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Cambrian Soft Animal Survived Unchanged 200 Million Years
September 29, 2012 Creation Revolution
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Axe: Vive la Différence
September 29, 2012 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Cause test could end up in court
September 28, 2012 New Scientist, n.2884, p.3
Proving the cause of something is notoriously difficult. A new test claims to be able to find such causes, and it might end up in the courtroom very quickly.
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Jazz-singing robot could shed light on consciousness
September 27, 2012 New Scientist, n.2884, p.18-19
a robot that is being taught to sing duets with humans could reveal the nature of creativity, thought to be linked to consciousness
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Evolution: How the unicorn got its horn
September 27, 2012 Nature, v.489, p.504–505
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Poison postures
September 27, 2012 Nature, v.489, p.474
researchers working on controversial topics must take care how they promote their results
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Will Elitist Science Lead to Mind Control?
September 27, 2012 Creation-Evolution Headlines
when you can’t convince the public, try zapping or manipulating them
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Why the Case for Junk DNA 2.0 Still Fails
September 27, 2012 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Life Is Designed to Fight Darwinism
September 26, 2012 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Intolerance Grows for Skeptics of Consensus Science in Spite of Data
September 26, 2012 Creation-Evolution Headlines
If you question evolution or man-caused global warming, be prepared for a smear. If you are a Christian, be prepared for hate. But the skeptics may have the facts on their side.
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Reality: Is matter real?
September 26, 2012 New Scientist, n.2884, p.37-46
It's relatively easy to demonstrate what physical reality isn't. It is much harder to work out what it is.
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Reality: How does consciousness fit in?
September 26, 2012 New Scientist, n.2884, p.42-43
Some theories hold that reality and consciousness are one and the same. Is the universe really all inside your head.
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Reality: ineffable, but impossible to forsake
September 26, 2012 New Scientist, n.2884, p.3
whatever your definition of reality, you can't avoid it
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Oldest dental filling is found in a Stone Age tooth
September 26, 2012 New Scientist, n.2884, p.14
a beeswax cap that was applied 6500 years ago to a cracked canine adds to evidence that prehistoric humans were competent dentists
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Earth cracking up under Indian Ocean
September 26, 2012 New Scientist, n.2884, p.10
the whole world shuddered in April this year as Earth's crust began the difficult process of breaking a tectonic plate
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Video
The Atheism Tapes -- Steven Weinberg [2/6]
September 25, 2012 YouTube
Jonathan Miller in conversation with American physicist and Nobel laureate Steven Weinberg.
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Cambrian Soft Animal Survived Unchanged 200 Million Years
September 25, 2012 Creation-Evolution Headlines
a fossil soft-bodied lobopodian has been found in Carboniferous strata in Illinois
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A carboniferous non-onychophoran lobopodian reveals long-term survival of a cambrian morphotype
September 25, 2012 Current Biology, v.22, n.18, p.1673-1675
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News Update/Commentary
3-D Images of 300-Million-Year-Old Insects Revealed
September 25, 2012 Science Daily
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Animals are conscious and should be treated as such
September 24, 2012 New Scientist, n.2883, p.24-25
now that scientists have belatedly declared that mammals, birds and many other animals are conscious, it is time for society to act
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Bill Nye warns: Creation views threaten US science
September 24, 2012 pddnet (Associated Press)
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Evolution, Creation, and the Faux Middle Path
September 24, 2012 Huffington Post
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Decoding ENCODE: A Q&A with Jonathan Wells
September 24, 2012 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Earliest Galaxy Points Out Flaws in Secular Cosmology
September 23, 2012 Creation-Evolution Headlines
more evidence points to a fully-formed universe very soon after the beginning
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News to Note
September 22, 2012 Answers in Genesis
a weekly feature examining news from the biblical viewpoint
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Did Neandertals Truly Bury Their Dead?
