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Hummingbird Metabolism a “Marvel of Evolutionary Engineering”
December 5, 2013 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Unlike humans, hummingbirds are equally good at extracting energy from fructose as from glucose. They are marvels of evolutionary engineering. That makes perfect evolutionary sense.
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News Update/Commentary
Discovery of Partial Skeleton Suggests Ruggedly Built, Tree-Climbing Human Ancestor
December 5, 2013 Science Daily
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How the Moon Supports the Privileged Planet Hypothesis
December 5, 2013 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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400,000-year-old human DNA adds new tangle to our origin story
December 4, 2013 NBC News
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Ho-Hum; Paleoanthropologists Confused Again
December 4, 2013 Creation-Evolution Headlines
upsets are so common in evolutionary studies of human ancestry, bystanders might well ask how often they find anything worth believing
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Hominin DNA baffles experts
December 4, 2013 Nature, p.504, p.16-17
analysis of oldest sequence from a human ancestor suggests link to mystery population
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A Listener's Guide to the Meyer-Marshall Radio Debate: Focus on the Origin of Information Question
December 4, 2013 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Snakes outpacing other vertebrates in race to evolve
December 4, 2013 New Scientist, n.2946, p.18
the king cobra and Burmese python are the first snakes to have their genome sequenced, and the results show their genes are unusually prone to change
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Synthetic primordial cell copies RNA for the first time
December 4, 2013 New Scientist, n.2946, p.16
genetic information inside simple cells designed to mimic primordial life has been copied, with the help of a chemical made from citric acid
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Alien-hunting equation revamped for mining asteroids
December 4, 2013 New Scientist, n.2946, p.14
a classic equation to estimate the number of alien worlds has gotten a reboot as a tool for finding asteroids worth mining for resources
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Oldest human genome dug up in Spain's pit of bones
December 4, 2013 New Scientist, n.2946, p.8-9
a 400,000-year-old genome from ancient human bone could herald a missing link species -- taking us closer than ever to our common ancestor with Neanderthals
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Animal-rights group sues to secure freedom for chimps
December 4, 2013 New Scientist, n.2946, p.6
animal-rights groups have filed the kind of lawsuit notably used in the antislavery movement to try and get chimps recognised as persons rather than property
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Mouse memory inheritance may revitalise Lamarckism
December 4, 2013 New Scientist, n.2946, p.5
the idea that mice can pass on memories to subsequent generations could revive a long-discredited theory of inheritance
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Baffling 400,000-Year-Old Clue to Human Origins
December 4, 2013 New York Times
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Charles Marshall Acknowledges Meyer’s Fossil Treatment Is “Good Scholarship”
December 3, 2013 Evolution News & Science Today
by Darwin’s Doubt critic in radio debate
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Evolution could be part of 'intelligent design'
December 3, 2013 Victoria Advocate (Texas)
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New Record Structure Defies Fundamental Tenet of Modern Cosmology
December 3, 2013 Creation-Evolution Headlines
a structure over twice as large as the previous record holder puts immense strain on theories of the universe
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Join Us December 11 for the Michael Medved Show Live Broadcast from Discovery Institute
December 3, 2013 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Not Only Is Earth One Nice Planet Among Many, but Our Entire Universe Is Lost in a Crowd
December 2, 2013 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Fearful Memories Passed Down to Mouse Descendants
December 1, 2013 Scientific American
Genetic imprint from traumatic experiences carries through at least two generations
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Cosmological aspects in the sermon to the Hebrews
December, 2013 Newbold College
A glance at the critical issues of the book and its background show how relevant the issue of the cosmology of Hebrews is (e.g. 1.26; 8.5; 9.23; 11.3 etc).
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Book
Acts & Facts, v.42, n.12 (pdf)
December 1, 2013 Institute for Creation Research
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The Science Behind Mythical Dragons
December 1, 2013 Discover Magazine
paleontologist and Tolkien aficionado Henry Gee explains fire-breathing villains like The Hobbit's Smaug
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20 Things You Didn't Know About... Neanderthals
December 1, 2013 Discover Magazine
the hominids are depicted as degenerate and slouching because the first Neanderthal skeleton found happened to be arthritic
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Cavemen Were Better at Drawing Animals Than Today's Artists Are
December 1, 2013 Discover Magazine
animal motion is a thorny challenge for modern illustrators, but Paleolithic drawings were surprisingly accurate
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Everything in the Universe Is Made of Math -- Including You
December 1, 2013 Discover Magazine
in this excerpt from his new book, Tegmark proposes that our reality isn't just described by mathematics, it is mathematics
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Fly Geyser -- Black Rock Desert -- Nevada, U.S.A.
