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Cosmologists Were Wrong About Galaxy Evolution
March 11, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
fifteen years ago, no cosmologist would have predicted mature galaxies early on, but they keep getting found -- earlier and earlier
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Cosmos Is Slammed for its "Inaccurate" and "Revisionist" History of Giordano Bruno
March 11, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Legislators Demand Answers about Intelligent Design Ban at Ball State University
March 11, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Three More Codes in Nature to Decipher
March 11, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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How to be human: The laws that governed your growth
March 11, 2014 New Scientist, n.2959, p.48
a demanding but wonder-filled account of the simple interactions that create complex structures
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We need philosophers to tackle the big cosmic puzzles
March 11, 2014 New Scientist, n.2959, p.26-27
what can we do when cosmologists delve into the multiverse and raise questions they cannot answer ... call in the philosophers
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News Update/Commentary
Volcanoes helped species survive ice ages
March 10, 2014 Science Daily
researchers have found evidence that the steam and heat from volcanoes and heated rocks allowed many species of plants and animals to survive past ice ages, helping scientists understand how species respond to climate change
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Cosmos TV Relies on Imagination, Not Science
March 10, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
the first episode of the new Cosmos TV series makes it clear that imagination is its main message
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Galaxies in the early universe mature beyond their years
March 10, 2014 Science Daily
Mature galaxies were found at a record-breaking distance of 12 billion light years, seen when the universe was just 1.6 billion years old. Their existence at such an early time raises new questions about what forced them to grow up so quic
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The Mismeasure of Man: Why Popular Ideas about Human-Chimp Comparisons Are Misleading or Wrong
March 10, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Cosmos with Neil deGrasse Tyson: Same Old Product, Bright New Packaging
March 10, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Cosmos Revives the Scientific Martyr Myth of Giordano Bruno
March 10, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Hot on the trail of consciousness in brain and machine
March 10, 2014 New Scientist, n.2959, p.46-47
from brain-scanning experiments to self-aware robots, two books explain how far we've really come in the quest to crack consciousness
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Hot on the trail of consciousness in brain and machine
March 10, 2014 New Scientist, n.2959, p.46-47
from brain-scanning experiments to self-aware robots, two books explain how far we've really come in the quest to crack consciousness
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Combating Evolution to Fight Disease
March 7, 2014 Science, v.343, n.6175, p.1088-1089
molecular mechanisms that generate biological diversity are rewriting ideas about how evolution proceeds, with implications for treating disease
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The Vanishing Act of Human Evolution
March 7, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
props for human evolution are disappearing, but evolutionists still use them in their storytelling
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More Amazing Fossils in China Raise Questions
March 6, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
there was the Jehol biota (Cretaceous), with its “feathered dinosaurs,” but now the “prequel” Daohugou biota (Jurassic) is opening eyes wide again
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Algae dealt blow to ancient whales
March 6, 2014 Nature, v.507, p.11
the unearthing of more than 40 marine mammal fossils at a site in Atacama, Chile, has revealed that they probably died en masse in four events due to toxic algae
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Ancient cheese found with mummies
March 6, 2014 Nature, v.507, p.10
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The Second Coming of Sigmund Freud
March 6, 2014 Discover Magazine
just as the old psychoanalyst seemed destined for history's trash heap, neuroscientists are resurrecting his most defining insights
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Chasing the Universe's First Generation of Stars
March 6, 2014 Discover Magazine
The earliest stars began to glow mere eons after the Big Bang. Finding them now isn't easy.
