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evolution: a religion in school 3
May 12, 2012 Waynesville Daily Guide (Missouri)
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News to Note
May 12, 2012 Answers in Genesis
a weekly feature examining news from the biblical viewpoint
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Evolutionists Need to Mind Their Matters
May 12, 2012 Creation-Evolution Headlines
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Primeval Land Rises from the Ashes
May 11, 2012 Science, v.336, n.6082, p.662-663
a "vegetational Pompeii" buried in a coal deposit is shedding light on ecosystem structure and climate during the Permian period
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Venus's Rare Sun Crossing May Aid Search for Exoplanets
May 11, 2012 Science, v.336, n.6082, p.660
early next month, skywatchers will get their second--and final--chance this century to observe a rare mini-eclipse in which Venus crosses in front of the sun
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Lamarckism: Dead but Useful
May 11, 2012 Creation-Evolution Headlines
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Newspaper Article
The Original Colonists
May 11, 2012 New York Times
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We are the improbable ape
May 10, 2012 New Scientist, n.2864, p.3
if evolution is all about "climbing mount improbable", humans have climbed higher than any
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Evolution: Cheating cuts offspring fitness
May 10, 2012 Nature, v.485, p.151
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Evolution: Gene duplication for bigger brains
May 10, 2012 Nature, v.485, p.151
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History: Science sociology began before Kuhn
May 10, 2012 Nature, v.485, p.174
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Stand Up to the Bullies, Emory University
May 9, 2012 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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News Update/Commentary
Smallest mammoths found on Crete
May 9, 2012 BBC News
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Beware the creeping cracks of bias
May 9, 2012 Nature, v.485, p.149
Evidence is mounting that research is riddled with systematic errors. Left unchecked, this could erode public trust.
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Best Cave Art Is Still the Oldest
May 9, 2012 Creation-Evolution Headlines
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Blonde hair evolved independently in Pacific islands
May 9, 2012 New Scientist, n.2864, p.16
a study of fair-haired Solomon Islanders shows that blonde hair evolved separately at least twice in humans
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The humanity switch: How one gene made us brainier
May 9, 2012 New Scientist, n.2864, p.10-11
a single gene may have helped the evolution of our complex brains 2.5 million years ago, as we were splitting from australopithecines
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Evening Star's rare path across the sun
May 9, 2012 New Scientist, n.2864, p.48
with the last transit of Venus of the 21st century weeks away, authors trace how this rare event sparked international scientific collaboration in 1761
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Intimidating Darwin Doubters? Emory University Shows the Way
May 8, 2012 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Ben Carson's creationist views spark controvery over commencement speech
May 8, 2012 Washington Post
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Should Creationist Teachers Have Academic Freedom?
May 8, 2012 Huffington Post
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Evolution for Men and Women
May 8, 2012 Creation-Evolution Headlines
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Dolphins and Porpoises and...Bats? Oh My! Evolution's Convergence Problem
May 7, 2012 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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How Can We Make Evolution a Better Story?
May 7, 2012 Science and Religion Today
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Sauropod farts warmed the planet
May 7, 2012 New Scientist, n.2864, p.12
Modern cows are a major source of methane, a greenhouse gas. Just think what must have come out of the biggest plant eating dinosaurs…
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We Became Human by Mistake
May 5, 2012 Creation-Evolution Headlines
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Coelacanth: Survival of the Dullest
May 5, 2012 Creation-Evolution Headlines
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News to Note
May 5, 2012 Answers in Genesis
a weekly feature examining news from the biblical viewpoint
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Darwin Was Wrong: Why We Need to Update Our Model of Evolution
May 5, 2012 Huffington Post
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For Early Hominins in Africa, Many Ways to Take a Walk
May 4, 2012 Science, v.336, n.6081, p.538
several new studies of incredibly rare fossils of feet and partial skeletons reveal the complexity of early bipedalism
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Archaeology: New Light on Revolutions That Weren't
May 4, 2012 Science, v.336, n.6081, p.530-531
at a meeting last month, researchers heard new evidence that human evolution took a gradual, rather than revolutionary, course during two key junctures in prehistory
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Physics and spirituality: "A rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law"
May 4, 2012 Physics Today
a physicist shares his conviction that scientific and religious views of the world are complementary and compatible
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Evidence of non-random mutation rates suggests an evolutionary risk management strategy
May 3, 2012 Nature, v.485, p.95-98
the local mutation rate in Escherichia coli has evolved to reduce the risk of deleterious mutations, leading to a non-random occurrence of mutations and suggesting that DNA protection and repair mechanisms prefer
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An Archaean heavy bombardment from a destabilized extension of the asteroid belt
May 3, 2012 Nature, v.485, p.78-81
the Late Heavy Bombardment lasted much longer than previously thought, up to 1.7 billion years ago on Earth, with impacts on the Moon and Earth coming mostly from the E-belt-survivor Hungaria asteroids
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Impact spherules as a record of an ancient heavy bombardment of Earth
May 3, 2012 Nature, v.485, p.75-77
the fossilized remnants of vaporized asteroids, called spherules, can be used to infer that the flux of asteroid impacts on Earth 3.5 billion years ago was much greater than it is now
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Archaeology: Date with history
May 3, 2012 Nature, v.485, p.27-29
by revamping radiocarbon dating, Tom Higham is painting a new picture of humans' arrival in Europe
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News Update/Commentary
Lightning Signature Could Help Reveal the Solar System's Origins
May 3, 2012 Science Daily
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Earth Myths with a Sprinkling of Data
May 3, 2012 Creation-Evolution Headlines
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A trigger for the Cambrian Explosion
May 2, 2012 Access Research Network (blog)
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Ancient migration: Coming to America
May 2, 2012 Nature, v.485, p.30-32
For decades, scientists thought that the Clovis hunters were the first to cross the Arctic to America. They were wrong -- and now they need a better theory.
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Human migrations: Eastern odyssey
May 2, 2012 Nature, v.485, p.24-26
Humans had spread across Asia by 50,000 years ago. Everything else about our original exodus from Africa is up for debate.
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Why does time seem to pass faster as we get older?
May 2, 2012 New Scientist, n.2863, p.43
In Time Warped: Unlocking the mysteries of time perception, Claudia Hammond explains why time passes faster as you get older and flies when you're having fun.
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Underground coal fires burn for 100 years
May 2, 2012 New Scientist, n.2863, p.22-23
each year millions of tonnes of coal burn in uncontrolled underground fires around the world, posing a health risk
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Pigeon brain's global positioning system located
May 2, 2012 New Scientist, n.2863, p.15
we may not know how birds detect the magnetic fields that help them navigate, but we have now identified where in the brain the signals are processed
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Oldest human blood cells are found on iceman's wounds
May 2, 2012 New Scientist, n.2863, p.14
intact, 5300-year-old red blood cells have been extracted from Ötzi, the ancient ice mummy discovered in the Alps in 1991
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Analytical thinking erodes belief in God
May 2, 2012 New Scientist, n.2863, p.14
our intuitive thought processes, which underpin supernatural beliefs, can be overcome by thinking analytically
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California meteorite is rare rock laden with organics
May 2, 2012 New Scientist, n.2863, p.4
fragments of the meteorite have revealed that it is much more exciting than scientists thought
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Killer Fish Looked Half Shark, Half Tuna
May 2, 2012 Discovery News
the fish donned a tuna-like forked tail and terrorized ocean dwellers 240 million years ago
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Book
My Sister Rosalind Franklin: A Family Memoir
May 1, 2012 Oxford University Press
see also Amazon
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Planetary Radiometric Dates 1/3 Younger
May 1, 2012 Creation-Evolution Headlines