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p.5-8 — New Genetic-Clock Research Challenges Millions of Years
March 29, 2014 BioOrigins Project Update
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p.9 — Proton Problems: Faith in Theories or Reality?
March 29, 2014 Research
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p.10-12 — The Solar System: Pluto
March 29, 2014 Impact
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p.13 — Miracle Eyes
March 29, 2014 Back to Genesis
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p.14 — The Bitter Harvest of Evolutionary Thinking
March 29, 2014 Back to Genesis
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p.15 — Creation Verses
March 29, 2014 Back to Genesis
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p.16-17 — James Ussher and His Chronology: Reasonable or Ridiculous?
March 29, 2014 Back to Genesis
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p.19 — Apologetics: Reactive, Proactive, or Both?
March 29, 2014 Apologetics
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p.20 — Do Ice Cores Disprove Recent Creation?
March 29, 2014 Creation Q&A
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Victory Declared! Science Reporter Trounces Straw Noah
March 28, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
the reporter kicked over a straw Ark, too, with a Flood of air
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Synthetic Biologists Design 'Living Materials' That Build Themselves
March 28, 2014 Science, v.343, n.6178, p.1421
synthetic biologists reprogram the genetic circuitry of bacteria to create "living materials" that assemble themselves
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Search for Martian Life Clears Another Hurdle
March 28, 2014 Science, v.343, n.6178, p.1419
Curiosity rover team members are now reasonably confident that contaminants brought from Earth cannot entirely explain certain carbon compounds Curiosity spotted in martian rock
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Oldest Homo sapiens Genome Pinpoints Neandertal Input
March 28, 2014 Science, v.343, n.6178, p.1417
the genome sequence of an ancient modern human man from Siberia helps show when early Homo sapiens and Neandertals interbred
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The Rumors Were True: Noah's War on Humans
March 28, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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So, What Really Drives Origin-of-Life Research?
March 28, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Quantum death: How the cosmic speed limit got frozen
March 27, 2014 New Scientist, n.2962, p.32-35
Light speed is no limit in the quantum world -- so why can't we exploit that freedom? Perhaps because we're living in the dead husk of a richer cosmos.
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Tree of bird life could solve Noah's Ark problem
March 27, 2014 New Scientist, n.2962, p.12
genetic analysis has revealed which birds are the most unique and ancient in evolutionary terms -- giving conservationists a new way to decide which to save
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A suspension-feeding anomalocarid from the Early Cambrian
March 27, 2014 Nature, v.507, p.496-499
Tamisiocaris borealis, an Early Cambrian member of the anomalocarids -- giant, predatory marine stem arthropods -- probably used its frontal appendage to trap microscopic, planktonic animals
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Two Solar System Surprises
March 27, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
sometimes we learn more from surprises than predictions
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Bizarre Animal Discoveries
March 26, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
strange things have been coming to light about animals we knew and animals we didn’t; bizarre animals, and normal animals with bizarre traits
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First-Ever Asteroid with Rings Knocks Astronomers for a Loop
March 26, 2014 NBC News
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News Update/Commentary
Significant progress toward creating 'benchtop human' reported
March 26, 2014 Science Daily
researchers have successfully developed and analyzed a liver human organ construct that responds to exposure to a toxic chemical much like a real liver
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Getting Ready for Russell Crowe as Noah? Read Wesley Smith's The War on Humans
March 26, 2014 News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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The Pensmore Dialogue on Science & Faith
March 26, 2014 Patrick Henry College (Purcellville, Virginia)
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Human evolution: The Neanderthal in the family
March 26, 2014 Nature, v.507, p.414-416
thirty years after the study of ancient DNA began, it promises to upend our view of the past
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Ancient 'shrimp' was the blue whale of the Cambrian
March 26, 2014 New Scientist, n.2962, p.16
a 70-centimetre-long creature resembling a shrimp was the first animal to swim around filtering food from the water, just like modern baleen whales
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Space-time ripples hint at physics beyond the big bang
March 26, 2014 New Scientist, n.2962, p.10-11
gravitational waves could help us sift through many visions for the rapid expansion of the early universe -- or offer even wilder views of cosmic birth
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New dwarf planet hints at giant world far beyond Pluto
March 26, 2014 New Scientist, n.2962, p.7
the orbit of a newly discovered dwarf planet could signal the existence of a rocky world, 10 times bigger than Earth, lurking in the solar system's fringes
