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Anti-Creation Rhetoric Lacks Creativity
June 8, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
one would think, after so many decades, the secular scientists would come up with some original arguments for combating their favorite nemesis, the creationists
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German Early-Man Site Shocks Archaeologists with Improbable Dates
June 7, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
researcher says, “It just goes to show that the easiest way to be wrong in paleoanthropology is to underestimate our ancestors’ abilities.”
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To Be Habitable, a Planet Needs Inhabitants
June 6, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
in a chicken-or-egg conundrum, astrobiologists are asking whether inhabitants are needed to make a planet habitable
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Energy at life's origin
June 6, 2014 Science, v.344, n.6188, p.1092-1093
analysis of the bioenergetics of primitive organisms suggests that life began at hydrothermal vents
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The killing ground
June 6, 2014 Science, v.344, n.6188, p.1080-1083
clues from a German coal mine show how early hunters lived, 300,000 years ago, and how their prey died
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Dynamically important magnetic fields near accreting supermassive black holes
June 5, 2014 Nature, v.510, p.126-128
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News Update/Commentary
What a 66-million-year old forest fire reveals about the last days of the dinosaurs
June 5, 2014 Science Daily
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News Update/Commentary
First 3-D pterosaur eggs found with their parents
June 5, 2014 Science Daily
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Nectar feast in fossil belly
June 5, 2014 Nature, v.510, p.10
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Antimatter Conundrum Remains After Precision Test
June 5, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Why isn’t the universe half ordinary matter and half antimatter? Both should have emerged from a big bang.
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Comb Jellies Force Evolutionists into Absurd Hypotheses
June 5, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Could something as complex as a nervous system evolve twice independently? That’s what Darwinists are saying after looking at the genes of comb jellies.
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Extreme evolution: How snakes became the über-eater
June 5, 2014 New Scientist, n.2972, p.38-41
losing legs was just the start of snakes' bizarre journey -- to switch from barely being alive to eating an antelope takes re-engineering at the molecular level
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News Update/Commentary
Light from huge explosion 12 billion years ago reaches Earth
June 4, 2014 Science Daily
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News Update/Commentary
Wing design proves key factor in determining migration success of Monarch butterflies
June 4, 2014 Science Daily
each fall, millions of monarch butterflies make a spectacular journey from the eastern parts of North America to reach their overwintering grounds in Mexico
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News Update/Commentary
Humans, not climate, to blame for Ice Age-era disappearance of large mammals
June 4, 2014 Science Daily
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Dinosaur fossils smuggler turned informant gets short prison sentence
June 4, 2014 Los Angeles Times
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News Update/Commentary
Surprisingly strong magnetic fields can match black holes' pull
June 4, 2014 Science Daily
long-neglected magnetic fields have an unexpected presence
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Why Can't We Explain the Brain?
June 4, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Astrobiology Hopes Dim with Exoplanet Findings
June 3, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Harsh “space weather” around dim red dwarf stars may make planets uninhabitable. “Godzilla Earths” may not fare much better.
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Big Bang finding challenged
June 3, 2014 Nature, v.510, p.20
signal of gravitational waves was too weak to be significant
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Big Bang blunder bursts the multiverse bubble
June 3, 2014 Nature, v.510, p.9
premature hype over gravitational waves highlights gaping holes in models for the origins and evolution of the Universe
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Scientists Want to Toss Peer Review
June 2, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
it has been a criterion of science, but peer review is loaded with problems and probably should be replaced
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Mars Rivers Carved by Lava, Not Water
June 2, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
A controversial theory is being revived: lava carved Mars channels. This could discourage hopes to find life on the red planet.
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Peer-Reviewed Paper: Development Needs Ontogenetic Information that Cannot Arise from Neo-Darwinian Mechanisms
June 2, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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New Ichthyosaur Graveyard Found
June 2, 2014 GSA Press Release 14-38
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Are We All Martians?
June 1, 2014 Discover Magazine
conditions on early Earth may have been too extreme for life to begin, but not so on our planetary neighbor
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p.4 — Are You Ready for an Adventure?
June 1, 2014 From the Editor
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p.9 — Gene Complexity Eludes a Simple Definition
June 1, 2014 Research
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p.12-14 — Ice Cores, Seafloor Sediments, and the Age of the Earth: Part 1
June 1, 2014 Impact
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p.15 — Cosmos: A Series Created to Counter Creation
June 1, 2014 Back to Genesis
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p.16-17 — Order Points to a Recent Creation
June 1, 2014 Back to Genesis
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p.18 — Lots of Grand Canyons
June 1, 2014 Back to Genesis
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p.19 — Is the Present the “Key” to Our Past?
June 1, 2014 Apologetics
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p.21 — Is Every Fossil in Its (Evolutionary) Place?
June 1, 2014 Creation Q & A
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Book
Acts & Facts, v.43, n.6 (pdf)
June 1, 2014 Institute for Creation Research
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When Is a Fossil Not a Fossil? Oldest “Fossil” Debunked
June 1, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Certain trace fossils said to be 3.45 billion years old are probably not fossils at all, a reassessment finds. Are others affected?
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Book
The Island of Knowledge: The Limits of Science and the Search for Meaning
June 1, 2014 Basic Books
see also Amazon
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Book
The Story of Pain: From Prayer to Painkillers
June 1, 2014 Oxford University Press
see also Amazon
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Join us at Inside Mount Ararat to discover the truth
June 1, 2014
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One Plus One Equals One: Symbiosis and the Evolution of Complex Life
June 1, 2014 Oxford University Press
see also Amazon
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What Happens to a Society That Does Not Believe in Free Will?
June 1, 2014 Scientific American
What happens to a society that believes people have no conscious control over their actions?
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Dinosaurs Offer a Rich Field for Study of the Human Era
June 1, 2014 Scientific American
yesterday's big reptiles can help us figure out how the human era is shaping up
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Book
Wallace, Darwin, and the Origin of Species
June 1, 2014 Harvard University Press
see also Amazon
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Secular Scientists Continue to Push Leftist Agendas
May 31, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
evidence is abundant that secular science organizations and their media outlets are committed to leftist positions on a variety of issues, even on subjects outside of science
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App takes the strain out of tricky moral dilemmas
May 31, 2014 New Scientist, n.2971, p.22
if you're facing a quandary, an iPhone app can help you make choices by getting you to evaluate each of your options from a set of ethical standpoints
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Group of Darwin-Skeptical Scientists Seeking a "Third Way" in Biology Have Launched a New Website; Welcome to Them!
May 31, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Virus Motors Show Mechanical Design
May 30, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
a virus efficiently packs its DNA into its capsule with a powerful molecular motor working against repulsive forces
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News Update/Commentary
Australia's deadly eruptions were reason for the first mass extinction
May 30, 2014 Science Daily
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Life Shows Exquisite Engineering and Optimization
May 29, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Engineers drool over animal capabilities. How would mutation and natural selection deal with these examples of design perfection?
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A Palaeozoic shark with osteichthyan-like branchial arches
May 29, 2014 Nature, v.509, p.608-611
a description of the gill skeleton of a very early fossil shark-like fish shows that it bears more resemblance to gill skeletons from bony fishes rather than to those from modern cartilaginous fishes, suggesting that mo