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Biggest predator ever to stalk Europe: 4-inch teeth and 33 feet long
March 6, 2014 CNN
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A small step toward discovering habitable Earths
March 5, 2014 Science Daily
for the first time, astronomers have used the same imaging technology found in a digital camera to take a picture of a planet far from our solar system with an Earth-based telescope
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Convergent evolution: New fins evolve repeatedly in teleost fishes
March 5, 2014 Science Daily
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This Year's Westminster Conference on Science & Faith, April 11-12
March 5, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
you just got doubly lucky
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Giant Virus Rises from the Past
March 5, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
the media are shocked that a virus resurrected from 30,000-year-old permafrost can still actively invade amoebas
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New dinosaur found in Portugal, largest terrestrial predator from Europe
March 5, 2014 Science Daily
T. gurneyi had blade-shaped teeth up to 10 cm long, which indicates it may have been at the top of the food chain in the Iberian Peninsula roughly 150 million years ago. The scientists estimate that the dinosaur could reach 10 met
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Epigenetics: The sins of the father
March 5, 2014 Nature, v.507, p.22-24
the roots of inheritance may extend beyond the genome, but the mechanisms remain a puzzle
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Has the Darwin-Lobbying National Center for Science Education Gone Wobbly on Us?
March 5, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Biggest-ever virus revived from Stone Age permafrost
March 5, 2014 New Scientist, n.2959, p.10
the largest virus ever seen has been isolated from 30,000-year-old Russian permafrost and then filmed infecting amoebas
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No Blind Watchmaker Created the RNA World
March 4, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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30,000 year-old giant virus found in Siberia
March 4, 2014 Science Daily
A new type of giant virus called "Pithovirus" has been discovered in the frozen ground of extreme north-eastern Siberia. Buried underground, this giant virus, which is harmless to humans and animals, has survived being frozen for more than
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Prequel outshines the original: Exceptional fossils of 160-million-year-old doahugou biota
March 4, 2014 Science Daily
a new article shows that several Jurassic sites are linked together by shared species and can be recognized as representing a single fossil fauna and flora, containing superbly preserved specimens of a diverse group of amphibian, mammal, a
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China's Jurassic Park Yields Fresh Feathered Dinosaur Finds
March 4, 2014 NBC News (LiveScience)
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Geology Fails Oxygen Test
March 4, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
a rock used as a signature for the rise of oxygen in the early earth turns out to be misleading and useless for dating
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Exceptional Beauty and Design in Animals
March 3, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
here are four animals, some you probably never heard of, that deserve design awards for art and technology
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The Environmental Movement's War on Humans
March 3, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Coming Out for Darwin Doubts or Intelligent Design: How Will It Make Me Look?
March 3, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Intelligent design at work
March 3, 2014 Gainesville Sun (Florida)
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Record Impact on Moon Ups Cratering Rate Estimates
March 2, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
the brilliant flash lasted 8 seconds on 9/11 -- 2013, that is -- the brightest impact ever witnessed on the moon
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Talking Neanderthals challenge the origins of speech
March 2, 2014 Science Daily
ground-breaking research shows that our 'misunderstood cousins,' the Neanderthals, may well have spoken in languages not dissimilar to the ones we use today
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Mutation, Not Natural Selection, Drives Evolution
March 1, 2014 Discover Magazine
molecular evolutionary biologist Masatoshi Nei says Darwin never proved natural selection is the driving force of evolution -- because it isn't
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A Crafty Tool-Making Cockatoo
March 1, 2014 Discover Magazine
a Goffin's cockatoo in Vienna uses tools to fetch nuts beyond reach
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Can an Atheist Be in Awe of the Universe?
March 1, 2014 Scientific American, v.310, n.3
What does the magnificence of the universe have to do with God?
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New Evidence Suggests That Neandertals Buried Their Dead
March 1, 2014 Scientific American, v.310, n.3
in their treatment of the dead, Neandertals were a lot like us
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The Oldest Rocks on Earth
March 1, 2014 Scientific American, v.310, n.3
one team of scientists thinks ancient rocks discovered in northern Canada give us a window onto the planet's infancy and the birth of life itself; another team thinks they're not that special
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Here Come the Martians Again
March 1, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
The “science” of astrobiology was launched when strange markings in a Martian meteorite were interpreted to be evidence of life. Here comes another one.
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Acts & Facts, v.43, n.3 (pdf)
March 1, 2014 Institute for Creation Research
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Morality for Humans: Ethical Understanding from the Perspective of Cognitive Science
March 1, 2014 University of Chicago Press
see also Amazon
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Hidden Miracles of the Natural World
March 1, 2014 TED talk