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News Update/Commentary
Inbreeding in woolly mammoths: Neck rib provide clues about decline and eventual extinction
March 25, 2014 Science Daily
researchers recently noticed that the remains of woolly mammoths from the North Sea often possess a 'cervical' (neck) rib -- in fact, 10 times more frequently than in modern elephants
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News Update/Commentary
Paleontologists assemble giant turtle bone from fossil discoveries made centuries apart
March 25, 2014 Science Daily
A broken fossil turtle bone discovered by an amateur paleontologist in 2012 turned out to be the missing half of a bone first described in 1849. The surprising puzzle discovery has led paleontologists to revise conventional wisdom of how l
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News Update/Commentary
Million suns shed light on fossilized plant
March 25, 2014 Science Daily
palaeontologists, geochemists and physicists investigated the chemistry of exceptionally preserved fossil leaves from the Eocene-aged 'Green River Formation' of the western United States
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Dinosaur Era Had 5 Times Today's CO2
March 25, 2014 Yahoo! News (Live Science)
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Fossil Facts and Fantasies
March 25, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
the stories told about some fossils raise more questions than answers, even with top Darwin spin doctors in the operating room
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Cosmos Scrubs Religion's Positive Influence from the History of the Scientific Revolution
March 25, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Cat Whiskers and Narwhal Tusks: Why Things Are
March 24, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
in the animal world, unique features often have well-designed functions
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Now It's Newton: Ideology Continues to Trump History in Cosmos
March 24, 2014 News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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News Update/Commentary
DNA from fossils reveal origin of Norwegian lemmings
March 24, 2014 Science Daily
in contrast to other mammals in Fennoscandia, the Norwegian lemming may have survived the last Ice Age in the far north, sealed off from the rest of the world by gigantic ice sheets
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Louisiana Senate kills attempt to remove unconstitutional creationism statute from state law
March 24, 2014 Times Picayune (New Orleans)
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They Left This Out of Cosmos: Newton Saw Nature as a "Cryptogram Set by the Almighty"
March 24, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Blog Post
The End of Science
March 23, 2014 Sultan Knish
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Carbon Cycle Keeps Earth from Fate of Venus, Mars
March 23, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
another delicate balance making Earth habitable has been identified: the carbon cycle
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Communist Explanation for Societal Collapse Offered by Science Site
March 22, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
“scientists” say society is doomed, according to a “research study,” but the explanation is right out of the Marx playbook
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First Wrinkles in Spacetime Confirm Cosmic Inflation
March 21, 2014 Science, v.343, n.6177, p.1296-1297
signs of gravitational waves shaking the newborn universe bolster the mind-boggling theory of cosmic inflation and electrify scientists the world over
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News Update/Commentary
Unique chromosomes preserved in Swedish fossil
March 21, 2014 Science Daily
Researchers have made a unique discovery in a well-preserved fern that lived 180 million years ago. Both undestroyed cell nuclei and individual chromosomes have been found in the plant fossil, thanks to its sudden burial in a volcanic erup
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Fossilized Nuclei and Chromosomes Reveal 180 Million Years of Genomic Stasis in Royal Ferns
March 21, 2014 Science, v.343, n.6177, p.1376-1377
fern fossils provide evidence that nuclear shape, size, and chromosomal content have changed little since the Jurassic
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From Parasitism to Mutualism: Unexpected Interactions Between a Cuckoo and Its Host
March 21, 2014 Science, v.343, n.6177, p.1350-1352
the carrion crow Corvus corone corone can benefit from parasitism by the great spotted cuckoo Clamator glandarius
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Unlocking Ancient Protein Palimpsests
March 21, 2014 Science, v.343, n.6177, p.1320-1322
high-resolution, high-throughput mass spectrometry studies of ancient protein samples provide insights into protein function in the distant past
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Sticking Evolution to a Stick Insect Fossil
March 21, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
A fossil of a mature stick insect was found in China. What’s evolution got to do with it?
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The Myth of Science's Neutrality
March 21, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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News Update/Commentary
Amphibians and dinosaurs were the new large predators after the mass extinction
March 20, 2014 Science Daily
Palaeontologists now show that the food nets during the Early Triassic did not recover in stages. Large predators like, for instance, crocodile-like amphibians and later the precursors of the known plesiosaurs and ichthyosaurs went in sear