September 21, 2012 Science, v.337, n.6101, p.1443-1444
new excavations in France are reexamining whether Neandertals buried their dead, an issue that many researchers had long thought was itself dead and buried
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Warped Light Reveals Infant Galaxy on the Brink of the 'Cosmic Dawn'
September 21, 2012 Science, v.337, n.6101, p.1442
Astronomers have recently spotted a galaxy dating back to a mere 500 million years after the big bang. It sets a new record for most distant object sighted by astronomers.
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Book
American Spectator Reviews The Magician's Twin: How Evolution Turned the World Upside-Down
September 21, 2012 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Extreme weather
September 20, 2012 Nature, v.489, p.335-336
better models are needed before exceptional events can be reliably linked to global warming
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Studies slow the human DNA clock
September 20, 2012 Nature, v.489, p.343-344
revised estimates of mutation rates bring genetic accounts of human prehistory into line with archaeological data
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Through the gaps
September 20, 2012 Nature, v.489, p.335
A 20-year campaign of scientific fraud says as much about the research community as it does about the perpetrator. The system that allowed such deception to continue must be reformed.
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Retraction record rocks community
September 20, 2012 Nature, v.489, p.346-347
anaesthesiology tries to move on after fraud investigations
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Spontaneous giving and calculated greed
September 20, 2012 Nature, v.489, p.427-430
economic games are used to investigate the cognitive mechanisms underlying cooperative behaviour, and show that intuition supports cooperation in social dilemmas, whereas reflection can undermine these cooperative impul
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C. S. Lewis Was "Prophetic" on Science, Scientism
September 20, 2012 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Science and Faith: Friends or Foes?
September 20, 2012 Covenant Theological Seminary, St. Louis, MO
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In Debate, Britain's Chief Rabbi Tweaks Richard Dawkins with the Myth of "Junk DNA"
September 20, 2012 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Pristine Wood Found in Diamond Crater
September 19, 2012 Creation-Evolution Headlines
a kimberlite crater in Canada, said to be 53 million years old, yielded exquisitely preserved unfossilized wood
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Warmonger or idealist: the roots of human conflict
September 19, 2012 New Scientist, n.2883, p.40-43
Homo sapiens is not a particularly violent species -- we just have more worth fighting for than other animals
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Truth decay: The half-life of facts
September 19, 2012 New Scientist, n.2883, p.36-39
much of what we believe to be factual has an expiration date, but the good news is that we can see it coming
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Climate change determined humanity's global conquest
September 19, 2012 New Scientist, n.2883, p.12
modern humans only made it out of Africa when the changing climate made the Arabian desert passable -- the rest of our migrations were climate-dependent too
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Demise of the Gene
September 19, 2012 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Man Is Man and Ape Is Ape: The Gulf Widens
September 18, 2012 Creation-Evolution Headlines
now that “human ancestors” from 300,000 years ago show comparable mental acuity to ours, the gradual upward slope to man looks more like a cliff
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Russian asteroid crater revealed to be filled with over $1 quadrillion of diamonds
September 18, 2012 Yahoo! News
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News Update/Commentary
Newly revealed Coptic fragment has Jesus making reference to 'my wife'
September 18, 2012 CNN
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Newly Discovered Notes Reveal C.S. Lewis's Early Doubts about Darwin
September 18, 2012 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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News Update/Commentary
Comet May Have Exploded Over Canada 12,900 Years Ago After All
September 18, 2012 Science Daily
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Is medical science built on shaky foundations?
September 17, 2012 New Scientist, n.2882, p.24-25
more than half of biomedical findings cannot be reproduced ... we urgently need a way to ensure that discoveries are properly checked
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Bob Ballard Throws Out Textbooks for a Living
September 17, 2012 Creation-Evolution Headlines
an interview with oceanographer Bob Ballard shows him taking glee at proving the scientific consensus wrong
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Evolutionary Fish Story
September 16, 2012 Creation-Evolution Headlines
similar-looking blind fish couldn’t have swum across the world, so did they evolve separately
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Science and Faith: Friends or Foes?
September 15, 2012 San Diego, CA