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• Mars May Have Been Wet, But Never Lively

  September 27, 2013 Creation-Evolution Headlines

  astrobiologists got excited with evidence for early water on Mars, but other discoveries are putting the quash on hopes it has or had life

• Exceptional preservation of Palaeozoic steroids in a diagenetic continuum

  September 26, 2013 Ines Melendez, Kliti Grice, and Lorenz Schwark Nature (Scientific Reports)

  Here we report the oldest occurrence of intact sterols in a Crustacean fossil preserved for ca. 380 Ma within a Devonian concretion.

• DNA-grabbing bacteria hint at early phase of evolution

  September 26, 2013 New Scientist, n.2936, p.12

  Microorganisms can scoop up bits of ancient DNA and build them into their own genomes. The first organisms may have done the same thing.

• Why space has exactly three dimensions

  September 26, 2013 New Scientist, n.2936, p.34-37

  the explanation of one of reality's greatest mysteries could lie in physics we already know

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  Martian Chemical Complicates Hunt for Life's Clues

  September 26, 2013 American Geophysical Union Science Daily

• Thousands of Dinosaur Tracks Found in Alaska

  September 26, 2013 Creation-Evolution Headlines

  nearly inside the Arctic Circle along the Yukon River, thousands of dinosaur tracks have been found -- one of several surprising discoveries about dinosaurs

• Lawsuit filed in Kan. to block science standards

  September 26, 2013 John Hanna Wichita Eagle (Associated Press)

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  Pakistan quake island off Gwadar 'emits flammable gas'

  September 25, 2013 BBC News

  barely half an hour after they were jolted by a major earthquake on Tuesday, people of the Pakistani coastal town of Gwadar had another shock when they saw a new island emerge in the sea, just over a kilometre from the shore

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  Ancient Soils Reveal Clues to Early Life on Earth

  September 25, 2013 University of British Columbia Science Daily

• Evolutionists Tap Dance Around Cambrian Explosion

  September 25, 2013 Creation-Evolution Headlines

  A flurry of papers by evolutionists appeared to be timed to counter Stephen Meyer’s best selling book that uses the Cambrian explosion as evidence for intelligent design. But do they address the key issues Meyer presented?

• Dinosaur in a wind tunnel tests feathered flight

  September 25, 2013 New Scientist, n.2936, p.19

  a life-sized, anatomically accurate model of a four-winged dinosaur supports the notion that feathers might not have evolved first for flight

• The fossil fish that's a serial monogamist

  September 25, 2013 New Scientist, n.2936, p.18

  the enormous, bottom-dwelling coelacanths have sprung another surprise: unlike other fish species, each female's clutch of young has the same father

• Teamwork: New York Times and Science Magazine Seek to Rebut Darwin's Doubt

  September 24, 2013 Casey Luskin Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)

• More Irreducible Complexity Is Found in Flagellar Assembly

  September 24, 2013 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)

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  Oldest Lizard-Like Fossil Yet to Be Found Hints at Scaly Origins

  September 24, 2013 University College London Science Daily

• The Moon Is 100 Million Years Younger Than Thought

  September 23, 2013 Mike Wall Yahoo! News

• Theistic Evolution Explained

  September 23, 2013 Granville Sewell Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)

• Comet, Asteroid Impacts as the Answer to Everything

  September 23, 2013 Creation-Evolution Headlines

  When geologists or planetologists have a puzzle, they have a ready answer: send in the flying rocks!

• Sherpa Fitness Is Not Evolution

  September 22, 2013 Creation-Evolution Headlines

  a study about mutations that might confer benefit to high-altitude Sherpas is being announced as an example of evolution, but variation within species is not Darwinian evolution

• Causes of the Cambrian Explosion

  September 20, 2013 Science, v.341, n.6152, p.1355-1356

  the rapid diversification of animal species in the early Cambrian was the result of a range of interacting biotic and abiotic processes

• When Prior Belief Trumps Scholarship

  September 20, 2013 Science, v.341, n.6152, p.1344

  Meyer holds that the emergence of animal phyla in the Cambrian demonstrates the existence of an intelligent designer ... review of Darwin's Doubt The Explosive Origin of Animal Life and the Case for Intelligen

• How to Solve the Cambrian Explosion: Turn Up the Evolutionary Speed Dial

  September 20, 2013 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)

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  Cascade of Events' Caused Sudden Explosion of Animal Life

  September 19, 2013 University of Oxford Science Daily

• Mechanical Gears Discovered on Planthopper Insects Provide an Opportunity to Recognize, or Deny, Design

  September 18, 2013 Casey Luskin Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)

• Beautiful Animation Reveals the Processes of Transcription and Translation

  September 18, 2013 Jonathan M. Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)

• Stand up for academic freedom at Ball State University

  September 18, 2013

• Neanderthals continue to challenge evolutionary perspectives

  September 18, 2013 David Tyler Access Research Network (blog)

