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Geologists Warming Up to Catastrophic Floods
December 19, 2013 Creation-Evolution Headlines
megafloods larger than anything seen today are better concepts for explaining certain features on Earth and Mars
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UC Berkeley Mathematician Edward Frenkel on the Transcendent World of Math
December 19, 2013 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Evolution lessons will stay in Texas biology textbook, board says
December 18, 2013 NBC News (Reuters)
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More Discoveries Contradict Human Evolution Story
December 18, 2013 Creation-Evolution Headlines
as more findings fail to fit the Darwinian picture, the evolutionary story of man appears to be unraveling
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News Update/Commentary
Neanderthal Genome Shows Early Human Interbreeding, Inbreeding
December 18, 2013 Science Daily
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Duck-billed dinosaur had rooster-like cock comb
December 17, 2013 New Scientist, n.2948, p.15
the skeleton of a duck-billed dinosaur, Edmontosaurus regalis, unearthed in Canada, has a never-before-seen crest atop its skull
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First ever animals were made of jelly, not sponge
December 17, 2013 New Scientist, n.2948, p.10
the finding that comb jellies might have been the earliest animal on the tree of life challenges our understanding of the early evolution on Earth
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Natural Evil: How Good Germs Can Go Bad
December 17, 2013 Creation-Evolution Headlines
it doesn’t take much to turn a friendly bacterium into a killer
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More Evidence of Scientism as Religion
December 17, 2013 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Texas Review Panel Rejects Creationist Objections to Pearson Biology Textbook
December 17, 2013 Texas Freedom Network
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Magazine Article
Book Review: Oxygen
December 17, 2013 Scientific American
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Did asteroid fracking cause Earth's worst extinction?
December 16, 2013 New Scientist, n.2947, p.42-46
Hit Earth in the wrong spot, and you risk releasing massive amounts of methane. That's how a space rock might have wiped out over 90 per cent of species.
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Engineering Designs Found Throughout the Biosphere
December 16, 2013 Creation-Evolution Headlines
news from biomimetics is coming in so fast, there’s only time for brief mentions in a growing list of living designs worth copying
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Americans' Belief in God, Miracles and Heaven Declines
December 16, 2013 Harris Polls
belief in Darwin's theory of evolution rises
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More Surprises for Evolutionists
December 15, 2013 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Neo-Darwinists would not have predicted the results they got when studying fish, alligators, monkeys and mice
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You Are Not a Comb Jelly
December 14, 2013 Creation-Evolution Headlines
reports that ctenophores are ancestors of all animals hide uncomfortable findings for evolution about the comb jelly’s genome
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Genome Uses Two Languages Simultaneously; Try That Yourself Sometime, Why Don't You
December 13, 2013 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Genetics: My Oldest Sister Is a Sea Walnut?
December 13, 2013 Science, v.342, n.6164, p.1327-1329
decoding of the ctenophore genome prompts reevaluation of the complexity of the metazoan ancestor
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The Thousand-Year Graveyard
December 13, 2013 Science, v.342, n.6164, p.1306-1310
scientists uncover a tortured history of disease and death from the Middle Ages onward
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Cavefish Study Supports Controversial Evolutionary Mechanism
December 13, 2013 Science, v.342, n.6164, p.1304
unleashed genetic changes may explain rapid loss of cavefish eyes
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Ancient DNA: Fossilized Teeth Offer Mouthful on Ancient Microbiome
December 13, 2013 Science, v.342, n.6164, p.1303
microbial DNA preserved in ancient dental calculus -- and in equally prosaic human coprolites (fossilized or preserved feces) -- carries a record of the communities of bacteria that lived in and on people who died
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New Results Send Mars Rover on a Quest for Ancient Life
December 13, 2013 Science, v.342, n.6164, p.1300-1301
recent results from the Curiosity Mars rover have helped scientists formulate a plan for the next phase of its mission: looking for possible "molecular fossils" left by ancient martian microbes
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A Dinosaur Is Not a Rooster
December 13, 2013 Creation-Evolution Headlines
an apparent fleshy appendage on the head of a hadrosaur does not mean it is an evolutionary link to birds
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Ancient reptiles stuck to the air
December 12, 2013 Nature, v.504, p.191
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Mystery of the Flower’s Missing Pollen: A Paleobotanical Puzzle
December 12, 2013 Answers in Genesis
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News Update/Commentary
Fossil Primate Shakes Up History of Tooth-Combed Primates
December 11, 2013 Science Daily
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Sign of the Times: Nobel Prize-Winning Biologist Refuses to Submit Papers to Top-Tier "Luxury" Science Journals
December 11, 2013 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Modern moral responses need a manual mode
December 11, 2013 New Scientist, n.2946, p.30-31
our moral reasoning is based on cognitive glitches -- we need to rethink it for the world we live in now, says moral psychologist Joshua Greene
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Alien life could have basked in big bang's afterglow
December 11, 2013 New Scientist, n.2947, p.14
the cosmic radiation that existed about 15 million years after the big bang could have made the whole universe warm enough to support life
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The 19 superbugs that rule Earth's hidden depths
December 11, 2013 New Scientist, n.2947, p.12
Deep inside Earth's crust, the same kinds of microorganism are found wherever we look. Nobody knows how they became so widespread.
