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Paradigm Shift: Impact Didn’t Kill Dinosaurs
April 24, 2012 Creation-Evolution Headlines
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King David Ruled Cities, Not Shepherds
April 24, 2012 Creation-Evolution Headlines
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A bloody boon for conservation
April 23, 2012 Nature, v.484, p.424-425
leeches provide traces of DNA from other species
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Dino-bird had oldest known case of osteoarthritis
April 22, 2012 New Scientist, n.2861, p.16
fossilised ankle bones of Caudipteryx, a dino-bird that lived 130 million years ago, show signs of the painful bone condition
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From Wonders of Nature to Wonders of Technology
April 22, 2012 Creation-Evolution Headlines
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News to Note
April 21, 2012 Answers in Genesis
a weekly feature examining news from the biblical viewpoint
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Cambrian Explosion: Sedimentary, My Dear Flotsam
April 20, 2012 Creation-Evolution Headlines
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Science teacher told to stop teaching about creationism
April 20, 2012 Times-News (North Carolina)
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New Genetic Letters Augment DNA, and Soon Perhaps Life
April 20, 2012 Science, v.336, n.6079, p.292-293
synthetic nucleotides that can be incorporated into DNA and can be copied with near perfection by enzymes that copy natural DNA
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News Update/Commentary
Polar Bears Evolutionarily Five Times Older and Genetically More Distinct
April 20, 2012 Science Daily
ancestry traced back 600,000 years
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Wernher von Braun Remembered
April 20, 2012 Creation-Evolution Headlines
late in the Apollo program, von Braun became a Christian and supporter of creation and academic freedom
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Formation of the ‘Great Unconformity’ as a trigger for the Cambrian explosion
April 19, 2012 Nature, v.484, p.363-366
changes in ocean chemistry promoted during the formation of the Great Unconformity, a stratigraphic surface that separates continental basement rock from younger marine sedimentary deposits, are proposed as the cause of
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Air density 2.7 billion years ago limited to less than twice modern levels by fossil raindrop imprints
April 19, 2012 Nature, v.484, p.359-362
experiments dropping raindrops onto ash combined with raindrop fossil imprints yield an upper limit for air density in the Archaean
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No shame
April 19, 2012 Nature, v.484, p.287-288
the handling of results suggesting faster-than-light neutrinos was a model of fitting behaviour
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Video
Richard Dawkins & Lawrence Krauss: Something from Nothing
April 18, 2012 YouTube
Critically-acclaimed author and evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins and world-renowned theoretical physicist and author Lawrence Krauss discuss biology, cosmology, religion, and a host of other topics at this event entitled ‘Something from Nothing'.
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Creationism and Monkey Business in Tennessee
April 18, 2012 Huffington Post
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News Update/Commentary
Shells made dinosaurs egg-stinct
April 18, 2012 Fox News
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News Update/Commentary
Could a Newly Discovered Viral Genome Change What We Thought We Knew About Virus Evolution?
April 18, 2012 Science Daily
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Ocean's toxic alkalisation spurred animal evolution
April 18, 2012 New Scientist, n.2861, p.16
evidence from Cambrian rocks shows that a toxic alkalisation of the oceans hundreds of millions of years ago led to a blossoming of complex life forms
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Thomas Kuhn in retrospect
April 17, 2012 Access Research Network (blog)
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The Unscientific Model: "Academic Freedom's" Creationist Pedigree
April 17, 2012 Media Matters for America
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Tsunami simulations scare Japan
April 17, 2012 Nature, v.484, p.296-297
updated risk assessment warns country to prepare for much larger earthquakes and waves
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War of the Worlds: When Science, Politics Collide
April 17, 2012 National Public Radio
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Closing arguments in NASA JPL/intelligent design termination case
April 16, 2012 KPCC (Southern California Public Radio)
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Ex-NASA worker: Firing was over intelligent design
April 16, 2012 Sacramento Bee (Associated Press)
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Closing arguments conclude in JPL evolution case
April 16, 2012 Pasadena Star News (California)
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What Is the Best Way to Deal With Supernaturalists in Science and Evolution?
April 16, 2012 Huffington Post
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Scopes trial 2.0? Tennessee “Monkey Bill” becomes law
April 16, 2012 KPCC (Southern California Public Radio)
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Hot Button: Teaching science in Tennessee
April 15, 2012 Memphis Commercial Appeal (Tennessee)
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News to Note
April 14, 2012 Answers in Genesis
a weekly feature examining news from the biblical viewpoint
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WSJ’s Weird Embrace of Pseudo Science and the War on Real Science
April 14, 2012 Business Insider
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Tougher Times for Any Life on an Early Mars?
April 13, 2012 Science, v.336, n.6078, p.150-151
a planetary geologist marched back in martian time to argue that Mars has always been cold and dry
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Biological discoveries that match the excitement of the Higgs boson
April 13, 2012 Access Research Network (blog)
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Neither Explosion nor Expansion Theories Created Universe
April 12, 2012 Ground Report
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Dreams of water on Mars evaporate
April 12, 2012 Nature, v.484, p.153
climate models reveal the red planet was mostly cold and dry
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'Monkey Bill' Becomes Law, Imperils Science in Tennessee
April 12, 2012 Huffington Post
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Tennessee teacher law could boost creationism, climate denial
April 12, 2012 Chicago Tribune (Reuters)
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Tennessee Evolution Bill Becomes Law Without Governor's Signature
April 12, 2012 Hispanic Business
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News Update/Commentary
Study on Extrasolar Planet Orbits Suggests That Planetary Systems Like Our Solar System Is the Norm
April 11, 2012 Science Daily
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News Update/Commentary
Could 'Advanced' Dinosaurs Rule Other Planets?
April 11, 2012 Science Daily
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The War on Religion: A View from the Trenches
April 11, 2012 Huffington Post
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We're closing in on consciousness in the brain
April 11, 2012 New Scientist, n.2860, p.24-25
brain "observatories" may solve the puzzle of how material brains create an intangible world of love, colour, taste and fantasy
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Hold the painkillers, says 'Darwinian' paediatrician
April 11, 2012 New Scientist, n.2860, p.23
it's time for evolution to take centre stage in the practice of medicine
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Wildfires roasted dinosaurs while flowers bloomed
April 11, 2012 New Scientist, n.2860, p.13
the mid-Cretaceous was racked by wildfires, and while this probably roasted some dinosaurs, it also allowed flowering plants to rise to dominate the plant world
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Tennessee Law Introduces Creationism Theory Into Science Curriculum
April 11, 2012 CBS Charlotte (Associated Press)
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Prickly personality of Rosalind Franklin
April 11, 2012 New Scientist, n.2860, p.47
personal glimpses into the life of the chemist and biologist who helped discover the structure of DNA
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Eggs of Enigmatic Dinosaur in Patagonia Discovered
April 10, 2012 Science Daily
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News Update/Commentary
What Triggers a Mass Extinction?
April 10, 2012 Science Daily
habitat loss and tropical cooling were once to blame
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A Russian City Always on the Watch Against Being Sucked into the Earth
April 10, 2012 New York Times
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Tennessee Enacts Academic Freedom Law Protecting Teachers Who Present Both Sides of Evolution Debate
April 10, 2012 Discovery Institute