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News Update/Commentary
Rare fossilized embryos more than 500 million years old found
April 10, 2014 Science Daily
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Fossil Plant Soft Tissue Didn’t Evolve
April 10, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
original material in a fossil has been detected, this time from a leaf that is identical to modern leaves despite an alleged 50 million years
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Moon’s Origin and Age Solved?
April 9, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
a number of popular articles are claiming the moon’s age is all but solved, until one reads below the headlines
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Study tests theory that life originated at deep sea vents
April 9, 2014 Science Daily
One of the greatest mysteries facing humans is how life originated on Earth. Scientists have determined approximately when life began, roughly 3.8 billion years ago, but there is still intense debate about exactly how life began.
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Neanderthals were no strangers to good parenting
April 9, 2014 Science Daily
a new and distinctive perspective suggests that Neanderthal children experienced strong emotional attachments with their immediate social group, used play to develop skills, and played a significant role in their society
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Scientists reconstruct ancient impact that dwarfs dinosaur-extinction blast
April 9, 2014 Science Daily
a massive asteroid almost as wide as Rhode Island and about three to five times larger than the rock thought to have wiped out the dinosaurs slams into Earth
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Flimsy rocks allowed Earth's plates to start moving
April 9, 2014 New Scientist, n.2964, p.16
Earth is the only planet whose surface is known to be divided into shifting tectonic plates. An analysis of fragile rock may explain why.
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Human 'missing link' fossils may be jumble of species
April 9, 2014 New Scientist, n.2964, p.11
the extinct Australopithecus sediba is hailed as a transitional form between ape-like australopithecines and early humans, but it may actually be two species
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Meet your unborn child -- before it's even conceived
April 9, 2014 New Scientist, n.2964, p.8-9
a service that creates digital embryos by virtually mixing two people's DNA will allow parents to screen out genetic disorders -- and perhaps much more
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The National Center for ID Obfuscation
April 9, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Shining Light on the Latest Errors and Omissions in Cosmos
April 8, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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News Update/Commentary
Humans and Neandertals interbred, new method confirms
April 8, 2014 Science Daily
technical objections to the idea that Neandertals interbred with the ancestors of Eurasians have been overcome, thanks to a new genome analysis method
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Biomimetics Is All About Design Inspiration
April 8, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
scientists wouldn’t rush to design things after nature’s examples if they weren’t well designed
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Is Bryan College Caving on Adam and Eve?
April 7, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
professors protest clarification of a Christian college’s statement of belief that affirms “creation” includes a literal Adam and Eve
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News Update/Commentary
Ancient shrimp-like animals had 'modern' hearts and blood vessels
April 7, 2014 Science Daily
In 520 million-year-old fossil deposits resembling an 'invertebrate version of Pompeii,' researchers have found an ancestor of modern crustaceans revealing the first-known cardiovascular system in exquisitely preserved detail. The organ sy
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BIO-Complexity Paper: Why Chaitin's Mathematical "Proof" of Darwinian Evolution Fails
April 7, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Bumming Herds of Hummingbirds into Evolution
April 6, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
any well-designed animal can be forced into an evolutionary story if you allow the rules to evolve, too
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Seminar on Intelligent Design in the Natural Sciences
April 6, 2014 Center for Science and Culture (Discovery Institute)
intensive 9-day seminar for college students
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Enceladus Ocean Means Dating Trouble, Not Life
April 5, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
news media are jumping over an announcement that Saturn’s moon Enceladus may have a large body of water under its icy crust, but what does it mean
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Complex Interplay of Islam and Science
April 4, 2014 Science, v.344, n.6179, p.39
through her exploration of the impact of Darwinian theories on the intellectual life of Ottoman Syria and Egypt, Elshakry illuminates the development of science-and-religion issues in the region
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Giant Pterosaurs Flew Over Paluxy Dinosaur Tracks
April 4, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
recent dinosaur findings provide glimpses into the ecology of dinosaurs, with lessons for scientific inference
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The Morning After, Inflation Result Causes Headaches
April 4, 2014 Science, v.344, n.6179, p.19-20
as evidence mounts for cosmic inflation, theorists must confront a bedeviling conceptual problem in the theory
