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News Update/Commentary
Competition breeds new fish species
February 28, 2014 Science Daily
size differences among fish and competition for breeding space lead to the formation of new species, according to a new study, but empirical evidence for this is scarce, despite being implicit in Charles Darwin’s work and support from theo
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NASA scientists find evidence of water in meteorite, reviving debate over life on Mars
February 28, 2014 Science Daily
newly discovered different structures and compositional features within the Yamato meteorite suggest biological processes might have been at work on Mars hundreds of millions of years ago
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Big Science as a Leftist Front
February 28, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
take any scientific subject that overlaps with politics, and you will find the leading journals and mainstream science news organizations presenting leftist positions, often lambasting conservatives
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Resurrecting Surviving Neandertal Lineages from Modern Human Genomes
February 28, 2014 Science, v.343, n.6174, p.1017-1021
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Atmospheric Evolution: New Look at Ancient Mineral Could Scrap a Test for Early Oxygen
February 28, 2014 Science, v.343, n.6174, p.960
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p.4 — Become a Creation Advocate
February 28, 2014 From the Editor
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p.5-7 — How Old Is Our Planet?
February 28, 2014 Feature
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p.9 — Ancient Human DNA: Neandertals and Denisovans
February 28, 2014 Research
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p.10-12 — The Solar System: Neptune
February 28, 2014 Impact
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p.13 — Amber Fossils Redefine “Age of Reptiles”
February 28, 2014 Back to Genesis
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p.14-15 — Rapidly Forming Oil Supports Flood Timeframe
February 28, 2014 Back to Genesis
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p.16 — Catastrophic Deposition of Megabreccias
February 28, 2014 Back to Genesis
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p.17 — Genesis Science Is Practical, Not Just Academic
February 28, 2014 Apologetics
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p.18-20 — New Genetic Findings Tackle the Toughest Evolutionary Questions
February 28, 2014 BioOrigins Project Update
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p.21 — What Is the Origin of Life?
February 28, 2014 Creation Q&A
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News Update/Commentary
How Earth might have looked: How a failed Saharan Atlantic Ocean rift zone sculped Africa's margin
February 28, 2014 Science Daily
break-up of the supercontinent Gondwana about 130 Million years ago could have led to a completely different shape of the African and South American continent with an ocean south of today’s Sahara desert
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This Might Be the World's Most Underwhelming Evidence for Darwinian Evolution
February 28, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Is the dog’s ‘collar bone’ vestigial?
February 27, 2014 Creation Ministries International
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Antibiotic Resistance Genes Found in Medieval Human Dung
February 27, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
centuries before antibiotics were put into use for human health, genes for antibiotic resistance already existed in viruses found in human coprolites
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News Update/Commentary
Ancient 'great leap forward' for life in the open ocean: Cyanobacteria sheds light on how complex life evolved on earth
February 27, 2014 Science Daily
plankton in the Earth's oceans received a huge boost when microorganisms capable of creating soluble nitrogen 'fertilizer' directly from the atmosphere diversified and spread throughout the open ocean
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News Update/Commentary
10,000 years on the Bering Land Bridge: Ancestors of Native Americans paused en route from Asia
February 27, 2014 Science Daily
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News Update/Commentary
NASA discovers 715 new planets
February 26, 2014 CNN
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'Super-Earths' may be dead worlds: Being in habitable zone is not enough
February 26, 2014 Science Daily
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NASA's Kepler mission announces a planet bonanza, 715 new worlds
February 26, 2014 Science Daily
These newly-verified worlds orbit 305 stars, revealing multiple-planet systems much like our own solar system. Nearly 95 percent of these planets are smaller than Neptune, which is almost four times the size of Earth.
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British Storms Unbury an Ancient Welsh Forest
February 26, 2014 National Geographic
recent storms that battered the coast of Wales stripped away sand to reveal an ancient forest dating to the Bronze Age, 6,000 years ago
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Chile Whale Fossil Site Explained
February 26, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
At least 40 baleen whales and other species of marine mammals fossilized in a dry desert of Chile have been explained with a “toxic bloom” theory. Does it explain all the findings?
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Do invertebrates feel pain?
