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In Search of a Road to Reality
January 13, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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“Inclusive Fitness” Is a Just-So Story Generator
January 12, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
critics of the “inclusive fitness” evolutionary explanation for altruism liken it to Ptolemy’s epicycles
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Imagining Worlds -- No Evidence Required
January 11, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
science fiction is fun, but science demands evidence, not imagination
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Sharks Traveled Far but Evolved Nowhere
January 10, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
a shark genome shows the slowest evolution ever, but prehistoric sharks were the first to figure out long-distance migration
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Rare Celestial Trio to Put Einstein's Theory to the Test
January 10, 2014 Science, v.343, n.6167, p.126-127
a pulsar in orbit with two other stars--the first trio of its kind ever discovered--could soon be used to put Einstein's theory of gravity to an unprecedented test
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Elephant shark genome provides unique insights into gnathostome evolution
January 9, 2014 Nature, v.505, p.174-179
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Diversity of ageing across the tree of life
January 9, 2014 Nature, v.505, p.169-173
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Hubble Finds Early Large Galaxies
January 9, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
the latest deep space image by the Hubble Space Telescope shows many small galaxies near the beginning, but large ones, too
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The "Other Flagellum" Is Also a Design Wonder
January 9, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Yale Finds Choreography in the Brain
January 8, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Is Robert Richards Right to Deny that Hitler Was a Darwinian?
January 8, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Biomimetics Stories Showcase Natural Designs
January 8, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
evolution is no match for five enthusiastic reports of scientists rushing to imitate animal designs
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Huge cosmic voids could probe dark energy
January 8, 2014 New Scientist, n.2951, p.11
despite being vast expanses of nothing, voids in the universe could lead us to a new theory of gravity -- and give a clue to dark energy's nature
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Elephant shark takes record for slowest evolution
January 8, 2014 New Scientist, n.2951, p.16
the weird-looking elephant shark has hardly changed its genome in 400 million years, making it the slowest-evolving vertebrate yet
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Trio of dead stars could take on Einstein
January 8, 2014 New Scientist, n.2951, p.15
the first example of a three-star system containing only stellar corpses could be used to probe the nature of gravity
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Dinosaur-Era Swimming Reptiles Had Black Skin
January 8, 2014 National Geographic
fossilized skin reveals color of ancient marine reptiles for the first time
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An adverb and a professor’s fight against teaching alternative theories of evolution
January 8, 2014 Post and Courier (Charleston, S. Carolina)
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Evolutionary Tales Are Constructed Out of Imagination, Not Data
January 7, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
fossil bits or genetic tidbits are often used as props for grand evolutionary tales, even when the data are problematic for Darwinian theory
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Bill in the Works to Protect Teachers When Discussing Creation and Evolution
January 7, 2014 WHSV (Richmond, VA)
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Shark Proteins Contradict the Standard Phylogeny of Vertebrates
January 6, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Dark Matter Search Tinkers with Mythology
January 6, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
They can’t find it, but it must be there. How long can that approach be sustained?
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Anybody out there? The how and what of alien life
January 6, 2014 New Scientist, n.2950, p.46-47
three new books bring us up to speed on extraterrestrial life, its prospects and possible forms -- but it remains "queerer than we can suppose"
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Playing make-believe with history is a risky business
January 6, 2014 New Scientist, n.2950, p.3
heritage tourism is big business -- but chasing dollars by mythologising the past can be costly for people in the present
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Flower in Amber Shows No Evolution
January 5, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
the details in a flower said to be 100 million years old look just like those in modern flowers
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Personality Traits Help Explain Creationist Beliefs
January 5, 2014 Yahoo! News (Live Science)
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Can Anticreationist Rhetoric Survive Debate?
January 4, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Darwinist rhetoric thrives when it’s the only show in town
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If Chemistry Can Be Wrong, How Much More Evolutionary Theory?