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A Matter of Considerable Gravity: On the Purported Detection of Gravitational Waves and Cosmic Inflation
April 4, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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How Pterosaurs Ruled the Skies Above the Dinosaurs
April 3, 2014 Yahoo! News (Live Science)
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Denisovans: The lost humans who shared our world
April 3, 2014 New Scientist, n.2963, p.34-38
They lived on the planet with us for most of our history, yet until six years ago we didn't know they existed. Meet the species rewriting human evolution
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Radioactive waste used to peek inside a star explosion
April 3, 2014 New Scientist, n.2963, p.12
scrap from an old particle accelerator helps solve riddle of how chemical elements are created in supernovae
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News Update/Commentary
Europeans have three times more Neanderthal genes for lipid catabolism than Asians or Africans
April 2, 2014 Science Daily
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News Update/Commentary
'Geologic clock' helps determine moon's age
April 2, 2014 Science Daily
the conclusion is based on measurements from the interior of the Earth combined with computer simulations of the protoplanetary disk from which the Earth and other terrestrial planets formed
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Engineers Flatter Nature by Imitation
April 2, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Water Theories Dry Up
April 2, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
theories for how Earth got its water are parched for evidence, except for the tears of secular astronomers
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Human evolution: Fifty years after Homo habilis
April 2, 2014 Nature, v.508, p.31-33
why the announcement of 'handy man' in April 1964 threw the field of hominin evolution into a turmoil that continues to this day
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Shroud of Turin depicts Y-shaped crucifixion
April 2, 2014 New Scientist, n.2963, p.15
crucifixion may have been even more intolerable than thought, with the hands nailed above the head, according to a new study of the Shroud of Turin
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Peer-reviewed Paper
A brief history of synthetic biology
April 1, 2014 Nature Reviews Microbiology, v.12, p.381-390
The ability to rationally engineer microorganisms has been a long-envisioned goal dating back more than a half-century.
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Epitaph for a Maverick Astronomer
April, 2014 Creation Science Association of Alberta
Astronomer Halton Arp (1924-2013) represents an excellent example of how mainstream scientists protect their favoured explanations against anyone
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Human Evolution Proved: April Fool!
April 1, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
anyone who thinks the evidence for gradual human evolution is unmistakeable should look at recent literature by secular experts
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News Update/Commentary
Humans and saber-toothed tiger met in Germany 300,000 years ago
April 1, 2014 Science Daily
the remains of a saber-toothed cat preserved in the same stratum in which wooden spears were found
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Acts & Facts, v.43, n.4 (pdf)
April 1, 2014 Institute for Creation Research
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Animal Architecture
April 1, 2014 Harry N. Abrams
see also Amazon and Book
The Oldest Living Things in the World
April 1, 2014 University of Chicago Press
see also Amazon
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The Homing Instinct: Meaning and Mystery in Animal Migration
April 1, 2014 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
see also Amazon
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20 Things You Didn't Know About... Hoaxes
April 1, 2014 Discover Magazine
including the Piltdown hoax
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News Update/Commentary
Ancient stormy weather: World's oldest weather report could revise bronze age chronology
April 1, 2014 Science Daily
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Homology, Genes, and Evolutionary Innovation
April 1, 2014 Princeton University Press
see also Amazon
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Cosmos Episode Four: Fewer Errors of Commission, More Errors of Omission
March 31, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Stellar Dust Disks Crumble
March 31, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
observations show stellar dust disks fragmenting into smaller dust, not growing into planets
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News Update/Commentary
Ancient whodunit may be solved: Methane-producing microbes did it!
March 31, 2014 Science Daily
fossil remains show that sometime around 252 million years ago, about 90 percent of all species on Earth were suddenly wiped out -- by far the largest of this planet's five known mass extinctions
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Review: Noah Movie Has Its Moments, But…
March 30, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
it’s OK to use artistic license with Biblical portrayals as long as the art doesn’t undermine the message
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Body Wonders You Didn’t Know About
March 29, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
here’s a collection of new findings about the body that should make us all stand in awe of what our Creator has provided
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Censorship Is Atheism's Immune System
March 29, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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p.4 — Go and Tell
March 29, 2014 From the Editor