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Extreme Speculation Presented as Science
December 11, 2013 Creation-Evolution Headlines
things no one could possibly ever know are being reported by science journals and news sites as things worthy of scientific faith
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Got Scientism? Champions of “Science” All Leftists
December 10, 2013 Creation-Evolution Headlines
the Union of Concerned Scientists’ list of champions only includes those who take far-left political stances on the issues
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Bullies-R-Us: How "Freethought Oasis" Threatened "Disruption" and Pressured a College into Cancelling Intelligent Design Course
December 10, 2013 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Life possible in the early Universe
December 10, 2013 Nature, v.504, p.201
planets orbiting the first stars could have been habitable, challenging arguments for a multiverse
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Yellowstone supervolcano 'even more colossal'
December 10, 2013 BBC
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Science Reporter Says Scientists Are Like Cattle
December 9, 2013 Creation-Evolution Headlines
a science reporter lists several reasons why scientists are about as trustworthy as bankers
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News Update/Commentary
Hard Rock Life: Collecting Census Data on Microbial Denizens of Hardened Rocks
December 9, 2013 Science Daily
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News Update/Commentary
More Light Shed on Possibility of Life on Mars
December 9, 2013 Science Daily
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The Multiverse: Where Everything Turns Out to Be True, Except Philosophy and Religion
December 9, 2013 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Awe, Shucks: Backwards Causation in Scientific Explanation
December 8, 2013 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Is it the emotion of awe that creates belief in the supernatural, or is it the other way around?
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Carver Sanitized of Religion
December 7, 2013 Creation-Evolution Headlines
a short biography of George Washington Carver posted by a science news site omitted what was most important to the Father of Agricultural Chemistry: his faith
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On the Origin of Snakes
December 6, 2013 Creation-Evolution Headlines
New studies of snakes and their genes are surprising scientists with stories of “rapid evolution.” Some findings offer potential for human health.
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Alien planet 11 times bigger than Jupiter found in bizarre, massive orbit
December 6, 2013 Fox News (space.com)
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Do Admirers of John Scopes Embrace What Their Hero Actually Taught?
December 6, 2013 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Evolution: How Fisheries Affect Evolution
December 6, 2013 Science, v.342, n.6163, p.1176-1177
commercial fishing alters the genetic traits of fish stocks
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Evolution of Vertebrate Transcriptional Regulator Binding
December 6, 2013 Science, v.342, n.6163, p.1186
comparative evolutionary analysis of transcriptional regulator binding across several vertebrate species reveals intricate regulatory genome evolution
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Genes for Extremes
December 6, 2013 Science, v.342, n.6163, p.1160-1161
the first two snake genomes, published this week, reflect the amazing evolutionary tales of a prey-crushing python and a venomous cobra
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Secrets of Snakes
December 6, 2013 Science, v.342, n.6163, p.1159
exotic, elusive, and dangerous, snakes have fascinated humankind for millennia
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Human Evolution: Elusive Denisovans Sighted in Oldest Human DNA
December 6, 2013 Science, v.342, n.6163, p.1156
traces of DNA from the Denisovans, a shadowy species thought to have lived in Asia, turn up in a surprising place: in a proto-Neandertal from Spain
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Animal Rights: Lawsuits Seek 'Personhood' for Chimpanzees
December 6, 2013 Science, v.342, n.6163, p.1154-1155
animal rights group files series of lawsuits to turn chimpanzees into legal persons