• Darwinism and Materialism: They Sink or Swim Together

  September 18, 2013 American Spectator

  will Stephen Meyer’s Darwin’s Doubt be “the most despised science book” of 2013

• Studying supervolcanoes in North Korea

  September 18, 2013 New Scientist, n.2935, p.27

  Mount Paektu's last eruption was one of the biggest in human history ... now, North Korea are reaching out to UK scientists, says seismologist James Hammond

• Crack a comet to spawn the ingredients of life

  September 18, 2013 New Scientist, n.2935, p.16

  a simulated smash-up between a comet and a planet has created amino acids within the comet's ice

• Lost river guided early humans out of Africa

  September 18, 2013 New Scientist, n.2935, p.11

  a climate model shows the Sahara desert once had three lush rivers ... one led humans to the North African coast, from where they headed to the Middle East

• Biblical Archaeology Still Has Much to Discover

  September 18, 2013 Creation-Evolution Headlines

  some exciting discoveries in Jerusalem and other near eastern sites emphasize the fact that archaeologists have much more to explore in the lands of the Bible

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  Earth Expected to Be Habitable for Another 1.75 Billion Years

  September 18, 2013 University of East Anglia Science Daily

• Desperate for Good Headlines, Origin-of-Life Theorists Push Meager "New Organics in Meteorites" Story

  September 17, 2013 Casey Luskin Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)

• DNA in Amber Doesn’t Last Long

  September 17, 2013 Creation-Evolution Headlines

  Claims of ancient DNA hundreds of thousands of years old may be false. No DNA was found in an insect encased in amber said to be 10,600 years old

• Evolutionary Biologist Andreas Wagner: We "Know Little" about How "Innovations Originate"

  September 16, 2013 Casey Luskin Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)

• Darwinist Intolerance Is Intensifying

  September 15, 2013 Creation-Evolution Headlines

  Some recent cases of intolerance against Darwin skeptics are so extreme, they defy all logic or propriety. Yet when Darwinists promote radical ideas, they get a pass.

• Cosmos Does Not Look Evolutionary

  September 14, 2013 Creation-Evolution Headlines

  evidence continues to mount that the universe and its contents appeared mature from the beginning

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  Mechanical gears in jumping insects

  September 13, 2013 Cambridge University YouTube

  Previously believed to be only man-made, a natural example of a functioning gear mechanism has been discovered in a common insect -- the plant-hopper Issus -- showing that evolution developed interlocking cogs long before we did.

• Evolution: What, Where, and When?

  September 13, 2013 Science, v.341, n.6151, p.1182-1184

  Alfred Russel Wallace's science of distribution provided the foundation of biogeography

• Junk Science Gets Good Press if It Supports Darwinism

  September 13, 2013 Creation-Evolution Headlines

  The headlines for some scientific news stories might leave philosophers of science wagging their heads. Few, though, are the reporters willing to call something really dumb, or at least questionable -- especially if it appea

• Functioning ‘mechanical gears’ seen in nature for the first time

  September 12, 2013 University of Cambridge

  Previously believed to be only man-made, a natural example of a functioning gear mechanism has been discovered in a common insect -- showing that evolution developed interlocking cogs long before we did.

• Meet the world's largest volcano

  September 12, 2013 Nature, v.501, p.138

• “Evidence-Based” Findings May Not Be

  September 12, 2013 Creation-Evolution Headlines

  patients are encouraged to seek only “evidence-based” treatments for disease, but a look behind the scenes of clinical trials reveals some of the same human foibles that plague any science: shortcomings in honesty and transp

• "Darwin's Doubt" with Stephen Meyer

  September 12, 2013 vimeo

  Darwin, the scientific method, Danny DeVito, and Cher all manage to find a place in this mind-boggling and entertaining conversation between Eric Metaxas and Stephen Meyer at the Union League Club in New York City

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  The Final Nail in the Jurassic Park Coffin?

  September 11, 2013 Science Daily

  next generation sequencing reveals absence of DNA in sub-fossilized insects

• Cell scaffolding found in odd California meteorite

  September 11, 2013 New Scientist, n.2934, p.17

  space rocks cooked in hydrothermal vents could have released molecular chains that formed cell-like enclosures in early life forms

• Earth's extreme life holds hints to Martian past

  September 11, 2013 New Scientist, n.2934, p.13

  the discovery of life forms in the most inhospitable natural lake on Earth suggests the hunt for life on Mars needs a rethink

• World's biggest volcano was born in the dinosaur age

  September 11, 2013 Andy Coghlan New Scientist, n.2934, p.17

  found deep under the Pacific Ocean, the largest volcano on Earth is also joint top in the solar system's volcano league table, alongside Olympic Mons on Mars

• Discovery Institute Demands that Ball State University Investigate Class for Teaching that "Science Must Destroy Religion"

  September 10, 2013 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)