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News to Note
February 18, 2012 Answers in Genesis
a weekly feature examining news from the biblical viewpoint
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Archaeologists discover Jordan’s earliest buildings
February 18, 2012 University of Cambridge
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News Update/Commentary
Meet Plants' and Algae's Common Ancestor: Primitive Organisms Not Always So Simple
February 17, 2012 Science Daily
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If morality is broken, we can fix it
February 17, 2012 New Scientist, n.2852
some moral rules bring little benefit and can even be harmful, but they are not set in stone, so nothing stops us putting better ones in their place
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Peek into Isaac Newton's theology papers
February 17, 2012 New Scientist
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Small Animals Show Even More Design
February 17, 2012 Creation-Evolution Headlines
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Evolution: Contemplating the First Plantae
February 17, 2012 Science, v.335, n.6070, p.809-810
What characterized the first photosynthetic eukaryotes?
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Archaeology: Uncovering Civilization's Roots
February 17, 2012 Science, v.335, n.6070, p.790-793
What sparked the first cities? Digs in Kuwait and Syria are reshaping how archaeologists see the first stirrings of urban life.
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A Tiny Window Opens Into Lake Vostok, While a Vast Continent Awaits
February 17, 2012 Science, v.335, n.6070, n.788-789
on 8 February, the Russian Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute announced that a team of its engineers and scientists had drilled through nearly 4 kilometers of Antarctic ice to Lake Vostok
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Small Animals Show Even More Design
February 17, 2012 Creation-Evolution Headlines
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Dinosaurs Display Death in Watery Grave
February 16, 2012 Creation-Evolution Headlines
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Prions point to a new style of evolution
February 16, 2012 New Scientist, n.2852, p.14
a form of evolution that involves neither genetic nor epigenetic changes to the DNA has been seen in yeast
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Human evolution: Cultural roots
February 15, 2012 Nature, v.482, p.290-292
a South African archaeologist digs into his own past to seek connections between climate change and human development
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Russian hot springs point to rocky origins for life
February 15, 2012 New Scientist, n.2852, p.6-7
New findings challenge the widespread view that it all kicked off in the oceans. Life may have begun on land instead -- just as Darwin thought.
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NASA scales back hunt for life on Mars
February 15, 2012 New Scientist, n.2852, p.5
the space agency has pulled out of joint missions with its European counterpart to search for complex carbon-based molecules on the Red Planet
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Out of Africa? Data fail to support language origin in Africa
February 15, 2012 physorg.com (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen)
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Richard Dawkins Clashes with Giles Fraser on Radio 4 Over Atheist Poll
February 14, 2012 Huffington Post
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At North Dakota State University, Presenting the Positive Case for Design
February 14, 2012 Evolution News & Views (Discovery Institute)
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Indiana’s creation science bill is dead
February 14, 2012 Indianapolis Star
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Indiana bill to teach creationism being shelved
February 14, 2012 Chicago Tribune (Associated Press)
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Psychologist Advocates Sin
February 14, 2012 Creation-Evolution Headlines
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Psychologist Advocates Sin
February 14, 2012 Creation-Evolution Headlines
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Fish Came from the Land
February 13, 2012 Creation-Evolution Headlines
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Fish Came from the Land
February 13, 2012 Creation-Evolution Headlines
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Time to give SETI a chance
February 12, 2012 New Scientist, n.2851, p.28-29
Earth 2.0 is in our sights. Checking it for signs of life will be the next big issue.
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More Reasons to Doubt Scientific Pronouncements
February 11, 2012 Creation-Evolution Headlines
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Archaeologists strike gold in quest to find Queen of Sheba's wealth
February 11, 2012 Guardian (UK)
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Neanderthals Used Red Ochre Pigment 250,000 Years Ago
February 11, 2012 Popular Archaeology
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Paleontology: More Than One Way for Invaders to Wreak Havoc
February 10, 2012 Science, v.335, n.6069, p.646
about 380 million years ago in the Devonian period, invasive species reigned rampant in the world ocean as the number of marine animal species plummeted
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Bill would protect teachers who want to teach alternatives to evolution
February 10, 2012 Nashua Telegraph (New Hampshire)
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Lost treasures: Peking Man's bones
February 10, 2012 New Scientist, n.2850, p.45
a crate containing some the world's most important hominin fossils vanished amid war in 1941 -- along with secrets about the origins of language
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Ad for "The Problem of God, Symposium" at Purdue University
February 10, 2012 YouTube
a montage of several professors declaring their faith in Christ
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Global extinction: Gradual doom is just as bad as abrupt
February 9, 2012 Guardian (Nigeria)
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Lost treasures: The Loch Ness monster that got away
February 9, 2012 New Scientist, n.2850, p.44
In the 1600s, the specimen of a curious long-necked seal emerged. It could explain tall stories of sea serpents -- if only it hadn't been mislaid.
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Supercontinent cycles and the calculation of absolute palaeolongitude in deep time
February 9, 2012 Nature, v.482, p.208-211
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Next Supercontinent Will Form in Arctic, Geologists Say
February 8, 2012 New York Times
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A little bit of sin does you good
February 8, 2012 New Scientist, n.2851, p.52
compelling evidence that indulging in your darker side need not necessarily be bad
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Most fish in the sea evolved on land
February 8, 2012 New Scientist, n.2851, p.9
Three-quarters of the fish in the sea have a freshwater ancestor. The finding highlights how important rivers and lakes are as a source of new species.
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Lost treasures: The Maxberg Archaeopteryx
February 8, 2012 New Scientist, n.2850, p.40-41
One of the rarest Archaeopteryx fossils disappeared after its irascible owner died. Was it stolen, is it buried with him, or something else?
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Patch of seagrass is oldest organism on Earth
February 8, 2012 New Scientist, n.2851, p.18
a 15 kilometre-long swatche of seagrass off the coast of Spain is at least 80,000 years old, making it the oldest living organism that we know of on Earth
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The Mysterious Missing Eruption of 1258 A.D.
February 8, 2012 Wired
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Event that wiped out much of Earth's biology happened slowly
February 7, 2012 Vancouver Sun (Canada)
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Namibia sponge fossils are world's first animals
February 7, 2012 Yahoo! News
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Entire genome of extinct human reconstructed
February 7, 2012 New Scientist, n.2851, p.7
a new genome of the extinct Denisovan hominin is so complete that it contains fewer errors than genomes generated using samples from living people
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Evidence for a diachronous Late Permian marine crisis from the Canadian Arctic region
February 6, 2012 Geological Society of American Bulletin
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In denial over evolution, in denial over science
February 6, 2012 Malaysian Insider
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Jurassic katydid sings out after 165 million years
February 6, 2012 New Scientist, n.2851, p.18
An exceptionally preserved fossil has allowed biologists to reconstruct the sound of an extinct bush cricket. So what did it sound like?
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Did Early Humans Ride the Waves to Australia?
February 4, 2012 Wall Street Journal
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Blog Post
Intelligent design lets evidence speak for itself
February 2, 2012 Apologia
God-of-the-gaps objection (Part 2 of 4)
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Evolution: Why animals get bigger over time
February 2, 2012 Nature, v.482, p.8