January 3, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Monumental Roots
January 3, 2014 Science, v.343, n.6166, p.18-23
the great stone monuments of prehistoric Britain, including Stonehenge, were born in a wave of innovation that apparently began on a remote Scottish island
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Paleoanthropologist Overthrows Darwinian Tree of Man: We Are All One
January 3, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
a veteran paleoanthropologist says the discoveries of 2013 have replaced Darwin’s tree picture of human evolution with a “braid”
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Words, Words, Words: On Toxicity and Abuse in Online Activism
January 3, 2014 Nuclear Unicorn
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Venus: 80% of Its History Is Missing
January 2, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
In spite of being called Earth’s twin, Venus is vastly different. Scientists are struggling to fit its young surface to 4.5 billion years.
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See half a world and you can't reason about the past
January 2, 2014 New Scientist, n.2950, p.13
people with spatial neglect ignore the left side of their world -- and the "left side" of time too, which means they problems reasoning about the past
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Upper Palaeolithic Siberian genome reveals dual ancestry of Native Americans
January 2, 2014 Nature, v.505, p.87-91
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Archaic humans: Four makes a party
January 2, 2014 Nature, v.505, p.32-34
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The complete genome sequence of a Neanderthal from the Altai Mountains
January 2, 2014 Nature, v.505, p.43-49
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“The Biblical Cosmos" -- sample chapters
January, 2014 Cascade Books
A Pilgrim’s Guide to the Weird and Wonderful World of the Bible
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The Syntactic-Pragmatic Function of Genesis 1:1-2 in the Creation Narrative
January, 2014 Valley View University Journal of Theology, v.3, p.67-85
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Forgotten aliens: We should hunt for viruses in space
January 1, 2014 New Scientist, n.2948, p.42-43
viruses outnumber all cellular life forms on Earth at least 10 to 1 -- so we can't ignore them in our search for extraterrestrial life, argues astrovirologist
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Happy New Year! Here Is #1 of Our Top-Ten Evolution Stories of 2013: Responding to Charles Marshall's Review of Darwin's Doubt
January 1, 2014 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Book
Acts & Facts, v.43, n.1 (pdf)
January 1, 2014 Institute for Creation Research
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We don't need to land to find life on Europa
January 1, 2014 New Scientist, n.2950, p.3
landing on Jupiter's moon carries the very real risk of contamination with earthly bugs, but we may not need to touch down on Europa to find life
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Dumbest Stories of 2013
January 1, 2014 Creation-Evolution Headlines
here’s a review of some of the “Stupid Evolution Quotes of the Week” and dumbest just-so stories from the past year
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Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality
January 1, 2014 Random House & Knopf
see also Amazon
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Consciousness and the Brain: Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts
January 1, 2014 Viking (Penguin)
see also Amazon
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Oxygen: A Four Billion Year History
January 1, 2014 Princeton University Press
see also Amazon
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Scientists Successfully Model a Living Cell with Software
January 1, 2014 Scientific American, v.310, n.1
in creating the first complete computer model of an entire single-celled organism, biologists are forging a powerful new kind of tool for illuminating how life works
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Astronomers Search for Moons Circling Distant Exoplanets
January 1, 2014 Scientific American, v.310, n.1
moons orbiting distant exoplanets may account for most of the habitable locales in the galaxy, if only we could find them
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How Unconscious Thought and Perception Affect Our Every Waking Moment
January 1, 2014 Scientific American, v.310, n.1
unconscious impulses and desires impel what we think and do in ways Freud never dreamed of
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The Case against Copernicus
January 1, 2014 Scientific American, v.310, n.1
Copernicus famously said that Earth revolves around the sun. But opposition to this revolutionary idea didn't come just from the religious authorities. Evidence favored a different cosmology.
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Resurrecting an Extinct Frog
January 1, 2014 Discover Magazine
using cloning technology, scientists created an embryo of the extinct gastric-brooding frog