December 1, 2013 vimeo
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Book
Intelligible Design: A Realistic Approach to the Philosophy and History of Science
December 1, 2013 World Scientific
see also Amazon
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Calibrating Asteroid Impact
November 29, 2013 Science, v.342, n.6162, p.1051-1052
the airburst over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk earlier this year provides a calibration point to assess the possible damage due to asteroid strikes
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Chelyabinsk Airburst, Damage Assessment, Meteorite Recovery, and Characterization
November 29, 2013 Science, v.342, n.6162, p.1069-1073
a detailed study of a recent asteroid impact provides an opportunity to calibrate the damage caused by these rare events
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The Life Force
November 29, 2013 Science, v.342, n.6162, p.1032-1034
step by grueling step, Jack Szostak is pushing through the barriers that keep him from his goal: making living cells from scratch in the lab
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Fossil Forests
November 29, 2013
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C.S. Lewis and the Advent of the Posthuman
November 29, 2013 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Inbreeding shaped the course of human evolution
November 28, 2013 New Scientist, n.2945, p.8
Many early humans were highly inbred, according to a new genetic analysis. Their isolation may explain why modern behaviour took so long to arise.
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Javelin Upsets Early Man Timeline
November 28, 2013 Creation-Evolution Headlines
a well-crafted spear point for a javelin is dated way too early for the current evolutionary timeline
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Planetary science: A chunk of ancient Mars
November 28, 2013 Nature, v.503, p.473-474
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Origin and age of the earliest Martian crust from meteorite NWA 7533
November 28, 2013 Nature, v.503, p.513-516
chemical analysis of the meteorite NWA 7533 indicates that it may be a Martian regolith breccia and, if so, that the crust of Mars may have formed in the first 100 million years of the planet’s history
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Why There Are No Atheists at the Grand Canyon
November 27, 2013 Time magazine
as generations of campers, sailors, hikers and explorers could attest, there’s nothing quite like nature -- with its ability to elicit feelings of jaw-dropping awe -- to make you contemplate the idea of a higher power.
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Darwinian business needn't be red in tooth and claw
November 27, 2013 New Scientist, n.2944, p.30-31
the notion that economics and business are all about competition and self-interest is alluring but wrong, argues evolutionary psychologist
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Brightest cosmic burst has record-breaking stamina
November 27, 2013 New Scientist, n.2945, p.18
a gamma-ray burst that lasted for 20 hours cannot be explained by standard models of such events, opening up a fresh mystery about their nature
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Waiting for pain can cause more dread than pain itself
November 27, 2013 New Scientist, n.2945, p.16
people choose to experience more pain if it means spending less time waiting for it, which suggests that anticipating pain is worse than experiencing it
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Twenty Intelligent Design Resources: A Christmas Shopping List
November 27, 2013 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Unintended Consequences: How Hostile Responses to Darwin's Doubt Turned a Thoughtful Reader Against Darwinian Evolution
November 26, 2013 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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"CAPTCHA" Breakthrough by AI Illustrates Biomimetic Design
November 26, 2013 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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On Ethical Gray Zones
November 26, 2013 Creation-Evolution Headlines
examples from World War II and the present illustrate that just because some people compromise ethics doesn’t mean ethics itself is a matter of opinion
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Dinosaur Soft Tissue “Explained”
November 26, 2013 Creation-Evolution Headlines
the discoverer of soft tissue in dinosaur bone now has a new explanation for its preservation -- but does it really answer the obvious question?
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Look Up, Look Down at Natural Design
November 25, 2013 Creation-Evolution Headlines
swimmers, flyers, and things that just sit in the sun are the envy of bioengineers
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News Update/Commentary
Ancient Minerals: Which Gave Rise to Life?
November 25, 2013 Science Daily
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C. S. Lewis and the Argument from Reason
November 25, 2013 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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p.4 — CARE about Your Child’s Creation Questions
November 25, 2013 From the Editor