February 25, 2014 New Scientist, n.2957, p.38-41
boiled alive and torn limb from limb -- it's time we took seriously the question of whether animals like squid, octopus and lobsters suffer
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Question for a Censor: Should a Teacher Be Punished for Telling Students What the New York Times Said About Evolution in 1980?
February 25, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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If the Big Bang Is the Answer, Why Are There So Many Questions?
February 25, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
any scientific explanation that leads to more questions than answers should be considered suspect
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Fish have feelings too
February 25, 2014 Nature, v.506, p.407
our obligation to keep the suffering of laboratory animals to a minimum -- both in life and in death -- does not apply only to mammals
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Story on Evolution of Birds Glosses Over Details
February 24, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
it takes more to turn a dinosaur into a bird than changing arm and leg ratios and reducing body size
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On Uncommon Knowledge, an Uncommonly Comprehensive Statement of David Berlinski's Picture of the World
February 24, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Here's What the NY Times Was Saying About Evolution in 1980
February 24, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Einstein’s lost theory uncovered
February 24, 2014 Nature, v.506, p.418-419
physicist explored the idea of a steady-state Universe in 1931
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Science Without Ethics Is Dangerous
February 23, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
ugly things can happen when scientists ignore ethical boundaries
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Tiny Crystal Is Oldest Known Piece of Earth
February 23, 2014 NBC News (Reuters)
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News Update/Commentary
Oldest bit of crust firms up idea of cool early Earth
February 23, 2014 Science Daily
with the help of a tiny fragment of zircon extracted from a remote rock outcrop in Australia, the picture of how our planet became habitable to life about 4.4 billion years ago is coming into sharper focus
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News Update/Commentary
New insights into origin of birds focuses on key characteristics that preceded flight: Body size, forelimb length
February 23, 2014 Science Daily
The key characteristics of birds which allow them to fly -- their wings and their small size -- arose much earlier than previously thought, according to new research that examined closely the Paraves, the first birds, and their closest din
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Fantasizing About Alien Contact
February 22, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
the only evidence of alien intelligence is inside the imaginations of evolutionary scientists and their reporters
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Revolutionary naming system for all life on earth proposed: Based on the genetic sequence of organisms
February 21, 2014 Science Daily
a new naming structure proposed by an American researcher moves beyond the Linnaeus system to one based on the genetic sequence of each individual organism
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Darwin Day, a leap of faith
February 21, 2014 Baptist Press
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Evolutionary Explanations Add Illogic to Speculation
February 21, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
some evolutionary explanations may sound reasonable until you do the accounting from Darwin’s explanatory resources
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Why Do Theistic Evolutionist Theologians All Seem to Have Exactly the Same Misconceptions About Intelligent Design?
February 21, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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News Update/Commentary
Mammoth, 'very strange-looking' dinosaur skull found in Canada
February 21, 2014 CNN
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Archaeologist Walks a Mile for Camel Smoke
February 20, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
History should provide warnings to those who say the Bible is wrong. Did camels arrive in Israel too late for Abraham?
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Closing the 'free will' loophole: Using distant quasars to test Bell's theorem
February 20, 2014 Science Daily
astronomers propose an experiment that may close the last major loophole of Bell's inequality -- a 50-year-old theorem that, if violated by experiments, would mean that our universe is based not on the textbook laws of classical physics, b
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Prodigious degassing of a billion years of accumulated radiogenic helium at Yellowstone
February 20, 2014 Nature, v.506, p.355-358
the study of gas emission rates, chemistry and isotopic analyses show that the rate of helium-4 emission from the crust at Yellowstone is orders of magnitude greater than any conceivable rate of generation within the cr
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The rise of oxygen in Earth’s early ocean and atmosphere
February 20, 2014 Nature, v.506, p.307-315
how atmospheric oxygen concentrations evolved from only small amounts for the early Earth to about 21 per cent today remains uncertain; here our latest understanding of the evolution of Earth’s oxygen levels is discusse
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At First Things, Columnist Stephen Webb Gives Intelligent-Design Critic Stephen Meredith an Education
February 20, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Empires and slave-trading left their mark on our genes
February 19, 2014 New Scientist, n.2957, p.19
DNA shows how peoples interbred over the past 4000 years, and links these interbreeding events to the rise and fall of empires