014 Science Daily
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Dinosaur Extinction Story Becomes More Chancy
July 29, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Why did dinosaurs die but birds and butterflies survive? The latest idea involves sheer dumb luck.
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Book
Science and Religion: Some Historical Perspectives
July, 2014 Cambridge University Press
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News Update/Commentary
Dinosaurs fell victim to perfect storm of events
July 28, 2014 Science Daily
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Contenders for Mammal of the Month
July 28, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Here are some furry friends that know how to impress scientists.
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Darwin: Imagine a World Without Him
July 27, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
a new book tries to imagine how different the world would be, had Darwin as an individual not lived to promote his particular views on evolution
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Reality Check: Favored Planet Theory Dries Up
July 26, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Three “hot Jupiters” sing “how dry I am,” casting serious doubt on the leading theory of planet formation.
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"People Are Starting to See Scientists the Way They Really Are"
July 25, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Good Grief. No, Airplanes Don't "Evolve" by Natural Law.
July 25, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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A Jurassic ornithischian dinosaur from Siberia with both feathers and scales
July 25, 2014 Science, v.345, n.6195, p.451-455
a fossil dinosaur with primitive feathers and scales suggests that feathers may have been present across dinosaur clades
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Epigenetics and the Evolution of Darwin’s Finches
July 24, 2014 Genome Biology and Evolution, v.6, n.8
The prevailing theory for the molecular basis of evolution involves genetic mutations that ultimately generate the heritable phenotypic variation on which natural selection acts. However, ...
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DNA mostly 'junk?'
July 24, 2014 Science Daily
only 8.2 percent of human DNA is 'functional'
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Four-billion-year-old chemistry in cells today
July 24, 2014 Science Daily
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When art changes the rules for science
July 24, 2014 New Scientist, n.2980, p.47
a new exhibition, Automatic Art, explores how art that was built on logical and mathematical rules ended up giving science new ways of seeing the world
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New Book "Rescues" Alfred Russel Wallace -- by Refashioning Him in Darwin's Image
July 23, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Oxygen oasis for early life found in ancient rock
July 23, 2014 New Scientist, n.2979, p.15
a 2-billion-year-old rock has revealed the first evidence of the isolated pockets where oxygen-breathing life may have evolved
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Two Evolutionary Evidences Debunked
July 23, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
among examples of evolution cited by Darwinists in the past, these should be taken off the shelf and thrown in the trash
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Each Time Genomic "Junk" Turns Out to Be Functional, the Case for Intelligent Design Gets Stronger
July 22, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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World's largest aquatic insect specimen found in China
July 22, 2014 CNN
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A Deep and Abiding Need for Neanderthals to Be Stupid. Why?
July 21, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Science and art bring back to life 300-million-year-old specimens of a primitive reptile-like vertebrate
July 21, 2014 Science Daily
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Secrets of Photosynthesis Coming to Light
July 21, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
“It’s perhaps the most important biochemical process on Earth and scientists don’t yet fully understand how it works.”
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The Edge of Evolution: Why Darwin's Mechanism Is Self-Limiting
July 18, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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When Biologists Think Like Engineers: How the Burgeoning Field of Systems Biology Supports Intelligent Design
July 17, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Is the universe a bubble? Let's check
July 17, 2014 Science Daily
making the multiverse hypothesis testable
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So, Michael Behe Was Right After All; What Will the Critics Say Now?
July 16, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Flying Dinosaur from China Had Four Wings and Longest Feathers Ever Seen in Raptors
July 16, 2014 Fox News
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Amphibians' swim stroke has lasted 270 million years
July 16, 2014 New Scientist, n.2978, p.18
a newly discovered set of fossilised tracks in the Italian Alps suggests modern salamanders swim and walk much as their ancient cousins did
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The "Flat Animal": Is It a Cambrian Ancestor?
July 15, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Animal foraging tactics unchanged for 50 million years
July 15, 2014 Science Daily
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New feathered predatory fossil sheds light on dinosaur flight
July 15, 2014 Science Daily
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Magazine Article
Is Earth’s Life Unique in the Universe?
July 15, 2014 Scientific American
To know whether life exists beyond Earth, we must come to terms with our own significance in the universe. Are we uniquely special or merely mediocre?
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Video
Counting To God -- at MIT
July 14, 2014 YouTube
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Running for life: How speed restricts evolutionary change of the vertebral column
July 14, 2014 Science Daily
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Bones of elephant ancestor unearthed: Meet the gomphothere
July 14, 2014 Science Daily
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Reaping the whirlwind of Nazi eugenics
July 14, 2014 New Scientist, n.2977, p.42-43
In the 1960s, eugenics was reinvented as behaviour genetics, but soon went back off the rails. Aaron Panofsky's Misbehaving Science explores what happened
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I'm homing in on the genetic essence of life
July 14, 2014 New Scientist, n.2977, p.23
synthetic biologist Hamilton Smith wants to find the smallest genome that will keep a bacterium alive -- and tidy up evolution's sloppy work
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Gliese 581g: A Black Eye for Believers in Habitable Earth-like Exoplanets
July 11, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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RIP for a key Homo species?
July 11, 2014 Science, v.345, n.6193, p.129
researchers consider killing off a claimed common ancestor of Neandertals and modern humans
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For Critics of Intelligent Design, There's No Hiding Behind Claims of "Peer Review" Anymore
July 10, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Radio-burst discovery deepens astrophysics mystery
July 10, 2014 Science Daily