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Dinosaur-inspired upgrades add bite to wind turbines
September 15, 2012 New Scientist, n.2882, p.16
Siemens unveils three designs to boost the power of old turbine blades by tweaking their aerodynamics
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News to Note
September 15, 2012 Answers in Genesis
a weekly feature examining news from the biblical viewpoint
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DNA Scrambles Darwin's Tree
September 15, 2012 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Scientific Misconduct: Government Sanctions Harvard Psychologist
September 14, 2012 Science, v.337, n.6100, p.1283
last week, the Office of Research Integrity confirmed that Harvard psychologist Marc Hauser fabricated and falsified methods and data in six federally funded studies
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Before the Dinosaurs' Demise, a Clambake Extinction?
September 14, 2012 Science, v.337, n.6100, p.1280
new evidence from the sea floor just off Antarctica points to a major extinction there a geologic moment before the huge cosmic impact 65.5 million years ago that killed the dinosaurs
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How do Theistic Evolutionists Explain the Fossil Record and Human Origins?
September 14, 2012 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Misconduct ruling is silent on intent
September 13, 2012 Nature, v.489, p.189-190
psychologist Marc Hauser admits errors but not fraud
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Geological Dates Collapse
September 13, 2012 Creation-Evolution Headlines
two papers in Geology this month cast serious doubt on assumptions used to date rocks.
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Shock! Intelligent Design, Darwin Doubts Get Respectful Discussion in New York Review of Books
September 12, 2012 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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News Update/Commentary
Rare Cliffhanging Plant Species Uses Unique Reproductive Strategy with Ants
September 12, 2012 Science Daily
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Geological clues from Noah's flood?
September 12, 2012 New Scientist, n.2882, p.48
religious texts and local legends for clues about real historical events
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Lush Antarctic past suggests more monsoons in future
September 12, 2012 New Scientist, n.2882, p.9
tropical plant fossils in Antarctica hints at a monsoon climate -- similar to modern-day South Asia -- during the warm Eocene period, 34 million years ago
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If Morality Evolved, Is It Righteous?
September 12, 2012 Creation-Evolution Headlines
evolutionists are determined to keep morality from succeeding as a defeater for natural selection.
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San Diego: Are You Ready for the (Free!) Science and Faith Conference on Saturday?
September 11, 2012 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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How Does a Flagellum Know How Long to Grow?
September 11, 2012 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Second Gunman in Death of the Dinosaurs
September 11, 2012 Time Magazine
a cunning study of geology, shells and ancient magnetism offers clues to a long-ago extinction
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News Update/Commentary
World's Smallest Fossil Footprints: Small Amphibian Roamed Earth 315 Million Years Ago
September 11, 2012 Science Daily
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Jerusalem Cistern Found from First Temple Era
September 10, 2012 Creation-Evolution Headlines
a huge cistern near the Temple Mount has been found that was part of Solomon’s Temple complex
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Mars clays may have volcanic source
September 9, 2012 Science News
deposits didn’t need flowing water to form
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Is Evolutionary Science in Conflict with Biblical Christianity?
September 7, 2012 St James Anglican Church (Newport Beach, CA)
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p.3 — The Breath of Life
September 7, 2012 From the Editor
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p.6 — The Importance of Creation Research
September 7, 2012 Research
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p.8-10 — Biblical Truth in High Definition
September 7, 2012 Real World Apologetics
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p.11-13 — Why Is Modern Cosmology So Weird?
