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Here's an Interesting and Worthwhile Scientific Volume Advocating, and Challenging, "Intelligible Design"
February 10, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Downfall of Homo antecessor, Ancestor in Name Only
February 10, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
details make the story of Homo antecessor an improbable tale of human evolution
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Committee approves new science standards for students, evolution clause on hold
February 10, 2014 Post and Courier (Columbia, South Carolina)
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Censor of the Year: Why Jerry Coyne? It's the Power Differential That Makes the Difference
February 10, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Elegance of Earth System Visualized
February 9, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
an award-winning NASA animation shows the earth as a well-defended, dynamic, life-enhancing system
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The Cambrian Explosion
February 9, 2014 Access Research Network (YouTube)
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Irreducible Complexity
February 9, 2014 Access Research Network (YouTube)
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Abiogenesis: The Faith and the Facts
February 9, 2014 Access Research Network (YouTube)
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On the Origin and Design of the Universe
February 9, 2014 Access Research Network (YouTube)
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Cretaceous Starling Flew Over Feathered Dinosaurs
February 8, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
a beautifully-preserved fossil from China shows a full-fledged bird doing just fine 60 million years before T. rex walked
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Science and Faith: Friends or Foes?
February 8, 2014 Alaskan Cruise
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Reflecting on the Ham-Nye Creation Debate: Intelligent Design Stands in a Great Scientific Tradition
February 7, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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News Update/Commentary
Substance in photosynthesis was in play in ancient, methane-producing microbes
February 7, 2014 Science Daily
a process that turns on photosynthesis in plants likely developed on Earth in ancient microbes 2.5 billion years ago, long before oxygen became available, according to new research
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News Update/Commentary
Social or stinky? New study reveals how animal defenses evolve
February 7, 2014 Science Daily
Some animals are "eww" while others are "aww." Why do some animals use stinking secretions for defense, while others are social? In a new study, researchers found that noxious spraying was favored by animals that were nocturnal and mostly
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News Update/Commentary
'Steak-knife' teeth reveal ecology of oldest land predators
February 7, 2014 Science Daily
The first top predators to walk on land were not afraid to bite off more than they could chew, a study has found. Researchers suggest that Dimetrodon, a carnivore that walked on land between 298 million and 272 million years ago, was the f
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News Update/Commentary
Europe's oldest footprints uncovered on English coast
February 7, 2014 Science Daily
The earliest human footprints outside of Africa have been uncovered, on the English coast, by a team of scientists. Their discovery offers researchers an insight into the migration of pre-historic people hundreds of thousands of years ago
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Fittest Can’t Survive If They Never Arrive
February 7, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
a study on mutational possibilities suggests that benefits to fitness are too rare to account for evolution
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Pat Robertson: Ken Ham Needs to Stop Interpreting Bible Literally
February 7, 2014 Newsmax.com
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The "Ghost of Teleology": Molecular Data Wreak Havoc on the Tree of Life
February 7, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Pat Robertson: Shut Up, Ken Ham
February 6, 2014 Daily Beast
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Fifty thousand years of Arctic vegetation and megafaunal diet
February 6, 2014 Nature, v.506, p.47-51
by analysing plant and nematode DNA from sites all around the Arctic, it is shown that vegetation before about 10,000 years ago contained more forbs (non-graminoid herbaceous vascular plants) than previously believed, whi
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Missouri bill would let parents pull kids from evolution classes
February 6, 2014 Kansas City Star
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Blog Post
Evolution Can Even Explain How the Human Eye Evolved
February 5, 2014 Darwin's God
Benjamin Radford writes for the Discovery News and is interested in why people believe things for which there is little or no evidence.
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Pompeii-like volcanic ash kept dino remains fresh
February 5, 2014 New Scientist, n.2955, p.16
millions of years before volcanic ash entombed the people of Pompeii, a group of dinosaurs suffered a similar fate, new research in China suggests
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Star next door may host a 'superhabitable' world
February 5, 2014 New Scientist, n.2955, p.16
the closest star to the sun, Alpha Centauri B, is just the right type to host a planet even better suited to life than Earth
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Humanity's forgotten return to Africa revealed in DNA
February 5, 2014 New Scientist, n.2955, p.10
our species spread across the world from its African heartland about 60,000 years ago -- but 3000 years ago, some humans went back to the homeland
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Woolly mammoths died for want of a few herbs
February 5, 2014 New Scientist, n.2955, p.12
mammoths may have starved to death when changes in the climate deprived them of their best food: flowering herbs related to the nutritious clover
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News Update/Commentary
A 'smoking gun' on Ice Age megafauna extinctions
February 5, 2014 Science Daily
It was climate that killed many of the large mammals after the latest Ice Age. But what more specifically was it with the climate that led to this mass extinction? The answer to this is hidden in a large number of sediment samples from aro
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In the Ham-Nye Debate, Not So Much as a Glove Was Laid on Intelligent Design
February 5, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Fact Checkers, Spin Doctors Go to Work After Creation Debate
February 5, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Neither side feels their champion scored a clear victory in the creation debate. Now it’s time to evaluate who had the better facts and logic under fire
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Science Guy Bill Nye Debates Creationist Ken Ham
February 5, 2014 National Public Radio
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As an Antidote to the Ham-Nye Creation Debate Fiasco, Listen to Stephen Meyer Debate Charles Marshall
February 5, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Bill Nye vs. Ken Ham Debate
February 4, 2014 Answers in Genesis (Petersburg, Kentucky)
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5 Battles in the War Between Creationism and Evolution
February 4, 2014 Live Science
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RNA Shows Design, Too
February 4, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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For Your Consideration as We Await the Announcement of "Censor of the Year": Jamie Farren of Freethought Oasis
February 4, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Book
The War on Humans Has Its Seattle-Area Debut; Online Premiere and E-book by Wesley J. Smith Coming Later This Month
February 4, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Chinese Dinosaurs May Have Been Buried in Volcanic Ash
February 4, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
A new analysis of Chinese fossils claims a Pompeii-style eruption buried them suddenly. What does this imply about dating the fossils?
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The Ham-Nye Creation Debate: A Huge Missed Opportunity
February 4, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Bill Nye Scores on Debate Presentation if Not Logic
February 4, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
in the widely-publicized debate with Ken Ham, Bill Nye could not account for the laws of logic, but it won’t matter to many listeners wooed by his charm
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Bill Nye Debates Ken Ham
February 4, 2014 Answers in Genesis
2hr/45min video
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We're drilling back in time to tell a tale of the sea
February 3, 2014 New Scientist, n.2954, p.29
the rocks beneath the South China Sea may reveal how oceans first formed and yield millions of years of climate history, says geologist Jian Lin
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An unintelligent Intelligent Design creationism quiz
February 3, 2014 Pharyngula (blog)
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Early Man Findings Contradict Evolution
February 3, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
not only has man always been man, he could not have lived as many years ago as claimed
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Darwin or Pasteur: Who Deserves a Day?
February 2, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
A Victorian evolutionist and a Victorian creationist get good press, as long as it’s religion-free. Which one actually did more for science?
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Two Reasons Darwinism Survives
February 2, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Book
Acts & Facts, v.43, n.2 (pdf)
February 1, 2014 Institute for Creation Research
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Looking for God in All the Wrong Places
February 1, 2014 First Things
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Fishy Tales About Tetrapod Origins
February 1, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
it’s a stretch for mutation and selection to make a fish crawl out onto land with four digitized limbs, to say nothing of lungs and a new body plan
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Will evolution debate blow up in the Science Guy's face? It's debatable
February 1, 2014 NBC News