September 7, 2012 Impact
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p.16 — Cavitation
September 7, 2012 Back to Genesis
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p.17 — Leakey and "Human Evolution"
September 7, 2012 Back to Genesis
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p.18-19 — Ways That Whales Display Their Creator
September 7, 2012 Back to Genesis
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ENCODE Project Writes Eulogy for Junk DNA
September 7, 2012 Science, v.337, n.6099, p.1159-1161
this week, 30 research papers, including six in Nature and additional papers published online by Science, sound the death knell for the idea that our DNA is mostly littered with useless base
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Aspiration Makes Us Human
September 6, 2012 Scientific American
our drive to exceed our evolutionary limits sets us apart from other beasts
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Bill Nye 'The Science Guy' Responds to Creation Museum: Creationism Is 'Not Science'
September 6, 2012 Huffington Post
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Richard Dawkins: Evolution is 'not a controversial issue'
September 6, 2012 CNN Belief Blog
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Evolution could explain the placebo effect
September 6, 2012 New Scientist, n.2881, p.9
your mind may be able to switch your immune response into high gear, with a placebo as the trigger, a new evolutionary model suggests
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Don't junk the 'junk DNA' just yet
September 6, 2012 New Scientist, n.2881, p.3
the ENCODE project has revealed that 80 per cent of our genome does something, but doing something is not the same as doing something useful
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China's dinosaur hunter: The ground breaker
September 6, 2012 Nature, v.489, p.22-25
as he revolutionizes ideas about dinosaur evolution, Xing Xu is helping to make china into a palaeontological powerhouse
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We must be open about our mistakes
September 6, 2012 Nature, v.489, p.7
greater transparency about the scientific process and a closer focus on correcting defective data are the way forward
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ENCODE Study Forces Evolutionists to Retract “Junk DNA” Myth
September 6, 2012 Creation-Evolution Headlines
at least 80% of the human genome is functional, scientists now say, based on a genetic survey called ENCODE that may force reassessment of what a gene is
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Experiments Scientists Would Do If They Lived Indefinitely
September 5, 2012 Scientific American
what would scientists learn if they could run studies that lasted for hundreds or thousands of years--or more
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Circadian Rhythms: "Nature's Intricate Clockwork"
September 5, 2012 Evolution News & Views
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Worldwide army of scientists cracks the 'junk DNA’ code
September 5, 2012 Telegraph (UK)
in the past two decades, scientists had begun to realise that 'junk' areas must have some function, because they appeared to influence our susceptibility to disease
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Junk No More: ENCODE Project Nature Paper Finds "Biochemical Functions for 80% of the Genome"
September 5, 2012 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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What counts as a conscious thinking machine?
September 5, 2012 New Scientist, n.2881, p.18
AI pioneer Ben Goertzel on artificial consciousness and how we will know when it has finally arrived
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Tutankhamun's death and the birth of monotheism
September 5, 2012 New Scientist, n.2881, p.10
the boy king may have died from an inherited form of epilepsy, which also encouraged his father to found the earliest single-god religion
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Magazine Article
"Junk" DNA Holds Clues to Common Diseases
September 5, 2012 Scientific American
with the new annotation of the human genome, researchers are finding that most of the code between genes is controlling crucial functions for life and health
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The shape of life: Biology's biggest mystery
September 4, 2012 New Scientist, n.2880, p.38-41
how plants and animals form their astonishing variety of shapes has long been an enigma, but we are finally making progress
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Breaking Past the Limits of Science
September 3, 2012 Scientific American
how will we transcend today's barriers to get smarter, live longer, and expand the power of human innovation
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Greg Epstein's Good Without God
September 2, 2012 Eric 'Siggy' Scott (blog)
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Mountains in the Sea
September 1, 2012 National Geographic
Hundreds of thousands of seamounts rise from Earth’s ocean floor. Life has been explored on barely 300.
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Weather Gone Wild
September 1, 2012 National Geographic
rains that are almost biblical, heat waves that don’t end, tornadoes that strike in savage swarms -- there’s been a change in the weather lately
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Book
Acts & Facts, v.41, n.9 (pdf)
September 1, 2012 Institute for Creation Research
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Book
The Ravenous Brain: How the New Science of Consciousness Explains Our Insatiable Search for Meaning
September 1, 2012 Basic Books
see also Amazon